VCAP Contract Job Trends in Somerset

VMware Certified Advanced Professional (VCAP, VCAP4)
South West > Somerset

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Somerset with a requirement for VCAP qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 9 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 47 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing VCAP 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Somerset 0.50% - -
As % of the Qualifications category 1.18% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £688 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £697 - -
75th Percentile £705 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South West median daily rate £697 - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £100.00 - -
South West median hourly rate £100.00 - -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Somerset

VCAP 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 Somerset.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 170 79 89
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Somerset 42.18% 46.20% 39.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 109 48 41
10th Percentile £402 £225 £200
25th Percentile £450 £466 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £641 £575
Median % change year-on-year -18.13% +11.52% -11.54%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £625
90th Percentile £750 £794 £700
South West median daily rate £530 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -3.64% - -4.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 15 20
10th Percentile £14.00 - -
25th Percentile £25.75 - £25.00
Median hourly rate £26.00 £18.51 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +40.46% -53.73% -21.18%
75th Percentile £57.50 - -
90th Percentile £89.96 £20.01 £48.88
South West median hourly rate £57.35 £28.55 £65.00
% change year-on-year +100.88% -56.08% -

VCAP
Contract Job Locations in Somerset

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VCAP within the Somerset region over the 6 months to 9 July 2026. 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
Yeovil - 2 £697 - 3
VCAP
South West

VCAP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Somerset by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) DHCP
1 2 (100.00%) DNS
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
1 2 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 2 (100.00%) VSAN
General
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Principal Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) VMware Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Data Centre
1 2 (100.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Converged Infrastructure
1 2 (100.00%) Customer Requirements
1 2 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 2 (100.00%) Network Virtualisation
1 2 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (100.00%) SIEM
1 2 (100.00%) Systems Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Identity Access Management
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) IT Strategy
2 1 (50.00%) Security Operations
2 1 (50.00%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Bash
1 2 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 2 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
1 2 (100.00%) Hyper-V
1 2 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (100.00%) VMware NSX
1 2 (100.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Ansible
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
1 2 (100.00%) VxRail
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) VMware
2 1 (50.00%) CyberArk
2 1 (50.00%) Thales