VMware Contract Job Trends in Buckinghamshire

VMware
South East > Buckinghamshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Buckinghamshire requiring knowledge or experience of VMware products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited VMware over the 6 months leading up to 11 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within VMware, Inc.

6 months to
11 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 20 12
Rank change year-on-year -3 -8 +21
Contract jobs citing VMware 54 16 47
As % of all contract jobs in Buckinghamshire 6.54% 7.14% 9.79%
As % of the Vendors category 17.25% 13.68% 20.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 14 43
10th Percentile £482 £416 £500
25th Percentile £513 £515 £511
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £618 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.88% +12.27% +20.82%
75th Percentile £631 £733 £619
90th Percentile £654 £743 £642
South East median daily rate £550 £569 £513
% change year-on-year -3.25% +10.93% -

All Vendors
Buckinghamshire

VMware falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in Buckinghamshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 313 117 230
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 37.89% 52.23% 47.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 248 79 181
10th Percentile £313 £325 £205
25th Percentile £425 £404 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £501 £475
Median % change year-on-year +4.90% +5.37% -5.00%
75th Percentile £598 £599 £550
90th Percentile £638 £655 £643
South East median daily rate £510 £508 £500
% change year-on-year +0.49% +1.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 18 14
10th Percentile - - £18.00
25th Percentile - - £22.52
Median hourly rate £36.00 £14.20 £23.48
Median % change year-on-year +153.52% -39.53% +34.19%
75th Percentile - £19.31 £44.06
90th Percentile - £67.50 £48.75
South East median hourly rate £51.25 £24.83 £50.00
% change year-on-year +106.40% -50.34% +11.11%

VMware
Job Vacancy Trend in Buckinghamshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing VMware relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire.

VMware job vacancy trend in Buckinghamshire

VMware
Daily Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Buckinghamshire citing VMware.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Buckinghamshire citing VMware

VMware
Daily Rate Histogram in Buckinghamshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VMware in Buckinghamshire over the 6 months to 11 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for VMware in Buckinghamshire

VMware
Hourly Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Buckinghamshire citing VMware.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Buckinghamshire citing VMware

VMware
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 within the Buckinghamshire region over the 6 months to 11 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 -5 49 £570 -8.80% 12
VMware
South East

