vSphere Contracts in Manchester

VMware vSphere
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester requiring vSphere skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited vSphere over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 68 - 112
Rank change year-on-year - - +24
Contract jobs citing vSphere 11 0 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 1.19% - 0.32%
As % of the System Software category 8.27% - 2.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 6
10th Percentile £399 - £357
25th Percentile £451 - £371
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 - £431
Median % change year-on-year - - +79.69%
75th Percentile £520 - £470
90th Percentile £544 - £525
North West median daily rate £510 £575 £365
% change year-on-year -11.30% +57.53% +46.00%

All System Software Skills
Manchester

vSphere 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 133 132 287
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 14.36% 8.70% 15.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 90 114 205
10th Percentile £199 £281 £300
25th Percentile £364 £366 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £463 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.70% -7.50% -
75th Percentile £545 £596 £594
90th Percentile £575 £694 £650
North West median daily rate £425 £450 £500
% change year-on-year -5.56% -10.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 15
10th Percentile £33.73 - £14.07
25th Percentile £40.81 - £20.00
Median hourly rate £55.75 £12.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +364.58% -56.36% +51.81%
75th Percentile £73.81 - £65.00
90th Percentile £82.78 - -
North West median hourly rate £55.75 £17.72 £22.41
% change year-on-year +214.62% -20.93% +23.71%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for vSphere in Manchester

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for vSphere in Manchester

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Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

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

Daily rate histogram for vSphere in Manchester

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Hourly rate trend for vSphere 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 11 (100.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 11 (100.00%) Azure
1 11 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 11 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
2 10 (90.91%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (100.00%) Firewall
1 11 (100.00%) Intrusion Detection
1 11 (100.00%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (100.00%) SQL Server
General
1 11 (100.00%) Telecoms
2 2 (18.18%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (54.55%) Infrastructure Specialist
2 5 (45.45%) Analyst
2 5 (45.45%) Infrastructure Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.09%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (9.09%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 11 (100.00%) Windows
1 11 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (100.00%) Business Continuity
1 11 (100.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
2 10 (90.91%) Change Management
3 9 (81.82%) Cybersecurity
4 8 (72.73%) BCP
4 8 (72.73%) Business Continuity Planning
4 8 (72.73%) Disaster Recovery
4 8 (72.73%) Enterprise Architecture
4 8 (72.73%) Information Security
4 8 (72.73%) Problem-Solving
4 8 (72.73%) Risk Assessment
5 7 (63.64%) High Availability
5 7 (63.64%) Line Management
5 7 (63.64%) Project Delivery
5 7 (63.64%) Web Operations
6 5 (45.45%) Analytics
6 5 (45.45%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 1 (9.09%) Patch Management
7 1 (9.09%) Virtual Environments
Programming Languages
1 11 (100.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 11 (100.00%) Azure Certification
2 10 (90.91%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 11 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 9 (81.82%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 11 (100.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 11 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 11 (100.00%) VMware