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

6 months to
18 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 44 26 44
Rank change year-on-year -18 +18 +5
Contract jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 17 16 11
As % of all contract jobs in Buckinghamshire 2.59% 5.80% 2.02%
As % of the System Software category 32.69% 50.00% 22.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 11 9
10th Percentile £456 £200 £416
25th Percentile £511 £562 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £620 £475
Median % change year-on-year -15.32% +30.53% -1.04%
75th Percentile £585 £630 £500
90th Percentile £643 - £515
South East median daily rate £525 £569 £500
% change year-on-year -7.65% +13.70% -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 52 32 50
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 7.91% 11.59% 9.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 24 42
10th Percentile £257 £222 £175
25th Percentile £456 £335 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £465
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +23.66% +2.19%
75th Percentile £610 £630 £528
90th Percentile £640 £648 £610
South East median daily rate £500 £525 £480
% change year-on-year -4.76% +9.38% -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £47.50
Median hourly rate - - £50.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +108.33%
75th Percentile - - £52.50
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £53.61 £57.75 £57.50
% change year-on-year -7.17% +0.43% +10.58%

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 18 March 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 18 March 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 -21 16 £525 -15.87% 10
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 10 (58.82%) Azure
2 8 (47.06%) AWS
3 4 (23.53%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (17.65%) Azure Sentinel
4 3 (17.65%) Entra ID
4 3 (17.65%) IaaS
4 3 (17.65%) PaaS
4 3 (17.65%) SaaS
5 1 (5.88%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 7 (41.18%) BGP
2 6 (35.29%) Cisco ASA
2 6 (35.29%) Cisco Firepower
3 5 (29.41%) Cisco Nexus
3 5 (29.41%) Firewall
3 5 (29.41%) IPsec
3 5 (29.41%) OSPF
3 5 (29.41%) VSAN
3 5 (29.41%) Wireless
4 4 (23.53%) BIG-IP
4 4 (23.53%) Cisco ISE
4 4 (23.53%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 4 (23.53%) ICMP
4 4 (23.53%) Network Security
4 4 (23.53%) NGFW
4 4 (23.53%) TCP/IP
4 4 (23.53%) WAN
5 3 (17.65%) Ethernet VPN
5 3 (17.65%) LAN
5 3 (17.65%) VXLAN
Development Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 2 (11.76%) Finance
1 2 (11.76%) Manufacturing
1 2 (11.76%) Retail
2 1 (5.88%) Public Sector
2 1 (5.88%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (47.06%) Network Engineer
2 7 (41.18%) Senior
3 4 (23.53%) Architect
3 4 (23.53%) Senior VMware Engineer
3 4 (23.53%) VMware Engineer
4 3 (17.65%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (17.65%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (17.65%) Senior Network Engineer
4 3 (17.65%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (11.76%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
5 2 (11.76%) Infrastructure Architect
5 2 (11.76%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
5 2 (11.76%) NOC Engineer
5 2 (11.76%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
5 2 (11.76%) Solutions Architect
6 1 (5.88%) Cisco Engineer
6 1 (5.88%) Cisco Network Engineer
6 1 (5.88%) NetApp Engineer
6 1 (5.88%) Network Architect
6 1 (5.88%) Senior Cisco Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.88%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 5 (29.41%) Data Centre
2 2 (11.76%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (5.88%) Cyber Kill Chain
3 1 (5.88%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (5.88%) PKI
3 1 (5.88%) Private Cloud
3 1 (5.88%) Public Cloud
3 1 (5.88%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 4 (23.53%) Linux
2 3 (17.65%) Windows
3 1 (5.88%) Data ONTAP
3 1 (5.88%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (41.18%) Migration
2 6 (35.29%) ITIL
3 5 (29.41%) Network Monitoring
3 5 (29.41%) Security Operations
3 5 (29.41%) Virtual Environments
4 4 (23.53%) High Availability
4 4 (23.53%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 4 (23.53%) Network Virtualisation
4 4 (23.53%) Stakeholder Management
4 4 (23.53%) Technical Leadership
5 3 (17.65%) Change Management
5 3 (17.65%) DevSecOps
5 3 (17.65%) Infrastructure as Code
5 3 (17.65%) ITSM
5 3 (17.65%) Load Balancing
5 3 (17.65%) Service Management
5 3 (17.65%) SIEM
5 3 (17.65%) Zero Trust
6 2 (11.76%) Presales
6 2 (11.76%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 2 (11.76%) Bicep
2 1 (5.88%) Python
Qualifications
1 11 (64.71%) Security Cleared
2 7 (41.18%) DV Cleared
2 7 (41.18%) SC Cleared
3 3 (17.65%) CCNP
3 3 (17.65%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (11.76%) Azure Certification
4 2 (11.76%) CCSE
4 2 (11.76%) CCSM
5 1 (5.88%) AWS Certification
5 1 (5.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (5.88%) CCDA
5 1 (5.88%) CCDP
5 1 (5.88%) CCIE
5 1 (5.88%) CCIP
5 1 (5.88%) CCNA
5 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Certified Professional
5 1 (5.88%) VCAP
5 1 (5.88%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.76%) NCSC
1 2 (11.76%) SLA
2 1 (5.88%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (5.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (5.88%) NIST
System Software
1 5 (29.41%) VMware NSX
2 4 (23.53%) VMware ESXi
3 3 (17.65%) Active Directory
4 2 (11.76%) vCloud
4 2 (11.76%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (5.88%) Hyper-V
5 1 (5.88%) NFS
5 1 (5.88%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (17.65%) Terraform
2 2 (11.76%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (11.76%) vCenter Server
3 1 (5.88%) Ansible
3 1 (5.88%) CASB
3 1 (5.88%) Cisco CUCM
3 1 (5.88%) SnapMirror
3 1 (5.88%) SnapVault
Vendors
1 17 (100.00%) VMware
2 10 (58.82%) Cisco
3 8 (47.06%) Palo Alto
4 4 (23.53%) F5
4 4 (23.53%) Microsoft
5 3 (17.65%) CheckPoint
5 3 (17.65%) Fortinet
6 2 (11.76%) Citrix
6 2 (11.76%) ServiceNow
7 1 (5.88%) Arista
7 1 (5.88%) Aruba
7 1 (5.88%) Broadcom
7 1 (5.88%) HP
7 1 (5.88%) Juniper
7 1 (5.88%) Meraki
7 1 (5.88%) NetApp
7 1 (5.88%) SolarWinds
7 1 (5.88%) Zscaler