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 18 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 117 102 51
Rank change year-on-year -15 -51 +71
Permanent jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 56 117 146
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 1.09% 2.61% 4.77%
As % of the System Software category 24.03% 26.83% 27.92%
Number of salaries quoted 33 64 140
10th Percentile £29,000 £32,900 £27,425
25th Percentile £31,250 £38,500 £33,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £45,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% - -
75th Percentile £53,750 £53,000 £53,750
90th Percentile £67,300 £53,750 £63,750
England median annual salary £42,500 £55,000 £49,000
% change year-on-year -22.73% +12.24% -2.00%

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 233 436 523
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 4.53% 9.73% 17.09%
Number of salaries quoted 168 259 482
10th Percentile £28,978 £31,250 £26,500
25th Percentile £31,438 £34,875 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% +11.11% -5.26%
75th Percentile £71,250 £65,000 £57,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £74,144 £68,625
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 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 18 December 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 18 December 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
Birmingham +18 17 £42,500 -4.49% 5
Warwickshire +20 16 £32,500 - 3
Staffordshire -35 8 £40,000 -20.00% 7
Solihull 0 4 £52,500 +7.58% 1
Coventry +1 3 £37,500 -16.67% 7
Worcestershire -24 2 £42,500 -3.68% 5
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 9 (16.07%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (10.71%) WinCC
3 4 (7.14%) FactoryTalk
4 2 (3.57%) ArchestrA
Applications
1 3 (5.36%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.79%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (5.36%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.79%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 25 (44.64%) Microsoft 365
2 13 (23.21%) Azure
2 13 (23.21%) Entra ID
3 4 (7.14%) Power Platform
4 3 (5.36%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (5.36%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (3.57%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 36 (64.29%) Firewall
2 27 (48.21%) WAN
3 23 (41.07%) LAN
4 17 (30.36%) DHCP
4 17 (30.36%) DNS
5 11 (19.64%) SD-WAN
6 7 (12.50%) VLAN
6 7 (12.50%) Wi-Fi
7 6 (10.71%) Modbus
7 6 (10.71%) MPLS
7 6 (10.71%) VPN
8 5 (8.93%) TCP/IP
9 4 (7.14%) Network Security
10 3 (5.36%) BGP
10 3 (5.36%) Broadband
10 3 (5.36%) IPsec
10 3 (5.36%) NAS
10 3 (5.36%) OSPF
10 3 (5.36%) SAN
10 3 (5.36%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (7.14%) Power BI
2 3 (5.36%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.79%) Amazon RDS
General
1 20 (35.71%) Social Skills
2 10 (17.86%) Manufacturing
3 6 (10.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 5 (8.93%) Finance
5 3 (5.36%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (3.57%) Back Office
6 2 (3.57%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.79%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.79%) Retail
Job Titles
1 21 (37.50%) Support Engineer
2 18 (32.14%) Technical Support
3 12 (21.43%) Technical Engineer
3 12 (21.43%) Technical Support Engineer
4 11 (19.64%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 10 (17.86%) 2nd Line Support
6 7 (12.50%) Senior
6 7 (12.50%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 6 (10.71%) 2nd Line Technical Support
7 6 (10.71%) IT Engineer
8 5 (8.93%) IT Support
8 5 (8.93%) IT Support Engineer
8 5 (8.93%) Lead
8 5 (8.93%) Network Engineer
9 4 (7.14%) 2nd Line Engineer
9 4 (7.14%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
10 3 (5.36%) Cisco Engineer
10 3 (5.36%) Cisco Network Engineer
10 3 (5.36%) Systems Manager
11 2 (3.57%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.79%) LAMP
Miscellaneous
1 23 (41.07%) Data Centre
2 10 (17.86%) Operational Technology
3 8 (14.29%) Driving Licence
4 6 (10.71%) SCADA
5 4 (7.14%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (7.14%) Renewable Energy
5 4 (7.14%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (5.36%) Cloud Native
6 3 (5.36%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (3.57%) Security Operations Centre
8 1 (1.79%) Clustering
8 1 (1.79%) Enterprise Storage
8 1 (1.79%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 39 (69.64%) Windows
2 20 (35.71%) Windows Server
3 9 (16.07%) Linux
4 8 (14.29%) Windows Server 2016
5 6 (10.71%) Windows Server 2019
6 5 (8.93%) Windows 10
7 2 (3.57%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (1.79%) CentOS
8 1 (1.79%) Oracle Linux
8 1 (1.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (1.79%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (26.79%) SIEM
2 12 (21.43%) Continuous Improvement
2 12 (21.43%) Proactive Monitoring
3 11 (19.64%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 9 (16.07%) Cybersecurity
4 9 (16.07%) Problem-Solving
5 8 (14.29%) Security Operations
6 7 (12.50%) Data Security
6 7 (12.50%) ITIL
7 6 (10.71%) Infrastructure Management
7 6 (10.71%) Presales
8 5 (8.93%) DevOps
9 4 (7.14%) Business Intelligence
9 4 (7.14%) Data Protection
9 4 (7.14%) ERP
9 4 (7.14%) Storage Management
10 3 (5.36%) Change Control
10 3 (5.36%) CRM
10 3 (5.36%) Disaster Recovery
10 3 (5.36%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (10.71%) PowerShell
2 3 (5.36%) SQL
3 2 (3.57%) Ladder Logic
Qualifications
1 12 (21.43%) Degree
2 4 (7.14%) Cisco Certification
2 4 (7.14%) Microsoft Certification
3 3 (5.36%) Azure Certification
3 3 (5.36%) CCNP
4 1 (1.79%) CCNA
4 1 (1.79%) CompTIA Security+
4 1 (1.79%) Network+ Certification
4 1 (1.79%) RHCE
4 1 (1.79%) RHCSA
4 1 (1.79%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (21.43%) SLA
2 6 (10.71%) GDPR
2 6 (10.71%) IEC 61508
2 6 (10.71%) QA
3 4 (7.14%) IEC 61131
System Software
1 26 (46.43%) Active Directory
2 21 (37.50%) Hyper-V
3 5 (8.93%) Firmware
4 4 (7.14%) XenApp
5 3 (5.36%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (5.36%) vSphere
6 1 (1.79%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 8 (14.29%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (5.36%) Dell DRAC
2 3 (5.36%) Terraform
3 2 (3.57%) FortiGate
4 1 (1.79%) Ansible
Vendors
1 56 (100.00%) VMware
2 24 (42.86%) Cisco
3 17 (30.36%) Microsoft
4 16 (28.57%) Dell
5 14 (25.00%) Juniper
6 12 (21.43%) McAfee
7 7 (12.50%) Meraki
7 7 (12.50%) Veeam
8 6 (10.71%) Rockwell
8 6 (10.71%) Siemens
9 4 (7.14%) CheckPoint
9 4 (7.14%) Citrix
9 4 (7.14%) IBM
9 4 (7.14%) SonicWALL
10 3 (5.36%) Fortinet
10 3 (5.36%) Palo Alto
10 3 (5.36%) SolarWinds
10 3 (5.36%) Ubiquiti
10 3 (5.36%) Zscaler
11 1 (1.79%) Aruba