VMware Infrastructure Contracts in Manchester

VMware Infrastructure (VI3)
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester requiring VMware Infrastructure skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited VMware Infrastructure over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 61 73 70
Rank change year-on-year +12 -3 +7
Contract jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 18 23 48
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 1.94% 1.52% 2.54%
As % of the System Software category 13.53% 17.42% 16.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 17 35
10th Percentile £399 £210 £306
25th Percentile £413 £313 £334
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £350 £475
Median % change year-on-year +37.14% -26.32% -14.61%
75th Percentile £513 £425 £644
90th Percentile £539 £595 £650
North West median daily rate £425 £325 £500
% change year-on-year +30.77% -35.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 6
10th Percentile - - £45.50
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate - - £65.00
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median hourly rate - £46.18 £58.57
% change year-on-year - -21.15% -

All System Software Skills
Manchester

VMware Infrastructure falls under the System Software category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring system software skills in Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 133 132 287
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 14.36% 8.70% 15.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 90 114 205
10th Percentile £199 £281 £300
25th Percentile £364 £366 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £463 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.70% -7.50% -
75th Percentile £545 £596 £594
90th Percentile £575 £694 £650
North West median daily rate £425 £450 £500
% change year-on-year -5.56% -10.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 15
10th Percentile £33.73 - £14.07
25th Percentile £40.81 - £20.00
Median hourly rate £55.75 £12.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +364.58% -56.36% +51.81%
75th Percentile £73.81 - £65.00
90th Percentile £82.78 - -
North West median hourly rate £55.75 £17.72 £22.41
% change year-on-year +214.62% -20.93% +23.71%

VMware Infrastructure
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Job postings citing VMware Infrastructure as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Job vacancy trend for VMware Infrastructure in Manchester

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing VMware Infrastructure in Manchester.

Daily rate trend for VMware Infrastructure in Manchester

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Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VMware Infrastructure in Manchester over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for VMware Infrastructure in Manchester

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing VMware Infrastructure in Manchester.

Hourly rate trend for VMware Infrastructure in Manchester

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 10 (55.56%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (11.11%) IIS
3 1 (5.56%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 11 (61.11%) Azure
2 10 (55.56%) Entra ID
2 10 (55.56%) Microsoft 365
3 8 (44.44%) IaaS
4 2 (11.11%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (11.11%) Amazon S3
4 2 (11.11%) AWS
4 2 (11.11%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (11.11%) Nutanix
4 2 (11.11%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 1 (5.56%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 10 (55.56%) Network Security
2 9 (50.00%) Firewall
2 9 (50.00%) Intrusion Detection
3 3 (16.67%) DHCP
3 3 (16.67%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 4 (22.22%) Couchbase
2 4 (22.22%) NoSQL
General
1 9 (50.00%) Telecoms
2 2 (11.11%) Public Sector
3 1 (5.56%) Aviation
3 1 (5.56%) Banking
3 1 (5.56%) Finance
3 1 (5.56%) Legal
3 1 (5.56%) Military
3 1 (5.56%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (27.78%) Analyst
1 5 (27.78%) Infrastructure Analyst
2 4 (22.22%) DBA
2 4 (22.22%) Infrastructure Specialist
3 2 (11.11%) Infrastructure Manager
3 2 (11.11%) Infrastructure Project Manager
3 2 (11.11%) Project Manager
4 1 (5.56%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Technical Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (22.22%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (11.11%) Clustering
2 2 (11.11%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (5.56%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 13 (72.22%) Windows
2 12 (66.67%) Windows Server
3 2 (11.11%) CentOS
3 2 (11.11%) Linux
3 2 (11.11%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (5.56%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (50.00%) Business Continuity
1 9 (50.00%) Change Management
1 9 (50.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
2 8 (44.44%) Project Delivery
3 7 (38.89%) Cybersecurity
3 7 (38.89%) High Availability
4 6 (33.33%) BCP
4 6 (33.33%) Business Continuity Planning
4 6 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
4 6 (33.33%) Enterprise Architecture
4 6 (33.33%) Information Security
4 6 (33.33%) Line Management
4 6 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (33.33%) Risk Assessment
4 6 (33.33%) Web Operations
5 5 (27.78%) Analytics
5 5 (27.78%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 4 (22.22%) Containerisation
7 3 (16.67%) ITIL
7 3 (16.67%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (50.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 9 (50.00%) Azure Certification
2 8 (44.44%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (5.56%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (5.56%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.11%) PCI DSS
2 1 (5.56%) SLA
System Software
1 12 (66.67%) Active Directory
2 9 (50.00%) vSphere
3 4 (22.22%) Docker
4 2 (11.11%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (11.11%) VMware NSX
5 1 (5.56%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 10 (55.56%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (22.22%) Kubernetes
3 2 (11.11%) Ansible
3 2 (11.11%) Nagios
3 2 (11.11%) Prometheus
3 2 (11.11%) Terraform
3 2 (11.11%) ZABBIX
4 1 (5.56%) WSUS
Vendors
1 18 (100.00%) VMware
2 10 (55.56%) Microsoft
3 2 (11.11%) Dell
3 2 (11.11%) HP
3 2 (11.11%) IBM
3 2 (11.11%) SolarWinds
4 1 (5.56%) Citrix