VMware Certified Professional (VCP) Contracts in England

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for VMware Certified Professional (VCP) qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 477 612 691
Rank change year-on-year +135 +79 -135
Contract jobs citing VMware Certified Professional (VCP) 58 51 88
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.16% 0.10% 0.12%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.50% 0.36% 0.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 45 63
10th Percentile £320 £410 £280
25th Percentile £368 £453 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £463 £455
Median % change year-on-year +12.16% +1.65% +7.06%
75th Percentile £556 £588 £551
90th Percentile £624 £633 £600
UK median daily rate £519 £455 £455
% change year-on-year +13.90% +0.10% +4.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £49.55
25th Percentile - - £50.00
Median hourly rate - - £52.00
75th Percentile - - £54.00
90th Percentile - - £54.45
UK median hourly rate - - £52.00
% change year-on-year - - +13.04%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
England

VMware Certified Professional (VCP) is in the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 11,579 14,027 15,366
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 31.33% 27.75% 21.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,111 9,398 10,082
10th Percentile £300 £330 £315
25th Percentile £425 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% +4.76% +7.14%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £637
90th Percentile £750 £750 £713
UK median daily rate £535 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.73% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 976 756 690
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.23 £13.25
25th Percentile £18.00 £20.00 £18.75
Median hourly rate £40.00 £52.50 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -23.81% +40.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £62.48 £68.33 £55.72
90th Percentile £77.25 £80.25 £67.50
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £54.00 £41.50
% change year-on-year -25.93% +30.12% +5.06%

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing VMware Certified Professional (VCP) as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for VMware Certified Professional (VCP) in England

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing VMware Certified Professional (VCP) in England.

Daily rate trend for VMware Certified Professional (VCP) in England

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VMware Certified Professional (VCP) in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for VMware Certified Professional (VCP) in England

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing VMware Certified Professional (VCP) in England.

Hourly rate trend for VMware Certified Professional (VCP) in England

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VMware Certified Professional (VCP) within the England region over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South East +25 20 £500 +9.89% 11
South West +25 18 £538 -6.52% 2
North of England +47 15 £340 -22.29% 3
North West +22 7 £409 -6.57% 2
Yorkshire - 7 £340 -
London +94 3 £438 - 12
Midlands +22 2 £713 +56.44% 2
North East - 1 £625 - 1
West Midlands - 1 £713 - 1
VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
UK

