VCAP Contract Job Trends in London

VMware Certified Advanced Professional (VCAP, VCAP4)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for VCAP qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 15 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 365 380 428
Rank change year-on-year +15 +48 +161
Contract jobs citing VCAP 2 2 8
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.015% 0.012% 0.039%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.056% 0.049% 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 6
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £800 - £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £825 - £519
Median % change year-on-year - - +29.69%
75th Percentile £850 - £625
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £575 £675 £455
% change year-on-year -14.81% +48.21% +1.49%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 3,580 4,043 4,771
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.76% 25.15% 23.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,420 2,581 3,285
10th Percentile £358 £350 £355
25th Percentile £438 £450 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -2.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £653 £650 £675
90th Percentile £738 £770 £788
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 83 66 95
10th Percentile £18.99 £18.13 £19.10
25th Percentile - £25.99 £20.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £37.15 £54.00
Median % change year-on-year -32.30% -31.20% +13.68%
75th Percentile £36.88 £57.13 £65.05
90th Percentile £65.00 £75.63 £82.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £52.50 £53.67
% change year-on-year -52.10% -2.17% +19.26%

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Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

VCAP job vacancy trend in London

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Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing VCAP

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Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing VCAP.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing VCAP

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Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VCAP within the London region over the 6 months to 15 October 2025. 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
Central London - 1 - - 2
VCAP
England

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) DHCP
1 1 (50.00%) DNS
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
1 1 (50.00%) LAN
1 1 (50.00%) NAS
1 1 (50.00%) SAN
1 1 (50.00%) WAN
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Data Centre Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Deployment Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Architect
1 1 (50.00%) VMware Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (50.00%) CMDB
2 1 (50.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Enterprise Architecture
1 1 (50.00%) High Availability
1 1 (50.00%) ITIL
1 1 (50.00%) ITSM
1 1 (50.00%) Knowledge Transfer
1 1 (50.00%) Migration
1 1 (50.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 1 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 1 (50.00%) TOGAF
1 1 (50.00%) Virtual Infrastructure
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) CCIE
2 1 (50.00%) CCNP
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (50.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (50.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (50.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Ansible
1 1 (50.00%) PowerCLI
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco
1 2 (100.00%) VMware
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) Pure Storage