VMware Infrastructure Contracts in the West Midlands

VMware Infrastructure (VI3)
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands requiring VMware Infrastructure skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited VMware Infrastructure over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 59 81 91
Rank change year-on-year +22 +10 +24
Contract jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 38 30 48
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 2.83% 1.54% 2.01%
As % of the System Software category 20.54% 18.63% 16.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 24 28
10th Percentile £275 £193 £350
25th Percentile £425 £259 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £551 £550 £463
Median % change year-on-year +0.18% +18.92% +39.10%
75th Percentile £689 £647 £541
90th Percentile £700 £793 £648
England median daily rate £550 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% +15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £19.95 -
England median hourly rate £46.50 £40.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +16.25% -38.46% +30.42%

All System Software Skills
West Midlands

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 the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 185 161 299
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 13.75% 8.27% 12.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 129 118 200
10th Percentile £160 £174 £158
25th Percentile £210 £219 £268
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £476 £400 £475
Median % change year-on-year +19.00% -15.79% +15.15%
75th Percentile £650 £559 £550
90th Percentile £700 £675 £700
England median daily rate £525 £494 £525
% change year-on-year +6.33% -5.95% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 4 8
10th Percentile - £14.41 £14.42
25th Percentile £15.22 £15.21 £15.98
Median hourly rate £18.13 £17.80 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% +0.47% +5.78%
75th Percentile - £20.90 £51.19
90th Percentile £32.44 £22.61 £52.50
England median hourly rate £27.94 £21.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year +33.05% -58.00% +163.16%

VMware Infrastructure
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing VMware Infrastructure as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for VMware Infrastructure in the West Midlands

VMware Infrastructure
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing VMware Infrastructure in the West Midlands.

Daily rate trend for VMware Infrastructure in the West Midlands

VMware Infrastructure
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VMware Infrastructure in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for VMware Infrastructure in the West Midlands

VMware Infrastructure
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing VMware Infrastructure in the West Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for VMware Infrastructure in the West Midlands

VMware Infrastructure
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VMware Infrastructure within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Birmingham +23 15 £700 +250.00% 12
Warwickshire +7 15 £501 -19.84% 3
Solihull - 5 £375 - 2
Herefordshire - 2 £400 - 1
VMware Infrastructure
England

VMware Infrastructure
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (5.26%) Azure
1 2 (5.26%) Microsoft 365
1 2 (5.26%) Nutanix
2 1 (2.63%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 6 (15.79%) SAN
2 4 (10.53%) iSCSI
2 4 (10.53%) LAN
2 4 (10.53%) NAS
3 3 (7.89%) Firewall
4 1 (2.63%) 4G
4 1 (2.63%) NX-OS
4 1 (2.63%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.26%) Oracle Database
General
1 7 (18.42%) Social Skills
2 4 (10.53%) Manufacturing
3 2 (5.26%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (2.63%) Finance
4 1 (2.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (2.63%) Legal
4 1 (2.63%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (21.05%) Linux Engineer
2 6 (15.79%) Architect
3 5 (13.16%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 4 (10.53%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
4 4 (10.53%) Storage Engineer
4 4 (10.53%) Windows Engineer
4 4 (10.53%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (7.89%) Deployment Engineer
6 2 (5.26%) Lead
6 2 (5.26%) Linux Support
6 2 (5.26%) Linux Support Engineer
6 2 (5.26%) Support Engineer
6 2 (5.26%) Unix Engineer
6 2 (5.26%) Unix Linux Engineer
6 2 (5.26%) Unix Support
6 2 (5.26%) Unix Support Engineer
7 1 (2.63%) ICT Engineer
7 1 (2.63%) Nutanix Engineer
7 1 (2.63%) Service Designer
7 1 (2.63%) Software Asset Manager
Miscellaneous
1 6 (15.79%) Data Centre
2 5 (13.16%) SCADA
3 3 (7.89%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.63%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.63%) Driving Licence
4 1 (2.63%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.63%) Operational Technology
4 1 (2.63%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 12 (31.58%) Windows
2 9 (23.68%) Linux
3 5 (13.16%) Windows Server
4 4 (10.53%) VMS
5 3 (7.89%) AIX
5 3 (7.89%) Unix
5 3 (7.89%) Windows 10
5 3 (7.89%) Windows 7
5 3 (7.89%) Windows XP
6 2 (5.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (31.58%) Network Monitoring
2 10 (26.32%) ITSM
2 10 (26.32%) Service Management
2 10 (26.32%) Storage Management
3 5 (13.16%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 5 (13.16%) ITIL
3 5 (13.16%) Performance Metrics
3 5 (13.16%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (10.53%) Infrastructure as Code
4 4 (10.53%) Storage Virtualisation
5 3 (7.89%) Change Control
5 3 (7.89%) Stakeholder Management
6 1 (2.63%) Asset Management
6 1 (2.63%) Disaster Recovery
6 1 (2.63%) Enterprise Modelling
6 1 (2.63%) High Availability
6 1 (2.63%) Migration
6 1 (2.63%) Password Management
6 1 (2.63%) Root Cause Analysis
6 1 (2.63%) Security Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (7.89%) PowerShell
2 1 (2.63%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 18 (47.37%) Security Cleared
2 15 (39.47%) SC Cleared
3 4 (10.53%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 2 (5.26%) RHCE
4 2 (5.26%) RHCSA
5 1 (2.63%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (7.89%) SLA
System Software
1 8 (21.05%) Virtual Machines
2 5 (13.16%) Active Directory
3 4 (10.53%) Virtual Servers
4 2 (5.26%) Hyper-V
5 1 (2.63%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (2.63%) VMware NSX
5 1 (2.63%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 8 (21.05%) Ansible
2 7 (18.42%) Terraform
3 2 (5.26%) SELinux
3 2 (5.26%) Tivoli
3 2 (5.26%) Tivoli Storage Manager
4 1 (2.63%) FortiGate
4 1 (2.63%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (2.63%) SCCM
4 1 (2.63%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 38 (100.00%) VMware
2 12 (31.58%) Broadcom
3 5 (13.16%) SolarWinds
4 4 (10.53%) Dell
4 4 (10.53%) Foundry
4 4 (10.53%) Microsoft
5 2 (5.26%) Cisco
5 2 (5.26%) IBM
5 2 (5.26%) Oracle
5 2 (5.26%) Red Hat
5 2 (5.26%) Veeam
6 1 (2.63%) ServiceNow