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 26 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 102 106 55
Rank change year-on-year +4 -51 +66
Permanent jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 64 137 144
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 1.72% 2.52% 4.37%
As % of the System Software category 22.70% 28.25% 27.75%
Number of salaries quoted 39 66 134
10th Percentile £29,000 £33,125 £28,825
25th Percentile £31,250 £38,500 £33,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £45,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +5.88% -5.56%
75th Percentile £53,750 £53,225 £53,750
90th Percentile £67,500 £54,375 £63,000
England median annual salary £42,500 £53,750 £49,250
% change year-on-year -20.93% +9.14% -1.50%

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 282 485 519
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 7.59% 8.93% 15.74%
Number of salaries quoted 213 277 468
10th Percentile £29,000 £31,250 £26,500
25th Percentile £31,500 £36,250 £31,552
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £50,000 £43,724
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% +14.35% -7.95%
75th Percentile £73,750 £65,000 £57,385
90th Percentile £80,000 £73,908 £66,250
England median annual salary £48,250 £56,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -14.60% +2.73% -

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 26 November 2025.

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 26 November 2025. 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
Warwickshire +46 21 £32,500 - 6
Birmingham +17 19 £50,000 +17.85% 5
Staffordshire -25 8 £40,000 -20.00% 2
Solihull +6 4 £52,500 +7.58% 1
Coventry +6 3 £37,500 -25.00% 9
Worcestershire -5 3 £47,500 +7.65% 4
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 11 (17.19%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (9.38%) WinCC
3 4 (6.25%) FactoryTalk
4 2 (3.13%) ArchestrA
5 1 (1.56%) IIS
Applications
1 6 (9.38%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.56%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (4.69%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.56%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 30 (46.88%) Microsoft 365
2 16 (25.00%) Azure
3 14 (21.88%) Entra ID
4 4 (6.25%) Power Platform
5 3 (4.69%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (4.69%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (3.13%) PowerApps
7 1 (1.56%) AWS
7 1 (1.56%) GitHub
7 1 (1.56%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 39 (60.94%) Firewall
2 30 (46.88%) WAN
3 26 (40.63%) LAN
4 20 (31.25%) DHCP
5 17 (26.56%) DNS
6 11 (17.19%) SD-WAN
7 8 (12.50%) TCP/IP
7 8 (12.50%) Wi-Fi
8 7 (10.94%) VLAN
8 7 (10.94%) VPN
9 6 (9.38%) Modbus
9 6 (9.38%) MPLS
10 4 (6.25%) Network Security
11 3 (4.69%) BGP
11 3 (4.69%) Broadband
11 3 (4.69%) IPsec
11 3 (4.69%) NAS
11 3 (4.69%) OSPF
11 3 (4.69%) SAN
11 3 (4.69%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (7.81%) SQL Server
2 4 (6.25%) Power BI
3 1 (1.56%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (1.56%) Data Hub
3 1 (1.56%) SQL CLR
General
1 24 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 11 (17.19%) Manufacturing
3 9 (14.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 6 (9.38%) Finance
5 3 (4.69%) Back Office
5 3 (4.69%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (3.13%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.56%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.56%) Retail
Job Titles
1 23 (35.94%) Support Engineer
2 19 (29.69%) Technical Support
3 13 (20.31%) Technical Engineer
3 13 (20.31%) Technical Support Engineer
