The first table below looks at the demand for the VMware Architect role in IT contracts advertised for the England region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited VMware Architect in their job title over the 3 months to 22 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Job Titles advertised for the England region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
VMware Architect
Rank 512 566 559
Rank change year-on-year
+54 -7
Contract jobs requiring a VMware Architect 2 4 5
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.005% 0.007% 0.009%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.005% 0.008% 0.010%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 4 1
Average daily rate £475 £463 £600
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.70% -22.91%
UK excluding London average daily rate £475 - £600
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Job Titles
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
39040 50214 51349
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 92.49% 92.56% 92.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 22971 28392 28508
Average daily rate £400 £400 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £245 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £575 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 2022 2460 2732
Average hourly rate £19.00 £18.50 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+2.70% -7.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.13 £11.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.00 £40.00 £41.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
VMware Architect
UK

VMware Architect
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing VMware Architect across the England region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

England VMware Architect Jobs Demand Trend

VMware Architect
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing VMware Architect across the England region.

England VMware Architect Daily Rate Trend

VMware Architect
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing VMware Architect across the England region.

England VMware Architect Hourly Rate Trend

VMware Architect
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VMware Architect within the England region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
London +28 1 - -
South East - 1 £475 -
VMware Architect
UK

VMware Architect
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region that cited VMware Architect in their job title mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled with VMware Architect in their job title.

1 9 (100.00%) VMware
2 7 (77.78%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (66.67%) Windows
4 4 (44.44%) SAN
4 4 (44.44%) NAS
5 3 (33.33%) vSphere
5 3 (33.33%) Marketing
5 3 (33.33%) Citrix
5 3 (33.33%) Hyper-V
6 2 (22.22%) PaaS
6 2 (22.22%) Ionix
6 2 (22.22%) Enterprise Storage
6 2 (22.22%) Regular Expression
6 2 (22.22%) vCloud
6 2 (22.22%) OpenStack
6 2 (22.22%) IaaS
6 2 (22.22%) ITIL
6 2 (22.22%) UNIX
6 2 (22.22%) BMC
6 2 (22.22%) CA
6 2 (22.22%) NetApp
6 2 (22.22%) Tivoli
6 2 (22.22%) Symantec
6 2 (22.22%) Disaster Recovery
6 2 (22.22%) Firewall
6 2 (22.22%) ITSM
6 2 (22.22%) Linux
6 2 (22.22%) Python
6 2 (22.22%) DHCP
6 2 (22.22%) TCP/IP

VMware Architect
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region that cited VMware Architect in their job title mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled with VMware Architect in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (22.22%) Regular Expression
1 2 (22.22%) CGI
1 2 (22.22%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 2 (22.22%) OpenStack
2 1 (11.11%) IIS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (44.44%) SAN
1 4 (44.44%) NAS
2 2 (22.22%) Firewall
2 2 (22.22%) DHCP
2 2 (22.22%) TCP/IP
2 2 (22.22%) DNS
General
1 3 (33.33%) Marketing
2 2 (22.22%) German Language
3 1 (11.11%) Games
3 1 (11.11%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) PaaS
1 2 (22.22%) Enterprise Storage
1 2 (22.22%) IaaS
1 2 (22.22%) Clustering
1 2 (22.22%) Replication
1 2 (22.22%) Computer Science
2 1 (11.11%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (11.11%) SaaS
Operating Systems
1 6 (66.67%) Windows
2 2 (22.22%) UNIX
2 2 (22.22%) Linux
2 2 (22.22%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (11.11%) Windows 2000 Server
3 1 (11.11%) Windows 7
3 1 (11.11%) Windows XP
3 1 (11.11%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (22.22%) ITIL
1 2 (22.22%) Disaster Recovery
1 2 (22.22%) ITSM
1 2 (22.22%) Technical Architecture
1 2 (22.22%) Migration
2 1 (11.11%) Service Management
2 1 (11.11%) Zachman Framework
2 1 (11.11%) TOGAF
2 1 (11.11%) Enterprise Architecture
2 1 (11.11%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 2 (22.22%) Python
1 2 (22.22%) C
1 2 (22.22%) C#
1 2 (22.22%) C++
1 2 (22.22%) Java
1 2 (22.22%) JavaScript
1 2 (22.22%) Perl
1 2 (22.22%) VB
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) DV Cleared
1 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
1 1 (11.11%) VCDX
1 1 (11.11%) Citrix Certification
1 1 (11.11%) CCIA
System Software
1 7 (77.78%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (33.33%) vSphere
2 3 (33.33%) Hyper-V
3 2 (22.22%) vCloud
3 2 (22.22%) Xen
4 1 (11.11%) VMware ESX
4 1 (11.11%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (22.22%) Ionix
1 2 (22.22%) Tivoli
1 2 (22.22%) BladeLogic
1 2 (22.22%) HP Operations Orchestration
Vendors
1 9 (100.00%) VMware
2 3 (33.33%) Citrix
3 2 (22.22%) BMC
3 2 (22.22%) CA
3 2 (22.22%) NetApp
3 2 (22.22%) Symantec
3 2 (22.22%) Cisco
3 2 (22.22%) Microsoft
3 2 (22.22%) HP
3 2 (22.22%) Opsware
4 1 (11.11%) Altiris