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

6 months to
9 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 107 66 72
Rank change year-on-year -41 +6 +14
Contract jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 18 15 24
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 0.93% 1.54% 1.67%
As % of the System Software category 8.45% 14.85% 17.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 4 18
10th Percentile £316 - £210
25th Percentile £413 £413 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £459 £438 £350
Median % change year-on-year +4.91% +25.00% -18.13%
75th Percentile £568 £488 £425
90th Percentile £699 £555 £549
North West median daily rate £459 £425 £325
% change year-on-year +8.00% +30.77% -31.58%
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 £74.26 - £46.18
% change year-on-year - - -3.45%

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 213 101 140
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 11.03% 10.39% 9.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 147 66 115
10th Percentile £193 £231 £281
25th Percentile £400 £405 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £477 £494 £463
Median % change year-on-year -3.39% +6.76% -7.50%
75th Percentile £575 £545 £588
90th Percentile £630 £625 £675
North West median daily rate £450 £438 £475
% change year-on-year +2.86% -7.89% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 1 2
10th Percentile £61.70 - £13.75
25th Percentile £71.00 £76.25 £16.38
Median hourly rate £95.00 £82.50 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +15.15% +283.72% +29.36%
75th Percentile £178.75 £88.75 £27.38
90th Percentile - - £30.45
North West median hourly rate £74.26 £82.50 £17.72
% change year-on-year -9.99% +365.58% +1.37%

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 9 July 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 3 (16.67%) CICS
Cloud Services
1 7 (38.89%) AWS
2 4 (22.22%) Azure
3 2 (11.11%) Entra ID
3 2 (11.11%) GCP
3 2 (11.11%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (5.56%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 5 (27.78%) VSAN
2 4 (22.22%) Firewall
2 4 (22.22%) NAS
2 4 (22.22%) SAN
3 2 (11.11%) DNS
3 2 (11.11%) VLAN
4 1 (5.56%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (5.56%) LAN
4 1 (5.56%) SD-WAN
4 1 (5.56%) TCP/IP
4 1 (5.56%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (16.67%) DataStage
General
1 6 (33.33%) Finance
2 5 (27.78%) Social Skills
3 3 (16.67%) Influencing Skills
4 2 (11.11%) Banking
4 2 (11.11%) Games
4 2 (11.11%) Public Sector
5 1 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (5.56%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (5.56%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (22.22%) Consultant
2 3 (16.67%) Analyst
2 3 (16.67%) Designer
2 3 (16.67%) Infrastructure Analyst
2 3 (16.67%) Infrastructure Consultant
2 3 (16.67%) Infrastructure Designer
2 3 (16.67%) Storage Analyst
2 3 (16.67%) VMware Consultant
2 3 (16.67%) VMware Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) Senior
3 2 (11.11%) Senior VMware Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Cloud Architect
4 1 (5.56%) Deployment Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Installations Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Linux Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Migration Architect
4 1 (5.56%) Network Deployment Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Network Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) VMware Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (16.67%) Flash
1 3 (16.67%) Middleware
2 1 (5.56%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (27.78%) Replication
2 4 (22.22%) Data Centre
3 3 (16.67%) BYOD
3 3 (16.67%) Linux Command Line
3 3 (16.67%) Mainframe
3 3 (16.67%) VSAM
4 2 (11.11%) Animation
4 2 (11.11%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (11.11%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 10 (55.56%) Linux
2 6 (33.33%) Unix
3 5 (27.78%) Windows
4 4 (22.22%) Windows Server
5 3 (16.67%) AIX
5 3 (16.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (16.67%) Solaris
5 3 (16.67%) Ubuntu
6 2 (11.11%) VMS
7 1 (5.56%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (27.78%) Disaster Recovery
1 5 (27.78%) Migration
2 3 (16.67%) Business Case
2 3 (16.67%) Design Patterns
2 3 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 3 (16.67%) ITIL
2 3 (16.67%) Network Virtualisation
2 3 (16.67%) Process Improvement
2 3 (16.67%) Roadmaps
2 3 (16.67%) Ticket Management
2 3 (16.67%) Virtual Infrastructure
3 2 (11.11%) Change Management
3 2 (11.11%) Data Protection
3 2 (11.11%) Digital Transformation Programme
3 2 (11.11%) Infrastructure Automation
3 2 (11.11%) Knowledge Transfer
3 2 (11.11%) Patch Management
3 2 (11.11%) Performance Optimisation
3 2 (11.11%) Visual Effects
Programming Languages
1 4 (22.22%) PowerShell
1 4 (22.22%) Python
2 3 (16.67%) Bash
2 3 (16.67%) COBOL
3 1 (5.56%) Bicep
3 1 (5.56%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 3 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 2 (11.11%) BPSS Clearance
2 2 (11.11%) VCAP
2 2 (11.11%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 1 (5.56%) CCNA
3 1 (5.56%) CCNP
3 1 (5.56%) Cisco Certification
System Software
1 5 (27.78%) VMware ESXi
1 5 (27.78%) vSphere
2 3 (16.67%) GPFS
2 3 (16.67%) Hyper-V
2 3 (16.67%) NFS
2 3 (16.67%) VMware NSX
3 2 (11.11%) Active Directory
3 2 (11.11%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 6 (33.33%) vRealize
2 4 (22.22%) Ansible
3 3 (16.67%) VxRail
4 2 (11.11%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (11.11%) PowerCLI
4 2 (11.11%) vCenter Server
4 2 (11.11%) vMotion
5 1 (5.56%) Progress Chef
5 1 (5.56%) Puppet
5 1 (5.56%) Terraform
5 1 (5.56%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 18 (100.00%) VMware
2 6 (33.33%) IBM
3 4 (22.22%) Cisco
3 4 (22.22%) Microsoft
3 4 (22.22%) ServiceNow
4 3 (16.67%) Oracle
5 2 (11.11%) Perforce
6 1 (5.56%) OpenText
6 1 (5.56%) Red Hat