VMware vSphere vMotion
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring vMotion skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited vMotion over the 6 months leading up to 16 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 697 891 967
Rank change year-on-year +194 +76 +259
Permanent jobs citing vMotion 14 4 12
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.025% 0.004% 0.012%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.25% 0.041% 0.082%
Number of salaries quoted 14 3 12
10th Percentile £53,625 - -
25th Percentile £56,250 - £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% -4.76% -12.50%
75th Percentile £58,750 - £56,250
90th Percentile - - £64,425
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £50,000 £60,750
% change year-on-year +15.00% -17.70% +42.94%

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 permanent job vacancies requiring systems management skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 5,623 9,841 14,623
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.13% 9.92% 14.67%
Number of salaries quoted 3,266 7,085 9,027
10th Percentile £36,250 £32,500 £35,750
25th Percentile £47,500 £45,000 £48,091
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £60,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.57% -10.37% -3.57%
75th Percentile £90,000 £82,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £112,500 £100,000 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £58,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -5.17% -3.33%

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
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing vMotion.

Salary trend for vMotion in the UK

vMotion
Top 3 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing vMotion within the UK over the 6 months to 16 May 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
UK excluding London +199 14 £57,500 +15.00% 3
England +162 14 £57,500 +15.00% 5
South East - 14 £57,500 - 2

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 8 (57.14%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 12 (85.71%) AWS
1 12 (85.71%) Azure
2 6 (42.86%) GCP
2 6 (42.86%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 14 (100.00%) DHCP
1 14 (100.00%) DNS
2 8 (57.14%) Firewall
2 8 (57.14%) SMTP
3 6 (42.86%) NAS
3 6 (42.86%) Network Security
3 6 (42.86%) Remote Desktop
3 6 (42.86%) SAN
3 6 (42.86%) VSAN
4 2 (14.29%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (42.86%) Amazon RDS
General
1 12 (85.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 13 (92.86%) Support Engineer
2 8 (57.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 7 (50.00%) Infrastructure Support
3 7 (50.00%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
4 6 (42.86%) Support Specialist
4 6 (42.86%) Virtualisation Engineer
4 6 (42.86%) Virtualisation Specialist
4 6 (42.86%) VMware Engineer
4 6 (42.86%) VMware Specialist
4 6 (42.86%) VMware Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 14 (100.00%) Clustering
2 8 (57.14%) PKI
3 6 (42.86%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 14 (100.00%) Windows
1 14 (100.00%) Windows Server
2 6 (42.86%) Linux
3 3 (21.43%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (85.71%) High Availability
1 12 (85.71%) Incident Management
1 12 (85.71%) Task Automation
2 8 (57.14%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 6 (42.86%) Application Virtualisation
3 6 (42.86%) Configuration Management
3 6 (42.86%) Disk Encryption
3 6 (42.86%) RBAC
3 6 (42.86%) Security Hardening
3 6 (42.86%) Virtual Environments
3 6 (42.86%) Virtual Infrastructure
Programming Languages
1 14 (100.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 14 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 14 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 6 (42.86%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 14 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 14 (100.00%) Hyper-V
1 14 (100.00%) VMware ESXi
1 14 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 12 (85.71%) Docker
2 12 (85.71%) vSphere
3 8 (57.14%) BitLocker
3 8 (57.14%) Microsoft App-V
3 8 (57.14%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 14 (100.00%) vCenter Server
2 12 (85.71%) Ansible
2 12 (85.71%) Kubernetes
2 12 (85.71%) Puppet
3 6 (42.86%) Nagios
3 6 (42.86%) PowerCLI
3 6 (42.86%) vRealize
Vendors
1 14 (100.00%) Citrix
1 14 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 14 (100.00%) VMware
2 12 (85.71%) HP
3 6 (42.86%) Google
3 6 (42.86%) Symantec
3 6 (42.86%) Veeam