VMware Certified Professional (VCP) Contract Job Trends in England

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 16 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 463 472 530
Rank change year-on-year +9 +58 +185
Contract jobs citing VMware Certified Professional (VCP) 51 56 63
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.19% 0.17% 0.15%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.59% 0.58% 0.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 30 46
10th Percentile £455 £450 £338
25th Percentile £525 £501 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £650 £560 £549
90th Percentile £654 £691 £588
UK median daily rate £600 £525 £506
% change year-on-year +14.29% +3.70% +7.71%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 8,670 9,675 12,190
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 31.49% 29.76% 28.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,494 5,968 7,892
10th Percentile £303 £325 £325
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £713 £738 £743
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 680 576 668
10th Percentile £18.13 £17.29 £16.25
25th Percentile £18.87 £27.00 £24.04
Median hourly rate £25.15 £54.50 £54.53
Median % change year-on-year -53.85% -0.06% +21.18%
75th Percentile £47.12 £69.81 £70.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £80.00 £78.61
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £50.00 £54.53
% change year-on-year -49.70% -8.31% +21.18%

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing VMware Certified Professional (VCP) as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for VMware Certified Professional (VCP) in England

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Daily Rate Trend in England

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

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

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VMware Certified Professional (VCP) in England over the 6 months to 16 September 2025.

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

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

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

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 16 September 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
South East +16 18 £650 +20.93% 7
South West +14 13 £585 +10.12%
London +27 10 £485 +7.78% 8
North of England - 5 £500 - 3
Yorkshire - 3 £500 -
North West - 2 - - 2
East of England +3 1 £563 +151.68%
Midlands -10 1 £365 -48.77% 5
West Midlands -10 1 £365 -48.77%
VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
UK

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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:

