VCP6 Contract Job Trends in Edinburgh

VMware Certified Professional 6 (VCP6)
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh with a requirement for VCP6 qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 1 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 65 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing VCP6 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 0.17% - -
As % of the Qualifications category 0.97% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £425 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - -
75th Percentile £475 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median daily rate £463 - -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Edinburgh

VCP6 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 Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 103 119 182
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 17.14% 19.57% 19.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 69 102
10th Percentile £65 £195 £157
25th Percentile £411 £388 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £438 £475
Median % change year-on-year +2.86% -7.89% +5.56%
75th Percentile £581 £544 £575
90th Percentile £675 £685 £625
Scotland median daily rate £463 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +2.78% -10.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 14 14
10th Percentile £17.23 £21.00 £16.25
25th Percentile £40.63 £21.01 £17.91
Median hourly rate £69.00 £23.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +200.00% -48.89% +98.37%
75th Percentile £81.24 £24.54 £60.00
90th Percentile - £57.51 £62.20
Scotland median hourly rate £25.15 £23.00 £56.40
% change year-on-year +9.35% -59.22% +165.29%

VCP6
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing VCP6 relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

VCP6 job vacancy trend in Edinburgh

VCP6
Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing VCP6.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing VCP6

VCP6
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Fibre Channel
1 1 (100.00%) SAN
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Storage Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (100.00%) NVMe
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) BCP
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (100.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) Perl
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) NCDA
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (100.00%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) vMotion
1 1 (100.00%) vRealize
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Brocade
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) Commvault
1 1 (100.00%) NetApp
1 1 (100.00%) VMware