vMotion Contract Job Trends in the North West

VMware vSphere vMotion
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North West requiring vMotion skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 128 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing vMotion 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.093% - -
As % of the Systems Management category 0.63% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £313 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 - -
75th Percentile £338 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £575 £500 -
% change year-on-year +15.00% - -

All Systems Management Skills
North West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 315 262 457
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 14.71% 11.05% 16.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 216 173 296
10th Percentile £267 £213 £313
25th Percentile £350 £356 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £465 £513
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% -9.27% -2.38%
75th Percentile £542 £575 £586
90th Percentile £650 £650 £669
England median daily rate £507 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.43% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 6 48
10th Percentile £15.88 £27.88 £16.25
25th Percentile £18.87 £33.67 £20.00
Median hourly rate £62.50 £46.18 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +35.34% - +112.03%
75th Percentile £63.75 £48.11 £47.11
90th Percentile £81.05 £76.38 £67.81
England median hourly rate £39.00 £40.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year -2.50% -23.81% +119.57%

vMotion
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for vMotion in the North West

vMotion
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing vMotion

vMotion
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 15 September 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
Cheshire - 2 £325 -
vMotion
England

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