VMware Certified Professional (VCP) Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 20 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 157 - 134
Rank change year-on-year - - +66
Contract jobs citing VMware Certified Professional (VCP) 2 0 7
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 0.065% - 0.26%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.19% - 0.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 6
10th Percentile £368 - -
25th Percentile £384 - £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 - £325
Median % change year-on-year - - -18.54%
75th Percentile £459 - £352
90th Percentile £476 - £478
England median daily rate £594 £525 £500
% change year-on-year +13.10% +5.00% -4.76%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 1,071 780 781
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 34.98% 29.57% 28.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 676 477 491
10th Percentile £256 £306 £275
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £510
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +2.94% +3.03%
75th Percentile £575 £624 £600
90th Percentile £671 £715 £700
England median daily rate £525 £528 £550
% change year-on-year -0.47% -4.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 134 32 41
10th Percentile £17.61 £17.00 £17.71
25th Percentile £18.87 £20.45 £17.75
Median hourly rate £23.58 £24.18 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +5.13% +36.66%
75th Percentile £25.15 £35.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £40.25 £52.25 £68.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £50.00 £53.58
% change year-on-year -49.70% -6.69% +19.07%

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing VMware Certified Professional (VCP) relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

VMware Certified Professional (VCP) job vacancy trend in the Midlands

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing VMware Certified Professional (VCP).

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing VMware Certified Professional (VCP)

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing VMware Certified Professional (VCP).

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing VMware Certified Professional (VCP)

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 20 November 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
West Midlands - 2 £420 - 4
VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
England

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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 (50.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon EventBridge
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) AWS CloudTrail
1 1 (50.00%) AWS KMS
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Route 53
1 1 (50.00%) Serverless
1 1 (50.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) DHCP
1 1 (50.00%) DNS
1 1 (50.00%) iSCSI
1 1 (50.00%) LAN
1 1 (50.00%) VLAN
1 1 (50.00%) VSAN
1 1 (50.00%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) VMware Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Linux Command Line
1 1 (50.00%) PKI
1 1 (50.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (50.00%) SUSE
1 1 (50.00%) Ubuntu
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Change Management
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Re-Platforming
2 1 (50.00%) Reverse Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (50.00%) Virtual Machines
1 1 (50.00%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) PowerCLI
1 1 (50.00%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) VMware
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) Veeam