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 7 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 102 69 66
Rank change year-on-year -33 -3 +16
Contract jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 20 15 21
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 1.00% 1.50% 1.78%
As % of the System Software category 8.33% 13.89% 20.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 7 11
10th Percentile £316 £413 £313
25th Percentile £444 £416 £338
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £350
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +35.71% -9.09%
75th Percentile £550 £531 £469
90th Percentile £649 £585 £663
North West median daily rate £466 £431 £338
% change year-on-year +7.94% +27.78% -20.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £29.00 - -
Median hourly rate £30.00 - -
75th Percentile £31.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median hourly rate £56.75 £66.50 -
% change year-on-year -14.66% - -

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 240 108 103
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 12.01% 10.81% 8.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 158 75 77
10th Percentile £193 £328 £223
25th Percentile £400 £413 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.56%
75th Percentile £548 £545 £613
90th Percentile £638 £650 £675
North West median daily rate £447 £449 £500
% change year-on-year -0.33% -10.30% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 1 1
10th Percentile £62.38 - -
25th Percentile £71.00 £76.25 £29.50
Median hourly rate £86.00 £82.50 £31.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.24% +166.13% +67.57%
75th Percentile £178.75 £88.75 £32.50
90th Percentile - - -
North West median hourly rate £77.00 £18.87 £23.34
% change year-on-year +308.06% -19.15% +26.16%

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 7 September 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 1 (5.00%) CICS
1 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (5.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 9 (45.00%) AWS
1 9 (45.00%) Azure
2 5 (25.00%) Entra ID
2 5 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (20.00%) GCP
4 2 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (10.00%) IaaS
5 1 (5.00%) AWS Direct Connect
5 1 (5.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 1 (5.00%) GitHub
5 1 (5.00%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (5.00%) OCI
5 1 (5.00%) OneDrive
5 1 (5.00%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (35.00%) SAN
2 6 (30.00%) NAS
3 5 (25.00%) DNS
4 4 (20.00%) VLAN
4 4 (20.00%) VSAN
5 3 (15.00%) Firewall
5 3 (15.00%) WAN
6 2 (10.00%) Cisco Nexus
6 2 (10.00%) DHCP
6 2 (10.00%) LAN
6 2 (10.00%) SD-WAN
6 2 (10.00%) TCP/IP
6 2 (10.00%) VPN
7 1 (5.00%) Ethernet VPN
7 1 (5.00%) MPLS
7 1 (5.00%) OSPF
7 1 (5.00%) Software-Defined Networking
7 1 (5.00%) VoIP
7 1 (5.00%) VXLAN
7 1 (5.00%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.00%) DataStage
Development Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Git
1 1 (5.00%) GitLab
1 1 (5.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (5.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 5 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (20.00%) Games
3 3 (15.00%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (15.00%) Finance
3 3 (15.00%) Legal
4 2 (10.00%) Banking
4 2 (10.00%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (5.00%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (5.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (15.00%) Consultant
1 3 (15.00%) Senior
1 3 (15.00%) Systems Engineer
1 3 (15.00%) VMware Consultant
1 3 (15.00%) VMware Engineer
2 2 (10.00%) Analyst
2 2 (10.00%) Architect
2 2 (10.00%) Infrastructure Analyst
2 2 (10.00%) Infrastructure Consultant
2 2 (10.00%) Network Engineer
2 2 (10.00%) Senior VMware Engineer
2 2 (10.00%) Storage Analyst
3 1 (5.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 1 (5.00%) Automation Engineer
3 1 (5.00%) Cloud Architect
3 1 (5.00%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (5.00%) Migration Architect
3 1 (5.00%) Network Deployment Engineer
3 1 (5.00%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
3 1 (5.00%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (15.00%) JSON
2 2 (10.00%) Flash
2 2 (10.00%) Terraform
3 1 (5.00%) Middleware
3 1 (5.00%) REST
3 1 (5.00%) XML
3 1 (5.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (20.00%) Animation
1 4 (20.00%) Replication
2 3 (15.00%) Data Centre
2 3 (15.00%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (10.00%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (10.00%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (5.00%) BYOD
4 1 (5.00%) CMDB
4 1 (5.00%) Driving Licence
4 1 (5.00%) Enterprise Storage
4 1 (5.00%) Mainframe
4 1 (5.00%) Management Information System
4 1 (5.00%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (5.00%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 11 (55.00%) Windows
2 10 (50.00%) Windows Server
3 9 (45.00%) Linux
4 5 (25.00%) Unix
5 3 (15.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (10.00%) Ubuntu
6 2 (10.00%) VMS
7 1 (5.00%) AIX
7 1 (5.00%) Solaris
7 1 (5.00%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (5.00%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (5.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (40.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 7 (35.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 5 (25.00%) High Availability
3 5 (25.00%) ITIL
3 5 (25.00%) Patch Management
4 4 (20.00%) Data Protection
4 4 (20.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
4 4 (20.00%) Migration
4 4 (20.00%) Network Virtualisation
4 4 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
4 4 (20.00%) Visual Effects
5 3 (15.00%) Capacity Planning
5 3 (15.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 3 (15.00%) DevOps
5 3 (15.00%) Infrastructure Automation
5 3 (15.00%) Infrastructure Management
5 3 (15.00%) Performance Optimisation
5 3 (15.00%) Root Cause Analysis
5 3 (15.00%) Service Management
5 3 (15.00%) Virtual Infrastructure
Programming Languages
1 6 (30.00%) PowerShell
2 5 (25.00%) Python
3 3 (15.00%) Bash
4 1 (5.00%) Bicep
4 1 (5.00%) COBOL
4 1 (5.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 2 (10.00%) CCNP
1 2 (10.00%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (10.00%) Security Cleared
1 2 (10.00%) VCAP
1 2 (10.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 1 (5.00%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (5.00%) CCIE
2 1 (5.00%) CCNA
2 1 (5.00%) Degree
2 1 (5.00%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
2 1 (5.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 6 (30.00%) Active Directory
2 4 (20.00%) Hyper-V
2 4 (20.00%) VMware ESXi
2 4 (20.00%) VMware NSX
2 4 (20.00%) vSphere
3 2 (10.00%) GPFS
3 2 (10.00%) NFS
3 2 (10.00%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (5.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (25.00%) vRealize
2 4 (20.00%) Ansible
3 3 (15.00%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (10.00%) PowerCLI
4 2 (10.00%) vCenter Server
4 2 (10.00%) vMotion
4 2 (10.00%) VxRail
5 1 (5.00%) Kubernetes
5 1 (5.00%) Progress Chef
5 1 (5.00%) Puppet
5 1 (5.00%) SCCM
5 1 (5.00%) vRealize Orchestrator
5 1 (5.00%) WSUS
Vendors
1 20 (100.00%) VMware
2 9 (45.00%) Microsoft
3 4 (20.00%) Cisco
3 4 (20.00%) IBM
3 4 (20.00%) Oracle
3 4 (20.00%) Perforce
3 4 (20.00%) ServiceNow
4 1 (5.00%) Adobe
4 1 (5.00%) Citrix
4 1 (5.00%) F5
4 1 (5.00%) Google
4 1 (5.00%) OpenText
4 1 (5.00%) Palo Alto
4 1 (5.00%) Red Hat
4 1 (5.00%) SAP