VCAP Contract Job Trends

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 15 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 542 544 628
Rank change year-on-year +2 +84 +221
Contract jobs citing VCAP 15 17 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.046% 0.045% 0.048%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.15% 0.15% 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 2 21
10th Percentile £323 £664 -
25th Percentile £553 £666 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £688 £455
Median % change year-on-year -16.36% +50.95% +0.10%
75th Percentile £634 £716 £563
90th Percentile £750 £721 £613
UK excluding London median daily rate £575 £688 £453
% change year-on-year -16.36% +51.93% -0.55%

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 10,196 11,183 14,085
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 31.41% 29.32% 28.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,339 6,905 9,097
10th Percentile £300 £313 £325
25th Percentile £413 £425 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £621 £638 £650
90th Percentile £700 £726 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 820 663 730
10th Percentile £17.98 £17.00 £16.25
25th Percentile £18.87 £24.18 £25.63
Median hourly rate £25.15 £50.00 £54.78
Median % change year-on-year -49.70% -8.73% +21.73%
75th Percentile £44.25 £67.91 £70.00
90th Percentile £71.00 £75.37 £78.36
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £52.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year -52.10% - +16.77%

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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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Daily Rate Trend

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

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

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VCAP over the 6 months to 15 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for VCAP in the UK

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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

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Top 8 Contract Job 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 15 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
England +14 14 £575 -16.36% 2
UK excluding London -2 10 £575 -16.36% 2
South East +25 5 £575 -16.36% 1
Work from Home - 5 - - 2
East of England - 3 £95 -
London +19 2 £825 -
North of England -18 2 - -
Yorkshire - 2 - -

VCAP
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 (13.33%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 5 (33.33%) Azure
2 3 (20.00%) IaaS
3 1 (6.67%) AWS
3 1 (6.67%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 4 (26.67%) Software-Defined Networking
2 3 (20.00%) DNS
2 3 (20.00%) VSAN
3 2 (13.33%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
3 2 (13.33%) Firewall
4 1 (6.67%) BGP
4 1 (6.67%) DHCP
4 1 (6.67%) Ethernet VPN
4 1 (6.67%) LAN
4 1 (6.67%) NAS
4 1 (6.67%) SAN
4 1 (6.67%) VLAN
4 1 (6.67%) VXLAN
4 1 (6.67%) WAN
Development Applications
1 2 (13.33%) Jenkins
1 2 (13.33%) JIRA
General
1 6 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (20.00%) Finance
2 3 (20.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (6.67%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (46.67%) Architect
2 3 (20.00%) Consultant
2 3 (20.00%) Technical Architect
2 3 (20.00%) VMware Consultant
2 3 (20.00%) VMware Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Infrastructure Architect
3 2 (13.33%) VMware Architect
3 2 (13.33%) VMware Specialist
4 1 (6.67%) Data Centre Architect
4 1 (6.67%) ICT Architect
4 1 (6.67%) Infrastructure Specialist
4 1 (6.67%) Lead
4 1 (6.67%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (6.67%) Virtualisation Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 4 (26.67%) Data Centre
2 2 (13.33%) Replication
3 1 (6.67%) CMDB
3 1 (6.67%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (6.67%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.67%) Linux
1 1 (6.67%) VMS
1 1 (6.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (53.33%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (33.33%) Agile
2 5 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
2 5 (33.33%) High Availability
3 4 (26.67%) Containerisation
3 4 (26.67%) Mentoring
3 4 (26.67%) Technical Leadership
4 3 (20.00%) Capacity Planning
4 3 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (20.00%) Infrastructure Automation
4 3 (20.00%) Performance Optimisation
4 3 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
4 3 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 3 (20.00%) Use Case
5 2 (13.33%) Project Delivery
5 2 (13.33%) Runbook
5 2 (13.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 2 (13.33%) Validation
6 1 (6.67%) Knowledge Transfer
6 1 (6.67%) Network Virtualisation
Programming Languages
1 9 (60.00%) PowerShell
2 6 (40.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 8 (53.33%) Security Cleared
1 8 (53.33%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 5 (33.33%) DV Cleared
3 4 (26.67%) Azure Certification
3 4 (26.67%) SC Cleared
3 4 (26.67%) VCDX
4 1 (6.67%) CCIE
4 1 (6.67%) CCNP
4 1 (6.67%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (6.67%) Degree
System Software
1 10 (66.67%) VMware NSX
2 9 (60.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (53.33%) vSphere
4 4 (26.67%) Active Directory
5 3 (20.00%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (20.00%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (6.67%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 6 (40.00%) PowerCLI
2 5 (33.33%) Terraform
2 5 (33.33%) vRealize
3 3 (20.00%) vCenter Server
3 3 (20.00%) vRealize Orchestrator
4 1 (6.67%) Ansible
4 1 (6.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 15 (100.00%) VMware
2 5 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 3 (20.00%) Citrix
4 2 (13.33%) Broadcom
4 2 (13.33%) F5
5 1 (6.67%) Ariba
5 1 (6.67%) Cisco
5 1 (6.67%) Dell
5 1 (6.67%) Google
5 1 (6.67%) SAP
5 1 (6.67%) ServiceNow
5 1 (6.67%) Veeam