VMware Certified Professional (VCP) Contract Job Trends in Buckinghamshire

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
South East > Buckinghamshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Buckinghamshire 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 61 29 53
Rank change year-on-year -32 +24 +15
Contract jobs citing VMware Certified Professional (VCP) 7 11 4
As % of all contract jobs in Buckinghamshire 0.91% 4.10% 0.79%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.82% 9.17% 2.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 6 4
10th Percentile £584 £584 -
25th Percentile £610 £611 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £624 £466
Median % change year-on-year -1.85% +34.03% +2.33%
75th Percentile £746 £630 £500
90th Percentile £790 - -
South East median daily rate £613 £628 £500
% change year-on-year -2.48% +25.61% +9.89%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Buckinghamshire

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 Buckinghamshire.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 384 120 192
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 50.00% 44.78% 37.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 305 90 151
10th Percentile £400 £243 £351
25th Percentile £474 £400 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% +14.13%
75th Percentile £610 £588 £614
90th Percentile £640 £630 £756
South East median daily rate £525 £541 £550
% change year-on-year -3.00% -1.59% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 7 15
10th Percentile £15.25 £13.95 £15.85
25th Percentile - £16.38 £17.00
Median hourly rate £16.35 £19.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.95% -5.00% +100.00%
75th Percentile £18.32 £60.63 £25.04
90th Percentile £25.11 £67.50 £27.50
South East median hourly rate £52.50 £56.75 £57.35
% change year-on-year -7.49% -1.05% +7.14%

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Job Vacancy Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

VMware Certified Professional (VCP) job vacancy trend in Buckinghamshire

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Daily Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

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

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Daily Rate Histogram in Buckinghamshire

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

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

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Hourly Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Buckinghamshire citing VMware Certified Professional (VCP).

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Buckinghamshire citing VMware Certified Professional (VCP)

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Contract Job Locations in Buckinghamshire

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 Buckinghamshire region over the 6 months to 12 April 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Milton Keynes -28 5 £610 -2.88% 2
VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
South East

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Buckinghamshire 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 2 (28.57%) AWS
1 2 (28.57%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 5 (71.43%) VSAN
2 2 (28.57%) Firewall
2 2 (28.57%) LAN
2 2 (28.57%) WAN
General
1 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Virtualisation Engineer
1 3 (42.86%) VMware Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Architect
2 2 (28.57%) Lead
2 2 (28.57%) Lead Architect
2 2 (28.57%) Network Architect
2 2 (28.57%) Network Technical Architect
2 2 (28.57%) Technical Architect
2 2 (28.57%) Technical Leader
3 1 (14.29%) Data Centre Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Network Design Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Security Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Senior
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Senior VMware Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Private Cloud
2 2 (28.57%) Data Centre
2 2 (28.57%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 2 (28.57%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (28.57%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (28.57%) Business Continuity
1 2 (28.57%) Coaching
1 2 (28.57%) Disaster Recovery
1 2 (28.57%) Roadmaps
1 2 (28.57%) Technical Architecture
1 2 (28.57%) Technology Roadmap
1 2 (28.57%) TOGAF
2 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (14.29%) Network Design
Qualifications
1 7 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 6 (85.71%) DV Cleared
3 5 (71.43%) VCAP
4 2 (28.57%) CCNP
4 2 (28.57%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (28.57%) Degree
4 2 (28.57%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 5 (71.43%) VMware ESXi
1 5 (71.43%) VMware Infrastructure
1 5 (71.43%) VMware NSX
2 1 (14.29%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (71.43%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 7 (100.00%) VMware
2 4 (57.14%) Broadcom
3 2 (28.57%) Microsoft