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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 137 156 120
Rank change year-on-year +19 -36 +11
Permanent jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 18 29 52
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 0.76% 0.72% 1.82%
As % of the System Software category 5.90% 10.39% 9.83%
Number of salaries quoted 15 19 39
10th Percentile - £35,250 £34,250
25th Percentile £29,500 £38,750 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £38,000 £41,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.43% -17.00% +14.94%
75th Percentile £59,375 £48,750 £77,715
90th Percentile £70,000 £62,500 £87,419
North West median annual salary £45,000 £40,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +12.50% -15.79% +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 305 279 529
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 12.93% 6.91% 18.55%
Number of salaries quoted 172 161 449
10th Percentile £31,500 £27,500 £31,000
25th Percentile £35,500 £31,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £45,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +27.78% -25.00% +20.00%
75th Percentile £69,063 £65,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £75,000 £80,000
North West median annual salary £53,750 £43,742 £55,000
% change year-on-year +22.88% -20.47% +19.57%

VMware Infrastructure
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for VMware Infrastructure 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 15 September 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 15 September 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
Bolton - 1 £31,000 - 4
VMware Infrastructure
North West

VMware Infrastructure
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 14 (77.78%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (22.22%) IIS
3 1 (5.56%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (33.33%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 15 (83.33%) Azure
2 9 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
3 6 (33.33%) SaaS
4 3 (16.67%) Entra ID
4 3 (16.67%) GitHub
4 3 (16.67%) Power Platform
5 2 (11.11%) AWS
6 1 (5.56%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (5.56%) Cloudflare
6 1 (5.56%) IaaS
6 1 (5.56%) OneDrive
6 1 (5.56%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (50.00%) Firewall
2 6 (33.33%) DNS
3 5 (27.78%) DHCP
3 5 (27.78%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (66.67%) SQL Server
2 6 (33.33%) Data Hub
2 6 (33.33%) SQL CLR
3 3 (16.67%) Metadata
3 3 (16.67%) Power BI
3 3 (16.67%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 3 (16.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
General
1 11 (61.11%) Social Skills
2 6 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (33.33%) Back Office
2 6 (33.33%) Finance
3 5 (27.78%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (27.78%) IT Support
2 3 (16.67%) Developer
2 3 (16.67%) Head of Development
2 3 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (16.67%) Microsoft Developer
2 3 (16.67%) SaaS Developer
2 3 (16.67%) Senior
2 3 (16.67%) Senior Developer
2 3 (16.67%) Senior Microsoft Developer
2 3 (16.67%) Senior SQL Developer
2 3 (16.67%) SQL Developer
3 1 (5.56%) 3rd Line Support
3 1 (5.56%) 3rd Line Support Analyst
3 1 (5.56%) Administrator
3 1 (5.56%) Analyst
3 1 (5.56%) Field Engineer
3 1 (5.56%) IT Administrator
3 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (5.56%) Support Analyst
3 1 (5.56%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (16.67%) .NET
1 3 (16.67%) .NET Core
1 3 (16.67%) .NET Framework
1 3 (16.67%) Dapper ORM
1 3 (16.67%) Entity Framework
2 1 (5.56%) ARM Templates
2 1 (5.56%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 6 (33.33%) Driving Licence
1 6 (33.33%) Private Cloud
2 5 (27.78%) EPoS
3 3 (16.67%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 1 (5.56%) Data Centre
4 1 (5.56%) Enterprise Storage
4 1 (5.56%) Public Cloud
4 1 (5.56%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 11 (61.11%) Windows
1 11 (61.11%) Windows Server
2 5 (27.78%) Windows Server 2012
2 5 (27.78%) Windows Server 2019
3 2 (11.11%) Linux
4 1 (5.56%) CentOS
4 1 (5.56%) Debian
4 1 (5.56%) Mac OS
4 1 (5.56%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 6 (33.33%) Data Privacy
2 6 (33.33%) Fintech
2 6 (33.33%) High Availability
2 6 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
2 6 (33.33%) Wealth Management
2 6 (33.33%) Workflow
3 5 (27.78%) ERP
3 5 (27.78%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (27.78%) Virtual Environments
4 4 (22.22%) Agile
4 4 (22.22%) Collaborative Culture
4 4 (22.22%) Migration
5 3 (16.67%) Clean Code
5 3 (16.67%) Full-Stack Development
5 3 (16.67%) Refactoring
5 3 (16.67%) Release Management
5 3 (16.67%) Software Engineering
5 3 (16.67%) Statistics
5 3 (16.67%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 12 (66.67%) SQL
2 3 (16.67%) C#
2 3 (16.67%) T-SQL
3 2 (11.11%) PowerShell
4 1 (5.56%) Bash
4 1 (5.56%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (11.11%) Degree
2 1 (5.56%) AWS Certification
2 1 (5.56%) Azure Certification
2 1 (5.56%) ITIL Certification
2 1 (5.56%) Linux+ Certification
2 1 (5.56%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.56%) GDPR
1 1 (5.56%) HIPAA
System Software
1 8 (44.44%) Active Directory
2 4 (22.22%) Hyper-V
3 1 (5.56%) Docker
3 1 (5.56%) Dovecot
3 1 (5.56%) Postfix
3 1 (5.56%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (5.56%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (16.67%) Failover Clustering
2 1 (5.56%) Kubernetes
2 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (5.56%) Terraform
Vendors
1 18 (100.00%) VMware
2 16 (88.89%) Microsoft
3 6 (33.33%) Veeam
4 5 (27.78%) MobileIron
5 1 (5.56%) Apple
5 1 (5.56%) Okta
5 1 (5.56%) Oracle
5 1 (5.56%) Ping Identity
5 1 (5.56%) Red Hat