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

6 months to
23 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 520 395 482
Rank change year-on-year -125 +87 +113
Contract jobs citing VMware Certified Professional (VCP) 73 86 56
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.18% 0.36% 0.15%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.55% 1.15% 0.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 68 44
10th Percentile £425 £513 £322
25th Percentile £469 £525 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £585 £519
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% +12.77% +6.41%
75th Percentile £610 £653 £556
90th Percentile £675 £690 £620
UK median daily rate £530 £585 £513
% change year-on-year -9.40% +14.15% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £58.43 - -
Median hourly rate £63.14 - -
75th Percentile £75.57 - -
90th Percentile £89.48 - -
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 13,249 7,503 11,129
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 31.90% 31.49% 30.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,887 4,783 6,899
10th Percentile £350 £278 £313
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £537
Median % change year-on-year - -2.32% -2.28%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £650
90th Percentile £725 £713 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £523 £530
% change year-on-year +0.48% -1.42% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 987 427 973
10th Percentile £17.03 £18.02 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.33 £22.27 £18.13
Median hourly rate £47.54 £35.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +35.83% -12.50% -25.93%
75th Percentile £73.00 £67.25 £62.50
90th Percentile £85.36 £80.00 £75.25
UK median hourly rate £48.05 £33.75 £40.00
% change year-on-year +42.37% -15.63% -27.27%

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 May 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)
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing VMware Certified Professional (VCP) in England over the 6 months to 23 May 2026.

