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

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South 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 21 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 131 107 142
Rank change year-on-year -24 +35 +3
Contract jobs citing VMware Certified Professional (VCP) 6 18 5
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 0.26% 0.86% 0.17%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.46% 1.61% 0.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 7 5
10th Percentile £536 £513 -
25th Percentile £605 £525 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £630 £600 £513
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% +17.07% -2.38%
75th Percentile £775 £688 £775
90th Percentile £790 £725 -
England median daily rate £569 £560 £488
% change year-on-year +1.62% +14.87% -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
South 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 South West.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 1,302 1,115 1,633
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 55.86% 53.25% 55.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 826 698 1,018
10th Percentile £275 £325 £373
25th Percentile £450 £460 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% +1.77%
75th Percentile £688 £661 £675
90th Percentile £738 £750 £729
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 174 84 169
10th Percentile £17.69 £35.00 £35.40
25th Percentile £20.82 £58.94 £50.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £65.50 £62.05
Median % change year-on-year -61.60% +5.56% -4.54%
75th Percentile £63.75 £70.50 £78.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £75.00 £83.40
England median hourly rate £25.15 £46.71 £52.50
% change year-on-year -46.16% -11.02% +16.67%

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

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing VMware Certified Professional (VCP) relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West.

VMware Certified Professional (VCP) job vacancy trend in the South West

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

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

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

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VMware Certified Professional (VCP) in the South West over the 6 months to 21 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for VMware Certified Professional (VCP) in the South West

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

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

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

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
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 VMware Certified Professional (VCP) within the South West region over the 6 months to 21 December 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
Wiltshire -22 5 £690 +15.00% 1
Bristol -13 1 £490 - 1
VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
England

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
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 4 (66.67%) Confluence
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (16.67%) PaaS
1 1 (16.67%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) BGP
1 1 (16.67%) Cisco IOS
1 1 (16.67%) Cisco Nexus
1 1 (16.67%) DHCP
1 1 (16.67%) DMVPN
1 1 (16.67%) DNS
1 1 (16.67%) Firewall
1 1 (16.67%) Network Security
1 1 (16.67%) OSPF
1 1 (16.67%) PBX
1 1 (16.67%) VoIP
1 1 (16.67%) VXLAN
Development Applications
1 4 (66.67%) JIRA
2 3 (50.00%) Bitbucket
2 3 (50.00%) Git
2 3 (50.00%) Jenkins
General
1 5 (83.33%) Social Skills
2 3 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (50.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (16.67%) Advertising
3 1 (16.67%) Military
3 1 (16.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Lead
1 2 (33.33%) Team Leader
2 1 (16.67%) Automation Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Network Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (16.67%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Blackberry
1 1 (16.67%) PKI
1 1 (16.67%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 4 (66.67%) Windows
1 4 (66.67%) Windows Server
2 3 (50.00%) Linux
3 1 (16.67%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Critical Thinking
2 3 (50.00%) Agile
2 3 (50.00%) Service Management
2 3 (50.00%) System Testing
3 1 (16.67%) Commercial Awareness
3 1 (16.67%) Cost Reduction
3 1 (16.67%) Customer Requirements
3 1 (16.67%) Impact Assessments
3 1 (16.67%) Migration
3 1 (16.67%) Network Design
3 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (16.67%) Product Roadmap
3 1 (16.67%) Regression Testing
3 1 (16.67%) Roadmaps
3 1 (16.67%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (16.67%) Service Design
3 1 (16.67%) TDD
3 1 (16.67%) Test Scripting
3 1 (16.67%) Thought Leadership
3 1 (16.67%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 3 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (83.33%) SC Cleared
1 5 (83.33%) Security Cleared
2 4 (66.67%) MCSA
2 4 (66.67%) MCSE
2 4 (66.67%) Microsoft Certification
3 3 (50.00%) OCA
3 3 (50.00%) Oracle Certification
4 2 (33.33%) CCNP
4 2 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (16.67%) Degree
System Software
1 5 (83.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (16.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) Ansible
1 3 (50.00%) Terraform
2 2 (33.33%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) VMware
2 3 (50.00%) Atlassian
2 3 (50.00%) Oracle
2 3 (50.00%) SolarWinds
2 3 (50.00%) Veeam
3 2 (33.33%) Cisco
3 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
4 1 (16.67%) Avaya
4 1 (16.67%) Ericsson
4 1 (16.67%) F5
4 1 (16.67%) Juniper
4 1 (16.67%) Nokia
4 1 (16.67%) Palo Alto
4 1 (16.67%) Ribbon