Senior VMware Engineer Contract Job Trends in Manchester

Senior VMware Engineer
North West > Manchester

The median Senior VMware Engineer daily rate in Manchester is £565, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 25 March 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 107 - 92
Rank change year-on-year - - +29
Contract jobs requiring a Senior VMware Engineer 1 0 9
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 0.064% - 0.57%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.070% - 0.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 9
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £563 - £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 - £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -9.09%
75th Percentile £568 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median daily rate £565 - £500
% change year-on-year - - -9.09%

All Contract IT Job Roles
Manchester

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Manchester. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Manchester with a recognized job title 1,422 890 1,508
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.68% 94.08% 95.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 893 631 1,073
10th Percentile £313 £300 £306
25th Percentile £400 £385 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £450 £493
Median % change year-on-year +1.11% -8.63% -1.50%
75th Percentile £575 £561 £575
90th Percentile £649 £675 £675
North West median daily rate £456 £469 £500
% change year-on-year -2.77% -6.20% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 129 40 86
10th Percentile £18.57 £13.00 £12.12
25th Percentile £22.68 £16.20 £13.36
Median hourly rate £52.94 £32.50 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year +62.88% +14.04% -28.75%
75th Percentile £70.00 £60.00 £62.19
90th Percentile £78.75 £72.63 £73.75
North West median hourly rate £45.00 £31.50 £26.39
% change year-on-year +42.86% +19.36% -14.17%

Senior VMware Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Senior VMware Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Senior VMware Engineer job vacancy trend in Manchester

Senior VMware Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior VMware Engineer job vacancies in Manchester.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior VMware Engineer job vacancies in Manchester

Senior VMware Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester

For the 6 months to 25 March 2026, Senior VMware Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Manchester region featuring Senior VMware Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) Capacity Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Change Management
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Knowledge Transfer
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) NAS
1 1 (100.00%) Network Virtualisation
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Monitoring
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (100.00%) PowerCLI
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) SAN
1 1 (100.00%) Ubuntu
1 1 (100.00%) VCAP
1 1 (100.00%) vCenter Server
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Infrastructure
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Machines
1 1 (100.00%) vMotion
1 1 (100.00%) VMS
1 1 (100.00%) VMware

Senior VMware Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) NAS
1 1 (100.00%) SAN
1 1 (100.00%) VSAN
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (100.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Ubuntu
1 1 (100.00%) VMS
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Capacity Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Change Management
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Knowledge Transfer
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Network Virtualisation
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Monitoring
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Infrastructure
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) VCAP
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Machines
1 1 (100.00%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (100.00%) VMware NSX
1 1 (100.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) PowerCLI
1 1 (100.00%) vCenter Server
1 1 (100.00%) vMotion
1 1 (100.00%) vRealize
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) VMware