VCAP Contracts

VMware Certified Advanced Professional (VCAP, VCAP4)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for VCAP qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 4 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 529 580 644
Rank change year-on-year +51 +64 +208
Contract jobs citing VCAP 22 15 36
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.070% 0.035% 0.064%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.23% 0.12% 0.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 7 27
10th Percentile £482 £416 £415
25th Percentile £526 £455 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £500 £455
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% +9.89% -
75th Percentile £650 £531 £513
90th Percentile £693 £594 £584
UK excluding London median daily rate £563 £500 £455
% change year-on-year +12.50% +9.89% -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK

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.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 9,754 12,940 15,078
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.87% 29.79% 26.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,039 8,021 9,992
10th Percentile £277 £313 £350
25th Percentile £412 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £521 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.76% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £650
90th Percentile £704 £738 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 649 1,105 737
10th Percentile £17.87 £14.00 £15.23
25th Percentile £20.15 £20.00 £22.50
Median hourly rate £27.94 £40.94 £55.85
Median % change year-on-year -31.75% -26.70% +25.51%
75th Percentile £59.90 £65.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.32 £43.00 £53.67
% change year-on-year -41.12% -19.87% +52.46%

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Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing VCAP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for VCAP in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing VCAP.

Daily rate trend for VCAP in the UK

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VCAP over the 6 months to 4 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for VCAP in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing VCAP.

Hourly rate trend for VCAP in the UK

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Top 8 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 4 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
England +69 20 £563 +12.50% 76
UK excluding London +31 11 £563 +12.50% 74
Work from Home - 7 £530 - 6
London - 7 £600 - 11
East of England - 6 £530 - 14
South East +34 3 £600 +20.00% 16
North of England +4 2 - - 15
Yorkshire - 2 - - 9

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (9.09%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 11 (50.00%) Azure
2 5 (22.73%) AWS
3 4 (18.18%) GCP
4 3 (13.64%) GitHub
5 2 (9.09%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 2 (9.09%) IaaS
6 1 (4.55%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (4.55%) Amazon ELB
6 1 (4.55%) Entra ID
6 1 (4.55%) Route 53
6 1 (4.55%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 10 (45.45%) Firewall
2 6 (27.27%) Software-Defined Networking
2 6 (27.27%) VSAN
3 5 (22.73%) DNS
3 5 (22.73%) Network Security
4 2 (9.09%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 2 (9.09%) NAS
4 2 (9.09%) SAN
5 1 (4.55%) DHCP
5 1 (4.55%) LAN
5 1 (4.55%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (9.09%) SQL Server
2 1 (4.55%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 2 (9.09%) Jenkins
1 2 (9.09%) JIRA
General
1 10 (45.45%) Social Skills
2 3 (13.64%) Finance
3 2 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (4.55%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (4.55%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 9 (40.91%) VMware Engineer
2 7 (31.82%) Architect
3 6 (27.27%) Consultant
3 6 (27.27%) VMware Consultant
4 5 (22.73%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 5 (22.73%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (13.64%) Infrastructure Architect
5 3 (13.64%) Technical Architect
6 2 (9.09%) Azure Engineer
6 2 (9.09%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (9.09%) Infrastructure Specialist
6 2 (9.09%) Systems Engineer
6 2 (9.09%) VMware Architect
6 2 (9.09%) VMware Specialist
7 1 (4.55%) Data Centre Architect
7 1 (4.55%) ICT Architect
7 1 (4.55%) Lead
7 1 (4.55%) Solutions Architect
Miscellaneous
1 7 (31.82%) Hybrid Cloud
2 3 (13.64%) Data Centre
3 2 (9.09%) Clustering
3 2 (9.09%) Replication
4 1 (4.55%) CMDB
4 1 (4.55%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 4 (18.18%) Windows
2 2 (9.09%) Windows Server
3 1 (4.55%) Linux
3 1 (4.55%) VMS
3 1 (4.55%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 9 (40.91%) High Availability
3 8 (36.36%) Disaster Recovery
4 7 (31.82%) Agile
4 7 (31.82%) Containerisation
5 5 (22.73%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 5 (22.73%) Knowledge Transfer
5 5 (22.73%) Project Delivery
5 5 (22.73%) Runbook
5 5 (22.73%) Use Case
5 5 (22.73%) Validation
6 4 (18.18%) Capacity Planning
6 4 (18.18%) Mentoring
6 4 (18.18%) Network Virtualisation
6 4 (18.18%) Technical Leadership
7 3 (13.64%) CI/CD
7 3 (13.64%) Performance Optimisation
7 3 (13.64%) Performance Tuning
7 3 (13.64%) Virtual Environments
7 3 (13.64%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 12 (54.55%) PowerShell
2 11 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 14 (63.64%) Security Cleared
2 13 (59.09%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 9 (40.91%) DV Cleared
4 8 (36.36%) SC Cleared
5 4 (18.18%) Azure Certification
6 3 (13.64%) VCDX
7 2 (9.09%) Degree
8 1 (4.55%) CCIE
8 1 (4.55%) CCNP
8 1 (4.55%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.55%) GDPR
1 1 (4.55%) HIPAA
System Software
1 14 (63.64%) VMware Infrastructure
1 14 (63.64%) VMware NSX
2 11 (50.00%) vSphere
3 7 (31.82%) Active Directory
4 4 (18.18%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (13.64%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (4.55%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 12 (54.55%) PowerCLI
2 8 (36.36%) Terraform
3 7 (31.82%) Ansible
3 7 (31.82%) vRealize
4 6 (27.27%) vCenter Server
5 4 (18.18%) Kubernetes
6 3 (13.64%) VxRail
7 2 (9.09%) FortiGate
7 2 (9.09%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 22 (100.00%) VMware
2 8 (36.36%) Microsoft
3 4 (18.18%) Dell
3 4 (18.18%) F5
3 4 (18.18%) Google
4 3 (13.64%) Citrix
5 2 (9.09%) Atempo
5 2 (9.09%) Broadcom
5 2 (9.09%) Databricks
5 2 (9.09%) Fortinet
5 2 (9.09%) Mellanox
6 1 (4.55%) Ariba
6 1 (4.55%) Cisco
6 1 (4.55%) SAP
6 1 (4.55%) ServiceNow
6 1 (4.55%) Veeam