VMware Certified Professional (VCP) Contracts in the UK excluding London

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 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 258 344 404
Rank change year-on-year +86 +60 +54
Contract jobs citing VMware Certified Professional (VCP) 81 55 43
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.63% 0.27% 0.18%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.78% 0.72% 0.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 42 39
10th Percentile £513 £320 £409
25th Percentile £525 £364 £454
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £585 £525 £463
Median % change year-on-year +11.43% +13.51% +2.78%
75th Percentile £650 £556 £588
90th Percentile £688 £633 £635
UK median daily rate £580 £519 £459
% change year-on-year +11.81% +13.02% +0.87%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK excluding London

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 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%

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for VMware Certified Professional (VCP) in the UK excluding London

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing VMware Certified Professional (VCP) in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for VMware Certified Professional (VCP) in the UK excluding London

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VMware Certified Professional (VCP) in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for VMware Certified Professional (VCP) in the UK excluding London

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing VMware Certified Professional (VCP) in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for VMware Certified Professional (VCP) in the UK excluding London

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
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 VMware Certified Professional (VCP) 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 West +75 50 £575 +6.98% 8
South East +40 14 £618 +23.50% 24
North of England +18 10 £500 +47.06% 11
North West +12 5 £438 +7.03% 3
Yorkshire +5 5 £500 +47.06% 7
Midlands +21 4 £700 -1.75% 7
West Midlands +18 4 £700 -1.75% 6
East of England - 3 £540 - 1
VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
UK

