VMware Infrastructure Contract Job Trends in Buckinghamshire

VMware Infrastructure (VI3)
South East > Buckinghamshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire requiring VMware Infrastructure skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 39 22 43
Rank change year-on-year -17 +21 -2
Contract jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 29 14 9
As % of all contract jobs in Buckinghamshire 3.59% 5.93% 1.88%
As % of the System Software category 41.43% 60.87% 18.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 9 7
10th Percentile £480 £565 £416
25th Percentile £513 £610 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £628 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.44% +25.61% +9.78%
75th Percentile £614 £630 £517
90th Percentile £644 £645 £630
South East median daily rate £538 £575 £500
% change year-on-year -6.52% +15.00% -4.76%

All System Software Skills
Buckinghamshire

VMware Infrastructure falls under the System Software category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring system software skills in Buckinghamshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 70 23 50
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 8.67% 9.75% 10.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 16 41
10th Percentile £438 £311 £175
25th Percentile £513 £385 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £591 £465
Median % change year-on-year +1.48% +27.16% +2.19%
75th Percentile £640 £630 £534
90th Percentile £656 - £613
South East median daily rate £510 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -2.86% +5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £47.50
Median hourly rate - - £50.00
75th Percentile - - £52.50
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £52.50 £57.50 £50.75
% change year-on-year -8.70% +13.30% -6.07%

VMware Infrastructure
Job Vacancy Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

VMware Infrastructure job vacancy trend in Buckinghamshire

VMware Infrastructure
Daily Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Buckinghamshire citing VMware Infrastructure.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Buckinghamshire citing VMware Infrastructure

VMware Infrastructure
Daily Rate Histogram in Buckinghamshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VMware Infrastructure in Buckinghamshire over the 6 months to 29 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for VMware Infrastructure in Buckinghamshire

VMware Infrastructure
Hourly Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Buckinghamshire citing VMware Infrastructure.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Buckinghamshire citing VMware Infrastructure

VMware Infrastructure
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 VMware Infrastructure within the Buckinghamshire region over the 6 months to 29 April 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 -15 28 £565 -10.18% 7
VMware Infrastructure
South East

