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

6 months to
21 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 487 432 510
Rank change year-on-year -55 +78 +124
Contract jobs citing VMware Certified Professional (VCP) 61 53 42
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.19% 0.20% 0.11%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.55% 0.65% 0.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 28 24
10th Percentile £454 £466 £319
25th Percentile £480 £513 £359
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £600 £467
Median % change year-on-year -6.15% +28.52% -1.72%
75th Percentile £611 £663 £556
90th Percentile £674 £725 £625
UK median daily rate £563 £600 £480
% change year-on-year -6.15% +25.00% +1.05%
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 11,107 8,103 11,429
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.40% 30.40% 30.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,370 4,916 7,147
10th Percentile £313 £300 £300
25th Percentile £419 £419 £425
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 £519 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.13% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 874 395 773
10th Percentile £16.00 £19.98 £14.25
25th Percentile £19.00 £25.26 £21.46
Median hourly rate £25.15 £47.25 £48.40
Median % change year-on-year -46.77% -2.39% +7.56%
75th Percentile £61.42 £67.88 £66.25
90th Percentile £75.00 £82.25 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £48.70
% change year-on-year -37.13% -17.86% +8.22%

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 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 21 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 21 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 -13 24 £575 +2.22% 4
South East -37 12 £575 -6.88% 3
North of England -40 10 £460 -8.00% 7
North West - 10 £460 - 6
South West -25 6 £630 +5.00%
Midlands -46 2 £513 -26.79% 1
East of England -21 1 £563 +151.68%
West Midlands -39 1 £475 -32.14% 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 5 (8.20%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (6.56%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (1.64%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 9 (14.75%) Azure
2 4 (6.56%) AWS
2 4 (6.56%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (4.92%) AWS CloudFormation
3 3 (4.92%) Nutanix
4 2 (3.28%) IaaS
5 1 (1.64%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (1.64%) PaaS
5 1 (1.64%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (16.39%) Firewall
2 9 (14.75%) VSAN
3 8 (13.11%) DHCP
3 8 (13.11%) DNS
4 4 (6.56%) PCoIP
4 4 (6.56%) VPN
5 3 (4.92%) Network Security
5 3 (4.92%) SAN
5 3 (4.92%) Software-Defined Networking
5 3 (4.92%) TCP/IP
6 2 (3.28%) IPFIX
6 2 (3.28%) VXLAN
6 2 (3.28%) WAN
7 1 (1.64%) BGP
7 1 (1.64%) Cisco Nexus
7 1 (1.64%) DMVPN
7 1 (1.64%) OSPF
7 1 (1.64%) PBX
7 1 (1.64%) Remote Desktop
7 1 (1.64%) VoIP
Development Applications
1 4 (6.56%) JIRA
2 3 (4.92%) Bitbucket
2 3 (4.92%) Git
2 3 (4.92%) Jenkins
General
1 18 (29.51%) Social Skills
2 11 (18.03%) Public Sector
3 7 (11.48%) Documentation Skills
4 6 (9.84%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (4.92%) Finance
5 3 (4.92%) Telecoms
6 2 (3.28%) Banking
6 2 (3.28%) Electronics
6 2 (3.28%) Manufacturing
6 2 (3.28%) Marketing
6 2 (3.28%) Military
7 1 (1.64%) Advertising
7 1 (1.64%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 19 (31.15%) Consultant
2 17 (27.87%) VMware Consultant
3 9 (14.75%) VMware Engineer
4 8 (13.11%) Architect
4 8 (13.11%) VMware Specialist
5 7 (11.48%) Wintel Engineer
6 6 (9.84%) Senior
