VMware Infrastructure Job Trends in the West Midlands

VMware Infrastructure (VI3)
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring VMware Infrastructure skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 141 92 89
Rank change year-on-year -49 -3 -19
Permanent jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 70 83 140
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 0.78% 2.55% 2.38%
As % of the System Software category 20.23% 21.78% 27.13%
Number of salaries quoted 59 55 68
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,900 £31,450
25th Percentile £35,800 £31,250 £38,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £40,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -20.00% +11.91%
75th Percentile £62,500 £52,500 £57,500
90th Percentile £88,000 £60,500 £60,000
England median annual salary £50,000 £46,000 £50,948
% change year-on-year +8.70% -9.71% +1.90%

All System Software Skills
West 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 West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 346 381 516
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 3.83% 11.72% 8.76%
Number of salaries quoted 246 289 309
10th Percentile £29,000 £27,750 £26,150
25th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +16.96%
75th Percentile £63,438 £72,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £78,087 £77,500 £70,100
England median annual salary £55,000 £47,592 £55,000
% change year-on-year +15.57% -13.47% -

VMware Infrastructure
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

VMware Infrastructure job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

VMware Infrastructure
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

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

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

VMware Infrastructure
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing VMware Infrastructure in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 28 September 2026.

Salary histogram for VMware Infrastructure in the West Midlands

VMware Infrastructure
Job Locations in the West 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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 28 September 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
Birmingham -49 18 £55,000 +12.82% 13
Worcestershire -11 17 £88,000 +85.26% 4
Staffordshire +8 14 £48,000 +2.47% 6
Warwickshire -30 14 £33,250 +2.31% 7
Herefordshire -8 9 £110,000 - 2
Sutton Coldfield - 2 £42,500 -
Coventry -22 1 £55,000 +48.65% 1
VMware Infrastructure
England

