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

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 507 560 668
Rank change year-on-year +53 +108 +166
Contract jobs citing VCAP 14 13 32
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.048% 0.031% 0.056%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.15% 0.10% 0.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 7 25
10th Percentile £525 £416 £410
25th Percentile £529 £455 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £500 £455
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% +9.89% -
75th Percentile £650 £516 £475
90th Percentile £658 £531 £563
UK excluding London median daily rate £575 £500 £455
% change year-on-year +15.00% +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 9,061 12,823 15,536
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 31.04% 30.13% 27.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,694 7,942 10,365
10th Percentile £283 £307 £330
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £532 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.36% -3.23% +4.76%
75th Percentile £620 £650 £650
90th Percentile £700 £738 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £530 £525
% change year-on-year -5.66% +0.95% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 506 1,052 789
10th Percentile £18.13 £13.69 £15.25
25th Percentile £21.26 £17.72 £20.47
Median hourly rate £37.50 £40.00 £54.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% -25.93% +23.15%
75th Percentile £65.00 £61.35 £67.50
90th Percentile £79.35 £76.15 £79.30
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £40.63 £49.94
% change year-on-year -7.71% -18.63% +42.68%

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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 16 May 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 6 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 16 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
England +66 12 £563 +12.50% 4
UK excluding London +41 6 £575 +15.00% 3
London +32 6 £550 +10.00% 1
South East +48 3 £600 +28.87% 2
Work from Home - 3 £530 - 3
East of England - 3 £540 -

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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:

Cloud Services
1 8 (57.14%) Azure
2 5 (35.71%) AWS
3 4 (28.57%) GCP
4 3 (21.43%) GitHub
5 2 (14.29%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 2 (14.29%) IaaS
6 1 (7.14%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (7.14%) Amazon ELB
6 1 (7.14%) Entra ID
6 1 (7.14%) Route 53
6 1 (7.14%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 9 (64.29%) Firewall
2 6 (42.86%) Software-Defined Networking
3 5 (35.71%) Network Security
4 4 (28.57%) VSAN
5 2 (14.29%) DNS
6 1 (7.14%) NAS
6 1 (7.14%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (14.29%) SQL Server
2 1 (7.14%) Amazon RDS
General
1 4 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 2 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (50.00%) VMware Engineer
2 5 (35.71%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 5 (35.71%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
3 4 (28.57%) Consultant
3 4 (28.57%) VMware Consultant
4 3 (21.43%) Architect
5 2 (14.29%) Azure Engineer
5 2 (14.29%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (14.29%) Infrastructure Architect
5 2 (14.29%) Infrastructure Specialist
5 2 (14.29%) Systems Engineer
5 2 (14.29%) VMware Architect
5 2 (14.29%) VMware Specialist
6 1 (7.14%) ICT Architect
6 1 (7.14%) Solutions Architect
Miscellaneous
1 7 (50.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (14.29%) Clustering
2 2 (14.29%) Data Centre
3 1 (7.14%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 3 (21.43%) Windows
2 2 (14.29%) Windows Server
3 1 (7.14%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (35.71%) Agile
2 5 (35.71%) Disaster Recovery
2 5 (35.71%) High Availability
2 5 (35.71%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 5 (35.71%) Knowledge Transfer
3 4 (28.57%) Containerisation
3 4 (28.57%) Network Virtualisation
3 4 (28.57%) Runbook
3 4 (28.57%) Use Case
3 4 (28.57%) Validation
4 3 (21.43%) CI/CD
4 3 (21.43%) Project Delivery
4 3 (21.43%) Virtual Environments
4 3 (21.43%) Waterfall
4 3 (21.43%) Zero Trust
5 2 (14.29%) Capacity Planning
5 2 (14.29%) Infrastructure Management
6 1 (7.14%) BPMN
6 1 (7.14%) Network Architecture
Programming Languages
1 9 (64.29%) Python
2 7 (50.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 11 (78.57%) Security Cleared
2 9 (64.29%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 7 (50.00%) DV Cleared
4 5 (35.71%) SC Cleared
5 2 (14.29%) Degree
6 1 (7.14%) Azure Certification
6 1 (7.14%) VCDX
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.14%) GDPR
1 1 (7.14%) HIPAA
System Software
1 10 (71.43%) VMware NSX
2 9 (64.29%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (50.00%) vSphere
4 3 (21.43%) Active Directory
5 1 (7.14%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (7.14%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 8 (57.14%) PowerCLI
2 7 (50.00%) Ansible
2 7 (50.00%) vRealize
3 4 (28.57%) Kubernetes
3 4 (28.57%) vCenter Server
4 3 (21.43%) Terraform
4 3 (21.43%) VxRail
5 2 (14.29%) FortiGate
5 2 (14.29%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 14 (100.00%) VMware
2 4 (28.57%) Dell
2 4 (28.57%) Google
2 4 (28.57%) Microsoft
3 2 (14.29%) Atempo
3 2 (14.29%) Databricks
3 2 (14.29%) F5
3 2 (14.29%) Fortinet
3 2 (14.29%) Mellanox
4 1 (7.14%) Ariba
4 1 (7.14%) SAP
4 1 (7.14%) ServiceNow
4 1 (7.14%) Veeam