vMotion Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

VMware vSphere vMotion
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring vMotion skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 184 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing vMotion 4 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 0.094% - -
As % of the Systems Management category 0.75% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £343 - -
25th Percentile £346 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £434 - -
75th Percentile £474 - -
90th Percentile £475 - -
England median daily rate £538 £575 £563
% change year-on-year -6.52% +2.22% -0.88%

All Systems Management Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 532 244 270
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 12.46% 12.75% 9.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 384 167 213
10th Percentile £258 £200 £188
25th Percentile £406 £323 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +5.56% -10.00%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £575
90th Percentile £644 £689 £649
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 7 6
10th Percentile £16.25 £12.18 £20.52
25th Percentile £25.98 £13.70 £25.38
Median hourly rate £65.35 £16.19 £25.77
Median % change year-on-year +303.61% -37.16% +18.90%
75th Percentile £74.00 £18.13 £26.15
90th Percentile £76.58 £19.43 £40.57
England median hourly rate £57.50 £27.75 £25.77
% change year-on-year +107.21% +7.70% -53.15%

vMotion
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

vMotion job vacancy trend in the Midlands

vMotion
Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing vMotion.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing vMotion

vMotion
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing vMotion within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 3 May 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
West Midlands - 4 £434 -
vMotion
England

vMotion
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

General
1 4 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 4 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) VMware Expert
Miscellaneous
1 4 (100.00%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Data Centre Operations
1 4 (100.00%) High Availability
1 4 (100.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 4 (100.00%) ITIL
1 4 (100.00%) Knowledge Transfer
1 4 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 4 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 4 (100.00%) Service Management
2 1 (25.00%) Validation
Qualifications
1 4 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 4 (100.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) QA
System Software
1 4 (100.00%) VMware ESXi
1 4 (100.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) Ansible
1 4 (100.00%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) 3PAR
1 4 (100.00%) Nimble Storage
1 4 (100.00%) VMware