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 11 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 119 116 147
Rank change year-on-year -3 +31 -7
Contract jobs citing VMware Certified Professional (VCP) 5 18 9
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 0.25% 0.71% 0.28%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.47% 1.44% 0.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 7 9
10th Percentile £504 £484 £458
25th Percentile £525 £503 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £525 £488
Median % change year-on-year +19.05% +7.69% -7.14%
75th Percentile £655 £594 £519
90th Percentile £679 £680 £545
England median daily rate £575 £513 £494
% change year-on-year +12.20% +3.80% +3.95%

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 1,060 1,254 1,756
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 53.56% 49.47% 55.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 635 733 1,106
10th Percentile £213 £350 £400
25th Percentile £400 £463 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +4.55%
75th Percentile £648 £672 £675
90th Percentile £738 £738 £729
England median daily rate £525 £526 £550
% change year-on-year -0.19% -4.36% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 156 110 176
10th Percentile £18.51 £36.13 £34.50
25th Percentile £20.82 £60.75 £50.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £70.00 £62.28
Median % change year-on-year -64.07% +12.40% +1.22%
75th Percentile £33.75 £73.94 £78.00
90th Percentile £69.38 £80.50 £83.40
England median hourly rate £25.15 £52.50 £53.58
% change year-on-year -52.10% -2.02% +19.07%

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 11 October 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 11 October 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 -3 4 £628 +19.52% 2
Bristol +3 1 £490 -
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 (80.00%) Confluence
2 3 (60.00%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (20.00%) Skype for Business
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) PaaS
1 1 (20.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (60.00%) DHCP
1 3 (60.00%) DNS
2 1 (20.00%) PBX
2 1 (20.00%) Skype
2 1 (20.00%) VoIP
Development Applications
1 4 (80.00%) JIRA
2 1 (20.00%) Bitbucket
2 1 (20.00%) Git
2 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (80.00%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (60.00%) Military
2 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (40.00%) Public Sector
4 1 (20.00%) Advertising
4 1 (20.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Test Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Automation Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Integration Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Test and Integration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (20.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) PKI
2 1 (20.00%) Blackberry
2 1 (20.00%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 4 (80.00%) Windows
1 4 (80.00%) Windows Server
2 3 (60.00%) Windows Server 2012
3 1 (20.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Agile
1 3 (60.00%) Critical Thinking
1 3 (60.00%) Regression Testing
1 3 (60.00%) Test Scripting
2 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (20.00%) Commercial Awareness
3 1 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (20.00%) Cost Reduction
3 1 (20.00%) Customer Requirements
3 1 (20.00%) Deployment Automation
3 1 (20.00%) Impact Assessments
3 1 (20.00%) Migration
3 1 (20.00%) Product Roadmap
3 1 (20.00%) Roadmaps
3 1 (20.00%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (20.00%) Service Design
3 1 (20.00%) System Testing
3 1 (20.00%) TDD
3 1 (20.00%) Thought Leadership
3 1 (20.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) SQL
2 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (20.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (80.00%) MCSA
1 4 (80.00%) MCSE
1 4 (80.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 4 (80.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (80.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) CCNP
2 1 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (20.00%) OCA
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle Certification
System Software
1 4 (80.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (60.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Ansible
1 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) VMware
2 4 (80.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (20.00%) Atlassian
3 1 (20.00%) Avaya
3 1 (20.00%) Cisco
3 1 (20.00%) Ericsson
3 1 (20.00%) F5
3 1 (20.00%) Juniper
3 1 (20.00%) Nokia
3 1 (20.00%) Oracle
3 1 (20.00%) Palo Alto
3 1 (20.00%) Ribbon
3 1 (20.00%) SolarWinds
3 1 (20.00%) Veeam