VMware Infrastructure Contract Job Trends in Manchester

VMware Infrastructure (VI3)
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring VMware Infrastructure skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 97 68 78
Rank change year-on-year -29 +10 -7
Contract jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 14 14 21
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 0.82% 1.57% 1.44%
As % of the System Software category 7.61% 11.67% 16.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 8 15
10th Percentile £312 £399 £210
25th Percentile £417 £413 £309
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £448 £480 £350
Median % change year-on-year -6.77% +37.14% -22.22%
75th Percentile £523 £513 £388
90th Percentile £568 £539 £463
North West median daily rate £449 £425 £325
% change year-on-year +5.65% +30.77% -35.00%

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 184 120 128
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 10.79% 13.44% 8.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 133 84 111
10th Percentile £201 £190 £250
25th Percentile £375 £366 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £459 £475 £463
Median % change year-on-year -3.37% +2.70% -7.50%
75th Percentile £572 £545 £592
90th Percentile £629 £572 £694
North West median daily rate £450 £425 £450
% change year-on-year +5.88% -5.56% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 1 1
10th Percentile £62.90 - -
25th Percentile £72.13 £76.25 -
Median hourly rate £133.75 £82.50 £12.00
Median % change year-on-year +62.12% +587.50% -55.14%
75th Percentile £178.75 £88.75 -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median hourly rate £74.26 £82.50 £17.72
% change year-on-year -9.99% +365.58% -20.93%

VMware Infrastructure
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

VMware Infrastructure job vacancy trend in Manchester

VMware Infrastructure
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

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

VMware Infrastructure
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VMware Infrastructure in Manchester over the 6 months to 9 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for VMware Infrastructure in Manchester

VMware Infrastructure
Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

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

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

VMware 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (21.43%) CICS
Cloud Services
1 7 (50.00%) AWS
2 5 (35.71%) Azure
3 3 (21.43%) Entra ID
3 3 (21.43%) GCP
3 3 (21.43%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (7.14%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 4 (28.57%) VSAN
2 3 (21.43%) Firewall
3 2 (14.29%) NAS
3 2 (14.29%) SAN
4 1 (7.14%) DNS
4 1 (7.14%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (21.43%) DataStage
General
1 7 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (42.86%) Finance
3 3 (21.43%) Influencing Skills
4 2 (14.29%) Public Sector
5 1 (7.14%) Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (21.43%) Architect
1 3 (21.43%) Designer
1 3 (21.43%) Infrastructure Designer
1 3 (21.43%) VMware Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) Analyst
2 2 (14.29%) Consultant
2 2 (14.29%) Infrastructure Analyst
2 2 (14.29%) Lead
2 2 (14.29%) Lead Architect
2 2 (14.29%) Senior
2 2 (14.29%) Senior VMware Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) Storage Analyst
3 1 (7.14%) Infrastructure Consultant
3 1 (7.14%) Installations Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Linux Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) VMware Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (21.43%) Middleware
2 2 (14.29%) Flash
3 1 (7.14%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (28.57%) Replication
2 3 (21.43%) BYOD
2 3 (21.43%) Data Centre
2 3 (21.43%) Mainframe
2 3 (21.43%) VSAM
3 2 (14.29%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (14.29%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (14.29%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 9 (64.29%) Linux
2 6 (42.86%) Windows
3 5 (35.71%) Unix
4 3 (21.43%) AIX
4 3 (21.43%) Mac OS
4 3 (21.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (21.43%) Solaris
4 3 (21.43%) Ubuntu
4 3 (21.43%) Windows 10
5 2 (14.29%) VMS
5 2 (14.29%) Windows Server
6 1 (7.14%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (42.86%) Roadmaps
2 5 (35.71%) Continuous Improvement
2 5 (35.71%) Data Protection
3 4 (28.57%) Stakeholder Management
4 3 (21.43%) Analytics
4 3 (21.43%) Application Packaging
4 3 (21.43%) Business Case
4 3 (21.43%) Business Strategy
4 3 (21.43%) Design Patterns
4 3 (21.43%) Disaster Recovery
4 3 (21.43%) Enterprise Architecture
4 3 (21.43%) Identity Access Management
4 3 (21.43%) IT Strategy
4 3 (21.43%) Migration
4 3 (21.43%) Process Improvement
4 3 (21.43%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 3 (21.43%) Thought Leadership
4 3 (21.43%) User Experience
4 3 (21.43%) Virtual Infrastructure
4 3 (21.43%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 6 (42.86%) Bash
1 6 (42.86%) PowerShell
2 3 (21.43%) COBOL
2 3 (21.43%) Python
3 1 (7.14%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 2 (14.29%) BPSS Clearance
1 2 (14.29%) Security Cleared
1 2 (14.29%) VCAP
1 2 (14.29%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (21.43%) GDPR
1 3 (21.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 4 (28.57%) VMware ESXi
1 4 (28.57%) vSphere
2 3 (21.43%) Active Directory
3 2 (14.29%) GPFS
3 2 (14.29%) NFS
3 2 (14.29%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (14.29%) VMware NSX
4 1 (7.14%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 5 (35.71%) vRealize
2 4 (28.57%) Ansible
3 3 (21.43%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (21.43%) SCCM
4 2 (14.29%) PowerCLI
4 2 (14.29%) vCenter Server
4 2 (14.29%) vMotion
4 2 (14.29%) VxRail
5 1 (7.14%) Progress Chef
5 1 (7.14%) Puppet
5 1 (7.14%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 14 (100.00%) VMware
2 5 (35.71%) IBM
3 4 (28.57%) Microsoft
4 3 (21.43%) Citrix
4 3 (21.43%) Google
4 3 (21.43%) ServiceNow
5 2 (14.29%) Cisco
5 2 (14.29%) Oracle
6 1 (7.14%) OpenText
6 1 (7.14%) Red Hat