VCAP Contract Job Trends 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 14 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 360 352 416
Rank change year-on-year -8 +64 +86
Contract jobs citing VCAP 11 15 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.072% 0.084% 0.055%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.21% 0.24% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 2 12
10th Percentile £323 £664 £411
25th Percentile £550 £666 £421
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £688 £453
Median % change year-on-year -16.36% +51.93% -0.55%
75th Percentile £634 £716 £475
90th Percentile £650 £721 £498
UK median daily rate £575 £688 £455
% change year-on-year -16.36% +50.95% +0.10%

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 5,360 6,183 7,369
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 34.96% 34.61% 33.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,235 3,666 4,588
10th Percentile £219 £288 £300
25th Percentile £395 £413 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - +2.44%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £638
90th Percentile £675 £711 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 669 581 589
10th Percentile £17.87 £16.30 £15.25
25th Percentile £18.87 £24.18 £22.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £53.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -52.55% +0.95% +16.77%
75th Percentile £41.55 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £80.00 £78.36
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £50.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -49.70% -9.09% +22.22%

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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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Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing VCAP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing VCAP

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Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VCAP in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 14 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for VCAP in the UK excluding London

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Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing VCAP.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing VCAP

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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 14 September 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 +14 6 £575 -16.36% 1
East of England - 3 £95 -
North of England -13 2 - -
Yorkshire - 2 - -
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UK

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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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (18.18%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 4 (36.36%) IaaS
2 3 (27.27%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 4 (36.36%) Software-Defined Networking
2 2 (18.18%) DNS
2 2 (18.18%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
3 1 (9.09%) BGP
3 1 (9.09%) Ethernet VPN
3 1 (9.09%) VLAN
3 1 (9.09%) VSAN
3 1 (9.09%) VXLAN
Development Applications
1 2 (18.18%) Jenkins
1 2 (18.18%) JIRA
General
1 4 (36.36%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (27.27%) Public Sector
2 3 (27.27%) Social Skills
3 2 (18.18%) Finance
Job Titles
1 6 (54.55%) Architect
2 3 (27.27%) Technical Architect
2 3 (27.27%) VMware Architect
2 3 (27.27%) VMware Engineer
2 3 (27.27%) VMware Specialist
3 2 (18.18%) Infrastructure Architect
3 2 (18.18%) Infrastructure Specialist
4 1 (9.09%) Lead
4 1 (9.09%) Virtualisation Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 4 (36.36%) Data Centre
2 1 (9.09%) Onboarding
2 1 (9.09%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (9.09%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (63.64%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (54.55%) Agile
3 4 (36.36%) Disaster Recovery
3 4 (36.36%) Mentoring
3 4 (36.36%) Technical Leadership
4 3 (27.27%) Capacity Planning
4 3 (27.27%) Containerisation
4 3 (27.27%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (27.27%) High Availability
4 3 (27.27%) Infrastructure Automation
4 3 (27.27%) Performance Optimisation
4 3 (27.27%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (18.18%) Use Case
6 1 (9.09%) Computer Science
6 1 (9.09%) Data Flow Diagram
6 1 (9.09%) Network Virtualisation
6 1 (9.09%) Resource Allocation
6 1 (9.09%) Runbook
6 1 (9.09%) Validation
6 1 (9.09%) Virtual Environments
Programming Languages
1 10 (90.91%) PowerShell
2 4 (36.36%) Python
Qualifications
1 7 (63.64%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 5 (45.45%) Security Cleared
3 4 (36.36%) DV Cleared
4 3 (27.27%) Azure Certification
5 1 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (9.09%) Degree
5 1 (9.09%) VCDX
System Software
1 10 (90.91%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (72.73%) VMware NSX
3 7 (63.64%) vSphere
4 3 (27.27%) Active Directory
4 3 (27.27%) Virtual Desktop
4 3 (27.27%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 5 (45.45%) Terraform
1 5 (45.45%) vRealize
2 4 (36.36%) vRealize Orchestrator
3 3 (27.27%) PowerCLI
3 3 (27.27%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 11 (100.00%) VMware
2 3 (27.27%) Citrix
2 3 (27.27%) Microsoft
3 2 (18.18%) Broadcom
3 2 (18.18%) F5
4 1 (9.09%) Veeam