VMware Architect Contract Job Trends in London

VMware Architect
England > London

The median VMware Architect daily rate in London is £610, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 13 January 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 382 344 388
Rank change year-on-year -38 +44 +151
Contract jobs requiring a VMware Architect 3 7 12
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.021% 0.051% 0.066%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.023% 0.054% 0.071%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 8
10th Percentile - £522 £600
25th Percentile - £537 £638
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £610 £575 £655
Median % change year-on-year +6.09% -12.21% +19.09%
75th Percentile - £631 £660
90th Percentile - £658 -
England median daily rate £675 £588 £625
% change year-on-year +14.89% -6.00% -3.85%

All Contract IT Job Roles
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in London with a recognized job title 13,118 12,952 16,920
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.56% 93.49% 93.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,690 8,338 12,206
10th Percentile £350 £335 £325
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £560
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -1.79% -3.45%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 220 140 237
10th Percentile £17.93 £19.99 £16.25
25th Percentile £23.50 £23.80 £20.02
Median hourly rate £32.48 £35.00 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.21% +7.69% -7.14%
75th Percentile £61.50 £53.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £76.58 £80.75 £70.80
England median hourly rate £27.50 £35.00 £43.50
% change year-on-year -21.43% -19.54% +24.29%

VMware Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'VMware Architect' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

VMware Architect job vacancy trend in London

VMware Architect
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for VMware Architect job vacancies in London.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for VMware Architect job vacancies in London

VMware Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 13 January 2026, VMware Architect contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the London region featuring VMware Architect in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) VMware
2 2 (66.67%) Azure
2 2 (66.67%) Migration
2 2 (66.67%) Python
2 2 (66.67%) VMware NSX
2 2 (66.67%) vSphere
3 1 (33.33%) Ansible
3 1 (33.33%) Argo
3 1 (33.33%) Azure ExpressRoute
3 1 (33.33%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (33.33%) Bash
3 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
3 1 (33.33%) Customer Engagement
3 1 (33.33%) DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) DNS
3 1 (33.33%) Failover Clustering
3 1 (33.33%) Flash
3 1 (33.33%) GitHub
3 1 (33.33%) Grafana
3 1 (33.33%) High Availability
3 1 (33.33%) Hyper-V
3 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
3 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
3 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
3 1 (33.33%) Load Balancing
3 1 (33.33%) NetApp
3 1 (33.33%) Network Security
3 1 (33.33%) OpenShift
3 1 (33.33%) OpenTelemetry

VMware Architect Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) Azure ExpressRoute
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Monitor
2 1 (33.33%) GitHub
2 1 (33.33%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) DNS
1 1 (33.33%) Network Security
1 1 (33.33%) Software-Defined Networking
1 1 (33.33%) VPN
1 1 (33.33%) VSAN
1 1 (33.33%) WAN
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (100.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Flash
1 1 (33.33%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Native
2 1 (33.33%) Data Centre
2 1 (33.33%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Migration
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
2 1 (33.33%) Customer Engagement
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) High Availability
2 1 (33.33%) Load Balancing
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) Bash
2 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) VMware NSX
1 2 (66.67%) vSphere
2 1 (33.33%) Hyper-V
2 1 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Ansible
1 1 (33.33%) Argo
1 1 (33.33%) Failover Clustering
1 1 (33.33%) Grafana
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
1 1 (33.33%) vCenter Server
1 1 (33.33%) vRealize
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) VMware
2 1 (33.33%) NetApp
2 1 (33.33%) Pure Storage
2 1 (33.33%) Red Hat
2 1 (33.33%) Splunk