vMotion Contract Job Trends

VMware vSphere vMotion
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring vMotion skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 576 526 598
Rank change year-on-year -50 +72 +198
Contract jobs citing vMotion 5 38 14
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.014% 0.11% 0.031%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.085% 0.75% 0.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 2
10th Percentile £315 £330 -
25th Percentile £319 £356 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 £401 £525
Median % change year-on-year -18.85% -23.71% +7.69%
75th Percentile £488 £463 £538
90th Percentile £578 £500 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £325 £363 £525
% change year-on-year -10.41% -30.90% +16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £60.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £60.00

All Systems Management Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 5,896 5,072 6,129
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 16.18% 14.67% 13.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,009 3,229 4,324
10th Percentile £312 £313 £303
25th Percentile £413 £418 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -2.78% -6.09%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £650
90th Percentile £690 £734 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £513
% change year-on-year - -2.53% -2.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 127 69 171
10th Percentile £16.25 £18.81 £17.00
25th Percentile £20.13 £22.50 £22.38
Median hourly rate £40.00 £27.00 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +48.15% -41.53% +62.04%
75th Percentile £64.88 £50.00 £72.20
90th Percentile £80.80 £74.09 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £25.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year +76.47% -44.78% +77.62%

vMotion
Job Vacancy Trend

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

vMotion job vacancy trend in the UK

vMotion
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

vMotion
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing vMotion over the 6 months to 14 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for vMotion in the UK

vMotion
Hourly Rate Trend

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

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

vMotion
Top 5 Contract Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 14 December 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
England -41 5 £325 -18.85% 1
South West -8 2 £325 -18.85%
UK excluding London -80 2 £325 -10.41%
Work from Home +17 1 £325 -35.00%
London - 1 £625 - 1

vMotion
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (40.00%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) IaaS
1 1 (20.00%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (60.00%) DHCP
1 3 (60.00%) DNS
1 3 (60.00%) Firewall
1 3 (60.00%) VPN
2 2 (40.00%) WAN
3 1 (20.00%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Elasticsearch
General
1 2 (40.00%) Documentation Skills
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Consultant
1 2 (40.00%) VMware Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) NetApp Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Storage Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Data Centre
1 2 (40.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 2 (40.00%) Public Cloud
1 2 (40.00%) Replication
2 1 (20.00%) Clustering
2 1 (20.00%) Enterprise Storage
2 1 (20.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 3 (60.00%) Windows
1 3 (60.00%) Windows Server
2 2 (40.00%) Windows Server 2012
3 1 (20.00%) Linux
3 1 (20.00%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (40.00%) High Availability
2 2 (40.00%) ITIL
2 2 (40.00%) Knowledge Transfer
2 2 (40.00%) Migration
2 2 (40.00%) Patch Management
2 2 (40.00%) Performance Tuning
2 2 (40.00%) Resource Management
2 2 (40.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 2 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (40.00%) WAN Optimisation
3 1 (20.00%) Decision-Making
3 1 (20.00%) Incident Management
3 1 (20.00%) Line Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (80.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (40.00%) VCAP
3 2 (40.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 1 (20.00%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (80.00%) Virtual Machines
2 3 (60.00%) Active Directory
2 3 (60.00%) Hyper-V
2 3 (60.00%) VMware ESXi
2 3 (60.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (40.00%) VMware NSX
3 2 (40.00%) vSphere
4 1 (20.00%) BitLocker
4 1 (20.00%) Docker
4 1 (20.00%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 5 (100.00%) vCenter Server
2 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Clustering
2 2 (40.00%) NetApp OnCommand
2 2 (40.00%) WSUS
3 1 (20.00%) Ansible
3 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
3 1 (20.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) VMware
2 3 (60.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (20.00%) Citrix
3 1 (20.00%) NetApp