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

6 months to
7 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 481 442 512
Rank change year-on-year -39 +70 +123
Contract jobs citing VMware Certified Professional (VCP) 60 52 37
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.19% 0.19% 0.10%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.55% 0.62% 0.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 25 19
10th Percentile £459 £438 £318
25th Percentile £493 £513 £366
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £565 £510
Median % change year-on-year +1.77% +10.78% +7.37%
75th Percentile £612 £630 £594
90th Percentile £674 £720 £655
UK median daily rate £550 £570 £505
% change year-on-year -3.51% +12.87% +6.32%
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 10,825 8,363 11,071
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.21% 30.58% 30.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,137 5,116 6,980
10th Percentile £313 £300 £300
25th Percentile £420 £419 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £725 £738
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 878 410 675
10th Percentile £16.30 £18.51 £16.25
25th Percentile £18.87 £24.50 £25.19
Median hourly rate £25.15 £46.18 £52.21
Median % change year-on-year -45.54% -11.54% +16.01%
75th Percentile £59.56 £68.00 £68.69
90th Percentile £76.58 £80.75 £80.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £39.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year -36.33% -24.76% +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 7 January 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 7 January 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 7 January 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
London -10 25 £575 +2.22% 6
South East -32 13 £575 -6.88% 4
North of England -43 7 £465 -7.08% 9
North West - 7 £465 - 6
South West -12 6 £630 +5.00% 2
Midlands - 2 £513 - 3
East of England -22 1 £563 +151.68%
West Midlands - 1 £475 - 2
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 (8.33%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (6.67%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 10 (16.67%) Azure
2 4 (6.67%) AWS
2 4 (6.67%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (5.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 3 (5.00%) Nutanix
4 2 (3.33%) IaaS
5 1 (1.67%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 1 (1.67%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (1.67%) PaaS
5 1 (1.67%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (16.67%) Firewall
1 10 (16.67%) VSAN
2 8 (13.33%) DHCP
2 8 (13.33%) DNS
3 5 (8.33%) VPN
4 4 (6.67%) PCoIP
5 3 (5.00%) Network Security
5 3 (5.00%) SAN
5 3 (5.00%) Software-Defined Networking
5 3 (5.00%) TCP/IP
5 3 (5.00%) WAN
6 2 (3.33%) Fibre Channel
6 2 (3.33%) IPFIX
6 2 (3.33%) iSCSI
6 2 (3.33%) VXLAN
7 1 (1.67%) Cisco IOS
7 1 (1.67%) Cisco Nexus
7 1 (1.67%) DMVPN
7 1 (1.67%) Remote Desktop
7 1 (1.67%) VLAN
Development Applications
1 4 (6.67%) JIRA
2 3 (5.00%) Bitbucket
2 3 (5.00%) Git
2 3 (5.00%) Jenkins
General
1 18 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 11 (18.33%) Public Sector
3 7 (11.67%) Documentation Skills
4 6 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (5.00%) Finance
5 3 (5.00%) Telecoms
6 2 (3.33%) Banking
6 2 (3.33%) Electronics
6 2 (3.33%) Manufacturing
6 2 (3.33%) Marketing
6 2 (3.33%) Military
7 1 (1.67%) Advertising
7 1 (1.67%) Aerospace
7 1 (1.67%) French Language
Job Titles
1 19 (31.67%) Consultant
2 16 (26.67%) VMware Consultant
3 10 (16.67%) Architect
4 9 (15.00%) VMware Engineer
5 8 (13.33%) VMware Specialist
6 6 (10.00%) Senior
6 6 (10.00%) VMware Architect
