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 10 October 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
10 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 35 27
Rank change year-on-year +22 -8 -4
Contract jobs citing VMware 80 8 21
As % of all contract jobs in Buckinghamshire 10.51% 2.41% 5.57%
As % of the Vendors category 22.54% 4.85% 11.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 5 19
10th Percentile £456 - £477
25th Percentile £503 £513 £503
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £529 £520
Median % change year-on-year +8.80% +1.63% +4.00%
75th Percentile £626 £543 £538
90th Percentile £785 £553 £555
South East median daily rate £538 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +2.38% -4.55% +9.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £33.70 - £35.58
Median hourly rate £38.72 - £36.17
75th Percentile £43.75 - £36.75
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £67.24 £96.39 £29.28
% change year-on-year -30.24% +229.16% -51.20%

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 355 165 187
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 46.65% 49.70% 49.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 268 97 137
10th Percentile £332 £255 £215
25th Percentile £456 £325 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £420 £450
Median % change year-on-year +24.40% -6.67% -15.73%
75th Percentile £600 £538 £538
90th Percentile £632 £590 £569
South East median daily rate £513 £500 £513
% change year-on-year +2.50% -2.44% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 15 5
10th Percentile - £13.25 £17.63
25th Percentile £14.05 £14.20 £21.25
Median hourly rate £15.23 £18.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.42% -40.00% +82.93%
75th Percentile £43.75 £29.61 £36.75
90th Percentile £71.30 - £37.50
South East median hourly rate £35.22 £20.75 £57.00
% change year-on-year +69.73% -63.59% +12.40%

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 10 October 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 10 October 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 +18 69 £570 +7.85% 7
Wycombe - 3 £806 -
High Wycombe - 3 £963 - 1
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 4 (5.00%) FactoryTalk
Applications
1 1 (1.25%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 32 (40.00%) Azure
2 24 (30.00%) AWS
3 5 (6.25%) Azure Monitor
4 4 (5.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 3 (3.75%) Azure Sentinel
5 3 (3.75%) GCP
6 1 (1.25%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (1.25%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 19 (23.75%) Firewall
2 18 (22.50%) VSAN
3 16 (20.00%) Cisco Firepower
4 14 (17.50%) Cisco ASA
5 12 (15.00%) DNS
5 12 (15.00%) VPN
6 11 (13.75%) IPsec
6 11 (13.75%) LAN
6 11 (13.75%) WAN
7 9 (11.25%) Network Security
7 9 (11.25%) VLAN
8 8 (10.00%) Cisco Nexus
8 8 (10.00%) DHCP
8 8 (10.00%) NGFW
8 8 (10.00%) TCP/IP
9 7 (8.75%) SSL
10 5 (6.25%) BGP
10 5 (6.25%) SD-WAN
11 4 (5.00%) CATAPAN
11 4 (5.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
Development Applications
1 2 (2.50%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 9 (11.25%) Analytical Skills
2 7 (8.75%) Manufacturing
3 6 (7.50%) Finance
3 6 (7.50%) Social Skills
4 5 (6.25%) Public Sector
5 4 (5.00%) Pharmaceutical
6 3 (3.75%) Retail
6 3 (3.75%) Telecoms
7 2 (2.50%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (2.50%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (2.50%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 34 (42.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 34 (42.50%) Senior
2 23 (28.75%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
2 23 (28.75%) VMware Engineer
3 21 (26.25%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
4 13 (16.25%) Senior VMware Engineer
5 11 (13.75%) Architect
5 11 (13.75%) Network Engineer
6 8 (10.00%) Citrix Engineer
6 8 (10.00%) Citrix Infrastructure Engineer
6 8 (10.00%) Senior Network Engineer
7 7 (8.75%) Test Manager
8 6 (7.50%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
8 6 (7.50%) Linux Engineer
8 6 (7.50%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
8 6 (7.50%) Network Architect
9 5 (6.25%) Monitoring Engineer
10 4 (5.00%) Automation Specialist
10 4 (5.00%) Lead
10 4 (5.00%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.75%) 802.1X
1 3 (3.75%) Terraform
2 1 (1.25%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 13 (16.25%) Data Centre
2 12 (15.00%) Hybrid Cloud
3 11 (13.75%) PKI
3 11 (13.75%) Private Cloud
4 10 (12.50%) Public Cloud
5 7 (8.75%) Cloud Native
6 4 (5.00%) Fibre Optics
6 4 (5.00%) Life Science
6 4 (5.00%) Operational Technology
6 4 (5.00%) SCADA
7 3 (3.75%) Data Fabric
7 3 (3.75%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 3 (3.75%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (2.50%) Onboarding
9 1 (1.25%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (1.25%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 24 (30.00%) Linux
2 23 (28.75%) Windows
3 9 (11.25%) Windows Server
4 4 (5.00%) Debian
5 2 (2.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (42.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 19 (23.75%) ITIL
3 16 (20.00%) CI/CD
4 12 (15.00%) Test Automation
5 10 (12.50%) High Availability
5 10 (12.50%) Network Monitoring
6 9 (11.25%) Network Virtualisation
6 9 (11.25%) Problem-Solving
6 9 (11.25%) Project Delivery
6 9 (11.25%) Technical Leadership
7 8 (10.00%) Continuous Delivery
7 8 (10.00%) Continuous Integration
7 8 (10.00%) Non-Functional Testing
7 8 (10.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 8 (10.00%) Stakeholder Management
7 8 (10.00%) Test Management
7 8 (10.00%) Virtual Environments
8 7 (8.75%) Agile
8 7 (8.75%) Migration
8 7 (8.75%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 9 (11.25%) PowerShell
1 9 (11.25%) SQL
2 2 (2.50%) Python
Qualifications
1 63 (78.75%) Security Cleared
2 37 (46.25%) SC Cleared
3 30 (37.50%) DV Cleared
4 19 (23.75%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 15 (18.75%) VCAP
6 9 (11.25%) Degree
6 9 (11.25%) ISTQB
7 8 (10.00%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
8 7 (8.75%) CCNP
8 7 (8.75%) Cisco Certification
9 3 (3.75%) CCSE
9 3 (3.75%) CCSM
10 2 (2.50%) CCIE
11 1 (1.25%) AWS Certification
11 1 (1.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (1.25%) Azure Certification
11 1 (1.25%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (1.25%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (7.50%) NCSC
1 6 (7.50%) NIST
2 5 (6.25%) QA
3 4 (5.00%) 21 CFR Part 11
3 4 (5.00%) GxP
4 3 (3.75%) SLA
5 1 (1.25%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 59 (73.75%) VMware Infrastructure
2 36 (45.00%) VMware NSX
3 17 (21.25%) VMware ESXi
4 7 (8.75%) Active Directory
5 5 (6.25%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (5.00%) vSphere
7 2 (2.50%) Hyper-V
8 1 (1.25%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (16.25%) vCenter Server
2 7 (8.75%) Kubernetes
3 5 (6.25%) SCOM
4 4 (5.00%) Cisco CUCM
5 2 (2.50%) Ansible
Vendors
1 24 (30.00%) Cisco
2 16 (20.00%) Palo Alto
3 14 (17.50%) Microsoft
4 13 (16.25%) Citrix
5 11 (13.75%) SolarWinds
6 7 (8.75%) Broadcom
7 6 (7.50%) ServiceNow
8 4 (5.00%) Becrypt
8 4 (5.00%) F5
8 4 (5.00%) Rockwell
9 3 (3.75%) CheckPoint
9 3 (3.75%) Fortinet
10 2 (2.50%) Google
11 1 (1.25%) Sophos