VCAP Contracts in the UK excluding London

VMware Certified Advanced Professional (VCAP, VCAP4)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for VCAP qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 11 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 378 426 492
Rank change year-on-year +48 +66 -69
Contract jobs citing VCAP 12 17 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.059% 0.073% 0.049%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.16% 0.22% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 17 10
10th Percentile £416 £410 £398
25th Percentile £435 £419 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £455 £455
Median % change year-on-year +9.89% - +21.33%
75th Percentile £523 £456 -
90th Percentile £531 £465 £460
UK median daily rate £500 £455 £455
% change year-on-year +9.89% - +21.33%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK excluding London

VCAP 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 the UK excluding London with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 7,549 7,681 7,988
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 36.86% 32.88% 26.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,354 5,133 5,181
10th Percentile £270 £288 £256
25th Percentile £425 £420 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £534 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.62% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £638 £631 £600
90th Percentile £725 £708 £675
UK median daily rate £535 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.73% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 930 632 526
10th Percentile £13.50 £14.03 £13.25
25th Percentile £16.50 £20.00 £17.00
Median hourly rate £40.94 £49.94 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.02% +42.68% -
75th Percentile £63.29 £65.75 £56.02
90th Percentile £77.50 £78.00 £68.15
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £54.00 £43.42
% change year-on-year -25.93% +24.38% +14.25%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing VCAP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for VCAP in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing VCAP in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for VCAP in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing VCAP in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for VCAP in the UK excluding London

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Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VCAP within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 11 May 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
North of England +39 6 £513 +17.14% 1
North West +22 6 £513 +17.14% 1
South East +12 6 £466 +2.33% 1
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UK

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (33.33%) AWS
1 4 (33.33%) Azure
1 4 (33.33%) GCP
2 2 (16.67%) IaaS
2 2 (16.67%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 4 (33.33%) BGP
1 4 (33.33%) MPLS
1 4 (33.33%) OSPF
1 4 (33.33%) TCP/IP
1 4 (33.33%) Value-Added Service
1 4 (33.33%) VLAN
1 4 (33.33%) VPN
1 4 (33.33%) VSAN
1 4 (33.33%) Wireshark
2 2 (16.67%) Software-Defined Networking
General
1 6 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (33.33%) 3rd Line Engineer
1 4 (33.33%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
1 4 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 4 (33.33%) Network Engineer
2 3 (25.00%) Senior
2 3 (25.00%) Virtualisation Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure Operations Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Operations Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Security Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) VMware Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Senior VMware Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) VMware Architect
4 1 (8.33%) VMware Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) Data Centre
1 2 (16.67%) Private Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (50.00%) Agile
2 6 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 6 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 4 (33.33%) Change Management
3 4 (33.33%) ITIL
3 4 (33.33%) ITSM
3 4 (33.33%) Network Monitoring
3 4 (33.33%) Network Virtualisation
3 4 (33.33%) Release Management
3 4 (33.33%) Virtual Environments
4 2 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure Automation
4 2 (16.67%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 2 (16.67%) PowerShell
1 2 (16.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 8 (66.67%) Security Cleared
1 8 (66.67%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 6 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 6 (50.00%) Degree
3 4 (33.33%) CCIE
3 4 (33.33%) CCNP
3 4 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
3 4 (33.33%) SC Cleared
4 2 (16.67%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 8 (66.67%) VMware NSX
2 6 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (50.00%) vSphere
3 2 (16.67%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 2 (16.67%) vRealize
1 2 (16.67%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 8 (66.67%) VMware
2 4 (33.33%) LogicMonitor
2 4 (33.33%) SolarWinds
3 2 (16.67%) 3PAR
3 2 (16.67%) Cisco
3 2 (16.67%) Dell
3 2 (16.67%) Dell Compellent
3 2 (16.67%) Microsoft
3 2 (16.67%) Nimble Storage
3 2 (16.67%) Veeam