VCAP Contracts in the UK excluding London

VMware Certified Advanced Professional (VCAP, VCAP4)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for VCAP qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 333 388 429
Rank change year-on-year +55 +41 +62
Contract jobs citing VCAP 6 11 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.047% 0.053% 0.075%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.13% 0.14% 0.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 6 18
10th Percentile £538 £416 £410
25th Percentile £550 £435 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £500 £455
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% +9.89% +0.55%
75th Percentile £650 £523 £456
90th Percentile - £531 £463
UK median daily rate £563 £500 £455
% change year-on-year +12.50% +9.89% -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK excluding London

VCAP 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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 4,542 7,681 7,967
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 35.51% 37.01% 33.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,777 4,413 5,341
10th Percentile £212 £269 £275
25th Percentile £394 £425 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £535 £530
Median % change year-on-year -6.45% +0.94% +6.00%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £631
90th Percentile £688 £725 £703
UK median daily rate £525 £536 £550
% change year-on-year -2.05% -2.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 408 935 669
10th Percentile £18.13 £13.58 £14.25
25th Percentile £21.46 £16.50 £20.00
Median hourly rate £42.50 £40.94 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.81% -18.12% +54.46%
75th Percentile £67.50 £63.29 £65.75
90th Percentile £80.25 £77.50 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £40.25 £40.00 £54.00
% change year-on-year +0.63% -25.93% +29.16%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing VCAP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for VCAP in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing VCAP in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for VCAP in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing VCAP in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for VCAP in the UK excluding London

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Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VCAP within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 2 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
South East +43 3 £600 +28.87% 5
East of England - 3 £540 -
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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 3 (50.00%) GitHub
2 2 (33.33%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (66.67%) VSAN
2 3 (50.00%) Firewall
2 3 (50.00%) Network Security
3 2 (33.33%) Software-Defined Networking
General
1 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) VMware Engineer
2 3 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (33.33%) Architect
3 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Architect
3 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Specialist
3 2 (33.33%) Systems Engineer
3 2 (33.33%) VMware Architect
3 2 (33.33%) VMware Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (33.33%) Data Centre
3 1 (16.67%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Agile
1 5 (83.33%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (66.67%) Network Virtualisation
3 3 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 3 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 3 (50.00%) Project Delivery
3 3 (50.00%) Waterfall
3 3 (50.00%) Zero Trust
4 1 (16.67%) Capacity Planning
4 1 (16.67%) Converged Infrastructure
4 1 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (16.67%) Network Architecture
4 1 (16.67%) Task Automation
4 1 (16.67%) Virtual Environments
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) PowerShell
2 5 (83.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (100.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 5 (83.33%) DV Cleared
2 5 (83.33%) Security Cleared
3 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 6 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 6 (100.00%) VMware NSX
1 6 (100.00%) vSphere
2 1 (16.67%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 4 (66.67%) PowerCLI
1 4 (66.67%) vCenter Server
2 3 (50.00%) Ansible
2 3 (50.00%) Terraform
2 3 (50.00%) vRealize
2 3 (50.00%) VxRail
3 2 (33.33%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) VMware
2 3 (50.00%) Dell
3 1 (16.67%) Veeam