VMware Infrastructure Job Trends in Birmingham

VMware Infrastructure (VI3)
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Birmingham requiring VMware Infrastructure skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 73 96 67
Rank change year-on-year +23 -29 +45
Permanent jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 23 30 34
As % of all permanent jobs in Birmingham 1.74% 1.37% 2.77%
As % of the System Software category 19.01% 19.87% 21.38%
Number of salaries quoted 20 12 30
10th Percentile - £35,125 £25,500
25th Percentile £29,000 £37,938 £26,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £43,000 £35,500
Median % change year-on-year +16.28% +21.13% -25.26%
75th Percentile £52,813 £53,750 £57,500
90th Percentile £62,900 £61,625 £63,750
West Midlands median annual salary £47,500 £46,750 £42,500
% change year-on-year +1.60% +10.00% -5.56%

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 permanent job vacancies requiring system software skills in Birmingham.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 121 151 159
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 9.17% 6.89% 12.96%
Number of salaries quoted 94 72 142
10th Percentile £29,000 £33,175 £25,809
25th Percentile £38,250 £41,250 £30,680
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,750 £55,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +12.27% +29.41% -22.73%
75th Percentile £73,750 £68,000 £57,500
90th Percentile £74,928 £74,105 £67,375
West Midlands median annual salary £54,000 £50,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year +6.93% +18.82% -10.53%

VMware Infrastructure
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

VMware Infrastructure job vacancy trend in Birmingham

VMware Infrastructure
Salary Trend in Birmingham

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing VMware Infrastructure.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing VMware Infrastructure

VMware Infrastructure
Salary Histogram in Birmingham

Salary distribution for jobs citing VMware Infrastructure in Birmingham over the 6 months to 7 November 2025.

Salary histogram for VMware Infrastructure in Birmingham

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 7 (30.43%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (8.70%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (4.35%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (13.04%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 13 (56.52%) Microsoft 365
2 10 (43.48%) Azure
3 3 (13.04%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (13.04%) Dynamics 365
3 3 (13.04%) Power Platform
4 2 (8.70%) GitHub
4 2 (8.70%) PowerApps
4 2 (8.70%) SaaS
5 1 (4.35%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 12 (52.17%) DHCP
1 12 (52.17%) DNS
2 11 (47.83%) Firewall
3 9 (39.13%) WAN
4 5 (21.74%) LAN
4 5 (21.74%) VPN
5 4 (17.39%) Network Security
5 4 (17.39%) SD-WAN
5 4 (17.39%) VLAN
6 3 (13.04%) BGP
6 3 (13.04%) IPsec
6 3 (13.04%) NAS
6 3 (13.04%) OSPF
6 3 (13.04%) SAN
6 3 (13.04%) Wi-Fi
6 3 (13.04%) Wireshark
7 2 (8.70%) Wireless
8 1 (4.35%) Broadband
8 1 (4.35%) PBX
8 1 (4.35%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (13.04%) Power BI
2 2 (8.70%) Data Hub
2 2 (8.70%) SQL CLR
2 2 (8.70%) SQL Server
3 1 (4.35%) Amazon RDS
General
1 7 (30.43%) Social Skills
2 3 (13.04%) Documentation Skills
2 3 (13.04%) Finance
2 3 (13.04%) Manufacturing
3 2 (8.70%) Back Office
4 1 (4.35%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (4.35%) Retail
Job Titles
1 8 (34.78%) 2nd Line Support
2 6 (26.09%) 2nd Line Technical Support
2 6 (26.09%) Technical Support
3 5 (21.74%) Support Engineer
4 3 (13.04%) 2nd/3rd Line Support
4 3 (13.04%) 2nd/3rd Line Support Engineer
4 3 (13.04%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 3 (13.04%) 3rd Line Support
4 3 (13.04%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
4 3 (13.04%) Cisco Engineer
4 3 (13.04%) Cisco Network Engineer
4 3 (13.04%) Network Engineer
4 3 (13.04%) Systems Manager
5 2 (8.70%) 2nd Line Engineer
5 2 (8.70%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
5 2 (8.70%) Head of Development
6 1 (4.35%) Designer
6 1 (4.35%) ERP Manager
6 1 (4.35%) IT Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (8.70%) .NET
1 2 (8.70%) .NET Core
1 2 (8.70%) .NET Framework
1 2 (8.70%) Dapper ORM
1 2 (8.70%) Entity Framework
2 1 (4.35%) LAMP
Miscellaneous
1 11 (47.83%) Data Centre
2 4 (17.39%) Onboarding
3 3 (13.04%) Cloud Native
3 3 (13.04%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (8.70%) Private Cloud
4 2 (8.70%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 1 (4.35%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (4.35%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 16 (69.57%) Windows
2 13 (56.52%) Windows Server
3 7 (30.43%) Linux
4 4 (17.39%) Windows Server 2016
4 4 (17.39%) Windows Server 2019
5 2 (8.70%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (4.35%) CentOS
6 1 (4.35%) Oracle Linux
6 1 (4.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (4.35%) Ubuntu
6 1 (4.35%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (43.48%) Data Security
1 10 (43.48%) Infrastructure Management
2 6 (26.09%) Security Operations
3 4 (17.39%) Mentoring
3 4 (17.39%) Network Design
4 3 (13.04%) Business Intelligence
4 3 (13.04%) Change Control
4 3 (13.04%) CRM
4 3 (13.04%) Data Protection
4 3 (13.04%) DevOps
4 3 (13.04%) ERP
4 3 (13.04%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (13.04%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 3 (13.04%) ITIL
4 3 (13.04%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (13.04%) SIEM
5 2 (8.70%) Clean Code
5 2 (8.70%) Customer Requirements
5 2 (8.70%) Full-Stack Development
5 2 (8.70%) Value Proposition
Programming Languages
1 5 (21.74%) SQL
2 4 (17.39%) PowerShell
3 2 (8.70%) C#
Qualifications
1 4 (17.39%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (13.04%) Azure Certification
2 3 (13.04%) CCNP
3 1 (4.35%) CCNA
3 1 (4.35%) CompTIA Security+
3 1 (4.35%) Network+ Certification
3 1 (4.35%) RHCE
3 1 (4.35%) RHCSA
3 1 (4.35%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (26.09%) GDPR
System Software
1 15 (65.22%) Active Directory
2 9 (39.13%) Hyper-V
3 4 (17.39%) XenApp
4 3 (13.04%) Firmware
4 3 (13.04%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (13.04%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 6 (26.09%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (13.04%) Dell DRAC
2 3 (13.04%) Terraform
3 1 (4.35%) Ansible
Vendors
1 23 (100.00%) VMware
2 12 (52.17%) Cisco
3 7 (30.43%) Meraki
4 6 (26.09%) Microsoft
5 4 (17.39%) CheckPoint
5 4 (17.39%) Citrix
5 4 (17.39%) Dell
5 4 (17.39%) SonicWALL
6 3 (13.04%) Palo Alto
6 3 (13.04%) SolarWinds
6 3 (13.04%) Ubiquiti
6 3 (13.04%) Veeam
6 3 (13.04%) Zscaler
7 1 (4.35%) Aruba
7 1 (4.35%) Fortinet
7 1 (4.35%) Oracle
7 1 (4.35%) Red Hat