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
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 23 (28.40%) Confluence
2 6 (7.41%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (4.94%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.23%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 14 (17.28%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.23%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 14 (17.28%) PaaS
1 14 (17.28%) SaaS
2 7 (8.64%) Azure
3 6 (7.41%) IaaS
3 6 (7.41%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (4.94%) AWS
4 4 (4.94%) Entra ID
4 4 (4.94%) OneDrive
5 3 (3.70%) GitHub
6 2 (2.47%) OCI
7 1 (1.23%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (1.23%) OpenShift
7 1 (1.23%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 13 (16.05%) VSAN
2 11 (13.58%) Firewall
3 10 (12.35%) iSCSI
3 10 (12.35%) PBX
3 10 (12.35%) VoIP
4 8 (9.88%) BGP
4 8 (9.88%) Cisco Nexus
4 8 (9.88%) OSPF
5 6 (7.41%) SAN
6 5 (6.17%) Cisco IOS
6 5 (6.17%) DMVPN
6 5 (6.17%) VXLAN
7 4 (4.94%) DNS
7 4 (4.94%) Fibre Channel
8 3 (3.70%) MPLS
8 3 (3.70%) Network Security
8 3 (3.70%) NGFW
8 3 (3.70%) SD-WAN
8 3 (3.70%) TCP/IP
8 3 (3.70%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (6.17%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 23 (28.40%) JIRA
2 18 (22.22%) Git
3 15 (18.52%) Jenkins
4 11 (13.58%) Bitbucket
5 1 (1.23%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 23 (28.40%) Social Skills
2 18 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
2 18 (22.22%) Public Sector
3 10 (12.35%) Telecoms
4 5 (6.17%) Legal
5 2 (2.47%) Finance
5 2 (2.47%) Military
6 1 (1.23%) Banking
Job Titles
1 14 (17.28%) Architect
1 14 (17.28%) Virtualisation Engineer
2 13 (16.05%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 8 (9.88%) Platform Engineer
4 7 (8.64%) Technical Architect
5 6 (7.41%) Infrastructure Architect
5 6 (7.41%) Senior
5 6 (7.41%) Senior Architect
5 6 (7.41%) Senior Technical Architect
5 6 (7.41%) VMware Architect
6 5 (6.17%) Automation Engineer
6 5 (6.17%) Network Engineer
7 4 (4.94%) Database Engineer
7 4 (4.94%) DevOps Engineer
7 4 (4.94%) Oracle Database Engineer
7 4 (4.94%) VMware Engineer
8 3 (3.70%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
9 2 (2.47%) 3rd Line Engineer
9 2 (2.47%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
9 2 (2.47%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (17.28%) Flash
2 11 (13.58%) REST
3 10 (12.35%) SOAP
4 5 (6.17%) Spine.js
5 2 (2.47%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (1.23%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 14 (17.28%) Clustering
2 11 (13.58%) Hybrid Cloud
3 10 (12.35%) Blackberry
3 10 (12.35%) PKI
3 10 (12.35%) Video Conferencing
4 7 (8.64%) Data Centre
5 4 (4.94%) Public Cloud
6 2 (2.47%) SCADA
7 1 (1.23%) Blockchain
7 1 (1.23%) Private Cloud
7 1 (1.23%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 30 (37.04%) Windows
2 23 (28.40%) Linux
2 23 (28.40%) Windows Server
3 9 (11.11%) Windows Server 2012
4 8 (9.88%) Windows Server 2019
5 6 (7.41%) VMS
6 4 (4.94%) Unix
6 4 (4.94%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (2.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (1.23%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (48.15%) Validation
2 34 (41.98%) NsoIT
3 30 (37.04%) Agile
4 29 (35.80%) Problem-Solving
4 29 (35.80%) Service Management
4 29 (35.80%) System Testing
5 24 (29.63%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 19 (23.46%) Network Virtualisation
7 18 (22.22%) Configuration Management
7 18 (22.22%) High Availability
8 16 (19.75%) Critical Thinking
8 16 (19.75%) Infrastructure Automation
9 15 (18.52%) CI/CD
9 15 (18.52%) Infrastructure as Code
9 15 (18.52%) Waterfall
10 14 (17.28%) Power Management
11 13 (16.05%) Computer Science
12 11 (13.58%) Deployment Automation
12 11 (13.58%) Migration
13 10 (12.35%) Commercial Awareness
Programming Languages
1 26 (32.10%) Python
2 23 (28.40%) PowerShell
3 10 (12.35%) Bash
4 6 (7.41%) SQL
5 3 (3.70%) Shell Script
6 1 (1.23%) Java
Qualifications
1 65 (80.25%) Security Cleared
2 55 (67.90%) SC Cleared
3 38 (46.91%) Cisco Certification
4 28 (34.57%) CCNP
5 21 (25.93%) Microsoft Certification
6 20 (24.69%) MCSE
7 19 (23.46%) DV Cleared
8 15 (18.52%) Oracle Certification
9 14 (17.28%) Degree
10 13 (16.05%) Master's Degree
11 12 (14.81%) CCNA
12 11 (13.58%) OCA
13 10 (12.35%) RHCA
13 10 (12.35%) RHCE
14 6 (7.41%) MCSA
14 6 (7.41%) VCAP
15 4 (4.94%) OCP
15 4 (4.94%) VCP5
15 4 (4.94%) VCP6
16 1 (1.23%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (7.41%) Cyber Essentials
1 6 (7.41%) NCSC
1 6 (7.41%) NIST
System Software
1 73 (90.12%) VMware Infrastructure
2 27 (33.33%) VMware NSX
3 23 (28.40%) VMware ESXi
4 15 (18.52%) vSphere
5 6 (7.41%) Active Directory
6 4 (4.94%) Docker
6 4 (4.94%) NFS
6 4 (4.94%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (1.23%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 38 (46.91%) vCenter Server
2 27 (33.33%) Ansible
3 12 (14.81%) Terraform
4 10 (12.35%) Progress Chef
4 10 (12.35%) Puppet
5 5 (6.17%) PowerCLI
6 4 (4.94%) Kubernetes
6 4 (4.94%) WSUS
7 3 (3.70%) vRealize
7 3 (3.70%) VxRail
8 2 (2.47%) SCOM
8 2 (2.47%) vRealize Orchestrator
9 1 (1.23%) Grafana
9 1 (1.23%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 81 (100.00%) VMware
2 44 (54.32%) Cisco
3 21 (25.93%) Atlassian
4 17 (20.99%) Palo Alto
5 16 (19.75%) Microsoft
5 16 (19.75%) Oracle
6 10 (12.35%) Avaya
6 10 (12.35%) Ericsson
6 10 (12.35%) F5
6 10 (12.35%) Juniper
6 10 (12.35%) Nokia
6 10 (12.35%) Ribbon
7 6 (7.41%) Veeam
8 4 (4.94%) Citrix
8 4 (4.94%) NetApp
8 4 (4.94%) Splunk
9 3 (3.70%) Dell
10 2 (2.47%) Red Hat
11 1 (1.23%) Foundry
11 1 (1.23%) SolarWinds