VCAP Contract Job Trends in the South West

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West with a requirement for VCAP qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 15 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 146 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing VCAP 12 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 0.33% - -
As % of the Qualifications category 0.75% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 8 0 0
10th Percentile £688 - -
25th Percentile £695 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £800 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile £830 - -
England median daily rate £605 £575 £594
% change year-on-year +5.22% -3.16% +31.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £98.82 - -
75th Percentile £99.12 - -
90th Percentile £99.65 - -
England median hourly rate £98.82 - -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
South West

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 the South West.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 1,593 983 1,491
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 43.82% 51.76% 53.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 992 598 967
10th Percentile £331 £213 £375
25th Percentile £449 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £529 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.86% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £648 £663
90th Percentile £715 £725 £725
England median daily rate £525 £525 £538
% change year-on-year - -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 212 113 151
10th Percentile £19.33 £18.51 £23.63
25th Percentile £25.77 £18.87 £52.13
Median hourly rate £60.00 £25.15 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +138.57% -64.07% +7.69%
75th Percentile £76.19 £65.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £92.53 £73.75 £80.00
England median hourly rate £55.00 £25.15 £47.50
% change year-on-year +118.69% -47.05% -13.64%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing VCAP relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West.

VCAP job vacancy trend in the South West

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Daily Rate Trend in the South West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing VCAP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing VCAP

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VCAP in the South West over the 6 months to 15 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for VCAP in the South West

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Contract Job Locations in the South 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 South West region over the 6 months to 15 August 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
Somerset - 12 £800 -
VCAP
England

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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 12 (100.00%) AWS
2 3 (25.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 12 (100.00%) DHCP
1 12 (100.00%) DNS
1 12 (100.00%) Firewall
1 12 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 12 (100.00%) VSAN
General
1 4 (33.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (66.67%) Platform Engineer
2 6 (50.00%) Principal Engineer
3 3 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Consultant
4 1 (8.33%) VMware Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 12 (100.00%) Data Centre
1 12 (100.00%) PKI
2 5 (41.67%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 12 (100.00%) Linux
1 12 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (100.00%) Converged Infrastructure
1 12 (100.00%) Customer Requirements
1 12 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 12 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 12 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 12 (100.00%) Network Virtualisation
1 12 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 12 (100.00%) SIEM
1 12 (100.00%) Systems Engineering
1 12 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
2 7 (58.33%) CI/CD
2 7 (58.33%) Cybersecurity
2 7 (58.33%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (41.67%) Customer Engagement
3 5 (41.67%) Infrastructure Automation
4 4 (33.33%) Containerisation
4 4 (33.33%) Feasibility Study
4 4 (33.33%) IT Strategy
4 4 (33.33%) Technology Strategy
5 3 (25.00%) Privileged Access Management
Programming Languages
1 12 (100.00%) Bash
1 12 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 12 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 12 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 12 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (41.67%) AWS Certification
2 5 (41.67%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 12 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 12 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 12 (100.00%) VMware NSX
1 12 (100.00%) vSphere
2 7 (58.33%) Docker
2 7 (58.33%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 12 (100.00%) Ansible
1 12 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 12 (100.00%) Terraform
1 12 (100.00%) VxRail
Vendors
1 12 (100.00%) VMware
2 3 (25.00%) CyberArk
2 3 (25.00%) Thales