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

6 months to
7 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 111 72 60
Rank change year-on-year -39 -12 +17
Contract jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 16 13 21
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 0.80% 1.30% 1.79%
As % of the System Software category 7.02% 12.87% 19.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 7 8
10th Percentile £316 £413 £386
25th Percentile £398 £416 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £463
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +2.70% +15.63%
75th Percentile £525 £531 £658
90th Percentile £711 £585 £666
North West median daily rate £448 £438 £425
% change year-on-year +2.40% +2.94% +6.25%
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 £47.12 £66.50 -
% change year-on-year -29.14% - -

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 228 101 108
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 11.35% 10.10% 9.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 143 75 73
10th Percentile £193 £312 £216
25th Percentile £400 £404 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £478 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +0.63% -5.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £556 £563 £588
90th Percentile £640 £650 £668
North West median daily rate £448 £435 £500
% change year-on-year +2.99% -13.00% +17.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 1 1
10th Percentile £65.60 - -
25th Percentile £71.00 - £29.50
Median hourly rate £77.00 £20.00 £31.00
Median % change year-on-year +285.00% -35.48% +67.57%
75th Percentile £115.94 - £32.50
90th Percentile £178.75 - -
North West median hourly rate £77.00 £18.31 £22.09
% change year-on-year +320.54% -17.11% +19.41%

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 October 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 (6.25%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (6.25%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 7 (43.75%) AWS
1 7 (43.75%) Azure
2 5 (31.25%) Entra ID
2 5 (31.25%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (25.00%) GCP
4 2 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (12.50%) IaaS
5 1 (6.25%) AWS Direct Connect
5 1 (6.25%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 1 (6.25%) GitHub
5 1 (6.25%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (6.25%) OCI
5 1 (6.25%) OneDrive
5 1 (6.25%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (31.25%) DNS
1 5 (31.25%) SAN
2 4 (25.00%) NAS
2 4 (25.00%) VLAN
3 3 (18.75%) WAN
4 2 (12.50%) Cisco Nexus
4 2 (12.50%) DHCP
4 2 (12.50%) Firewall
4 2 (12.50%) LAN
4 2 (12.50%) SD-WAN
4 2 (12.50%) TCP/IP
4 2 (12.50%) VPN
4 2 (12.50%) VSAN
5 1 (6.25%) Ethernet VPN
5 1 (6.25%) MPLS
5 1 (6.25%) Network Security
5 1 (6.25%) Software-Defined Networking
5 1 (6.25%) VoIP
5 1 (6.25%) VXLAN
5 1 (6.25%) Wi-Fi
Development Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Git
1 1 (6.25%) GitLab
1 1 (6.25%) Jenkins
1 1 (6.25%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 4 (25.00%) Games
1 4 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (18.75%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (18.75%) Legal
3 2 (12.50%) Banking
3 2 (12.50%) Finance
4 1 (6.25%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (6.25%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (6.25%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (18.75%) Consultant
1 3 (18.75%) Systems Engineer
1 3 (18.75%) VMware Consultant
2 2 (12.50%) Analyst
2 2 (12.50%) Architect
2 2 (12.50%) Infrastructure Analyst
2 2 (12.50%) Infrastructure Consultant
2 2 (12.50%) Network Engineer
2 2 (12.50%) Storage Analyst
3 1 (6.25%) 3rd Line Support
3 1 (6.25%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Cloud Architect
3 1 (6.25%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Deployment Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) IT Architect
3 1 (6.25%) Senior Wintel Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Support Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) VMware Architect
3 1 (6.25%) Wintel Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (18.75%) JSON
2 2 (12.50%) Flash
2 2 (12.50%) Terraform
3 1 (6.25%) REST
3 1 (6.25%) XML
3 1 (6.25%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (25.00%) Animation
2 2 (12.50%) Data Centre
2 2 (12.50%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (12.50%) Linux Command Line
2 2 (12.50%) Replication
3 1 (6.25%) CMDB
3 1 (6.25%) Driving Licence
3 1 (6.25%) Enterprise Storage
3 1 (6.25%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (6.25%) Management Information System
3 1 (6.25%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 9 (56.25%) Windows
2 8 (50.00%) Windows Server
3 6 (37.50%) Linux
4 4 (25.00%) Unix
5 1 (6.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (6.25%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (6.25%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (6.25%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (43.75%) Infrastructure as Code
2 6 (37.50%) Disaster Recovery
3 5 (31.25%) High Availability
3 5 (31.25%) Patch Management
4 4 (25.00%) Data Protection
4 4 (25.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
4 4 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
4 4 (25.00%) Visual Effects
5 3 (18.75%) Continuous Improvement
5 3 (18.75%) DevOps
5 3 (18.75%) Infrastructure Automation
5 3 (18.75%) Infrastructure Management
5 3 (18.75%) ITIL
5 3 (18.75%) Service Management
5 3 (18.75%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 2 (12.50%) Agile
6 2 (12.50%) Configuration Management
6 2 (12.50%) ITSM
6 2 (12.50%) Mentoring
6 2 (12.50%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 4 (25.00%) PowerShell
2 3 (18.75%) Python
3 1 (6.25%) Bash
3 1 (6.25%) Bicep
3 1 (6.25%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 2 (12.50%) CCNP
1 2 (12.50%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (12.50%) Security Cleared
2 1 (6.25%) CCIE
2 1 (6.25%) CCNA
2 1 (6.25%) Degree
2 1 (6.25%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
2 1 (6.25%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.25%) Data Quality
System Software
1 6 (37.50%) Active Directory
2 4 (25.00%) Hyper-V
3 2 (12.50%) GPFS
3 2 (12.50%) NFS
3 2 (12.50%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (12.50%) VMware NSX
3 2 (12.50%) vSphere
4 1 (6.25%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (18.75%) Microsoft Intune
1 3 (18.75%) vRealize
2 2 (12.50%) Ansible
2 2 (12.50%) VxRail
3 1 (6.25%) Kubernetes
3 1 (6.25%) Progress Chef
3 1 (6.25%) Puppet
3 1 (6.25%) SCCM
3 1 (6.25%) vRealize Orchestrator
3 1 (6.25%) WSUS
Vendors
1 16 (100.00%) VMware
2 9 (56.25%) Microsoft
3 4 (25.00%) Cisco
3 4 (25.00%) Oracle
3 4 (25.00%) Perforce
3 4 (25.00%) ServiceNow
4 3 (18.75%) IBM
5 1 (6.25%) Adobe
5 1 (6.25%) Citrix
5 1 (6.25%) F5
5 1 (6.25%) Google
5 1 (6.25%) OpenText
5 1 (6.25%) Palo Alto
5 1 (6.25%) Red Hat
5 1 (6.25%) SAP