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 19 April 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
19 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 19 10
Rank change year-on-year -5 -9 +16
Contract jobs citing VMware 41 24 53
As % of all contract jobs in Buckinghamshire 5.30% 9.49% 10.60%
As % of the Vendors category 13.95% 17.39% 21.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 18 47
10th Percentile £511 £421 £500
25th Percentile £550 £515 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £605 £624 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.05% +13.46% +12.82%
75th Percentile £640 £684 £614
90th Percentile £720 £743 £640
South East median daily rate £550 £575 £513
% change year-on-year -4.35% +12.20% -2.38%

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 294 138 245
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 37.98% 54.55% 49.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 225 95 188
10th Percentile £344 £325 £204
25th Percentile £425 £412 £398
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £508 £475
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% +6.84% -5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £599 £569
90th Percentile £640 £638 £662
South East median daily rate £513 £513 £500
% change year-on-year - +2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 17 19
10th Percentile £17.66 - £17.60
25th Percentile £20.72 - £21.25
Median hourly rate £26.35 £14.20 £23.75
Median % change year-on-year +85.58% -40.21% +137.50%
75th Percentile £31.45 £20.50 £39.38
90th Percentile £34.18 £67.50 £48.75
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £24.66 £47.50
% change year-on-year +92.62% -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 19 April 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 19 April 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 -11 37 £595 -5.41% 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 (4.88%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 24 (58.54%) Azure
2 23 (56.10%) AWS
3 7 (17.07%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (7.32%) Azure Sentinel
4 3 (7.32%) Entra ID
4 3 (7.32%) IaaS
4 3 (7.32%) PaaS
4 3 (7.32%) SaaS
5 1 (2.44%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 13 (31.71%) VSAN
2 7 (17.07%) BGP
2 7 (17.07%) Firewall
2 7 (17.07%) TCP/IP
3 6 (14.63%) Cisco ASA
3 6 (14.63%) Cisco Firepower
3 6 (14.63%) WAN
4 5 (12.20%) Cisco Nexus
4 5 (12.20%) IPsec
4 5 (12.20%) LAN
4 5 (12.20%) OSPF
4 5 (12.20%) Wireless
5 4 (9.76%) BIG-IP
5 4 (9.76%) Cisco ISE
5 4 (9.76%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 4 (9.76%) ICMP
5 4 (9.76%) Network Security
5 4 (9.76%) NGFW
5 4 (9.76%) SAN
6 3 (7.32%) Ethernet VPN
Development Applications
1 1 (2.44%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 5 (12.20%) Public Sector
2 2 (4.88%) Finance
2 2 (4.88%) Manufacturing
2 2 (4.88%) Retail
2 2 (4.88%) Social Skills
3 1 (2.44%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 15 (36.59%) Architect
2 14 (34.15%) Senior
3 11 (26.83%) Technical Architect
4 10 (24.39%) VMware Engineer
5 9 (21.95%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 8 (19.51%) Network Engineer
7 7 (17.07%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
8 6 (14.63%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 6 (14.63%) Senior VMware Engineer
9 5 (12.20%) Linux Engineer
10 4 (9.76%) Senior Architect
10 4 (9.76%) Senior Technical Architect
11 3 (7.32%) Citrix Engineer
11 3 (7.32%) Citrix Infrastructure Engineer
11 3 (7.32%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
11 3 (7.32%) Network Architect
11 3 (7.32%) Senior Network Engineer
11 3 (7.32%) Solutions Architect
11 3 (7.32%) Virtualisation Engineer
12 2 (4.88%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.44%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 10 (24.39%) Public Cloud
2 7 (17.07%) Data Centre
2 7 (17.07%) Hybrid Cloud
2 7 (17.07%) PKI
3 6 (14.63%) Private Cloud
4 2 (4.88%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 1 (2.44%) Cloud Native
5 1 (2.44%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 1 (2.44%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (2.44%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 14 (34.15%) Linux
2 6 (14.63%) Windows
3 5 (12.20%) Debian
4 3 (7.32%) Ubuntu
5 1 (2.44%) Data ONTAP
5 1 (2.44%) VMS
5 1 (2.44%) Windows Server
5 1 (2.44%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (29.27%) ITIL
2 11 (26.83%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 10 (24.39%) Infrastructure as Code
4 9 (21.95%) Migration
4 9 (21.95%) TOGAF
5 8 (19.51%) Agile
5 8 (19.51%) Microservices
6 7 (17.07%) CI/CD
6 7 (17.07%) IT Strategy
6 7 (17.07%) Matrix Organization
6 7 (17.07%) Stakeholder Management
6 7 (17.07%) Technology Strategy
6 7 (17.07%) Virtual Environments
7 6 (14.63%) Containerisation
7 6 (14.63%) DevSecOps
7 6 (14.63%) Roadmaps
8 5 (12.20%) DevOps
8 5 (12.20%) Enterprise Architecture
8 5 (12.20%) Network Monitoring
8 5 (12.20%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 2 (4.88%) Bicep
1 2 (4.88%) Python
1 2 (4.88%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 31 (75.61%) Security Cleared
2 22 (53.66%) DV Cleared
2 22 (53.66%) SC Cleared
3 10 (24.39%) CCNP
3 10 (24.39%) Cisco Certification
4 8 (19.51%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 6 (14.63%) Microsoft Certification
5 6 (14.63%) VCAP
6 5 (12.20%) MCSE
7 2 (4.88%) Azure Certification
7 2 (4.88%) CCSE
7 2 (4.88%) CCSM
7 2 (4.88%) Degree
8 1 (2.44%) AWS Certification
8 1 (2.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (2.44%) CCDA
8 1 (2.44%) CCDP
8 1 (2.44%) CCIP
8 1 (2.44%) CCNA
8 1 (2.44%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (24.39%) NCSC
2 9 (21.95%) NIST
3 4 (9.76%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (4.88%) SLA
5 1 (2.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 24 (58.54%) VMware Infrastructure
2 19 (46.34%) VMware NSX
3 11 (26.83%) VMware ESXi
4 4 (9.76%) Active Directory
5 3 (7.32%) vSphere
6 2 (4.88%) vCloud
6 2 (4.88%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (2.44%) Hyper-V
7 1 (2.44%) NFS
Systems Management
1 7 (17.07%) vCenter Server
2 3 (7.32%) Terraform
3 2 (4.88%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (2.44%) Ansible
4 1 (2.44%) CASB
4 1 (2.44%) Cisco CUCM
4 1 (2.44%) SnapMirror
4 1 (2.44%) SnapVault
Vendors
1 13 (31.71%) Cisco
2 12 (29.27%) Microsoft
3 11 (26.83%) Palo Alto
4 6 (14.63%) Citrix
5 5 (12.20%) Broadcom
6 4 (9.76%) F5
7 3 (7.32%) CheckPoint
7 3 (7.32%) Fortinet
7 3 (7.32%) Red Hat
8 2 (4.88%) ServiceNow
9 1 (2.44%) Arista
9 1 (2.44%) Aruba
9 1 (2.44%) HP
9 1 (2.44%) Juniper
9 1 (2.44%) Meraki
9 1 (2.44%) NetApp
9 1 (2.44%) SolarWinds
9 1 (2.44%) Zscaler