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 17 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
17 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 24 15
Rank change year-on-year +4 -9 +19
Contract jobs citing VMware 61 11 41
As % of all contract jobs in Buckinghamshire 7.18% 5.02% 8.69%
As % of the Vendors category 18.94% 9.82% 18.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 9 37
10th Percentile £462 £423 £490
25th Percentile £513 £500 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £573 £583 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.72% +5.91% +20.82%
75th Percentile £614 £630 £619
90th Percentile £648 £653 £638
South East median daily rate £550 £567 £513
% change year-on-year -2.96% +10.59% -1.44%

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 322 112 218
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 37.93% 51.14% 46.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 260 75 171
10th Percentile £325 £325 £203
25th Percentile £430 £388 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £465
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% +7.53% -7.01%
75th Percentile £598 £588 £550
90th Percentile £638 £624 £638
South East median daily rate £513 £508 £500
% change year-on-year +0.99% +1.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 19 14
10th Percentile - £14.01 £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 - £18.13 £44.06
90th Percentile - £67.50 £48.75
South East median hourly rate £47.54 £24.66 £47.50
% change year-on-year +92.78% -48.08% +5.56%

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 17 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 17 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 +3 55 £573 -1.72% 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 (3.28%) Apache
Applications
1 1 (1.64%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 37 (60.66%) Azure
2 34 (55.74%) AWS
3 7 (11.48%) Microsoft 365
4 5 (8.20%) Azure Sentinel
5 3 (4.92%) Entra ID
5 3 (4.92%) IaaS
5 3 (4.92%) PaaS
5 3 (4.92%) SaaS
6 2 (3.28%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (1.64%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 17 (27.87%) VSAN
2 9 (14.75%) Cisco ASA
2 9 (14.75%) Cisco Firepower
3 8 (13.11%) Firewall
4 7 (11.48%) BGP
4 7 (11.48%) Cisco Nexus
4 7 (11.48%) TCP/IP
4 7 (11.48%) WAN
5 6 (9.84%) IPsec
5 6 (9.84%) LAN
6 5 (8.20%) Network Security
6 5 (8.20%) OSPF
6 5 (8.20%) Wireless
7 4 (6.56%) BIG-IP
7 4 (6.56%) Cisco ISE
7 4 (6.56%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 4 (6.56%) ICMP
7 4 (6.56%) NGFW
7 4 (6.56%) SAN
8 3 (4.92%) Ethernet VPN
Development Applications
1 1 (1.64%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 5 (8.20%) Public Sector
2 4 (6.56%) Finance
2 4 (6.56%) Manufacturing
2 4 (6.56%) Retail
2 4 (6.56%) Social Skills
3 2 (3.28%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (1.64%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 22 (36.07%) Senior
2 18 (29.51%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 16 (26.23%) Architect
4 14 (22.95%) VMware Engineer
5 12 (19.67%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 12 (19.67%) Technical Architect
6 11 (18.03%) Network Engineer
6 11 (18.03%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
7 9 (14.75%) Linux Engineer
8 8 (13.11%) Citrix Engineer
8 8 (13.11%) Citrix Infrastructure Engineer
8 8 (13.11%) Senior VMware Engineer
9 7 (11.48%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
10 4 (6.56%) Network Architect
10 4 (6.56%) NOC Engineer
10 4 (6.56%) Senior Architect
10 4 (6.56%) Senior Network Engineer
10 4 (6.56%) Senior Technical Architect
10 4 (6.56%) Test Manager
11 3 (4.92%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.28%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 13 (21.31%) Public Cloud
2 11 (18.03%) PKI
3 9 (14.75%) Data Centre
3 9 (14.75%) Hybrid Cloud
4 6 (9.84%) Private Cloud
5 2 (3.28%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 1 (1.64%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.64%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 1 (1.64%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.64%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.64%) Replication
6 1 (1.64%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 27 (44.26%) Linux
2 14 (22.95%) Windows
3 8 (13.11%) Debian
4 3 (4.92%) Ubuntu
4 3 (4.92%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.64%) Data ONTAP
5 1 (1.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (1.64%) VMS
5 1 (1.64%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (32.79%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 18 (29.51%) ITIL
3 13 (21.31%) CI/CD
4 11 (18.03%) Infrastructure as Code
5 10 (16.39%) Virtual Environments
6 9 (14.75%) Agile
6 9 (14.75%) Microservices
6 9 (14.75%) Migration
6 9 (14.75%) TOGAF
7 8 (13.11%) IT Strategy
7 8 (13.11%) Matrix Organization
7 8 (13.11%) Network Monitoring
7 8 (13.11%) Stakeholder Management
7 8 (13.11%) Technology Strategy
8 7 (11.48%) Containerisation
8 7 (11.48%) Continuous Delivery
9 6 (9.84%) Continuous Integration
9 6 (9.84%) DevOps
9 6 (9.84%) DevSecOps
9 6 (9.84%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 5 (8.20%) SQL
2 2 (3.28%) Bicep
2 2 (3.28%) PowerShell
2 2 (3.28%) Python
2 2 (3.28%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 47 (77.05%) Security Cleared
2 33 (54.10%) DV Cleared
2 33 (54.10%) SC Cleared
3 12 (19.67%) CCNP
3 12 (19.67%) Cisco Certification
4 9 (14.75%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 7 (11.48%) VCAP
6 6 (9.84%) Microsoft Certification
7 5 (8.20%) ISTQB
7 5 (8.20%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
7 5 (8.20%) MCSE
8 4 (6.56%) CCSE
8 4 (6.56%) CCSM
9 3 (4.92%) Degree
10 2 (3.28%) Azure Certification
11 1 (1.64%) AWS Certification
11 1 (1.64%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (1.64%) CCIP
11 1 (1.64%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (1.64%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (18.03%) NCSC
1 11 (18.03%) NIST
2 5 (8.20%) Cyber Essentials
3 4 (6.56%) SLA
4 1 (1.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.64%) QA
System Software
1 37 (60.66%) VMware Infrastructure
2 26 (42.62%) VMware NSX
3 14 (22.95%) VMware ESXi
4 5 (8.20%) Active Directory
5 3 (4.92%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (4.92%) vSphere
6 2 (3.28%) vCloud
6 2 (3.28%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (1.64%) Hyper-V
7 1 (1.64%) NFS
Systems Management
1 7 (11.48%) vCenter Server
2 3 (4.92%) Terraform
3 2 (3.28%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (3.28%) SCOM
4 1 (1.64%) Ansible
4 1 (1.64%) CASB
4 1 (1.64%) Cisco CUCM
4 1 (1.64%) SnapMirror
4 1 (1.64%) SnapVault
Vendors
1 21 (34.43%) Cisco
2 16 (26.23%) Microsoft
3 14 (22.95%) Citrix
3 14 (22.95%) Palo Alto
4 6 (9.84%) Broadcom
5 5 (8.20%) CheckPoint
5 5 (8.20%) Fortinet
6 4 (6.56%) F5
6 4 (6.56%) ServiceNow
7 3 (4.92%) Red Hat
8 2 (3.28%) SolarWinds
9 1 (1.64%) Arista
9 1 (1.64%) Aruba
9 1 (1.64%) Becrypt
9 1 (1.64%) HP
9 1 (1.64%) Juniper
9 1 (1.64%) Meraki
9 1 (1.64%) NetApp
9 1 (1.64%) Zscaler