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 30 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 42 39 56
Rank change year-on-year -3 +17 -11
Contract jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 35 14 6
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 3.78% 2.81% 0.81%
As % of the System Software category 27.78% 21.54% 13.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 10 5
10th Percentile £413 £673 -
25th Percentile £419 £689 £190
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £700 £200
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +250.00% -53.22%
75th Percentile £550 - £210
90th Percentile £600 £701 -
West Midlands median daily rate £414 £551 £557
% change year-on-year -24.95% -1.08% +23.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £19.95
West Midlands median hourly rate £63.14 - £19.95

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 65 46
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 13.61% 13.03% 6.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 46 36
10th Percentile £192 £106 £188
25th Percentile £281 £211 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £438 £350
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% +25.00% -17.65%
75th Percentile £514 £641 £447
90th Percentile £597 £700 £628
West Midlands median daily rate £459 £475 £450
% change year-on-year -3.37% +5.56% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 3
10th Percentile - - £14.31
25th Percentile £65.00 - £14.94
Median hourly rate £70.00 - £16.00
Median % change year-on-year - - -2.91%
75th Percentile £75.00 - £17.98
90th Percentile - - £19.16
West Midlands median hourly rate £63.14 £18.13 £16.00
% change year-on-year +248.23% +13.31% -4.23%

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
Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VMware Infrastructure in Birmingham over the 6 months to 30 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for VMware Infrastructure in Birmingham

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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (8.57%) SharePoint
2 2 (5.71%) Apache
2 2 (5.71%) CloudStack
Cloud Services
1 6 (17.14%) OpenShift
2 3 (8.57%) AWS
2 3 (8.57%) Azure
2 3 (8.57%) GitHub
2 3 (8.57%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 2 (5.71%) IaaS
4 1 (2.86%) Entra ID
4 1 (2.86%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (2.86%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 22 (62.86%) DNS
2 19 (54.29%) TCP/IP
3 18 (51.43%) BIG-IP
3 18 (51.43%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
3 18 (51.43%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
3 18 (51.43%) HTTP
3 18 (51.43%) SSL
3 18 (51.43%) Wireshark
4 4 (11.43%) SAN
5 3 (8.57%) HTTPS
5 3 (8.57%) NAS
6 2 (5.71%) Firewall
6 2 (5.71%) Structured Cabling
7 1 (2.86%) DHCP
7 1 (2.86%) Remote Desktop
7 1 (2.86%) VLAN
7 1 (2.86%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.86%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 18 (51.43%) Fiddler
2 3 (8.57%) Jenkins
General
1 18 (51.43%) Banking
1 18 (51.43%) Investment Banking
2 7 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 4 (11.43%) Finance
4 1 (2.86%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.86%) Law
Job Titles
1 18 (51.43%) Blue Coat Engineer
1 18 (51.43%) IP Network Engineer
1 18 (51.43%) Network Engineer
1 18 (51.43%) Web Engineer
2 4 (11.43%) Architect
3 3 (8.57%) Consultant
3 3 (8.57%) VMware Consultant
4 2 (5.71%) Data Architect
4 2 (5.71%) Data Centre Engineer
4 2 (5.71%) Data Centre Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (5.71%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (5.71%) VMware Architect
5 1 (2.86%) Analyst
5 1 (2.86%) Infrastructure Manager
5 1 (2.86%) Infrastructure Project Manager
5 1 (2.86%) IT Support Engineer
5 1 (2.86%) Project Manager
5 1 (2.86%) Storage Analyst
5 1 (2.86%) Storage Engineer
5 1 (2.86%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (8.57%) OpenTelemetry
2 2 (5.71%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (2.86%) Flash
Miscellaneous
1 18 (51.43%) Management Information System
2 5 (14.29%) Data Centre
2 5 (14.29%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (8.57%) Cloud Native
4 2 (5.71%) Enterprise Storage
4 2 (5.71%) Public Cloud
4 2 (5.71%) Replication
5 1 (2.86%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (2.86%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 5 (14.29%) Linux
2 4 (11.43%) Windows
3 3 (8.57%) Windows Server
4 2 (5.71%) Ubuntu
5 1 (2.86%) Unix
5 1 (2.86%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (60.00%) Load Balancing
2 18 (51.43%) Data Loss Prevention
2 18 (51.43%) Malware Detection/Protection
3 7 (20.00%) Migration
4 6 (17.14%) DevOps
4 6 (17.14%) Disaster Recovery
4 6 (17.14%) High Availability
4 6 (17.14%) RBAC
5 4 (11.43%) Containerisation
5 4 (11.43%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (8.57%) CI/CD
6 3 (8.57%) Continuous Improvement
6 3 (8.57%) Data Migration
6 3 (8.57%) Infrastructure Automation
6 3 (8.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 3 (8.57%) Performance Optimisation
6 3 (8.57%) Server Management
7 2 (5.71%) Business Continuity Planning
7 2 (5.71%) Data Centre Operations
7 2 (5.71%) Security Hardening
Programming Languages
1 4 (11.43%) Python
2 3 (8.57%) Bash
3 2 (5.71%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (14.29%) Security Cleared
2 4 (11.43%) BPSS Clearance
2 4 (11.43%) SC Cleared
3 3 (8.57%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 2 (5.71%) AWS Certification
4 2 (5.71%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (5.71%) Azure Certification
4 2 (5.71%) CCNP
4 2 (5.71%) Cisco Certification
System Software
1 18 (51.43%) Firmware
2 10 (28.57%) vSphere
3 6 (17.14%) VMware NSX
4 5 (14.29%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (5.71%) Hyper-V
5 2 (5.71%) KVM
5 2 (5.71%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (2.86%) Active Directory
6 1 (2.86%) GPFS
6 1 (2.86%) NFS
6 1 (2.86%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (2.86%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 9 (25.71%) Kubernetes
2 7 (20.00%) vCenter Server
3 5 (14.29%) Ansible
3 5 (14.29%) Grafana
4 4 (11.43%) Terraform
5 3 (8.57%) Argo
6 2 (5.71%) Check_MK
6 2 (5.71%) PowerCLI
6 2 (5.71%) Prometheus
7 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (2.86%) vRealize
Vendors
1 35 (100.00%) VMware
2 18 (51.43%) Blue Coat
2 18 (51.43%) F5
2 18 (51.43%) McAfee
2 18 (51.43%) NetApp
3 6 (17.14%) Veeam
4 4 (11.43%) Cisco
4 4 (11.43%) Red Hat
5 3 (8.57%) Microsoft
5 3 (8.57%) Pure Storage
5 3 (8.57%) Splunk
6 2 (5.71%) Commvault
6 2 (5.71%) Fortinet
6 2 (5.71%) ServiceNow
7 1 (2.86%) Dell
7 1 (2.86%) EMC
7 1 (2.86%) IBM
7 1 (2.86%) Isilon
7 1 (2.86%) Oracle