7 5 (8.20%) Principal Consultant
7 5 (8.20%) VMware Architect
8 4 (6.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 3 (4.92%) Senior Architect
9 3 (4.92%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
10 2 (3.28%) Active Directory Consultant
10 2 (3.28%) Data Consultant
10 2 (3.28%) Data Migration Consultant
10 2 (3.28%) Exchange Consultant
10 2 (3.28%) Lead
10 2 (3.28%) Migration Consultant
10 2 (3.28%) Team Leader
10 2 (3.28%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (4.92%) REST
2 1 (1.64%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 12 (19.67%) Replication
2 8 (13.11%) Data Centre
3 7 (11.48%) Clustering
4 6 (9.84%) PKI
5 3 (4.92%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (3.28%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 2 (3.28%) Public Cloud
6 2 (3.28%) Security Posture
6 2 (3.28%) Taxonomies
6 2 (3.28%) VxBlock/Vblock
7 1 (1.64%) Blackberry
7 1 (1.64%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.64%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 18 (29.51%) Windows
2 15 (24.59%) Windows Server
3 6 (9.84%) Linux
4 3 (4.92%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (1.64%) VMS
5 1 (1.64%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (21.31%) Problem-Solving
2 10 (16.39%) Migration
3 9 (14.75%) Capacity Planning
3 9 (14.75%) Disaster Recovery
4 8 (13.11%) High Availability
4 8 (13.11%) Network Virtualisation
5 7 (11.48%) Agile
5 7 (11.48%) Customer Requirements
6 6 (9.84%) Performance Optimisation
7 5 (8.20%) Continuous Improvement
7 5 (8.20%) Critical Thinking
7 5 (8.20%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 5 (8.20%) ITIL
7 5 (8.20%) Runbook
7 5 (8.20%) SIEM
7 5 (8.20%) Stakeholder Management
8 4 (6.56%) Cloud Security
8 4 (6.56%) Deployment Automation
8 4 (6.56%) Infrastructure Automation
8 4 (6.56%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 38 (62.30%) PowerShell
2 30 (49.18%) Python
3 18 (29.51%) JavaScript
4 5 (8.20%) SQL
5 3 (4.92%) Bash
Qualifications
1 42 (68.85%) Security Cleared
2 33 (54.10%) SC Cleared
3 21 (34.43%) VCAP
4 14 (22.95%) Microsoft Certification
5 13 (21.31%) MCSE
6 12 (19.67%) MCSA
7 4 (6.56%) CCNP
7 4 (6.56%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (4.92%) AWS Certification
8 3 (4.92%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 3 (4.92%) DV Cleared
8 3 (4.92%) OCA
8 3 (4.92%) Oracle Certification
9 2 (3.28%) Azure Certification
9 2 (3.28%) CCNA
9 2 (3.28%) CISSP
9 2 (3.28%) Degree
9 2 (3.28%) GSEC
9 2 (3.28%) HP ASE
9 2 (3.28%) VCDX
System Software
1 40 (65.57%) VMware Infrastructure
2 27 (44.26%) vSphere
3 17 (27.87%) VMware ESXi
4 12 (19.67%) VMware NSX
5 10 (16.39%) Virtual Machines
6 9 (14.75%) Active Directory
7 4 (6.56%) Docker
7 4 (6.56%) Hyper-V
8 2 (3.28%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (1.64%) Firmware
9 1 (1.64%) NFS
9 1 (1.64%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 21 (34.43%) vRealize
2 17 (27.87%) Ansible
3 15 (24.59%) vCenter Server
4 8 (13.11%) Terraform
5 4 (6.56%) Kubernetes
5 4 (6.56%) PowerCLI
6 3 (4.92%) Microsoft Intune
6 3 (4.92%) vRealize Orchestrator
7 2 (3.28%) FortiGate
7 2 (3.28%) vMotion
8 1 (1.64%) Failover Clustering
8 1 (1.64%) SCOM
8 1 (1.64%) VxRail
Vendors
1 61 (100.00%) VMware
2 22 (36.07%) Microsoft
3 10 (16.39%) Cisco
4 5 (8.20%) Veeam
5 4 (6.56%) Dell
6 3 (4.92%) Atlassian
6 3 (4.92%) Oracle
6 3 (4.92%) SolarWinds
7 2 (3.28%) 3PAR
7 2 (3.28%) Citrix
7 2 (3.28%) Fortinet
7 2 (3.28%) Nimble Storage
7 2 (3.28%) ProCurve
7 2 (3.28%) SAP
8 1 (1.64%) Avaya
8 1 (1.64%) F5
8 1 (1.64%) Palo Alto
8 1 (1.64%) Pure Storage
8 1 (1.64%) Ribbon
8 1 (1.64%) Splunk