VMware Certified Professional (VCP) Contracts in the North of England

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 156 170 219
Rank change year-on-year +14 +49 +12
Contract jobs citing VMware Certified Professional (VCP) 10 15 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.30% 0.31% 0.017%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.93% 1.21% 0.067%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 10 1
10th Percentile £350 £302 -
25th Percentile £375 £312 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £340 £438
Median % change year-on-year +47.06% -22.29% +124.36%
75th Percentile £538 £491 £456
90th Percentile £583 £542 -
England median daily rate £585 £519 £469
% change year-on-year +12.77% +10.67% +3.02%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
North of England

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 North of England.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 1,070 1,240 1,501
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 32.47% 26.01% 25.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 650 684 1,063
10th Percentile £230 £300 £325
25th Percentile £375 £415 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £491 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.20% -2.38% +9.38%
75th Percentile £575 £625 £625
90th Percentile £652 £725 £700
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 51 165 70
10th Percentile £17.44 £10.95 £20.00
25th Percentile £22.61 £12.75 £25.00
Median hourly rate £32.50 £16.06 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +102.37% -57.17% +15.62%
75th Percentile £59.24 £38.43 £49.52
90th Percentile £80.59 £61.50 £65.84
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 the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for VMware Certified Professional (VCP) in the North of England

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing VMware Certified Professional (VCP) in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for VMware Certified Professional (VCP) in the North of England

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VMware Certified Professional (VCP) in the North of England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for VMware Certified Professional (VCP) in the North of England

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing VMware Certified Professional (VCP) in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for VMware Certified Professional (VCP) in the North of England

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
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 VMware Certified Professional (VCP) within the North of England 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
North West +15 5 £438 +7.03% 3
Yorkshire +6 5 £500 +47.06% 7
VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
England

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (40.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 4 (40.00%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 4 (40.00%) Azure
1 4 (40.00%) Entra ID
1 4 (40.00%) Microsoft 365
1 4 (40.00%) OneDrive
2 2 (20.00%) OCI
3 1 (10.00%) AWS
3 1 (10.00%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (10.00%) OpenShift
3 1 (10.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (40.00%) SAN
2 1 (10.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (50.00%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 5 (50.00%) Jenkins
General
1 5 (50.00%) Legal
2 4 (40.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (20.00%) Finance
4 1 (10.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Database Engineer
1 4 (40.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 4 (40.00%) Oracle Database Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Automation Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) AWS Architect
3 1 (10.00%) AWS Solution Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Cloud Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Cloud Solutions Architect
3 1 (10.00%) DevOps Automation Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (10.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 4 (40.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (10.00%) Blockchain
2 1 (10.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (10.00%) Private Cloud
2 1 (10.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 5 (50.00%) Linux
2 4 (40.00%) Unix
2 4 (40.00%) Windows
2 4 (40.00%) Windows Server
2 4 (40.00%) Windows Server 2012
2 4 (40.00%) Windows Server 2016
2 4 (40.00%) Windows Server 2019
3 1 (10.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) Infrastructure Automation
2 5 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 4 (40.00%) Containerisation
3 4 (40.00%) E-Discovery
3 4 (40.00%) High Availability
3 4 (40.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 4 (40.00%) Multi-Factor Authentication
3 4 (40.00%) Performance Tuning
3 4 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (40.00%) RBAC
4 2 (20.00%) DevOps
5 1 (10.00%) Analytics
5 1 (10.00%) Artificial Intelligence
5 1 (10.00%) Customer Analytics
5 1 (10.00%) Data Migration
5 1 (10.00%) Identity Access Management
5 1 (10.00%) Machine Learning
5 1 (10.00%) Microservices
5 1 (10.00%) Migration
5 1 (10.00%) Risk Assessment
Programming Languages
1 3 (30.00%) Python
1 3 (30.00%) Shell Script
2 1 (10.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 4 (40.00%) MCSE
1 4 (40.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 4 (40.00%) OCP
1 4 (40.00%) Oracle Certification
2 1 (10.00%) AWS Certification
2 1 (10.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
System Software
1 9 (90.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (50.00%) vSphere
3 4 (40.00%) Active Directory
3 4 (40.00%) Docker
3 4 (40.00%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (40.00%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 6 (60.00%) Ansible
2 4 (40.00%) Kubernetes
2 4 (40.00%) vCenter Server
2 4 (40.00%) WSUS
3 1 (10.00%) Grafana
3 1 (10.00%) Prometheus
3 1 (10.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (100.00%) VMware
2 5 (50.00%) Oracle
3 4 (40.00%) Citrix
3 4 (40.00%) Microsoft
4 2 (20.00%) Red Hat