VMware Certified Professional (VCP) Contracts

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for VMware Certified Professional (VCP) 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 434 517 641
Rank change year-on-year +83 +124 +111
Contract jobs citing VMware Certified Professional (VCP) 87 56 59
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.30% 0.13% 0.10%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.96% 0.44% 0.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 44 49
10th Percentile £510 £322 £409
25th Percentile £525 £409 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £585 £519 £463
Median % change year-on-year +12.77% +12.16% +1.65%
75th Percentile £650 £556 £588
90th Percentile £690 £620 £628
UK excluding London median daily rate £585 £525 £459
% change year-on-year +11.43% +14.39% +0.87%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK

VMware Certified Professional (VCP) 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%

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing VMware Certified Professional (VCP) as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for VMware Certified Professional (VCP) in the UK

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing VMware Certified Professional (VCP).

Daily rate trend for VMware Certified Professional (VCP) in the UK

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VMware Certified Professional (VCP) over the 6 months to 16 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for VMware Certified Professional (VCP) in the UK

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing VMware Certified Professional (VCP).

Hourly rate trend for VMware Certified Professional (VCP) in the UK

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Top 12 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VMware Certified Professional (VCP) 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 +97 85 £585 +11.43% 41
UK excluding London +73 80 £585 +11.43% 37
South West +71 50 £575 +6.98% 6
Work from Home +43 20 £556 -7.29% 19
South East +43 13 £620 +24.00% 21
North of England +17 10 £500 +47.60% 6
London +30 5 £650 +48.57% 7
Yorkshire +16 5 £500 +48.15% 3
North West +6 5 £438 +7.03% 3
Midlands +16 4 £700 -1.75% 2
West Midlands +14 4 £700 -1.75% 2
East of England - 3 £540 - 2

