vMotion Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

VMware vSphere vMotion
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 305 - 411
Rank change year-on-year - - +214
DemandTrendContract jobs citing vMotion 1 0 5
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.010% - 0.024%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.065% - 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - £490
25th Percentile £313 - £517
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 - £575
Median % change year-on-year - - -14.81%
75th Percentile £338 - £588
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £575 - £530
% change year-on-year - - -21.48%

All Systems Management Skills
Work from Home

vMotion falls under the Systems Management category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring systems management skills.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 1,538 1,685 3,292
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 15.65% 13.05% 15.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,013 1,197 2,420
10th Percentile £362 £360 £375
25th Percentile £418 £438 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £600 £630 £675
90th Percentile £675 £717 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 4 68
10th Percentile £29.80 £40.38 £19.78
25th Percentile £44.75 £46.56 £35.00
Median hourly rate £62.50 £52.50 £62.75
Median % change year-on-year +19.05% -16.33% +19.52%
75th Percentile £67.00 £55.63 £73.75
90th Percentile £73.50 £56.75 £78.75
UK median hourly rate £31.39 £34.00 £56.25
% change year-on-year -7.69% -39.56% +150.00%

vMotion
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing vMotion as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

vMotion trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

vMotion
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with Hybrid Work Options

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote work options citing vMotion.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote work options citing vMotion

vMotion
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 1 (100.00%) IIS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DHCP
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
General
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Patch Management
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (100.00%) Resource Management
1 1 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Machines
1 1 (100.00%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Clustering
1 1 (100.00%) NetApp OnCommand
1 1 (100.00%) vCenter Server
1 1 (100.00%) WSUS
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) VMware