VCAP Contracts in the North West

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

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for VCAP qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 129 157 -
Rank change year-on-year +28 - -
Contract jobs citing VCAP 6 1 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.22% 0.032% -
As % of the Qualifications category 0.74% 0.10% -
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 West

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 West with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 810 959 910
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 30.34% 30.73% 22.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 461 651 598
10th Percentile £270 £325 £263
25th Percentile £415 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £508 £500
Median % change year-on-year +0.99% +1.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £650 £600 £625
90th Percentile £725 £688 £675
England median daily rate £538 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.27% +4.76% +6.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 128 65 64
10th Percentile £10.95 £20.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £11.77 £25.75 £17.19
Median hourly rate £16.06 £40.00 £39.61
Median % change year-on-year -59.85% +0.98% -5.12%
75th Percentile £39.54 £52.13 £53.26
90th Percentile £70.34 £68.80 £64.32
England median hourly rate £40.00 £52.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year -23.81% +40.00% -1.06%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for VCAP in the North West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for VCAP in the North West

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Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 7 May 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
Cheshire - 4 - -
Manchester +21 2 £513 +17.14% 1
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 4 (66.67%) AWS
1 4 (66.67%) Azure
1 4 (66.67%) GCP
2 2 (33.33%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 4 (66.67%) BGP
1 4 (66.67%) MPLS
1 4 (66.67%) OSPF
1 4 (66.67%) TCP/IP
1 4 (66.67%) Value-Added Service
1 4 (66.67%) VLAN
1 4 (66.67%) VPN
1 4 (66.67%) Wireshark
General
1 4 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) 3rd Line Engineer
1 4 (66.67%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
1 4 (66.67%) Network Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Senior
2 2 (33.33%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Private Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Change Management
1 4 (66.67%) Computer Science
1 4 (66.67%) Network Monitoring
1 4 (66.67%) Network Virtualisation
1 4 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
Qualifications
1 4 (66.67%) CCIE
1 4 (66.67%) CCNP
1 4 (66.67%) Cisco Certification
1 4 (66.67%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (66.67%) Degree
2 2 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 2 (33.33%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) Hyper-V
1 2 (33.33%) VMware NSX
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) LogicMonitor
1 4 (66.67%) SolarWinds
2 2 (33.33%) 3PAR
2 2 (33.33%) Cisco
2 2 (33.33%) Dell
2 2 (33.33%) Dell Compellent
2 2 (33.33%) Nimble Storage
2 2 (33.33%) Veeam
2 2 (33.33%) VMware