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

6 months to
22 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 542 449 472
Rank change year-on-year -93 +23 +72
Contract jobs citing VMware Certified Professional (VCP) 89 69 60
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.19% 0.25% 0.18%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.61% 0.79% 0.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 50 37
10th Percentile £422 £499 £408
25th Percentile £485 £531 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £553 £600 £525
Median % change year-on-year -7.92% +14.29% +3.70%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £556
90th Percentile £734 £664 £665
UK median daily rate £553 £600 £525
% change year-on-year -7.92% +14.29% +3.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £58.43 - -
Median hourly rate £63.14 - -
75th Percentile £67.84 - -
90th Percentile £69.44 - -
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 14,549 8,712 10,117
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 31.72% 31.57% 30.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,792 5,474 6,433
10th Percentile £350 £300 £325
25th Percentile £437 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year - -2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £629 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £713 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £524 £525
% change year-on-year +0.19% -0.19% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,129 678 708
10th Percentile £18.25 £18.13 £14.48
25th Percentile £25.77 £18.87 £21.37
Median hourly rate £53.00 £25.15 £47.67
Median % change year-on-year +110.74% -47.24% -13.34%
75th Percentile £75.00 £55.00 £68.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £48.84 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +94.19% -41.51% -21.82%

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 22 August 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 22 August 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 -57 30 £610 -6.15% 5
South West -58 13 £600 +2.56% 6
North of England -62 13 £485 +7.78% 2
London -71 11 £625 +13.64% 12
West Midlands -38 10 £425 +16.44% 1
Midlands -40 10 £425 +16.44% 3
North West -40 10 £484 +38.29% 1
East of England -15 9 £507 -6.11% 2
Yorkshire -42 3 £519 +3.80% 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 3 (3.37%) Apache
1 3 (3.37%) CloudStack
1 3 (3.37%) Confluence
2 2 (2.25%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (2.25%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (3.37%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 26 (29.21%) Azure
2 18 (20.22%) AWS
3 9 (10.11%) GitHub
4 8 (8.99%) Microsoft 365
5 5 (5.62%) OpenShift
6 4 (4.49%) GCP
6 4 (4.49%) GitHub Actions
7 3 (3.37%) Entra ID
7 3 (3.37%) IaaS
7 3 (3.37%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 2 (2.25%) Amazon EKS
8 2 (2.25%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (2.25%) Azure Storage
8 2 (2.25%) Datadog
8 2 (2.25%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 30 (33.71%) VSAN
2 18 (20.22%) DNS
3 16 (17.98%) Firewall
4 10 (11.24%) DHCP
4 10 (11.24%) NAS
4 10 (11.24%) SAN
5 7 (7.87%) TCP/IP
5 7 (7.87%) WAN
6 6 (6.74%) LAN
6 6 (6.74%) VPN
7 5 (5.62%) SD-WAN
8 4 (4.49%) BGP
8 4 (4.49%) Cisco Firepower
8 4 (4.49%) Cisco Nexus
8 4 (4.49%) IPsec
8 4 (4.49%) MPLS
8 4 (4.49%) OSPF
8 4 (4.49%) VLAN
9 3 (3.37%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
9 3 (3.37%) NetScaler
Development Applications
1 4 (4.49%) Jenkins
2 3 (3.37%) Bitbucket
2 3 (3.37%) JIRA
3 2 (2.25%) Git
3 2 (2.25%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (1.12%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 1 (1.12%) GitLab
General
1 25 (28.09%) Social Skills
2 16 (17.98%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (8.99%) Public Sector
4 3 (3.37%) Documentation Skills
4 3 (3.37%) Telecoms
5 2 (2.25%) Aerospace
5 2 (2.25%) Influencing Skills
5 2 (2.25%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.12%) Finance
Job Titles
1 28 (31.46%) VMware Engineer
2 22 (24.72%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 19 (21.35%) Senior
4 10 (11.24%) Architect
4 10 (11.24%) Senior VMware Engineer
5 9 (10.11%) Virtualisation Engineer
5 9 (10.11%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
5 9 (10.11%) Wintel Engineer
