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 9 March 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
9 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 41 16 12
Rank change year-on-year -25 -4 +10
Contract jobs citing VMware 18 28 54
As % of all contract jobs in Buckinghamshire 2.93% 9.89% 9.75%
As % of the Vendors category 7.32% 18.67% 18.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 21 51
10th Percentile £520 £413 £475
25th Percentile £550 £425 £510
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £615 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +11.82% +7.84%
75th Percentile £640 £630 £569
90th Percentile £642 £743 £638
South East median daily rate £525 £569 £514
% change year-on-year -7.65% +10.60% -6.12%

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 246 150 287
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 40.07% 53.00% 51.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 178 109 226
10th Percentile £306 £210 £213
25th Percentile £408 £372 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £508 £475
Median % change year-on-year -0.49% +6.84% -2.56%
75th Percentile £588 £599 £587
90th Percentile £640 £655 £655
South East median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 8 23
10th Percentile £26.81 £13.54 £16.40
25th Percentile - £14.20 £21.25
Median hourly rate £29.61 £19.00 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year +55.84% -20.83% +41.18%
75th Percentile - £67.50 £30.00
90th Percentile £30.89 £68.25 £48.75
South East median hourly rate £29.61 £27.50 £31.25
% change year-on-year +7.67% -12.00% -30.56%

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 9 March 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 9 March 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 -23 18 £600 -3.23% 10
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 (11.11%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 8 (44.44%) AWS
1 8 (44.44%) Azure
2 5 (27.78%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (16.67%) Entra ID
3 3 (16.67%) IaaS
3 3 (16.67%) PaaS
3 3 (16.67%) SaaS
4 1 (5.56%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (5.56%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 4 (22.22%) SAN
1 4 (22.22%) VSAN
2 3 (16.67%) BGP
2 3 (16.67%) Cisco Nexus
2 3 (16.67%) Ethernet VPN
2 3 (16.67%) TCP/IP
2 3 (16.67%) VXLAN
3 2 (11.11%) NX-OS
4 1 (5.56%) DHCP
4 1 (5.56%) DNS
4 1 (5.56%) Firewall
4 1 (5.56%) IPsec
4 1 (5.56%) IPv6
4 1 (5.56%) iSCSI
4 1 (5.56%) Multicast
4 1 (5.56%) NAS
4 1 (5.56%) SNMP
4 1 (5.56%) VPN
4 1 (5.56%) Wireless
4 1 (5.56%) Wireshark
Development Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 4 (22.22%) Public Sector
2 1 (5.56%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (44.44%) Architect
2 5 (27.78%) Senior
2 5 (27.78%) Technical Architect
3 3 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (16.67%) Senior VMware Engineer
3 3 (16.67%) VMware Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Infrastructure Architect
4 2 (11.11%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
4 2 (11.11%) Linux Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Network Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Senior Architect
4 2 (11.11%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Senior Technical Architect
4 2 (11.11%) Solutions Architect
4 2 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Developer
5 1 (5.56%) Network Architect
5 1 (5.56%) Python Developer
5 1 (5.56%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Storage Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.56%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 3 (16.67%) Data Centre
1 3 (16.67%) Hybrid Cloud
1 3 (16.67%) PKI
1 3 (16.67%) Public Cloud
2 2 (11.11%) Private Cloud
3 1 (5.56%) Cloud Native
3 1 (5.56%) Cyber Kill Chain
3 1 (5.56%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (5.56%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 6 (33.33%) Linux
2 3 (16.67%) Debian
2 3 (16.67%) Ubuntu
3 2 (11.11%) Windows
4 1 (5.56%) Data ONTAP
4 1 (5.56%) VMS
4 1 (5.56%) Windows Server
4 1 (5.56%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (33.33%) Agile
1 6 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 5 (27.78%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 5 (27.78%) ITIL
2 5 (27.78%) TOGAF
3 4 (22.22%) DevSecOps
3 4 (22.22%) Microservices
3 4 (22.22%) Migration
4 3 (16.67%) CI/CD
4 3 (16.67%) Containerisation
4 3 (16.67%) DevOps
4 3 (16.67%) Enterprise Architecture
4 3 (16.67%) IT Strategy
4 3 (16.67%) Matrix Organization
4 3 (16.67%) Roadmaps
4 3 (16.67%) Technology Strategy
4 3 (16.67%) Zero Trust
5 2 (11.11%) Customer Service
5 2 (11.11%) Customer-Centricity
5 2 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 2 (11.11%) Bicep
1 2 (11.11%) Python
1 2 (11.11%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 13 (72.22%) Security Cleared
2 10 (55.56%) SC Cleared
3 9 (50.00%) DV Cleared
4 4 (22.22%) CCNP
4 4 (22.22%) Cisco Certification
4 4 (22.22%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (16.67%) MCSE
6 2 (11.11%) Azure Certification
7 1 (5.56%) AWS Certification
7 1 (5.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (5.56%) CCDA
7 1 (5.56%) CCDP
7 1 (5.56%) CCIE
7 1 (5.56%) CCIP
7 1 (5.56%) CCNA
7 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 1 (5.56%) VCAP
7 1 (5.56%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (33.33%) NCSC
2 5 (27.78%) NIST
3 2 (11.11%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (5.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 10 (55.56%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (38.89%) VMware NSX
3 4 (22.22%) Active Directory
4 2 (11.11%) vCloud
4 2 (11.11%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (11.11%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (11.11%) vSphere
5 1 (5.56%) Hyper-V
5 1 (5.56%) NFS
Systems Management
1 3 (16.67%) Terraform
2 2 (11.11%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (11.11%) vCenter Server
3 1 (5.56%) Ansible
3 1 (5.56%) CASB
3 1 (5.56%) Cisco CUCM
3 1 (5.56%) SnapMirror
3 1 (5.56%) SnapVault
Vendors
1 7 (38.89%) Microsoft
2 5 (27.78%) Cisco
3 3 (16.67%) Palo Alto
3 3 (16.67%) Red Hat
4 2 (11.11%) Citrix
5 1 (5.56%) Arista
5 1 (5.56%) Aruba
5 1 (5.56%) Broadcom
5 1 (5.56%) CheckPoint
5 1 (5.56%) Fortinet
5 1 (5.56%) HP
5 1 (5.56%) Juniper
5 1 (5.56%) Meraki
5 1 (5.56%) NetApp
5 1 (5.56%) SolarWinds
5 1 (5.56%) Zscaler