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

6 months to
21 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 556 471 480
Rank change year-on-year -85 +9 +66
Contract jobs citing VMware Certified Professional (VCP) 81 49 55
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.18% 0.18% 0.17%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.55% 0.56% 0.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 35 29
10th Percentile £413 £439 £440
25th Percentile £485 £519 £490
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £600 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.83% +14.29% +5.00%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £560
90th Percentile £769 - £694
UK median daily rate £558 £600 £525
% change year-on-year -7.08% +14.29% +3.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £58.43 - -
Median hourly rate £63.14 - -
75th Percentile £69.08 - -
90th Percentile £70.00 - -
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 14,773 8,698 9,745
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 32.04% 31.54% 29.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,882 5,528 5,992
10th Percentile £350 £301 £325
25th Percentile £443 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £529 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year +0.81% -2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £715 £738
UK median daily rate £528 £525 £525
% change year-on-year +0.48% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,219 692 566
10th Percentile £18.24 £17.90 £17.56
25th Percentile £25.77 £18.87 £27.00
Median hourly rate £52.50 £25.15 £54.00
Median % change year-on-year +108.75% -53.43% +0.12%
75th Percentile £74.00 £45.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £89.08 £73.75 £80.00
UK median hourly rate £47.54 £25.15 £49.00
% change year-on-year +89.03% -48.67% -9.26%

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 21 September 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)
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 21 September 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
South East -52 29 £610 -6.15% 9
North of England -58 14 £485 -3.00% 5
West Midlands -37 10 £425 +16.44% 1
Midlands -37 10 £425 +16.44% 5
North West -41 10 £484 - 3
East of England -19 9 £507 -9.97% 1
South West -40 8 £644 +6.40% 5
London -88 8 £642 +32.37% 14
Yorkshire -38 4 £519 +3.80% 2
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 (3.70%) Apache
1 3 (3.70%) CloudStack
2 2 (2.47%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.23%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (1.23%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (3.70%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 29 (35.80%) Azure
2 20 (24.69%) AWS
3 9 (11.11%) GitHub
4 8 (9.88%) Microsoft 365
5 6 (7.41%) GCP
5 6 (7.41%) OpenShift
6 5 (6.17%) IaaS
7 4 (4.94%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (3.70%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (3.70%) Entra ID
8 3 (3.70%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 2 (2.47%) Amazon EKS
9 2 (2.47%) Azure Storage
9 2 (2.47%) Datadog
9 2 (2.47%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 24 (29.63%) VSAN
2 19 (23.46%) DNS
3 17 (20.99%) Firewall
4 11 (13.58%) DHCP
5 10 (12.35%) NAS
5 10 (12.35%) SAN
6 8 (9.88%) TCP/IP
6 8 (9.88%) WAN
7 7 (8.64%) LAN
7 7 (8.64%) VPN
8 5 (6.17%) SD-WAN
8 5 (6.17%) Software-Defined Networking
9 4 (4.94%) BGP
9 4 (4.94%) Cisco Firepower
9 4 (4.94%) Cisco Nexus
9 4 (4.94%) IPsec
9 4 (4.94%) MPLS
9 4 (4.94%) OSPF
9 4 (4.94%) VLAN
10 3 (3.70%) BIG-IP
Development Applications
1 3 (3.70%) Jenkins
2 2 (2.47%) JIRA
2 2 (2.47%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (1.23%) Bitbucket
3 1 (1.23%) GitLab
General
1 23 (28.40%) Social Skills
2 16 (19.75%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (6.17%) Public Sector
4 3 (3.70%) Aerospace
4 3 (3.70%) Organisational Skills
4 3 (3.70%) Telecoms
5 2 (2.47%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (2.47%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (1.23%) Finance
Job Titles
1 22 (27.16%) VMware Engineer
2 18 (22.22%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 18 (22.22%) Senior
3 12 (14.81%) Architect
4 9 (11.11%) Wintel Engineer
5 8 (9.88%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 8 (9.88%) Senior VMware Engineer
