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 23 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 57 - 46
Rank change year-on-year - - +15
Contract jobs citing Virtual Environments 8 0 4
As % of all contract jobs in Milton Keynes 1.06% - 1.01%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.36% - 1.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 0 4
10th Percentile £512 - -
25th Percentile £548 - £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £619 - £466
Median % change year-on-year - - -8.26%
75th Percentile £643 - £500
90th Percentile £649 - -
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £560 - £466
% change year-on-year - - -8.26%

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 589 153 338
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 77.91% 93.87% 85.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 422 112 246
10th Percentile £316 £275 £280
25th Percentile £431 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £470 £474
Median % change year-on-year +11.70% -0.92% -0.13%
75th Percentile £597 £576 £575
90th Percentile £638 £649 £681
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £525 £475 £465
% change year-on-year +10.53% +2.15% -2.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 6 19
10th Percentile - £14.06 £15.85
25th Percentile £15.05 £15.15 £17.64
Median hourly rate £16.35 £16.69 £23.22
Median % change year-on-year -2.01% -28.13% +68.84%
75th Percentile - £19.84 £30.00
90th Percentile £18.32 £37.13 £48.75
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate £16.35 £15.12 £25.00
% change year-on-year +8.13% -39.52% +81.82%

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 23 May 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 (75.00%) AWS
1 6 (75.00%) Azure
2 3 (37.50%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 4 (50.00%) Firewall
1 4 (50.00%) VSAN
1 4 (50.00%) Wireless
2 3 (37.50%) BGP
2 3 (37.50%) BIG-IP
2 3 (37.50%) Cisco ASA
2 3 (37.50%) Cisco Firepower
2 3 (37.50%) Cisco ISE
2 3 (37.50%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
2 3 (37.50%) ICMP
2 3 (37.50%) IPsec
2 3 (37.50%) LAN
2 3 (37.50%) Network Security
2 3 (37.50%) NGFW
2 3 (37.50%) OSPF
2 3 (37.50%) TCP/IP
2 3 (37.50%) WAN
3 1 (12.50%) VPN
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Architect
2 4 (50.00%) Senior
2 4 (50.00%) Technical Architect
3 3 (37.50%) Network Engineer
4 2 (25.00%) Network Architect
4 2 (25.00%) Senior Architect
4 2 (25.00%) Senior Network Engineer
4 2 (25.00%) Senior Technical Architect
5 1 (12.50%) Cisco Engineer
5 1 (12.50%) Cisco Network Engineer
5 1 (12.50%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
5 1 (12.50%) Network Technical Architect
5 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
5 1 (12.50%) Senior Cisco Engineer
5 1 (12.50%) Senior Cisco Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (50.00%) Public Cloud
2 3 (37.50%) Hybrid Cloud
2 3 (37.50%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 4 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) Migration
2 5 (62.50%) IT Strategy
2 5 (62.50%) Matrix Organization
2 5 (62.50%) Requirements Management
2 5 (62.50%) Technology Strategy
3 4 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 4 (50.00%) Microservices
4 3 (37.50%) CI/CD
4 3 (37.50%) Containerisation
4 3 (37.50%) Continuous Delivery
4 3 (37.50%) Continuous Integration
4 3 (37.50%) DevSecOps
4 3 (37.50%) High Availability
4 3 (37.50%) Network Virtualisation
4 3 (37.50%) Security Operations
4 3 (37.50%) Technical Leadership
5 2 (25.00%) ITIL
5 2 (25.00%) ITSM
5 2 (25.00%) Service Management
5 2 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
Qualifications
1 6 (75.00%) SC Cleared
1 6 (75.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (62.50%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (62.50%) Cyber Essentials
1 5 (62.50%) NCSC
1 5 (62.50%) NIST
System Software
1 7 (87.50%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (50.00%) VMware NSX
Vendors
1 7 (87.50%) VMware
2 6 (75.00%) Cisco
2 6 (75.00%) Palo Alto
3 4 (50.00%) Microsoft
4 3 (37.50%) F5
5 1 (12.50%) ServiceNow