Application Platforms
1 5 (9.80%) Confluence
2 2 (3.92%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.96%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 1 (1.96%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.96%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 5 (9.80%) PaaS
1 5 (9.80%) SaaS
2 3 (5.88%) Azure
2 3 (5.88%) IaaS
3 2 (3.92%) AWS
3 2 (3.92%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (3.92%) Azure ExpressRoute
3 2 (3.92%) Serverless
4 1 (1.96%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (1.96%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (1.96%) Amazon EventBridge
4 1 (1.96%) AWS CloudTrail
4 1 (1.96%) AWS KMS
4 1 (1.96%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (1.96%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (1.96%) Entra ID
4 1 (1.96%) Nutanix
4 1 (1.96%) OpenShift
4 1 (1.96%) Route 53
4 1 (1.96%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 12 (23.53%) iSCSI
2 11 (21.57%) Fibre Channel
3 8 (15.69%) VSAN
4 5 (9.80%) DNS
4 5 (9.80%) PBX
4 5 (9.80%) VoIP
5 3 (5.88%) DHCP
5 3 (5.88%) Software-Defined Networking
6 2 (3.92%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 2 (3.92%) PCoIP
6 2 (3.92%) WAN
7 1 (1.96%) Firewall
7 1 (1.96%) LAN
7 1 (1.96%) Skype
7 1 (1.96%) VLAN
7 1 (1.96%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.96%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (1.96%) Oracle Database
1 1 (1.96%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (9.80%) Git
1 5 (9.80%) JIRA
2 3 (5.88%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.96%) Bitbucket
General
1 7 (13.73%) Public Sector
2 6 (11.76%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (11.76%) Social Skills
3 5 (9.80%) Telecoms
4 3 (5.88%) Finance
5 2 (3.92%) Military
6 1 (1.96%) Banking
6 1 (1.96%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.96%) French Language
6 1 (1.96%) Legal
Job Titles
1 17 (33.33%) Architect
2 13 (25.49%) VMware Architect
3 12 (23.53%) Infrastructure Architect
4 9 (17.65%) Consultant
5 8 (15.69%) VMware Consultant
5 8 (15.69%) VMware Engineer
6 6 (11.76%) VMware Specialist
7 4 (7.84%) Platform Engineer
8 3 (5.88%) Principal Consultant
9 2 (3.92%) Automation Engineer
9 2 (3.92%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 2 (3.92%) Solutions Architect
9 2 (3.92%) Test Engineer
10 1 (1.96%) Infrastructure Consultant
10 1 (1.96%) Infrastructure Specialist
10 1 (1.96%) Integration Engineer
10 1 (1.96%) Server Engineer
10 1 (1.96%) Solutions Consultant
10 1 (1.96%) Storage Engineer
10 1 (1.96%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.96%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (1.96%) Flash
1 1 (1.96%) Kafka
1 1 (1.96%) REST
1 1 (1.96%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 5 (9.80%) Blackberry
1 5 (9.80%) Video Conferencing
2 4 (7.84%) Data Centre
2 4 (7.84%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (5.88%) PKI
4 2 (3.92%) Replication
5 1 (1.96%) Blockchain
5 1 (1.96%) Clustering
5 1 (1.96%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (1.96%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.96%) Private Cloud
5 1 (1.96%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 17 (33.33%) Windows
2 13 (25.49%) Windows Server
3 11 (21.57%) Windows Server 2019
4 7 (13.73%) Linux
5 3 (5.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (3.92%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (1.96%) SUSE
7 1 (1.96%) Ubuntu
7 1 (1.96%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (29.41%) Problem-Solving
2 11 (21.57%) Performance Analysis
3 10 (19.61%) Edge Virtualization
4 9 (17.65%) Agile
5 8 (15.69%) Migration
5 8 (15.69%) Validation
6 6 (11.76%) Customer Requirements
6 6 (11.76%) Infrastructure Automation
7 5 (9.80%) Commercial Awareness
7 5 (9.80%) Configuration Management
7 5 (9.80%) Cost Reduction
7 5 (9.80%) Impact Assessments
7 5 (9.80%) Infrastructure as Code
7 5 (9.80%) NsoIT
7 5 (9.80%) Product Roadmap
7 5 (9.80%) Roadmaps
7 5 (9.80%) Root Cause Analysis
7 5 (9.80%) Service Design
7 5 (9.80%) Thought Leadership
8 4 (7.84%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 20 (39.22%) PowerShell
1 20 (39.22%) Python
2 14 (27.45%) SQL
3 9 (17.65%) JavaScript
4 1 (1.96%) Bash
4 1 (1.96%) Java
4 1 (1.96%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 37 (72.55%) Security Cleared
2 19 (37.25%) DV Cleared
2 19 (37.25%) SC Cleared
3 15 (29.41%) Microsoft Certification
4 13 (25.49%) MCSE
5 11 (21.57%) VCP5
5 11 (21.57%) VCP6
6 8 (15.69%) Cisco Certification
6 8 (15.69%) VCAP
7 7 (13.73%) CCNP
8 3 (5.88%) VCDX
9 2 (3.92%) AWS Certification
9 2 (3.92%) Degree
9 2 (3.92%) MCSA
10 1 (1.96%) CCNA
10 1 (1.96%) MCP
10 1 (1.96%) OCA
10 1 (1.96%) Oracle Certification
10 1 (1.96%) RHCA
10 1 (1.96%) RHCE
System Software
1 36 (70.59%) VMware Infrastructure
2 27 (52.94%) vSphere
3 17 (33.33%) VMware ESXi
4 12 (23.53%) VMware NSX
5 11 (21.57%) NFS
6 4 (7.84%) Active Directory
7 2 (3.92%) Docker
8 1 (1.96%) Hyper-V
8 1 (1.96%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (1.96%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 14 (27.45%) vRealize
2 8 (15.69%) vCenter Server
3 7 (13.73%) Ansible
3 7 (13.73%) Terraform
4 6 (11.76%) PowerCLI
5 4 (7.84%) vRealize Orchestrator
6 2 (3.92%) Kubernetes
7 1 (1.96%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (1.96%) Grafana
7 1 (1.96%) Progress Chef
7 1 (1.96%) Prometheus
7 1 (1.96%) Puppet
7 1 (1.96%) VxRail
Vendors
1 51 (100.00%) VMware
2 18 (35.29%) Microsoft
3 13 (25.49%) Veeam
4 12 (23.53%) NetApp
5 11 (21.57%) Splunk
6 7 (13.73%) Cisco
6 7 (13.73%) F5
7 5 (9.80%) Avaya
7 5 (9.80%) Ericsson
7 5 (9.80%) Juniper
7 5 (9.80%) Nokia
7 5 (9.80%) Palo Alto
7 5 (9.80%) Ribbon
8 2 (3.92%) Broadcom
8 2 (3.92%) Oracle
8 2 (3.92%) Red Hat
9 1 (1.96%) Atlassian
9 1 (1.96%) Dell
9 1 (1.96%) Isilon