VMware Certified Professional (VCP) Job Trends

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for VMware Certified Professional (VCP) qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 9 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 685 620 791
Rank change year-on-year -65 +171 +43
Permanent jobs citing VMware Certified Professional (VCP) 56 55 110
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.061% 0.12% 0.10%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.31% 0.32% 0.41%
Number of salaries quoted 45 45 94
10th Percentile £62,500 £32,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £70,000 £37,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £50,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +65.00% -13.04% -
75th Percentile £88,750 £58,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £94,000 £71,331 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £52,500 £51,364
% change year-on-year +42.86% +2.21% +8.13%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK

VMware Certified Professional (VCP) falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 18,314 17,179 26,878
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 19.92% 38.83% 25.47%
Number of salaries quoted 9,424 7,284 17,187
10th Percentile £30,173 £29,750 £28,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £38,603
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +1.85% -10.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £72,500 £71,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £90,000 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £51,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +6.80% +3.00% -4.76%

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing VMware Certified Professional (VCP) relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

VMware Certified Professional (VCP) job vacancy trend in the UK

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing VMware Certified Professional (VCP).

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing VMware Certified Professional (VCP)

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing VMware Certified Professional (VCP) over the 6 months to 9 June 2026.

Salary histogram for VMware Certified Professional (VCP) in the UK

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Top 10 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing VMware Certified Professional (VCP) within the UK over the 6 months to 9 June 2026. 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -76 39 £82,500 +65.00% 16
Work from Home +27 33 £85,000 +58.14% 5
London -32 23 £87,500 +75.00% 6
UK excluding London -100 20 £75,000 +42.86% 12
North of England -46 6 £47,500 -23.64% 5
North West +2 5 £47,500 -34.02% 5
South East -36 5 £85,000 +88.89% 7
Channel Islands - 5 £75,000 -
South West -41 4 £72,500 +34.88%
Yorkshire -43 1 - -

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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:

