VCAP Contract Job Trends in Milton Keynes

VMware Certified Advanced Professional (VCAP, VCAP4)
Buckinghamshire > Milton Keynes

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Milton Keynes with a requirement for VCAP qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 9 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 54 - 44
Rank change year-on-year - - +25
Contract jobs citing VCAP 1 0 7
As % of all contract jobs in Milton Keynes 0.19% - 1.47%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.38% - 3.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 7
10th Percentile - - £416
25th Percentile - - £436
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - £473
Median % change year-on-year - - +3.85%
75th Percentile - - £500
90th Percentile - - £504
Buckinghamshire median daily rate - - £473
% change year-on-year - - +3.85%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Milton Keynes

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 Milton Keynes.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 261 103 189
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 49.43% 51.50% 39.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 194 78 156
10th Percentile £391 £237 £325
25th Percentile £470 £388 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% +14.13%
75th Percentile £610 £588 £638
90th Percentile £640 £630 £713
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £543 £475 £525
% change year-on-year +14.37% -9.52% +14.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 3 11
10th Percentile £15.25 £13.10 £15.85
25th Percentile - £14.75 £15.93
Median hourly rate £16.35 £18.70 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.57% +3.89% +80.00%
75th Percentile £29.61 £19.60 £21.25
90th Percentile - £20.14 £22.52
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate £18.32 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year -3.58% -5.00% +100.00%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Milton Keynes

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

VCAP job vacancy trend in Milton Keynes

VCAP
Daily Rate Trend in Milton Keynes

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Milton Keynes citing VCAP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Milton Keynes citing VCAP

VCAP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Milton Keynes 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 (100.00%) VSAN
General
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior VMware Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Private Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (100.00%) VMware NSX
1 1 (100.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) VMware