Virtual Environments Contract Job Trends in Buckinghamshire

Virtual Environments
South East > Buckinghamshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire requiring Virtual Environments skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 53 40 46
Rank change year-on-year -13 +6 +24
Contract jobs citing Virtual Environments 2 6 10
As % of all contract jobs in Buckinghamshire 0.39% 2.12% 1.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.48% 2.31% 2.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 10
10th Percentile £604 £286 £416
25th Percentile £611 £506 £457
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £622 £629 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.20% +25.81% +4.17%
75th Percentile £632 £630 £588
90th Percentile £639 - £615
South East median daily rate £600 £510 £500
% change year-on-year +17.65% +2.00% +4.17%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Buckinghamshire

Virtual Environments falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Buckinghamshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 418 260 490
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 81.01% 91.87% 85.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 275 192 353
10th Percentile £257 £201 £279
25th Percentile £363 £381 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £484 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.20% - +4.17%
75th Percentile £578 £599 £600
90th Percentile £640 £650 £748
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -0.05% +0.05% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 5 32
10th Percentile £15.91 £14.20 £15.87
25th Percentile £16.35 £17.50 £18.00
Median hourly rate £18.32 £19.00 £23.48
Median % change year-on-year -3.58% -19.09% +42.32%
75th Percentile £29.61 £53.75 £30.00
90th Percentile £34.72 £56.00 £48.75
South East median hourly rate £25.15 £42.88 £47.50
% change year-on-year -41.35% -9.73% +5.56%

Virtual Environments
Job Vacancy Trend in Buckinghamshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Virtual Environments relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire.

Virtual Environments job vacancy trend in Buckinghamshire

Virtual Environments
Daily Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Buckinghamshire citing Virtual Environments.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Buckinghamshire citing Virtual Environments

Virtual Environments
Hourly Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Buckinghamshire citing Virtual Environments.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Buckinghamshire citing Virtual Environments

Virtual Environments
Contract Job Locations in Buckinghamshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Virtual Environments within the Buckinghamshire region over the 6 months to 21 February 2026. 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
Milton Keynes -13 2 £622 -1.35% 3
Virtual Environments
South East

Virtual Environments
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Buckinghamshire 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 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
1 1 (50.00%) VPN
1 1 (50.00%) VSAN
1 1 (50.00%) Wireless
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Architect
2 1 (50.00%) Network Architect
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Architect
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Public Cloud
2 1 (50.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (50.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) IT Strategy
1 2 (100.00%) Matrix Organization
1 2 (100.00%) Requirements Management
1 2 (100.00%) Technology Strategy
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (50.00%) DevSecOps
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Microservices
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Network Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Network Load Balancing
2 1 (50.00%) TOGAF
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 2 (100.00%) NCSC
1 2 (100.00%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (50.00%) VMware NSX
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) Palo Alto
1 1 (50.00%) VMware