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 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 29 41
Rank change year-on-year 0 +12 +2
Contract jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 48 6 7
As % of all contract jobs in Buckinghamshire 5.50% 2.71% 1.45%
As % of the System Software category 48.98% 27.27% 14.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 5 7
10th Percentile £456 £561 £416
25th Percentile £505 £566 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £615 £475
Median % change year-on-year -14.63% +29.47% +4.40%
75th Percentile £610 £630 £500
90th Percentile £643 - £610
South East median daily rate £538 £575 £538
% change year-on-year -6.52% +6.98% +4.88%

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 98 22 48
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 11.24% 9.95% 9.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 14 40
10th Percentile £420 £231 £216
25th Percentile £510 £305 £397
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £425 £456
Median % change year-on-year +32.94% -6.85% +0.27%
75th Percentile £610 £600 £500
90th Percentile £643 £626 £613
South East median daily rate £525 £500 £526
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.94% +5.20%
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 £48.72 £56.25 £54.88
% change year-on-year -13.39% +2.51% +0.17%

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 May 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 May 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 -2 44 £525 -12.68% 5
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:

Applications
1 1 (2.08%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 25 (52.08%) Azure
2 19 (39.58%) AWS
3 6 (12.50%) Azure Sentinel
3 6 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (6.25%) Entra ID
4 3 (6.25%) IaaS
4 3 (6.25%) PaaS
4 3 (6.25%) SaaS
5 2 (4.17%) Azure Monitor
5 2 (4.17%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 21 (43.75%) VSAN
2 13 (27.08%) Cisco ASA
2 13 (27.08%) Cisco Firepower
3 9 (18.75%) Firewall
3 9 (18.75%) IPsec
4 8 (16.67%) Cisco Nexus
4 8 (16.67%) Network Security
4 8 (16.67%) WAN
5 7 (14.58%) BGP
5 7 (14.58%) LAN
6 5 (10.42%) NGFW
6 5 (10.42%) OSPF
6 5 (10.42%) VPN
6 5 (10.42%) Wireless
7 4 (8.33%) Cisco ISE
7 4 (8.33%) DHCP
7 4 (8.33%) DNS
7 4 (8.33%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 4 (8.33%) SSL
7 4 (8.33%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 1 (2.08%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 5 (10.42%) Finance
1 5 (10.42%) Manufacturing
1 5 (10.42%) Retail
2 4 (8.33%) Public Sector
3 3 (6.25%) Social Skills
4 2 (4.17%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.08%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 19 (39.58%) Senior
2 15 (31.25%) Network Engineer
3 11 (22.92%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 11 (22.92%) VMware Engineer
4 8 (16.67%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 8 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
5 7 (14.58%) Architect
5 7 (14.58%) Senior Network Engineer
6 6 (12.50%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
6 6 (12.50%) Senior VMware Engineer
7 5 (10.42%) NOC Engineer
8 4 (8.33%) Technical Architect
8 4 (8.33%) Test Manager
9 3 (6.25%) Virtualisation Engineer
10 2 (4.17%) Infrastructure Architect
10 2 (4.17%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
10 2 (4.17%) Network Architect
10 2 (4.17%) Senior Architect
10 2 (4.17%) Solutions Architect
10 2 (4.17%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (8.33%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 11 (22.92%) Data Centre
2 7 (14.58%) Hybrid Cloud
2 7 (14.58%) PKI
3 6 (12.50%) Public Cloud
4 3 (6.25%) Private Cloud
5 1 (2.08%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 1 (2.08%) Fibre Optics
5 1 (2.08%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (2.08%) Onboarding
5 1 (2.08%) Replication
5 1 (2.08%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 16 (33.33%) Linux
2 11 (22.92%) Windows
3 2 (4.17%) Windows Server
4 1 (2.08%) Data ONTAP
4 1 (2.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (2.08%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (35.42%) ITIL
2 12 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 12 (25.00%) Migration
2 12 (25.00%) Network Monitoring
2 12 (25.00%) Virtual Environments
3 9 (18.75%) CI/CD
3 9 (18.75%) Network Virtualisation
4 8 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
5 7 (14.58%) High Availability
5 7 (14.58%) Infrastructure as Code
5 7 (14.58%) Security Operations
5 7 (14.58%) SIEM
6 6 (12.50%) Change Management
6 6 (12.50%) Continuous Delivery
6 6 (12.50%) Continuous Integration
6 6 (12.50%) Load Balancing
7 5 (10.42%) DevSecOps
7 5 (10.42%) Non-Functional Testing
7 5 (10.42%) Presales
7 5 (10.42%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (10.42%) SQL
2 2 (4.17%) Bicep
2 2 (4.17%) PowerShell
3 1 (2.08%) Python
Qualifications
1 36 (75.00%) Security Cleared
2 25 (52.08%) DV Cleared
3 20 (41.67%) SC Cleared
4 11 (22.92%) VCAP
4 11 (22.92%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 6 (12.50%) CCNP
5 6 (12.50%) Cisco Certification
6 5 (10.42%) CCSE
6 5 (10.42%) CCSM
6 5 (10.42%) ISTQB
6 5 (10.42%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
7 2 (4.17%) Azure Certification
7 2 (4.17%) Degree
8 1 (2.08%) CCDA
8 1 (2.08%) CCDP
8 1 (2.08%) CCIE
8 1 (2.08%) CCIP
8 1 (2.08%) CCNA
8 1 (2.08%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (2.08%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (16.67%) NIST
2 5 (10.42%) NCSC
2 5 (10.42%) SLA
3 4 (8.33%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (2.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (2.08%) QA
System Software
1 22 (45.83%) VMware NSX
2 17 (35.42%) VMware ESXi
3 7 (14.58%) Active Directory
4 3 (6.25%) Hyper-V
4 3 (6.25%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (6.25%) vSphere
5 2 (4.17%) vCloud
5 2 (4.17%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (2.08%) NFS
Systems Management
1 11 (22.92%) vCenter Server
2 3 (6.25%) Terraform
3 2 (4.17%) Cisco CUCM
3 2 (4.17%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (4.17%) SCOM
4 1 (2.08%) Ansible
4 1 (2.08%) CASB
4 1 (2.08%) SnapMirror
4 1 (2.08%) SnapVault
Vendors
1 48 (100.00%) VMware
2 24 (50.00%) Cisco
3 17 (35.42%) Palo Alto
4 10 (20.83%) Microsoft
5 8 (16.67%) Broadcom
6 7 (14.58%) ServiceNow
7 6 (12.50%) CheckPoint
7 6 (12.50%) Fortinet
8 5 (10.42%) SolarWinds
9 4 (8.33%) F5
10 3 (6.25%) Becrypt
10 3 (6.25%) Citrix
11 1 (2.08%) Arista
11 1 (2.08%) Aruba
11 1 (2.08%) HP
11 1 (2.08%) Juniper
11 1 (2.08%) Meraki
11 1 (2.08%) NetApp
11 1 (2.08%) Zscaler