Hybrid/Remote VCAP Contract Job Trends

VMware Certified Advanced Professional (VCAP, VCAP4)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work with a requirement for VCAP qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 314 - 386
Rank change year-on-year - - +181
Contract jobs citing VCAP 4 0 5
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.039% - 0.028%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.12% - 0.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - £472
25th Percentile - - £496
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - £555
Median % change year-on-year - - +22.25%
75th Percentile - - £625
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £575 £600 £500
% change year-on-year -4.17% +20.00% +10.13%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 3,433 3,126 4,890
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 33.71% 25.76% 27.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,342 1,950 3,146
10th Percentile £343 £330 £350
25th Percentile £425 £430 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% -1.82%
75th Percentile £620 £625 £638
90th Percentile £713 £725 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 94 93 201
10th Percentile £29.61 £17.70 £21.64
25th Percentile £35.21 £22.00 £33.44
Median hourly rate £45.46 £39.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +16.56% -32.17% -11.54%
75th Percentile £65.25 £66.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £96.75 £75.00 £84.36
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year -40.82% -19.05% +16.67%

VCAP
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing VCAP and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

VCAP job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

VCAP
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing VCAP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing VCAP

VCAP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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 (50.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) DNS
1 2 (50.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
2 1 (25.00%) Remote Desktop
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (50.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) VMware Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Deployment Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Lead
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (25.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) VMS
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
1 1 (25.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Agile
1 2 (50.00%) Capacity Planning
1 2 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (25.00%) Data Flow Diagram
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Automation
2 1 (25.00%) Knowledge Transfer
2 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (25.00%) Performance Optimisation
2 1 (25.00%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (25.00%) Resource Allocation
2 1 (25.00%) Runbook
2 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (25.00%) Validation
2 1 (25.00%) Virtual Infrastructure
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (100.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Certification
2 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 4 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 4 (100.00%) vSphere
2 3 (75.00%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (50.00%) VMware NSX
4 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
4 1 (25.00%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) PowerCLI
1 3 (75.00%) Terraform
2 2 (50.00%) vCenter Server
3 1 (25.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) VMware
2 2 (50.00%) Broadcom
2 2 (50.00%) F5
3 1 (25.00%) Cisco
3 1 (25.00%) Pure Storage