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

6 months to
10 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 94 64 63
Rank change year-on-year -30 -1 -4
Contract jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 12 25 36
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 0.83% 2.48% 2.29%
As % of the System Software category 7.74% 18.12% 19.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 11 31
10th Percentile £371 £367 £256
25th Percentile £427 £413 £331
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £448 £450 £400
Median % change year-on-year -0.56% +12.50% -25.93%
75th Percentile £649 £517 £500
90th Percentile £696 £575 £625
North West median daily rate £441 £425 £400
% change year-on-year +3.65% +6.25% -13.51%

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 155 138 184
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 10.75% 13.69% 11.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 115 94 160
10th Percentile £213 £190 £273
25th Percentile £360 £363 £368
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £459 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -3.37% +5.56% -10.00%
75th Percentile £581 £563 £556
90th Percentile £638 £588 £700
North West median daily rate £450 £400 £450
% change year-on-year +12.50% -11.11% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 7
10th Percentile £36.80 - £14.55
25th Percentile £62.00 - £17.13
Median hourly rate £75.00 £29.00 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year +158.62% +61.11% -70.85%
75th Percentile £95.00 - £21.75
90th Percentile - - £39.75
North West median hourly rate £68.13 £24.18 £17.72
% change year-on-year +181.76% +36.46% -59.55%

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 10 March 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 4 (33.33%) OpenStack
2 2 (16.67%) CICS
Cloud Services
1 8 (66.67%) AWS
2 7 (58.33%) Azure
2 7 (58.33%) GCP
3 3 (25.00%) Entra ID
3 3 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (8.33%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 6 (50.00%) Firewall
2 1 (8.33%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (16.67%) DataStage
General
1 6 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (33.33%) Finance
3 3 (25.00%) Public Sector
4 2 (16.67%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (33.33%) Platform Engineer
2 3 (25.00%) Architect
2 3 (25.00%) Virtualisation Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Designer
3 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure Designer
3 2 (16.67%) Lead
3 2 (16.67%) Lead Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Consultant
4 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure Consultant
4 1 (8.33%) Installations Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Linux Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Storage Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (16.67%) Middleware
2 1 (8.33%) Flash
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) BYOD
1 2 (16.67%) Data Centre
1 2 (16.67%) Mainframe
1 2 (16.67%) VSAM
2 1 (8.33%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (8.33%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (8.33%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 8 (66.67%) Linux
2 4 (33.33%) Windows
3 3 (25.00%) Mac OS
3 3 (25.00%) Unix
3 3 (25.00%) Windows 10
4 2 (16.67%) AIX
4 2 (16.67%) Solaris
5 1 (8.33%) CentOS
5 1 (8.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (8.33%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (41.67%) Platform Engineering
1 5 (41.67%) Roadmaps
2 4 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 4 (33.33%) Containerisation
2 4 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 4 (33.33%) Data Protection
2 4 (33.33%) DevOps
2 4 (33.33%) Incident Response
2 4 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 4 (33.33%) Infrastructure Automation
2 4 (33.33%) Observability
2 4 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 4 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 3 (25.00%) Analytics
3 3 (25.00%) Application Packaging
3 3 (25.00%) Decision-Making
3 3 (25.00%) Enterprise Architecture
3 3 (25.00%) IT Strategy
3 3 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 3 (25.00%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 8 (66.67%) Bash
2 4 (33.33%) Python
3 3 (25.00%) PowerShell
4 2 (16.67%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 3 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (8.33%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (25.00%) GDPR
1 3 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 5 (41.67%) vSphere
2 4 (33.33%) Docker
3 3 (25.00%) Active Directory
4 1 (8.33%) GPFS
4 1 (8.33%) Hyper-V
4 1 (8.33%) NFS
4 1 (8.33%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 4 (33.33%) Kubernetes
1 4 (33.33%) Terraform
2 3 (25.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (25.00%) SCCM
3 1 (8.33%) Ansible
3 1 (8.33%) Progress Chef
3 1 (8.33%) Puppet
3 1 (8.33%) vRealize
3 1 (8.33%) VxRail
Vendors
1 12 (100.00%) VMware
2 4 (33.33%) F5
2 4 (33.33%) Palo Alto
3 3 (25.00%) Citrix
3 3 (25.00%) Google
3 3 (25.00%) IBM
3 3 (25.00%) Microsoft
4 1 (8.33%) Cisco
4 1 (8.33%) Oracle
4 1 (8.33%) ServiceNow