VCP5 Contracts in the Thames Valley

VMware Certified Professional 5 (VCP5)
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley with a requirement for VCP5 qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 28 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 104 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing VCP5 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.066% - -
As % of the Qualifications category 0.19% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £613 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 - -
75th Percentile £638 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median daily rate £650 - £575

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Thames Valley

VCP5 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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 523 1,088 1,003
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 34.30% 40.89% 34.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 317 558 638
10th Percentile £287 £294 £325
25th Percentile £406 £438 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £536 £510
Median % change year-on-year -6.65% +5.02% +4.08%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £600
90th Percentile £700 £704 £688
South East median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 119 50
10th Percentile £17.50 £20.70 £14.00
25th Percentile £25.15 £44.13 £23.38
Median hourly rate £52.50 £61.00 £63.84
Median % change year-on-year -13.93% -4.44% +203.99%
75th Percentile £76.35 £76.12 £74.95
90th Percentile £88.87 £87.53 £80.25
South East median hourly rate £50.15 £57.35 £60.00
% change year-on-year -12.55% -4.42% +33.33%

VCP5
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing VCP5 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for VCP5 in the Thames Valley

VCP5
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing VCP5 in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for VCP5 in the Thames Valley

VCP5
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VCP5 within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 28 June 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
Berkshire - 1 £625 - 1
VCP5
South East

VCP5
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Fibre Channel
1 1 (100.00%) iSCSI
General
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Architect
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Coaching
1 1 (100.00%) Customer Requirements
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Prototyping
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) MCSE
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) VCP6
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) NFS
1 1 (100.00%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (100.00%) vSphere
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) NetApp
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk
1 1 (100.00%) Veeam
1 1 (100.00%) VMware