VMware Architect Contracts

VMware Architect
UK

The median VMware Architect daily rate in the UK is £613 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 23 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 555 672 820
Rank change year-on-year +117 +148 -182
Contract jobs requiring a VMware Architect 36 35 42
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.082% 0.058% 0.047%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.089% 0.061% 0.049%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 26 28
10th Percentile £503 £576 £509
25th Percentile £505 £631 £559
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £700 £625
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +12.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £638 £744 £681
90th Percentile £650 £763 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £625 £713 £625
% change year-on-year -12.28% +14.00% +13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £50.00 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes 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 40,491 57,026 85,241
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.76% 94.56% 95.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,430 39,779 59,788
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £408 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,635 1,621 2,118
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.36 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.50 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.50 £45.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.11% +95.65% +0.94%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.99 £63.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £42.50 £19.50
% change year-on-year -11.76% +117.95% +2.63%

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 23 April 2024.

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 12 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 23 April 2024. 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 +113 28 £613 -14.04% 1
UK excluding London +61 21 £625 -12.28% 1
South East - 13 £625 - 1
Work from Home +117 9 £625 +2.04%
London +105 9 £510 -27.14%
North of England +34 4 £625 -
North West - 3 - -
Scotland - 2 £646 -
Yorkshire +21 1 £625 -
South West +6 1 - -
West Midlands - 1 £660 -
Midlands - 1 £660 -

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

For the 6 months to 23 April 2024, 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 36 (100.00%) VMware
2 18 (50.00%) Agile
3 15 (41.67%) Security Cleared
4 12 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
5 11 (30.56%) SC Cleared
5 11 (30.56%) Linux
6 10 (27.78%) Infrastructure as Code
7 9 (25.00%) Data Centre
7 9 (25.00%) CI/CD
8 8 (22.22%) OpenStack
8 8 (22.22%) Ansible
8 8 (22.22%) Python
8 8 (22.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 7 (19.44%) CentOS
9 7 (19.44%) AWS
9 7 (19.44%) Red Hat
9 7 (19.44%) Shell Script
9 7 (19.44%) Amdocs
9 7 (19.44%) logstash
9 7 (19.44%) DevOps
9 7 (19.44%) Kibana
9 7 (19.44%) Jenkins
9 7 (19.44%) Elasticsearch
9 7 (19.44%) Elastic Stack
9 7 (19.44%) Grafana
9 7 (19.44%) Problem-Solving
9 7 (19.44%) Slack
9 7 (19.44%) Prometheus
9 7 (19.44%) Observability
9 7 (19.44%) Onboarding

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 8 (22.22%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 7 (19.44%) AWS
1 7 (19.44%) Slack
2 6 (16.67%) Azure
3 1 (2.78%) GCP
3 1 (2.78%) IaaS
3 1 (2.78%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (8.33%) SAN
1 3 (8.33%) VSAN
2 1 (2.78%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (19.44%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 7 (19.44%) Jenkins
2 3 (8.33%) JIRA
General
1 4 (11.11%) Public Sector
1 4 (11.11%) Social Skills
2 2 (5.56%) Back Office
2 2 (5.56%) Organisational Skills
2 2 (5.56%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (2.78%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (2.78%) Finance
3 1 (2.78%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (19.44%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 9 (25.00%) Data Centre
2 7 (19.44%) Onboarding
3 3 (8.33%) VxBlock/Vblock
4 2 (5.56%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.78%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (2.78%) Private Cloud
5 1 (2.78%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 11 (30.56%) Linux
2 8 (22.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 7 (19.44%) CentOS
4 2 (5.56%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (50.00%) Agile
2 10 (27.78%) Infrastructure as Code
3 9 (25.00%) CI/CD
4 7 (19.44%) DevOps
4 7 (19.44%) Observability
4 7 (19.44%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (13.89%) Migration
5 5 (13.89%) TOGAF
6 4 (11.11%) Computer Science
6 4 (11.11%) Decision-Making
6 4 (11.11%) Enterprise Architecture
6 4 (11.11%) Roadmaps
7 3 (8.33%) Capacity Management
7 3 (8.33%) Continuous Improvement
7 3 (8.33%) Converged Infrastructure
7 3 (8.33%) Kanban
7 3 (8.33%) Mentoring
7 3 (8.33%) Performance Metrics
7 3 (8.33%) Prototyping
7 3 (8.33%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 8 (22.22%) Python
2 7 (19.44%) Shell Script
3 3 (8.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 15 (41.67%) Security Cleared
2 11 (30.56%) SC Cleared
3 5 (13.89%) Degree
4 3 (8.33%) DV Cleared
5 2 (5.56%) Master's Degree
5 2 (5.56%) PhD
5 2 (5.56%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 1 (2.78%) CCNP
6 1 (2.78%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (2.78%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (2.78%) MCSE
6 1 (2.78%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (2.78%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (11.11%) NCSC
1 4 (11.11%) NIST
2 2 (5.56%) GDPR
2 2 (5.56%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 12 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (16.67%) vSphere
3 3 (8.33%) VMware NSX
4 1 (2.78%) UAG
4 1 (2.78%) vCloud
4 1 (2.78%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 8 (22.22%) Ansible
2 7 (19.44%) Grafana
2 7 (19.44%) Kibana
2 7 (19.44%) logstash
2 7 (19.44%) Prometheus
3 5 (13.89%) vCenter Server
4 3 (8.33%) SCCM
4 3 (8.33%) SCOM
4 3 (8.33%) VxRail
5 2 (5.56%) Kubernetes
5 2 (5.56%) vRealize
6 1 (2.78%) PowerCLI
6 1 (2.78%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 36 (100.00%) VMware
2 7 (19.44%) Amdocs
2 7 (19.44%) Red Hat
3 4 (11.11%) Cisco
4 3 (8.33%) Dell
4 3 (8.33%) Microsoft
5 2 (5.56%) Veeam
6 1 (2.78%) Oracle