VMware Infrastructure
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West 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 28 (40.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 22 (31.43%) SharePoint
3 9 (12.86%) nginx
4 8 (11.43%) Apache
4 8 (11.43%) IIS
5 1 (1.43%) Oracle HTTP Server
5 1 (1.43%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 2 (2.86%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 51 (72.86%) Microsoft 365
2 41 (58.57%) Azure
3 39 (55.71%) Entra ID
4 9 (12.86%) Azure AKS
4 9 (12.86%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 8 (11.43%) AWS
5 8 (11.43%) Microsoft Copilot
5 8 (11.43%) Power Automate
6 2 (2.86%) Azure Sentinel
6 2 (2.86%) GCP
6 2 (2.86%) Microsoft Purview
6 2 (2.86%) OneDrive
6 2 (2.86%) SaaS
7 1 (1.43%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 36 (51.43%) VPN
2 35 (50.00%) DNS
3 29 (41.43%) Firewall
4 25 (35.71%) DHCP
5 13 (18.57%) Network Security
5 13 (18.57%) TCP/IP
6 10 (14.29%) Wireless
7 9 (12.86%) SAN
7 9 (12.86%) VLAN
8 8 (11.43%) WAN
9 6 (8.57%) LAN
10 4 (5.71%) VoIP
11 3 (4.29%) Wi-Fi
12 2 (2.86%) NAS
13 1 (1.43%) HTTP
13 1 (1.43%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (4.29%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.43%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (1.43%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (1.43%) GIS
2 1 (1.43%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (1.43%) Git
1 1 (1.43%) Jenkins
1 1 (1.43%) JIRA
General
1 32 (45.71%) Social Skills
2 8 (11.43%) Public Sector
3 7 (10.00%) Finance
4 6 (8.57%) Legal
5 4 (5.71%) Manufacturing
6 3 (4.29%) Local Government
7 2 (2.86%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (2.86%) Automotive
7 2 (2.86%) Retail
8 1 (1.43%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.43%) Police
Job Titles
1 30 (42.86%) IT Engineer
2 27 (38.57%) Support Engineer
3 18 (25.71%) IT Support
3 18 (25.71%) IT Support Engineer
4 14 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 12 (17.14%) Senior
6 11 (15.71%) Technical Support
7 9 (12.86%) Architect
7 9 (12.86%) Azure Architect
7 9 (12.86%) Senior Support Engineer
7 9 (12.86%) Technical Architect
8 8 (11.43%) 3rd Line Engineer
8 8 (11.43%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
8 8 (11.43%) Technical Engineer
8 8 (11.43%) Technical Support Engineer
9 6 (8.57%) 3rd Line Support
9 6 (8.57%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
9 6 (8.57%) Senior IT Engineer
9 6 (8.57%) Senior IT Support
10 5 (7.14%) Senior Technical Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (14.29%) Terraform
2 1 (1.43%) Java SE
2 1 (1.43%) OpenLayers
Miscellaneous
1 18 (25.71%) Hybrid Cloud
2 8 (11.43%) Data Centre
3 7 (10.00%) Onboarding
4 5 (7.14%) Driving Licence
5 3 (4.29%) Replication
6 2 (2.86%) AI Agents
6 2 (2.86%) CCTV
6 2 (2.86%) CMDB
6 2 (2.86%) Enterprise Storage
6 2 (2.86%) Management Information System
6 2 (2.86%) Operational Technology
7 1 (1.43%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 57 (81.43%) Windows
2 46 (65.71%) Windows Server
3 19 (27.14%) Linux
4 8 (11.43%) Ubuntu
5 6 (8.57%) Mac OS
6 5 (7.14%) Windows 10
6 5 (7.14%) Windows Server 2012
7 3 (4.29%) Windows Server 2016
7 3 (4.29%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (2.86%) Android
8 2 (2.86%) Apple iOS
9 1 (1.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (1.43%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (34.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 22 (31.43%) Continuous Improvement
2 22 (31.43%) Disaster Recovery
3 18 (25.71%) Service Delivery
4 17 (24.29%) Problem-Solving
5 14 (20.00%) AI
5 14 (20.00%) ITIL
5 14 (20.00%) Migration
6 13 (18.57%) Cloud Security
7 12 (17.14%) ITSM
8 10 (14.29%) CI/CD
8 10 (14.29%) Containerisation
8 10 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
9 9 (12.86%) DevSecOps
9 9 (12.86%) GitOps
9 9 (12.86%) Infrastructure as Code
9 9 (12.86%) Network Virtualisation
9 9 (12.86%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 8 (11.43%) Proactive Monitoring
10 8 (11.43%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 21 (30.00%) PowerShell
2 9 (12.86%) Bicep
3 3 (4.29%) Bash
3 3 (4.29%) Python
4 2 (2.86%) SQL
5 1 (1.43%) Java
5 1 (1.43%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 14 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 13 (18.57%) SC Cleared
3 10 (14.29%) Degree
4 9 (12.86%) DV Cleared
5 7 (10.00%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (5.71%) A+ Certification
6 4 (5.71%) Azure Certification
6 4 (5.71%) Network+ Certification
7 2 (2.86%) CCNA
7 2 (2.86%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (2.86%) DBS Check
7 2 (2.86%) MCSE
8 1 (1.43%) CompTIA Security+
8 1 (1.43%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (18.57%) SLA
2 5 (7.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (2.86%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (2.86%) GDPR
System Software
1 50 (71.43%) Active Directory
2 34 (48.57%) Hyper-V
3 5 (7.14%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (7.14%) vSphere
4 4 (5.71%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (1.43%) Docker
5 1 (1.43%) Oracle RAC
5 1 (1.43%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 16 (22.86%) Microsoft Intune
2 9 (12.86%) Kubernetes
2 9 (12.86%) SCCM
3 1 (1.43%) Ansible
3 1 (1.43%) Jamf Pro
3 1 (1.43%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 70 (100.00%) VMware
2 63 (90.00%) Microsoft
3 12 (17.14%) Citrix
4 11 (15.71%) Cisco
5 9 (12.86%) SonicWALL
6 7 (10.00%) Veeam
7 6 (8.57%) ServiceNow
8 5 (7.14%) Dell
9 4 (5.71%) Aruba
9 4 (5.71%) Meraki
10 3 (4.29%) Fortinet
10 3 (4.29%) Juniper
10 3 (4.29%) LogicMonitor
10 3 (4.29%) McAfee
10 3 (4.29%) NetApp
10 3 (4.29%) Nimble Storage
11 2 (2.86%) Isilon
11 2 (2.86%) Sage
11 2 (2.86%) Splunk
12 1 (1.43%) Sophos