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 23 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jul 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 540 420 501
Rank change year-on-year -120 +81 +54
Contract jobs citing VMware Certified Professional (VCP) 83 86 54
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.18% 0.31% 0.15%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.59% 1.02% 0.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 66 39
10th Percentile £418 £506 £324
25th Percentile £483 £526 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £536 £593 £525
Median % change year-on-year -9.49% +12.86% +5.00%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £556
90th Percentile £722 £681 £633
UK median daily rate £553 £600 £525
% change year-on-year -7.92% +14.29% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £58.43 - -
Median hourly rate £63.14 - -
75th Percentile £67.84 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £63.14 - -

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 14,175 8,454 10,787
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 31.59% 30.92% 30.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,559 5,333 6,811
10th Percentile £350 £283 £313
25th Percentile £430 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £537
Median % change year-on-year - -2.32% -2.28%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £719 £713 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year +0.10% -0.10% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,059 617 872
10th Percentile £17.87 £18.13 £14.48
25th Percentile £25.75 £18.87 £21.25
Median hourly rate £54.00 £25.30 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +113.44% -41.16% -23.76%
75th Percentile £75.00 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £76.75 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £52.25 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +107.75% -41.51% -25.00%

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

VMware Certified Professional (VCP) job vacancy trend 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 23 July 2026.

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 23 July 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
South East -59 26 £610 -6.15% 2
North of England -68 15 £485 -3.00% 6
Midlands -45 11 £425 +16.44%
West Midlands -50 11 £425 +16.44%
London -60 11 £625 +13.64% 2
North West -40 10 £484 +10.63% 5
East of England -19 9 £507 -6.11% 1
South West -73 9 £553 -4.74% 1
Yorkshire -51 5 £519 +3.80%
VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
UK

