VMware Certified Professional (VCP) Contracts 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 30 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 409 495 568
Rank change year-on-year +86 +73 +136
Contract jobs citing VMware Certified Professional (VCP) 87 58 68
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.34% 0.16% 0.14%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.10% 0.51% 0.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 43 56
10th Percentile £513 £325 £411
25th Percentile £528 £416 £454
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £513 £513
Median % change year-on-year +17.07% - +12.64%
75th Percentile £650 £556 £575
90th Percentile £688 £624 £600
UK median daily rate £600 £513 £513
% change year-on-year +17.07% - +11.41%

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 7,929 11,325 12,847
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 31.08% 30.50% 27.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,985 6,989 8,561
10th Percentile £281 £313 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% +4.76%
75th Percentile £625 £645 £650
90th Percentile £715 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.90% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 525 1,002 634
10th Percentile £17.87 £14.16 £14.64
25th Percentile £20.00 £20.50 £22.50
Median hourly rate £28.60 £42.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -32.71% -22.73% +32.53%
75th Percentile £63.75 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £77.45 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £28.15 £40.94 £55.33
% change year-on-year -31.24% -26.00% +24.33%

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)
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing VMware Certified Professional (VCP) in England.

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

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 30 June 2025.

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

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing VMware Certified Professional (VCP) in England.

