VMware Certified Professional (VCP) Contract Job Trends in Yorkshire

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Yorkshire 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 11 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 137 80 100
Rank change year-on-year -57 +20 -
Contract jobs citing VMware Certified Professional (VCP) 1 1 6
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 0.050% 0.11% 0.33%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.22% 0.47% 1.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 4
10th Percentile - - £313
25th Percentile - - £317
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £500 £339
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% +47.60% -
75th Percentile - - £363
90th Percentile - - £367
England median daily rate £550 £575 £446
% change year-on-year -4.35% +28.87% -15.01%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 452 215 351
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 22.42% 23.17% 19.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 308 145 215
10th Percentile £323 £220 £310
25th Percentile £425 £300 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £573 £600
90th Percentile £697 £692 £683
England median daily rate £520 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -0.95% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 4 15
10th Percentile £15.25 £20.92 £12.53
25th Percentile £15.71 £24.35 £12.64
Median hourly rate £23.58 £32.50 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year -27.46% +116.67% -63.08%
75th Percentile £57.63 £39.69 £18.88
90th Percentile £68.75 £41.38 £48.96
England median hourly rate £25.15 £47.37 £45.88
% change year-on-year -46.91% +3.25% +1.96%

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

VMware Certified Professional (VCP) job vacancy trend in Yorkshire

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing VMware Certified Professional (VCP)

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Hourly Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing VMware Certified Professional (VCP)

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Contract Job Locations in Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 11 February 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
South Yorkshire -58 1 £425 -15.00% 1
VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
England

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Yorkshire 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 (100.00%) Nutanix
1 1 (100.00%) OpenShift
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Change Management
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Network Virtualisation
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Environments
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Python
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (100.00%) KVM
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Machines
1 1 (100.00%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (100.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) PowerCLI
1 1 (100.00%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) VMware