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 20 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Dec 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 475 437 517
Rank change year-on-year -38 +80 +156
Contract jobs citing VMware Certified Professional (VCP) 62 59 44
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.20% 0.20% 0.12%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.58% 0.67% 0.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 28 27
10th Percentile £456 £463 £316
25th Percentile £490 £504 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £560 £488
Median % change year-on-year +2.68% +14.87% -
75th Percentile £613 £630 £588
90th Percentile £650 £716 £625
UK median daily rate £550 £560 £494
% change year-on-year -1.79% +13.42% +3.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £72.40 - -
25th Percentile £76.00 - -
Median hourly rate £84.00 - -
75th Percentile £92.38 - -
90th Percentile £96.20 - -
UK median hourly rate £84.00 - -

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 10,686 8,766 11,308
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 33.94% 30.35% 30.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,971 5,409 7,165
10th Percentile £313 £306 £300
25th Percentile £419 £425 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 915 411 677
10th Percentile £16.51 £19.30 £17.08
25th Percentile £19.38 £25.25 £26.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £46.18 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -45.54% -12.04% +16.67%
75th Percentile £56.00 £67.50 £67.56
90th Percentile £75.95 £75.00 £80.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year -37.13% -23.81% +16.67%

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 20 December 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)
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing VMware Certified Professional (VCP) in England over the 6 months to 20 December 2025.