6 8 (8.99%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 7 (7.87%) Python Engineer
8 6 (6.74%) JavaScript Engineer
8 6 (6.74%) Lead
8 6 (6.74%) Network Architect
8 6 (6.74%) PowerShell Engineer
8 6 (6.74%) VMware Specialist
9 5 (5.62%) Administrator
9 5 (5.62%) Lead Architect
9 5 (5.62%) Technical Architect
9 5 (5.62%) Technical Leader
10 4 (4.49%) Network Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (22.47%) Terraform
2 3 (3.37%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (2.25%) ARM Templates
3 2 (2.25%) Flash
3 2 (2.25%) OpenGL
3 2 (2.25%) Qt
3 2 (2.25%) REST
4 1 (1.12%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 21 (23.60%) Data Centre
2 19 (21.35%) Hybrid Cloud
3 13 (14.61%) Private Cloud
3 13 (14.61%) Replication
4 11 (12.36%) Public Cloud
5 10 (11.24%) Clustering
6 7 (7.87%) Cloud Native
7 5 (5.62%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 4 (4.49%) Analytical Mindset
9 3 (3.37%) EMC VMAX
9 3 (3.37%) EMC VNX
9 3 (3.37%) Enterprise Storage
10 2 (2.25%) CUDA
10 2 (2.25%) PKI
11 1 (1.12%) Distributed Architecture
11 1 (1.12%) Distributed Computing
11 1 (1.12%) Driving Licence
11 1 (1.12%) Greenfield Project
11 1 (1.12%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 32 (35.96%) Windows
2 26 (29.21%) Windows Server
3 18 (20.22%) Linux
4 5 (5.62%) Data ONTAP
4 5 (5.62%) Ubuntu
5 2 (2.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (2.25%) VMS
6 1 (1.12%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (1.12%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (30.34%) Disaster Recovery
2 26 (29.21%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 24 (26.97%) Problem-Solving
4 21 (23.60%) High Availability
5 20 (22.47%) Infrastructure as Code
6 18 (20.22%) Capacity Planning
6 18 (20.22%) Network Virtualisation
7 17 (19.10%) Project Delivery
8 16 (17.98%) Agile
9 14 (15.73%) ITIL
10 13 (14.61%) CI/CD
10 13 (14.61%) DevOps
10 13 (14.61%) Migration
11 10 (11.24%) Performance Tuning
12 9 (10.11%) Business Continuity
12 9 (10.11%) Infrastructure Automation
12 9 (10.11%) Load Balancing
12 9 (10.11%) Service Management
12 9 (10.11%) Stakeholder Management
13 8 (8.99%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 40 (44.94%) PowerShell
2 33 (37.08%) Python
3 17 (19.10%) Bash
4 13 (14.61%) JavaScript
5 2 (2.25%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 66 (74.16%) Security Cleared
2 45 (50.56%) SC Cleared
3 31 (34.83%) VCAP
4 26 (29.21%) DV Cleared
5 22 (24.72%) Microsoft Certification
6 18 (20.22%) Cisco Certification
7 15 (16.85%) MCSE
8 13 (14.61%) Azure Certification
8 13 (14.61%) CCNP
9 11 (12.36%) MCSA
10 9 (10.11%) Degree
11 8 (8.99%) AWS Certification
12 7 (7.87%) RHCA
13 6 (6.74%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 5 (5.62%) CCNA
15 3 (3.37%) CCA
15 3 (3.37%) CCIE
15 3 (3.37%) OCA
15 3 (3.37%) Oracle Certification
15 3 (3.37%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.49%) Cyber Essentials
1 4 (4.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (4.49%) NCSC
2 3 (3.37%) SLA
3 1 (1.12%) QA
System Software
1 65 (73.03%) VMware Infrastructure
2 47 (52.81%) VMware ESXi
3 36 (40.45%) VMware NSX
3 36 (40.45%) vSphere
4 14 (15.73%) Virtual Machines
5 12 (13.48%) Active Directory
5 12 (13.48%) Hyper-V
6 8 (8.99%) Docker
7 3 (3.37%) EMC RecoverPoint
7 3 (3.37%) SRDF
7 3 (3.37%) Virtual Desktop
8 2 (2.25%) Microsoft App-V
8 2 (2.25%) NFS
8 2 (2.25%) VMware Workstation
9 1 (1.12%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 43 (48.31%) vCenter Server
2 39 (43.82%) Ansible
3 18 (20.22%) Kubernetes
4 16 (17.98%) vRealize
5 11 (12.36%) PowerCLI
6 8 (8.99%) vMotion
7 6 (6.74%) SCCM
8 5 (5.62%) Grafana
8 5 (5.62%) Prometheus
9 4 (4.49%) Microsoft Intune
9 4 (4.49%) Podman
10 3 (3.37%) Check_MK
10 3 (3.37%) EMC VPLEX
10 3 (3.37%) Progress Chef
10 3 (3.37%) Puppet
10 3 (3.37%) SCOM
10 3 (3.37%) SnapMirror
11 2 (2.25%) EMC NetWorker
11 2 (2.25%) NetBackup
11 2 (2.25%) OPNET
Vendors
1 89 (100.00%) VMware
2 29 (32.58%) Microsoft
3 23 (25.84%) Cisco
4 12 (13.48%) Broadcom
5 8 (8.99%) SolarWinds
6 7 (7.87%) 3PAR
7 5 (5.62%) Atlassian
7 5 (5.62%) NetApp
7 5 (5.62%) Red Hat
7 5 (5.62%) Veeam
8 4 (4.49%) Nimble Storage
8 4 (4.49%) Palo Alto
9 3 (3.37%) Brocade
9 3 (3.37%) Commvault
9 3 (3.37%) F5
9 3 (3.37%) Fortinet
9 3 (3.37%) Google
9 3 (3.37%) Remedy
9 3 (3.37%) SaltStack
9 3 (3.37%) ServiceNow