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 22 February 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
22 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 37 17 15
Rank change year-on-year -20 -2 +5
Contract jobs citing VMware 14 24 45
As % of all contract jobs in Milton Keynes 3.20% 11.37% 9.15%
As % of the Vendors category 7.73% 20.51% 16.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 19 44
10th Percentile £513 £370 £465
25th Percentile £550 £456 £504
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £620 £528
Median % change year-on-year -7.26% +17.54% +9.90%
75th Percentile £640 £666 £550
90th Percentile £643 £743 £629
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £575 £618 £535
% change year-on-year -6.88% +15.42% +2.39%

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 181 117 276
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 41.42% 55.45% 56.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 137 85 220
10th Percentile £305 £241 £217
25th Percentile £400 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £465 £475
Median % change year-on-year +9.68% -2.11% -1.81%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £570
90th Percentile £640 £675 £650
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% -4.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 3 20
10th Percentile - £13.10 £17.80
25th Percentile - £14.75 £21.88
Median hourly rate £29.61 £19.00 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year +55.84% -20.83% +20.00%
75th Percentile - £45.25 £30.00
90th Percentile £31.53 £60.10 £48.75
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate £29.61 £42.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year -29.50% +75.00% +54.84%

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

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Daily Rate Histogram in Milton Keynes

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VMware in Milton Keynes over the 6 months to 22 February 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

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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 (14.29%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 8 (57.14%) AWS
1 8 (57.14%) Azure
2 5 (35.71%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (21.43%) Entra ID
3 3 (21.43%) IaaS
3 3 (21.43%) PaaS
3 3 (21.43%) SaaS
4 1 (7.14%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (7.14%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 4 (28.57%) SAN
2 3 (21.43%) BGP
2 3 (21.43%) Cisco Nexus
2 3 (21.43%) Ethernet VPN
2 3 (21.43%) TCP/IP
2 3 (21.43%) VXLAN
3 2 (14.29%) NX-OS
3 2 (14.29%) VSAN
4 1 (7.14%) Firewall
4 1 (7.14%) IPsec
4 1 (7.14%) IPv6
4 1 (7.14%) iSCSI
4 1 (7.14%) Multicast
4 1 (7.14%) NAS
4 1 (7.14%) SNMP
4 1 (7.14%) VoIP
4 1 (7.14%) VPN
4 1 (7.14%) WAN
4 1 (7.14%) Wireless
4 1 (7.14%) Wireshark
Development Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 2 (14.29%) Public Sector
2 1 (7.14%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (57.14%) Architect
2 5 (35.71%) Technical Architect
3 2 (14.29%) Infrastructure Architect
3 2 (14.29%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
3 2 (14.29%) Linux Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Network Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Senior
3 2 (14.29%) Senior Architect
3 2 (14.29%) Senior Technical Architect
3 2 (14.29%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (7.14%) Developer
4 1 (7.14%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) NetApp Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Network Architect
4 1 (7.14%) Python Developer
4 1 (7.14%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Storage Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.14%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 3 (21.43%) Data Centre
1 3 (21.43%) Hybrid Cloud
1 3 (21.43%) Public Cloud
2 2 (14.29%) PKI
3 1 (7.14%) Cloud Native
3 1 (7.14%) Cyber Kill Chain
3 1 (7.14%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (7.14%) Private Cloud
3 1 (7.14%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 6 (42.86%) Linux
2 3 (21.43%) Debian
2 3 (21.43%) Ubuntu
3 1 (7.14%) Data ONTAP
3 1 (7.14%) VMS
3 1 (7.14%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (42.86%) Agile
1 6 (42.86%) Infrastructure as Code
2 5 (35.71%) ITIL
2 5 (35.71%) TOGAF
3 4 (28.57%) DevSecOps
3 4 (28.57%) Microservices
3 4 (28.57%) Migration
4 3 (21.43%) CI/CD
4 3 (21.43%) Containerisation
4 3 (21.43%) DevOps
4 3 (21.43%) Enterprise Architecture
4 3 (21.43%) IT Strategy
4 3 (21.43%) Matrix Organization
4 3 (21.43%) Roadmaps
4 3 (21.43%) Technology Strategy
4 3 (21.43%) Zero Trust
5 2 (14.29%) Incident Management
5 2 (14.29%) Problem Management
5 2 (14.29%) Requirements Management
5 2 (14.29%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 2 (14.29%) Bicep
1 2 (14.29%) Python
1 2 (14.29%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 9 (64.29%) Security Cleared
2 8 (57.14%) DV Cleared
2 8 (57.14%) SC Cleared
3 4 (28.57%) CCNP
3 4 (28.57%) Cisco Certification
3 4 (28.57%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (21.43%) MCSE
5 2 (14.29%) Azure Certification
6 1 (7.14%) AWS Certification
6 1 (7.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (7.14%) CCDA
6 1 (7.14%) CCDP
6 1 (7.14%) CCIE
6 1 (7.14%) CCIP
6 1 (7.14%) CCNA
6 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (42.86%) NCSC
2 5 (35.71%) NIST
3 2 (14.29%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (7.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 7 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (28.57%) VMware NSX
3 3 (21.43%) Active Directory
4 2 (14.29%) vCloud
4 2 (14.29%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (7.14%) Hyper-V
5 1 (7.14%) NFS
Systems Management
1 3 (21.43%) Terraform
2 2 (14.29%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (7.14%) Ansible
3 1 (7.14%) CASB
3 1 (7.14%) Cisco CUCM
3 1 (7.14%) SnapMirror
3 1 (7.14%) SnapVault
Vendors
1 6 (42.86%) Microsoft
2 5 (35.71%) Cisco
3 3 (21.43%) Palo Alto
3 3 (21.43%) Red Hat
4 2 (14.29%) Citrix
5 1 (7.14%) Arista
5 1 (7.14%) Aruba
5 1 (7.14%) CheckPoint
5 1 (7.14%) Fortinet
5 1 (7.14%) HP
5 1 (7.14%) Juniper
5 1 (7.14%) Meraki
5 1 (7.14%) NetApp
5 1 (7.14%) SolarWinds
5 1 (7.14%) Zscaler