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
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 23 (26.44%) Confluence
2 6 (6.90%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (4.60%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.15%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 14 (16.09%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.15%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 13 (14.94%) Azure
2 12 (13.79%) PaaS
2 12 (13.79%) SaaS
3 6 (6.90%) AWS
3 6 (6.90%) Microsoft 365
4 5 (5.75%) Entra ID
5 4 (4.60%) IaaS
5 4 (4.60%) OneDrive
6 3 (3.45%) GitHub
7 2 (2.30%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 2 (2.30%) OCI
8 1 (1.15%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (1.15%) Amazon ELB
8 1 (1.15%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (1.15%) GCP
8 1 (1.15%) OpenShift
8 1 (1.15%) Route 53
8 1 (1.15%) Serverless
8 1 (1.15%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 13 (14.94%) Firewall
1 13 (14.94%) VSAN
2 11 (12.64%) iSCSI
3 10 (11.49%) PBX
3 10 (11.49%) VoIP
4 8 (9.20%) BGP
4 8 (9.20%) Cisco Nexus
4 8 (9.20%) OSPF
5 7 (8.05%) SAN
6 6 (6.90%) DNS
7 5 (5.75%) Cisco IOS
7 5 (5.75%) DMVPN
7 5 (5.75%) Fibre Channel
7 5 (5.75%) Network Security
7 5 (5.75%) VXLAN
8 3 (3.45%) MPLS
8 3 (3.45%) SD-WAN
8 3 (3.45%) TCP/IP
8 3 (3.45%) VPN
8 3 (3.45%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (5.75%) Oracle Database
2 2 (2.30%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.15%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 23 (26.44%) JIRA
2 18 (20.69%) Git
3 15 (17.24%) Jenkins
4 11 (12.64%) Bitbucket
5 1 (1.15%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 25 (28.74%) Social Skills
2 19 (21.84%) Analytical Skills
3 17 (19.54%) Public Sector
4 10 (11.49%) Telecoms
5 5 (5.75%) Legal
6 2 (2.30%) Banking
6 2 (2.30%) Finance
6 2 (2.30%) Military
7 1 (1.15%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 15 (17.24%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 15 (17.24%) Virtualisation Engineer
2 13 (14.94%) Architect
3 8 (9.20%) Platform Engineer
3 8 (9.20%) VMware Engineer
4 7 (8.05%) Infrastructure Architect
4 7 (8.05%) VMware Architect
5 5 (5.75%) Automation Engineer
5 5 (5.75%) Network Engineer
5 5 (5.75%) Senior
5 5 (5.75%) Technical Architect
5 5 (5.75%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
6 4 (4.60%) Database Engineer
6 4 (4.60%) DevOps Engineer
6 4 (4.60%) Oracle Database Engineer
6 4 (4.60%) Senior Architect
6 4 (4.60%) Senior Technical Architect
6 4 (4.60%) Systems Engineer
7 3 (3.45%) Azure Engineer
7 3 (3.45%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (16.09%) Flash
2 11 (12.64%) REST
3 10 (11.49%) SOAP
4 5 (5.75%) Spine.js
5 2 (2.30%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (1.15%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 16 (18.39%) Clustering
2 10 (11.49%) Blackberry
2 10 (11.49%) Hybrid Cloud
2 10 (11.49%) Video Conferencing
3 9 (10.34%) Data Centre
4 8 (9.20%) PKI
5 5 (5.75%) Public Cloud
6 2 (2.30%) SCADA
7 1 (1.15%) Blockchain
7 1 (1.15%) Private Cloud
7 1 (1.15%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 36 (41.38%) Windows
2 28 (32.18%) Windows Server
3 26 (29.89%) Linux
4 9 (10.34%) Windows Server 2012
4 9 (10.34%) Windows Server 2019
5 6 (6.90%) VMS
6 5 (5.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (5.75%) Unix
7 4 (4.60%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (2.30%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (44.83%) Validation
2 34 (39.08%) NsoIT
3 31 (35.63%) Problem-Solving
4 30 (34.48%) Agile
5 29 (33.33%) Service Management
5 29 (33.33%) System Testing
6 28 (32.18%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 21 (24.14%) High Availability
8 19 (21.84%) Network Virtualisation
9 18 (20.69%) Configuration Management
10 16 (18.39%) Critical Thinking
10 16 (18.39%) Infrastructure Automation
11 15 (17.24%) Waterfall
12 14 (16.09%) Infrastructure as Code
12 14 (16.09%) Power Management
13 13 (14.94%) CI/CD
13 13 (14.94%) Computer Science
14 12 (13.79%) Migration
15 11 (12.64%) Deployment Automation
16 10 (11.49%) Commercial Awareness
Programming Languages
1 26 (29.89%) Python
2 24 (27.59%) PowerShell
3 11 (12.64%) Bash
4 9 (10.34%) SQL
5 3 (3.45%) Shell Script
6 1 (1.15%) Java
Qualifications
1 67 (77.01%) Security Cleared
2 56 (64.37%) SC Cleared
3 41 (47.13%) Cisco Certification
4 29 (33.33%) CCNP
5 22 (25.29%) Microsoft Certification
6 20 (22.99%) DV Cleared
7 19 (21.84%) MCSE
8 16 (18.39%) Degree
9 15 (17.24%) Oracle Certification
10 14 (16.09%) CCNA
11 13 (14.94%) Master's Degree
12 12 (13.79%) RHCE
13 11 (12.64%) OCA
14 10 (11.49%) RHCA
15 9 (10.34%) VCAP
16 6 (6.90%) MCSA
17 5 (5.75%) VCP5
17 5 (5.75%) VCP6
18 4 (4.60%) OCP
19 3 (3.45%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.60%) Cyber Essentials
1 4 (4.60%) NCSC
1 4 (4.60%) NIST
2 1 (1.15%) GDPR
2 1 (1.15%) HIPAA
System Software
1 77 (88.51%) VMware Infrastructure
2 26 (29.89%) VMware ESXi
3 25 (28.74%) VMware NSX
4 18 (20.69%) vSphere
5 11 (12.64%) Active Directory
6 5 (5.75%) Docker
6 5 (5.75%) NFS
7 4 (4.60%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (2.30%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 40 (45.98%) vCenter Server
2 27 (31.03%) Ansible
3 13 (14.94%) Terraform
4 10 (11.49%) Progress Chef
4 10 (11.49%) Puppet
5 6 (6.90%) PowerCLI
6 5 (5.75%) Kubernetes
7 4 (4.60%) WSUS
8 3 (3.45%) vRealize
8 3 (3.45%) vRealize Orchestrator
8 3 (3.45%) VxRail
9 2 (2.30%) FortiGate
9 2 (2.30%) SCOM
10 1 (1.15%) Grafana
10 1 (1.15%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 87 (100.00%) VMware
2 45 (51.72%) Cisco
3 23 (26.44%) Microsoft
4 21 (24.14%) Atlassian
5 16 (18.39%) Oracle
6 15 (17.24%) Palo Alto
7 12 (13.79%) F5
8 10 (11.49%) Avaya
8 10 (11.49%) Ericsson
8 10 (11.49%) Juniper
8 10 (11.49%) Nokia
8 10 (11.49%) Ribbon
9 9 (10.34%) Veeam
10 5 (5.75%) Dell
10 5 (5.75%) NetApp
10 5 (5.75%) Splunk
11 4 (4.60%) Citrix
11 4 (4.60%) Red Hat
12 3 (3.45%) SolarWinds
13 2 (2.30%) Fortinet