vMotion Contract Job Trends in Manchester

VMware vSphere vMotion
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring vMotion skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 105 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing vMotion 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 0.19% - -
As % of the Systems Management category 1.29% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £531 - -
25th Percentile £531 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 - -
75th Percentile £556 - -
90th Percentile £563 - -
North West median daily rate £538 £325 -
% change year-on-year +65.38% - -

All Systems Management Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 233 147 176
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 15.02% 15.54% 11.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 154 102 139
10th Percentile £326 £253 £302
25th Percentile £407 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.05% -4.81% -4.55%
75th Percentile £614 £563 £616
90th Percentile £650 £656 £694
North West median daily rate £485 £475 £513
% change year-on-year +2.11% -7.32% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 0 7
10th Percentile - - £39.50
25th Percentile £52.50 - £55.63
Median hourly rate £55.00 - £62.50
Median % change year-on-year - - +1.21%
75th Percentile £62.88 - £80.63
90th Percentile £70.00 - £89.50
North West median hourly rate £55.00 £33.59 £18.50
% change year-on-year +63.74% +81.57% -50.67%

vMotion
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing vMotion relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

vMotion job vacancy trend in Manchester

vMotion
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing vMotion.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing vMotion

vMotion
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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) AWS
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) NAS
1 2 (66.67%) SAN
1 2 (66.67%) VSAN
2 1 (33.33%) Network Security
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) VMware Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior
2 1 (33.33%) Senior VMware Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) VMware Specialist
2 1 (33.33%) Vulnerability Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Hybrid Cloud
1 2 (66.67%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
2 2 (66.67%) Linux
2 2 (66.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (66.67%) Ubuntu
2 2 (66.67%) VMS
2 2 (66.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Change Management
1 3 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 2 (66.67%) Capacity Planning
2 2 (66.67%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (66.67%) ITIL
2 2 (66.67%) Knowledge Transfer
2 2 (66.67%) Migration
2 2 (66.67%) Network Virtualisation
2 2 (66.67%) Performance Monitoring
2 2 (66.67%) Performance Optimisation
2 2 (66.67%) Performance Tuning
2 2 (66.67%) Virtual Infrastructure
3 1 (33.33%) Change Advisory Board
3 1 (33.33%) Deadline-Driven
3 1 (33.33%) Patch Management
3 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (33.33%) Vulnerability Assessment
3 1 (33.33%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Bash
1 2 (66.67%) PowerShell
1 2 (66.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) VCAP
1 2 (66.67%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) VMware ESXi
1 3 (100.00%) vSphere
2 2 (66.67%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (66.67%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) vCenter Server
2 2 (66.67%) Ansible
2 2 (66.67%) PowerCLI
2 2 (66.67%) vRealize
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) VMware