VMware Certified Professional (VCP) Contract Job Trends in the North West

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 7 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 126 - 142
Rank change year-on-year - - +44
Contract jobs citing VMware Certified Professional (VCP) 2 0 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.092% - 0.035%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.27% - 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 - £438
Median % change year-on-year - - +40.00%
75th Percentile - - £456
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £600 £525 £506
% change year-on-year +14.29% +3.70% +6.58%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
North West

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 West.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 737 648 841
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 33.95% 27.22% 29.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 439 372 539
10th Percentile £313 £313 £300
25th Percentile £407 £412 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £505 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.57% -3.81% +1.45%
75th Percentile £619 £625 £626
90th Percentile £715 £725 £700
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 71 64 66
10th Percentile £15.50 £11.35 £16.25
25th Percentile £20.00 £18.11 £25.56
Median hourly rate £27.38 £40.33 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -32.11% -5.12% +30.79%
75th Percentile £56.88 £55.25 £46.18
90th Percentile £71.45 £80.16 £55.43
England median hourly rate £25.15 £53.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -52.55% -3.64% +22.22%

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

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

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

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

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

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

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

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
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 VMware Certified Professional (VCP) within the North West region over the 6 months to 7 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
Cheshire - 1 - - 1
Lancashire - 1 £350 - 2
VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
England

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (50.00%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (50.00%) OneDrive
1 1 (50.00%) OpenShift
1 1 (50.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
1 1 (50.00%) SAN
General
1 2 (100.00%) Legal
2 1 (50.00%) Banking
2 1 (50.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Architect
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Solution Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Solutions Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (50.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Blockchain
1 1 (50.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (50.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (50.00%) Private Cloud
1 1 (50.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Unix
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Server
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2012
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2016
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Analytics
1 1 (50.00%) Architectural Design
1 1 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Customer Analytics
1 1 (50.00%) Data Migration
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) E-Discovery
1 1 (50.00%) Fraud Detection
1 1 (50.00%) GitOps
1 1 (50.00%) High Availability
1 1 (50.00%) Identity Access Management
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (50.00%) Microservices
1 1 (50.00%) Migration
1 1 (50.00%) Multi-Factor Authentication
1 1 (50.00%) Observability
1 1 (50.00%) Risk Assessment
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 1 (50.00%) MCSE
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
1 1 (50.00%) Virtual Machines
1 1 (50.00%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Ansible
1 1 (50.00%) Grafana
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (50.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
1 1 (50.00%) vCenter Server
1 1 (50.00%) WSUS
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) VMware
2 1 (50.00%) Citrix
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) Red Hat