vMotion Contract Job Trends in the Thames Valley

VMware vSphere vMotion
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring vMotion skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 152 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing vMotion 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the Thames Valley 0.034% - -
As % of the Systems Management category 0.28% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £300 - -
South East median daily rate £300 £575 -
% change year-on-year -47.83% - -

All Systems Management Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 354 197 300
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 11.89% 13.59% 11.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 243 135 228
10th Percentile £306 £250 £213
25th Percentile £378 £400 £368
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £433 £463 £533
Median % change year-on-year -6.49% -13.15% +3.90%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £608
90th Percentile £638 £663 £650
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -7.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 0 4
10th Percentile - - £20.20
25th Percentile £31.25 - £26.50
Median hourly rate £35.22 - £30.00
Median % change year-on-year - - -55.88%
75th Percentile £53.75 - £34.69
90th Percentile £80.00 - £43.13
South East median hourly rate £56.25 £23.99 £34.25
% change year-on-year +134.52% -29.97% -41.70%

vMotion
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

vMotion job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

vMotion
Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing vMotion

vMotion
Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing vMotion.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing vMotion

vMotion
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing vMotion within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 4 June 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
Berkshire - 1 £300 -
vMotion
South East

vMotion
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DHCP
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) NetScaler
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Administrator
1 1 (100.00%) Wintel Administrator
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) ITSM
1 1 (100.00%) Load Balancing
1 1 (100.00%) Security Hardening
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (100.00%) CCA
1 1 (100.00%) Citrix Certification
1 1 (100.00%) MCSA
1 1 (100.00%) MCSE
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Desktop
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Machines
1 1 (100.00%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (100.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (100.00%) SCCM
1 1 (100.00%) SCOM
1 1 (100.00%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Citrix
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Remedy
1 1 (100.00%) ServiceNow
1 1 (100.00%) SolarWinds
1 1 (100.00%) VMware