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

6 months to
1 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 38 39
Rank change year-on-year +15 +1 +1
Contract jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 65 3 10
As % of all contract jobs in Buckinghamshire 7.28% 0.98% 2.40%
As % of the System Software category 48.87% 9.38% 22.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 1 9
10th Percentile £445 - £477
25th Percentile £496 £513 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £525 £505
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% +3.96% +5.09%
75th Percentile £610 £538 £538
90th Percentile £643 - £598
South East median daily rate £538 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -6.52% +4.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £33.70 - £35.58
Median hourly rate £38.72 - £36.17
75th Percentile £43.75 - £36.75
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £38.72 £28.00 £36.17
% change year-on-year +38.29% -22.58% -30.82%

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 133 32 45
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 14.89% 10.42% 10.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 104 9 38
10th Percentile £415 £198 £225
25th Percentile £512 £213 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £321 £445
Median % change year-on-year +79.13% -27.87% -7.40%
75th Percentile £617 £538 £504
90th Percentile £656 £615 £625
South East median daily rate £525 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 1
10th Percentile £23.98 - -
25th Percentile £33.70 - £35.58
Median hourly rate £38.72 - £36.17
Median % change year-on-year - - +60.73%
75th Percentile £43.75 - £36.75
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £51.50 £57.50 £54.88
% change year-on-year -10.43% +4.78% +7.07%

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 1 August 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 1 August 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 61 £560 +6.67% 2
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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (6.15%) FactoryTalk
Applications
1 1 (1.54%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 27 (41.54%) Azure
2 22 (33.85%) AWS
3 6 (9.23%) Azure Sentinel
3 6 (9.23%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (3.08%) Azure Monitor
4 2 (3.08%) Entra ID
4 2 (3.08%) GCP
5 1 (1.54%) IaaS
5 1 (1.54%) PaaS
5 1 (1.54%) SaaS
5 1 (1.54%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 26 (40.00%) VSAN
2 18 (27.69%) Firewall
3 17 (26.15%) Cisco ASA
3 17 (26.15%) Cisco Firepower
4 13 (20.00%) IPsec
5 11 (16.92%) Network Security
6 10 (15.38%) WAN
7 9 (13.85%) LAN
7 9 (13.85%) NGFW
7 9 (13.85%) TCP/IP
7 9 (13.85%) VPN
8 8 (12.31%) DNS
9 7 (10.77%) Cisco Nexus
9 7 (10.77%) DHCP
9 7 (10.77%) SSL
10 6 (9.23%) BGP
10 6 (9.23%) OSPF
11 5 (7.69%) BIG-IP
11 5 (7.69%) ICMP
11 5 (7.69%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 1 (1.54%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 9 (13.85%) Manufacturing
2 6 (9.23%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (9.23%) Public Sector
3 5 (7.69%) Finance
3 5 (7.69%) Retail
4 4 (6.15%) Pharmaceutical
5 2 (3.08%) Social Skills
6 1 (1.54%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.54%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 28 (43.08%) Senior
2 20 (30.77%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 20 (30.77%) VMware Engineer
3 17 (26.15%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
4 16 (24.62%) Network Engineer
5 14 (21.54%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 12 (18.46%) Senior VMware Engineer
7 10 (15.38%) Senior Network Engineer
8 7 (10.77%) Architect
9 6 (9.23%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
9 6 (9.23%) Test Manager
10 5 (7.69%) NOC Engineer
10 5 (7.69%) Technical Architect
11 4 (6.15%) Automation Specialist
11 4 (6.15%) Virtualisation Engineer
12 3 (4.62%) QA Manager
12 3 (4.62%) QA Test Manager
13 2 (3.08%) Network Architect
13 2 (3.08%) Senior Technical Architect
13 2 (3.08%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (6.15%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 10 (15.38%) Data Centre
1 10 (15.38%) PKI
2 8 (12.31%) Hybrid Cloud
2 8 (12.31%) Public Cloud
3 6 (9.23%) Private Cloud
4 4 (6.15%) Fibre Optics
4 4 (6.15%) Life Science
4 4 (6.15%) Operational Technology
4 4 (6.15%) SCADA
5 1 (1.54%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.54%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 1 (1.54%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 1 (1.54%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.54%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.54%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 19 (29.23%) Windows
2 17 (26.15%) Linux
3 6 (9.23%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (1.54%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (32.31%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 18 (27.69%) ITIL
3 15 (23.08%) Network Monitoring
3 15 (23.08%) Virtual Environments
4 13 (20.00%) Migration
4 13 (20.00%) Network Virtualisation
5 12 (18.46%) High Availability
6 11 (16.92%) CI/CD
6 11 (16.92%) Technical Leadership
7 10 (15.38%) Security Operations
8 8 (12.31%) Continuous Delivery
8 8 (12.31%) Continuous Integration
8 8 (12.31%) Stakeholder Management
9 7 (10.77%) Non-Functional Testing
9 7 (10.77%) SIEM
9 7 (10.77%) Test Automation
9 7 (10.77%) Test Management
10 6 (9.23%) Infrastructure as Code
10 6 (9.23%) Load Balancing
10 6 (9.23%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 7 (10.77%) SQL
2 6 (9.23%) PowerShell
3 1 (1.54%) Bicep
3 1 (1.54%) Python
Qualifications
1 51 (78.46%) Security Cleared
2 29 (44.62%) DV Cleared
3 24 (36.92%) SC Cleared
4 17 (26.15%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 16 (24.62%) VCAP
6 7 (10.77%) CCNP
6 7 (10.77%) Cisco Certification
6 7 (10.77%) Degree
6 7 (10.77%) ISTQB
6 7 (10.77%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
7 5 (7.69%) CCSE
7 5 (7.69%) CCSM
8 2 (3.08%) AWS Certification
8 2 (3.08%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (3.08%) Azure Certification
8 2 (3.08%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (1.54%) CCDA
9 1 (1.54%) CCIP
9 1 (1.54%) CCNA
9 1 (1.54%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (13.85%) NIST
2 6 (9.23%) NCSC
3 5 (7.69%) SLA
4 4 (6.15%) 21 CFR Part 11
4 4 (6.15%) Cyber Essentials
4 4 (6.15%) GxP
5 3 (4.62%) QA
6 1 (1.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 29 (44.62%) VMware NSX
2 22 (33.85%) VMware ESXi
3 9 (13.85%) Active Directory
4 5 (7.69%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (7.69%) vSphere
5 3 (4.62%) Hyper-V
6 1 (1.54%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 16 (24.62%) vCenter Server
2 5 (7.69%) Cisco CUCM
3 2 (3.08%) SCOM
3 2 (3.08%) Terraform
4 1 (1.54%) Ansible
4 1 (1.54%) CASB
4 1 (1.54%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 65 (100.00%) VMware
2 28 (43.08%) Cisco
3 21 (32.31%) Palo Alto
4 11 (16.92%) Microsoft
5 10 (15.38%) Broadcom
6 9 (13.85%) SolarWinds
7 7 (10.77%) ServiceNow
8 6 (9.23%) CheckPoint
8 6 (9.23%) Fortinet
9 5 (7.69%) F5
10 4 (6.15%) Becrypt
10 4 (6.15%) Rockwell
11 2 (3.08%) Citrix
12 1 (1.54%) Arista
12 1 (1.54%) Aruba
12 1 (1.54%) HP
12 1 (1.54%) Juniper
12 1 (1.54%) Meraki
12 1 (1.54%) Sophos
12 1 (1.54%) Zscaler