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 23 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 140 118 134
Rank change year-on-year -22 +16 +27
Permanent jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 26 25 84
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 0.52% 1.21% 1.73%
As % of the System Software category 13.40% 9.33% 16.70%
Number of salaries quoted 23 18 78
10th Percentile £28,500 £30,750 £26,750
25th Percentile £33,346 £37,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £47,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.89% -6.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £59,375 £56,250 £63,438
90th Percentile £72,000 £70,000 £76,250
North West median annual salary £35,000 £45,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year -22.22% +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 194 268 503
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 3.85% 12.92% 10.37%
Number of salaries quoted 155 195 440
10th Percentile £32,200 £26,050 £26,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £42,625 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £65,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% +30.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £67,625 £78,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £87,000 £97,528 £75,000
North West median annual salary £44,000 £50,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +11.11% -7.37%

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 23 April 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 23 April 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
Altrincham - 2 £34,500 -
Oldham -2 1 £35,442 +12.51%
Stockport - 1 £60,000 -
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 10 (38.46%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (15.38%) SharePoint
3 1 (3.85%) IIS
Applications
1 4 (15.38%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 17 (65.38%) Microsoft 365
2 13 (50.00%) Azure
3 5 (19.23%) Entra ID
4 4 (15.38%) AWS
5 3 (11.54%) GitHub
5 3 (11.54%) OneDrive
6 2 (7.69%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (7.69%) Amazon S3
6 2 (7.69%) Mimecast
6 2 (7.69%) SaaS
6 2 (7.69%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 1 (3.85%) Azure AKS
7 1 (3.85%) Azure Stack
7 1 (3.85%) GCP
7 1 (3.85%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 14 (53.85%) Firewall
2 12 (46.15%) DHCP
2 12 (46.15%) DNS
3 7 (26.92%) TCP/IP
4 6 (23.08%) VLAN
5 4 (15.38%) Network Security
5 4 (15.38%) SAN
5 4 (15.38%) Structured Cabling
5 4 (15.38%) VoIP
5 4 (15.38%) VPN
5 4 (15.38%) Wi-Fi
6 2 (7.69%) SD-WAN
6 2 (7.69%) WAN
6 2 (7.69%) Wireshark
6 2 (7.69%) WPA
7 1 (3.85%) BIG-IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (7.69%) SQL Server
2 1 (3.85%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 1 (3.85%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 13 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (19.23%) Finance
3 4 (15.38%) Organisational Skills
4 3 (11.54%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (11.54%) Social Housing
5 2 (7.69%) Public Sector
6 1 (3.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 5 (19.23%) IT Technician
1 5 (19.23%) Senior
2 4 (15.38%) Administrator
2 4 (15.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 4 (15.38%) IT Support
2 4 (15.38%) IT Support Technician
2 4 (15.38%) Support Technician
3 3 (11.54%) 2nd Line Support
3 3 (11.54%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (11.54%) Systems Administrator
4 2 (7.69%) Analyst
4 2 (7.69%) Infrastructure Specialist
4 2 (7.69%) Support Analyst
5 1 (3.85%) Architect
5 1 (3.85%) Consultant
5 1 (3.85%) Infrastructure Analyst
5 1 (3.85%) Infrastructure Support Analyst
5 1 (3.85%) Senior Consultant
5 1 (3.85%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (3.85%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (23.08%) Driving Licence
2 5 (19.23%) Self-Motivation
3 4 (15.38%) CCTV
4 3 (11.54%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (7.69%) Replication
6 1 (3.85%) Cyberattack
6 1 (3.85%) Data Centre
6 1 (3.85%) Educational Technology
6 1 (3.85%) Fat Client
6 1 (3.85%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 21 (80.77%) Windows
2 12 (46.15%) Windows Server
3 6 (23.08%) Linux
4 4 (15.38%) Windows 10
5 2 (7.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (3.85%) CentOS
6 1 (3.85%) Solaris
6 1 (3.85%) Ubuntu
6 1 (3.85%) Unix
6 1 (3.85%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (3.85%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (38.46%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (30.77%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 6 (23.08%) Infrastructure as Code
4 5 (19.23%) Disaster Recovery
4 5 (19.23%) Platform Engineering
5 4 (15.38%) Customer Service
5 4 (15.38%) Infrastructure Automation
5 4 (15.38%) Mentoring
5 4 (15.38%) Remote Monitoring and Management
5 4 (15.38%) Time Management
6 3 (11.54%) CI/CD
6 3 (11.54%) DevOps
6 3 (11.54%) Project Delivery
7 2 (7.69%) Change Control
7 2 (7.69%) Configuration Management
7 2 (7.69%) Containerisation
7 2 (7.69%) Deployment Automation
7 2 (7.69%) GitOps
7 2 (7.69%) Logistics
7 2 (7.69%) System Testing
Programming Languages
1 9 (34.62%) PowerShell
2 4 (15.38%) Bicep
2 4 (15.38%) Python
2 4 (15.38%) SQL
3 1 (3.85%) Bash
Qualifications
1 7 (26.92%) Microsoft Certification
2 4 (15.38%) Degree
3 2 (7.69%) Azure Certification
3 2 (7.69%) SC Cleared
3 2 (7.69%) Security Cleared
4 1 (3.85%) A+ Certification
4 1 (3.85%) AWS Certification
4 1 (3.85%) CCA
4 1 (3.85%) Citrix Certification
4 1 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (3.85%) CREST Certified
4 1 (3.85%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 1 (3.85%) MCSE
4 1 (3.85%) Network+ Certification
4 1 (3.85%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (3.85%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 15 (57.69%) Active Directory
2 9 (34.62%) Hyper-V
3 4 (15.38%) Docker
3 4 (15.38%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (7.69%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (7.69%) VMware NSX
4 2 (7.69%) vSphere
5 1 (3.85%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 7 (26.92%) FortiGate
1 7 (26.92%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (15.38%) Ansible
2 4 (15.38%) Kubernetes
2 4 (15.38%) Terraform
3 3 (11.54%) Proxmox
4 1 (3.85%) AirWatch
4 1 (3.85%) EMC NetWorker
4 1 (3.85%) Grafana
4 1 (3.85%) Nagios
4 1 (3.85%) Podman
4 1 (3.85%) Prometheus
4 1 (3.85%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (3.85%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 26 (100.00%) VMware
2 18 (69.23%) Microsoft
3 4 (15.38%) Palo Alto
3 4 (15.38%) SonicWALL
3 4 (15.38%) Sophos
4 3 (11.54%) Meraki
5 2 (7.69%) Cisco
5 2 (7.69%) CrowdStrike
5 2 (7.69%) Dell
5 2 (7.69%) Netskope
5 2 (7.69%) Red Hat
5 2 (7.69%) Veeam
6 1 (3.85%) Citrix
6 1 (3.85%) F5
6 1 (3.85%) HP
6 1 (3.85%) Ivanti
6 1 (3.85%) Mirantis
6 1 (3.85%) Oracle
6 1 (3.85%) Spotify
6 1 (3.85%) WatchGuard