Hybrid/Remote VMware Certified Professional (VCP) Contract Job Trends

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 18 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 295 326 379
Rank change year-on-year +31 +53 +169
Contract jobs citing VMware Certified Professional (VCP) 12 11 28
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.12% 0.086% 0.14%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.39% 0.34% 0.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 6 19
10th Percentile £292 £472 £418
25th Percentile £345 £479 £476
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £530 £547
Median % change year-on-year -17.45% -3.11% +8.05%
75th Percentile £569 £560 £564
90th Percentile £620 £639 £588
UK median daily rate £600 £525 £506
% change year-on-year +14.29% +3.70% +7.71%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Work from Home

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

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 3,067 3,209 5,097
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 31.17% 25.19% 25.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,045 2,041 3,467
10th Percentile £349 £325 £363
25th Percentile £425 £430 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £526 £538
Median % change year-on-year -0.19% -2.14% -2.27%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £650
90th Percentile £700 £724 £740
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 85 151 196
10th Percentile £15.04 £20.50 £19.99
25th Percentile £27.53 £39.00 £37.50
Median hourly rate £43.00 £47.50 £58.80
Median % change year-on-year -9.47% -19.21% -2.41%
75th Percentile £63.75 £72.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £75.08 £85.00 £77.84
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £49.50 £54.53
% change year-on-year -49.19% -9.22% +21.18%

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing VMware Certified Professional (VCP) as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

VMware Certified Professional (VCP) trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with Hybrid Work Options

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote work options citing VMware Certified Professional (VCP).

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote work options citing VMware Certified Professional (VCP)

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing VMware Certified Professional (VCP) over the 6 months to 18 September 2025.

VMware Certified Professional (VCP) daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with Hybrid Work Options

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs with remote work options citing VMware Certified Professional (VCP).

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs with remote work options citing VMware Certified Professional (VCP)

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 2 (16.67%) Confluence
2 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 1 (8.33%) AWS
1 1 (8.33%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (8.33%) Azure
1 1 (8.33%) Cloud Computing
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (8.33%) Nutanix
1 1 (8.33%) OpenShift
1 1 (8.33%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (16.67%) DNS
1 2 (16.67%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
2 1 (8.33%) Firewall
2 1 (8.33%) PCoIP
2 1 (8.33%) VSAN
Development Applications
1 2 (16.67%) Jenkins
1 2 (16.67%) JIRA
2 1 (8.33%) Bitbucket
2 1 (8.33%) Git
General
1 3 (25.00%) Finance
2 1 (8.33%) Banking
2 1 (8.33%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (8.33%) Legal
2 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
2 1 (8.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (41.67%) VMware Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) Architect
2 2 (16.67%) Consultant
2 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) PowerShell Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) VMware Consultant
3 1 (8.33%) Automation Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) AWS Architect
3 1 (8.33%) AWS Solution Architect
3 1 (8.33%) Cloud Architect
3 1 (8.33%) Cloud Solutions Architect
3 1 (8.33%) Lead
3 1 (8.33%) Principal Consultant
3 1 (8.33%) Python Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Server Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (8.33%) Storage Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) VMware Architect
3 1 (8.33%) Windows Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (8.33%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (8.33%) Kafka
1 1 (8.33%) REST
1 1 (8.33%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (8.33%) Blockchain
2 1 (8.33%) Onboarding
2 1 (8.33%) Private Cloud
2 1 (8.33%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (8.33%) Linux
1 1 (8.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (8.33%) VMS
1 1 (8.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (25.00%) Agile
1 3 (25.00%) Infrastructure Automation
2 2 (16.67%) Capacity Planning
2 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (16.67%) Performance Optimisation
2 2 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (16.67%) Validation
3 1 (8.33%) Artificial Intelligence
3 1 (8.33%) Configuration Management
3 1 (8.33%) Customer Analytics
3 1 (8.33%) Data Flow Diagram
3 1 (8.33%) Data Migration
3 1 (8.33%) Fraud Detection
3 1 (8.33%) Identity Access Management
3 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure Management
3 1 (8.33%) ITIL
3 1 (8.33%) Migration
3 1 (8.33%) Reverse Engineering
3 1 (8.33%) Risk Assessment
3 1 (8.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 6 (50.00%) PowerShell
2 5 (41.67%) Python
3 4 (33.33%) JavaScript
4 1 (8.33%) Bash
4 1 (8.33%) Java
Qualifications
1 5 (41.67%) SC Cleared
1 5 (41.67%) Security Cleared
2 2 (16.67%) VCAP
3 1 (8.33%) AWS Certification
3 1 (8.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (8.33%) Azure Certification
3 1 (8.33%) CCNP
3 1 (8.33%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (8.33%) Degree
3 1 (8.33%) OCA
3 1 (8.33%) Oracle Certification
3 1 (8.33%) RHCA
3 1 (8.33%) RHCE
System Software
1 6 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (41.67%) vSphere
3 3 (25.00%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (16.67%) VMware NSX
5 1 (8.33%) Active Directory
5 1 (8.33%) Docker
5 1 (8.33%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 5 (41.67%) vRealize
2 4 (33.33%) vCenter Server
3 3 (25.00%) Terraform
4 2 (16.67%) Ansible
4 2 (16.67%) PowerCLI
5 1 (8.33%) Grafana
5 1 (8.33%) Kubernetes
5 1 (8.33%) Progress Chef
5 1 (8.33%) Prometheus
5 1 (8.33%) Puppet
5 1 (8.33%) vRealize Orchestrator
5 1 (8.33%) VxRail
Vendors
1 12 (100.00%) VMware
2 2 (16.67%) Broadcom
2 2 (16.67%) F5
3 1 (8.33%) Cisco
3 1 (8.33%) Dell
3 1 (8.33%) Isilon
3 1 (8.33%) Microsoft
3 1 (8.33%) Oracle
3 1 (8.33%) Red Hat