VMware Architect Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

VMware Architect
UK > Work from Home

The median VMware Architect daily rate for remote or hybrid work is £630, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 15 November 2024.

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

6 months to
15 Nov 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 323 403 556
Rank change year-on-year +80 +153 +17
Contract jobs requiring a VMware Architect 8 3 27
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.066% 0.016% 0.071%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.071% 0.017% 0.074%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 3 11
10th Percentile £509 £554 -
25th Percentile £536 £560 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £630 £570 £550
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% +3.64% +7.84%
75th Percentile £659 £610 £688
90th Percentile £672 £634 £763
UK median daily rate £600 £631 £575
% change year-on-year -4.95% +9.78% +15.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with WFH or hybrid options. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 11,337 17,566 36,267
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.07% 94.41% 95.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,100 12,276 26,093
10th Percentile £325 £325 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £631 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 204 399 538
10th Percentile £19.39 £17.11 £15.00
25th Percentile £24.01 £25.98 £25.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £50.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% - +96.08%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £66.56
90th Percentile £72.13 £85.00 £78.58
UK median hourly rate £36.00 £44.50 £28.12
% change year-on-year -19.10% +58.28% +40.58%

VMware Architect
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options which featured VMware Architect in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

VMware Architect trend for jobs with a WFH option

VMware Architect
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing VMware Architect.

VMware Architect daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

VMware Architect
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing VMware Architect over the 6 months to 15 November 2024.

VMware Architect daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

VMware Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 15 November 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 jobs with a WFH option featuring VMware Architect in the job title.

1 8 (100.00%) VMware
2 5 (62.50%) PaaS
2 5 (62.50%) IaaS
2 5 (62.50%) VMware NSX
2 5 (62.50%) Social Skills
3 4 (50.00%) Containerisation
3 4 (50.00%) Microservices
3 4 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (37.50%) CI/CD
4 3 (37.50%) SC Cleared
4 3 (37.50%) Cisco
4 3 (37.50%) Security Cleared
4 3 (37.50%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (25.00%) Azure
5 2 (25.00%) SaaS
5 2 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (25.00%) Use Case
5 2 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
5 2 (25.00%) DV Cleared
5 2 (25.00%) Zachman Framework
5 2 (25.00%) TOGAF
5 2 (25.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 2 (25.00%) PKI
5 2 (25.00%) Requirements Management
5 2 (25.00%) Finance
5 2 (25.00%) Migration
5 2 (25.00%) ITIL
5 2 (25.00%) MCSE
5 2 (25.00%) VMS
5 2 (25.00%) Azure AKS

VMware Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (62.50%) IaaS
1 5 (62.50%) PaaS
2 2 (25.00%) Azure
2 2 (25.00%) Azure AKS
2 2 (25.00%) Azure Batch
2 2 (25.00%) Power Automate
2 2 (25.00%) Power Platform
2 2 (25.00%) PowerApps
2 2 (25.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (25.00%) VSAN
2 1 (12.50%) iSCSI
General
1 5 (62.50%) Social Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Finance
3 1 (12.50%) Banking
3 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Data Centre
1 2 (25.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 2 (25.00%) PKI
1 2 (25.00%) Public Cloud
2 1 (12.50%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (25.00%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) Containerisation
1 4 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 4 (50.00%) Microservices
2 3 (37.50%) CI/CD
3 2 (25.00%) Continuous Delivery
3 2 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
3 2 (25.00%) DevSecOps
3 2 (25.00%) IT Strategy
3 2 (25.00%) ITIL
3 2 (25.00%) Matrix Organization
3 2 (25.00%) Migration
3 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (25.00%) Re-Platforming
3 2 (25.00%) Requirements Management
3 2 (25.00%) Technology Strategy
3 2 (25.00%) TOGAF
3 2 (25.00%) Use Case
3 2 (25.00%) Virtual Environments
3 2 (25.00%) Zachman Framework
4 1 (12.50%) Benchmarking
Qualifications
1 3 (37.50%) SC Cleared
1 3 (37.50%) Security Cleared
2 2 (25.00%) Azure Certification
2 2 (25.00%) DV Cleared
2 2 (25.00%) MCSE
2 2 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (25.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 2 (25.00%) NCSC
1 2 (25.00%) NIST
System Software
1 5 (62.50%) VMware NSX
2 3 (37.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (12.50%) NFS
3 1 (12.50%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Kubernetes
1 1 (12.50%) vRealize
1 1 (12.50%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 8 (100.00%) VMware
2 3 (37.50%) Cisco
3 2 (25.00%) Palo Alto