VMware Infrastructure Contract Job Trends in Birmingham

VMware Infrastructure (VI3)
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Birmingham requiring VMware Infrastructure skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 52 62 58
Rank change year-on-year +10 -4 +8
Contract jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 20 5 15
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 2.96% 0.69% 1.92%
As % of the System Software category 15.87% 8.62% 14.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 4 5
10th Percentile - - £303
25th Percentile £425 £158 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £165 £450
Median % change year-on-year +172.73% -63.33% +12.50%
75th Percentile £475 £179 £575
90th Percentile - £192 £710
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £600 £463
% change year-on-year -16.67% +29.73% +8.82%

All System Software Skills
Birmingham

VMware Infrastructure falls under the System Software category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring system software skills in Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 126 58 103
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 18.64% 8.02% 13.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 46 67
10th Percentile £185 £155 £188
25th Percentile £360 £178 £294
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £219 £400
Median % change year-on-year +117.14% -45.31% +6.67%
75th Percentile £518 £566 £513
90th Percentile £618 £661 £700
West Midlands median daily rate £507 £500 £418
% change year-on-year +1.40% +19.76% +4.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £19.25
Median hourly rate - - £19.50
Median % change year-on-year - - -56.67%
75th Percentile - - £19.75
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £56.50 £32.50 £19.00
% change year-on-year +73.85% +71.05% -5.00%

VMware Infrastructure
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing VMware Infrastructure relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

VMware Infrastructure job vacancy trend in Birmingham

VMware Infrastructure
Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing VMware Infrastructure.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing VMware Infrastructure

VMware Infrastructure
Hourly Rate Trend in Birmingham

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing VMware Infrastructure.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing VMware Infrastructure

VMware Infrastructure
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Communications & Networking
1 19 (95.00%) DNS
1 19 (95.00%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
1 19 (95.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
2 14 (70.00%) DMZ
2 14 (70.00%) Network Security
3 7 (35.00%) TCP/IP
4 6 (30.00%) BIG-IP
4 6 (30.00%) HTTP
4 6 (30.00%) SSL
4 6 (30.00%) Wireshark
5 1 (5.00%) BGP
5 1 (5.00%) Broadband
5 1 (5.00%) IP Telephony
5 1 (5.00%) OSPF
5 1 (5.00%) VoIP
5 1 (5.00%) VPN
Development Applications
1 6 (30.00%) Fiddler
General
1 19 (95.00%) Banking
1 19 (95.00%) Investment Banking
2 1 (5.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (5.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 13 (65.00%) Operations Engineer
2 6 (30.00%) Blue Coat Engineer
2 6 (30.00%) IP Network Engineer
2 6 (30.00%) Network Engineer
2 6 (30.00%) Web Engineer
3 1 (5.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (5.00%) IT Engineer
3 1 (5.00%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 19 (95.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (5.00%) Educational Technology
2 1 (5.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.00%) Windows
1 1 (5.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (95.00%) Load Balancing
2 13 (65.00%) Business Strategy
2 13 (65.00%) Design Patterns
3 6 (30.00%) Data Loss Prevention
3 6 (30.00%) Malware Detection/Protection
4 1 (5.00%) Acceptance Criteria
4 1 (5.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (5.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (5.00%) Migration
4 1 (5.00%) Network Segmentation
4 1 (5.00%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 1 (5.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (5.00%) CCNA
1 1 (5.00%) CCNP
1 1 (5.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (5.00%) Degree
System Software
1 6 (30.00%) Firmware
2 1 (5.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (5.00%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 1 (5.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 20 (100.00%) VMware
2 19 (95.00%) F5
3 6 (30.00%) Blue Coat
3 6 (30.00%) McAfee
3 6 (30.00%) NetApp