VCDX Contract Job Trends in the South West

VMware Certified Design Expert (VCDX)
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West with a requirement for VCDX qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 22 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 143 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing VCDX 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 0.030% - -
As % of the Qualifications category 0.067% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £813 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £825 - -
75th Percentile £838 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £650 - -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
South West

VCDX 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 1,495 910 1,758
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 44.34% 54.62% 55.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 925 568 1,123
10th Percentile £334 £220 £357
25th Percentile £430 £425 £465
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.09% - -5.90%
75th Percentile £614 £638 £650
90th Percentile £711 £700 £725
England median daily rate £525 £525 £537
% change year-on-year - -2.32% -2.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 202 98 195
10th Percentile £17.87 £18.51 £22.05
25th Percentile £21.33 £18.87 £40.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £55.00 £62.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.01% -11.30% -4.62%
75th Percentile £67.84 £67.50 £72.50
90th Percentile £81.71 £75.00 £80.00
England median hourly rate £47.54 £37.25 £40.00
% change year-on-year +27.62% -6.88% -25.02%

VCDX
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

VCDX job vacancy trend in the South West

VCDX
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 VCDX within the South West region over the 6 months to 22 May 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
Wiltshire - 1 £825 - 1
VCDX
England

VCDX
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) BGP
1 1 (100.00%) DMVPN
1 1 (100.00%) IPsec
1 1 (100.00%) MPLS
1 1 (100.00%) OSPF
1 1 (100.00%) SD-WAN
1 1 (100.00%) WAN
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Bitbucket
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Network Architect
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Network Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Zero Trust
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) CCDP
1 1 (100.00%) CCIE
1 1 (100.00%) CCNP
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (100.00%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) OPNET
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) Google
1 1 (100.00%) VMware