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 23 August 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
23 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 61 58 46
Rank change year-on-year -3 -12 +11
DemandTrendContract jobs citing VMware 27 30 65
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 2.63% 2.48% 3.79%
As % of the Vendors category 5.41% 6.51% 9.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 19 58
10th Percentile £400 £313 £309
25th Percentile £413 £338 £357
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £425 £425
Median % change year-on-year +19.12% - -
75th Percentile £594 £500 £488
90th Percentile £694 £558 £566
North West median daily rate £425 £408 £425
% change year-on-year +4.29% -4.12% -

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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 499 461 661
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 48.59% 38.04% 38.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 322 287 471
10th Percentile £305 £363 £225
25th Percentile £400 £425 £366
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +0.76%
75th Percentile £600 £608 £588
90th Percentile £702 £675 £675
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 21 21
10th Percentile £13.00 £15.63 -
25th Percentile £19.07 £20.00 £15.75
Median hourly rate £22.32 £31.00 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -28.02% +74.94% -9.13%
75th Percentile £30.15 £60.00 £39.60
90th Percentile £61.50 £97.50 £55.00
North West median hourly rate £24.88 £16.85 £35.00
% change year-on-year +47.67% -51.86% +63.63%

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

VMware
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing VMware.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing VMware

VMware
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VMware in Manchester over the 6 months to 23 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for VMware in Manchester

VMware
Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing VMware.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing VMware

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DemandTrendContract Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VMware within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 23 August 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Salford - 3 £400 - 2
Stockport - 3 £400 - 2
VMware
North West

VMware
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 4 (14.81%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (11.11%) WebSphere
3 1 (3.70%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 12 (44.44%) Azure
2 7 (25.93%) IaaS
3 5 (18.52%) Microsoft 365
3 5 (18.52%) SaaS
4 4 (14.81%) Entra ID
4 4 (14.81%) GCP
5 3 (11.11%) PaaS
6 2 (7.41%) Power Platform
7 1 (3.70%) AWS
7 1 (3.70%) Azure Storage
7 1 (3.70%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 6 (22.22%) SAN
2 4 (14.81%) DMZ
2 4 (14.81%) Firewall
2 4 (14.81%) Intrusion Detection
2 4 (14.81%) Network Security
2 4 (14.81%) VLAN
3 3 (11.11%) DNS
3 3 (11.11%) TCP/IP
3 3 (11.11%) VSAN
4 2 (7.41%) iSCSI
5 1 (3.70%) VoIP
5 1 (3.70%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (18.52%) SQL Server
2 2 (7.41%) Power BI
3 1 (3.70%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 1 (3.70%) Jenkins
1 1 (3.70%) Robot Framework
General
1 5 (18.52%) Documentation Skills
1 5 (18.52%) Public Sector
2 4 (14.81%) Telecoms
3 3 (11.11%) Banking
3 3 (11.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (7.41%) Finance
5 1 (3.70%) Retail
Job Titles
1 8 (29.63%) Consultant
2 6 (22.22%) Analyst
3 4 (14.81%) Infrastructure Analyst
3 4 (14.81%) VMware Consultant
4 3 (11.11%) Architect
4 3 (11.11%) Infrastructure Architect
4 3 (11.11%) Server Engineer
4 3 (11.11%) Storage Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) Data Analyst
5 2 (7.41%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) Business Analyst
6 1 (3.70%) Business Data Analyst
6 1 (3.70%) Business Intelligence Developer
6 1 (3.70%) Deployment Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) Developer
6 1 (3.70%) Implementation Specialist
6 1 (3.70%) Software Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) Solutions Architect
6 1 (3.70%) VMware Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) VMware Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (14.81%) Middleware
2 1 (3.70%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 6 (22.22%) Private Cloud
2 5 (18.52%) Data Centre
2 5 (18.52%) Replication
3 4 (14.81%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (11.11%) Clustering
4 3 (11.11%) Legacy Applications
5 2 (7.41%) Cloud Native
6 1 (3.70%) Enterprise Storage
6 1 (3.70%) IBM XIV
6 1 (3.70%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 9 (33.33%) Windows
1 9 (33.33%) Windows Server
2 3 (11.11%) Linux
2 3 (11.11%) Unix
3 1 (3.70%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (33.33%) Project Delivery
2 7 (25.93%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 5 (18.52%) Disaster Recovery
3 5 (18.52%) Security Hardening
4 4 (14.81%) Analytics
4 4 (14.81%) BCP
4 4 (14.81%) Business Continuity
4 4 (14.81%) Business Continuity Planning
4 4 (14.81%) Change Management
4 4 (14.81%) Cybersecurity
4 4 (14.81%) Enterprise Architecture
4 4 (14.81%) High Availability
4 4 (14.81%) Information Security
4 4 (14.81%) Line Management
4 4 (14.81%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (14.81%) Risk Assessment
4 4 (14.81%) Vulnerability Scanning
4 4 (14.81%) Web Operations
4 4 (14.81%) Zero Trust
5 3 (11.11%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 6 (22.22%) PowerShell
2 3 (11.11%) SQL
3 1 (3.70%) Python
Qualifications
1 10 (37.04%) SC Cleared
1 10 (37.04%) Security Cleared
2 4 (14.81%) Azure Certification
2 4 (14.81%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (3.70%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.70%) Data Quality
1 1 (3.70%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 16 (59.26%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (29.63%) Active Directory
3 7 (25.93%) vSphere
4 4 (14.81%) UAG
4 4 (14.81%) VMware NSX
5 2 (7.41%) Virtual Servers
5 2 (7.41%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 4 (14.81%) Ansible
1 4 (14.81%) Microsoft Intune
1 4 (14.81%) vCenter Server
2 3 (11.11%) Single Sign-On
2 3 (11.11%) Terraform
3 2 (7.41%) PowerCLI
4 1 (3.70%) Kubernetes
4 1 (3.70%) SCCM
4 1 (3.70%) VxRail
Vendors
1 8 (29.63%) Microsoft
1 8 (29.63%) Veeam
2 5 (18.52%) Citrix
2 5 (18.52%) NetApp
3 4 (14.81%) Dell
3 4 (14.81%) IBM
4 3 (11.11%) Cisco
4 3 (11.11%) F5
4 3 (11.11%) HP
4 3 (11.11%) Oracle
5 2 (7.41%) SolarWinds
6 1 (3.70%) EMC