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

6 months to
15 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 544 546 615
Rank change year-on-year +2 +69 +194
Contract jobs citing VCAP 17 17 25
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.051% 0.045% 0.052%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.16% 0.15% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 3 21
10th Percentile £282 £533 -
25th Percentile £563 £581 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £675 £473
Median % change year-on-year -14.81% +42.86% +3.96%
75th Percentile £588 £706 £563
90th Percentile £745 £718 £625
UK excluding London median daily rate £575 £675 £455
% change year-on-year -14.81% +48.21% +0.10%

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 10,598 11,053 13,560
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 31.92% 29.35% 28.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,647 6,698 8,727
10th Percentile £285 £310 £313
25th Percentile £413 £419 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £630 £650
90th Percentile £706 £725 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £520 £538
% change year-on-year -3.85% -3.26% +2.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 889 573 747
10th Percentile £17.59 £18.13 £16.58
25th Percentile £18.87 £25.36 £26.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £47.50 £53.67
Median % change year-on-year -47.05% -11.49% +19.26%
75th Percentile £40.00 £68.00 £69.81
90th Percentile £70.16 £75.00 £79.78
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £50.00 £51.90
% change year-on-year -49.70% -3.65% +15.32%

VCAP
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing VCAP relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

VCAP job vacancy trend in the UK

VCAP
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

VCAP
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for VCAP in the UK

VCAP
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

VCAP
Top 9 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 October 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 +11 17 £575 -14.81% 7
UK excluding London -19 11 £575 -14.81% 5
Work from Home - 6 - - 4
South East +11 5 £575 -16.36% 5
North of England -21 3 - -
East of England - 3 £95 -
London +15 2 £825 - 5
Yorkshire -16 2 - -
North West -15 1 - -

VCAP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (11.76%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 4 (23.53%) Azure
2 2 (11.76%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (23.53%) VSAN
2 3 (17.65%) DNS
2 3 (17.65%) Firewall
2 3 (17.65%) WAN
3 2 (11.76%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
3 2 (11.76%) Software-Defined Networking
3 2 (11.76%) VPN
4 1 (5.88%) BGP
4 1 (5.88%) DHCP
4 1 (5.88%) Ethernet VPN
4 1 (5.88%) LAN
4 1 (5.88%) NAS
4 1 (5.88%) Remote Desktop
4 1 (5.88%) SAN
4 1 (5.88%) VLAN
4 1 (5.88%) VXLAN
Development Applications
1 2 (11.76%) Jenkins
1 2 (11.76%) JIRA
General
1 11 (64.71%) Social Skills
2 4 (23.53%) Public Sector
3 3 (17.65%) Documentation Skills
3 3 (17.65%) Finance
4 2 (11.76%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (29.41%) Architect
1 5 (29.41%) Consultant
1 5 (29.41%) VMware Consultant
2 4 (23.53%) VMware Engineer
3 3 (17.65%) Technical Architect
4 1 (5.88%) Data Centre Architect
4 1 (5.88%) Deployment Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Infrastructure Architect
4 1 (5.88%) Lead
4 1 (5.88%) Virtualisation Specialist
4 1 (5.88%) VMware Architect
4 1 (5.88%) VMware Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 6 (35.29%) Data Centre
2 4 (23.53%) Replication
3 2 (11.76%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (11.76%) Public Cloud
4 1 (5.88%) CMDB
4 1 (5.88%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (11.76%) Windows
2 1 (5.88%) Linux
2 1 (5.88%) VMS
2 1 (5.88%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (64.71%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (29.41%) Stakeholder Management
3 4 (23.53%) Agile
3 4 (23.53%) Continuous Improvement
3 4 (23.53%) Disaster Recovery
3 4 (23.53%) High Availability
3 4 (23.53%) Mentoring
3 4 (23.53%) Performance Optimisation
3 4 (23.53%) Performance Tuning
3 4 (23.53%) Technical Leadership
4 3 (17.65%) Capacity Planning
4 3 (17.65%) Containerisation
4 3 (17.65%) Infrastructure Automation
4 3 (17.65%) Knowledge Transfer
4 3 (17.65%) Migration
5 2 (11.76%) Project Delivery
5 2 (11.76%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 2 (11.76%) Use Case
5 2 (11.76%) WAN Optimisation
6 1 (5.88%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 8 (47.06%) PowerShell
2 4 (23.53%) Python
Qualifications
1 12 (70.59%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 9 (52.94%) Security Cleared
3 6 (35.29%) SC Cleared
4 4 (23.53%) Azure Certification
4 4 (23.53%) DV Cleared
5 3 (17.65%) VCDX
6 1 (5.88%) CCIE
6 1 (5.88%) CCNP
6 1 (5.88%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (5.88%) Degree
System Software
1 12 (70.59%) vSphere
2 11 (64.71%) VMware NSX
3 10 (58.82%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (29.41%) Active Directory
5 4 (23.53%) Virtual Desktop
5 4 (23.53%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (11.76%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (5.88%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 6 (35.29%) PowerCLI
1 6 (35.29%) Terraform
2 5 (29.41%) vCenter Server
3 3 (17.65%) vRealize
4 2 (11.76%) vMotion
4 2 (11.76%) vRealize Orchestrator
5 1 (5.88%) Ansible
Vendors
1 17 (100.00%) VMware
2 4 (23.53%) Microsoft
3 3 (17.65%) Citrix
4 2 (11.76%) Broadcom
4 2 (11.76%) Cisco
4 2 (11.76%) F5
5 1 (5.88%) Pure Storage
5 1 (5.88%) Veeam