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

6 months to
4 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 49 27 40
Rank change year-on-year -22 +13 +10
Contract jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 4 20 16
As % of all contract jobs in Buckinghamshire 0.82% 7.04% 2.76%
As % of the System Software category 14.81% 51.28% 24.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 15 14
10th Percentile - £322 £428
25th Percentile £513 £534 £465
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £583 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.87% +16.50% +4.17%
75th Percentile £538 £630 -
90th Percentile - - £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 27 39 65
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 5.56% 13.73% 11.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 30 55
10th Percentile £190 £200 £175
25th Percentile £273 £402 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £563 £465
Median % change year-on-year -2.22% +20.98% -7.01%
75th Percentile £600 £630 £501
90th Percentile £640 £656 £609
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £465
% change year-on-year - +7.53% -7.01%
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 £81.00 £57.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +40.87% -8.00% +19.62%

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
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 4 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 -19 4 £525 -8.50% 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) IaaS
1 2 (50.00%) PaaS
1 2 (50.00%) SaaS
2 1 (25.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) BGP
1 2 (50.00%) Cisco Nexus
1 2 (50.00%) Ethernet VPN
1 2 (50.00%) NX-OS
1 2 (50.00%) VXLAN
2 1 (25.00%) iSCSI
2 1 (25.00%) NAS
2 1 (25.00%) SAN
General
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Network Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Architect
2 1 (25.00%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
2 1 (25.00%) NetApp Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Storage Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (25.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Knowledge Transfer
1 2 (50.00%) Use Case
2 1 (25.00%) Capacity Planning
2 1 (25.00%) Change Management
2 1 (25.00%) Cost Management
2 1 (25.00%) Customer-Centricity
2 1 (25.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (25.00%) DevSecOps
2 1 (25.00%) FinOps
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (25.00%) ITIL
2 1 (25.00%) Migration
2 1 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (25.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (25.00%) SABSA
2 1 (25.00%) Service Delivery
2 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (25.00%) Storage Management
2 1 (25.00%) TOGAF
2 1 (25.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) DV Cleared
1 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Certification
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) vCloud
1 2 (50.00%) VMware NSX
2 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (25.00%) NFS
2 1 (25.00%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (25.00%) SnapMirror
1 1 (25.00%) SnapVault
1 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) VMware
2 2 (50.00%) Cisco
3 1 (25.00%) Citrix
3 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (25.00%) NetApp