VMware Certified Professional (VCP) Job Trends in England

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for VMware Certified Professional (VCP) qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries 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 598 691 700
Rank change year-on-year +93 +9 +248
Permanent jobs citing VMware Certified Professional (VCP) 53 69 42
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.12% 0.100% 0.078%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.35% 0.36% 0.25%
Number of salaries quoted 39 36 37
10th Percentile £31,250 £35,375 £43,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £37,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,500 £58,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -18.80% -4.49%
75th Percentile £58,750 £53,750 £69,500
90th Percentile £65,000 £58,750 £103,500
UK median annual salary £50,000 £47,500 £59,250
% change year-on-year +5.26% -19.83% -1.25%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
England

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 permanent job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications in England.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 15,288 19,153 16,973
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 35.37% 27.75% 31.47%
Number of salaries quoted 6,756 8,904 10,863
10th Percentile £29,250 £31,250 £32,000
25th Percentile £37,000 £41,732 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £56,180 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.10% -6.37% +9.09%
75th Percentile £73,500 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £90,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £56,000 £58,500
% change year-on-year -1.79% -4.27% +6.36%

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing VMware Certified Professional (VCP) as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for VMware Certified Professional (VCP) in England

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing VMware Certified Professional (VCP).

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing VMware Certified Professional (VCP)

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing VMware Certified Professional (VCP) in England over the 6 months to 18 September 2025.

Salary histogram for VMware Certified Professional (VCP) in England

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing VMware Certified Professional (VCP) within the England region over the 6 months to 18 September 2025. 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South East +65 24 £57,500 +35.29% 6
London +71 13 £50,000 -18.37% 8
South West +75 7 £42,500 -5.56%
North of England +19 5 £53,750 +20.11% 7
North West +11 5 £53,750 -2.27% 3
East of England -10 4 - -
VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
UK

