VMware Infrastructure Contracts in Manchester

VMware Infrastructure (VI3)
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester requiring VMware Infrastructure skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited VMware Infrastructure over the 6 months leading up to 30 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 67 73 80
Rank change year-on-year +6 +7 +10
Contract jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 13 21 31
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 1.39% 1.46% 1.73%
As % of the System Software category 12.87% 15.44% 10.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 18 24
10th Percentile - £210 £314
25th Percentile £413 £313 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £350 £428
Median % change year-on-year +28.57% -18.13% -27.23%
75th Percentile £510 £425 £514
90th Percentile £564 £549 £646
North West median daily rate £425 £325 £488
% change year-on-year +30.77% -33.33% +4.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £26.00
North West median hourly rate - £46.18 £49.98
% change year-on-year - -7.60% -

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 101 136 294
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 10.81% 9.45% 16.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 117 215
10th Percentile £244 £278 £232
25th Percentile £402 £363 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £463 £500
Median % change year-on-year +6.76% -7.50% -2.53%
75th Percentile £545 £575 £575
90th Percentile £625 £675 £645
North West median daily rate £446 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -6.11% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 14
10th Percentile - £13.75 £14.04
25th Percentile £76.25 £16.38 £15.72
Median hourly rate £82.50 £21.50 £18.31
Median % change year-on-year +283.72% +17.42% -1.03%
75th Percentile £88.75 £27.38 £28.06
90th Percentile - £30.45 £56.51
North West median hourly rate £82.50 £17.72 £17.50
% change year-on-year +365.58% +1.26% -

VMware Infrastructure
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Job postings citing VMware Infrastructure as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Job vacancy trend for VMware Infrastructure in Manchester

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing VMware Infrastructure in Manchester.

Daily rate trend for VMware Infrastructure in Manchester

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Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VMware Infrastructure in Manchester over the 6 months to 30 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for VMware Infrastructure in Manchester

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing VMware Infrastructure in Manchester.

Hourly rate trend for VMware Infrastructure in Manchester

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 7 (53.85%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (15.38%) IIS
3 1 (7.69%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 7 (53.85%) Azure
1 7 (53.85%) Entra ID
1 7 (53.85%) Microsoft 365
2 6 (46.15%) IaaS
3 2 (15.38%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (15.38%) Amazon S3
3 2 (15.38%) AWS
3 2 (15.38%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (15.38%) Nutanix
3 2 (15.38%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 1 (7.69%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 7 (53.85%) Network Security
2 6 (46.15%) Firewall
2 6 (46.15%) Intrusion Detection
3 3 (23.08%) DHCP
3 3 (23.08%) DNS
4 2 (15.38%) DMZ
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (46.15%) SQL Server
General
1 6 (46.15%) Telecoms
2 3 (23.08%) Public Sector
3 2 (15.38%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (7.69%) Aviation
4 1 (7.69%) Military
4 1 (7.69%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (38.46%) Analyst
1 5 (38.46%) Infrastructure Analyst
2 3 (23.08%) Consultant
3 1 (7.69%) Infrastructure Manager
3 1 (7.69%) Infrastructure Project Manager
3 1 (7.69%) Infrastructure Specialist
3 1 (7.69%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Project Manager
3 1 (7.69%) Technical Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) VMware Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) Clustering
1 2 (15.38%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (7.69%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 9 (69.23%) Windows
1 9 (69.23%) Windows Server
2 2 (15.38%) CentOS
2 2 (15.38%) Linux
2 2 (15.38%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (7.69%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (53.85%) Change Management
2 6 (46.15%) Business Continuity
2 6 (46.15%) High Availability
2 6 (46.15%) Project Delivery
2 6 (46.15%) Vulnerability Scanning
3 5 (38.46%) Analytics
3 5 (38.46%) BCP
3 5 (38.46%) Business Continuity Planning
3 5 (38.46%) Cybersecurity
3 5 (38.46%) Disaster Recovery
3 5 (38.46%) Enterprise Architecture
3 5 (38.46%) Information Security
3 5 (38.46%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 5 (38.46%) Line Management
3 5 (38.46%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (38.46%) Risk Assessment
3 5 (38.46%) Web Operations
4 3 (23.08%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (23.08%) ITIL
5 2 (15.38%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 6 (46.15%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 6 (46.15%) Azure Certification
1 6 (46.15%) Microsoft Certification
2 3 (23.08%) SC Cleared
2 3 (23.08%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (15.38%) PCI DSS
2 1 (7.69%) SLA
System Software
1 9 (69.23%) Active Directory
2 6 (46.15%) vSphere
3 2 (15.38%) UAG
3 2 (15.38%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (15.38%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 7 (53.85%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (15.38%) Ansible
2 2 (15.38%) Nagios
2 2 (15.38%) Prometheus
2 2 (15.38%) Terraform
2 2 (15.38%) ZABBIX
3 1 (7.69%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (7.69%) WSUS
Vendors
1 13 (100.00%) VMware
2 7 (53.85%) Microsoft
3 2 (15.38%) Dell
3 2 (15.38%) HP
3 2 (15.38%) IBM
3 2 (15.38%) SolarWinds