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 13 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 494 447 509
Rank change year-on-year -47 +62 +174
Contract jobs citing VMware Certified Professional (VCP) 57 60 55
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.19% 0.19% 0.14%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.57% 0.65% 0.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 26 39
10th Percentile £454 £425 £313
25th Percentile £523 £491 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £525 £513
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% +2.44% +5.13%
75th Percentile £650 £630 £563
90th Percentile £651 £669 £600
UK median daily rate £600 £525 £513
% change year-on-year +14.29% +2.44% +7.89%

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 10,021 9,207 11,581
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 33.18% 29.67% 29.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,480 5,638 7,421
10th Percentile £300 £313 £308
25th Percentile £416 £425 £432
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
75th Percentile £627 £638 £650
90th Percentile £720 £734 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 871 424 702
10th Percentile £17.69 £20.26 £17.72
25th Percentile £18.87 £26.85 £26.24
Median hourly rate £25.15 £50.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -49.70% -4.76% +16.67%
75th Percentile £45.46 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £80.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £45.00 £53.00
% change year-on-year -44.11% -15.09% +17.78%

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 13 November 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 13 November 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
London +2 21 £575 +27.78% 20
South East -9 18 £650 +16.07% 18
South West -10 5 £630 +5.00% 3
North of England -32 5 - - 1
North West - 3 - - 1
Yorkshire -32 2 - -
Midlands - 2 £420 - 4
West Midlands - 2 £420 - 4
East of England -19 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 6 (10.53%) Confluence
2 5 (8.77%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 8 (14.04%) Azure
2 3 (5.26%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (5.26%) Nutanix
3 2 (3.51%) Azure ExpressRoute
3 2 (3.51%) IaaS
4 1 (1.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (1.75%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (1.75%) Amazon EventBridge
4 1 (1.75%) AWS
4 1 (1.75%) AWS CloudTrail
4 1 (1.75%) AWS KMS
4 1 (1.75%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (1.75%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (1.75%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (1.75%) Entra ID
4 1 (1.75%) PaaS
4 1 (1.75%) Route 53
4 1 (1.75%) SaaS
4 1 (1.75%) Serverless
4 1 (1.75%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 11 (19.30%) VSAN
2 10 (17.54%) iSCSI
3 9 (15.79%) Fibre Channel
4 8 (14.04%) DNS
5 6 (10.53%) DHCP
6 5 (8.77%) VPN
7 4 (7.02%) Firewall
7 4 (7.02%) PCoIP
7 4 (7.02%) WAN
8 3 (5.26%) Software-Defined Networking
9 2 (3.51%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
9 2 (3.51%) SAN
10 1 (1.75%) LAN
10 1 (1.75%) PBX
10 1 (1.75%) Remote Desktop
10 1 (1.75%) VLAN
10 1 (1.75%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.75%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (1.75%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (10.53%) JIRA
2 5 (8.77%) Jenkins
3 3 (5.26%) Bitbucket
3 3 (5.26%) Git
General
1 17 (29.82%) Social Skills
2 11 (19.30%) Public Sector
3 5 (8.77%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (8.77%) Documentation Skills
4 4 (7.02%) Finance
5 3 (5.26%) Telecoms
6 2 (3.51%) Electronics
6 2 (3.51%) Manufacturing
6 2 (3.51%) Marketing
6 2 (3.51%) Military
7 1 (1.75%) Advertising
7 1 (1.75%) Banking
7 1 (1.75%) French Language
Job Titles