Cloud Services
1 30 (53.57%) Nutanix
2 19 (33.93%) Azure
3 9 (16.07%) AWS
4 5 (8.93%) GCP
4 5 (8.93%) IaaS
5 1 (1.79%) Entra ID
5 1 (1.79%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (1.79%) OpenShift
5 1 (1.79%) WeChat
Communications & Networking
1 19 (33.93%) VSAN
2 6 (10.71%) Firewall
2 6 (10.71%) SAN
3 5 (8.93%) LAN
3 5 (8.93%) WAN
4 4 (7.14%) DNS
4 4 (7.14%) VXLAN
5 3 (5.36%) Software-Defined Networking
5 3 (5.36%) VLAN
5 3 (5.36%) VPN
6 2 (3.57%) Cisco Nexus
6 2 (3.57%) NAS
6 2 (3.57%) Network Security
6 2 (3.57%) WLAN
7 1 (1.79%) Cisco ASA
7 1 (1.79%) DHCP
7 1 (1.79%) Fibre Channel
7 1 (1.79%) iSCSI
7 1 (1.79%) SMTP
7 1 (1.79%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (5.36%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (3.57%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 7 (12.50%) Finance
1 7 (12.50%) Social Skills
2 4 (7.14%) Public Sector
3 3 (5.36%) Banking
4 2 (3.57%) Aerospace
4 2 (3.57%) Mandarin Language
5 1 (1.79%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (1.79%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (1.79%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 23 (41.07%) Senior
2 19 (33.93%) Consultant
3 17 (30.36%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 13 (23.21%) Architect
4 13 (23.21%) Cloud Consultant
4 13 (23.21%) Presales Solution Architect
4 13 (23.21%) Solutions Architect
4 13 (23.21%) VMware Consultant
5 12 (21.43%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 10 (17.86%) Cloud Architect
6 10 (17.86%) Cloud Infrastructure Consultant
6 10 (17.86%) Cloud Solutions Architect
6 10 (17.86%) Infrastructure Consultant
6 10 (17.86%) Senior Consultant
6 10 (17.86%) Technical Consultant
6 10 (17.86%) VMware Architect
7 9 (16.07%) Senior Technical Consultant
7 9 (16.07%) Senior VMware Consultant
7 9 (16.07%) VMware Technical Consultant
8 6 (10.71%) Senior Infrastructure Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 34 (60.71%) Data Centre
2 7 (12.50%) Enterprise Storage
2 7 (12.50%) Hybrid Cloud
3 6 (10.71%) Public Cloud
3 6 (10.71%) Replication
4 5 (8.93%) Clustering
4 5 (8.93%) Private Cloud
5 4 (7.14%) Driving Licence
6 3 (5.36%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.79%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.79%) Security Operations Centre
7 1 (1.79%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (1.79%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 17 (30.36%) Windows
2 10 (17.86%) Windows Server
3 6 (10.71%) Linux
4 1 (1.79%) CentOS
4 1 (1.79%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (57.14%) Presales
2 27 (48.21%) Disaster Recovery
3 18 (32.14%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 12 (21.43%) Continuous Improvement
4 12 (21.43%) Customer Engagement
4 12 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
5 11 (19.64%) Systems Engineering
6 10 (17.86%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 7 (12.50%) Requirements Workshops
7 7 (12.50%) Storage Management
7 7 (12.50%) Technical Leadership
7 7 (12.50%) Workshop Facilitation
8 6 (10.71%) Cloud Security
9 5 (8.93%) Capacity Planning
9 5 (8.93%) Computer Science
9 5 (8.93%) Customer Service
9 5 (8.93%) Infrastructure as Code
9 5 (8.93%) Migration
9 5 (8.93%) Performance Monitoring
9 5 (8.93%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (7.14%) SQL
2 2 (3.57%) PowerShell
2 2 (3.57%) Python
Qualifications
1 29 (51.79%) VCAP
2 23 (41.07%) Cisco Certification
3 20 (35.71%) Microsoft Certification
4 19 (33.93%) CCNP
4 19 (33.93%) VCDX
5 15 (26.79%) MCSE
6 11 (19.64%) Security Cleared
7 10 (17.86%) Degree
8 9 (16.07%) Azure Certification
9 8 (14.29%) CCNA
10 5 (8.93%) MCSA
10 5 (8.93%) RHCSA
10 5 (8.93%) SC Cleared
11 4 (7.14%) CCDA
11 4 (7.14%) CCIE
11 4 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
11 4 (7.14%) LPIC
12 2 (3.57%) CCIE Data Center
12 2 (3.57%) DV Cleared
13 1 (1.79%) MCITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (16.07%) PMO
2 3 (5.36%) COBIT
3 2 (3.57%) GDPR
3 2 (3.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.79%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (1.79%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (1.79%) HIPAA
4 1 (1.79%) NIST
4 1 (1.79%) PCI DSS
4 1 (1.79%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (1.79%) SLA
System Software
1 48 (85.71%) VMware Infrastructure
2 29 (51.79%) vSphere
3 28 (50.00%) VMware NSX
4 16 (28.57%) vCloud
5 8 (14.29%) Active Directory
6 6 (10.71%) KVM
7 3 (5.36%) VMware ESXi
7 3 (5.36%) VMware Server
8 1 (1.79%) Hyper-V
8 1 (1.79%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 8 (14.29%) Terraform
1 8 (14.29%) vCenter Server
2 5 (8.93%) Ansible
3 4 (7.14%) Microsoft Clustering
4 2 (3.57%) vRealize
5 1 (1.79%) PowerCLI
5 1 (1.79%) SCCM
Vendors
1 56 (100.00%) VMware
2 22 (39.29%) Dell
2 22 (39.29%) NetApp
3 19 (33.93%) Broadcom
4 16 (28.57%) Nimble Storage
5 13 (23.21%) Cisco
6 9 (16.07%) Red Hat
7 8 (14.29%) Microsoft
8 7 (12.50%) Veeam
9 6 (10.71%) Zerto
10 3 (5.36%) HP
11 2 (3.57%) Citrix
12 1 (1.79%) Commvault
12 1 (1.79%) EMC
12 1 (1.79%) Fortinet
12 1 (1.79%) Palo Alto
12 1 (1.79%) ServiceNow