VMware Infrastructure Job Trends in Manchester

VMware Infrastructure (VI3)
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring VMware Infrastructure skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 119 143 120
Rank change year-on-year +24 -23 +20
Permanent jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 14 31 33
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 0.61% 0.90% 1.45%
As % of the System Software category 7.57% 11.15% 7.95%
Number of salaries quoted 12 20 27
10th Percentile £29,500 £31,200 £31,250
25th Percentile £30,438 £37,313 £38,084
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £36,721 £40,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.20% -11.11% -4.76%
75th Percentile £54,063 £53,750 £73,750
90th Percentile £59,875 £72,500 £87,951
North West median annual salary £33,971 £40,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year -15.07% -5.88% -5.56%

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 permanent job vacancies requiring system software skills in Manchester.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 185 278 415
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 8.02% 8.03% 18.25%
Number of salaries quoted 160 152 354
10th Percentile £31,500 £30,775 £29,225
25th Percentile £35,500 £38,625 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £51,250 £56,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.32% -8.48% +6.67%
75th Percentile £69,313 £68,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £84,075 £87,500 £82,548
North West median annual salary £53,500 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +12.63% -9.52% +14.13%

VMware Infrastructure
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing VMware Infrastructure relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

VMware Infrastructure job vacancy trend in Manchester

VMware Infrastructure
Salary Trend in Manchester

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing VMware Infrastructure.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing VMware Infrastructure

VMware Infrastructure
Salary Histogram in Manchester

Salary distribution for jobs citing VMware Infrastructure in Manchester over the 6 months to 1 December 2025.

Salary histogram for VMware Infrastructure in Manchester

VMware Infrastructure
Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing VMware Infrastructure within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 1 December 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Oldham +4 1 £35,442 +12.51%
Altrincham -3 1 £31,500 - 1
Bolton - 1 £31,000 - 2
Stockport - 1 £60,000 - 3
VMware Infrastructure
North West

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 6 (42.86%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (7.14%) IIS
2 1 (7.14%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (28.57%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 9 (64.29%) Azure
2 8 (57.14%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (14.29%) AWS
3 2 (14.29%) Entra ID
3 2 (14.29%) SaaS
4 1 (7.14%) Azure AKS
4 1 (7.14%) Azure Stack
4 1 (7.14%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (7.14%) GCP
4 1 (7.14%) GitHub
4 1 (7.14%) IaaS
4 1 (7.14%) OneDrive
4 1 (7.14%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (35.71%) Firewall
2 4 (28.57%) DHCP
2 4 (28.57%) DNS
3 2 (14.29%) TCP/IP
3 2 (14.29%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (21.43%) SQL Server
2 1 (7.14%) Data Hub
2 1 (7.14%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (7.14%) SQL CLR
General
1 8 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 3 (21.43%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (14.29%) Retail
4 1 (7.14%) Back Office
4 1 (7.14%) Finance
4 1 (7.14%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 3 (21.43%) 2nd Line Support
2 2 (14.29%) Analyst
2 2 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) IT Support
2 2 (14.29%) Support Analyst
3 1 (7.14%) 2nd Line Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
3 1 (7.14%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) 3rd Line Support
3 1 (7.14%) 3rd Line Support Analyst
3 1 (7.14%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Head of Development
3 1 (7.14%) IT Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) IT Technician
3 1 (7.14%) Linux Administrator
3 1 (7.14%) Support Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.14%) .NET
1 1 (7.14%) .NET Core
1 1 (7.14%) .NET Framework
1 1 (7.14%) ARM Templates
1 1 (7.14%) Dapper ORM
1 1 (7.14%) Entity Framework
1 1 (7.14%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 5 (35.71%) Driving Licence
2 2 (14.29%) EPoS
3 1 (7.14%) Data Centre
3 1 (7.14%) Educational Technology
3 1 (7.14%) Enterprise Storage
3 1 (7.14%) Fat Client
3 1 (7.14%) Private Cloud
3 1 (7.14%) Replication
3 1 (7.14%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (7.14%) Team-Oriented Environment
3 1 (7.14%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 8 (57.14%) Windows
2 5 (35.71%) Windows Server
3 2 (14.29%) CentOS
3 2 (14.29%) Linux
3 2 (14.29%) Windows Server 2012
3 2 (14.29%) Windows Server 2019
4 1 (7.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (7.14%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (21.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 2 (14.29%) Agile
3 2 (14.29%) Collaborative Culture
3 2 (14.29%) ERP
3 2 (14.29%) ITIL
3 2 (14.29%) Virtual Environments
4 1 (7.14%) Application Packaging
4 1 (7.14%) Data Loss Prevention
4 1 (7.14%) Identity Management
4 1 (7.14%) ITSM
4 1 (7.14%) Migration
4 1 (7.14%) Project Management
4 1 (7.14%) Release Management
4 1 (7.14%) Security Management
4 1 (7.14%) Service Delivery
4 1 (7.14%) Service Management
4 1 (7.14%) Software Engineering
4 1 (7.14%) TDD
4 1 (7.14%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 5 (35.71%) SQL
2 3 (21.43%) PowerShell
3 1 (7.14%) Bash
3 1 (7.14%) C#
3 1 (7.14%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (28.57%) Degree
2 2 (14.29%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (7.14%) A+ Certification
3 1 (7.14%) AWS Certification
3 1 (7.14%) Azure Certification
3 1 (7.14%) CCA
3 1 (7.14%) Citrix Certification
3 1 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (7.14%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (7.14%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 1 (7.14%) Linux+ Certification
3 1 (7.14%) MCSE
3 1 (7.14%) Network+ Certification
3 1 (7.14%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.14%) GDPR
1 1 (7.14%) HIPAA
System Software
1 7 (50.00%) Hyper-V
2 6 (42.86%) Active Directory
3 2 (14.29%) Docker
4 1 (7.14%) Dovecot
4 1 (7.14%) Postfix
4 1 (7.14%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (21.43%) Kubernetes
2 2 (14.29%) Terraform
3 1 (7.14%) AirWatch
3 1 (7.14%) Ansible
3 1 (7.14%) EMC NetWorker
3 1 (7.14%) Grafana
3 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (7.14%) Nagios
3 1 (7.14%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 14 (100.00%) VMware
2 10 (71.43%) Microsoft
3 2 (14.29%) MobileIron
3 2 (14.29%) Red Hat
3 2 (14.29%) Veeam
4 1 (7.14%) Citrix
4 1 (7.14%) Dell
4 1 (7.14%) Ivanti
4 1 (7.14%) Okta
4 1 (7.14%) Oracle
4 1 (7.14%) Ping Identity