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 26 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 329 295 355
Rank change year-on-year -34 +60 +140
Contract jobs citing VCAP 8 3 2
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.069% 0.030% 0.013%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.19% 0.11% 0.044%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 2
10th Percentile £501 - £468
25th Percentile £541 - £485
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £658 £530 £531
Median % change year-on-year +24.06% -0.11% +16.61%
75th Percentile £750 - £585
90th Percentile - - £609
UK median daily rate £524 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -4.77% +10.00% +9.89%

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 4,167 2,748 4,501
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 35.77% 27.15% 28.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,873 1,847 2,771
10th Percentile £354 £351 £338
25th Percentile £425 £441 £434
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £606 £620 £638
90th Percentile £725 £708 £725
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 148 110 229
10th Percentile £21.25 £21.18 £14.04
25th Percentile £35.00 £26.25 £23.25
Median hourly rate £54.00 £54.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.92% +21.11% -30.77%
75th Percentile £80.05 £68.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £96.63 £86.00 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £42.50 £38.45
% change year-on-year -17.65% +10.53% -25.70%

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
Daily Rate Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing VCAP over the 6 months to 26 March 2026.

VCAP daily rate histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (25.00%) AWS
1 2 (25.00%) Azure
2 1 (12.50%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 2 (25.00%) Firewall
1 2 (25.00%) IPFIX
1 2 (25.00%) Network Security
1 2 (25.00%) SAN
1 2 (25.00%) VSAN
2 1 (12.50%) Fibre Channel
2 1 (12.50%) NAS
2 1 (12.50%) Remote Desktop
General
1 3 (37.50%) Documentation Skills
1 3 (37.50%) Public Sector
2 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) VMware Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Architect
2 2 (25.00%) Senior
2 2 (25.00%) Senior VMware Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) VMware Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Deployment Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Wintel Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Cyber Kill Chain
1 2 (25.00%) Data Centre
1 2 (25.00%) Replication
1 2 (25.00%) Security Posture
1 2 (25.00%) Taxonomies
2 1 (12.50%) Clustering
2 1 (12.50%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (12.50%) NVMe
2 1 (12.50%) Onboarding
2 1 (12.50%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (50.00%) Windows
2 3 (37.50%) Windows Server
3 2 (25.00%) Linux
3 2 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (12.50%) Ubuntu
4 1 (12.50%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) Capacity Planning
1 4 (50.00%) Migration
1 4 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
2 3 (37.50%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (25.00%) Cloud Security
3 2 (25.00%) Computer Science
3 2 (25.00%) Dashboard Development
3 2 (25.00%) Knowledge Transfer
3 2 (25.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
3 2 (25.00%) Network Virtualisation
3 2 (25.00%) Performance Optimisation
3 2 (25.00%) Platform Engineering
3 2 (25.00%) Runbook
3 2 (25.00%) Security Architecture
3 2 (25.00%) SIEM
3 2 (25.00%) SOAR
3 2 (25.00%) Threat Detection
3 2 (25.00%) Use Case
3 2 (25.00%) Virtual Infrastructure
4 1 (12.50%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 5 (62.50%) PowerShell
2 4 (50.00%) Python
3 2 (25.00%) Bash
4 1 (12.50%) Perl
Qualifications
1 8 (100.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 3 (37.50%) Security Cleared
3 2 (25.00%) CISSP
3 2 (25.00%) GSEC
3 2 (25.00%) SC Cleared
4 1 (12.50%) Azure Certification
4 1 (12.50%) MCSA
4 1 (12.50%) MCSE
4 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (12.50%) NCDA
4 1 (12.50%) VCP6
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 8 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (62.50%) VMware NSX
2 5 (62.50%) vSphere
3 4 (50.00%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (25.00%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (12.50%) Active Directory
5 1 (12.50%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 4 (50.00%) Ansible
2 3 (37.50%) PowerCLI
2 3 (37.50%) vCenter Server
3 2 (25.00%) vMotion
3 2 (25.00%) vRealize
4 1 (12.50%) Grafana
4 1 (12.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (100.00%) VMware
2 3 (37.50%) Cisco
3 1 (12.50%) Brocade
3 1 (12.50%) Commvault
3 1 (12.50%) Microsoft
3 1 (12.50%) NetApp
3 1 (12.50%) Pure Storage