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 15 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 66 94 73
Rank change year-on-year +28 -21 +47
Permanent jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 27 35 38
As % of all permanent jobs in Birmingham 2.28% 1.58% 2.96%
As % of the System Software category 21.95% 22.01% 23.46%
Number of salaries quoted 23 18 34
10th Percentile £29,000 £26,750 £25,500
25th Percentile £30,125 £33,125 £26,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £37,500 £41,750
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -10.18% -5.45%
75th Percentile £53,125 £45,250 £57,500
90th Percentile £66,500 £56,375 £63,750
West Midlands median annual salary £40,000 £49,008 £42,500
% change year-on-year -18.38% +15.31% -3.75%

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 123 159 162
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 10.37% 7.18% 12.64%
Number of salaries quoted 101 83 148
10th Percentile £29,000 £28,000 £25,675
25th Percentile £38,000 £35,375 £30,510
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £52,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% +23.53% -22.73%
75th Percentile £73,750 £68,000 £58,750
90th Percentile - £73,750 £72,453
West Midlands median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year - +17.65% -9.57%

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 15 October 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 12 (44.44%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (11.11%) IIS
Business Applications
1 3 (11.11%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (3.70%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 16 (59.26%) Microsoft 365
2 14 (51.85%) Azure
3 5 (18.52%) Power Platform
3 5 (18.52%) SaaS
4 3 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (11.11%) Dynamics 365
4 3 (11.11%) GitHub
5 2 (7.41%) PowerApps
6 1 (3.70%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 12 (44.44%) DHCP
1 12 (44.44%) DNS
2 9 (33.33%) Firewall
3 7 (25.93%) WAN
4 4 (14.81%) LAN
4 4 (14.81%) VLAN
4 4 (14.81%) VPN
5 3 (11.11%) BGP
5 3 (11.11%) IPsec
5 3 (11.11%) NAS
5 3 (11.11%) Network Security
5 3 (11.11%) OSPF
5 3 (11.11%) SAN
5 3 (11.11%) SD-WAN
5 3 (11.11%) Wi-Fi
5 3 (11.11%) Wireshark
6 1 (3.70%) PBX
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (22.22%) SQL Server
2 5 (18.52%) Data Hub
2 5 (18.52%) Power BI
2 5 (18.52%) SQL CLR
3 2 (7.41%) Metadata
3 2 (7.41%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 2 (7.41%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (3.70%) Amazon RDS
General
1 7 (25.93%) Finance
1 7 (25.93%) Social Skills
2 5 (18.52%) Back Office
3 3 (11.11%) Documentation Skills
3 3 (11.11%) Manufacturing
4 1 (3.70%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 8 (29.63%) 2nd Line Support
2 6 (22.22%) 2nd Line Technical Support
2 6 (22.22%) Technical Support
3 5 (18.52%) Support Engineer
4 4 (14.81%) IT Engineer
4 4 (14.81%) Senior
5 3 (11.11%) 2nd/3rd Line Support
5 3 (11.11%) 2nd/3rd Line Support Engineer
5 3 (11.11%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 3 (11.11%) 3rd Line Support
5 3 (11.11%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
5 3 (11.11%) Cisco Engineer
5 3 (11.11%) Cisco Network Engineer
5 3 (11.11%) Head of Development
5 3 (11.11%) Network Engineer
5 3 (11.11%) Systems Manager
6 2 (7.41%) Microsoft Developer
6 2 (7.41%) Senior Developer
6 2 (7.41%) Senior Microsoft Developer
6 2 (7.41%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (11.11%) .NET
1 3 (11.11%) .NET Core
1 3 (11.11%) .NET Framework
1 3 (11.11%) Dapper ORM
1 3 (11.11%) Entity Framework
2 1 (3.70%) LAMP
Miscellaneous
1 10 (37.04%) Data Centre
2 5 (18.52%) Private Cloud
3 4 (14.81%) Onboarding
4 3 (11.11%) Cloud Native
4 3 (11.11%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (11.11%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 2 (7.41%) Driving Licence
6 1 (3.70%) FMCG
6 1 (3.70%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 20 (74.07%) Windows
2 15 (55.56%) Windows Server
3 9 (33.33%) Linux
4 4 (14.81%) Windows Server 2016
4 4 (14.81%) Windows Server 2019
5 2 (7.41%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (3.70%) CentOS
6 1 (3.70%) Oracle Linux
6 1 (3.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (3.70%) Ubuntu
6 1 (3.70%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (37.04%) Data Security
1 10 (37.04%) Infrastructure Management
2 6 (22.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 6 (22.22%) Security Operations
3 5 (18.52%) Business Intelligence
3 5 (18.52%) Data Privacy
3 5 (18.52%) Fintech
3 5 (18.52%) High Availability
3 5 (18.52%) Performance Tuning
3 5 (18.52%) Wealth Management
3 5 (18.52%) Workflow
4 4 (14.81%) ERP
4 4 (14.81%) Mentoring
4 4 (14.81%) Network Design
4 4 (14.81%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (11.11%) Clean Code
5 3 (11.11%) Collaborative Culture
5 3 (11.11%) Full-Stack Development
5 3 (11.11%) Infrastructure as Code
5 3 (11.11%) SOLID
Programming Languages
1 9 (33.33%) SQL
2 4 (14.81%) PowerShell
3 3 (11.11%) C#
4 2 (7.41%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (11.11%) Azure Certification
1 3 (11.11%) CCNP
1 3 (11.11%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (3.70%) CompTIA Security+
2 1 (3.70%) Network+ Certification
2 1 (3.70%) RHCE
2 1 (3.70%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (22.22%) GDPR
2 1 (3.70%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 15 (55.56%) Active Directory
2 10 (37.04%) Hyper-V
3 4 (14.81%) XenApp
4 3 (11.11%) Firmware
4 3 (11.11%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (11.11%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 8 (29.63%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (11.11%) Dell DRAC
2 3 (11.11%) Terraform
3 2 (7.41%) Failover Clustering
4 1 (3.70%) Ansible
Vendors
1 27 (100.00%) VMware
2 11 (40.74%) Cisco
3 10 (37.04%) Microsoft
4 7 (25.93%) Meraki
5 6 (22.22%) Citrix
6 4 (14.81%) CheckPoint
6 4 (14.81%) SonicWALL
7 3 (11.11%) Dell
7 3 (11.11%) Palo Alto
7 3 (11.11%) SolarWinds
7 3 (11.11%) Ubiquiti
7 3 (11.11%) Veeam
7 3 (11.11%) Zscaler
8 2 (7.41%) Apple
9 1 (3.70%) Oracle
9 1 (3.70%) Red Hat