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 2 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 128 129 111
Rank change year-on-year +1 -18 +20
Permanent jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 10 28 34
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 0.36% 1.03% 1.48%
As % of the System Software category 5.95% 11.81% 9.12%
Number of salaries quoted 9 18 28
10th Percentile £30,500 £34,600 £31,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £38,125 £37,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £38,000 £40,000 £42,750
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -6.43% -14.50%
75th Percentile £57,500 £51,563 £72,500
90th Percentile £60,000 £63,750 £76,500
North West median annual salary £31,500 £42,134 £40,144
% change year-on-year -25.24% +4.96% -10.79%

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 168 237 373
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 6.04% 8.70% 16.27%
Number of salaries quoted 144 133 312
10th Percentile £31,500 £31,050 £29,000
25th Percentile £37,563 £39,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% -
75th Percentile £67,813 £73,886 £70,000
90th Percentile £87,350 £87,500 £80,000
North West median annual salary £48,750 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +2.63% -5.00% +6.10%

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 2 January 2026.

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 2 January 2026. 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 -6 1 £31,500 -
Bolton - 1 £31,000 - 1
Stockport - 1 £60,000 - 2
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 3 (30.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 6 (60.00%) Azure
1 6 (60.00%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (20.00%) AWS
2 2 (20.00%) Entra ID
3 1 (10.00%) Azure AKS
3 1 (10.00%) Azure Stack
3 1 (10.00%) GCP
3 1 (10.00%) IaaS
3 1 (10.00%) PaaS
3 1 (10.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (30.00%) Firewall
2 2 (20.00%) DHCP
2 2 (20.00%) DNS
2 2 (20.00%) TCP/IP
3 1 (10.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) Data Warehouse
General
1 4 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 3 (30.00%) 2nd Line Support
2 2 (20.00%) Analyst
2 2 (20.00%) Support Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) 2nd Line Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) 3rd Line Support
3 1 (10.00%) 3rd Line Support Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Administrator
3 1 (10.00%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Field Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) IT Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) IT Technician
3 1 (10.00%) Linux Administrator
3 1 (10.00%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) ARM Templates
1 1 (10.00%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Driving Licence
2 1 (10.00%) Cyberattack
2 1 (10.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (10.00%) Educational Technology
2 1 (10.00%) Enterprise Storage
2 1 (10.00%) Fat Client
2 1 (10.00%) Replication
2 1 (10.00%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (10.00%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 6 (60.00%) Windows
2 3 (30.00%) Windows Server
3 1 (10.00%) CentOS
3 1 (10.00%) Linux
3 1 (10.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (20.00%) ITIL
1 2 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (10.00%) Break/Fix
2 1 (10.00%) Digital Forensics
2 1 (10.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
2 1 (10.00%) Forensic Analysis
2 1 (10.00%) Incident Response
2 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Management
2 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Transformation
2 1 (10.00%) ITSM
2 1 (10.00%) Performance Optimisation
2 1 (10.00%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (10.00%) Project Management
2 1 (10.00%) Security Management
2 1 (10.00%) Service Delivery
2 1 (10.00%) Service Management
2 1 (10.00%) Tech Ops
2 1 (10.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
2 1 (10.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 2 (20.00%) PowerShell
1 2 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (30.00%) Degree
2 2 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (10.00%) A+ Certification
3 1 (10.00%) AWS Certification
3 1 (10.00%) CCA
3 1 (10.00%) Citrix Certification
3 1 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (10.00%) CREST Certified
3 1 (10.00%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (10.00%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 1 (10.00%) MCSE
3 1 (10.00%) Network+ Certification
3 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (10.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 6 (60.00%) Hyper-V
2 4 (40.00%) Active Directory
3 1 (10.00%) Docker
3 1 (10.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (20.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (20.00%) Terraform
2 1 (10.00%) AirWatch
2 1 (10.00%) Ansible
2 1 (10.00%) EMC NetWorker
2 1 (10.00%) Grafana
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (10.00%) Nagios
2 1 (10.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 10 (100.00%) VMware
2 6 (60.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (10.00%) Citrix
3 1 (10.00%) Dell
3 1 (10.00%) Ivanti
3 1 (10.00%) Oracle
3 1 (10.00%) Red Hat
3 1 (10.00%) Spotify
3 1 (10.00%) Veeam