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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 65 60 77
Rank change year-on-year -5 +17 +48
Contract jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 37 55 51
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 2.62% 2.83% 2.29%
As % of the System Software category 18.23% 30.05% 17.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 43 26
10th Percentile £379 £210 £350
25th Percentile £463 £388 £364
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £551 £557 £440
Median % change year-on-year -1.08% +26.59% +27.54%
75th Percentile £697 £635 £518
90th Percentile £700 £675 £628
England median daily rate £550 £511 £545
% change year-on-year +7.58% -6.19% +14.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £19.95 -
England median hourly rate £28.00 £40.13 £63.00
% change year-on-year -30.22% -36.31% +38.52%

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 203 183 292
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 14.39% 9.43% 13.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 139 137 188
10th Percentile £165 £187 £160
25th Percentile £291 £263 £289
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% - +12.50%
75th Percentile £638 £600 £551
90th Percentile £700 £675 £700
England median daily rate £513 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 5 6
10th Percentile £16.09 £14.59 £13.87
25th Percentile £17.40 £15.65 £15.49
Median hourly rate £18.13 £16.00 £16.71
Median % change year-on-year +13.31% -4.23% +1.26%
75th Percentile £24.09 £19.95 £18.39
90th Percentile £34.82 £22.23 £23.13
England median hourly rate £28.21 £22.15 £52.13
% change year-on-year +27.34% -57.51% +178.03%

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 31 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 31 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 +20 14 £700 +250.00% 19
Warwickshire -18 14 £488 -21.92% 5
Solihull - 5 £375 - 1
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 2 (5.41%) Azure
1 2 (5.41%) Microsoft 365
1 2 (5.41%) Nutanix
2 1 (2.70%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 7 (18.92%) SAN
2 5 (13.51%) NAS
3 4 (10.81%) iSCSI
3 4 (10.81%) LAN
4 3 (8.11%) Firewall
5 1 (2.70%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.41%) Oracle Database
General
1 8 (21.62%) Social Skills
2 4 (10.81%) Manufacturing
3 2 (5.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (5.41%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (2.70%) Finance
4 1 (2.70%) Legal
4 1 (2.70%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (21.62%) Linux Engineer
2 6 (16.22%) Architect
3 5 (13.51%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 4 (10.81%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
4 4 (10.81%) Storage Engineer
4 4 (10.81%) Windows Engineer
4 4 (10.81%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (8.11%) Deployment Engineer
6 2 (5.41%) Lead
6 2 (5.41%) Linux Support
6 2 (5.41%) Linux Support Engineer
6 2 (5.41%) Support Engineer
6 2 (5.41%) Unix Engineer
6 2 (5.41%) Unix Linux Engineer
6 2 (5.41%) Unix Support
6 2 (5.41%) Unix Support Engineer
7 1 (2.70%) Administrator
7 1 (2.70%) Nutanix Engineer
7 1 (2.70%) Service Designer
7 1 (2.70%) Trainer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (13.51%) Data Centre
1 5 (13.51%) SCADA
2 3 (8.11%) Product Ownership
3 1 (2.70%) Driving Licence
3 1 (2.70%) Onboarding
3 1 (2.70%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 14 (37.84%) Windows
2 9 (24.32%) Linux
3 6 (16.22%) Windows Server
4 4 (10.81%) VMS
4 4 (10.81%) Windows 10
5 3 (8.11%) AIX
5 3 (8.11%) Unix
5 3 (8.11%) Windows 7
5 3 (8.11%) Windows XP
6 2 (5.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (32.43%) Network Monitoring
2 10 (27.03%) ITSM
2 10 (27.03%) Service Management
2 10 (27.03%) Storage Management
3 5 (13.51%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 5 (13.51%) ITIL
3 5 (13.51%) Performance Metrics
4 4 (10.81%) Infrastructure as Code
4 4 (10.81%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (10.81%) Storage Virtualisation
5 3 (8.11%) Change Control
5 3 (8.11%) Stakeholder Management
6 1 (2.70%) Enterprise Modelling
6 1 (2.70%) High Availability
6 1 (2.70%) Impact Assessments
6 1 (2.70%) Knowledge Transfer
6 1 (2.70%) Portfolio Management
6 1 (2.70%) Project Delivery
6 1 (2.70%) Root Cause Analysis
6 1 (2.70%) Service Design
Programming Languages
1 4 (10.81%) PowerShell
2 1 (2.70%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 18 (48.65%) Security Cleared
2 15 (40.54%) SC Cleared
3 4 (10.81%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 2 (5.41%) RHCE
4 2 (5.41%) RHCSA
5 1 (2.70%) Azure Certification
5 1 (2.70%) DV Cleared
5 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.41%) SLA
System Software
1 8 (21.62%) Virtual Machines
2 7 (18.92%) Active Directory
3 4 (10.81%) Virtual Servers
4 3 (8.11%) Hyper-V
5 1 (2.70%) Firmware
5 1 (2.70%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (2.70%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 8 (21.62%) Ansible
2 7 (18.92%) Terraform
3 2 (5.41%) SCCM
3 2 (5.41%) SELinux
3 2 (5.41%) Tivoli
3 2 (5.41%) Tivoli Storage Manager
4 1 (2.70%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 37 (100.00%) VMware
2 11 (29.73%) Broadcom
3 5 (13.51%) Microsoft
3 5 (13.51%) SolarWinds
4 4 (10.81%) Dell
4 4 (10.81%) Foundry
5 2 (5.41%) IBM
5 2 (5.41%) Oracle
5 2 (5.41%) Red Hat
5 2 (5.41%) Veeam
6 1 (2.70%) Cisco
6 1 (2.70%) ServiceNow