VCAP Contracts in the North of England

VMware Certified Advanced Professional (VCAP, VCAP4)
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for VCAP qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 182 218 -
Rank change year-on-year +36 - -
Contract jobs citing VCAP 4 1 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.084% 0.017% -
As % of the Qualifications category 0.32% 0.066% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £494 £419 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £438 -
Median % change year-on-year +17.14% - -
75th Percentile £531 £456 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £500 £455 £455
% change year-on-year +9.89% - +29.08%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
North of England

VCAP is in the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 1,253 1,504 1,427
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 26.19% 25.71% 19.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 694 1,066 964
10th Percentile £285 £320 £200
25th Percentile £413 £431 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £525 £482
Median % change year-on-year -4.67% +8.86% +7.17%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £588
90th Percentile £720 £700 £675
England median daily rate £538 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.27% +4.76% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 165 71 85
10th Percentile £10.95 £20.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £12.75 £24.50 £16.63
Median hourly rate £16.06 £37.50 £34.38
Median % change year-on-year -57.17% +9.09% +29.73%
75th Percentile £38.43 £49.52 £50.78
90th Percentile £57.60 £65.75 £64.09
England median hourly rate £40.00 £52.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year -23.81% +40.00% -1.81%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing VCAP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for VCAP in the North of England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing VCAP in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for VCAP in the North of England

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Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VCAP within the North of England region over the 6 months to 25 April 2024. 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
North West +19 4 £513 +17.14%
VCAP
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 2 (50.00%) AWS
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
1 2 (50.00%) GCP
1 2 (50.00%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) BGP
1 2 (50.00%) MPLS
1 2 (50.00%) OSPF
1 2 (50.00%) TCP/IP
1 2 (50.00%) Value-Added Service
1 2 (50.00%) VLAN
1 2 (50.00%) VPN
1 2 (50.00%) Wireshark
General
1 2 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Network Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Senior
1 2 (50.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Private Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Change Management
1 2 (50.00%) Computer Science
1 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 2 (50.00%) Network Monitoring
1 2 (50.00%) Network Virtualisation
1 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) CCIE
1 2 (50.00%) CCNP
1 2 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (50.00%) Degree
1 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
1 2 (50.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Hyper-V
1 2 (50.00%) VMware NSX
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) 3PAR
1 2 (50.00%) Cisco
1 2 (50.00%) Dell
1 2 (50.00%) Dell Compellent
1 2 (50.00%) LogicMonitor
1 2 (50.00%) Nimble Storage
1 2 (50.00%) SolarWinds
1 2 (50.00%) Veeam
1 2 (50.00%) VMware