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (3.61%) Apache
1 3 (3.61%) CloudStack
1 3 (3.61%) Confluence
2 2 (2.41%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (2.41%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (3.61%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 22 (26.51%) Azure
2 17 (20.48%) AWS
3 8 (9.64%) GitHub
4 7 (8.43%) Microsoft 365
5 5 (6.02%) OpenShift
6 4 (4.82%) GCP
6 4 (4.82%) GitHub Actions
7 3 (3.61%) Entra ID
7 3 (3.61%) IaaS
7 3 (3.61%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 2 (2.41%) Amazon EKS
8 2 (2.41%) Azure Storage
8 2 (2.41%) Datadog
8 2 (2.41%) Nutanix
8 2 (2.41%) OneDrive
9 1 (1.20%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 25 (30.12%) VSAN
2 12 (14.46%) Firewall
3 10 (12.05%) DNS
3 10 (12.05%) NAS
3 10 (12.05%) SAN
4 7 (8.43%) WAN
5 6 (7.23%) LAN
6 5 (6.02%) DHCP
6 5 (6.02%) SD-WAN
7 4 (4.82%) BGP
7 4 (4.82%) Cisco Firepower
7 4 (4.82%) Cisco Nexus
7 4 (4.82%) IPsec
7 4 (4.82%) MPLS
7 4 (4.82%) OSPF
7 4 (4.82%) TCP/IP
7 4 (4.82%) VPN
8 3 (3.61%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 3 (3.61%) NetScaler
8 3 (3.61%) Structured Cabling
Development Applications
1 4 (4.82%) Jenkins
2 3 (3.61%) Bitbucket
2 3 (3.61%) JIRA
3 2 (2.41%) Git
3 2 (2.41%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (1.20%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 1 (1.20%) GitLab
General
1 20 (24.10%) Social Skills
2 15 (18.07%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (8.43%) Public Sector
4 3 (3.61%) Documentation Skills
4 3 (3.61%) Telecoms
5 2 (2.41%) Finance
5 2 (2.41%) Influencing Skills
5 2 (2.41%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 27 (32.53%) VMware Engineer
2 19 (22.89%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 14 (16.87%) Senior
4 10 (12.05%) Architect
5 9 (10.84%) Wintel Engineer
6 8 (9.64%) Senior VMware Engineer
6 8 (9.64%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
7 7 (8.43%) Python Engineer
7 7 (8.43%) Virtualisation Engineer
8 6 (7.23%) JavaScript Engineer
8 6 (7.23%) Lead
8 6 (7.23%) Network Architect
8 6 (7.23%) PowerShell Engineer
8 6 (7.23%) VMware Specialist
9 5 (6.02%) Administrator
9 5 (6.02%) Lead Architect
9 5 (6.02%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
9 5 (6.02%) Technical Architect
9 5 (6.02%) Technical Leader
10 4 (4.82%) Storage Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.61%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (2.41%) Flash
2 2 (2.41%) OpenGL
2 2 (2.41%) Qt
2 2 (2.41%) REST
3 1 (1.20%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 22 (26.51%) Data Centre
2 13 (15.66%) Hybrid Cloud
2 13 (15.66%) Replication
3 12 (14.46%) Private Cloud
4 11 (13.25%) Public Cloud
5 10 (12.05%) Clustering
6 5 (6.02%) Cloud Native
6 5 (6.02%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 4 (4.82%) Analytical Mindset
8 3 (3.61%) EMC VMAX
8 3 (3.61%) EMC VNX
8 3 (3.61%) Enterprise Storage
9 2 (2.41%) CUDA
10 1 (1.20%) Greenfield Project
10 1 (1.20%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 27 (32.53%) Windows
2 22 (26.51%) Windows Server
3 13 (15.66%) Linux
4 5 (6.02%) Data ONTAP
4 5 (6.02%) Ubuntu
5 2 (2.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (2.41%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (27.71%) Disaster Recovery
2 22 (26.51%) High Availability
2 22 (26.51%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 20 (24.10%) Network Virtualisation
3 20 (24.10%) Problem-Solving
4 17 (20.48%) Capacity Planning
4 17 (20.48%) Project Delivery
5 14 (16.87%) Migration
6 13 (15.66%) Infrastructure as Code
7 12 (14.46%) Performance Tuning
8 11 (13.25%) ITIL
9 10 (12.05%) Agile
10 9 (10.84%) CI/CD
10 9 (10.84%) Infrastructure Automation
11 8 (9.64%) User Experience
12 7 (8.43%) Business Continuity
12 7 (8.43%) Data Centre Operations
12 7 (8.43%) DevOps
12 7 (8.43%) Service Management
12 7 (8.43%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 39 (46.99%) PowerShell
2 33 (39.76%) Python
3 14 (16.87%) Bash
3 14 (16.87%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 59 (71.08%) Security Cleared
2 42 (50.60%) SC Cleared
3 27 (32.53%) VCAP
4 22 (26.51%) DV Cleared
5 20 (24.10%) Microsoft Certification
6 18 (21.69%) Cisco Certification
7 15 (18.07%) MCSE
8 13 (15.66%) CCNP
9 11 (13.25%) MCSA
10 10 (12.05%) Azure Certification
11 7 (8.43%) AWS Certification
11 7 (8.43%) Degree
11 7 (8.43%) RHCA
12 6 (7.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 5 (6.02%) CCNA
14 3 (3.61%) CCA
14 3 (3.61%) CCIE
14 3 (3.61%) OCA
14 3 (3.61%) Oracle Certification
14 3 (3.61%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.82%) Cyber Essentials
1 4 (4.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (4.82%) NCSC
2 3 (3.61%) SLA
3 1 (1.20%) QA
System Software
1 59 (71.08%) VMware Infrastructure
2 45 (54.22%) VMware ESXi
3 32 (38.55%) vSphere
4 31 (37.35%) VMware NSX
5 16 (19.28%) Virtual Machines
6 9 (10.84%) Active Directory
6 9 (10.84%) Hyper-V
7 7 (8.43%) Docker
8 3 (3.61%) EMC RecoverPoint
8 3 (3.61%) SRDF
8 3 (3.61%) Virtual Desktop
9 2 (2.41%) KVM
9 2 (2.41%) Microsoft App-V
9 2 (2.41%) NFS
9 2 (2.41%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 41 (49.40%) vCenter Server
2 34 (40.96%) Ansible
3 17 (20.48%) vRealize
4 13 (15.66%) Terraform
5 12 (14.46%) Kubernetes
6 10 (12.05%) PowerCLI
7 8 (9.64%) vMotion
8 5 (6.02%) Grafana
8 5 (6.02%) Prometheus
8 5 (6.02%) SCCM
9 4 (4.82%) Podman
10 3 (3.61%) Check_MK
10 3 (3.61%) EMC VPLEX
10 3 (3.61%) Microsoft Intune
10 3 (3.61%) Progress Chef
10 3 (3.61%) Puppet
10 3 (3.61%) SCOM
10 3 (3.61%) SnapMirror
11 2 (2.41%) Packer
11 2 (2.41%) SnapVault
Vendors
1 83 (100.00%) VMware
2 25 (30.12%) Microsoft
3 23 (27.71%) Cisco
4 12 (14.46%) Broadcom
5 8 (9.64%) SolarWinds
6 7 (8.43%) 3PAR
7 5 (6.02%) NetApp
7 5 (6.02%) Veeam
8 4 (4.82%) Atlassian
8 4 (4.82%) Nimble Storage
8 4 (4.82%) Palo Alto
9 3 (3.61%) Brocade
9 3 (3.61%) Commvault
9 3 (3.61%) Dell
9 3 (3.61%) F5
9 3 (3.61%) Fortinet
9 3 (3.61%) Google
9 3 (3.61%) Red Hat
9 3 (3.61%) Remedy
9 3 (3.61%) ServiceNow
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