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 21 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 47 34 43
Rank change year-on-year -13 +9 +13
Contract jobs citing Virtual Environments 2 4 10
As % of all contract jobs in Milton Keynes 0.46% 1.91% 1.99%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.57% 2.07% 2.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 10
10th Percentile £604 £628 £416
25th Percentile £611 £629 £457
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £622 £630 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.35% +26.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £632 - £588
90th Percentile £639 - £615
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £622 £629 £500
% change year-on-year -1.20% +25.81% +4.17%

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 348 193 439
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 80.37% 92.34% 87.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 242 145 323
10th Percentile £273 £248 £279
25th Percentile £370 £384 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £640 £650 £735
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £484 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.20% - +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 3 29
10th Percentile - £13.10 £15.85
25th Percentile £16.35 £14.75 £18.00
Median hourly rate £25.24 £18.70 £23.22
Median % change year-on-year +34.97% -19.45% +22.18%
75th Percentile £29.61 £19.60 £30.00
90th Percentile £36.00 £20.14 £48.75
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate £18.32 £19.00 £23.48
% change year-on-year -3.58% -19.09% +42.32%

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
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 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
1 1 (50.00%) VPN
1 1 (50.00%) VSAN
1 1 (50.00%) Wireless
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Architect
2 1 (50.00%) Network Architect
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Architect
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Public Cloud
2 1 (50.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (50.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) IT Strategy
1 2 (100.00%) Matrix Organization
1 2 (100.00%) Requirements Management
1 2 (100.00%) Technology Strategy
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (50.00%) DevSecOps
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Microservices
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Network Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Network Load Balancing
2 1 (50.00%) TOGAF
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 2 (100.00%) NCSC
1 2 (100.00%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (50.00%) VMware NSX
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) Palo Alto
1 1 (50.00%) VMware