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

6 months to
8 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 107 69 66
Rank change year-on-year -38 -3 +12
Contract jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 22 16 22
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 1.12% 1.60% 1.84%
As % of the System Software category 9.48% 14.41% 20.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 5 11
10th Percentile £316 - £313
25th Percentile £450 £413 £319
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £350
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +35.71% -9.39%
75th Percentile £544 £488 £425
90th Percentile £633 £555 £663
North West median daily rate £482 £388 £325
% change year-on-year +24.26% +19.23% -27.78%
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 - -

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 232 111 105
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 11.82% 11.10% 8.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 156 76 77
10th Percentile £193 £359 £279
25th Percentile £400 £425 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £476 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.80% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £573 £563 £613
90th Percentile £632 £650 £675
North West median daily rate £450 £450 £500
% change year-on-year - -10.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 1 1
10th Percentile £61.48 - -
25th Percentile £66.50 £76.25 £29.50
Median hourly rate £86.00 £82.50 £31.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.24% +166.13% +72.41%
75th Percentile £178.75 £88.75 £32.50
90th Percentile - - -
North West median hourly rate £74.26 £82.50 £29.25
% change year-on-year -9.99% +182.05% +53.95%

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 8 August 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 2 (9.09%) CICS
2 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (4.55%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 9 (40.91%) AWS
2 8 (36.36%) Azure
3 5 (22.73%) Entra ID
3 5 (22.73%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (13.64%) GCP
5 2 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (9.09%) IaaS
6 1 (4.55%) AWS Direct Connect
6 1 (4.55%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 1 (4.55%) GitHub
6 1 (4.55%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (4.55%) OCI
6 1 (4.55%) OneDrive
6 1 (4.55%) PaaS
6 1 (4.55%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 7 (31.82%) SAN
2 6 (27.27%) NAS
3 5 (22.73%) DNS
3 5 (22.73%) VSAN
4 4 (18.18%) Firewall
4 4 (18.18%) VLAN
5 2 (9.09%) Cisco Nexus
5 2 (9.09%) DHCP
5 2 (9.09%) SD-WAN
5 2 (9.09%) TCP/IP
5 2 (9.09%) VPN
5 2 (9.09%) WAN
6 1 (4.55%) BGP
6 1 (4.55%) Ethernet VPN
6 1 (4.55%) LAN
6 1 (4.55%) MPLS
6 1 (4.55%) Network Security
6 1 (4.55%) OSPF
6 1 (4.55%) Software-Defined Networking
6 1 (4.55%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (9.09%) DataStage
Development Applications
1 1 (4.55%) Git
1 1 (4.55%) GitLab
1 1 (4.55%) Jenkins
1 1 (4.55%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 5 (22.73%) Finance
1 5 (22.73%) Social Skills
2 4 (18.18%) Games
3 2 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (9.09%) Banking
3 2 (9.09%) Influencing Skills
3 2 (9.09%) Legal
4 1 (4.55%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (4.55%) Public Sector
4 1 (4.55%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (18.18%) Consultant
2 3 (13.64%) Analyst
2 3 (13.64%) Infrastructure Analyst
2 3 (13.64%) Infrastructure Consultant
2 3 (13.64%) Senior
2 3 (13.64%) Storage Analyst
2 3 (13.64%) Systems Engineer
2 3 (13.64%) VMware Consultant
2 3 (13.64%) VMware Engineer
3 2 (9.09%) Designer
3 2 (9.09%) Infrastructure Designer
3 2 (9.09%) Network Engineer
3 2 (9.09%) Senior VMware Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) Architect
4 1 (4.55%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) Deployment Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) Installations Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) Senior Wintel Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) VMware Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (13.64%) Flash
1 3 (13.64%) JSON
2 2 (9.09%) Middleware
3 1 (4.55%) REST
3 1 (4.55%) XML
3 1 (4.55%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (22.73%) Replication
2 4 (18.18%) Animation
2 4 (18.18%) Data Centre
3 3 (13.64%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (13.64%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (9.09%) BYOD
4 2 (9.09%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (9.09%) Mainframe
4 2 (9.09%) VSAM
5 1 (4.55%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 12 (54.55%) Linux
2 10 (45.45%) Windows
3 9 (40.91%) Windows Server
4 7 (31.82%) Unix
5 4 (18.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (13.64%) Ubuntu
7 2 (9.09%) AIX
7 2 (9.09%) Solaris
7 2 (9.09%) VMS
8 1 (4.55%) CentOS
8 1 (4.55%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (4.55%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (4.55%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (36.36%) Disaster Recovery
2 7 (31.82%) Infrastructure as Code
3 5 (22.73%) High Availability
3 5 (22.73%) Migration
4 4 (18.18%) Data Protection
4 4 (18.18%) Digital Transformation Programme
4 4 (18.18%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 4 (18.18%) ITIL
4 4 (18.18%) Network Virtualisation
4 4 (18.18%) Patch Management
4 4 (18.18%) Visual Effects
5 3 (13.64%) Agile
5 3 (13.64%) Continuous Improvement
5 3 (13.64%) DevOps
5 3 (13.64%) Infrastructure Automation
5 3 (13.64%) Root Cause Analysis
5 3 (13.64%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 3 (13.64%) Stakeholder Management
5 3 (13.64%) Ticket Management
5 3 (13.64%) Virtual Infrastructure
Programming Languages
1 6 (27.27%) PowerShell
2 5 (22.73%) Python
3 4 (18.18%) Bash
4 2 (9.09%) COBOL
5 1 (4.55%) Bicep
5 1 (4.55%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 3 (13.64%) Security Cleared
2 2 (9.09%) BPSS Clearance
2 2 (9.09%) CCNP
2 2 (9.09%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (9.09%) VCAP
2 2 (9.09%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 1 (4.55%) CCIE
3 1 (4.55%) CCNA
3 1 (4.55%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 6 (27.27%) Active Directory
2 5 (22.73%) Hyper-V
2 5 (22.73%) VMware ESXi
2 5 (22.73%) vSphere
3 4 (18.18%) VMware NSX
4 3 (13.64%) GPFS
4 3 (13.64%) NFS
5 2 (9.09%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (4.55%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (27.27%) vRealize
2 5 (22.73%) Ansible
3 3 (13.64%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (13.64%) VxRail
4 2 (9.09%) PowerCLI
4 2 (9.09%) Progress Chef
4 2 (9.09%) Puppet
4 2 (9.09%) Terraform
4 2 (9.09%) vCenter Server
4 2 (9.09%) vMotion
5 1 (4.55%) Kubernetes
5 1 (4.55%) SCCM
5 1 (4.55%) vRealize Orchestrator
5 1 (4.55%) WSUS
Vendors
1 22 (100.00%) VMware
2 8 (36.36%) Microsoft
3 5 (22.73%) Cisco
3 5 (22.73%) IBM
4 4 (18.18%) Oracle
4 4 (18.18%) Perforce
4 4 (18.18%) ServiceNow
5 1 (4.55%) Citrix
5 1 (4.55%) F5
5 1 (4.55%) OpenText
5 1 (4.55%) Palo Alto
5 1 (4.55%) Red Hat