VMware Certified Professional (VCP) Contracts in the Thames Valley

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 90 141 134
Rank change year-on-year +51 -7 +19
Contract jobs citing VMware Certified Professional (VCP) 12 4 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.79% 0.15% 0.58%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.19% 0.36% 1.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 4 17
10th Percentile £561 - £409
25th Percentile £586 £416 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £620 £466 £455
Median % change year-on-year +33.16% +2.33% -
75th Percentile £630 £500 £458
90th Percentile - - £596
South East median daily rate £628 £500 £455
% change year-on-year +25.61% +9.89% -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 547 1,103 1,024
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 36.20% 41.06% 34.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 317 588 696
10th Percentile £313 £213 £319
25th Percentile £436 £413 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £528 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year +0.48% +5.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £638 £620 £600
90th Percentile £700 £688 £690
South East median daily rate £537 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.32% +4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 107 45
10th Percentile £19.12 £18.30 £20.10
25th Percentile £32.05 £41.75 £27.00
Median hourly rate £61.50 £58.30 £64.68
Median % change year-on-year +5.48% -9.86% +207.61%
75th Percentile £71.38 £70.44 £74.79
90th Percentile £87.46 £87.18 £80.25
South East median hourly rate £56.75 £57.35 £57.76
% change year-on-year -1.05% -0.71% +28.75%

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing VMware Certified Professional (VCP) as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for VMware Certified Professional (VCP) in the Thames Valley

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing VMware Certified Professional (VCP) in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for VMware Certified Professional (VCP) in the Thames Valley

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing VMware Certified Professional (VCP) in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for VMware Certified Professional (VCP) in the Thames Valley

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
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 VMware Certified Professional (VCP) within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Buckinghamshire +23 11 £624 +34.03% 2
Berkshire - 1 £575 - 7
VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
South East

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
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:

Cloud Services
1 8 (66.67%) IaaS
1 8 (66.67%) PaaS
1 8 (66.67%) SaaS
2 3 (25.00%) AWS
2 3 (25.00%) Azure
3 2 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 12 (100.00%) VSAN
2 3 (25.00%) BGP
2 3 (25.00%) Cisco Nexus
2 3 (25.00%) MPLS
2 3 (25.00%) NGFW
2 3 (25.00%) OSPF
2 3 (25.00%) SD-WAN
2 3 (25.00%) TCP/IP
2 3 (25.00%) VPN
2 3 (25.00%) WAN
3 2 (16.67%) Cisco ASA
3 2 (16.67%) DNS
3 2 (16.67%) Firewall
3 2 (16.67%) VLAN
General
1 5 (41.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 11 (91.67%) Architect
1 11 (91.67%) Technical Architect
2 10 (83.33%) Senior
2 10 (83.33%) Senior Architect
2 10 (83.33%) Senior Technical Architect
3 4 (33.33%) Infrastructure Technical Architect
3 4 (33.33%) Technical Infrastructure Architect
4 2 (16.67%) Senior VMware Architect
4 2 (16.67%) VMware Architect
5 1 (8.33%) VMware Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 11 (91.67%) Hybrid Cloud
2 10 (83.33%) PKI
3 3 (25.00%) Public Cloud
4 1 (8.33%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (91.67%) CI/CD
1 11 (91.67%) DevSecOps
1 11 (91.67%) Infrastructure as Code
1 11 (91.67%) TOGAF
2 10 (83.33%) Containerisation
2 10 (83.33%) Continuous Delivery
2 10 (83.33%) Continuous Integration
2 10 (83.33%) ITIL
2 10 (83.33%) Microservices
2 10 (83.33%) Zachman Framework
3 8 (66.67%) Use Case
4 7 (58.33%) Requirements Management
5 6 (50.00%) IT Strategy
5 6 (50.00%) Matrix Organization
5 6 (50.00%) Technology Strategy
5 6 (50.00%) Virtual Environments
6 2 (16.67%) Adaptive Security
6 2 (16.67%) Cybersecurity
7 1 (8.33%) Network Virtualisation
7 1 (8.33%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 1 (8.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 11 (91.67%) MCSE
1 11 (91.67%) Microsoft Certification
2 10 (83.33%) Security Cleared
3 8 (66.67%) SC Cleared
4 4 (33.33%) DV Cleared
5 1 (8.33%) CCNP
5 1 (8.33%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (8.33%) TOGAF Certification
5 1 (8.33%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (83.33%) Cyber Essentials
1 10 (83.33%) NCSC
1 10 (83.33%) NIST
System Software
1 12 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 12 (100.00%) VMware NSX
2 1 (8.33%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (8.33%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (8.33%) PowerCLI
1 1 (8.33%) vCenter Server
1 1 (8.33%) vRealize
Vendors
1 12 (100.00%) VMware
2 11 (91.67%) Cisco
2 11 (91.67%) Palo Alto
3 2 (16.67%) Microsoft
4 1 (8.33%) Veeam