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 12 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 131 136 144
Rank change year-on-year +5 +8 -2
Permanent jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 40 24 80
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 0.67% 1.06% 1.38%
As % of the System Software category 17.09% 7.29% 16.23%
Number of salaries quoted 36 17 74
10th Percentile £28,500 - £26,750
25th Percentile £36,125 £29,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £38,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +23.38% -23.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £63,750 £52,500 £62,188
90th Percentile £74,125 £70,000 £75,000
North West median annual salary £37,500 £42,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year -11.76% - -12.37%

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 234 329 493
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 3.89% 14.49% 8.53%
Number of salaries quoted 194 189 416
10th Percentile £32,150 £26,150 £26,063
25th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £31,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £65,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% +30.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,750 £77,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £87,125 £95,000 £72,500
North West median annual salary £43,000 £55,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -21.82% +22.22% -12.74%

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 12 June 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 12 June 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
Bolton - 2 £37,500 - 1
Altrincham - 1 £37,500 -
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 (32.50%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (15.00%) SharePoint
3 3 (7.50%) IIS
Applications
1 3 (7.50%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (2.50%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 24 (60.00%) Azure
2 21 (52.50%) Microsoft 365
3 8 (20.00%) AWS
4 6 (15.00%) GitHub
5 5 (12.50%) OneDrive
6 4 (10.00%) Entra ID
6 4 (10.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 3 (7.50%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (7.50%) GitHub Actions
7 3 (7.50%) Power Platform
8 2 (5.00%) Amazon EC2
8 2 (5.00%) Amazon S3
8 2 (5.00%) Microsoft Copilot
8 2 (5.00%) Mimecast
8 2 (5.00%) SaaS
9 1 (2.50%) Dynamics 365
9 1 (2.50%) PaaS
9 1 (2.50%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 23 (57.50%) Firewall
2 17 (42.50%) DNS
3 15 (37.50%) DHCP
4 13 (32.50%) SAN
5 10 (25.00%) VLAN
6 9 (22.50%) TCP/IP
7 8 (20.00%) VoIP
7 8 (20.00%) Wi-Fi
8 6 (15.00%) Network Security
8 6 (15.00%) Structured Cabling
8 6 (15.00%) VPN
9 2 (5.00%) DKIM
9 2 (5.00%) DMARC
9 2 (5.00%) PBX
9 2 (5.00%) SD-WAN
9 2 (5.00%) Unified Communications
9 2 (5.00%) WAN
9 2 (5.00%) Wireshark
9 2 (5.00%) WPA
10 1 (2.50%) BIG-IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (12.50%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.50%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 1 (2.50%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 19 (47.50%) Social Skills
2 6 (15.00%) Finance
2 6 (15.00%) Organisational Skills
3 3 (7.50%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (5.00%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (5.00%) Public Sector
4 2 (5.00%) Social Housing
4 2 (5.00%) Telecoms
5 1 (2.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 14 (35.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 12 (30.00%) Senior
3 6 (15.00%) IT Support
3 6 (15.00%) IT Support Technician
3 6 (15.00%) IT Technician
3 6 (15.00%) Support Technician
4 5 (12.50%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (7.50%) Administrator
5 3 (7.50%) Automation Engineer
5 3 (7.50%) Cloud Automation Engineer
5 3 (7.50%) Cloud Engineer
5 3 (7.50%) DevOps Engineer
5 3 (7.50%) Senior Automation Engineer
5 3 (7.50%) Senior Cloud Engineer
5 3 (7.50%) Senior DevOps
5 3 (7.50%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 3 (7.50%) Systems Administrator
6 2 (5.00%) Support Engineer
6 2 (5.00%) Telecoms Manager
6 2 (5.00%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.00%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 12 (30.00%) Driving Licence
2 6 (15.00%) CCTV
2 6 (15.00%) Data Centre
2 6 (15.00%) Enterprise Storage
2 6 (15.00%) Self-Motivation
3 4 (10.00%) Clustering
4 3 (7.50%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (5.00%) Microsoft Licensing
5 2 (5.00%) Onboarding
5 2 (5.00%) Replication
6 1 (2.50%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 28 (70.00%) Windows
2 22 (55.00%) Windows Server
3 6 (15.00%) Windows 10
4 5 (12.50%) Linux
5 1 (2.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (2.50%) Solaris
5 1 (2.50%) Ubuntu
5 1 (2.50%) Unix
5 1 (2.50%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (2.50%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (45.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 18 (45.00%) Problem-Solving
2 15 (37.50%) Disaster Recovery
3 13 (32.50%) Infrastructure as Code
4 8 (20.00%) CI/CD
4 8 (20.00%) Customer Service
4 8 (20.00%) DevOps
4 8 (20.00%) Remote Monitoring and Management
5 7 (17.50%) Mentoring
6 6 (15.00%) Business Continuity
6 6 (15.00%) Platform Engineering
6 6 (15.00%) Project Delivery
6 6 (15.00%) Storage Management
6 6 (15.00%) Time Management
7 5 (12.50%) AI
7 5 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
8 4 (10.00%) BCP
8 4 (10.00%) Capacity Planning
8 4 (10.00%) High Availability
8 4 (10.00%) System Testing
Programming Languages
1 14 (35.00%) PowerShell
2 10 (25.00%) SQL
3 8 (20.00%) Bicep
3 8 (20.00%) Python
4 1 (2.50%) Bash
Qualifications
1 12 (30.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 7 (17.50%) Azure Certification
2 7 (17.50%) SC Cleared
2 7 (17.50%) Security Cleared
3 4 (10.00%) MCSA
3 4 (10.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 2 (5.00%) Degree
5 1 (2.50%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (2.50%) SLA
System Software
1 21 (52.50%) Active Directory
2 9 (22.50%) Hyper-V
3 5 (12.50%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (7.50%) Docker
4 3 (7.50%) vSphere
5 2 (5.00%) Firmware
5 2 (5.00%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (5.00%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (5.00%) VMware NSX
6 1 (2.50%) MetaFrame
6 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 1 (2.50%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (2.50%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 9 (22.50%) FortiGate
2 8 (20.00%) Terraform
3 6 (15.00%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (10.00%) Kubernetes
4 4 (10.00%) Microsoft Clustering
5 3 (7.50%) Ansible
5 3 (7.50%) Proxmox
6 2 (5.00%) cPanel
6 2 (5.00%) Plesk
7 1 (2.50%) Podman
7 1 (2.50%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (2.50%) vCenter Server
7 1 (2.50%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 40 (100.00%) VMware
2 26 (65.00%) Microsoft
3 8 (20.00%) SonicWALL
4 6 (15.00%) Sophos
5 5 (12.50%) Palo Alto
6 4 (10.00%) Cisco
6 4 (10.00%) Veeam
7 3 (7.50%) Datto
7 3 (7.50%) Meraki
7 3 (7.50%) WatchGuard
8 2 (5.00%) Acronis
8 2 (5.00%) CrowdStrike
8 2 (5.00%) Dell
8 2 (5.00%) HP
8 2 (5.00%) NETGEAR
8 2 (5.00%) Netskope
9 1 (2.50%) Citrix
9 1 (2.50%) Commvault
9 1 (2.50%) NetApp
9 1 (2.50%) Red Hat