VCAP Contracts in the East of England

VMware Certified Advanced Professional (VCAP, VCAP4)
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England with a requirement for VCAP qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 79 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing VCAP 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 0.32% - -
As % of the Qualifications category 0.94% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £532 - -
25th Percentile £535 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 - -
75th Percentile £545 - -
90th Percentile £548 - -
England median daily rate £563 £500 £455
% change year-on-year +12.50% +9.89% -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
East of England

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 East of England.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 320 595 767
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 34.12% 31.17% 37.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 130 224 380
10th Percentile £189 £206 £222
25th Percentile £231 £349 £359
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.26%
75th Percentile £580 £600 £645
90th Percentile £675 £721 £735
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 98 220 195
10th Percentile £15.23 £14.16 £13.41
25th Percentile £21.46 £16.30 £15.25
Median hourly rate £57.50 £35.00 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +64.29% +66.67% +7.69%
75th Percentile £75.94 £43.19 £63.75
90th Percentile £85.00 £70.50 £70.00
England median hourly rate £45.00 £40.00 £52.40
% change year-on-year +12.50% -23.66% +39.73%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Job postings citing VCAP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Job vacancy trend for VCAP in the East of England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing VCAP in the East of England.

Daily rate trend for VCAP in the East of England

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Contract Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VCAP within the East of England region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Cambridgeshire - 3 £540 -
VCAP
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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 3 (100.00%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) Firewall
1 3 (100.00%) Network Security
1 3 (100.00%) VSAN
General
1 3 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 3 (100.00%) VMware Engineer
1 3 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (66.67%) Systems Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Hybrid Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 3 (100.00%) Network Virtualisation
1 3 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 3 (100.00%) Project Delivery
1 3 (100.00%) Waterfall
1 3 (100.00%) Zero Trust
2 1 (33.33%) Converged Infrastructure
2 1 (33.33%) Network Architecture
2 1 (33.33%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 3 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 2 (66.67%) DV Cleared
2 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
3 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 3 (100.00%) VMware NSX
1 3 (100.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Ansible
1 3 (100.00%) PowerCLI
1 3 (100.00%) Terraform
1 3 (100.00%) vCenter Server
1 3 (100.00%) VxRail
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Dell
1 3 (100.00%) VMware