VMware Infrastructure
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 14 (48.28%) Azure
2 10 (34.48%) AWS
3 6 (20.69%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (10.34%) Azure Sentinel
4 3 (10.34%) Entra ID
4 3 (10.34%) IaaS
4 3 (10.34%) PaaS
4 3 (10.34%) SaaS
5 2 (6.90%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (3.45%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 14 (48.28%) VSAN
2 7 (24.14%) BGP
2 7 (24.14%) Cisco ASA
2 7 (24.14%) Cisco Firepower
3 6 (20.69%) Firewall
3 6 (20.69%) IPsec
4 5 (17.24%) Cisco Nexus
4 5 (17.24%) Network Security
4 5 (17.24%) OSPF
4 5 (17.24%) WAN
4 5 (17.24%) Wireless
5 4 (13.79%) BIG-IP
5 4 (13.79%) Cisco ISE
5 4 (13.79%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 4 (13.79%) ICMP
5 4 (13.79%) LAN
5 4 (13.79%) NGFW
5 4 (13.79%) TCP/IP
6 3 (10.34%) Ethernet VPN
6 3 (10.34%) VXLAN
Development Applications
1 1 (3.45%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 2 (6.90%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (6.90%) Finance
1 2 (6.90%) Manufacturing
1 2 (6.90%) Public Sector
1 2 (6.90%) Retail
2 1 (3.45%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 13 (44.83%) Senior
2 9 (31.03%) Network Engineer
3 7 (24.14%) Architect
3 7 (24.14%) VMware Engineer
4 6 (20.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 6 (20.69%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 5 (17.24%) Senior VMware Engineer
6 4 (13.79%) Senior Network Engineer
6 4 (13.79%) Technical Architect
6 4 (13.79%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
7 3 (10.34%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
7 3 (10.34%) Virtualisation Engineer
8 2 (6.90%) Infrastructure Architect
8 2 (6.90%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
8 2 (6.90%) Monitoring Engineer
8 2 (6.90%) Network Architect
8 2 (6.90%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
8 2 (6.90%) Senior Architect
8 2 (6.90%) Senior Technical Architect
8 2 (6.90%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.90%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 6 (20.69%) Hybrid Cloud
2 5 (17.24%) Data Centre
3 4 (13.79%) PKI
4 3 (10.34%) Public Cloud
5 2 (6.90%) Private Cloud
6 1 (3.45%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 1 (3.45%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (3.45%) Onboarding
6 1 (3.45%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 9 (31.03%) Linux
2 6 (20.69%) Windows
3 2 (6.90%) Windows Server
4 1 (3.45%) Data ONTAP
4 1 (3.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (3.45%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (31.03%) ITIL
1 9 (31.03%) Migration
2 8 (27.59%) Virtual Environments
3 7 (24.14%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 6 (20.69%) Infrastructure as Code
4 6 (20.69%) Network Monitoring
5 5 (17.24%) DevSecOps
5 5 (17.24%) Network Virtualisation
5 5 (17.24%) Security Operations
5 5 (17.24%) Technical Leadership
6 4 (13.79%) CI/CD
6 4 (13.79%) High Availability
6 4 (13.79%) IT Strategy
6 4 (13.79%) ITSM
6 4 (13.79%) Matrix Organization
6 4 (13.79%) Microservices
6 4 (13.79%) Requirements Management
6 4 (13.79%) SIEM
6 4 (13.79%) Stakeholder Management
6 4 (13.79%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 2 (6.90%) Bicep
1 2 (6.90%) PowerShell
2 1 (3.45%) Python
Qualifications
1 22 (75.86%) Security Cleared
2 16 (55.17%) DV Cleared
3 14 (48.28%) SC Cleared
4 7 (24.14%) VCAP
4 7 (24.14%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 3 (10.34%) CCNP
5 3 (10.34%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (6.90%) Azure Certification
6 2 (6.90%) CCSE
6 2 (6.90%) CCSM
7 1 (3.45%) AWS Certification
7 1 (3.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (3.45%) CCDA
7 1 (3.45%) CCDP
7 1 (3.45%) CCIE
7 1 (3.45%) CCIP
7 1 (3.45%) CCNA
7 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (17.24%) NCSC
1 5 (17.24%) NIST
2 4 (13.79%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (6.90%) SLA
4 1 (3.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 15 (51.72%) VMware NSX
2 10 (34.48%) VMware ESXi
3 4 (13.79%) Active Directory
4 2 (6.90%) vCloud
4 2 (6.90%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (6.90%) vSphere
5 1 (3.45%) Hyper-V
5 1 (3.45%) NFS
Systems Management
1 7 (24.14%) vCenter Server
2 3 (10.34%) Terraform
3 2 (6.90%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (6.90%) SCOM
4 1 (3.45%) Ansible
4 1 (3.45%) CASB
4 1 (3.45%) Cisco CUCM
4 1 (3.45%) SnapMirror
4 1 (3.45%) SnapVault
Vendors
1 29 (100.00%) VMware
2 13 (44.83%) Cisco
3 11 (37.93%) Palo Alto
4 9 (31.03%) Microsoft
5 6 (20.69%) Broadcom
6 4 (13.79%) F5
6 4 (13.79%) ServiceNow
7 3 (10.34%) CheckPoint
7 3 (10.34%) Fortinet
8 2 (6.90%) Citrix
8 2 (6.90%) SolarWinds
9 1 (3.45%) Arista
9 1 (3.45%) Aruba
9 1 (3.45%) Becrypt
9 1 (3.45%) HP
9 1 (3.45%) Juniper
9 1 (3.45%) Meraki
9 1 (3.45%) NetApp
9 1 (3.45%) Zscaler