vMotion Contracts in England

VMware vSphere vMotion
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring vMotion skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited vMotion over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 471 539 649
Rank change year-on-year +68 +110 +128
Contract jobs citing vMotion 14 3 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.057% 0.008% 0.008%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.37% 0.068% 0.051%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 2 4
10th Percentile £333 £516 £465
25th Percentile £550 £522 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £563 £568
Median % change year-on-year +2.22% -0.88% +33.53%
75th Percentile £588 £622 £579
90th Percentile £599 £639 £584
UK median daily rate £575 £563 £528
% change year-on-year +2.22% +6.64% +24.12%

All Systems Management Skills
England

vMotion falls under the Systems Management category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring systems management skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 3,779 4,390 7,902
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.52% 11.80% 15.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,614 3,174 5,772
10th Percentile £313 £250 £350
25th Percentile £420 £409 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -8.70% -
75th Percentile £628 £625 £680
90th Percentile £738 £700 £755
UK median daily rate £525 £515 £563
% change year-on-year +1.90% -8.41% -0.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 120 184
10th Percentile £15.22 £14.00 £16.83
25th Percentile £23.64 £17.74 £23.13
Median hourly rate £27.38 £27.25 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +0.46% -52.61% +167.44%
75th Percentile £62.44 £51.13 £72.80
90th Percentile £76.09 £70.13 £82.16
UK median hourly rate £26.45 £30.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year -11.83% -47.83% +155.56%

vMotion
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing vMotion as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for vMotion in England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing vMotion in England.

Daily rate trend for vMotion in England

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing vMotion in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for vMotion in England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing vMotion in England.

Hourly rate trend for vMotion in England

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Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing vMotion within the England region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South East +53 8 £575 - 3
North of England +20 3 £325 -42.22% 1
North West - 3 £325 - 1
London - 2 £550 - 1
South West - 1 - -
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vMotion
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 10 (71.43%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (28.57%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 9 (64.29%) AWS
1 9 (64.29%) GCP
1 9 (64.29%) IaaS
1 9 (64.29%) OpenShift
1 9 (64.29%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 14 (100.00%) DHCP
1 14 (100.00%) DNS
2 10 (71.43%) Firewall
2 10 (71.43%) SMTP
2 10 (71.43%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (64.29%) Amazon RDS
1 9 (64.29%) Big Data
1 9 (64.29%) Elasticsearch
General
1 10 (71.43%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 9 (64.29%) 3rd Line Engineer
1 9 (64.29%) 3rd Line Support
1 9 (64.29%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
1 9 (64.29%) Support Engineer
2 8 (57.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 7 (50.00%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
3 7 (50.00%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
3 7 (50.00%) Infrastructure Support
3 7 (50.00%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
4 4 (28.57%) Administrator
4 4 (28.57%) VMWare Administrator
4 4 (28.57%) Wintel Administrator
5 2 (14.29%) Virtualisation Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 10 (71.43%) Clustering
1 10 (71.43%) PKI
2 9 (64.29%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 14 (100.00%) Windows
1 14 (100.00%) Windows Server
2 9 (64.29%) Linux
3 5 (35.71%) Windows Server 2003
4 4 (28.57%) Windows Server 2012
4 4 (28.57%) Windows Server 2016
4 4 (28.57%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (64.29%) Artificial Intelligence
1 9 (64.29%) DevOps
1 9 (64.29%) Machine Learning
1 9 (64.29%) Software Deployment
2 8 (57.14%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 4 (28.57%) High Availability
3 4 (28.57%) ITIL
3 4 (28.57%) Patch Management
3 4 (28.57%) Performance Tuning
3 4 (28.57%) Resource Management
3 4 (28.57%) Root Cause Analysis
4 2 (14.29%) Decision-Making
4 2 (14.29%) Line Management
4 2 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 10 (71.43%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 14 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 9 (64.29%) Degree
2 9 (64.29%) DV Cleared
3 4 (28.57%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (28.57%) SLA
System Software
1 14 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 14 (100.00%) Hyper-V
1 14 (100.00%) VMware ESXi
1 14 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 10 (71.43%) BitLocker
2 10 (71.43%) Microsoft App-V
2 10 (71.43%) Terminal Services
3 9 (64.29%) Docker
4 4 (28.57%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 14 (100.00%) vCenter Server
2 9 (64.29%) Ansible
2 9 (64.29%) Kubernetes
2 9 (64.29%) Nagios
2 9 (64.29%) Puppet
3 4 (28.57%) Microsoft Clustering
3 4 (28.57%) NetApp OnCommand
3 4 (28.57%) WSUS
Vendors
1 14 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 14 (100.00%) VMware
2 10 (71.43%) Citrix
3 9 (64.29%) Google
3 9 (64.29%) HP
3 9 (64.29%) Symantec