VCP6 Contracts

VMware Certified Professional 6 (VCP6)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for VCP6 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 516 - 709
Rank change year-on-year - - +141
Contract jobs citing VCP6 4 0 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.014% - 0.005%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.044% - 0.018%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 - £575
Median % change year-on-year - - +9.52%
75th Percentile - - £588
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £650 - £575

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK

VCP6 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 9,012 13,289 16,265
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.71% 30.54% 27.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,683 8,177 10,837
10th Percentile £288 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £536 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.05% -2.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £709 £743 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £501 £535 £530
% change year-on-year -6.45% +0.94% +6.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 512 1,078 851
10th Percentile £18.13 £13.86 £15.25
25th Percentile £21.92 £17.88 £20.22
Median hourly rate £40.25 £40.00 £54.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.63% -25.93% +29.16%
75th Percentile £66.00 £61.58 £67.88
90th Percentile £80.09 £75.25 £80.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £42.50 £40.94 £50.00
% change year-on-year +3.81% -18.12% +54.46%

VCP6
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing VCP6 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for VCP6 in the UK

VCP6
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing VCP6.

Daily rate trend for VCP6 in the UK

VCP6
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing VCP6.

Hourly rate trend for VCP6 in the UK

VCP6
Top 3 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VCP6 within the UK 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 East - 4 £650 - 1
England - 4 £650 - 1
UK excluding London - 4 £650 - 1

VCP6
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:

Communications & Networking
1 4 (100.00%) Fibre Channel
1 4 (100.00%) iSCSI
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Architect
1 4 (100.00%) Infrastructure Architect
1 4 (100.00%) VMware Architect
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Windows
1 4 (100.00%) Windows Server
1 4 (100.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Edge Virtualization
1 4 (100.00%) Performance Analysis
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 4 (100.00%) MCSE
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 4 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 4 (100.00%) VCP5
1 4 (100.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 4 (100.00%) NFS
1 4 (100.00%) VMware ESXi
1 4 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 4 (100.00%) vSphere
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 4 (100.00%) NetApp
1 4 (100.00%) Splunk
1 4 (100.00%) Veeam
1 4 (100.00%) VMware