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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 60 64 50
Rank change year-on-year +4 -14 +20
Contract jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 7 2 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 1.18% 0.28% 2.81%
As % of the System Software category 6.80% 4.65% 21.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 7
10th Percentile - - £310
25th Percentile £425 £158 £344
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £165 £375
Median % change year-on-year +172.73% -56.00% -
75th Percentile £475 £173 £547
90th Percentile - - £665
West Midlands median daily rate £572 £585 £475
% change year-on-year -2.18% +23.16% +15.15%

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 103 43 112
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 17.40% 6.03% 13.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 28 62
10th Percentile £116 £143 £190
25th Percentile £266 £190 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £200 £400
Median % change year-on-year +118.75% -50.00% -8.05%
75th Percentile £488 £444 £575
90th Percentile £545 £659 £723
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £500 £425
% change year-on-year - +17.65% +6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
10th Percentile - - £18.35
25th Percentile - - £18.50
Median hourly rate - £16.00 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year - -15.79% -57.78%
75th Percentile - - £19.50
90th Percentile - - £19.65
West Midlands median hourly rate £56.50 £16.00 £22.25
% change year-on-year +253.13% -28.09% +30.88%

VMware Infrastructure
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Job postings citing VMware Infrastructure as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Job vacancy trend for VMware Infrastructure 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 and Capabilities in Birmingham by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Communications & Networking
1 7 (100.00%) Network Security
2 6 (85.71%) DMZ
2 6 (85.71%) DNS
2 6 (85.71%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
2 6 (85.71%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
3 1 (14.29%) BGP
3 1 (14.29%) Broadband
3 1 (14.29%) IP Telephony
3 1 (14.29%) OSPF
3 1 (14.29%) TCP/IP
3 1 (14.29%) VoIP
3 1 (14.29%) VPN
General
1 6 (85.71%) Banking
1 6 (85.71%) Investment Banking
2 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (85.71%) Operations Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) IT Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (85.71%) Management Information System
2 1 (14.29%) Educational Technology
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Windows
1 1 (14.29%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) Business Strategy
1 6 (85.71%) Design Patterns
1 6 (85.71%) Load Balancing
2 1 (14.29%) Acceptance Criteria
2 1 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (14.29%) Technical Architecture
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) CCNA
1 1 (14.29%) CCNP
1 1 (14.29%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (14.29%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Active Directory
1 1 (14.29%) Hyper-V
Vendors
1 7 (100.00%) VMware
2 6 (85.71%) F5