Virtualisation Architect Contract Job Trends in Yorkshire

Virtualization Architect
England > Yorkshire

The median Virtualization Architect daily rate in Yorkshire is £650, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 31 October 2025.

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

6 months to
31 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 127 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Virtualisation Architect 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 0.11% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.12% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £625 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 - -
75th Percentile £675 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £603 £638 £638
% change year-on-year -5.49% - -12.07%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Yorkshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Yorkshire. 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 Yorkshire with a recognized job title 1,605 1,256 1,839
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.14% 90.42% 95.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,073 725 1,206
10th Percentile £260 £231 £225
25th Percentile £378 £393 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £495 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.52% -1.00% -
75th Percentile £550 £575 £600
90th Percentile £638 £649 £700
England median daily rate £510 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -2.86% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 52 34
10th Percentile £17.48 £15.27 £14.09
25th Percentile £20.18 £17.66 £17.47
Median hourly rate £25.08 £23.34 £21.31
Median % change year-on-year +7.43% +9.53% +6.55%
75th Percentile £81.25 £38.75 £23.75
90th Percentile - £48.75 £40.40
England median hourly rate £25.15 £41.50 £45.88
% change year-on-year -39.40% -9.55% +55.53%

Virtualisation Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

Virtualisation Architect job vacancy trend in Yorkshire

Virtualisation Architect
Contract Job Locations in Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Virtualisation Architect within the Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 31 October 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 Yorkshire - 2 £650 -
Virtualisation Architect
England

Virtualisation Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Yorkshire

For the 6 months to 31 October 2025, Virtualisation 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 Yorkshire region featuring Virtualisation Architect in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 2 (100.00%) Migration
1 2 (100.00%) OpenShift
1 2 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 2 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 2 (100.00%) VMware
1 2 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (50.00%) Ansible
2 1 (50.00%) Argo
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) DNS
2 1 (50.00%) Docker
2 1 (50.00%) Enterprise Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) F5
2 1 (50.00%) Firewall
2 1 (50.00%) GCP
2 1 (50.00%) GitOps
2 1 (50.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Linux
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) NetApp
2 1 (50.00%) Network Virtualisation
2 1 (50.00%) Palo Alto
2 1 (50.00%) Podman
2 1 (50.00%) Project Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Virtualisation Architect Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Yorkshire 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%) OpenShift
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) GCP
2 1 (50.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) DNS
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
1 1 (50.00%) VSAN
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Banking
2 1 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (50.00%) Influencing Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Presentation Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 2 (100.00%) Migration
1 2 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Enterprise Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) GitOps
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Network Virtualisation
2 1 (50.00%) Project Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (50.00%) Thought Leadership
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (50.00%) Docker
2 1 (50.00%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (50.00%) VMware NSX
2 1 (50.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Ansible
1 1 (50.00%) Argo
1 1 (50.00%) Podman
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
1 1 (50.00%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 2 (100.00%) VMware
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco
2 1 (50.00%) F5
2 1 (50.00%) NetApp
2 1 (50.00%) Palo Alto