VMware Architect Contracts in the UK excluding London

VMware Architect
UK > UK excluding London

The median VMware Architect daily rate in the UK excluding London is £630, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 317 379 444
Rank change year-on-year +62 +65 +61
Contract jobs requiring a VMware Architect 19 20 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.15% 0.096% 0.075%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.16% 0.10% 0.079%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 14 16
10th Percentile - - £588
25th Percentile £550 £606 £701
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £630 £625 £713
Median % change year-on-year +0.80% -12.28% +14.00%
75th Percentile £650 £646 £719
90th Percentile - £650 £788
UK median daily rate £600 £613 £700
% change year-on-year -2.04% -12.50% +12.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 11,767 19,240 22,667
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.17% 92.63% 94.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,552 11,748 15,893
10th Percentile £213 £213 £225
25th Percentile £363 £363 £395
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £492 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.46% -1.60% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £598 £595
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 829 2,243 1,165
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.50 £13.45
25th Percentile £17.61 £15.75 £18.09
Median hourly rate £28.00 £39.55 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -29.20% -6.94% +117.95%
75th Percentile £64.50 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

VMware Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured VMware Architect in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for VMware Architect in the UK excluding London

VMware Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing VMware Architect in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for VMware Architect in the UK excluding London

VMware Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VMware Architect in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for VMware Architect in the UK excluding London

VMware Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing VMware Architect in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for VMware Architect in the UK excluding London

VMware Architect
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VMware Architect within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 1 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South East +45 11 £630 +1.82% 3
Midlands +27 6 £550 -16.67%
East Midlands - 6 £550 -
South West +46 1 - - 1
East of England - 1 - -
VMware Architect
UK

VMware Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, VMware Architect contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring VMware Architect in the job title.

1 19 (100.00%) VMware
2 17 (89.47%) Security Cleared
3 13 (68.42%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (63.16%) DV Cleared
5 9 (47.37%) SC Cleared
6 8 (42.11%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 7 (36.84%) vSphere
7 7 (36.84%) VMware NSX
8 6 (31.58%) Data Centre
8 6 (31.58%) VMware ESXi
8 6 (31.58%) iSCSI
8 6 (31.58%) Microsoft Certification
8 6 (31.58%) NetApp
8 6 (31.58%) MCSE
8 6 (31.58%) NFS
9 5 (26.32%) Windows
9 5 (26.32%) Microsoft
9 5 (26.32%) Windows Server
10 4 (21.05%) vRealize
10 4 (21.05%) VCP5
10 4 (21.05%) IaaS
10 4 (21.05%) Performance Analysis
10 4 (21.05%) PaaS
10 4 (21.05%) Fibre Channel
10 4 (21.05%) Splunk
10 4 (21.05%) Veeam
10 4 (21.05%) SQL
10 4 (21.05%) vRealize Orchestrator
10 4 (21.05%) VCP6
10 4 (21.05%) Windows Server 2019

VMware Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (5.26%) Skype for Business
Cloud Services
1 4 (21.05%) IaaS
1 4 (21.05%) PaaS
2 2 (10.53%) SaaS
3 1 (5.26%) Cohesity
Communications & Networking
1 6 (31.58%) iSCSI
2 4 (21.05%) Fibre Channel
3 3 (15.79%) VSAN
4 2 (10.53%) Software-Defined Networking
5 1 (5.26%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.26%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (5.26%) GitLab
General
1 2 (10.53%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (10.53%) Public Sector
2 1 (5.26%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 6 (31.58%) Data Centre
2 3 (15.79%) PKI
3 2 (10.53%) Distributed Applications
3 2 (10.53%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (5.26%) Blackberry
4 1 (5.26%) RSA SecurID
Operating Systems
1 5 (26.32%) Windows
1 5 (26.32%) Windows Server
2 4 (21.05%) Windows Server 2019
3 1 (5.26%) Linux
3 1 (5.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (21.05%) CI/CD
1 4 (21.05%) Edge Virtualization
1 4 (21.05%) Performance Analysis
2 2 (10.53%) Agile
2 2 (10.53%) Benchmarking
2 2 (10.53%) Containerisation
2 2 (10.53%) Continuous Delivery
2 2 (10.53%) DevSecOps
2 2 (10.53%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (10.53%) Infrastructure Automation
2 2 (10.53%) IT Strategy
2 2 (10.53%) ITIL
2 2 (10.53%) Matrix Organization
2 2 (10.53%) Microservices
2 2 (10.53%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (10.53%) SIEM
2 2 (10.53%) Technology Strategy
2 2 (10.53%) TOGAF
2 2 (10.53%) Virtual Environments
2 2 (10.53%) Zachman Framework
Programming Languages
1 4 (21.05%) SQL
2 3 (15.79%) PowerShell
3 2 (10.53%) Python
Qualifications
1 17 (89.47%) Security Cleared
2 12 (63.16%) DV Cleared
3 9 (47.37%) SC Cleared
4 8 (42.11%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 6 (31.58%) MCSE
5 6 (31.58%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (21.05%) VCP5
6 4 (21.05%) VCP6
7 2 (10.53%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.53%) Cyber Essentials
1 2 (10.53%) NCSC
1 2 (10.53%) NIST
System Software
1 13 (68.42%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (36.84%) VMware NSX
2 7 (36.84%) vSphere
3 6 (31.58%) NFS
3 6 (31.58%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (5.26%) Active Directory
4 1 (5.26%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 4 (21.05%) vRealize
1 4 (21.05%) vRealize Orchestrator
2 1 (5.26%) Ansible
2 1 (5.26%) Kubernetes
2 1 (5.26%) SCOM
2 1 (5.26%) WSUS
Vendors
1 19 (100.00%) VMware
2 6 (31.58%) NetApp
3 5 (26.32%) Microsoft
4 4 (21.05%) Splunk
4 4 (21.05%) Veeam
5 2 (10.53%) Cisco
5 2 (10.53%) Palo Alto
6 1 (5.26%) HP
6 1 (5.26%) Red Hat