Virtual Environments Contract Job Trends in Milton Keynes

Virtual Environments
Buckinghamshire > Milton Keynes

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Milton Keynes requiring Virtual Environments skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 55 - 36
Rank change year-on-year - - +18
Contract jobs citing Virtual Environments 13 0 5
As % of all contract jobs in Milton Keynes 1.68% - 1.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.11% - 1.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 0 5
10th Percentile £511 - £476
25th Percentile £513 - £490
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 - £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -1.96%
75th Percentile £643 - £505
90th Percentile £647 - £513
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £580 - £500
% change year-on-year - - -1.96%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Milton Keynes

Virtual Environments falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Milton Keynes.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 617 209 290
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 79.61% 93.30% 84.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 448 142 212
10th Percentile £314 £220 £256
25th Percentile £450 £350 £379
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £435 £474
Median % change year-on-year +20.69% -8.30% -2.69%
75th Percentile £600 £560 £560
90th Percentile £638 £673 £698
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £525 £450 £463
% change year-on-year +16.67% -2.70% -7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 10 9
10th Percentile - £14.39 £15.72
25th Percentile £15.05 £15.12 £18.00
Median hourly rate £16.35 £16.69 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -2.01% -25.84% +70.84%
75th Percentile £18.12 £18.00 £36.75
90th Percentile £34.49 £23.83 £48.75
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate £16.35 £15.25 £27.50
% change year-on-year +7.21% -44.55% +83.52%

Virtual Environments
Job Vacancy Trend in Milton Keynes

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Virtual Environments relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes.

Virtual Environments job vacancy trend in Milton Keynes

Virtual Environments
Daily Rate Trend in Milton Keynes

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Milton Keynes citing Virtual Environments.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Milton Keynes citing Virtual Environments

Virtual Environments
Daily Rate Histogram in Milton Keynes

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Virtual Environments in Milton Keynes over the 6 months to 22 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Virtual Environments in Milton Keynes

Virtual Environments
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Milton Keynes 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:

Cloud Services
1 6 (46.15%) AWS
1 6 (46.15%) Azure
2 3 (23.08%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 9 (69.23%) Firewall
2 8 (61.54%) Cisco ASA
2 8 (61.54%) Cisco Firepower
2 8 (61.54%) IPsec
2 8 (61.54%) Network Security
3 7 (53.85%) NGFW
4 6 (46.15%) LAN
4 6 (46.15%) VPN
4 6 (46.15%) WAN
5 5 (38.46%) DHCP
5 5 (38.46%) DNS
5 5 (38.46%) SSL
6 4 (30.77%) VSAN
6 4 (30.77%) Wireless
7 3 (23.08%) BIG-IP
7 3 (23.08%) Cisco ISE
7 3 (23.08%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 3 (23.08%) ICMP
7 3 (23.08%) OSPF
7 3 (23.08%) TCP/IP
Job Titles
1 9 (69.23%) Senior
2 8 (61.54%) Network Engineer
3 7 (53.85%) Senior Network Engineer
4 5 (38.46%) Architect
5 4 (30.77%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
5 4 (30.77%) Technical Architect
6 2 (15.38%) Network Architect
6 2 (15.38%) Senior Architect
6 2 (15.38%) Senior Technical Architect
7 1 (7.69%) Cisco Engineer
7 1 (7.69%) Cisco Network Engineer
7 1 (7.69%) Network Technical Architect
7 1 (7.69%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
7 1 (7.69%) Senior Cisco Engineer
7 1 (7.69%) Senior Cisco Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.69%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 8 (61.54%) PKI
2 4 (30.77%) Fibre Optics
2 4 (30.77%) Public Cloud
3 3 (23.08%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 7 (53.85%) Linux
2 4 (30.77%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (61.54%) Migration
1 8 (61.54%) Security Operations
1 8 (61.54%) Technical Leadership
2 7 (53.85%) High Availability
2 7 (53.85%) Network Monitoring
2 7 (53.85%) Network Virtualisation
3 5 (38.46%) IT Strategy
3 5 (38.46%) ITIL
3 5 (38.46%) Matrix Organization
3 5 (38.46%) Requirements Management
3 5 (38.46%) Technology Strategy
4 4 (30.77%) Infrastructure as Code
4 4 (30.77%) Microservices
5 3 (23.08%) CI/CD
5 3 (23.08%) Containerisation
5 3 (23.08%) Continuous Delivery
5 3 (23.08%) Continuous Integration
5 3 (23.08%) DevSecOps
6 2 (15.38%) Project Delivery
6 2 (15.38%) Stakeholder Management
Qualifications
1 11 (84.62%) Security Cleared
2 10 (76.92%) DV Cleared
3 6 (46.15%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (61.54%) NIST
2 5 (38.46%) Cyber Essentials
2 5 (38.46%) NCSC
System Software
1 12 (92.31%) VMware Infrastructure
2 9 (69.23%) VMware NSX
3 5 (38.46%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (30.77%) Cisco CUCM
Vendors
1 12 (92.31%) VMware
2 11 (84.62%) Cisco
2 11 (84.62%) Palo Alto
3 5 (38.46%) SolarWinds
4 4 (30.77%) Microsoft
5 3 (23.08%) F5
5 3 (23.08%) ServiceNow
6 2 (15.38%) Becrypt