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 24 December 2025, 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
24 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 41 17 16
Rank change year-on-year -24 -1 +5
Contract jobs citing VMware 5 33 42
As % of all contract jobs in Milton Keynes 1.39% 11.66% 8.43%
As % of the Vendors category 2.86% 20.50% 15.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 28 39
10th Percentile - £413 £460
25th Percentile - £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £543 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.38% -1.36% +4.76%
75th Percentile £555 £630 £574
90th Percentile £558 £743 £646
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £550 £553 £550
% change year-on-year -0.45% +0.45% -

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 175 161 272
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 48.48% 56.89% 54.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 126 126 218
10th Percentile £241 £256 £241
25th Percentile £381 £374 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £480 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% -4.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £562 £560 £609
90th Percentile £638 £663 £700
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £450 £495 £500
% change year-on-year -9.09% -1.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 2 12
10th Percentile £18.00 £14.60 £13.21
25th Percentile - £18.50 £15.39
Median hourly rate £29.61 £25.00 £23.88
Median % change year-on-year +18.44% +4.71% +19.38%
75th Percentile - £31.50 £25.50
90th Percentile £30.25 £35.40 £30.00
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate £29.61 £25.00 £23.88
% change year-on-year +18.44% +4.71% +54.03%

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

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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

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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

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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 (40.00%) Apache
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) AWS
2 1 (20.00%) Azure
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (20.00%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 4 (80.00%) SAN
2 3 (60.00%) TCP/IP
3 1 (20.00%) DNS
3 1 (20.00%) Firewall
3 1 (20.00%) iSCSI
3 1 (20.00%) MPLS
3 1 (20.00%) NAS
General
1 1 (20.00%) Finance
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Linux Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) NetApp Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Python Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Storage Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 3 (60.00%) Debian
1 3 (60.00%) Linux
1 3 (60.00%) Ubuntu
2 1 (20.00%) Data ONTAP
2 1 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) ITIL
2 3 (60.00%) Agile
3 2 (40.00%) Customer Service
3 2 (40.00%) Incident Management
3 2 (40.00%) Problem Management
3 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (40.00%) Release Management
4 1 (20.00%) Capacity Planning
4 1 (20.00%) Data Engineering
4 1 (20.00%) Data Loss Prevention
4 1 (20.00%) Data Protection
4 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (20.00%) Matrix Organization
4 1 (20.00%) Mobile Device Management
4 1 (20.00%) Patch Management
4 1 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
4 1 (20.00%) Project Delivery
4 1 (20.00%) Prototyping
4 1 (20.00%) Storage Management
4 1 (20.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) Shell Script
2 1 (20.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) DV Cleared
1 3 (60.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (60.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (20.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (20.00%) NFS
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) SCCM
1 1 (20.00%) SnapMirror
1 1 (20.00%) SnapVault
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Red Hat
2 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (20.00%) Citrix
3 1 (20.00%) NetApp