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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 70 62 72
Rank change year-on-year -8 +10 +14
Contract jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 15 20 33
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 1.48% 1.68% 1.96%
As % of the System Software category 13.39% 20.00% 11.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 10 28
10th Percentile £413 £348 £304
25th Percentile £416 £366 £361
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £425 £395
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% +7.59% -14.59%
75th Percentile £531 £617 £459
90th Percentile £585 £664 £506
North West median daily rate £438 £370 £400
% change year-on-year +18.24% -7.50% -6.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £40.63
Median hourly rate - - £43.75
75th Percentile - - £46.88
90th Percentile - - -
North West median hourly rate £66.50 - £45.79
% change year-on-year - - +12.85%

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 112 100 283
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 11.05% 8.39% 16.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 72 208
10th Percentile £313 £214 £201
25th Percentile £409 £359 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £440
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% +10.80% -12.00%
75th Percentile £545 £606 £552
90th Percentile £650 £668 £646
North West median daily rate £447 £500 £425
% change year-on-year -10.60% +17.65% -5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 24
10th Percentile £25.63 - £15.75
25th Percentile £34.06 £29.50 £16.22
Median hourly rate £51.25 £31.00 £18.25
Median % change year-on-year +65.32% +69.86% -6.41%
75th Percentile £71.56 £32.50 £24.90
90th Percentile £81.88 - £58.69
North West median hourly rate £18.87 £19.18 £18.25
% change year-on-year -1.62% +5.10% +4.29%

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

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 19 September 2025.

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 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 2 (13.33%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (6.67%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 6 (40.00%) Azure
2 3 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (13.33%) AWS
3 2 (13.33%) Entra ID
3 2 (13.33%) IaaS
3 2 (13.33%) SaaS
4 1 (6.67%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 4 (26.67%) DMZ
1 4 (26.67%) VLAN
2 3 (20.00%) DNS
2 3 (20.00%) SAN
2 3 (20.00%) TCP/IP
3 2 (13.33%) Firewall
3 2 (13.33%) Intrusion Detection
3 2 (13.33%) iSCSI
3 2 (13.33%) Network Security
3 2 (13.33%) VSAN
4 1 (6.67%) VoIP
4 1 (6.67%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (20.00%) SQL Server
General
1 5 (33.33%) Public Sector
2 4 (26.67%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (13.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 7 (46.67%) Consultant
2 3 (20.00%) Server Engineer
2 3 (20.00%) Storage Engineer
2 3 (20.00%) VMware Consultant
3 2 (13.33%) Analyst
3 2 (13.33%) Infrastructure Analyst
3 2 (13.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Senior
4 1 (6.67%) Senior DevOps
4 1 (6.67%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.67%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 5 (33.33%) Data Centre
1 5 (33.33%) Replication
2 4 (26.67%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (20.00%) Clustering
4 2 (13.33%) Cloud Native
4 2 (13.33%) Private Cloud
5 1 (6.67%) Enterprise Storage
5 1 (6.67%) IBM XIV
5 1 (6.67%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 5 (33.33%) Windows
2 4 (26.67%) Windows Server
3 1 (6.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (26.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 4 (26.67%) Project Delivery
1 4 (26.67%) Security Hardening
2 3 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 3 (20.00%) Edge Computing
2 3 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (20.00%) Minimum Viable Product
2 3 (20.00%) Validation
2 3 (20.00%) Zero Trust
3 2 (13.33%) Analytics
3 2 (13.33%) BCP
3 2 (13.33%) Business Continuity
3 2 (13.33%) Business Continuity Planning
3 2 (13.33%) Change Management
3 2 (13.33%) Cybersecurity
3 2 (13.33%) Enterprise Architecture
3 2 (13.33%) High Availability
3 2 (13.33%) Information Security
3 2 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (13.33%) Risk Assessment
Programming Languages
1 4 (26.67%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 7 (46.67%) SC Cleared
1 7 (46.67%) Security Cleared
2 2 (13.33%) Azure Certification
2 2 (13.33%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.67%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 5 (33.33%) Active Directory
1 5 (33.33%) vSphere
2 4 (26.67%) UAG
3 2 (13.33%) Virtual Servers
3 2 (13.33%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 3 (20.00%) Ansible
1 3 (20.00%) Single Sign-On
1 3 (20.00%) Terraform
2 2 (13.33%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (13.33%) PowerCLI
2 2 (13.33%) vCenter Server
3 1 (6.67%) Kubernetes
3 1 (6.67%) SCCM
Vendors
1 15 (100.00%) VMware
2 4 (26.67%) Dell
2 4 (26.67%) NetApp
2 4 (26.67%) Veeam
3 3 (20.00%) Microsoft
4 2 (13.33%) Cisco
4 2 (13.33%) SolarWinds
5 1 (6.67%) Citrix
5 1 (6.67%) IBM