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 23 May 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
North of England -63 21 £478 -4.50% 5
North West -25 18 £472 +7.89% 4
Midlands -64 11 £425 -39.29%
West Midlands -57 10 £425 -39.29%
South East -71 10 £610 -3.94% 7
London -65 9 £625 -3.85% 6
South West -74 9 £553 -3.91% 2
East of England -26 8 £507 -6.11%
Yorkshire -63 3 £488 -2.50% 1
East Midlands - 1 £550 -
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 (4.11%) Confluence
2 2 (2.74%) Apache
2 2 (2.74%) CloudStack
2 2 (2.74%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 3 (4.11%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 10 (13.70%) Azure
2 9 (12.33%) AWS
3 6 (8.22%) GitHub
4 4 (5.48%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (4.11%) GitHub Actions
5 3 (4.11%) OpenShift
6 2 (2.74%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (2.74%) Entra ID
6 2 (2.74%) IaaS
6 2 (2.74%) Nutanix
6 2 (2.74%) OneDrive
7 1 (1.37%) Azure Storage
7 1 (1.37%) Datadog
7 1 (1.37%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 16 (21.92%) VSAN
2 9 (12.33%) Firewall
3 7 (9.59%) NAS
3 7 (9.59%) SAN
4 4 (5.48%) DNS
5 3 (4.11%) Network Security
5 3 (4.11%) WAN
6 2 (2.74%) BGP
6 2 (2.74%) DHCP
6 2 (2.74%) DMVPN
6 2 (2.74%) IPFIX
6 2 (2.74%) iSCSI
6 2 (2.74%) LAN
6 2 (2.74%) OSPF
6 2 (2.74%) PCoIP
6 2 (2.74%) Remote Desktop
6 2 (2.74%) Structured Cabling
6 2 (2.74%) VXLAN
7 1 (1.37%) Cisco Nexus
7 1 (1.37%) SD-WAN
Development Applications
1 3 (4.11%) Bitbucket
1 3 (4.11%) JIRA
2 2 (2.74%) Git
2 2 (2.74%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.37%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 14 (19.18%) Social Skills
2 11 (15.07%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (6.85%) Public Sector
4 3 (4.11%) Documentation Skills
4 3 (4.11%) Finance
5 1 (1.37%) Banking
Job Titles
1 18 (24.66%) VMware Engineer
2 17 (23.29%) Wintel Engineer
3 12 (16.44%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 7 (9.59%) Python Engineer
4 7 (9.59%) Senior
5 6 (8.22%) Architect
5 6 (8.22%) JavaScript Engineer
5 6 (8.22%) PowerShell Engineer
5 6 (8.22%) Virtualisation Engineer
5 6 (8.22%) VMware Specialist
6 4 (5.48%) Consultant
6 4 (5.48%) Senior VMware Engineer
6 4 (5.48%) VMware Consultant
7 3 (4.11%) Lead
7 3 (4.11%) Network Architect
7 3 (4.11%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
8 2 (2.74%) Data Centre Engineer
8 2 (2.74%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 2 (2.74%) Storage Engineer
8 2 (2.74%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (4.11%) REST
2 2 (2.74%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (2.74%) Flash
2 2 (2.74%) OpenGL
2 2 (2.74%) Qt
3 1 (1.37%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 21 (28.77%) Replication
2 18 (24.66%) Clustering
3 14 (19.18%) Data Centre
4 6 (8.22%) Hybrid Cloud
4 6 (8.22%) Private Cloud
5 4 (5.48%) Public Cloud
6 3 (4.11%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (2.74%) CUDA
7 2 (2.74%) Cyber Kill Chain
7 2 (2.74%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 2 (2.74%) Security Posture
7 2 (2.74%) Taxonomies
7 2 (2.74%) VxBlock/Vblock
8 1 (1.37%) Cloud Native
8 1 (1.37%) EMC VMAX
8 1 (1.37%) EMC VNX
8 1 (1.37%) Enterprise Storage
8 1 (1.37%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 29 (39.73%) Windows
2 25 (34.25%) Windows Server
3 10 (13.70%) Linux
4 4 (5.48%) Ubuntu
5 3 (4.11%) Data ONTAP
6 2 (2.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (2.74%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (35.62%) Disaster Recovery
2 25 (34.25%) High Availability
3 24 (32.88%) Network Virtualisation
4 23 (31.51%) Capacity Planning
5 17 (23.29%) Project Delivery
6 16 (21.92%) Problem-Solving
7 14 (19.18%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 11 (15.07%) Migration
8 11 (15.07%) Performance Tuning
9 10 (13.70%) ITIL
10 8 (10.96%) Agile
10 8 (10.96%) Infrastructure as Code
11 7 (9.59%) Infrastructure Automation
11 7 (9.59%) Service Management
12 6 (8.22%) Data Centre Operations
12 6 (8.22%) Knowledge Transfer
13 5 (6.85%) Change Management
13 5 (6.85%) Observability
13 5 (6.85%) User Experience
13 5 (6.85%) Virtual Infrastructure
Programming Languages
1 42 (57.53%) PowerShell
2 28 (38.36%) Python
3 13 (17.81%) JavaScript
4 11 (15.07%) Bash
Qualifications
1 51 (69.86%) Security Cleared
2 40 (54.79%) SC Cleared
3 31 (42.47%) VCAP
4 23 (31.51%) Microsoft Certification
5 19 (26.03%) MCSE
6 16 (21.92%) MCSA
7 14 (19.18%) DV Cleared
8 13 (17.81%) Cisco Certification
9 9 (12.33%) CCNP
10 6 (8.22%) RHCA
11 5 (6.85%) Azure Certification
11 5 (6.85%) Degree
12 4 (5.48%) AWS Certification
12 4 (5.48%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 4 (5.48%) CCNA
13 3 (4.11%) OCA
13 3 (4.11%) Oracle Certification
13 3 (4.11%) RHCE
13 3 (4.11%) VCDX
14 2 (2.74%) GSEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.11%) Cyber Essentials
1 3 (4.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (2.74%) SLA
3 1 (1.37%) QA
System Software
1 51 (69.86%) VMware Infrastructure
2 41 (56.16%) VMware ESXi
3 34 (46.58%) vSphere
4 22 (30.14%) Virtual Machines
5 21 (28.77%) VMware NSX
6 6 (8.22%) Hyper-V
7 5 (6.85%) Active Directory
7 5 (6.85%) Docker
8 2 (2.74%) KVM
8 2 (2.74%) Microsoft App-V
8 2 (2.74%) SRDF
8 2 (2.74%) Virtual Desktop
8 2 (2.74%) VMware Workstation
9 1 (1.37%) EMC RecoverPoint
9 1 (1.37%) NFS
Systems Management
1 36 (49.32%) Ansible
2 35 (47.95%) vCenter Server
3 16 (21.92%) vRealize
4 9 (12.33%) PowerCLI
5 7 (9.59%) Terraform
6 6 (8.22%) Kubernetes
6 6 (8.22%) vMotion
7 3 (4.11%) Grafana
7 3 (4.11%) Podman
7 3 (4.11%) Progress Chef
7 3 (4.11%) Prometheus
7 3 (4.11%) Puppet
8 2 (2.74%) Check_MK
8 2 (2.74%) Packer
8 2 (2.74%) SCCM
9 1 (1.37%) EMC NetWorker
9 1 (1.37%) NetBackup
9 1 (1.37%) OPNET
9 1 (1.37%) SnapMirror
9 1 (1.37%) SnapVault
Vendors
1 73 (100.00%) VMware
2 26 (35.62%) Microsoft
3 24 (32.88%) Cisco
4 5 (6.85%) 3PAR
4 5 (6.85%) Broadcom
5 4 (5.48%) Nimble Storage
6 3 (4.11%) Atlassian
6 3 (4.11%) Dell
6 3 (4.11%) NetApp
6 3 (4.11%) Veeam
7 2 (2.74%) Commvault
7 2 (2.74%) Dynatrace
7 2 (2.74%) EMC
7 2 (2.74%) Fortinet
7 2 (2.74%) HP
7 2 (2.74%) Leostream
7 2 (2.74%) NVIDIA
7 2 (2.74%) Ping Identity
8 1 (1.37%) Red Hat
8 1 (1.37%) Remedy