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 6 May 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
6 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 18 10
Rank change year-on-year -6 -8 +19
Contract jobs citing VMware 48 14 46
As % of all contract jobs in Milton Keynes 6.68% 8.33% 11.65%
As % of the Vendors category 17.91% 17.28% 22.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 12 42
10th Percentile £485 £421 £500
25th Percentile £513 £543 £510
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £625 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.60% +13.64% +14.58%
75th Percentile £615 £743 £569
90th Percentile £643 - £643
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £570 £618 £550
% change year-on-year -7.69% +12.27% +14.58%

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 268 81 205
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 37.27% 48.21% 51.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 218 60 163
10th Percentile £333 £339 £225
25th Percentile £450 £412 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £503 £475
Median % change year-on-year +4.43% +5.84% -5.00%
75th Percentile £599 £600 £550
90th Percentile £632 £738 £658
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £525 £508 £475
% change year-on-year +3.45% +6.84% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 13
10th Percentile - £13.68 £18.90
25th Percentile - £14.69 £22.58
Median hourly rate £36.00 £17.25 £23.75
Median % change year-on-year +108.70% -27.37% +72.73%
75th Percentile - £32.88 £48.75
90th Percentile - £55.15 -
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate £36.00 £14.20 £23.75
% change year-on-year +153.52% -40.21% +72.73%

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 6 May 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 (4.17%) Apache
Applications
1 1 (2.08%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 26 (54.17%) Azure
2 24 (50.00%) AWS
3 7 (14.58%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (8.33%) Azure Sentinel
5 3 (6.25%) Entra ID
5 3 (6.25%) IaaS
5 3 (6.25%) PaaS
5 3 (6.25%) SaaS
6 2 (4.17%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (2.08%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 16 (33.33%) VSAN
2 7 (14.58%) Cisco ASA
2 7 (14.58%) Cisco Firepower
3 6 (12.50%) BGP
3 6 (12.50%) Cisco Nexus
3 6 (12.50%) TCP/IP
4 5 (10.42%) Firewall
4 5 (10.42%) IPsec
4 5 (10.42%) WAN
5 4 (8.33%) LAN
5 4 (8.33%) Network Security
5 4 (8.33%) OSPF
5 4 (8.33%) SAN
5 4 (8.33%) Wireless
6 3 (6.25%) BIG-IP
6 3 (6.25%) Cisco ISE
6 3 (6.25%) Ethernet VPN
6 3 (6.25%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 3 (6.25%) ICMP
6 3 (6.25%) VXLAN
Development Applications
1 1 (2.08%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 5 (10.42%) Public Sector
2 3 (6.25%) Finance
2 3 (6.25%) Manufacturing
2 3 (6.25%) Retail
3 2 (4.17%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.08%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (2.08%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 18 (37.50%) Senior
2 13 (27.08%) Architect
3 12 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 11 (22.92%) VMware Engineer
5 10 (20.83%) Technical Architect
6 9 (18.75%) Network Engineer
6 9 (18.75%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 8 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
8 7 (14.58%) Senior VMware Engineer
9 6 (12.50%) Linux Engineer
10 4 (8.33%) Citrix Engineer
10 4 (8.33%) Citrix Infrastructure Engineer
10 4 (8.33%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
10 4 (8.33%) Senior Architect
10 4 (8.33%) Senior Technical Architect
11 3 (6.25%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
11 3 (6.25%) NOC Engineer
11 3 (6.25%) Senior Network Engineer
11 3 (6.25%) Virtualisation Engineer
12 2 (4.17%) Senior Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.17%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 8 (16.67%) PKI
1 8 (16.67%) Public Cloud
2 7 (14.58%) Hybrid Cloud
3 6 (12.50%) Data Centre
4 4 (8.33%) Private Cloud
5 1 (2.08%) Cloud Native
5 1 (2.08%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 1 (2.08%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (2.08%) Onboarding
5 1 (2.08%) Replication
5 1 (2.08%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 20 (41.67%) Linux
2 10 (20.83%) Windows
3 5 (10.42%) Debian
4 3 (6.25%) Ubuntu
4 3 (6.25%) Windows Server
5 1 (2.08%) Data ONTAP
5 1 (2.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (2.08%) VMS
5 1 (2.08%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (33.33%) ITIL
2 14 (29.17%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 11 (22.92%) CI/CD
3 11 (22.92%) Infrastructure as Code
4 9 (18.75%) Agile
4 9 (18.75%) Microservices
4 9 (18.75%) Migration
5 8 (16.67%) IT Strategy
5 8 (16.67%) Matrix Organization
5 8 (16.67%) Technology Strategy
6 7 (14.58%) Containerisation
6 7 (14.58%) Continuous Delivery
6 7 (14.58%) Stakeholder Management
6 7 (14.58%) TOGAF
6 7 (14.58%) Virtual Environments
7 6 (12.50%) Continuous Integration
7 6 (12.50%) DevOps
7 6 (12.50%) DevSecOps
7 6 (12.50%) Network Monitoring
8 5 (10.42%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 3 (6.25%) SQL
2 2 (4.17%) Bicep
2 2 (4.17%) PowerShell
2 2 (4.17%) Python
2 2 (4.17%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 38 (79.17%) Security Cleared
2 28 (58.33%) SC Cleared
3 27 (56.25%) DV Cleared
4 9 (18.75%) CCNP
4 9 (18.75%) Cisco Certification
5 7 (14.58%) VCAP
5 7 (14.58%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 6 (12.50%) Microsoft Certification
7 5 (10.42%) MCSE
8 3 (6.25%) CCSE
8 3 (6.25%) CCSM
8 3 (6.25%) ISTQB
8 3 (6.25%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
9 2 (4.17%) Azure Certification
10 1 (2.08%) AWS Certification
10 1 (2.08%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (2.08%) CCIE
10 1 (2.08%) Degree
10 1 (2.08%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (2.08%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (22.92%) NCSC
1 11 (22.92%) NIST
2 5 (10.42%) Cyber Essentials
3 3 (6.25%) SLA
4 1 (2.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (2.08%) QA
System Software
1 33 (68.75%) VMware Infrastructure
2 22 (45.83%) VMware NSX
3 13 (27.08%) VMware ESXi
4 5 (10.42%) Active Directory
5 3 (6.25%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (6.25%) vSphere
6 2 (4.17%) vCloud
6 2 (4.17%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (2.08%) Hyper-V
7 1 (2.08%) NFS
Systems Management
1 7 (14.58%) vCenter Server
2 3 (6.25%) Terraform
3 2 (4.17%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (4.17%) SCOM
4 1 (2.08%) Ansible
4 1 (2.08%) CASB
4 1 (2.08%) Cisco CUCM
4 1 (2.08%) SnapMirror
4 1 (2.08%) SnapVault
Vendors
1 17 (35.42%) Cisco
2 13 (27.08%) Microsoft
3 12 (25.00%) Palo Alto
4 8 (16.67%) Citrix
5 6 (12.50%) Broadcom
6 4 (8.33%) CheckPoint
6 4 (8.33%) Fortinet
7 3 (6.25%) F5
7 3 (6.25%) Red Hat
7 3 (6.25%) ServiceNow
8 2 (4.17%) SolarWinds
9 1 (2.08%) Arista
9 1 (2.08%) Aruba
9 1 (2.08%) Becrypt
9 1 (2.08%) HP
9 1 (2.08%) Juniper
9 1 (2.08%) Meraki
9 1 (2.08%) NetApp
9 1 (2.08%) Zscaler