1 20 (35.09%) Consultant
2 17 (29.82%) VMware Consultant
3 16 (28.07%) Architect
4 11 (19.30%) VMware Architect
5 9 (15.79%) Infrastructure Architect
5 9 (15.79%) VMware Engineer
6 6 (10.53%) VMware Specialist
7 4 (7.02%) Principal Consultant
8 3 (5.26%) Azure Consultant
8 3 (5.26%) Lead
8 3 (5.26%) Senior
8 3 (5.26%) Senior Architect
9 2 (3.51%) Active Directory Consultant
9 2 (3.51%) Active Directory Migration Consultant
9 2 (3.51%) Azure Architect
9 2 (3.51%) Data Centre Consultant
9 2 (3.51%) Data Migration Consultant
9 2 (3.51%) Exchange Migration Consultant
9 2 (3.51%) Migration Consultant
9 2 (3.51%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.75%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (1.75%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 8 (14.04%) Data Centre
2 5 (8.77%) Hybrid Cloud
3 4 (7.02%) PKI
3 4 (7.02%) Replication
4 2 (3.51%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.75%) Blackberry
5 1 (1.75%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (1.75%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.75%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 16 (28.07%) Windows
1 16 (28.07%) Windows Server
2 9 (15.79%) Windows Server 2019
3 4 (7.02%) Linux
4 3 (5.26%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (1.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (1.75%) SUSE
5 1 (1.75%) Ubuntu
5 1 (1.75%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (22.81%) Problem-Solving
2 9 (15.79%) Performance Analysis
3 8 (14.04%) Agile
3 8 (14.04%) Edge Virtualization
3 8 (14.04%) Migration
4 6 (10.53%) Continuous Improvement
4 6 (10.53%) Performance Optimisation
5 5 (8.77%) Customer Requirements
5 5 (8.77%) Infrastructure Automation
6 4 (7.02%) Critical Thinking
6 4 (7.02%) Deployment Automation
6 4 (7.02%) Performance Tuning
6 4 (7.02%) Stakeholder Management
7 3 (5.26%) ITIL
7 3 (5.26%) Knowledge Transfer
7 3 (5.26%) Runbook
7 3 (5.26%) Service Management
7 3 (5.26%) System Testing
8 2 (3.51%) Cloud Security
8 2 (3.51%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 26 (45.61%) PowerShell
2 24 (42.11%) Python
3 15 (26.32%) JavaScript
4 14 (24.56%) SQL
Qualifications
1 36 (63.16%) Security Cleared
2 22 (38.60%) SC Cleared
3 17 (29.82%) Microsoft Certification
4 14 (24.56%) MCSE
5 12 (21.05%) VCAP
6 11 (19.30%) DV Cleared
7 9 (15.79%) VCP5
7 9 (15.79%) VCP6
8 5 (8.77%) MCSA
9 4 (7.02%) CCNP
9 4 (7.02%) Cisco Certification
10 3 (5.26%) Azure Certification
10 3 (5.26%) OCA
10 3 (5.26%) Oracle Certification
10 3 (5.26%) VCDX
11 2 (3.51%) CCNA
11 2 (3.51%) HP ASE
12 1 (1.75%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
12 1 (1.75%) Computer Science Degree
12 1 (1.75%) MCP
System Software
1 36 (63.16%) VMware Infrastructure
2 31 (54.39%) vSphere
3 17 (29.82%) VMware ESXi
4 13 (22.81%) VMware NSX
5 9 (15.79%) NFS
6 8 (14.04%) Active Directory
7 3 (5.26%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (3.51%) Hyper-V
8 2 (3.51%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (1.75%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 18 (31.58%) vRealize
2 10 (17.54%) vCenter Server
3 8 (14.04%) PowerCLI
4 7 (12.28%) Terraform
5 6 (10.53%) Ansible
6 3 (5.26%) Microsoft Intune
6 3 (5.26%) vRealize Orchestrator
7 2 (3.51%) FortiGate
7 2 (3.51%) vMotion
8 1 (1.75%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (1.75%) Failover Clustering
8 1 (1.75%) SCOM
8 1 (1.75%) VxRail
Vendors
1 57 (100.00%) VMware
2 22 (38.60%) Microsoft
3 14 (24.56%) Veeam
4 10 (17.54%) NetApp
5 9 (15.79%) Splunk
6 3 (5.26%) Atlassian
6 3 (5.26%) F5
6 3 (5.26%) Oracle
6 3 (5.26%) SolarWinds
7 2 (3.51%) 3PAR
7 2 (3.51%) Broadcom
7 2 (3.51%) Cisco
7 2 (3.51%) Citrix
7 2 (3.51%) Dell
7 2 (3.51%) Fortinet
7 2 (3.51%) Nimble Storage
7 2 (3.51%) ProCurve
7 2 (3.51%) SAP
8 1 (1.75%) Palo Alto
8 1 (1.75%) Pure Storage