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 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 85 95 54
Rank change year-on-year +10 -41 +43
Permanent jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 16 32 44
As % of all permanent jobs in Birmingham 0.93% 1.70% 3.61%
As % of the System Software category 20.51% 18.50% 26.83%
Number of salaries quoted 15 18 43
10th Percentile - £35,875 £25,650
25th Percentile £29,000 £38,508 £27,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £45,250 £46,500
Median % change year-on-year -22.65% -2.69% -2.11%
75th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £64,900 £60,625 £115,000
West Midlands median annual salary £48,750 £45,000 £45,500
% change year-on-year +8.33% -1.10% +1.11%

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 78 173 164
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 4.53% 9.18% 13.44%
Number of salaries quoted 53 75 154
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £39,266 £31,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £50,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% +17.65% -22.02%
75th Percentile £71,250 £68,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £78,782 £80,000 £74,250
West Midlands median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year - +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 1 January 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (6.25%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (18.75%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 9 (56.25%) Microsoft 365
2 6 (37.50%) Azure
3 3 (18.75%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (18.75%) Dynamics 365
3 3 (18.75%) Power Platform
4 2 (12.50%) PowerApps
5 1 (6.25%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 12 (75.00%) DHCP
1 12 (75.00%) DNS
2 7 (43.75%) Firewall
3 5 (31.25%) VPN
3 5 (31.25%) WAN
4 4 (25.00%) Network Security
4 4 (25.00%) SD-WAN
4 4 (25.00%) VLAN
5 3 (18.75%) BGP
5 3 (18.75%) IPsec
5 3 (18.75%) NAS
5 3 (18.75%) OSPF
5 3 (18.75%) SAN
5 3 (18.75%) Wi-Fi
5 3 (18.75%) Wireshark
6 2 (12.50%) Wireless
7 1 (6.25%) Broadband
7 1 (6.25%) LAN
7 1 (6.25%) PBX
7 1 (6.25%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (18.75%) Power BI
2 1 (6.25%) Amazon RDS
General
1 5 (31.25%) Social Skills
2 3 (18.75%) Documentation Skills
2 3 (18.75%) Manufacturing
3 1 (6.25%) Finance
3 1 (6.25%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Retail
Job Titles
1 7 (43.75%) 2nd Line Support
2 6 (37.50%) 2nd Line Technical Support
2 6 (37.50%) Technical Support
3 3 (18.75%) Cisco Engineer
3 3 (18.75%) Cisco Network Engineer
3 3 (18.75%) Network Engineer
3 3 (18.75%) Systems Manager
4 1 (6.25%) 2nd Line Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Designer
4 1 (6.25%) ERP Manager
4 1 (6.25%) Field Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) IT Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) IT Manager
4 1 (6.25%) Network Designer
4 1 (6.25%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Senior IT Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 11 (68.75%) Data Centre
2 3 (18.75%) Cloud Native
2 3 (18.75%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (6.25%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (6.25%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 10 (62.50%) Windows
2 7 (43.75%) Windows Server
3 6 (37.50%) Linux
4 2 (12.50%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (6.25%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (37.50%) Data Security
1 6 (37.50%) Infrastructure Management
1 6 (37.50%) Security Operations
2 3 (18.75%) Business Intelligence
2 3 (18.75%) Change Control
2 3 (18.75%) CRM
2 3 (18.75%) Data Protection
2 3 (18.75%) DevOps
2 3 (18.75%) ERP
2 3 (18.75%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (18.75%) ITIL
2 3 (18.75%) SIEM
3 2 (12.50%) Customer Requirements
3 2 (12.50%) Migration
3 2 (12.50%) Presales
3 2 (12.50%) Value Proposition
4 1 (6.25%) IT Strategy
4 1 (6.25%) Project Management
4 1 (6.25%) Risk Management
4 1 (6.25%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (18.75%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (18.75%) Azure Certification
2 3 (18.75%) CCNP
3 1 (6.25%) CCNA
3 1 (6.25%) CompTIA Security+
3 1 (6.25%) Network+ Certification
3 1 (6.25%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (37.50%) GDPR
System Software
1 11 (68.75%) Active Directory
2 9 (56.25%) Hyper-V
3 3 (18.75%) Firmware
3 3 (18.75%) VMware ESXi
3 3 (18.75%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (18.75%) Dell DRAC
1 3 (18.75%) Terraform
2 2 (12.50%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 16 (100.00%) VMware
2 8 (50.00%) Cisco
3 4 (25.00%) Dell
3 4 (25.00%) Microsoft
4 3 (18.75%) Meraki
4 3 (18.75%) Palo Alto
4 3 (18.75%) SolarWinds
4 3 (18.75%) Ubiquiti
4 3 (18.75%) Veeam
4 3 (18.75%) Zscaler
5 1 (6.25%) Aruba
5 1 (6.25%) Fortinet