VMware Certified Professional (VCP) Contract Job Trends in Bristol

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
South West > Bristol

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Bristol with a requirement for VMware Certified Professional (VCP) qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 12 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 72 49 75
Rank change year-on-year -23 +26 -
Contract jobs citing VMware Certified Professional (VCP) 4 6 3
As % of all contract jobs in Bristol 0.34% 1.13% 0.29%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.89% 2.34% 0.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £474 - -
25th Percentile £491 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 - -
75th Percentile £641 - -
90th Percentile £646 - -
South West median daily rate £553 £580 £538
% change year-on-year -4.74% +7.91% -6.52%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Bristol

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 contract job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications in Bristol.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 450 256 492
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 38.01% 48.39% 46.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 209 137 267
10th Percentile £289 £300 £339
25th Percentile £438 £406 £471
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £500 £575
Median % change year-on-year +1.50% -13.04% +0.88%
75th Percentile £575 £625 £650
90th Percentile £688 £725 £700
South West median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 126 46 98
10th Percentile £17.87 £28.13 £42.63
25th Percentile £35.00 £52.13 £52.50
Median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -7.14% +7.69%
75th Percentile £67.84 £68.00 £77.50
90th Percentile £79.38 £75.00 £85.00
South West median hourly rate £57.35 £64.50 £57.33
% change year-on-year -11.09% +12.51% -12.14%

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

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

VMware Certified Professional (VCP) job vacancy trend in Bristol

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Daily Rate Trend in Bristol

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing VMware Certified Professional (VCP).

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing VMware Certified Professional (VCP)

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Daily Rate Histogram in Bristol

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VMware Certified Professional (VCP) in Bristol over the 6 months to 12 April 2026.

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

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

Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Office
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) Firewall
2 1 (25.00%) VSAN
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Bitbucket
1 1 (25.00%) Git
General
1 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Automation Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Lead
2 1 (25.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Virtualisation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) Flash
1 1 (25.00%) REST
1 1 (25.00%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Private Cloud
2 1 (25.00%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Network Virtualisation
2 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Agile
3 1 (25.00%) Configuration Management
3 1 (25.00%) High Availability
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Automation
3 1 (25.00%) Load Balancing
3 1 (25.00%) Proactive Management
3 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (25.00%) Reverse Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Service Management
3 1 (25.00%) System Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Bash
1 1 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (25.00%) CCNP
3 1 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (25.00%) DV Cleared
3 1 (25.00%) OCA
3 1 (25.00%) Oracle Certification
3 1 (25.00%) RHCA
3 1 (25.00%) RHCE
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) VMware ESXi
1 3 (75.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 3 (75.00%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) vCenter Server
2 1 (25.00%) Ansible
2 1 (25.00%) Progress Chef
2 1 (25.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) VMware
2 2 (50.00%) NetApp
3 1 (25.00%) Microsoft