The first table below looks at the demand for the VMware Architect role in IT contracts advertised across the UK. 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 19 June 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 currently tracked.

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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
VMware Architect
Rank 540 565 596
Rank change year-on-year
+25 +31
Contract jobs requiring a VMware Architect 1 5 5
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.002% 0.009% 0.008%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.002% 0.009% 0.009%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 5 2
Average daily rate - £450 £600
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -25.00%
UK excluding London average daily rate - £425 £600
% change year-on-year
- -29.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Job Titles
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
44347 53663 57608
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 92.17% 92.47% 92.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 25564 29628 31510
Average daily rate £400 £400 £420
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -4.76%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £238 £240 £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 2099 2560 2964
Average hourly rate £18.50 £18.50 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -7.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £11.19 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £41.50 £40.00 £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £19.94
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -9.72%

VMware Architect
Jobs Demand Trend

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

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 within the UK.

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 within the UK.

VMware Architect Hourly Rate Trend

VMware Architect
Top 20 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 UK over the 3 months to 19 June 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
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Vacancies
London +23 1 - - 1
England +9 1 - - 1
Southwark - 1 - -
East Yorkshire - - - -
Bradford - - - -
Dewsbury - - - -
Doncaster - - - -
Hull - - - -
Leeds - - - -
Reading - - - -
Sheffield - - - -
Wakefield - - - -
York - - - -
Berkshire - - - -
North Yorkshire - - - -
South Yorkshire - - - -
West Yorkshire - - - -
Yorkshire - - - -
City of London - - - -
South East - - - -

VMware Architect
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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 8 (100.00%) VMware
2 7 (87.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (75.00%) Windows
4 4 (50.00%) SAN
4 4 (50.00%) NAS
5 3 (37.50%) vSphere
5 3 (37.50%) Marketing
5 3 (37.50%) Citrix
5 3 (37.50%) Hyper-V
6 2 (25.00%) PaaS
6 2 (25.00%) Ionix
6 2 (25.00%) Enterprise Storage
6 2 (25.00%) Regular Expression
6 2 (25.00%) OpenStack
6 2 (25.00%) IaaS
6 2 (25.00%) ITIL
6 2 (25.00%) UNIX
6 2 (25.00%) BMC
6 2 (25.00%) CA
6 2 (25.00%) NetApp
6 2 (25.00%) Tivoli
6 2 (25.00%) Symantec
6 2 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
6 2 (25.00%) Firewall
6 2 (25.00%) ITSM
6 2 (25.00%) Linux
6 2 (25.00%) Python
6 2 (25.00%) DHCP
6 2 (25.00%) TCP/IP
6 2 (25.00%) DNS

VMware Architect
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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 (25.00%) Regular Expression
1 2 (25.00%) CGI
1 2 (25.00%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 2 (25.00%) OpenStack
2 1 (12.50%) IIS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (50.00%) SAN
1 4 (50.00%) NAS
2 2 (25.00%) Firewall
2 2 (25.00%) DHCP
2 2 (25.00%) TCP/IP
2 2 (25.00%) DNS
General
1 3 (37.50%) Marketing
2 2 (25.00%) German Language
3 1 (12.50%) Games
3 1 (12.50%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) PaaS
1 2 (25.00%) Enterprise Storage
1 2 (25.00%) IaaS
1 2 (25.00%) Clustering
1 2 (25.00%) Replication
1 2 (25.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (12.50%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (12.50%) SaaS
Operating Systems
1 6 (75.00%) Windows
2 2 (25.00%) UNIX
2 2 (25.00%) Linux
2 2 (25.00%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (12.50%) Windows 2000 Server
3 1 (12.50%) Windows 7
3 1 (12.50%) Windows XP
3 1 (12.50%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (25.00%) ITIL
1 2 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 2 (25.00%) ITSM
1 2 (25.00%) Technical Architecture
1 2 (25.00%) Migration
2 1 (12.50%) Service Management
2 1 (12.50%) Zachman Framework
2 1 (12.50%) TOGAF
2 1 (12.50%) Enterprise Architecture
2 1 (12.50%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) Python
1 2 (25.00%) C
1 2 (25.00%) C#
1 2 (25.00%) C++
1 2 (25.00%) Java
1 2 (25.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (25.00%) Perl
1 2 (25.00%) VB
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) DV Cleared
1 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
1 1 (12.50%) VCDX
1 1 (12.50%) Citrix Certification
1 1 (12.50%) CCIA
System Software
1 7 (87.50%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (37.50%) vSphere
2 3 (37.50%) Hyper-V
3 2 (25.00%) Xen
4 1 (12.50%) VMware ESX
4 1 (12.50%) Active Directory
4 1 (12.50%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 2 (25.00%) Ionix
1 2 (25.00%) Tivoli
1 2 (25.00%) BladeLogic
1 2 (25.00%) HP Operations Orchestration
Vendors
1 8 (100.00%) VMware
2 3 (37.50%) Citrix
3 2 (25.00%) BMC
3 2 (25.00%) CA
3 2 (25.00%) NetApp
3 2 (25.00%) Symantec
3 2 (25.00%) Cisco
3 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (25.00%) HP
3 2 (25.00%) Opsware
4 1 (12.50%) Altiris
London
Vmware Consultant / Architect - £450 p/d - LondonMy client is currently looking for a VMware Consultant / Architect to work on a long term project.The successful candidate would ideally...
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Rate: £400 - £500 per day
Posted: 19 June 2013