Virtual Infrastructure Contract Job Trends in Manchester

Virtual Infrastructure
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring Virtual Infrastructure skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 105 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Virtual Infrastructure 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 0.13% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.15% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £534 - -
25th Percentile £539 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £551 - -
75th Percentile £562 - -
90th Percentile £565 - -
North West median daily rate £550 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Manchester

Virtual Infrastructure falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,321 870 1,380
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 85.17% 91.39% 87.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 862 604 966
10th Percentile £302 £311 £313
25th Percentile £381 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £459 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.82% -8.25% -
75th Percentile £572 £575 £585
90th Percentile £639 £675 £688
North West median daily rate £455 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -4.21% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 94 35 75
10th Percentile £19.75 £15.97 £12.44
25th Percentile £23.50 £24.25 £13.50
Median hourly rate £55.00 £32.50 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +69.23% +25.00% -30.67%
75th Percentile £75.00 £60.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £86.75 £73.25 £72.50
North West median hourly rate £45.46 £31.76 £24.10
% change year-on-year +43.14% +31.78% -35.73%

Virtual Infrastructure
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Virtual Infrastructure relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Virtual Infrastructure job vacancy trend in Manchester

Virtual Infrastructure
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Virtual Infrastructure.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Virtual Infrastructure

Virtual Infrastructure
Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Virtual Infrastructure.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Virtual Infrastructure

Virtual Infrastructure
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 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) NAS
1 2 (100.00%) SAN
1 2 (100.00%) VSAN
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) VMware Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Senior
2 1 (50.00%) Senior VMware Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 2 (100.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Ubuntu
1 2 (100.00%) VMS
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Capacity Planning
1 2 (100.00%) Change Management
1 2 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 2 (100.00%) ITIL
1 2 (100.00%) Knowledge Transfer
1 2 (100.00%) Migration
1 2 (100.00%) Network Virtualisation
1 2 (100.00%) Performance Monitoring
1 2 (100.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 2 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 2 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Change Advisory Board
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Bash
1 2 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 2 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) VCAP
1 2 (100.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Virtual Machines
1 2 (100.00%) VMware ESXi
1 2 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (100.00%) VMware NSX
1 2 (100.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Ansible
1 2 (100.00%) PowerCLI
1 2 (100.00%) vCenter Server
1 2 (100.00%) vMotion
1 2 (100.00%) vRealize
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) VMware