VCP5 Contracts in the UK excluding London

VMware Certified Professional 5 (VCP5)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for VCP5 qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 19 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 343 - 435
Rank change year-on-year - - +70
Contract jobs citing VCP5 12 0 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.080% - 0.009%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.23% - 0.027%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 - £575
Median % change year-on-year - - +53.33%
75th Percentile - - £588
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £650 - £575
% change year-on-year - - +48.39%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 5,245 7,307 7,459
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 35.00% 35.96% 32.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,105 4,329 4,815
10th Percentile £205 £281 £313
25th Percentile £380 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £638
90th Percentile £675 £713 £713
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 588 911 562
10th Percentile £17.48 £14.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.87 £20.12 £20.22
Median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -41.51% -21.82% +39.24%
75th Percentile £57.69 £65.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £77.50 £80.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £57.33
% change year-on-year -40.82% -25.87% +28.83%

VCP5
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing VCP5 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for VCP5 in the UK excluding London

VCP5
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing VCP5 in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for VCP5 in the UK excluding London

VCP5
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing VCP5 in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for VCP5 in the UK excluding London

VCP5
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 VCP5 within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 19 July 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 - 12 £650 - 3
VCP5
UK

VCP5
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:

Communications & Networking
1 12 (100.00%) Fibre Channel
1 12 (100.00%) iSCSI
General
1 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 12 (100.00%) Architect
1 12 (100.00%) Infrastructure Architect
2 11 (91.67%) VMware Architect
Operating Systems
1 12 (100.00%) Windows Server 2019
2 11 (91.67%) Windows
2 11 (91.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (91.67%) Edge Virtualization
1 11 (91.67%) Performance Analysis
2 1 (8.33%) Coaching
2 1 (8.33%) Customer Requirements
2 1 (8.33%) Mentoring
2 1 (8.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (8.33%) Prototyping
Programming Languages
1 12 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (100.00%) MCSE
1 12 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 12 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 12 (100.00%) VCP6
1 12 (100.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 11 (91.67%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 12 (100.00%) NFS
1 12 (100.00%) VMware ESXi
1 12 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 12 (100.00%) vSphere
Vendors
1 12 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 12 (100.00%) NetApp
1 12 (100.00%) Splunk
1 12 (100.00%) Veeam
1 12 (100.00%) VMware