VMware Certified Professional (VCP) Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 22 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 157 89 -
Rank change year-on-year -68 - -
Contract jobs citing VMware Certified Professional (VCP) 2 4 0
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.070% 0.30% -
As % of the Qualifications category 0.20% 0.94% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 0
10th Percentile £429 £691 -
25th Percentile £434 £695 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £700 -
Median % change year-on-year -35.71% - -
75th Percentile £472 - -
90th Percentile £481 - -
England median daily rate £553 £585 £473
% change year-on-year -5.56% +23.81% -10.00%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
West Midlands

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 in the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 1,022 427 622
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 35.52% 31.70% 31.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 744 289 394
10th Percentile £315 £159 £263
25th Percentile £408 £336 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -3.00% +11.11% -14.29%
75th Percentile £560 £600 £575
90th Percentile £650 £700 £663
England median daily rate £520 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -0.95% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 17 39
10th Percentile £14.00 £16.97 £14.00
25th Percentile £17.05 £18.50 £22.33
Median hourly rate £21.74 £23.60 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.90% -17.19% +42.50%
75th Percentile £25.31 £35.00 £55.63
90th Percentile £68.57 £39.14 £60.50
England median hourly rate £29.61 £50.00 £38.75
% change year-on-year -40.78% +29.03% -22.50%

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing VMware Certified Professional (VCP) relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

VMware Certified Professional (VCP) job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing VMware Certified Professional (VCP).

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing VMware Certified Professional (VCP)

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing VMware Certified Professional (VCP).

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing VMware Certified Professional (VCP)

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 22 March 2026. 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
Birmingham -22 2 £450 -35.71%
VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
England

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Nutanix
1 1 (50.00%) OpenShift
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) VMware Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) VMware Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Change Management
2 1 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (50.00%) High Availability
2 1 (50.00%) Network Virtualisation
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (50.00%) Virtual Environments
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (50.00%) KVM
1 1 (50.00%) Virtual Machines
1 1 (50.00%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (50.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Ansible
1 1 (50.00%) PowerCLI
1 1 (50.00%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) VMware