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 6 February 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
6 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 42 21 13
Rank change year-on-year -21 -8 +6
Contract jobs citing VMware 10 31 58
As % of all contract jobs in Buckinghamshire 2.05% 10.92% 9.95%
As % of the Vendors category 5.15% 19.62% 19.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 24 56
10th Percentile £535 £413 £462
25th Percentile £550 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £574 £528
Median % change year-on-year -2.40% +8.77% -4.09%
75th Percentile £605 £630 £563
90th Percentile £630 £743 £619
South East median daily rate £500 £560 £511
% change year-on-year -10.71% +9.59% -5.37%

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 194 158 301
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 39.75% 55.63% 51.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 139 118 242
10th Percentile £257 £207 £229
25th Percentile £372 £365 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £498 £501 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.60% +0.10% +2.56%
75th Percentile £565 £589 £600
90th Percentile £640 £675 £674
South East median daily rate £500 £507 £500
% change year-on-year -1.33% +1.35% -0.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 1 22
10th Percentile £26.81 - £16.13
25th Percentile - - £20.63
Median hourly rate £29.61 £12.00 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year +146.75% -50.00% +54.84%
75th Percentile - - £30.00
90th Percentile £30.89 - £48.75
South East median hourly rate £22.50 £30.21 £47.50
% change year-on-year -25.51% -36.41% +26.67%

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
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 6 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 -20 10 £560 -0.88% 7
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 (20.00%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 5 (50.00%) AWS
2 4 (40.00%) Azure
3 2 (20.00%) IaaS
3 2 (20.00%) PaaS
3 2 (20.00%) SaaS
4 1 (10.00%) Entra ID
4 1 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 4 (40.00%) SAN
2 3 (30.00%) TCP/IP
3 2 (20.00%) BGP
3 2 (20.00%) Cisco Nexus
3 2 (20.00%) Ethernet VPN
3 2 (20.00%) NX-OS
3 2 (20.00%) VXLAN
4 1 (10.00%) iSCSI
4 1 (10.00%) NAS
General
1 2 (20.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Architect
2 3 (30.00%) Technical Architect
3 2 (20.00%) Linux Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Network Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Developer
4 1 (10.00%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
4 1 (10.00%) NetApp Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Python Developer
4 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Senior
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Technical Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Storage Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Data Centre
1 2 (20.00%) Public Cloud
2 1 (10.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (10.00%) Private Cloud
2 1 (10.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 3 (30.00%) Debian
1 3 (30.00%) Linux
1 3 (30.00%) Ubuntu
2 1 (10.00%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) Agile
2 5 (50.00%) ITIL
3 4 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 4 (40.00%) TOGAF
4 3 (30.00%) DevOps
4 3 (30.00%) Enterprise Architecture
4 3 (30.00%) Microservices
5 2 (20.00%) Containerisation
5 2 (20.00%) Customer Service
5 2 (20.00%) Incident Management
5 2 (20.00%) IT Strategy
5 2 (20.00%) Knowledge Transfer
5 2 (20.00%) Matrix Organization
5 2 (20.00%) Problem Management
5 2 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (20.00%) Release Management
5 2 (20.00%) Roadmaps
5 2 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (20.00%) Technology Strategy
5 2 (20.00%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 2 (20.00%) Shell Script
2 1 (10.00%) Bicep
2 1 (10.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 7 (70.00%) SC Cleared
1 7 (70.00%) Security Cleared
2 6 (60.00%) DV Cleared
3 3 (30.00%) CCNP
3 3 (30.00%) Cisco Certification
3 3 (30.00%) MCSE
3 3 (30.00%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (10.00%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (30.00%) NCSC
1 3 (30.00%) NIST
System Software
1 4 (40.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (20.00%) vCloud
2 2 (20.00%) VMware NSX
3 1 (10.00%) Active Directory
3 1 (10.00%) NFS
3 1 (10.00%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (10.00%) SnapMirror
1 1 (10.00%) SnapVault
1 1 (10.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (30.00%) Red Hat
2 2 (20.00%) Cisco
2 2 (20.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (10.00%) Citrix
3 1 (10.00%) NetApp