VMware Architect Contract Job Trends in Sheffield

VMware Architect
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The median VMware Architect daily rate in Sheffield is £550, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 5 February 2026.

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

6 months to
5 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 97 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a VMware Architect 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Sheffield 0.25% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.28% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £510 - -
25th Percentile £525 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - -
75th Percentile £575 - -
90th Percentile £590 - -
South Yorkshire median daily rate £550 - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
Sheffield

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Sheffield. 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 Sheffield with a recognized job title 724 205 344
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 88.83% 86.13% 91.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 502 127 214
10th Percentile £350 £209 £341
25th Percentile £413 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £482 £507 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -3.43% -4.55%
75th Percentile £538 £599 £600
90th Percentile £650 £650 £711
South Yorkshire median daily rate £482 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.60% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 9
10th Percentile £14.98 £12.10 -
25th Percentile £16.68 £12.62 £10.90
Median hourly rate £19.50 £14.85 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +31.36% -34.02% -10.00%
75th Percentile £22.33 £16.68 £23.75
90th Percentile £24.02 £16.97 £25.25
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £19.50 £14.85 £13.23
% change year-on-year +31.36% +12.21% -25.46%

VMware Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

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 Sheffield.

VMware Architect job vacancy trend in Sheffield

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

For the 6 months to 5 February 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 Sheffield region featuring VMware Architect in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Ansible
1 2 (100.00%) Argo
1 2 (100.00%) Bash
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 2 (100.00%) Data Migration
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 2 (100.00%) DNS
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub
1 2 (100.00%) Grafana
1 2 (100.00%) High Availability
1 2 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (100.00%) Load Balancing
1 2 (100.00%) Migration
1 2 (100.00%) OpenShift
1 2 (100.00%) OpenTelemetry
1 2 (100.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (100.00%) Pure Storage
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) RBAC
1 2 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 2 (100.00%) Splunk
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
1 2 (100.00%) vCenter Server
1 2 (100.00%) VMware
1 2 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (100.00%) VMware NSX

VMware Architect Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Sheffield 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 (100.00%) GitHub
1 2 (100.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) DNS
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 2 (100.00%) Hybrid Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 2 (100.00%) Data Migration
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 2 (100.00%) High Availability
1 2 (100.00%) Load Balancing
1 2 (100.00%) Migration
1 2 (100.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (100.00%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Bash
1 2 (100.00%) Python
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (100.00%) VMware NSX
1 2 (100.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Ansible
1 2 (100.00%) Argo
1 2 (100.00%) Grafana
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
1 2 (100.00%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Pure Storage
1 2 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 2 (100.00%) Splunk
1 2 (100.00%) VMware