5 8 (9.88%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
6 6 (7.41%) Lead
6 6 (7.41%) Network Architect
7 5 (6.17%) Administrator
7 5 (6.17%) Cloud Engineer
7 5 (6.17%) JavaScript Engineer
7 5 (6.17%) Lead Architect
7 5 (6.17%) PowerShell Engineer
7 5 (6.17%) Python Engineer
7 5 (6.17%) Technical Architect
7 5 (6.17%) Technical Leader
7 5 (6.17%) VMware Specialist
8 4 (4.94%) Network Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (24.69%) Terraform
2 3 (3.70%) ARM Templates
2 3 (3.70%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (2.47%) OpenGL
3 2 (2.47%) Qt
4 1 (1.23%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 25 (30.86%) Data Centre
2 21 (25.93%) Hybrid Cloud
3 13 (16.05%) Replication
4 12 (14.81%) Private Cloud
5 11 (13.58%) Public Cloud
6 10 (12.35%) Cloud Native
7 8 (9.88%) Clustering
8 5 (6.17%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 4 (4.94%) Analytical Mindset
10 3 (3.70%) EMC VMAX
10 3 (3.70%) EMC VNX
10 3 (3.70%) Enterprise Storage
11 2 (2.47%) CUDA
11 2 (2.47%) Distributed Architecture
11 2 (2.47%) Distributed Computing
11 2 (2.47%) Management Information System
11 2 (2.47%) PKI
12 1 (1.23%) Driving Licence
12 1 (1.23%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 33 (40.74%) Windows
2 28 (34.57%) Windows Server
3 19 (23.46%) Linux
4 5 (6.17%) Data ONTAP
4 5 (6.17%) Ubuntu
5 2 (2.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (2.47%) VMS
6 1 (1.23%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (1.23%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (35.80%) Disaster Recovery
2 25 (30.86%) Problem-Solving
3 21 (25.93%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 20 (24.69%) High Availability
4 20 (24.69%) Infrastructure as Code
5 19 (23.46%) Capacity Planning
5 19 (23.46%) Project Delivery
6 17 (20.99%) Agile
6 17 (20.99%) ITIL
6 17 (20.99%) Network Virtualisation
7 16 (19.75%) Migration
8 15 (18.52%) DevOps
9 12 (14.81%) Business Continuity
9 12 (14.81%) CI/CD
9 12 (14.81%) Stakeholder Management
10 11 (13.58%) Continuous Improvement
11 10 (12.35%) Load Balancing
11 10 (12.35%) Performance Tuning
12 8 (9.88%) Computer Science
12 8 (9.88%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 39 (48.15%) PowerShell
2 30 (37.04%) Python
3 15 (18.52%) Bash
4 10 (12.35%) JavaScript
5 3 (3.70%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 60 (74.07%) Security Cleared
2 40 (49.38%) SC Cleared
3 29 (35.80%) VCAP
4 25 (30.86%) DV Cleared
5 23 (28.40%) Microsoft Certification
6 16 (19.75%) Azure Certification
7 15 (18.52%) MCSE
8 14 (17.28%) Cisco Certification
9 12 (14.81%) Degree
10 11 (13.58%) MCSA
11 10 (12.35%) AWS Certification
11 10 (12.35%) CCNP
12 6 (7.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 5 (6.17%) Computer Science Degree
14 4 (4.94%) CCNA
14 4 (4.94%) RHCA
15 3 (3.70%) CCA
15 3 (3.70%) CCIE
15 3 (3.70%) Citrix Certification
15 3 (3.70%) NCDA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.94%) Cyber Essentials
1 4 (4.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (4.94%) NCSC
2 3 (3.70%) SLA
3 1 (1.23%) GRC
3 1 (1.23%) QA
System Software
1 62 (76.54%) VMware Infrastructure
2 41 (50.62%) VMware ESXi
3 38 (46.91%) vSphere
4 32 (39.51%) VMware NSX
5 14 (17.28%) Hyper-V
6 13 (16.05%) Virtual Machines
7 12 (14.81%) Active Directory
8 8 (9.88%) Docker
9 3 (3.70%) EMC RecoverPoint
9 3 (3.70%) SRDF
9 3 (3.70%) Virtual Desktop
10 2 (2.47%) Microsoft App-V
10 2 (2.47%) NFS
10 2 (2.47%) VMware Workstation
11 1 (1.23%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 36 (44.44%) Ansible
1 36 (44.44%) vCenter Server
2 19 (23.46%) Kubernetes
3 15 (18.52%) vRealize
4 10 (12.35%) PowerCLI
5 8 (9.88%) vMotion
6 6 (7.41%) SCCM
7 5 (6.17%) Grafana
7 5 (6.17%) Prometheus
8 4 (4.94%) Microsoft Intune
8 4 (4.94%) Podman
9 3 (3.70%) Check_MK
9 3 (3.70%) EMC VPLEX
9 3 (3.70%) Istio
9 3 (3.70%) SCOM
9 3 (3.70%) SnapMirror
10 2 (2.47%) Argo
10 2 (2.47%) EMC NetWorker
10 2 (2.47%) vRealize Orchestrator
10 2 (2.47%) VxRail
Vendors
1 81 (100.00%) VMware
2 29 (35.80%) Microsoft
3 23 (28.40%) Cisco
4 9 (11.11%) Broadcom
5 8 (9.88%) SolarWinds
6 7 (8.64%) 3PAR
7 6 (7.41%) Red Hat
8 5 (6.17%) Atlassian
8 5 (6.17%) NetApp
8 5 (6.17%) Veeam
9 4 (4.94%) Nimble Storage
9 4 (4.94%) Palo Alto
10 3 (3.70%) Brocade
10 3 (3.70%) Commvault
10 3 (3.70%) F5
10 3 (3.70%) Fortinet
10 3 (3.70%) Google
10 3 (3.70%) Remedy
10 3 (3.70%) SaltStack
10 3 (3.70%) ServiceNow