vMotion Contracts

VMware vSphere vMotion
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 538 - 652
Rank change year-on-year - - +204
DemandTrendContract jobs citing vMotion 16 0 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.049% - 0.031%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.31% - 0.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 0 9
10th Percentile £313 - £502
25th Percentile £372 - £515
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 - £530
Median % change year-on-year - - -21.48%
75th Percentile £588 - £581
90th Percentile £596 - £588
UK excluding London median daily rate £575 - £530

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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 5,133 5,199 7,694
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.67% 13.41% 15.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,372 3,619 5,383
10th Percentile £300 £308 £330
25th Percentile £410 £420 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £600 £622 £675
90th Percentile £688 £700 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £520
% change year-on-year -2.00% -3.85% +1.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 84 71 176
10th Percentile £13.75 £20.00 £18.50
25th Percentile £18.87 £23.80 £25.75
Median hourly rate £31.39 £34.00 £56.25
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% -39.56% +150.00%
75th Percentile £63.49 £58.75 £75.00
90th Percentile £78.34 £74.00 £80.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £48.23 £39.25 £46.18
% change year-on-year +22.87% -15.01% +130.90%

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
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 28 August 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 8 DemandTrendContract 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 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
England - 16 £575 - 3
UK excluding London - 12 £575 - 2
South East - 8 £575 - 1
London - 4 £550 - 2
North West - 2 £325 -
South West - 2 £325 - 1
North of England - 2 £325 -
Work from Home - 1 £325 -

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 10 (62.50%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (25.00%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 10 (62.50%) AWS
2 9 (56.25%) GCP
2 9 (56.25%) IaaS
2 9 (56.25%) OpenShift
2 9 (56.25%) PaaS
3 1 (6.25%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 14 (87.50%) DHCP
1 14 (87.50%) DNS
2 10 (62.50%) Firewall
2 10 (62.50%) SMTP
2 10 (62.50%) VPN
3 1 (6.25%) Fibre Channel
3 1 (6.25%) iSCSI
3 1 (6.25%) NAS
3 1 (6.25%) SAN
3 1 (6.25%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (56.25%) Amazon RDS
1 9 (56.25%) Big Data
1 9 (56.25%) Elasticsearch
General
1 11 (68.75%) Public Sector
2 1 (6.25%) Finance
Job Titles
1 9 (56.25%) 3rd Line Engineer
1 9 (56.25%) 3rd Line Support
1 9 (56.25%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
1 9 (56.25%) Support Engineer
2 8 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 7 (43.75%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
3 7 (43.75%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
3 7 (43.75%) Infrastructure Support
3 7 (43.75%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
4 4 (25.00%) Virtualisation Engineer
5 2 (12.50%) Administrator
5 2 (12.50%) Cisco Engineer
5 2 (12.50%) VMWare Administrator
5 2 (12.50%) Wintel Administrator
6 1 (6.25%) Senior
6 1 (6.25%) Senior Cisco Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 12 (75.00%) Clustering
2 10 (62.50%) PKI
3 9 (56.25%) Data Centre
4 1 (6.25%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 14 (87.50%) Windows
1 14 (87.50%) Windows Server
2 9 (56.25%) Linux
3 5 (31.25%) Windows Server 2003
4 4 (25.00%) Windows Server 2012
5 2 (12.50%) Windows Server 2016
5 2 (12.50%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (56.25%) Artificial Intelligence
1 9 (56.25%) DevOps
1 9 (56.25%) Machine Learning
1 9 (56.25%) Software Deployment
2 8 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 6 (37.50%) High Availability
4 5 (31.25%) ITIL
4 5 (31.25%) Performance Tuning
4 5 (31.25%) Root Cause Analysis
5 4 (25.00%) Patch Management
5 4 (25.00%) Resource Management
6 1 (6.25%) Capacity Planning
6 1 (6.25%) Change Management
6 1 (6.25%) Decision-Making
6 1 (6.25%) Incident Management
6 1 (6.25%) Line Management
6 1 (6.25%) Performance Monitoring
6 1 (6.25%) Runbook
6 1 (6.25%) Task Automation
6 1 (6.25%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 10 (62.50%) PowerShell
2 1 (6.25%) Python
Qualifications
1 14 (87.50%) Security Cleared
2 9 (56.25%) Degree
2 9 (56.25%) DV Cleared
3 4 (25.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (25.00%) SLA
System Software
1 16 (100.00%) VMware ESXi
1 16 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 14 (87.50%) Active Directory
2 14 (87.50%) Hyper-V
3 10 (62.50%) BitLocker
3 10 (62.50%) Microsoft App-V
3 10 (62.50%) Terminal Services
4 9 (56.25%) Docker
5 4 (25.00%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (12.50%) Firmware
7 1 (6.25%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 16 (100.00%) vCenter Server
2 10 (62.50%) Ansible
3 9 (56.25%) Kubernetes
3 9 (56.25%) Nagios
3 9 (56.25%) Puppet
4 4 (25.00%) Microsoft Clustering
4 4 (25.00%) NetApp OnCommand
4 4 (25.00%) WSUS
5 1 (6.25%) Cisco CUCM
5 1 (6.25%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 16 (100.00%) VMware
2 14 (87.50%) Microsoft
3 10 (62.50%) Citrix
4 9 (56.25%) Google
4 9 (56.25%) HP
4 9 (56.25%) Symantec
5 2 (12.50%) Cisco