Hourly rate trend for VMware Certified Professional (VCP) in England

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 30 June 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 West +67 47 £580 +9.18% 15
South East +46 14 £650 +30.00% 38
North of England +11 12 £500 +47.06% 19
Yorkshire +7 7 £500 +51.52% 11
Midlands +14 5 £695 -2.53% 9
North West +12 5 £438 +7.03% 6
West Midlands +11 5 £695 -2.53% 3
London +51 4 £600 +33.33% 31
East of England - 3 £540 - 12
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 22 (25.29%) Confluence
2 6 (6.90%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (4.60%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.15%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 11 (12.64%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.15%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 10 (11.49%) PaaS
1 10 (11.49%) SaaS
2 9 (10.34%) Azure
3 6 (6.90%) Entra ID
4 4 (4.60%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (4.60%) OneDrive
5 3 (3.45%) AWS
5 3 (3.45%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 3 (3.45%) GitHub
6 2 (2.30%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (2.30%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (2.30%) IaaS
6 2 (2.30%) OCI
6 2 (2.30%) Route 53
6 2 (2.30%) Serverless
6 2 (2.30%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 1 (1.15%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (1.15%) Amazon EventBridge
7 1 (1.15%) AWS CloudTrail
7 1 (1.15%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 15 (17.24%) iSCSI
2 11 (12.64%) Firewall
3 10 (11.49%) Fibre Channel
3 10 (11.49%) PBX
3 10 (11.49%) VoIP
3 10 (11.49%) VSAN
4 7 (8.05%) DNS
5 5 (5.75%) BGP
5 5 (5.75%) Cisco IOS
5 5 (5.75%) Cisco Nexus
5 5 (5.75%) DMVPN
5 5 (5.75%) Network Security
5 5 (5.75%) OSPF
5 5 (5.75%) SAN
5 5 (5.75%) VXLAN
6 3 (3.45%) DHCP
7 2 (2.30%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 2 (2.30%) Software-Defined Networking
8 1 (1.15%) 4G
8 1 (1.15%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (5.75%) Oracle Database
2 3 (3.45%) SQL Server
3 2 (2.30%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 22 (25.29%) JIRA
2 18 (20.69%) Git
3 17 (19.54%) Jenkins
4 11 (12.64%) Bitbucket
5 1 (1.15%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 23 (26.44%) Social Skills
2 15 (17.24%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (14.94%) Public Sector
4 10 (11.49%) Telecoms
5 5 (5.75%) Legal
6 4 (4.60%) Finance
7 2 (2.30%) Military
8 1 (1.15%) Banking
Job Titles
1 15 (17.24%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 14 (16.09%) Architect
3 12 (13.79%) Infrastructure Architect
3 12 (13.79%) Virtualisation Engineer
3 12 (13.79%) VMware Architect
4 10 (11.49%) VMware Engineer
5 8 (9.20%) Platform Engineer
6 5 (5.75%) Automation Engineer
6 5 (5.75%) Network Engineer
6 5 (5.75%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
7 4 (4.60%) Database Engineer
7 4 (4.60%) DevOps Engineer
7 4 (4.60%) Oracle Database Engineer
8 3 (3.45%) Azure Engineer
8 3 (3.45%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
8 3 (3.45%) Consultant
8 3 (3.45%) VMware Consultant
9 2 (2.30%) Solutions Architect
9 2 (2.30%) Systems Engineer
9 2 (2.30%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (12.64%) Flash
1 11 (12.64%) REST
2 10 (11.49%) SOAP
3 5 (5.75%) Spine.js
4 2 (2.30%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (1.15%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 13 (14.94%) Clustering
2 10 (11.49%) Blackberry
2 10 (11.49%) Video Conferencing
3 8 (9.20%) Data Centre
4 5 (5.75%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (3.45%) PKI
6 2 (2.30%) Public Cloud
6 2 (2.30%) Replication
6 2 (2.30%) SCADA
7 1 (1.15%) Blockchain
7 1 (1.15%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (1.15%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.15%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 37 (42.53%) Windows
2 29 (33.33%) Windows Server
3 25 (28.74%) Linux
4 14 (16.09%) Windows Server 2019
5 7 (8.05%) Windows Server 2012
6 5 (5.75%) Unix
6 5 (5.75%) VMS
7 4 (4.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (4.60%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (2.30%) Windows 10
9 1 (1.15%) SUSE
9 1 (1.15%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (42.53%) Validation
2 33 (37.93%) Problem-Solving
3 31 (35.63%) NsoIT
4 29 (33.33%) Agile
5 26 (29.89%) Service Management
5 26 (29.89%) System Testing
6 24 (27.59%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 18 (20.69%) Configuration Management
7 18 (20.69%) Network Virtualisation
8 17 (19.54%) Infrastructure Automation
9 16 (18.39%) High Availability
10 13 (14.94%) Critical Thinking
11 12 (13.79%) Migration
11 12 (13.79%) Waterfall
12 11 (12.64%) Deployment Automation
12 11 (12.64%) Power Management
12 11 (12.64%) Reverse Engineering
13 10 (11.49%) Commercial Awareness
13 10 (11.49%) Computer Science
13 10 (11.49%) Customer Requirements
Programming Languages
1 28 (32.18%) Python
2 27 (31.03%) PowerShell
3 13 (14.94%) SQL
4 11 (12.64%) Bash
5 3 (3.45%) Shell Script
6 1 (1.15%) Java
Qualifications
1 67 (77.01%) Security Cleared
2 52 (59.77%) SC Cleared
3 34 (39.08%) Cisco Certification
4 26 (29.89%) DV Cleared
5 25 (28.74%) CCNP
6 19 (21.84%) Microsoft Certification
7 17 (19.54%) MCSE
8 15 (17.24%) Oracle Certification
9 13 (14.94%) Degree
9 13 (14.94%) VCAP
10 11 (12.64%) OCA
11 10 (11.49%) Master's Degree
11 10 (11.49%) RHCA
11 10 (11.49%) RHCE
11 10 (11.49%) VCP5
11 10 (11.49%) VCP6
12 9 (10.34%) CCNA
13 4 (4.60%) MCSA
13 4 (4.60%) OCP
14 2 (2.30%) VCDX
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.15%) GDPR
1 1 (1.15%) HIPAA
System Software
1 76 (87.36%) VMware Infrastructure
2 28 (32.18%) VMware ESXi
2 28 (32.18%) vSphere
3 23 (26.44%) VMware NSX
4 11 (12.64%) Active Directory
5 10 (11.49%) NFS
6 5 (5.75%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (4.60%) Docker
8 2 (2.30%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (1.15%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 38 (43.68%) vCenter Server
2 27 (31.03%) Ansible
3 15 (17.24%) Terraform
4 11 (12.64%) PowerCLI
5 10 (11.49%) Progress Chef
5 10 (11.49%) Puppet
6 4 (4.60%) Kubernetes
6 4 (4.60%) WSUS
7 3 (3.45%) vRealize
7 3 (3.45%) vRealize Orchestrator
7 3 (3.45%) VxRail
8 2 (2.30%) FortiGate
9 1 (1.15%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (1.15%) Grafana
9 1 (1.15%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 87 (100.00%) VMware
2 34 (39.08%) Cisco
3 23 (26.44%) Microsoft
4 18 (20.69%) Atlassian
5 16 (18.39%) Oracle
6 14 (16.09%) F5
7 13 (14.94%) Veeam
8 10 (11.49%) Avaya
8 10 (11.49%) Ericsson
8 10 (11.49%) Juniper
8 10 (11.49%) NetApp
8 10 (11.49%) Nokia
8 10 (11.49%) Palo Alto
8 10 (11.49%) Ribbon
8 10 (11.49%) Splunk
9 4 (4.60%) Citrix
10 3 (3.45%) Dell
11 2 (2.30%) Atempo
11 2 (2.30%) Fortinet
11 2 (2.30%) Red Hat