VMS Contract Job Trends in Manchester

VMS
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring VMS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
22 Jul 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 120 80 88
Rank change year-on-year -40 +8 +20
Contract jobs citing VMS 6 3 4
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 0.31% 0.31% 0.30%
As % of the Operating Systems category 3.26% 2.59% 2.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 2 2
10th Percentile £313 £503 £478
25th Percentile £339 £506 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £435 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -17.14% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £520 £556 £519
90th Percentile £556 £568 £523
North West median daily rate £426 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -18.77% +5.00% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Median hourly rate - - £25.25
North West median hourly rate - - £25.25

All Operating Systems
Manchester

VMS falls under the Operating Systems category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring operating system skills in Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 184 116 159
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 9.46% 11.87% 12.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 130 83 113
10th Percentile £181 £193 £286
25th Percentile £261 £276 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £435 £400 £475
Median % change year-on-year +8.75% -15.79% -
75th Percentile £525 £563 £825
90th Percentile £618 £625 £850
North West median daily rate £435 £400 £445
% change year-on-year +8.75% -10.01% -1.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 7 8
10th Percentile - - £15.89
25th Percentile £166.25 - £19.00
Median hourly rate £172.50 £13.00 £25.25
Median % change year-on-year +1226.92% -48.51% +42.49%
75th Percentile £178.75 £13.80 £36.38
90th Percentile - £36.76 £53.10
North West median hourly rate £19.84 £17.44 £16.00
% change year-on-year +13.76% +9.00% -39.62%

VMS
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

VMS job vacancy trend in Manchester

VMS
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing VMS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing VMS

VMS
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VMS in Manchester over the 6 months to 22 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for VMS in Manchester

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Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing VMS.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing VMS

VMS
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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (33.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 4 (66.67%) Azure
2 2 (33.33%) AWS
2 2 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (33.33%) Google Sheets
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) NAS
1 2 (33.33%) SAN
1 2 (33.33%) VSAN
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Developer
1 2 (33.33%) Java Developer
1 2 (33.33%) VMware Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Senior
2 1 (16.67%) Senior VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) Spring
1 2 (33.33%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Hybrid Cloud
1 2 (33.33%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Linux
1 2 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 2 (33.33%) Ubuntu
1 2 (33.33%) Windows
1 2 (33.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (33.33%) Capacity Planning
1 2 (33.33%) Change Management
1 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
1 2 (33.33%) Customer Service
1 2 (33.33%) DevOps
1 2 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
1 2 (33.33%) Incident Management
1 2 (33.33%) ITIL
1 2 (33.33%) Knowledge Transfer
1 2 (33.33%) Migration
1 2 (33.33%) Performance Monitoring
1 2 (33.33%) Performance Optimisation
1 2 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
1 2 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
1 2 (33.33%) Secure Coding
1 2 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 2 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
1 2 (33.33%) Virtual Infrastructure
1 2 (33.33%) WFM
1 2 (33.33%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) Bash
1 2 (33.33%) Java
1 2 (33.33%) PowerShell
1 2 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) BPSS Clearance
1 2 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 2 (33.33%) Security Cleared
1 2 (33.33%) VCAP
1 2 (33.33%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) Virtual Machines
1 2 (33.33%) VMware ESXi
1 2 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (33.33%) VMware NSX
1 2 (33.33%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Ansible
1 2 (33.33%) PowerCLI
1 2 (33.33%) vCenter Server
1 2 (33.33%) vMotion
1 2 (33.33%) vRealize
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 2 (33.33%) Google
2 2 (33.33%) VMware
VMS jobs