VCAP Contract Job Trends in the City of London

VMware Certified Advanced Professional (VCAP, VCAP4)
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for VCAP qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 9 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 123 114 -
Rank change year-on-year -9 - -
Contract jobs citing VCAP 2 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.099% 0.11% -
As % of the Qualifications category 0.36% 0.43% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £505 £525 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £550 -
Median % change year-on-year -7.27% - -
75th Percentile £515 £575 -
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median daily rate £510 £550 -
% change year-on-year -7.27% - -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
City of London

VCAP 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 559 467 447
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 27.65% 25.86% 19.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 413 289 303
10th Percentile £382 £370 £363
25th Percentile £443 £458 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.79%
75th Percentile £638 £664 £677
90th Percentile £738 £763 £786
Central London median daily rate £525 £526 £540
% change year-on-year -0.24% -2.55% -6.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 4 3
10th Percentile £21.50 £24.78 £19.19
25th Percentile £25.95 £28.94 £19.58
Median hourly rate £39.72 £72.25 £20.82
Median % change year-on-year -45.02% +247.11% -59.58%
75th Percentile £61.79 £112.00 £47.58
90th Percentile £70.88 - £63.28
Central London median hourly rate £25.77 £32.50 £33.74
% change year-on-year -20.71% -3.66% -34.50%

VCAP
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing VCAP relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

VCAP job vacancy trend in the City of London

VCAP
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing VCAP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing VCAP

VCAP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London 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 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) NAS
1 1 (50.00%) SAN
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) VMware Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Deployment Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (50.00%) High Availability
1 1 (50.00%) Knowledge Transfer
1 1 (50.00%) Network Virtualisation
1 1 (50.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 1 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (50.00%) Resource Allocation
1 1 (50.00%) Virtual Infrastructure
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (100.00%) vSphere
2 1 (50.00%) Docker
2 1 (50.00%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (50.00%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (50.00%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Ansible
1 2 (100.00%) PowerCLI
2 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (50.00%) Terraform
2 1 (50.00%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) VMware
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco
2 1 (50.00%) Pure Storage