VMware Infrastructure Job Trends in the Midlands

VMware Infrastructure (VI3)
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring VMware Infrastructure skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 139 98 66
Rank change year-on-year -41 -32 +46
Permanent jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 85 182 191
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 1.09% 2.75% 3.78%
As % of the System Software category 20.94% 25.67% 23.24%
Number of salaries quoted 50 87 175
10th Percentile £29,000 £31,700 £29,800
25th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £37,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £45,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% -5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £53,750 £53,300 £53,750
90th Percentile £64,025 £57,900 £63,750
England median annual salary £42,500 £55,000 £49,000
% change year-on-year -22.73% +12.24% -2.64%

All System Software Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 406 709 822
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 5.20% 10.70% 16.27%
Number of salaries quoted 316 388 726
10th Percentile £25,750 £27,750 £26,750
25th Percentile £27,975 £32,500 £33,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,933 £45,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -20.15% -5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £56,250 £62,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £71,875 £75,000 £68,125
England median annual salary £47,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -17.39% +4.55% -

VMware Infrastructure
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

VMware Infrastructure job vacancy trend in the Midlands

VMware Infrastructure
Salary Trend in the Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing VMware Infrastructure.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing VMware Infrastructure

VMware Infrastructure
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing VMware Infrastructure in the Midlands over the 6 months to 2 January 2026.

Salary histogram for VMware Infrastructure in the Midlands

VMware Infrastructure
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing VMware Infrastructure within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 2 January 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
West Midlands -29 52 £47,500 +5.56% 15
East Midlands -44 33 £37,500 -21.05% 10
VMware Infrastructure
England

