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 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 350 394 464
Rank change year-on-year +44 +70 +116
Contract jobs citing VMware Certified Professional (VCP) 4 6 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.031% 0.034% 0.091%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.12% 0.15% 0.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 4 16
10th Percentile - £424 £419
25th Percentile £525 £441 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £450 £547
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -17.73% +4.19%
75th Percentile £680 - £548
90th Percentile £688 - £586
England median daily rate £600 £513 £513
% change year-on-year +17.07% - +12.64%

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 3,342 4,116 5,452
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 25.92% 23.55% 21.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,244 2,825 3,753
10th Percentile £350 £325 £363
25th Percentile £435 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £560
Median % change year-on-year - -6.25% +1.82%
75th Percentile £660 £650 £688
90th Percentile £750 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 75 109 83
10th Percentile £18.32 £15.19 £19.52
25th Percentile £25.00 £20.50 £23.63
Median hourly rate £26.32 £25.50 £54.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.22% -52.78% +25.58%
75th Percentile £51.08 £42.75 £71.25
90th Percentile £66.73 £68.15 £87.50
England median hourly rate £28.60 £42.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year -32.71% -22.73% +32.53%

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 July 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 +5 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 3 (75.00%) Azure
2 2 (50.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon ELB
3 1 (25.00%) AWS
3 1 (25.00%) Entra ID
3 1 (25.00%) Route 53
3 1 (25.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) DNS
1 2 (50.00%) Firewall
1 2 (50.00%) Network Security
2 1 (25.00%) NAS
2 1 (25.00%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon RDS
General
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) VMware Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) Azure Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Senior
3 1 (25.00%) Senior VMware Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Virtualisation Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Clustering
2 1 (25.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Windows
2 2 (50.00%) Windows Server
3 1 (25.00%) Linux
3 1 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (25.00%) Unix
3 1 (25.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Management
1 2 (50.00%) Virtual Environments
2 1 (25.00%) Capacity Planning
2 1 (25.00%) High Availability
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (25.00%) Knowledge Transfer
2 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Bash
1 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) VCAP
2 2 (50.00%) Degree
2 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
2 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) GDPR
1 1 (25.00%) HIPAA
System Software
1 4 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (75.00%) Active Directory
3 2 (50.00%) vSphere
4 1 (25.00%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) FortiGate
2 1 (25.00%) PowerCLI
2 1 (25.00%) Terraform
2 1 (25.00%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) VMware
2 3 (75.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (50.00%) Atempo
3 2 (50.00%) Databricks
3 2 (50.00%) F5
3 2 (50.00%) Fortinet
3 2 (50.00%) Mellanox
4 1 (25.00%) Google