vMotion Contracts in the UK excluding London

VMware vSphere vMotion
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 28 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 357 - 413
Rank change year-on-year - - +112
DemandTrendContract jobs citing vMotion 12 0 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.078% - 0.065%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.52% - 0.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 0 9
10th Percentile £313 - £502
25th Percentile £322 - £515
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 - £530
75th Percentile £588 - £581
90th Percentile £599 - £588
UK median daily rate £575 - £530
% change year-on-year - - -21.48%

All Systems Management Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 2,314 2,269 3,002
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.07% 12.49% 13.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,561 1,627 2,096
10th Percentile £243 £250 £275
25th Percentile £379 £393 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £520
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% -3.85% +1.46%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £621
90th Percentile £638 £650 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 50 38 108
10th Percentile £17.79 £18.55 £17.28
25th Percentile £20.25 £25.38 £20.19
Median hourly rate £48.23 £39.25 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +22.87% -15.01% +130.90%
75th Percentile £67.00 £56.88 £73.75
90th Percentile £83.15 £74.13 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £31.39 £34.00 £56.25
% change year-on-year -7.69% -39.56% +150.00%

vMotion
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing vMotion as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for vMotion in the UK excluding London

vMotion
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing vMotion.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing vMotion

vMotion
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing vMotion in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 28 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for vMotion in the UK excluding London

vMotion
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing vMotion.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing vMotion

vMotion
DemandTrendContract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing vMotion within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 28 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South East - 8 £575 - 1
South West - 2 £325 - 1
North of England - 2 £325 -
North West - 2 £325 -
vMotion
UK

vMotion
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 8 (66.67%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (33.33%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 8 (66.67%) AWS
1 8 (66.67%) GCP
1 8 (66.67%) IaaS
1 8 (66.67%) OpenShift
1 8 (66.67%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (100.00%) DHCP
1 12 (100.00%) DNS
2 8 (66.67%) Firewall
2 8 (66.67%) SMTP
2 8 (66.67%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (66.67%) Amazon RDS
1 8 (66.67%) Big Data
1 8 (66.67%) Elasticsearch
General
1 9 (75.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (66.67%) 3rd Line Engineer
1 8 (66.67%) 3rd Line Support
1 8 (66.67%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
1 8 (66.67%) Support Engineer
2 7 (58.33%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
2 7 (58.33%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
2 7 (58.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 7 (58.33%) Infrastructure Support
2 7 (58.33%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Administrator
3 2 (16.67%) VMWare Administrator
3 2 (16.67%) Wintel Administrator
4 1 (8.33%) Virtualisation Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 8 (66.67%) Clustering
1 8 (66.67%) Data Centre
1 8 (66.67%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 12 (100.00%) Windows
1 12 (100.00%) Windows Server
2 8 (66.67%) Linux
3 4 (33.33%) Windows Server 2012
4 3 (25.00%) Windows Server 2003
5 2 (16.67%) Windows Server 2016
5 2 (16.67%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (66.67%) Artificial Intelligence
1 8 (66.67%) DevOps
1 8 (66.67%) Machine Learning
1 8 (66.67%) Software Deployment
2 7 (58.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 4 (33.33%) High Availability
3 4 (33.33%) ITIL
3 4 (33.33%) Patch Management
3 4 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
3 4 (33.33%) Resource Management
3 4 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
4 1 (8.33%) Decision-Making
4 1 (8.33%) Line Management
4 1 (8.33%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 8 (66.67%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 12 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 8 (66.67%) Degree
2 8 (66.67%) DV Cleared
3 4 (33.33%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (33.33%) SLA
System Software
1 12 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 12 (100.00%) Hyper-V
1 12 (100.00%) VMware ESXi
1 12 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (66.67%) BitLocker
2 8 (66.67%) Docker
2 8 (66.67%) Microsoft App-V
2 8 (66.67%) Terminal Services
3 4 (33.33%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 12 (100.00%) vCenter Server
2 8 (66.67%) Ansible
2 8 (66.67%) Kubernetes
2 8 (66.67%) Nagios
2 8 (66.67%) Puppet
3 4 (33.33%) Microsoft Clustering
3 4 (33.33%) NetApp OnCommand
3 4 (33.33%) WSUS
Vendors
1 12 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 12 (100.00%) VMware
2 8 (66.67%) Citrix
2 8 (66.67%) Google
2 8 (66.67%) HP
2 8 (66.67%) Symantec