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 13 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 653 542 568
Rank change year-on-year -111 +26 +68
Contract jobs citing vMotion 21 16 1
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.039% 0.049% 0.003%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.35% 0.35% 0.022%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 14 1
10th Percentile £344 £313 -
25th Percentile £371 £372 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +15.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £525
90th Percentile £638 £596 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £575 -
% change year-on-year -17.39% - -

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 5,985 4,583 4,617
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.01% 13.92% 11.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,970 2,976 3,140
10th Percentile £313 £281 £300
25th Percentile £420 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £500 £520
Median % change year-on-year +3.80% -3.85% -5.45%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £619
90th Percentile £688 £685 £701
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £483 £500
% change year-on-year +3.52% -3.40% -2.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 206 84 60
10th Percentile £18.25 £13.75 £19.99
25th Percentile £31.25 £18.87 £24.09
Median hourly rate £64.24 £28.25 £38.25
Median % change year-on-year +127.40% -26.14% -32.00%
75th Percentile £74.00 £63.40 £60.63
90th Percentile £88.98 £70.93 £74.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £63.48 £24.70 £38.50
% change year-on-year +157.06% -35.86% -18.09%

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 13 September 2026.

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 10 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 13 September 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
England -106 20 £525 -8.70% 3
UK excluding London -93 15 £475 -17.39% 1
North of England -62 9 £525 +61.54%
Work from Home -60 8 £474 +45.85% 1
London -88 5 £625 +13.64% 2
Yorkshire - 5 £525 -
North West -54 4 £538 +65.38%
Midlands - 4 £434 -
West Midlands - 4 £434 -
South East -68 2 £300 -47.83% 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 3 (14.29%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (4.76%) IIS
Business Applications
1 2 (9.52%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 8 (38.10%) AWS
2 7 (33.33%) Azure
3 5 (23.81%) IaaS
3 5 (23.81%) PaaS
4 3 (14.29%) GCP
4 3 (14.29%) OpenShift
5 2 (9.52%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (4.76%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 11 (52.38%) DHCP
1 11 (52.38%) DNS
2 8 (38.10%) Firewall
3 6 (28.57%) SAN
4 5 (23.81%) NAS
4 5 (23.81%) SMTP
4 5 (23.81%) VPN
5 3 (14.29%) Fibre Channel
5 3 (14.29%) iSCSI
5 3 (14.29%) VLAN
5 3 (14.29%) VSAN
6 2 (9.52%) NetScaler
7 1 (4.76%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (23.81%) Elasticsearch
2 3 (14.29%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (14.29%) Big Data
General
1 7 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (28.57%) Social Skills
3 1 (4.76%) Finance
3 1 (4.76%) Manufacturing
3 1 (4.76%) Marketing
3 1 (4.76%) Retail
Job Titles
1 6 (28.57%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 5 (23.81%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 5 (23.81%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (14.29%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
3 3 (14.29%) 3rd Line Support
3 3 (14.29%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
3 3 (14.29%) Administrator
3 3 (14.29%) Infrastructure Support
3 3 (14.29%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
3 3 (14.29%) Support Engineer
3 3 (14.29%) VMware Engineer
3 3 (14.29%) Wintel Administrator
4 2 (9.52%) Lead
4 2 (9.52%) NetApp Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Senior
4 2 (9.52%) Storage Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) VMware Expert
4 2 (9.52%) VMware Specialist
5 1 (4.76%) Senior Platform Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Senior VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (14.29%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 11 (52.38%) Data Centre
2 5 (23.81%) Clustering
2 5 (23.81%) PKI
3 3 (14.29%) Enterprise Storage
3 3 (14.29%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (9.52%) Replication
5 1 (4.76%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 15 (71.43%) Windows
2 14 (66.67%) Windows Server
3 10 (47.62%) Linux
4 3 (14.29%) Windows Server 2003
5 2 (9.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (9.52%) Ubuntu
5 2 (9.52%) VMS
6 1 (4.76%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (4.76%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (4.76%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (52.38%) ITIL
2 8 (38.10%) High Availability
3 7 (33.33%) Data Centre Operations
3 7 (33.33%) Infrastructure Automation
3 7 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
4 6 (28.57%) Capacity Planning
4 6 (28.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 6 (28.57%) Knowledge Transfer
4 6 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (23.81%) Disaster Recovery
5 5 (23.81%) Validation
5 5 (23.81%) Virtual Infrastructure
6 4 (19.05%) Change Management
6 4 (19.05%) Root Cause Analysis
6 4 (19.05%) Service Management
7 3 (14.29%) DevOps
7 3 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
7 3 (14.29%) Machine Learning
7 3 (14.29%) Patch Management
7 3 (14.29%) Software Deployment
Programming Languages
1 12 (57.14%) PowerShell
2 2 (9.52%) Bash
2 2 (9.52%) Python
Qualifications
1 13 (61.90%) Security Cleared
2 8 (38.10%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 7 (33.33%) SC Cleared
4 5 (23.81%) DV Cleared
5 3 (14.29%) Degree
5 3 (14.29%) ITIL Certification
6 2 (9.52%) CCA
6 2 (9.52%) Citrix Certification
6 2 (9.52%) MCSA
6 2 (9.52%) MCSE
6 2 (9.52%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (9.52%) VCAP
7 1 (4.76%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (14.29%) SLA
2 1 (4.76%) QA
System Software
1 20 (95.24%) VMware ESXi
2 16 (76.19%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (71.43%) vSphere
4 11 (52.38%) Active Directory
5 7 (33.33%) Virtual Machines
6 6 (28.57%) Hyper-V
7 5 (23.81%) BitLocker
7 5 (23.81%) Docker
7 5 (23.81%) Microsoft App-V
8 4 (19.05%) Firmware
9 3 (14.29%) Terminal Services
9 3 (14.29%) VMware NSX
10 1 (4.76%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 17 (80.95%) vCenter Server
2 14 (66.67%) Ansible
3 6 (28.57%) PowerCLI
4 5 (23.81%) Kubernetes
4 5 (23.81%) Puppet
5 3 (14.29%) Nagios
6 2 (9.52%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (9.52%) SCCM
6 2 (9.52%) SCOM
6 2 (9.52%) vRealize
7 1 (4.76%) Dell DRAC
7 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Clustering
7 1 (4.76%) NetApp OnCommand
7 1 (4.76%) WSUS
Vendors
1 21 (100.00%) VMware
2 8 (38.10%) Microsoft
3 7 (33.33%) Citrix
4 5 (23.81%) Dell
4 5 (23.81%) HP
5 4 (19.05%) 3PAR
5 4 (19.05%) Nimble Storage
6 3 (14.29%) Cisco
6 3 (14.29%) Google
6 3 (14.29%) ServiceNow
6 3 (14.29%) Symantec
7 2 (9.52%) NetApp
7 2 (9.52%) Remedy
7 2 (9.52%) SolarWinds
8 1 (4.76%) Oracle
8 1 (4.76%) Snow