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 contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 156 122 -
Rank change year-on-year -34 - -
Contract jobs citing vMotion 3 3 0
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.094% 0.16% -
As % of the Systems Management category 0.68% 0.98% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 0
10th Percentile £531 - -
25th Percentile £531 £313 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £325 -
Median % change year-on-year +65.38% - -
75th Percentile £556 £338 -
90th Percentile £563 - -
England median daily rate £565 £575 £563
% change year-on-year -1.74% +2.22% -0.88%

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 438 307 289
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 13.79% 15.92% 10.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 291 207 215
10th Percentile £313 £258 £237
25th Percentile £400 £385 £393
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.58% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £588 £550 £588
90th Percentile £650 £638 £670
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 4 15
10th Percentile £39.53 £47.43 £16.64
25th Percentile £52.50 £56.31 -
Median hourly rate £55.00 £68.75 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +287.98% -47.50%
75th Percentile £70.00 £79.44 £59.38
90th Percentile £74.26 £82.93 £93.00
England median hourly rate £56.50 £27.38 £26.38
% change year-on-year +106.39% +3.76% -54.12%

vMotion
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

vMotion job vacancy trend 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 17 April 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
Manchester - 3 £538 -
vMotion
England

vMotion
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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