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 16 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 134 148 108
Rank change year-on-year +14 -40 +30
Permanent jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 16 27 49
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 0.70% 0.70% 1.90%
As % of the System Software category 5.93% 10.00% 10.14%
Number of salaries quoted 13 16 36
10th Percentile - £33,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £29,500 £37,313 £38,084
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £38,000 £40,000 £49,250
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -18.78% +11.93%
75th Percentile £60,000 £55,313 £77,715
90th Percentile £70,000 £72,500 £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 270 270 483
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 11.79% 7.04% 18.74%
Number of salaries quoted 159 144 415
10th Percentile £31,500 £27,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,250 £35,563 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% -12.50% +18.14%
75th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £80,250 £77,500 £80,000
North West median annual salary £53,750 £47,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +13.16% -13.64% +20.05%

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 16 October 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 16 October 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 -
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 13 (81.25%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (18.75%) IIS
3 1 (6.25%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (37.50%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 13 (81.25%) Azure
2 8 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
3 6 (37.50%) SaaS
4 3 (18.75%) GitHub
4 3 (18.75%) Power Platform
5 2 (12.50%) Entra ID
6 1 (6.25%) AWS
6 1 (6.25%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (6.25%) IaaS
6 1 (6.25%) OneDrive
6 1 (6.25%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (43.75%) Firewall
2 5 (31.25%) DHCP
2 5 (31.25%) DNS
2 5 (31.25%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (68.75%) SQL Server
2 6 (37.50%) Data Hub
2 6 (37.50%) SQL CLR
3 3 (18.75%) Metadata
3 3 (18.75%) Power BI
3 3 (18.75%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 3 (18.75%) SQL Server Reporting Services
General
1 10 (62.50%) Social Skills
2 6 (37.50%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (37.50%) Back Office
2 6 (37.50%) Finance
3 5 (31.25%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (31.25%) IT Support
2 3 (18.75%) Developer
2 3 (18.75%) Head of Development
2 3 (18.75%) Microsoft Developer
2 3 (18.75%) SaaS Developer
2 3 (18.75%) Senior
2 3 (18.75%) Senior Developer
2 3 (18.75%) Senior Microsoft Developer
2 3 (18.75%) Senior SQL Developer
2 3 (18.75%) SQL Developer
3 2 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) 3rd Line Support Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) IT Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Support Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) VMware Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (18.75%) .NET
1 3 (18.75%) .NET Core
1 3 (18.75%) .NET Framework
1 3 (18.75%) Dapper ORM
1 3 (18.75%) Entity Framework
2 1 (6.25%) ARM Templates
2 1 (6.25%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 6 (37.50%) Driving Licence
1 6 (37.50%) Private Cloud
2 5 (31.25%) EPoS
3 3 (18.75%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 1 (6.25%) Data Centre
4 1 (6.25%) Enterprise Storage
Operating Systems
1 9 (56.25%) Windows
1 9 (56.25%) Windows Server
2 5 (31.25%) Windows Server 2012
2 5 (31.25%) Windows Server 2019
3 1 (6.25%) CentOS
3 1 (6.25%) Linux
3 1 (6.25%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 6 (37.50%) Data Privacy
2 6 (37.50%) Fintech
2 6 (37.50%) High Availability
2 6 (37.50%) Performance Tuning
2 6 (37.50%) Wealth Management
2 6 (37.50%) Workflow
3 5 (31.25%) ERP
3 5 (31.25%) Virtual Environments
4 4 (25.00%) Agile
4 4 (25.00%) Collaborative Culture
4 4 (25.00%) Migration
4 4 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (18.75%) Business Intelligence
5 3 (18.75%) Clean Code
5 3 (18.75%) Continuous Improvement
5 3 (18.75%) Release Management
5 3 (18.75%) Software Engineering
5 3 (18.75%) Statistics
5 3 (18.75%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 12 (75.00%) SQL
2 3 (18.75%) C#
2 3 (18.75%) T-SQL
3 2 (12.50%) PowerShell
4 1 (6.25%) Bash
4 1 (6.25%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (12.50%) Degree
2 1 (6.25%) AWS Certification
2 1 (6.25%) Azure Certification
2 1 (6.25%) ITIL Certification
2 1 (6.25%) Linux+ Certification
2 1 (6.25%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.25%) GDPR
1 1 (6.25%) HIPAA
System Software
1 6 (37.50%) Active Directory
2 3 (18.75%) Hyper-V
3 1 (6.25%) Docker
3 1 (6.25%) Dovecot
3 1 (6.25%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 3 (18.75%) Failover Clustering
2 1 (6.25%) Kubernetes
2 1 (6.25%) Terraform
Vendors
1 16 (100.00%) VMware
2 15 (93.75%) Microsoft
3 5 (31.25%) MobileIron
3 5 (31.25%) Veeam
4 1 (6.25%) Okta
4 1 (6.25%) Oracle
4 1 (6.25%) Ping Identity
4 1 (6.25%) Red Hat