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 14 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 96 89 60
Rank change year-on-year -7 -29 +26
Permanent jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 9 31 75
As % of all permanent jobs in Birmingham 0.46% 1.80% 3.79%
As % of the System Software category 15.00% 18.45% 31.51%
Number of salaries quoted 8 19 72
10th Percentile - £37,800 £26,250
25th Percentile £29,000 £42,250 £30,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £33,750 £50,000 £46,500
Median % change year-on-year -32.50% +7.53% -2.11%
75th Percentile £63,500 £52,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £66,800 £60,000 £115,000
West Midlands median annual salary £52,500 £45,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year +16.67% +5.88% -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 60 168 238
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 3.06% 9.74% 12.02%
Number of salaries quoted 35 83 205
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £28,000
25th Percentile £38,750 £41,250 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +22.00% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £72,881 £62,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £78,790 £80,000 £86,485
West Midlands median annual salary £47,250 £50,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -5.50% +11.11% -

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 14 February 2026.

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:

Applications
1 1 (11.11%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 5 (55.56%) Azure
2 4 (44.44%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (11.11%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 6 (66.67%) DHCP
1 6 (66.67%) DNS
1 6 (66.67%) Firewall
2 5 (55.56%) WAN
3 4 (44.44%) Network Security
3 4 (44.44%) SD-WAN
3 4 (44.44%) VPN
4 3 (33.33%) BGP
4 3 (33.33%) IPsec
4 3 (33.33%) OSPF
4 3 (33.33%) VLAN
4 3 (33.33%) Wi-Fi
4 3 (33.33%) Wireshark
5 2 (22.22%) Wireless
6 1 (11.11%) Broadband
6 1 (11.11%) LAN
6 1 (11.11%) PBX
6 1 (11.11%) WebEx
General
1 5 (55.56%) Social Skills
2 3 (33.33%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Retail
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) 2nd Line Support
2 3 (33.33%) 2nd Line Technical Support
2 3 (33.33%) Cisco Engineer
2 3 (33.33%) Cisco Network Engineer
2 3 (33.33%) Network Engineer
2 3 (33.33%) Technical Support
3 1 (11.11%) 2nd Line Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Designer
3 1 (11.11%) Field Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Network Designer
3 1 (11.11%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 7 (77.78%) Data Centre
2 3 (33.33%) Cloud Native
2 3 (33.33%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (11.11%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (44.44%) Windows
2 3 (33.33%) Linux
2 3 (33.33%) Windows Server
3 1 (11.11%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (33.33%) Change Control
1 3 (33.33%) Data Protection
1 3 (33.33%) Data Security
1 3 (33.33%) DevOps
1 3 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
1 3 (33.33%) Infrastructure Management
1 3 (33.33%) ITIL
1 3 (33.33%) Security Operations
1 3 (33.33%) SIEM
2 2 (22.22%) Customer Requirements
2 2 (22.22%) Presales
2 2 (22.22%) Value Proposition
3 1 (11.11%) Customer Experience
3 1 (11.11%) Migration
3 1 (11.11%) Project Management
3 1 (11.11%) Requirements Gathering
3 1 (11.11%) Risk Management
3 1 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (11.11%) Technical Discovery
3 1 (11.11%) Technical Leadership
Qualifications
1 4 (44.44%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (33.33%) Azure Certification
2 3 (33.33%) CCNP
3 1 (11.11%) CCNA
3 1 (11.11%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (33.33%) GDPR
System Software
1 5 (55.56%) Hyper-V
2 4 (44.44%) Active Directory
3 3 (33.33%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 3 (33.33%) Dell DRAC
1 3 (33.33%) Terraform
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 9 (100.00%) VMware
2 4 (44.44%) Cisco
2 4 (44.44%) Dell
3 3 (33.33%) Meraki
3 3 (33.33%) Palo Alto
3 3 (33.33%) SolarWinds
3 3 (33.33%) Zscaler
4 1 (11.11%) Aruba
4 1 (11.11%) Fortinet