vMotion Contracts in the North of England

VMware vSphere vMotion
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of 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 163 183 219
Rank change year-on-year +20 +36 -
Contract jobs citing vMotion 3 2 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.091% 0.042% 0.017%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.49% 0.37% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 1
10th Percentile - £516 -
25th Percentile £313 £522 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 £563 £450
Median % change year-on-year -42.22% +25.00% -
75th Percentile £338 £622 £475
90th Percentile - £639 -
England median daily rate £575 £563 £568
% change year-on-year +2.22% -0.88% +33.53%

All Systems Management Skills
North of 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 the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 612 538 857
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 18.57% 11.28% 14.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 404 379 635
10th Percentile £254 £239 £325
25th Percentile £379 £400 £442
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £480 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.04% -12.73% +4.76%
75th Percentile £564 £580 £638
90th Percentile £650 £645 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £575
% change year-on-year - -8.70% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 22 52
10th Percentile £45.45 £16.89 £17.53
25th Percentile £51.38 £17.72 £22.34
Median hourly rate £62.50 £22.50 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +177.78% -40.00% +87.50%
75th Percentile £74.50 £48.75 £50.17
90th Percentile £80.95 £80.38 £65.00
England median hourly rate £27.38 £27.25 £57.50
% change year-on-year +0.46% -52.61% +167.44%

vMotion
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for vMotion in the North of England

vMotion
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for vMotion in the North of England

vMotion
Contract Job Locations in the North of 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 North of 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
North West - 3 £325 - 1
vMotion
England

vMotion
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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 3 (100.00%) IIS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) DHCP
1 3 (100.00%) DNS
General
1 2 (66.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Administrator
1 3 (100.00%) VMWare Administrator
1 3 (100.00%) Wintel Administrator
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
1 3 (100.00%) Windows Server
1 3 (100.00%) Windows Server 2012
1 3 (100.00%) Windows Server 2016
1 3 (100.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) High Availability
1 3 (100.00%) ITIL
1 3 (100.00%) Patch Management
1 3 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 3 (100.00%) Resource Management
1 3 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (33.33%) Decision-Making
2 1 (33.33%) Line Management
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (100.00%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 3 (100.00%) Hyper-V
1 3 (100.00%) Virtual Machines
1 3 (100.00%) VMware ESXi
1 3 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft Clustering
1 3 (100.00%) NetApp OnCommand
1 3 (100.00%) vCenter Server
1 3 (100.00%) WSUS
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (100.00%) VMware