VMware Architect Contracts

VMware Architect
UK

The median VMware Architect daily rate in the UK is £600, 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 496 547 683
Rank change year-on-year +51 +136 +133
Contract jobs requiring a VMware Architect 24 35 35
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.082% 0.080% 0.059%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.089% 0.087% 0.062%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 25 26
10th Percentile £543 £502 £578
25th Percentile £550 £505 £631
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £613 £700
Median % change year-on-year -2.04% -12.50% +12.00%
75th Percentile £650 £638 £744
90th Percentile - £650 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £630 £625 £713
% change year-on-year +0.80% -12.28% +14.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £50.00 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 27,084 40,415 56,464
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.52% 92.78% 94.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,692 26,309 39,470
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £406 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £492 £500
% change year-on-year -3.46% -1.60% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,035 2,664 1,570
10th Percentile £14.07 £12.86 £14.29
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.30 £19.50
Median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%
75th Percentile £62.50 £60.75 £65.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.00 £39.55 £42.50
% change year-on-year -29.20% -6.94% +117.95%

VMware Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for VMware Architect in the UK

VMware Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing VMware Architect.

Daily rate trend for VMware Architect in the UK

VMware Architect
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for VMware Architect in the UK

VMware Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing VMware Architect.

Hourly rate trend for VMware Architect in the UK

VMware Architect
Top 9 Contract Locations

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 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
England +54 24 £600 -2.04% 5
UK excluding London +62 19 £630 +0.80% 4
South East +45 11 £630 +1.82% 3
Midlands +27 6 £550 -16.67%
East Midlands - 6 £550 -
Work from Home +37 5 £630 +0.80%
London +33 4 £544 +6.57%
South West +46 1 - - 1
East of England - 1 - -

VMware Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

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 featuring VMware Architect in the job title.

1 24 (100.00%) VMware
2 18 (75.00%) Security Cleared
2 18 (75.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (50.00%) DV Cleared
4 10 (41.67%) SC Cleared
5 9 (37.50%) Windows
5 9 (37.50%) Windows Server
6 8 (33.33%) VMware NSX
6 8 (33.33%) SQL
6 8 (33.33%) vSphere
6 8 (33.33%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 7 (29.17%) VMware ESXi
8 6 (25.00%) iSCSI
8 6 (25.00%) MCSE
8 6 (25.00%) NFS
8 6 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
8 6 (25.00%) NetApp
8 6 (25.00%) Data Centre
9 5 (20.83%) Red Hat
9 5 (20.83%) Microsoft
9 5 (20.83%) IaaS
9 5 (20.83%) PaaS
10 4 (16.67%) Fibre Channel
10 4 (16.67%) Splunk
10 4 (16.67%) Performance Analysis
10 4 (16.67%) VCP5
10 4 (16.67%) TOGAF
10 4 (16.67%) Veeam
10 4 (16.67%) Azure
10 4 (16.67%) Oracle

VMware Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (4.17%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (4.17%) Skype for Business
Cloud Services
1 5 (20.83%) IaaS
1 5 (20.83%) PaaS
2 4 (16.67%) Azure
2 4 (16.67%) Azure Stack
3 3 (12.50%) SaaS
4 1 (4.17%) AWS
4 1 (4.17%) Cohesity
4 1 (4.17%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 6 (25.00%) iSCSI
2 4 (16.67%) Fibre Channel
3 3 (12.50%) VSAN
4 2 (8.33%) Software-Defined Networking
5 1 (4.17%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.17%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (4.17%) GitLab
General
1 3 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (8.33%) Public Sector
2 2 (8.33%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 6 (25.00%) Data Centre
2 3 (12.50%) PKI
3 2 (8.33%) Distributed Applications
3 2 (8.33%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (4.17%) Blackberry
4 1 (4.17%) Private Cloud
4 1 (4.17%) Public Cloud
4 1 (4.17%) RSA SecurID
Operating Systems
1 9 (37.50%) Windows
1 9 (37.50%) Windows Server
2 4 (16.67%) Windows Server 2019
3 1 (4.17%) Linux
3 1 (4.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (16.67%) CI/CD
1 4 (16.67%) Edge Virtualization
1 4 (16.67%) Performance Analysis
1 4 (16.67%) TOGAF
2 3 (12.50%) ITIL
2 3 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (8.33%) Agile
3 2 (8.33%) Benchmarking
3 2 (8.33%) Continuous Integration
3 2 (8.33%) DevSecOps
3 2 (8.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (8.33%) Infrastructure Automation
3 2 (8.33%) IT Strategy
3 2 (8.33%) Matrix Organization
3 2 (8.33%) Microservices
3 2 (8.33%) Requirements Management
3 2 (8.33%) SIEM
3 2 (8.33%) Use Case
3 2 (8.33%) Virtual Environments
3 2 (8.33%) Zachman Framework
Programming Languages
1 8 (33.33%) SQL
2 3 (12.50%) PowerShell
3 2 (8.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 18 (75.00%) Security Cleared
2 12 (50.00%) DV Cleared
3 10 (41.67%) SC Cleared
4 8 (33.33%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 6 (25.00%) MCSE
5 6 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (16.67%) VCP5
6 4 (16.67%) VCP6
7 2 (8.33%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.33%) Cyber Essentials
1 2 (8.33%) NCSC
1 2 (8.33%) NIST
2 1 (4.17%) QA
System Software
1 18 (75.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (33.33%) VMware NSX
2 8 (33.33%) vSphere
3 7 (29.17%) VMware ESXi
4 6 (25.00%) NFS
5 1 (4.17%) Active Directory
5 1 (4.17%) vCloud
5 1 (4.17%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 4 (16.67%) vRealize
1 4 (16.67%) vRealize Orchestrator
1 4 (16.67%) VxRail
2 1 (4.17%) Ansible
2 1 (4.17%) Kubernetes
2 1 (4.17%) SCOM
2 1 (4.17%) WSUS
Vendors
1 24 (100.00%) VMware
2 6 (25.00%) NetApp
3 5 (20.83%) Microsoft
3 5 (20.83%) Red Hat
4 4 (16.67%) Oracle
4 4 (16.67%) Splunk
4 4 (16.67%) Veeam
5 2 (8.33%) Cisco
5 2 (8.33%) EMC
5 2 (8.33%) Palo Alto
6 1 (4.17%) HP