VMware Infrastructure
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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 21 (24.71%) Microsoft Exchange
2 11 (12.94%) SharePoint
3 9 (10.59%) Skype for Business
4 6 (7.06%) WinCC
5 4 (4.71%) FactoryTalk
6 2 (2.35%) ArchestrA
Applications
1 8 (9.41%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.18%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (3.53%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.18%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 48 (56.47%) Microsoft 365
2 39 (45.88%) Azure
3 21 (24.71%) Entra ID
4 14 (16.47%) AWS
5 10 (11.76%) GCP
6 9 (10.59%) Azure Sentinel
7 6 (7.06%) Dynamics 365
8 4 (4.71%) Power Platform
9 3 (3.53%) Azure DevOps
10 2 (2.35%) IaaS
10 2 (2.35%) Nutanix
10 2 (2.35%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 41 (48.24%) Firewall
2 25 (29.41%) DNS
3 24 (28.24%) WAN
4 23 (27.06%) DHCP
5 20 (23.53%) LAN
6 16 (18.82%) Network Security
7 11 (12.94%) SD-WAN
8 10 (11.76%) VPN
9 9 (10.59%) Skype
10 8 (9.41%) VLAN
11 7 (8.24%) Wi-Fi
12 6 (7.06%) Internet
12 6 (7.06%) Modbus
12 6 (7.06%) MPLS
12 6 (7.06%) TCP/IP
13 4 (4.71%) NAS
13 4 (4.71%) SAN
14 3 (3.53%) BGP
14 3 (3.53%) Broadband
14 3 (3.53%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (10.59%) DTS
2 4 (4.71%) Power BI
3 3 (3.53%) GIS
3 3 (3.53%) SQL Server
General
1 29 (34.12%) Social Skills
2 18 (21.18%) Manufacturing
3 11 (12.94%) Retail
4 7 (8.24%) Documentation Skills
4 7 (8.24%) Finance
5 6 (7.06%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (7.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 6 (7.06%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (2.35%) Back Office
7 1 (1.18%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 36 (42.35%) Support Engineer
2 24 (28.24%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 19 (22.35%) Technical Support
4 16 (18.82%) IT Engineer
5 13 (15.29%) Technical Engineer
5 13 (15.29%) Technical Support Engineer
6 10 (11.76%) 2nd Line Support
6 10 (11.76%) Infrastructure Support
6 10 (11.76%) IT Support
6 10 (11.76%) IT Support Engineer
7 9 (10.59%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
8 8 (9.41%) Field Engineer
9 6 (7.06%) 2nd Line Technical Support
9 6 (7.06%) Field Service Engineer
9 6 (7.06%) Senior
9 6 (7.06%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
10 5 (5.88%) Lead
10 5 (5.88%) Network Engineer
10 5 (5.88%) Systems Engineer
11 4 (4.71%) Architect
Miscellaneous
1 19 (22.35%) Data Centre
2 16 (18.82%) Driving Licence
3 10 (11.76%) Operational Technology
4 9 (10.59%) CMDB
4 9 (10.59%) Onboarding
4 9 (10.59%) Video Conferencing
5 8 (9.41%) Self-Motivation
6 7 (8.24%) SCADA
7 6 (7.06%) iPad
7 6 (7.06%) PMI
8 5 (5.88%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (4.71%) Renewable Energy
10 3 (3.53%) Cloud Native
10 3 (3.53%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (3.53%) Smartphone
11 2 (2.35%) Hybrid Cloud
12 1 (1.18%) Clustering
12 1 (1.18%) Enterprise Storage
12 1 (1.18%) Replication
12 1 (1.18%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 63 (74.12%) Windows
2 41 (48.24%) Windows Server
3 14 (16.47%) Linux
4 9 (10.59%) Windows Server 2008
5 8 (9.41%) Windows Server 2016
6 6 (7.06%) Windows Server 2019
7 5 (5.88%) Windows 10
8 4 (4.71%) Mac OS X
8 4 (4.71%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (1.18%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (30.59%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 20 (23.53%) ITIL
3 17 (20.00%) Customer Service
3 17 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 17 (20.00%) Server Management
4 15 (17.65%) Infrastructure Management
5 12 (14.12%) Cybersecurity
5 12 (14.12%) SIEM
6 11 (12.94%) Root Cause Analysis
7 10 (11.76%) Continuous Improvement
8 9 (10.59%) Proactive Monitoring
8 9 (10.59%) Problem Management
9 8 (9.41%) Presales
10 7 (8.24%) Data Security
10 7 (8.24%) Security Operations
11 6 (7.06%) DevOps
11 6 (7.06%) Mentoring
11 6 (7.06%) Preventative Maintenance
12 4 (4.71%) Change Control
12 4 (4.71%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 15 (17.65%) PowerShell
2 3 (3.53%) SQL
3 2 (2.35%) Ladder Logic
Qualifications
1 19 (22.35%) Degree
2 8 (9.41%) Microsoft Certification
2 8 (9.41%) Security Cleared
3 6 (7.06%) PMI Certification
4 4 (4.71%) Cisco Certification
4 4 (4.71%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (4.71%) MCP
4 4 (4.71%) MCSA
4 4 (4.71%) MCSE
4 4 (4.71%) SC Cleared
5 3 (3.53%) Azure Certification
5 3 (3.53%) CCNP
5 3 (3.53%) CTC Cleared
5 3 (3.53%) DBS Check
6 1 (1.18%) CCNA
6 1 (1.18%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (10.59%) SLA
2 6 (7.06%) GDPR
2 6 (7.06%) IEC 61508
2 6 (7.06%) QA
3 4 (4.71%) IEC 61131
System Software
1 51 (60.00%) Active Directory
2 27 (31.76%) Hyper-V
3 11 (12.94%) Virtual Desktop
4 6 (7.06%) VMware ESXi
4 6 (7.06%) vSphere
5 4 (4.71%) Firmware
5 4 (4.71%) XenApp
6 1 (1.18%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (1.18%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (1.18%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 10 (11.76%) Microsoft Intune
2 9 (10.59%) Nagios
2 9 (10.59%) ZABBIX
3 6 (7.06%) WSUS
4 4 (4.71%) Terraform
5 3 (3.53%) Dell DRAC
6 2 (2.35%) FortiGate
7 1 (1.18%) VxRail
Vendors
1 85 (100.00%) VMware
2 34 (40.00%) Microsoft
3 26 (30.59%) Cisco
4 14 (16.47%) Juniper
5 13 (15.29%) Citrix
5 13 (15.29%) Dell
6 12 (14.12%) SolarWinds
7 11 (12.94%) Darktrace
8 9 (10.59%) BMC
8 9 (10.59%) Google
8 9 (10.59%) McAfee
8 9 (10.59%) Meraki
8 9 (10.59%) Proofpoint
8 9 (10.59%) Red Hat
8 9 (10.59%) Tanium
8 9 (10.59%) Trend Micro
9 8 (9.41%) Veeam
10 6 (7.06%) Apple
10 6 (7.06%) Rockwell
10 6 (7.06%) Siemens