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 15 (28.30%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (11.32%) IIS
3 1 (1.89%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 37 (69.81%) Azure
2 26 (49.06%) Microsoft 365
3 22 (41.51%) AWS
4 7 (13.21%) IaaS
5 3 (5.66%) GCP
6 1 (1.89%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (1.89%) Amazon S3
6 1 (1.89%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (1.89%) Entra ID
6 1 (1.89%) Google Workspace
6 1 (1.89%) IBM Cloud
6 1 (1.89%) Nutanix
6 1 (1.89%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 20 (37.74%) DNS
2 19 (35.85%) DHCP
3 18 (33.96%) SAN
4 15 (28.30%) Firewall
5 12 (22.64%) LAN
5 12 (22.64%) WAN
6 10 (18.87%) VPN
7 9 (16.98%) NAS
7 9 (16.98%) VLAN
8 8 (15.09%) TCP/IP
9 6 (11.32%) Cisco IOS
9 6 (11.32%) IPsec
9 6 (11.32%) VoIP
9 6 (11.32%) VSAN
9 6 (11.32%) Wireless
10 2 (3.77%) Unified Communications
11 1 (1.89%) Intrusion Detection
11 1 (1.89%) iSCSI
11 1 (1.89%) Network Security
11 1 (1.89%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (11.32%) Amazon RDS
1 6 (11.32%) SQL Server
General
1 20 (37.74%) Social Skills
2 12 (22.64%) Finance
3 8 (15.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 6 (11.32%) Banking
5 5 (9.43%) Aerospace
5 5 (9.43%) Electronics
5 5 (9.43%) Manufacturing
5 5 (9.43%) Marketing
5 5 (9.43%) Military
5 5 (9.43%) Public Sector
5 5 (9.43%) Telecoms
6 2 (3.77%) Law
7 1 (1.89%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 17 (32.08%) Support Engineer
2 15 (28.30%) IT Support
3 12 (22.64%) Infrastructure Support
3 12 (22.64%) Senior
4 11 (20.75%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 10 (18.87%) 2nd Line Support
6 9 (16.98%) Administrator
6 9 (16.98%) IT Administrator
7 8 (15.09%) IT Engineer
8 7 (13.21%) Senior IT Engineer
9 6 (11.32%) 3rd Line Engineer
9 6 (11.32%) Senior IT Support
9 6 (11.32%) Senior Support Engineer
9 6 (11.32%) Support Specialist
9 6 (11.32%) Virtualisation Engineer
9 6 (11.32%) Virtualisation Specialist
9 6 (11.32%) VMware Engineer
9 6 (11.32%) VMware Specialist
9 6 (11.32%) VMware Support Engineer
9 6 (11.32%) Wintel Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (9.43%) SAML
2 1 (1.89%) LAMP
Miscellaneous
1 12 (22.64%) Clustering
2 9 (16.98%) Driving Licence
3 6 (11.32%) PKI
4 5 (9.43%) Data Centre
4 5 (9.43%) Enterprise Software
4 5 (9.43%) Enterprise Storage
4 5 (9.43%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.89%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (1.89%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.89%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 47 (88.68%) Windows
2 38 (71.70%) Windows Server
3 26 (49.06%) Linux
4 11 (20.75%) Windows Server 2016
4 11 (20.75%) Windows Server 2019
5 10 (18.87%) Windows 10
6 9 (16.98%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 6 (11.32%) Mac OS
7 6 (11.32%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (37.74%) Disaster Recovery
1 20 (37.74%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 20 (37.74%) ITIL
2 17 (32.08%) Mentoring
3 16 (30.19%) Cybersecurity
4 14 (26.42%) Problem-Solving
5 12 (22.64%) Incident Management
5 12 (22.64%) Migration
5 12 (22.64%) Patch Management
6 11 (20.75%) High Availability
6 11 (20.75%) Virtual Environments
7 10 (18.87%) Artificial Intelligence
7 10 (18.87%) Process Improvement
7 10 (18.87%) Root Cause Analysis
8 9 (16.98%) Inventory Management
9 8 (15.09%) Performance Tuning
10 7 (13.21%) Containerisation
10 7 (13.21%) Server Management
10 7 (13.21%) Virtual Infrastructure
11 6 (11.32%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 28 (52.83%) PowerShell
2 3 (5.66%) Python
3 1 (1.89%) Bash
3 1 (1.89%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 32 (60.38%) Microsoft Certification
2 23 (43.40%) Cisco Certification
3 22 (41.51%) CCNA
4 20 (37.74%) MCSE
5 14 (26.42%) Degree
6 13 (24.53%) Azure Certification
7 7 (13.21%) CCNP
8 6 (11.32%) ACMT
8 6 (11.32%) DV Cleared
8 6 (11.32%) Network+ Certification
8 6 (11.32%) Security Cleared
9 5 (9.43%) Computer Science Degree
10 2 (3.77%) MCSA
11 1 (1.89%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 1 (1.89%) AWS Certification
11 1 (1.89%) CCSP
11 1 (1.89%) CISSP
11 1 (1.89%) CompTIA Security+
11 1 (1.89%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 1 (1.89%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (20.75%) SLA
2 6 (11.32%) Cyber Essentials
3 3 (5.66%) GDPR
3 3 (5.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.89%) HIPAA
4 1 (1.89%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 32 (60.38%) VMware Infrastructure
2 28 (52.83%) Active Directory
2 28 (52.83%) Hyper-V
3 26 (49.06%) vSphere
4 24 (45.28%) VMware ESXi
5 14 (26.42%) Docker
6 7 (13.21%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (1.89%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 20 (37.74%) vCenter Server
2 15 (28.30%) Microsoft Intune
3 13 (24.53%) Kubernetes
4 8 (15.09%) Ansible
5 7 (13.21%) vRealize
6 6 (11.32%) Autotask
6 6 (11.32%) NetBackup
6 6 (11.32%) PowerCLI
6 6 (11.32%) Puppet
6 6 (11.32%) SCCM
6 6 (11.32%) SCOM
6 6 (11.32%) vMotion
7 5 (9.43%) Single Sign-On
8 4 (7.55%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (1.89%) Nessus
9 1 (1.89%) Podman
9 1 (1.89%) Proxmox
9 1 (1.89%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 53 (100.00%) VMware
2 50 (94.34%) Microsoft
3 29 (54.72%) Veeam
4 21 (39.62%) Cisco
5 6 (11.32%) Apple
5 6 (11.32%) Citrix
5 6 (11.32%) Datto
5 6 (11.32%) HP
5 6 (11.32%) Oracle
5 6 (11.32%) ServiceNow
5 6 (11.32%) SolarWinds
5 6 (11.32%) Sophos
6 5 (9.43%) Fortinet
6 5 (9.43%) SAP
7 4 (7.55%) CrowdStrike
7 4 (7.55%) Dell
7 4 (7.55%) Palo Alto
8 1 (1.89%) Google
8 1 (1.89%) Nimble Storage
8 1 (1.89%) Splunk