VMware vSphere vMotion
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for vMotion skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited vMotion over the 6 months to 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 572 705 826
Rank change year-on-year +133 +121 -158
Contract jobs citing vMotion 14 17 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.032% 0.028% 0.006%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.27% 0.18% 0.035%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 16 3
10th Percentile - £481 -
25th Percentile £513 £510 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £528 £425
Median % change year-on-year -0.47% +24.12% -15.00%
75th Percentile £594 £577 £438
90th Percentile £628 £588 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £525 £425
% change year-on-year - +23.53% -21.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £60.00 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £60.00 - -

All Systems Management Skills
UK

vMotion is in the Systems Management category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 5,128 9,668 14,216
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.75% 16.10% 16.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,668 6,975 10,263
10th Percentile £250 £350 £363
25th Percentile £413 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £566 £564
Median % change year-on-year -9.01% +0.40% +12.75%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £673
90th Percentile £700 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £495 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -5.71% +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 127 213 190
10th Percentile £14.00 £16.31 £13.87
25th Percentile £17.77 £23.25 £15.78
Median hourly rate £31.50 £57.50 £22.28
Median % change year-on-year -45.22% +158.08% -23.17%
75th Percentile £55.00 £72.50 £47.84
90th Percentile £70.50 £82.50 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.50 £44.88 £20.00
% change year-on-year -14.21% +124.38% -9.09%

vMotion
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing vMotion as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for vMotion in the UK

vMotion
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing vMotion.

Daily rate trend for vMotion in the UK

vMotion
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing vMotion.

Hourly rate trend for vMotion in the UK

vMotion
Top 6 Contract 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 25 April 2024. 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
UK excluding London +69 14 £525 -
Scotland +24 11 £525 +0.48%
England +119 3 £563 -0.88% 1
North of England +34 2 £563 +25.00%
North East - 2 £563 -
South East - 1 - -

vMotion
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 6 (42.86%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 6 (42.86%) Entra ID
2 5 (35.71%) Azure
3 1 (7.14%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 8 (57.14%) VSAN
2 6 (42.86%) DHCP
2 6 (42.86%) DNS
2 6 (42.86%) Firewall
2 6 (42.86%) SMTP
2 6 (42.86%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (42.86%) Amazon RDS
General
1 6 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 3 (21.43%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (7.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (7.14%) Senior
1 1 (7.14%) VMware Engineer
1 1 (7.14%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (42.86%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 6 (42.86%) Clustering
1 6 (42.86%) PKI
2 1 (7.14%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 6 (42.86%) Windows
1 6 (42.86%) Windows Server
2 4 (28.57%) Windows Server 2003
2 4 (28.57%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (42.86%) High Availability
1 6 (42.86%) Identity Access Management
1 6 (42.86%) Project Delivery
2 5 (35.71%) Customer Requirements
3 1 (7.14%) Computer Science
3 1 (7.14%) Customer Service
3 1 (7.14%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (7.14%) Software Deployment
Programming Languages
1 6 (42.86%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 14 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 14 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (35.71%) SC Cleared
3 1 (7.14%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (7.14%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.14%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 14 (100.00%) Hyper-V
2 9 (64.29%) VMware ESXi
3 6 (42.86%) Active Directory
3 6 (42.86%) BitLocker
3 6 (42.86%) Microsoft App-V
3 6 (42.86%) Terminal Services
4 5 (35.71%) VMware NSX
5 1 (7.14%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 14 (100.00%) vCenter Server
2 8 (57.14%) vRealize
Vendors
1 14 (100.00%) VMware
2 6 (42.86%) Citrix
2 6 (42.86%) Infoblox
2 6 (42.86%) Microsoft
3 1 (7.14%) Google
3 1 (7.14%) HP
3 1 (7.14%) Symantec