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 21 (36.21%) Confluence
2 19 (32.76%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (8.62%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (12.07%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.72%) Adobe Creative Suite
Cloud Services
1 5 (8.62%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (5.17%) AWS
2 3 (5.17%) PaaS
2 3 (5.17%) SaaS
3 2 (3.45%) Azure
3 2 (3.45%) IaaS
3 2 (3.45%) Nutanix
4 1 (1.72%) Azure ExpressRoute
Communications & Networking
1 26 (44.83%) DNS
2 25 (43.10%) DHCP
3 12 (20.69%) VSAN
4 7 (12.07%) Remote Desktop
4 7 (12.07%) SAN
4 7 (12.07%) VoIP
4 7 (12.07%) Wi-Fi
5 6 (10.34%) Firewall
6 5 (8.62%) NAS
6 5 (8.62%) VPN
7 4 (6.90%) Fibre Channel
7 4 (6.90%) iSCSI
7 4 (6.90%) Software-Defined Networking
7 4 (6.90%) SSL
7 4 (6.90%) TCP/IP
7 4 (6.90%) VLAN
8 3 (5.17%) PBX
9 2 (3.45%) LAN
9 2 (3.45%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.45%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 21 (36.21%) JIRA
2 3 (5.17%) Rational DOORS
General
1 38 (65.52%) Social Skills
2 27 (46.55%) Analytical Skills
3 15 (25.86%) Military
4 13 (22.41%) Public Sector
5 7 (12.07%) Banking
6 4 (6.90%) Finance
6 4 (6.90%) Telecoms
7 3 (5.17%) Digital Economy
8 1 (1.72%) Aerospace
8 1 (1.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 20 (34.48%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 15 (25.86%) Integration Engineer
2 15 (25.86%) Test and Integration Engineer
2 15 (25.86%) Test Engineer
3 10 (17.24%) Virtualisation Engineer
4 9 (15.52%) VMware Engineer
5 7 (12.07%) Senior
6 6 (10.34%) Architect
6 6 (10.34%) Data Centre Engineer
7 4 (6.90%) 3rd Line Engineer
7 4 (6.90%) IT Engineer
7 4 (6.90%) IT Technician
7 4 (6.90%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
8 3 (5.17%) Data Centre Technician
8 3 (5.17%) Data Technician
8 3 (5.17%) Solutions Architect
9 2 (3.45%) Service Desk Engineer
9 2 (3.45%) Support Engineer
9 2 (3.45%) Systems Engineer
9 2 (3.45%) VMware Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (10.34%) Flash
2 1 (1.72%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 16 (27.59%) PKI
2 10 (17.24%) Clustering
2 10 (17.24%) Data Centre
3 4 (6.90%) Team-Oriented Environment
3 4 (6.90%) Video Conferencing
4 3 (5.17%) Blackberry
5 2 (3.45%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (3.45%) Private Cloud
6 1 (1.72%) Freedom of Information
6 1 (1.72%) Freedom of Information Act
6 1 (1.72%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.72%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 35 (60.34%) Windows
2 25 (43.10%) Windows Server
3 20 (34.48%) Windows Server 2012
4 11 (18.97%) Windows 10
5 7 (12.07%) Windows 7
6 5 (8.62%) Linux
7 4 (6.90%) Unix
8 2 (3.45%) Windows Server 2008
8 2 (3.45%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (1.72%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (48.28%) Agile
2 22 (37.93%) Critical Thinking
3 20 (34.48%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 19 (32.76%) Problem-Solving
5 16 (27.59%) Computer Science
6 15 (25.86%) Regression Testing
6 15 (25.86%) Test Scripting
7 13 (22.41%) ITIL
8 10 (17.24%) Validation
9 8 (13.79%) High Availability
10 7 (12.07%) Migration
10 7 (12.07%) Network Monitoring
10 7 (12.07%) Network Virtualisation
10 7 (12.07%) Runbook
11 6 (10.34%) NsoIT
11 6 (10.34%) Power Management
11 6 (10.34%) Project Management
11 6 (10.34%) Service Management
11 6 (10.34%) System Testing
11 6 (10.34%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 17 (29.31%) SQL
2 3 (5.17%) PowerShell
2 3 (5.17%) Python
3 2 (3.45%) C
4 1 (1.72%) Bash
4 1 (1.72%) C#
4 1 (1.72%) Go
4 1 (1.72%) Java
4 1 (1.72%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 37 (63.79%) Security Cleared
2 30 (51.72%) SC Cleared
3 27 (46.55%) Microsoft Certification
4 25 (43.10%) Degree
5 24 (41.38%) MCSE
6 21 (36.21%) Cisco Certification
7 18 (31.03%) CCNA
8 15 (25.86%) MCSA
9 8 (13.79%) DV Cleared
9 8 (13.79%) VCAP
10 6 (10.34%) Computer Science Degree
10 6 (10.34%) Master's Degree
11 4 (6.90%) A+ Certification
11 4 (6.90%) Chartered Engineer
11 4 (6.90%) Network+ Certification
12 3 (5.17%) CCNP
12 3 (5.17%) HND
12 3 (5.17%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.90%) QA
2 2 (3.45%) SLA
System Software
1 55 (94.83%) VMware Infrastructure
2 31 (53.45%) Active Directory
3 20 (34.48%) VMware NSX
4 19 (32.76%) VMware ESXi
5 16 (27.59%) vSphere
6 8 (13.79%) Virtual Machines
6 8 (13.79%) VMware Workstation
7 7 (12.07%) Hyper-V
7 7 (12.07%) KVM
8 6 (10.34%) Firmware
9 2 (3.45%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 21 (36.21%) vCenter Server
2 3 (5.17%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (5.17%) VxRail
3 2 (3.45%) Microsoft Clustering
3 2 (3.45%) vRealize
3 2 (3.45%) vRealize Orchestrator
4 1 (1.72%) Ansible
4 1 (1.72%) SCOM
Vendors
1 58 (100.00%) VMware
2 43 (74.14%) Microsoft
3 15 (25.86%) Cisco
4 6 (10.34%) Atlassian
5 4 (6.90%) Dell
6 3 (5.17%) Avaya
6 3 (5.17%) Ericsson
6 3 (5.17%) Google
6 3 (5.17%) IBM
6 3 (5.17%) Juniper
6 3 (5.17%) Nokia
6 3 (5.17%) Ribbon
7 2 (3.45%) 3PAR
7 2 (3.45%) Dell Compellent
7 2 (3.45%) EMC
7 2 (3.45%) HP
7 2 (3.45%) Nimble Storage
7 2 (3.45%) Veeam
8 1 (1.72%) Adobe
8 1 (1.72%) Turbonomic