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 18 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 465 475 529
Rank change year-on-year +10 +54 +162
Contract jobs citing VMware Certified Professional (VCP) 52 54 65
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.18% 0.17% 0.16%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.57% 0.57% 0.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 25 47
10th Percentile £436 £420 £316
25th Percentile £522 £475 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year +17.07% +2.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £650 £560 £547
90th Percentile - £673 £593
UK median daily rate £598 £519 £500
% change year-on-year +15.28% +3.75% +5.26%

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 9,087 9,489 11,978
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 32.16% 29.73% 29.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,786 5,764 7,752
10th Percentile £300 £313 £319
25th Percentile £413 £425 £446
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £526 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.19% -4.36% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £713 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 767 483 702
10th Percentile £17.69 £19.41 £17.01
25th Percentile £18.87 £30.00 £25.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £52.50 £53.77
Median % change year-on-year -52.10% -2.36% +19.48%
75th Percentile £42.63 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £72.20 £75.37 £79.19
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £47.50 £53.70
% change year-on-year -47.05% -11.55% +19.33%

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 18 October 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 18 October 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 +8 19 £650 +21.36% 5
London +20 17 £538 +19.44% 2
South West +2 4 £628 +19.52% 2
North of England -26 4 - - 3
Yorkshire -23 2 - - 1
Midlands - 2 £420 - 2
North West - 2 - - 1
West Midlands - 2 £420 - 2
East of England -7 1 £563 +151.68%
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 5 (9.62%) Confluence
2 4 (7.69%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.92%) Skype for Business
Cloud Services
1 7 (13.46%) Azure
2 3 (5.77%) Nutanix
3 2 (3.85%) Azure ExpressRoute
3 2 (3.85%) IaaS
3 2 (3.85%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (1.92%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (1.92%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (1.92%) Amazon S3
4 1 (1.92%) AWS
4 1 (1.92%) AWS CloudTrail
4 1 (1.92%) AWS KMS
4 1 (1.92%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (1.92%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (1.92%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (1.92%) Entra ID
4 1 (1.92%) PaaS
4 1 (1.92%) Route 53
4 1 (1.92%) SaaS
4 1 (1.92%) Serverless
4 1 (1.92%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 11 (21.15%) iSCSI
1 11 (21.15%) VSAN
2 10 (19.23%) Fibre Channel
3 7 (13.46%) DNS
4 5 (9.62%) DHCP
4 5 (9.62%) VPN
5 4 (7.69%) Firewall
5 4 (7.69%) PCoIP
5 4 (7.69%) WAN
6 3 (5.77%) Software-Defined Networking
7 2 (3.85%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 2 (3.85%) SAN
8 1 (1.92%) LAN
8 1 (1.92%) PBX
8 1 (1.92%) Remote Desktop
8 1 (1.92%) Skype
8 1 (1.92%) VLAN
8 1 (1.92%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.92%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (1.92%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (9.62%) JIRA
2 3 (5.77%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.92%) Bitbucket
3 1 (1.92%) Git
General
1 11 (21.15%) Social Skills
2 8 (15.38%) Public Sector
3 5 (9.62%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (7.69%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (3.85%) Finance
5 2 (3.85%) Military
6 1 (1.92%) Advertising
6 1 (1.92%) French Language
