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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 63 84 77
Rank change year-on-year +21 -7 +47
Permanent jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 30 39 32
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 2.52% 1.71% 2.25%
As % of the System Software category 23.26% 24.84% 18.39%
Number of salaries quoted 26 27 28
10th Percentile £29,000 - £25,500
25th Percentile £33,438 £26,750 £33,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,750 £37,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +30.00% -21.05% +5.56%
75th Percentile £52,500 £56,250 £63,750
90th Percentile £62,500 £60,250 -
West Midlands median annual salary £40,000 £52,000 £44,359
% change year-on-year -23.08% +17.23% +0.46%

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 129 157 174
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 10.84% 6.90% 12.24%
Number of salaries quoted 109 95 159
10th Percentile £28,500 £25,625 £25,750
25th Percentile £38,000 £32,500 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,500 £43,706
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +8.68% -20.54%
75th Percentile £73,750 £66,500 £63,750
90th Percentile - £71,700 £77,500
West Midlands median annual salary £47,500 £49,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year -4.04% +16.47% -10.53%

VMware Infrastructure
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Job postings citing VMware Infrastructure as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Job vacancy trend for VMware Infrastructure 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 September 2025.

Salary histogram for VMware Infrastructure in Birmingham

VMware Infrastructure
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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 14 (46.67%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (10.00%) IIS
Business Applications
1 3 (10.00%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (6.67%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 19 (63.33%) Microsoft 365
2 16 (53.33%) Azure
3 5 (16.67%) Power Platform
3 5 (16.67%) SaaS
4 3 (10.00%) Dynamics 365
4 3 (10.00%) GitHub
5 2 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (6.67%) PowerApps
6 1 (3.33%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 11 (36.67%) DHCP
1 11 (36.67%) DNS
2 10 (33.33%) Firewall
3 9 (30.00%) WAN
4 6 (20.00%) LAN
5 3 (10.00%) NAS
5 3 (10.00%) SAN
5 3 (10.00%) SD-WAN
5 3 (10.00%) VLAN
5 3 (10.00%) VPN
6 2 (6.67%) BGP
6 2 (6.67%) IPsec
6 2 (6.67%) Network Security
6 2 (6.67%) OSPF
6 2 (6.67%) Wi-Fi
6 2 (6.67%) Wireshark
7 1 (3.33%) PBX
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (23.33%) SQL Server
2 5 (16.67%) Data Hub
2 5 (16.67%) Power BI
2 5 (16.67%) SQL CLR
3 2 (6.67%) Metadata
3 2 (6.67%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 2 (6.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (3.33%) Amazon RDS
General
1 8 (26.67%) Finance
2 6 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 5 (16.67%) Back Office
4 3 (10.00%) Manufacturing
5 2 (6.67%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (6.67%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 9 (30.00%) 2nd Line Support
2 7 (23.33%) Support Engineer
3 6 (20.00%) 2nd Line Technical Support
3 6 (20.00%) Technical Support
4 5 (16.67%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 5 (16.67%) IT Engineer
5 4 (13.33%) 2nd/3rd Line Support
5 4 (13.33%) 2nd/3rd Line Support Engineer
5 4 (13.33%) 3rd Line Support
5 4 (13.33%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
5 4 (13.33%) Senior
6 3 (10.00%) 2nd Line Engineer
6 3 (10.00%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
6 3 (10.00%) Head of Development
6 3 (10.00%) Network Engineer
6 3 (10.00%) Systems Manager
7 2 (6.67%) Cisco Engineer
7 2 (6.67%) SaaS Developer
7 2 (6.67%) Senior IT Engineer
7 2 (6.67%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (10.00%) .NET
1 3 (10.00%) .NET Core
1 3 (10.00%) .NET Framework
1 3 (10.00%) Dapper ORM
1 3 (10.00%) Entity Framework
2 1 (3.33%) LAMP
Miscellaneous
1 9 (30.00%) Data Centre
2 6 (20.00%) Onboarding
3 5 (16.67%) Private Cloud
4 3 (10.00%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 2 (6.67%) Cloud Native
5 2 (6.67%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (6.67%) Driving Licence
5 2 (6.67%) FMCG
6 1 (3.33%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 23 (76.67%) Windows
2 18 (60.00%) Windows Server
3 9 (30.00%) Linux
4 6 (20.00%) Windows Server 2016
4 6 (20.00%) Windows Server 2019
5 2 (6.67%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (3.33%) CentOS
6 1 (3.33%) Oracle Linux
6 1 (3.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (3.33%) Ubuntu
6 1 (3.33%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (40.00%) Data Security
1 12 (40.00%) Infrastructure Management
2 6 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 6 (20.00%) Mentoring
2 6 (20.00%) Network Design
2 6 (20.00%) Security Operations
3 5 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
3 5 (16.67%) Data Privacy
3 5 (16.67%) ERP
3 5 (16.67%) Fintech
3 5 (16.67%) High Availability
3 5 (16.67%) Performance Tuning
3 5 (16.67%) Wealth Management
3 5 (16.67%) Workflow
4 4 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (10.00%) Clean Code
5 3 (10.00%) Collaborative Culture
5 3 (10.00%) Full-Stack Development
5 3 (10.00%) IT Strategy
5 3 (10.00%) SOLID
Programming Languages
1 10 (33.33%) SQL
2 6 (20.00%) PowerShell
3 3 (10.00%) C#
4 2 (6.67%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (6.67%) Azure Certification
1 2 (6.67%) CCNP
1 2 (6.67%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (3.33%) CompTIA Security+
2 1 (3.33%) Network+ Certification
2 1 (3.33%) RHCE
2 1 (3.33%) RHCSA
2 1 (3.33%) SC Cleared
2 1 (3.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (20.00%) GDPR
2 2 (6.67%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (3.33%) ISO 9000
System Software
1 17 (56.67%) Active Directory
2 10 (33.33%) Hyper-V
3 6 (20.00%) XenApp
4 3 (10.00%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (10.00%) vSphere
5 2 (6.67%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 10 (33.33%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (6.67%) Dell DRAC
2 2 (6.67%) Failover Clustering
2 2 (6.67%) Terraform
3 1 (3.33%) Ansible
Vendors
1 30 (100.00%) VMware
2 13 (43.33%) Cisco
3 11 (36.67%) Microsoft
4 8 (26.67%) Citrix
4 8 (26.67%) Meraki
5 6 (20.00%) CheckPoint
5 6 (20.00%) SonicWALL
6 3 (10.00%) Ubiquiti
6 3 (10.00%) Veeam
7 2 (6.67%) Apple
7 2 (6.67%) Dell
7 2 (6.67%) Palo Alto
7 2 (6.67%) SolarWinds
7 2 (6.67%) Zscaler
8 1 (3.33%) ADVA
8 1 (3.33%) Juniper
8 1 (3.33%) Oracle
8 1 (3.33%) Red Hat