VMware Certified Professional (VCP) Contract Job Trends in South Yorkshire

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South Yorkshire 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 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 99 41 -
Rank change year-on-year -58 - -
Contract jobs citing VMware Certified Professional (VCP) 1 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 0.11% 0.36% -
As % of the Qualifications category 0.47% 1.59% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £500 -
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% - -
Yorkshire median daily rate £425 £500 £339
% change year-on-year -15.00% +47.60% -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
South Yorkshire

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 South Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 215 63 107
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 24.16% 22.99% 23.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 148 43 60
10th Percentile £410 £208 £375
25th Percentile £463 £220 £479
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £414 £575
Median % change year-on-year +25.42% -28.00% +9.00%
75th Percentile £675 £522 £656
90th Percentile £701 £630 £720
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £13.85 - -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £23.58 £32.50 £15.00
% change year-on-year -27.46% +116.67% -63.08%

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

VMware Certified Professional (VCP) job vacancy trend in South Yorkshire

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

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

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 11 February 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
Sheffield -56 1 £425 -15.00% 1
VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Yorkshire

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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 1 (100.00%) Nutanix
1 1 (100.00%) OpenShift
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Change Management
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Network Virtualisation
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Environments
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Python
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (100.00%) KVM
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Machines
1 1 (100.00%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (100.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) PowerCLI
1 1 (100.00%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) VMware