Hourly rate histogram 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 20 December 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 +9 25 £575 +2.22% 9
South East -30 16 £588 +3.98% 8
North of England -41 7 £465 -7.08% 10
North West - 7 £465 - 6
South West -16 6 £630 +5.00% 3
Midlands - 3 £475 - 3
West Midlands - 2 £420 - 2
East of England -24 1 £563 +151.68% 1
East Midlands - 1 £550 - 1
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 (8.06%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (6.45%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (1.61%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 12 (19.35%) Azure
2 5 (8.06%) AWS
3 4 (6.45%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (4.84%) AWS CloudFormation
4 3 (4.84%) Nutanix
5 2 (3.23%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 2 (3.23%) IaaS
6 1 (1.61%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (1.61%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (1.61%) AWS CloudTrail
6 1 (1.61%) AWS KMS
6 1 (1.61%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (1.61%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (1.61%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (1.61%) Entra ID
6 1 (1.61%) PaaS
6 1 (1.61%) Route 53
6 1 (1.61%) SaaS
6 1 (1.61%) Serverless
6 1 (1.61%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 12 (19.35%) VSAN
2 9 (14.52%) DHCP
2 9 (14.52%) DNS
3 8 (12.90%) Firewall
4 5 (8.06%) iSCSI
4 5 (8.06%) VPN
5 4 (6.45%) Fibre Channel
5 4 (6.45%) PCoIP
5 4 (6.45%) WAN
6 3 (4.84%) SAN
6 3 (4.84%) Software-Defined Networking
6 3 (4.84%) TCP/IP
7 2 (3.23%) VLAN
7 2 (3.23%) VXLAN
8 1 (1.61%) BGP
8 1 (1.61%) Cisco IOS
8 1 (1.61%) DMVPN
8 1 (1.61%) Network Security
8 1 (1.61%) OSPF
8 1 (1.61%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.61%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (1.61%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (6.45%) JIRA
2 3 (4.84%) Bitbucket
2 3 (4.84%) Git
2 3 (4.84%) Jenkins
General
1 18 (29.03%) Social Skills
2 12 (19.35%) Public Sector
3 6 (9.68%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (8.06%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (4.84%) Finance
5 3 (4.84%) Telecoms
6 2 (3.23%) Banking
6 2 (3.23%) Electronics
6 2 (3.23%) Manufacturing
6 2 (3.23%) Marketing
6 2 (3.23%) Military
7 1 (1.61%) Advertising
7 1 (1.61%) Aerospace
7 1 (1.61%) French Language
Job Titles
1 20 (32.26%) Consultant
2 17 (27.42%) VMware Consultant
3 11 (17.74%) Architect
4 9 (14.52%) VMware Engineer
5 8 (12.90%) VMware Specialist
6 6 (9.68%) Senior
6 6 (9.68%) VMware Architect
7 5 (8.06%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 5 (8.06%) Principal Consultant
8 4 (6.45%) Infrastructure Architect
8 4 (6.45%) Wintel Engineer
9 3 (4.84%) Azure Consultant
9 3 (4.84%) Senior Architect
9 3 (4.84%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
10 2 (3.23%) Data Consultant
10 2 (3.23%) Exchange Consultant
10 2 (3.23%) Exchange Migration Consultant
10 2 (3.23%) Migration Consultant
10 2 (3.23%) Team Leader
10 2 (3.23%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.61%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (1.61%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 10 (16.13%) Replication
2 9 (14.52%) Data Centre
3 7 (11.29%) PKI
4 5 (8.06%) Hybrid Cloud
5 4 (6.45%) Clustering
6 2 (3.23%) Public Cloud
6 2 (3.23%) VxBlock/Vblock
7 1 (1.61%) Blackberry
7 1 (1.61%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (1.61%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 18 (29.03%) Windows
2 15 (24.19%) Windows Server
3 7 (11.29%) Linux
4 4 (6.45%) Windows Server 2019
5 3 (4.84%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (1.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (1.61%) SUSE
6 1 (1.61%) Ubuntu
6 1 (1.61%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (22.58%) Problem-Solving
2 10 (16.13%) Migration
3 8 (12.90%) Customer Requirements
4 7 (11.29%) Agile
5 6 (9.68%) Disaster Recovery
5 6 (9.68%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 6 (9.68%) Performance Optimisation
6 5 (8.06%) Continuous Improvement
6 5 (8.06%) Critical Thinking
6 5 (8.06%) High Availability
6 5 (8.06%) ITIL
6 5 (8.06%) Network Virtualisation
6 5 (8.06%) Stakeholder Management
7 4 (6.45%) Capacity Planning
7 4 (6.45%) Containerisation
7 4 (6.45%) Deployment Automation
7 4 (6.45%) Infrastructure Automation
7 4 (6.45%) Performance Analysis
7 4 (6.45%) Platform Engineering
8 3 (4.84%) Knowledge Transfer
Programming Languages
1 33 (53.23%) PowerShell
2 27 (43.55%) Python
3 17 (27.42%) JavaScript
4 9 (14.52%) SQL
5 3 (4.84%) Bash
Qualifications
1 41 (66.13%) Security Cleared
2 29 (46.77%) SC Cleared
3 16 (25.81%) Microsoft Certification
3 16 (25.81%) VCAP
4 13 (20.97%) MCSE
5 9 (14.52%) MCSA
6 5 (8.06%) CCNP
6 5 (8.06%) Cisco Certification
6 5 (8.06%) DV Cleared
7 4 (6.45%) AWS Certification
7 4 (6.45%) VCP5
7 4 (6.45%) VCP6
8 3 (4.84%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 3 (4.84%) Azure Certification
8 3 (4.84%) OCA
8 3 (4.84%) Oracle Certification
8 3 (4.84%) VCDX
9 2 (3.23%) CCNA
9 2 (3.23%) Degree
9 2 (3.23%) HP ASE
System Software
1 40 (64.52%) VMware Infrastructure
2 30 (48.39%) vSphere
3 17 (27.42%) VMware ESXi
4 13 (20.97%) VMware NSX
5 11 (17.74%) Active Directory
6 8 (12.90%) Virtual Machines
7 5 (8.06%) Hyper-V
8 4 (6.45%) Docker
8 4 (6.45%) NFS
9 2 (3.23%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (1.61%) Firmware
10 1 (1.61%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 20 (32.26%) vRealize
2 14 (22.58%) Ansible
3 13 (20.97%) vCenter Server
4 8 (12.90%) Terraform
5 5 (8.06%) PowerCLI
6 4 (6.45%) Kubernetes
7 3 (4.84%) Microsoft Intune
7 3 (4.84%) vRealize Orchestrator
8 2 (3.23%) FortiGate
8 2 (3.23%) vMotion
9 1 (1.61%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (1.61%) Failover Clustering
9 1 (1.61%) SCOM
9 1 (1.61%) VxRail
Vendors
1 62 (100.00%) VMware
2 25 (40.32%) Microsoft
3 9 (14.52%) Veeam
4 7 (11.29%) Cisco
5 5 (8.06%) NetApp
6 4 (6.45%) Dell
6 4 (6.45%) Splunk
7 3 (4.84%) Atlassian
7 3 (4.84%) Oracle
7 3 (4.84%) SolarWinds
8 2 (3.23%) 3PAR
8 2 (3.23%) Citrix
8 2 (3.23%) Fortinet
8 2 (3.23%) Nimble Storage
8 2 (3.23%) ProCurve
8 2 (3.23%) SAP
9 1 (1.61%) Avaya
9 1 (1.61%) Palo Alto
9 1 (1.61%) Pure Storage
9 1 (1.61%) Ribbon
27 VMware Certified Professional (VCP) jobs in England