VMware Certified Professional (VCP) Contract Job Trends 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 18 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 181 - 195
Rank change year-on-year - - +49
Contract jobs citing VMware Certified Professional (VCP) 5 0 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.13% - 0.040%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.42% - 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £273
25th Percentile - - £297
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - £350
Median % change year-on-year - - +55.56%
75th Percentile - - £409
90th Percentile - - £438
England median daily rate £600 £525 £500
% change year-on-year +14.29% +5.00% +5.26%

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 1,201 1,028 1,243
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 30.09% 24.84% 24.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 779 609 817
10th Percentile £306 £294 £280
25th Percentile £400 £400 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.10% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £625
90th Percentile £701 £688 £700
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 78 77
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.92 £16.05
25th Percentile £18.87 £22.22 £19.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £46.18 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -45.54% +8.66% +18.06%
75th Percentile £47.12 £56.13 £46.18
90th Percentile £70.16 £72.75 £55.34
England median hourly rate £25.15 £54.00 £54.53
% change year-on-year -53.43% -0.97% +21.18%

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)
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

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

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

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

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

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 18 September 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
Yorkshire - 3 £500 - 3
North West - 2 - - 3
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 2 (40.00%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) AWS
1 1 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (20.00%) OpenShift
1 1 (20.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) DNS
1 2 (40.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
2 1 (20.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (40.00%) JIRA
General
1 3 (60.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Banking
2 1 (20.00%) Legal
2 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) VMware Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Automation Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) AWS Architect
2 1 (20.00%) AWS Solution Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Solutions Architect
2 1 (20.00%) DevOps Automation Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Lead
2 1 (20.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (20.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Blockchain
1 1 (20.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (20.00%) Onboarding
1 1 (20.00%) Private Cloud
1 1 (20.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Linux
1 1 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (20.00%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Infrastructure Automation
2 2 (40.00%) Agile
2 2 (40.00%) Capacity Planning
2 2 (40.00%) Containerisation
2 2 (40.00%) DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) Analytics
3 1 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence
3 1 (20.00%) Customer Analytics
3 1 (20.00%) Data Flow Diagram
3 1 (20.00%) Data Migration
3 1 (20.00%) Fraud Detection
3 1 (20.00%) Identity Access Management
3 1 (20.00%) Mentoring
3 1 (20.00%) Microservices
3 1 (20.00%) Migration
3 1 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (20.00%) Resource Allocation
3 1 (20.00%) Risk Assessment
3 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (20.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) PowerShell
2 2 (40.00%) Python
3 1 (20.00%) Java
3 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (20.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) VCAP
2 1 (20.00%) AWS Certification
2 1 (20.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (60.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 3 (60.00%) vSphere
2 2 (40.00%) Docker
2 2 (40.00%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (40.00%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) Terraform
2 2 (40.00%) Ansible
2 2 (40.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (40.00%) PowerCLI
2 2 (40.00%) vCenter Server
3 1 (20.00%) Grafana
3 1 (20.00%) Prometheus
3 1 (20.00%) vRealize
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) VMware
2 2 (40.00%) Broadcom
2 2 (40.00%) F5
2 2 (40.00%) Red Hat
3 1 (20.00%) Oracle