VMware Contracts in Manchester

VMware
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester requiring knowledge or experience of VMware products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited VMware over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within VMware, Inc.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 52 63 56
Rank change year-on-year +11 -7 -2
Contract jobs citing VMware 27 33 62
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 2.92% 2.18% 3.28%
As % of the Vendors category 6.11% 6.23% 9.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 26 48
10th Percentile £385 £240 £270
25th Percentile £413 £313 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £375 £434
Median % change year-on-year +28.00% -13.54% -9.64%
75th Percentile £539 £516 £594
90th Percentile £572 £563 £650
North West median daily rate £444 £350 £444
% change year-on-year +26.79% -21.13% +4.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 6
10th Percentile - - £45.50
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate - - £65.00
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median hourly rate £80.59 £46.18 £42.50
% change year-on-year +74.51% +8.66% +297.20%

All Vendors
Manchester

VMware falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 442 530 668
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 47.73% 34.94% 35.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 311 353 476
10th Percentile £230 £313 £300
25th Percentile £398 £400 £397
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +1.01%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £588
90th Percentile £675 £703 £656
North West median daily rate £495 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.00% - +7.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 42 16
10th Percentile £13.00 £11.81 £13.31
25th Percentile £14.20 £12.51 £18.73
Median hourly rate £32.50 £17.72 £32.60
Median % change year-on-year +83.41% -45.64% +93.30%
75th Percentile £60.00 £26.50 £65.00
90th Percentile - £60.00 -
North West median hourly rate £32.50 £16.06 £37.50
% change year-on-year +102.37% -57.17% +97.73%

VMware
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for VMware in Manchester

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for VMware in Manchester

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Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VMware in Manchester over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for VMware in Manchester

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Hourly rate trend for VMware 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 14 (51.85%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (11.11%) SharePoint
3 2 (7.41%) IIS
Applications
1 3 (11.11%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 16 (59.26%) Azure
2 14 (51.85%) Entra ID
2 14 (51.85%) Microsoft 365
3 10 (37.04%) IaaS
4 2 (7.41%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (7.41%) Amazon S3
4 2 (7.41%) AWS
4 2 (7.41%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (7.41%) Nutanix
4 2 (7.41%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 1 (3.70%) Azure Storage
5 1 (3.70%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 12 (44.44%) Network Security
2 11 (40.74%) Firewall
2 11 (40.74%) Intrusion Detection
3 7 (25.93%) DHCP
3 7 (25.93%) DNS
4 1 (3.70%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (40.74%) SQL Server
2 4 (14.81%) Couchbase
2 4 (14.81%) NoSQL
General
1 11 (40.74%) Telecoms
2 5 (18.52%) Public Sector
3 2 (7.41%) Military
4 1 (3.70%) Aviation
4 1 (3.70%) Banking
4 1 (3.70%) Finance
4 1 (3.70%) Legal
4 1 (3.70%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (22.22%) Infrastructure Specialist
2 5 (18.52%) Analyst
2 5 (18.52%) Infrastructure Analyst
3 4 (14.81%) DBA
4 3 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (11.11%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) Infrastructure Manager
5 2 (7.41%) Infrastructure Project Manager
5 2 (7.41%) Linux Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) Project Manager
5 2 (7.41%) Windows Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) Deployment Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) Implementation Specialist
6 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Specialist
6 1 (3.70%) Technical Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) VMware Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) VMware Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 4 (14.81%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (7.41%) Clustering
2 2 (7.41%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (3.70%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 19 (70.37%) Windows
2 18 (66.67%) Windows Server
3 4 (14.81%) Linux
3 4 (14.81%) VMS
4 2 (7.41%) CentOS
4 2 (7.41%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (40.74%) Business Continuity
1 11 (40.74%) Change Management
1 11 (40.74%) Vulnerability Scanning
2 10 (37.04%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 9 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
3 9 (33.33%) Project Delivery
4 8 (29.63%) BCP
4 8 (29.63%) Business Continuity Planning
4 8 (29.63%) Disaster Recovery
4 8 (29.63%) Enterprise Architecture
4 8 (29.63%) Information Security
4 8 (29.63%) Problem-Solving
4 8 (29.63%) Risk Assessment
5 7 (25.93%) High Availability
5 7 (25.93%) Line Management
5 7 (25.93%) Web Operations
6 5 (18.52%) Analytics
6 5 (18.52%) ITIL
7 4 (14.81%) Containerisation
8 3 (11.11%) Collaborative Working
Programming Languages
1 11 (40.74%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 11 (40.74%) Azure Certification
2 10 (37.04%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (7.41%) SC Cleared
3 2 (7.41%) Security Cleared
4 1 (3.70%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (3.70%) DBS Check
4 1 (3.70%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.41%) PCI DSS
2 1 (3.70%) SLA
System Software
1 18 (66.67%) Active Directory
1 18 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 11 (40.74%) vSphere
3 4 (14.81%) Docker
3 4 (14.81%) VMware NSX
4 3 (11.11%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (3.70%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 14 (51.85%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (14.81%) Kubernetes
3 3 (11.11%) WSUS
4 2 (7.41%) Ansible
4 2 (7.41%) Nagios
4 2 (7.41%) Prometheus
4 2 (7.41%) Terraform
4 2 (7.41%) ZABBIX
5 1 (3.70%) vCenter Server
5 1 (3.70%) VxRail
Vendors
1 14 (51.85%) Microsoft
2 2 (7.41%) Citrix
2 2 (7.41%) Dell
2 2 (7.41%) HP
2 2 (7.41%) IBM
2 2 (7.41%) SolarWinds
3 1 (3.70%) Cisco
3 1 (3.70%) EMC
3 1 (3.70%) NetApp
3 1 (3.70%) Veeam