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 20 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 59 39 36
Rank change year-on-year -20 -3 +12
Contract jobs citing Virtual Environments 7 2 9
As % of all contract jobs in Milton Keynes 1.03% 0.84% 3.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.32% 0.92% 3.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 2 9
10th Percentile £512 £181 £485
25th Percentile £563 £181 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £183 £511
Median % change year-on-year +242.47% -64.30% -7.06%
75th Percentile £646 £184 £530
90th Percentile £653 £185 £560
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £625 £183 £505
% change year-on-year +242.47% -63.86% -8.18%

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 529 217 254
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 77.79% 91.56% 86.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 372 153 186
10th Percentile £360 £215 £236
25th Percentile £455 £335 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £425 £468
Median % change year-on-year +23.53% -9.21% -6.38%
75th Percentile £595 £538 £539
90th Percentile £626 £633 £626
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £525 £436 £458
% change year-on-year +20.34% -4.64% -11.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 7 7
10th Percentile £13.78 £13.92 £17.31
25th Percentile £15.05 £14.83 £19.98
Median hourly rate £17.50 £15.12 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +15.74% -49.60% +121.08%
75th Percentile £43.75 £17.94 £36.37
90th Percentile £54.35 £18.00 £37.25
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate £14.05 £15.91 £30.00
% change year-on-year -11.69% -46.97% +82.93%

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 20 September 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 1 (14.29%) AWS
1 1 (14.29%) Azure
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 5 (71.43%) Cisco ASA
1 5 (71.43%) Cisco Firepower
1 5 (71.43%) DHCP
1 5 (71.43%) DNS
1 5 (71.43%) Firewall
1 5 (71.43%) IPsec
1 5 (71.43%) Network Security
1 5 (71.43%) SSL
1 5 (71.43%) VPN
2 4 (57.14%) NGFW
3 3 (42.86%) LAN
3 3 (42.86%) WAN
4 2 (28.57%) VSAN
5 1 (14.29%) CATAPAN
5 1 (14.29%) Software-Defined Networking
Job Titles
1 6 (85.71%) Senior
2 5 (71.43%) Network Engineer
2 5 (71.43%) Senior Network Engineer
3 3 (42.86%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
4 2 (28.57%) Architect
4 2 (28.57%) Technical Architect
5 1 (14.29%) Network Architect
5 1 (14.29%) Network Technical Architect
5 1 (14.29%) Senior Architect
5 1 (14.29%) Senior Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 6 (85.71%) PKI
2 4 (57.14%) Fibre Optics
3 1 (14.29%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (14.29%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 5 (71.43%) Linux
2 4 (57.14%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Network Monitoring
1 5 (71.43%) Security Operations
1 5 (71.43%) Technical Leadership
2 4 (57.14%) High Availability
2 4 (57.14%) Network Virtualisation
3 3 (42.86%) ITIL
3 3 (42.86%) Migration
4 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (28.57%) IT Strategy
4 2 (28.57%) Matrix Organization
4 2 (28.57%) Microservices
4 2 (28.57%) Project Delivery
4 2 (28.57%) Requirements Management
4 2 (28.57%) Technology Strategy
5 1 (14.29%) CI/CD
5 1 (14.29%) Collaborative Working
5 1 (14.29%) Containerisation
5 1 (14.29%) Continuous Delivery
5 1 (14.29%) DevSecOps
5 1 (14.29%) Impact Assessments
Qualifications
1 6 (85.71%) DV Cleared
1 6 (85.71%) Security Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (71.43%) NIST
2 2 (28.57%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (28.57%) NCSC
System Software
1 7 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 7 (100.00%) VMware NSX
2 5 (71.43%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (57.14%) Cisco CUCM
Vendors
1 7 (100.00%) VMware
2 6 (85.71%) Cisco
2 6 (85.71%) Palo Alto
3 5 (71.43%) SolarWinds
4 2 (28.57%) Becrypt
4 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
4 2 (28.57%) ServiceNow