VMware
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 2 (3.70%) Apache
Applications
1 1 (1.85%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 32 (59.26%) Azure
2 29 (53.70%) AWS
3 7 (12.96%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (7.41%) Azure Sentinel
5 3 (5.56%) Entra ID
5 3 (5.56%) IaaS
5 3 (5.56%) PaaS
5 3 (5.56%) SaaS
6 2 (3.70%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (1.85%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 16 (29.63%) VSAN
2 8 (14.81%) Cisco ASA
2 8 (14.81%) Cisco Firepower
2 8 (14.81%) Firewall
3 7 (12.96%) BGP
3 7 (12.96%) TCP/IP
3 7 (12.96%) WAN
4 6 (11.11%) Cisco Nexus
4 6 (11.11%) IPsec
4 6 (11.11%) LAN
5 5 (9.26%) Network Security
5 5 (9.26%) OSPF
5 5 (9.26%) Wireless
6 4 (7.41%) BIG-IP
6 4 (7.41%) Cisco ISE
6 4 (7.41%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 4 (7.41%) ICMP
6 4 (7.41%) NGFW
6 4 (7.41%) SAN
7 3 (5.56%) Ethernet VPN
Development Applications
1 1 (1.85%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 5 (9.26%) Public Sector
2 3 (5.56%) Finance
2 3 (5.56%) Manufacturing
2 3 (5.56%) Retail
2 3 (5.56%) Social Skills
3 2 (3.70%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (1.85%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 19 (35.19%) Senior
2 16 (29.63%) Architect
3 13 (24.07%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 12 (22.22%) Technical Architect
4 12 (22.22%) VMware Engineer
5 10 (18.52%) Network Engineer
6 9 (16.67%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 9 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
7 7 (12.96%) Linux Engineer
7 7 (12.96%) Senior VMware Engineer
8 5 (9.26%) Citrix Engineer
8 5 (9.26%) Citrix Infrastructure Engineer
8 5 (9.26%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
9 4 (7.41%) Network Architect
9 4 (7.41%) Senior Architect
9 4 (7.41%) Senior Network Engineer
9 4 (7.41%) Senior Technical Architect
10 3 (5.56%) Solutions Architect
10 3 (5.56%) Test Manager
10 3 (5.56%) Virtualisation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.70%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 11 (20.37%) Public Cloud
2 9 (16.67%) Hybrid Cloud
2 9 (16.67%) PKI
3 8 (14.81%) Data Centre
4 6 (11.11%) Private Cloud
5 2 (3.70%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 1 (1.85%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.85%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 1 (1.85%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.85%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.85%) Replication
6 1 (1.85%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 21 (38.89%) Linux
2 11 (20.37%) Windows
3 6 (11.11%) Debian
4 3 (5.56%) Ubuntu
4 3 (5.56%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.85%) Data ONTAP
5 1 (1.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (1.85%) VMS
5 1 (1.85%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (31.48%) ITIL
2 15 (27.78%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 12 (22.22%) CI/CD
4 11 (20.37%) Infrastructure as Code
5 9 (16.67%) Agile
5 9 (16.67%) Microservices
5 9 (16.67%) Migration
5 9 (16.67%) TOGAF
5 9 (16.67%) Virtual Environments
6 8 (14.81%) IT Strategy
6 8 (14.81%) Matrix Organization
6 8 (14.81%) Stakeholder Management
6 8 (14.81%) Technology Strategy
7 7 (12.96%) Containerisation
7 7 (12.96%) Continuous Delivery
7 7 (12.96%) Network Monitoring
8 6 (11.11%) Continuous Integration
8 6 (11.11%) DevOps
8 6 (11.11%) DevSecOps
8 6 (11.11%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 4 (7.41%) SQL
2 2 (3.70%) Bicep
2 2 (3.70%) PowerShell
2 2 (3.70%) Python
2 2 (3.70%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 43 (79.63%) Security Cleared
2 31 (57.41%) DV Cleared
3 30 (55.56%) SC Cleared
4 11 (20.37%) CCNP
4 11 (20.37%) Cisco Certification
5 9 (16.67%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 7 (12.96%) VCAP
7 6 (11.11%) Microsoft Certification
8 5 (9.26%) MCSE
9 4 (7.41%) ISTQB
9 4 (7.41%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
10 3 (5.56%) CCSE
10 3 (5.56%) CCSM
10 3 (5.56%) Degree
11 2 (3.70%) Azure Certification
12 1 (1.85%) CCDA
12 1 (1.85%) CCIP
12 1 (1.85%) CCNA
12 1 (1.85%) ITIL Certification
12 1 (1.85%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (20.37%) NCSC
1 11 (20.37%) NIST
2 5 (9.26%) Cyber Essentials
3 3 (5.56%) SLA
4 1 (1.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.85%) QA
System Software
1 35 (64.81%) VMware Infrastructure
2 23 (42.59%) VMware NSX
3 13 (24.07%) VMware ESXi
4 5 (9.26%) Active Directory
5 3 (5.56%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (5.56%) vSphere
6 2 (3.70%) vCloud
6 2 (3.70%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (1.85%) Hyper-V
7 1 (1.85%) NFS
Systems Management
1 7 (12.96%) vCenter Server
2 3 (5.56%) Terraform
3 2 (3.70%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (3.70%) SCOM
4 1 (1.85%) Ansible
4 1 (1.85%) CASB
4 1 (1.85%) Cisco CUCM
4 1 (1.85%) SnapMirror
4 1 (1.85%) SnapVault
Vendors
1 19 (35.19%) Cisco
2 16 (29.63%) Microsoft
3 13 (24.07%) Palo Alto
4 9 (16.67%) Citrix
5 6 (11.11%) Broadcom
6 4 (7.41%) CheckPoint
6 4 (7.41%) F5
6 4 (7.41%) Fortinet
6 4 (7.41%) ServiceNow
7 3 (5.56%) Red Hat
8 2 (3.70%) SolarWinds
9 1 (1.85%) Arista
9 1 (1.85%) Aruba
9 1 (1.85%) Becrypt
9 1 (1.85%) HP
9 1 (1.85%) Juniper
9 1 (1.85%) Meraki
9 1 (1.85%) NetApp
9 1 (1.85%) Zscaler