vSphere Contract Job Trends in Manchester

VMware vSphere
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring vSphere skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 76 78 103
Rank change year-on-year +2 +25 +10
Contract jobs citing vSphere 8 4 7
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 0.77% 0.35% 0.42%
As % of the System Software category 7.55% 3.57% 2.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 4 7
10th Percentile £551 £351 £338
25th Percentile £591 £391 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £654 £425 £438
Median % change year-on-year +53.82% -2.86% -2.78%
75th Percentile £694 £438 £484
90th Percentile £713 - £500
North West median daily rate £654 £425 £438
% change year-on-year +53.82% -2.86% +4.48%

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 106 112 281
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 10.24% 9.73% 16.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 76 214
10th Percentile £312 £221 £207
25th Percentile £402 £375 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £438
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +14.29% -10.71%
75th Percentile £583 £588 £538
90th Percentile £671 £666 £670
North West median daily rate £433 £500 £438
% change year-on-year -13.50% +14.29% -2.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 26
10th Percentile - - £15.75
25th Percentile - £29.50 £16.26
Median hourly rate £20.00 £31.00 £18.25
Median % change year-on-year -35.48% +69.86% -33.64%
75th Percentile - £32.50 £22.81
90th Percentile - - £63.75
North West median hourly rate £18.31 £22.09 £18.50
% change year-on-year -17.11% +19.41% -8.10%

vSphere
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing vSphere relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

vSphere job vacancy trend in Manchester

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Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing vSphere

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Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing vSphere in Manchester over the 6 months to 18 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for vSphere in Manchester

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Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing vSphere

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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 4 (50.00%) OpenStack
2 1 (12.50%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 5 (62.50%) AWS
1 5 (62.50%) Azure
1 5 (62.50%) GCP
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 4 (50.00%) Firewall
2 3 (37.50%) VSAN
3 1 (12.50%) TCP/IP
3 1 (12.50%) VLAN
3 1 (12.50%) VoIP
3 1 (12.50%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
1 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Platform Engineer
2 3 (37.50%) Consultant
2 3 (37.50%) Virtualisation Engineer
2 3 (37.50%) VMware Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior
3 1 (12.50%) Senior DevOps
3 1 (12.50%) Senior DevOps Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Platform Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Cloud Native
1 2 (25.00%) Data Centre
1 2 (25.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (12.50%) Clustering
2 1 (12.50%) Enterprise Storage
2 1 (12.50%) IBM XIV
2 1 (12.50%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 4 (50.00%) Linux
2 1 (12.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 5 (62.50%) CI/CD
2 5 (62.50%) DevOps
3 4 (50.00%) Containerisation
3 4 (50.00%) Incident Response
3 4 (50.00%) Infrastructure Automation
3 4 (50.00%) Observability
3 4 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
3 4 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 3 (37.50%) Security Hardening
5 2 (25.00%) Edge Computing
5 2 (25.00%) Minimum Viable Product
5 2 (25.00%) Validation
5 2 (25.00%) Zero Trust
6 1 (12.50%) Collaborative Working
6 1 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 4 (50.00%) Bash
1 4 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (37.50%) Security Cleared
2 2 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (12.50%) VCAP
3 1 (12.50%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 7 (87.50%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (50.00%) Docker
3 3 (37.50%) VMware NSX
4 1 (12.50%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 7 (87.50%) Terraform
2 5 (62.50%) Kubernetes
3 3 (37.50%) Ansible
4 2 (25.00%) PowerCLI
4 2 (25.00%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (12.50%) SCCM
Vendors
1 8 (100.00%) VMware
2 4 (50.00%) F5
2 4 (50.00%) Palo Alto
3 1 (12.50%) Citrix
3 1 (12.50%) IBM
3 1 (12.50%) Microsoft