VMware Contract Job Trends in Milton Keynes

VMware
Buckinghamshire > Milton Keynes

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Milton Keynes 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 8 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
8 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 16 12
Rank change year-on-year -7 -4 +15
Contract jobs citing VMware 35 23 46
As % of all contract jobs in Milton Keynes 5.27% 11.22% 10.45%
As % of the Vendors category 13.41% 22.12% 19.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 18 42
10th Percentile £509 £349 £500
25th Percentile £550 £500 £512
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £590 £624 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.45% +13.46% +12.82%
75th Percentile £640 £684 £569
90th Percentile £643 £743 £643
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £595 £618 £550
% change year-on-year -3.64% +12.27% +12.82%

All Vendors
Milton Keynes

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 Milton Keynes.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 261 104 238
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 39.31% 50.73% 54.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 209 75 180
10th Percentile £355 £266 £213
25th Percentile £431 £386 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £501 £475
Median % change year-on-year +4.90% +5.37% -5.00%
75th Percentile £598 £600 £578
90th Percentile £638 £724 £662
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £525 £508 £475
% change year-on-year +3.45% +6.84% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 20
10th Percentile - £12.98 £18.00
25th Percentile - £14.44 £22.56
Median hourly rate £36.00 £17.25 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year +108.70% -28.13% +140.00%
75th Percentile - £32.88 £30.00
90th Percentile - £55.15 £48.75
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate £26.35 £14.20 £24.00
% change year-on-year +85.58% -40.83% +140.00%

VMware
Job Vacancy Trend in Milton Keynes

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

VMware job vacancy trend in Milton Keynes

VMware
Daily Rate Trend in Milton Keynes

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Milton Keynes citing VMware

VMware
Daily Rate Histogram in Milton Keynes

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VMware in Milton Keynes over the 6 months to 8 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for VMware in Milton Keynes

VMware
Hourly Rate Trend in Milton Keynes

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Milton Keynes citing VMware.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Milton Keynes citing VMware

VMware
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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (5.71%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 20 (57.14%) AWS
1 20 (57.14%) Azure
2 7 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (8.57%) Azure Sentinel
3 3 (8.57%) Entra ID
3 3 (8.57%) IaaS
3 3 (8.57%) PaaS
3 3 (8.57%) SaaS
4 1 (2.86%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 11 (31.43%) VSAN
2 6 (17.14%) BGP
2 6 (17.14%) TCP/IP
3 5 (14.29%) Cisco ASA
3 5 (14.29%) Cisco Firepower
3 5 (14.29%) Cisco Nexus
4 4 (11.43%) Firewall
4 4 (11.43%) IPsec
4 4 (11.43%) OSPF
4 4 (11.43%) SAN
4 4 (11.43%) WAN
4 4 (11.43%) Wireless
5 3 (8.57%) BIG-IP
5 3 (8.57%) Cisco ISE
5 3 (8.57%) Ethernet VPN
5 3 (8.57%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 3 (8.57%) ICMP
5 3 (8.57%) LAN
5 3 (8.57%) Network Security
5 3 (8.57%) VXLAN
Development Applications
1 1 (2.86%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 4 (11.43%) Public Sector
2 2 (5.71%) Finance
2 2 (5.71%) Manufacturing
2 2 (5.71%) Retail
3 1 (2.86%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (2.86%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (34.29%) Architect
1 12 (34.29%) Senior
2 9 (25.71%) Technical Architect
3 8 (22.86%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 8 (22.86%) VMware Engineer
4 7 (20.00%) Network Engineer
5 6 (17.14%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
6 5 (14.29%) Linux Engineer
6 5 (14.29%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 5 (14.29%) Senior VMware Engineer
7 4 (11.43%) Senior Architect
7 4 (11.43%) Senior Technical Architect
8 3 (8.57%) Citrix Engineer
8 3 (8.57%) Citrix Infrastructure Engineer
8 3 (8.57%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
8 3 (8.57%) Virtualisation Engineer
9 2 (5.71%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
9 2 (5.71%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
9 2 (5.71%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
9 2 (5.71%) VMware Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.86%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 8 (22.86%) Public Cloud
2 7 (20.00%) PKI
3 5 (14.29%) Data Centre
3 5 (14.29%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (8.57%) Private Cloud
5 1 (2.86%) Cloud Native
5 1 (2.86%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 1 (2.86%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (2.86%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 14 (40.00%) Linux
2 6 (17.14%) Windows
3 5 (14.29%) Debian
4 3 (8.57%) Ubuntu
5 1 (2.86%) Data ONTAP
5 1 (2.86%) VMS
5 1 (2.86%) Windows Server
5 1 (2.86%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (31.43%) ITIL
2 10 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
2 10 (28.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 9 (25.71%) Migration
4 8 (22.86%) Agile
4 8 (22.86%) Microservices
5 7 (20.00%) CI/CD
5 7 (20.00%) IT Strategy
5 7 (20.00%) Matrix Organization
5 7 (20.00%) Technology Strategy
5 7 (20.00%) TOGAF
6 6 (17.14%) Containerisation
6 6 (17.14%) DevSecOps
6 6 (17.14%) Stakeholder Management
6 6 (17.14%) Virtual Environments
7 5 (14.29%) DevOps
7 5 (14.29%) Enterprise Architecture
8 4 (11.43%) Continuous Delivery
8 4 (11.43%) Requirements Management
8 4 (11.43%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 2 (5.71%) Bicep
1 2 (5.71%) Python
1 2 (5.71%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 26 (74.29%) Security Cleared
2 20 (57.14%) SC Cleared
3 19 (54.29%) DV Cleared
4 8 (22.86%) CCNP
4 8 (22.86%) Cisco Certification
5 6 (17.14%) Microsoft Certification
6 5 (14.29%) MCSE
7 4 (11.43%) VCAP
7 4 (11.43%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 2 (5.71%) Azure Certification
8 2 (5.71%) CCSE
8 2 (5.71%) CCSM
9 1 (2.86%) AWS Certification
9 1 (2.86%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (2.86%) CCDA
9 1 (2.86%) CCDP
9 1 (2.86%) CCIE
9 1 (2.86%) CCIP
9 1 (2.86%) CCNA
9 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (28.57%) NCSC
2 9 (25.71%) NIST
3 4 (11.43%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (5.71%) SLA
5 1 (2.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 21 (60.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 17 (48.57%) VMware NSX
3 9 (25.71%) VMware ESXi
4 4 (11.43%) Active Directory
5 2 (5.71%) vCloud
5 2 (5.71%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (5.71%) vSphere
6 1 (2.86%) Hyper-V
6 1 (2.86%) NFS
Systems Management
1 5 (14.29%) vCenter Server
2 3 (8.57%) Terraform
3 2 (5.71%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (2.86%) Ansible
4 1 (2.86%) CASB
4 1 (2.86%) Cisco CUCM
4 1 (2.86%) SnapMirror
4 1 (2.86%) SnapVault
Vendors
1 12 (34.29%) Cisco
2 10 (28.57%) Palo Alto
3 9 (25.71%) Microsoft
4 6 (17.14%) Citrix
5 4 (11.43%) Broadcom
6 3 (8.57%) CheckPoint
6 3 (8.57%) F5
6 3 (8.57%) Fortinet
6 3 (8.57%) Red Hat
7 1 (2.86%) Arista
7 1 (2.86%) Aruba
7 1 (2.86%) HP
7 1 (2.86%) Juniper
7 1 (2.86%) Meraki
7 1 (2.86%) NetApp
7 1 (2.86%) ServiceNow
7 1 (2.86%) SolarWinds
7 1 (2.86%) Zscaler