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

6 months to
16 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 47 31 42
Rank change year-on-year -16 +11 +1
Contract jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 6 16 16
As % of all contract jobs in Buckinghamshire 1.24% 5.71% 2.76%
As % of the System Software category 23.08% 42.11% 25.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 11 14
10th Percentile - £200 £428
25th Percentile £513 £562 £465
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £620 £500
Median % change year-on-year -15.32% +24.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £644 £630 -
90th Percentile £708 - £507
South East median daily rate £500 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -9.09%

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 26 38 62
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 5.38% 13.57% 10.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 29 52
10th Percentile £273 £200 £180
25th Percentile £513 £340 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £465
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +23.66% -7.00%
75th Percentile £639 £630 £504
90th Percentile £642 £656 £610
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £469
% change year-on-year - +6.67% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £19.25
Median hourly rate - - £35.25
Median % change year-on-year - - +46.88%
75th Percentile - - £52.50
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £78.00 £57.75 £62.50
% change year-on-year +35.06% -7.60% +20.19%

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 16 February 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 16 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 -22 6 £525 -15.87% 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) Azure
1 3 (50.00%) Entra ID
1 3 (50.00%) IaaS
1 3 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
1 3 (50.00%) PaaS
1 3 (50.00%) SaaS
2 1 (16.67%) AWS
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (16.67%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 3 (50.00%) BGP
1 3 (50.00%) Cisco Nexus
1 3 (50.00%) Ethernet VPN
1 3 (50.00%) VXLAN
2 2 (33.33%) NX-OS
3 1 (16.67%) Firewall
3 1 (16.67%) IPsec
3 1 (16.67%) IPv6
3 1 (16.67%) iSCSI
3 1 (16.67%) MPLS
3 1 (16.67%) Multicast
3 1 (16.67%) NAS
3 1 (16.67%) OSPF
3 1 (16.67%) SAN
3 1 (16.67%) SD-WAN
3 1 (16.67%) SNMP
3 1 (16.67%) VoIP
3 1 (16.67%) VPN
3 1 (16.67%) WAN
3 1 (16.67%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Architect
2 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Architect
2 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
2 2 (33.33%) Network Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (16.67%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) NetApp Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Network Architect
3 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Storage Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (16.67%) Cyber Kill Chain
2 1 (16.67%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (16.67%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (16.67%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Data ONTAP
1 1 (16.67%) Linux
1 1 (16.67%) VMS
1 1 (16.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Migration
1 3 (50.00%) Zero Trust
2 2 (33.33%) Cost Management
2 2 (33.33%) Customer-Centricity
2 2 (33.33%) DevSecOps
2 2 (33.33%) FinOps
2 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (33.33%) Knowledge Transfer
2 2 (33.33%) Roadmaps
2 2 (33.33%) SABSA
2 2 (33.33%) TOGAF
2 2 (33.33%) Use Case
3 1 (16.67%) Analytics
3 1 (16.67%) Behavioural Analytics
3 1 (16.67%) Cloud Security
3 1 (16.67%) Cyber Resilience
3 1 (16.67%) Data Loss Prevention
3 1 (16.67%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (16.67%) Security Operations
3 1 (16.67%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) Bicep
2 1 (16.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) DV Cleared
1 3 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (33.33%) Azure Certification
2 2 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 1 (16.67%) AWS Certification
3 1 (16.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (16.67%) CCDA
3 1 (16.67%) CCDP
3 1 (16.67%) CCIE
3 1 (16.67%) CCIP
3 1 (16.67%) CCNA
3 1 (16.67%) CCNP
3 1 (16.67%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (16.67%) NCSC
System Software
1 3 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (33.33%) vCloud
2 2 (33.33%) Virtual Desktop
2 2 (33.33%) VMware NSX
3 1 (16.67%) Hyper-V
3 1 (16.67%) NFS
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) Terraform
2 2 (33.33%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (16.67%) Ansible
3 1 (16.67%) CASB
3 1 (16.67%) Cisco CUCM
3 1 (16.67%) SnapMirror
3 1 (16.67%) SnapVault
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) VMware
2 3 (50.00%) Cisco
2 3 (50.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (33.33%) Citrix
4 1 (16.67%) Arista
4 1 (16.67%) Aruba
4 1 (16.67%) CheckPoint
4 1 (16.67%) Fortinet
4 1 (16.67%) HP
4 1 (16.67%) Juniper
4 1 (16.67%) Meraki
4 1 (16.67%) NetApp
4 1 (16.67%) Palo Alto
4 1 (16.67%) SolarWinds
4 1 (16.67%) Zscaler