VCAP Contract Job Trends in Glasgow

VMware Certified Advanced Professional (VCAP, VCAP4)
Scotland > Glasgow

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Glasgow with a requirement for VCAP qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 22 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 71 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing VCAP 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 0.15% - -
As % of the Qualifications category 0.58% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 - -
Scotland median daily rate £475 - -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Glasgow

VCAP 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 Glasgow.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 172 161 254
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 25.90% 21.96% 29.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 116 88 148
10th Percentile £204 £311 £200
25th Percentile £358 £377 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £461 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -7.75% +5.26%
75th Percentile £551 £575 £600
90th Percentile £638 £700 £679
Scotland median daily rate £453 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +0.56% -10.00% +10.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 8 3
10th Percentile - £16.75 -
25th Percentile £16.17 £18.06 -
Median hourly rate £16.25 £29.75 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year -45.38% -60.33% +152.36%
75th Percentile £22.74 £48.13 -
90th Percentile £26.59 £70.46 -
Scotland median hourly rate £19.38 £23.00 £57.72
% change year-on-year -15.74% -60.15% +190.76%

VCAP
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing VCAP relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow.

VCAP job vacancy trend in Glasgow

VCAP
Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing VCAP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing VCAP

VCAP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Glasgow 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Fibre Channel
1 1 (100.00%) SAN
General
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (100.00%) NVMe
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) BCP
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Kanban
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) Perl
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) NCDA
1 1 (100.00%) VCP6
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (100.00%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) PowerCLI
1 1 (100.00%) vMotion
1 1 (100.00%) vRealize
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Brocade
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) Commvault
1 1 (100.00%) NetApp
1 1 (100.00%) VMware