VMware Certified Professional (VCP) Contracts in London

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 348 388 483
Rank change year-on-year +40 +95 +83
Contract jobs citing VMware Certified Professional (VCP) 5 3 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.040% 0.017% 0.037%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.16% 0.070% 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 2 7
10th Percentile - £416 £339
25th Percentile £525 £422 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £438 £438
Median % change year-on-year +48.57% - -12.50%
75th Percentile £694 £447 £555
90th Percentile £705 £449 £606
England median daily rate £585 £519 £469
% change year-on-year +12.77% +10.67% +3.02%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 3,210 4,292 5,821
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 25.58% 24.07% 21.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,169 2,903 3,919
10th Percentile £350 £325 £363
25th Percentile £431 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -6.09% +4.55%
75th Percentile £653 £661 £688
90th Percentile £754 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 60 111 80
10th Percentile £19.20 £14.25 £19.94
25th Percentile £22.27 £20.74 £21.24
Median hourly rate £29.07 £26.00 £45.25
Median % change year-on-year +11.81% -42.54% +1.69%
75th Percentile £55.50 £43.75 £64.50
90th Percentile £69.72 £68.75 £82.55
England median hourly rate £45.00 £40.00 £52.40
% change year-on-year +12.50% -23.66% +39.73%

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing VMware Certified Professional (VCP) as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for VMware Certified Professional (VCP) in London

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing VMware Certified Professional (VCP) in London.

Daily rate trend for VMware Certified Professional (VCP) in London

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing VMware Certified Professional (VCP) in London.

Hourly rate trend for VMware Certified Professional (VCP) in London

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
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 VMware Certified Professional (VCP) within the London region over the 6 months to 1 May 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 - 2 £550 - 3
VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
England

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) Azure
2 2 (40.00%) AWS
2 2 (40.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon ELB
3 1 (20.00%) Entra ID
3 1 (20.00%) GCP
3 1 (20.00%) Route 53
3 1 (20.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) DNS
1 2 (40.00%) Firewall
1 2 (40.00%) Network Security
2 1 (20.00%) NAS
2 1 (20.00%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon RDS
General
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Banking
2 1 (20.00%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) VMware Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Azure Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Designer
3 1 (20.00%) Senior
3 1 (20.00%) Senior VMware Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Solutions Designer
3 1 (20.00%) Virtualisation Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Clustering
2 1 (20.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (20.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (60.00%) Windows
2 2 (40.00%) Windows Server
3 1 (20.00%) Linux
3 1 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (20.00%) Unix
3 1 (20.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Management
1 2 (40.00%) Knowledge Transfer
1 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (40.00%) Virtual Environments
2 1 (20.00%) Architecture Roadmap
2 1 (20.00%) Capacity Planning
2 1 (20.00%) Collaborative Working
2 1 (20.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (20.00%) DevOps
2 1 (20.00%) High Availability
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (20.00%) IT Governance
2 1 (20.00%) IT Strategy
2 1 (20.00%) ITIL
2 1 (20.00%) Migration
2 1 (20.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (20.00%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Bash
1 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) VCAP
2 2 (40.00%) Degree
2 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared
2 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
3 1 (20.00%) AWS Certification
3 1 (20.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Certification
3 1 (20.00%) CCIE
3 1 (20.00%) CCNP
3 1 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) GDPR
1 1 (20.00%) HIPAA
System Software
1 5 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (60.00%) Active Directory
3 2 (40.00%) vSphere
4 1 (20.00%) Docker
4 1 (20.00%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) FortiGate
2 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (20.00%) PowerCLI
2 1 (20.00%) Terraform
2 1 (20.00%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) VMware
2 4 (80.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (40.00%) Atempo
3 2 (40.00%) Databricks
3 2 (40.00%) F5
3 2 (40.00%) Fortinet
3 2 (40.00%) Google
3 2 (40.00%) Mellanox
4 1 (20.00%) Cisco