7 5 (8.33%) Principal Consultant
8 4 (6.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 4 (6.67%) Wintel Engineer
9 3 (5.00%) Senior Architect
9 3 (5.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
10 2 (3.33%) Active Directory Consultant
10 2 (3.33%) Data Consultant
10 2 (3.33%) Data Migration Consultant
10 2 (3.33%) Exchange Consultant
10 2 (3.33%) Infrastructure Architect
10 2 (3.33%) Migration Consultant
10 2 (3.33%) Team Leader
10 2 (3.33%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (5.00%) REST
2 1 (1.67%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 9 (15.00%) Replication
2 8 (13.33%) Data Centre
3 6 (10.00%) PKI
4 4 (6.67%) Clustering
4 4 (6.67%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (3.33%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 2 (3.33%) Public Cloud
5 2 (3.33%) Security Posture
5 2 (3.33%) Taxonomies
5 2 (3.33%) VxBlock/Vblock
6 1 (1.67%) Blackberry
6 1 (1.67%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 16 (26.67%) Windows
2 13 (21.67%) Windows Server
3 6 (10.00%) Linux
4 3 (5.00%) Windows Server 2012
5 2 (3.33%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (1.67%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (21.67%) Problem-Solving
2 10 (16.67%) Migration
3 7 (11.67%) Agile
3 7 (11.67%) Customer Requirements
4 6 (10.00%) Capacity Planning
4 6 (10.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 6 (10.00%) Performance Optimisation
5 5 (8.33%) Continuous Improvement
5 5 (8.33%) Critical Thinking
5 5 (8.33%) High Availability
5 5 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 5 (8.33%) ITIL
5 5 (8.33%) Network Virtualisation
5 5 (8.33%) Runbook
5 5 (8.33%) SIEM
5 5 (8.33%) Stakeholder Management
6 4 (6.67%) Cloud Security
6 4 (6.67%) Deployment Automation
6 4 (6.67%) Infrastructure Automation
6 4 (6.67%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 34 (56.67%) PowerShell
2 29 (48.33%) Python
3 17 (28.33%) JavaScript
4 6 (10.00%) SQL
5 3 (5.00%) Bash
Qualifications
1 39 (65.00%) Security Cleared
2 29 (48.33%) SC Cleared
3 18 (30.00%) VCAP
4 13 (21.67%) Microsoft Certification
5 11 (18.33%) MCSE
6 9 (15.00%) MCSA
7 5 (8.33%) CCNP
7 5 (8.33%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (6.67%) DV Cleared
9 3 (5.00%) AWS Certification
9 3 (5.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 3 (5.00%) OCA
9 3 (5.00%) Oracle Certification
9 3 (5.00%) VCDX
10 2 (3.33%) Azure Certification
10 2 (3.33%) CCNA
10 2 (3.33%) CISSP
10 2 (3.33%) HP ASE
10 2 (3.33%) VCP5
10 2 (3.33%) VCP6
System Software
1 39 (65.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 27 (45.00%) vSphere
3 15 (25.00%) VMware ESXi
4 13 (21.67%) VMware NSX
5 9 (15.00%) Active Directory
6 7 (11.67%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (6.67%) Docker
7 4 (6.67%) Hyper-V
8 2 (3.33%) NFS
8 2 (3.33%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (1.67%) Firmware
9 1 (1.67%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 20 (33.33%) vRealize
2 14 (23.33%) Ansible
3 12 (20.00%) vCenter Server
4 8 (13.33%) Terraform
5 4 (6.67%) Kubernetes
5 4 (6.67%) PowerCLI
6 3 (5.00%) Microsoft Intune
6 3 (5.00%) vRealize Orchestrator
7 2 (3.33%) FortiGate
7 2 (3.33%) vMotion
8 1 (1.67%) Failover Clustering
8 1 (1.67%) SCOM
8 1 (1.67%) VxRail
Vendors
1 60 (100.00%) VMware
2 21 (35.00%) Microsoft
3 7 (11.67%) Cisco
4 6 (10.00%) Veeam
5 4 (6.67%) Dell
6 3 (5.00%) Atlassian
6 3 (5.00%) NetApp
6 3 (5.00%) Oracle
6 3 (5.00%) SolarWinds
7 2 (3.33%) 3PAR
7 2 (3.33%) Citrix
7 2 (3.33%) Fortinet
7 2 (3.33%) Nimble Storage
7 2 (3.33%) ProCurve
7 2 (3.33%) SAP
7 2 (3.33%) Splunk
8 1 (1.67%) F5
8 1 (1.67%) Isilon
8 1 (1.67%) Palo Alto
8 1 (1.67%) Ribbon