4 12 (18.75%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 10 (15.63%) 2nd Line Support
6 8 (12.50%) Senior
6 8 (12.50%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 6 (9.38%) 2nd Line Technical Support
7 6 (9.38%) IT Engineer
7 6 (9.38%) IT Support
7 6 (9.38%) Lead
8 5 (7.81%) ICT Officer
8 5 (7.81%) ICT Support
8 5 (7.81%) ICT Support Officer
8 5 (7.81%) IT Support Engineer
8 5 (7.81%) Network Engineer
8 5 (7.81%) Support Officer
9 4 (6.25%) 2nd Line Engineer
9 4 (6.25%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.56%) .NET
1 1 (1.56%) .NET Core
1 1 (1.56%) .NET Framework
1 1 (1.56%) Dapper ORM
1 1 (1.56%) Entity Framework
1 1 (1.56%) LAMP
Miscellaneous
1 24 (37.50%) Data Centre
2 11 (17.19%) Operational Technology
3 8 (12.50%) Driving Licence
4 6 (9.38%) SCADA
5 4 (6.25%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (6.25%) Renewable Energy
5 4 (6.25%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (4.69%) Cloud Native
6 3 (4.69%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (3.13%) Clustering
7 2 (3.13%) Security Operations Centre
8 1 (1.56%) Enterprise Storage
8 1 (1.56%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (1.56%) Onboarding
8 1 (1.56%) Private Cloud
8 1 (1.56%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 43 (67.19%) Windows
2 23 (35.94%) Windows Server
3 9 (14.06%) Linux
3 9 (14.06%) Windows Server 2016
4 7 (10.94%) Windows Server 2019
5 5 (7.81%) Windows 10
6 2 (3.13%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (1.56%) CentOS
7 1 (1.56%) Oracle Linux
7 1 (1.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (1.56%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (25.00%) SIEM
2 14 (21.88%) Continuous Improvement
3 13 (20.31%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 13 (20.31%) Proactive Monitoring
3 13 (20.31%) Problem-Solving
4 10 (15.63%) Cybersecurity
5 8 (12.50%) Data Security
5 8 (12.50%) Security Operations
6 7 (10.94%) Infrastructure Management
6 7 (10.94%) ITIL
7 6 (9.38%) Presales
8 5 (7.81%) DevOps
9 4 (6.25%) Business Intelligence
9 4 (6.25%) Collaborative Culture
9 4 (6.25%) Data Protection
9 4 (6.25%) ERP
9 4 (6.25%) Full-Stack Development
9 4 (6.25%) Storage Management
10 3 (4.69%) Server Management
10 3 (4.69%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 10 (15.63%) PowerShell
2 5 (7.81%) SQL
3 2 (3.13%) Ladder Logic
4 1 (1.56%) C#
Qualifications
1 13 (20.31%) Degree
2 4 (6.25%) Cisco Certification
2 4 (6.25%) Microsoft Certification
3 3 (4.69%) Azure Certification
3 3 (4.69%) CCNP
4 1 (1.56%) CCNA
4 1 (1.56%) CompTIA Security+
4 1 (1.56%) Network+ Certification
4 1 (1.56%) RHCE
4 1 (1.56%) RHCSA
4 1 (1.56%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (20.31%) SLA
2 6 (9.38%) GDPR
2 6 (9.38%) IEC 61508
2 6 (9.38%) QA
3 4 (6.25%) IEC 61131
System Software
1 29 (45.31%) Active Directory
2 25 (39.06%) Hyper-V
3 5 (7.81%) Firmware
3 5 (7.81%) XenApp
4 3 (4.69%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (4.69%) vSphere
5 1 (1.56%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 10 (15.63%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (4.69%) Dell DRAC
2 3 (4.69%) Terraform
3 2 (3.13%) FortiGate
4 1 (1.56%) Ansible
Vendors
1 64 (100.00%) VMware
2 26 (40.63%) Cisco
3 22 (34.38%) Microsoft
4 17 (26.56%) Dell
5 15 (23.44%) Juniper
6 13 (20.31%) McAfee
7 8 (12.50%) Meraki
8 7 (10.94%) Veeam
9 6 (9.38%) Rockwell
9 6 (9.38%) Siemens
10 5 (7.81%) CheckPoint
10 5 (7.81%) Citrix
10 5 (7.81%) SonicWALL
11 4 (6.25%) IBM
12 3 (4.69%) Fortinet
12 3 (4.69%) Palo Alto
12 3 (4.69%) SolarWinds
12 3 (4.69%) Ubiquiti
12 3 (4.69%) Zscaler
13 1 (1.56%) Aruba