6 1 (1.92%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 17 (32.69%) Architect
2 16 (30.77%) Consultant
3 13 (25.00%) VMware Consultant
4 12 (23.08%) VMware Architect
5 10 (19.23%) Infrastructure Architect
6 9 (17.31%) VMware Engineer
7 6 (11.54%) VMware Specialist
8 3 (5.77%) Azure Consultant
8 3 (5.77%) Principal Consultant
8 3 (5.77%) Senior
8 3 (5.77%) Senior Architect
9 2 (3.85%) Active Directory Consultant
9 2 (3.85%) Active Directory Migration Consultant
9 2 (3.85%) Data Centre Consultant
9 2 (3.85%) Data Consultant
9 2 (3.85%) Data Migration Consultant
9 2 (3.85%) Exchange Consultant
9 2 (3.85%) Exchange Migration Consultant
9 2 (3.85%) Migration Consultant
9 2 (3.85%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.92%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (1.92%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 8 (15.38%) Data Centre
2 5 (9.62%) Hybrid Cloud
3 4 (7.69%) Replication
4 3 (5.77%) PKI
5 2 (3.85%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.92%) Blackberry
6 1 (1.92%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (1.92%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.92%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 14 (26.92%) Windows
1 14 (26.92%) Windows Server
2 10 (19.23%) Windows Server 2019
3 2 (3.85%) Linux
3 2 (3.85%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (1.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (1.92%) SUSE
4 1 (1.92%) Ubuntu
4 1 (1.92%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
2 10 (19.23%) Performance Analysis
3 9 (17.31%) Edge Virtualization
4 8 (15.38%) Migration
5 6 (11.54%) Agile
5 6 (11.54%) Performance Optimisation
6 5 (9.62%) Continuous Improvement
7 4 (7.69%) Performance Tuning
7 4 (7.69%) Stakeholder Management
8 3 (5.77%) Capacity Planning
8 3 (5.77%) Infrastructure Automation
8 3 (5.77%) Knowledge Transfer
8 3 (5.77%) Runbook
9 2 (3.85%) Cloud Security
9 2 (3.85%) Critical Thinking
9 2 (3.85%) Deployment Automation
9 2 (3.85%) Project Delivery
9 2 (3.85%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 2 (3.85%) Test Scripting
9 2 (3.85%) WAN Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 21 (40.38%) PowerShell
2 19 (36.54%) Python
3 15 (28.85%) SQL
4 12 (23.08%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 35 (67.31%) Security Cleared
2 19 (36.54%) SC Cleared
3 15 (28.85%) Microsoft Certification
4 13 (25.00%) DV Cleared
4 13 (25.00%) MCSE
5 12 (23.08%) VCAP
6 10 (19.23%) VCP5
6 10 (19.23%) VCP6
7 4 (7.69%) CCNP
7 4 (7.69%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (5.77%) MCSA
8 3 (5.77%) VCDX
9 2 (3.85%) Azure Certification
9 2 (3.85%) CCNA
9 2 (3.85%) HP ASE
10 1 (1.92%) Computer Science Degree
10 1 (1.92%) Degree
10 1 (1.92%) MCP
10 1 (1.92%) OCA
10 1 (1.92%) Oracle Certification
System Software
1 35 (67.31%) VMware Infrastructure
2 31 (59.62%) vSphere
3 18 (34.62%) VMware ESXi
4 13 (25.00%) VMware NSX
5 10 (19.23%) NFS
6 7 (13.46%) Active Directory
7 3 (5.77%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (3.85%) Hyper-V
8 2 (3.85%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 16 (30.77%) vRealize
2 10 (19.23%) vCenter Server
3 7 (13.46%) PowerCLI
4 5 (9.62%) Terraform
5 4 (7.69%) Ansible
6 3 (5.77%) vRealize Orchestrator
7 2 (3.85%) FortiGate
7 2 (3.85%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (3.85%) vMotion
8 1 (1.92%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (1.92%) Failover Clustering
8 1 (1.92%) VxRail
Vendors
1 52 (100.00%) VMware
2 22 (42.31%) Microsoft
3 13 (25.00%) Veeam
4 11 (21.15%) NetApp
5 10 (19.23%) Splunk
6 3 (5.77%) F5
7 2 (3.85%) 3PAR
7 2 (3.85%) Broadcom
7 2 (3.85%) Cisco
7 2 (3.85%) Citrix
7 2 (3.85%) Fortinet
7 2 (3.85%) Nimble Storage
7 2 (3.85%) ProCurve
8 1 (1.92%) Avaya
8 1 (1.92%) Dell
8 1 (1.92%) Ericsson
8 1 (1.92%) Isilon
8 1 (1.92%) Juniper
8 1 (1.92%) Oracle
8 1 (1.92%) SolarWinds