VMware Job Trends in Birmingham

VMware
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Birmingham requiring knowledge or experience of VMware products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited VMware over the 6 months leading up to 15 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT labour market in general and are not representative of salaries within VMware, Inc.

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 87 89 51
Rank change year-on-year +2 -38 -5
Permanent jobs citing VMware 16 40 62
As % of all permanent jobs in Birmingham 0.91% 2.21% 4.59%
As % of the Vendors category 2.81% 5.11% 10.35%
Number of salaries quoted 15 25 61
10th Percentile - £34,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £29,000 £35,000 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £46,000 £49,565
Median % change year-on-year -23.91% -7.19% +10.14%
75th Percentile £61,250 £52,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £67,100 £57,250 £115,000
West Midlands median annual salary £50,000 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year +11.11% - -

All Vendors
Birmingham

VMware falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in Birmingham.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 569 783 599
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 32.53% 43.33% 44.30%
Number of salaries quoted 373 369 507
10th Percentile £29,300 £36,250 £27,760
25th Percentile £43,750 £45,000 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £72,500 £66,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £82,800
West Midlands median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year - +10.53% -5.00%

VMware
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

VMware job vacancy trend in Birmingham

VMware
Salary Trend in Birmingham

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing VMware.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing VMware

VMware
Salary Histogram in Birmingham

Salary distribution for jobs citing VMware in Birmingham over the 6 months to 15 January 2026.

Salary histogram for VMware in Birmingham

VMware
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 1 (6.25%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 9 (56.25%) Microsoft 365
2 6 (37.50%) Azure
3 3 (18.75%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (6.25%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (6.25%) Entra ID
4 1 (6.25%) Power Platform
4 1 (6.25%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 10 (62.50%) DHCP
1 10 (62.50%) DNS
2 6 (37.50%) Firewall
3 5 (31.25%) WAN
4 4 (25.00%) Network Security
4 4 (25.00%) SD-WAN
4 4 (25.00%) VPN
4 4 (25.00%) Wi-Fi
5 3 (18.75%) BGP
5 3 (18.75%) IPsec
5 3 (18.75%) OSPF
5 3 (18.75%) VLAN
5 3 (18.75%) Wireshark
6 2 (12.50%) SAN
6 2 (12.50%) Wireless
7 1 (6.25%) Broadband
7 1 (6.25%) LAN
7 1 (6.25%) NAS
7 1 (6.25%) PBX
7 1 (6.25%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.25%) Power BI
General
1 6 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 3 (18.75%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Manufacturing
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
4 2 (12.50%) Support Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) 2nd Line Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) 3rd Line Support
5 1 (6.25%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Designer
5 1 (6.25%) ERP Manager
5 1 (6.25%) Field Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Network Designer
5 1 (6.25%) Systems Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Systems Manager
5 1 (6.25%) VMware Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 10 (62.50%) Data Centre
2 3 (18.75%) Cloud Native
2 3 (18.75%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (6.25%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 10 (62.50%) Windows
2 7 (43.75%) Linux
2 7 (43.75%) Windows Server
3 1 (6.25%) Windows 10
3 1 (6.25%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (37.50%) Data Security
1 6 (37.50%) Infrastructure Management
1 6 (37.50%) Security Operations
2 4 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (18.75%) Change Control
3 3 (18.75%) Data Protection
3 3 (18.75%) DevOps
3 3 (18.75%) ITIL
3 3 (18.75%) SIEM
4 2 (12.50%) Customer Requirements
4 2 (12.50%) Presales
4 2 (12.50%) Value Proposition
5 1 (6.25%) CRM
5 1 (6.25%) Customer Experience
5 1 (6.25%) ERP
5 1 (6.25%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 1 (6.25%) Line Management
5 1 (6.25%) Requirements Gathering
5 1 (6.25%) Technical Discovery
5 1 (6.25%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1 (6.25%) Bicep
1 1 (6.25%) PowerShell
1 1 (6.25%) 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%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (37.50%) GDPR
System Software
1 13 (81.25%) VMware Infrastructure
2 10 (62.50%) Active Directory
3 9 (56.25%) Hyper-V
4 3 (18.75%) Firmware
5 2 (12.50%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (12.50%) vSphere
6 1 (6.25%) vCloud
6 1 (6.25%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 4 (25.00%) Terraform
2 3 (18.75%) Dell DRAC
3 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (6.25%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 5 (31.25%) Cisco
2 4 (25.00%) Dell
3 3 (18.75%) Meraki
3 3 (18.75%) Palo Alto
3 3 (18.75%) SolarWinds
3 3 (18.75%) Zscaler
4 2 (12.50%) Microsoft
4 2 (12.50%) Veeam
5 1 (6.25%) Aruba
5 1 (6.25%) Fortinet
5 1 (6.25%) Ubiquiti
5 1 (6.25%) Zerto