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

6 months to
29 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 621 557 690
Rank change year-on-year -64 +133 +161
Permanent jobs citing VMware Certified Professional (VCP) 28 51 107
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.040% 0.14% 0.14%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.15% 0.34% 0.49%
Number of salaries quoted 15 41 101
10th Percentile £59,500 - £37,500
25th Percentile £63,125 £36,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £50,000 £64,000
Median % change year-on-year +40.00% -21.88% +6.67%
75th Percentile £83,750 £57,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £88,000 £73,886 £81,250
UK median annual salary £75,000 £50,000 £64,000
% change year-on-year +50.00% -21.88% +11.30%

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 18,906 14,831 21,717
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 27.21% 40.33% 27.87%
Number of salaries quoted 7,824 6,983 15,180
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £43,750 £38,502
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £58,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.71% +6.36% -4.35%
75th Percentile £76,788 £75,000 £72,388
90th Percentile £91,600 £93,750 £87,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £58,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -0.86% +5.45% -4.35%

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

VMware Certified Professional (VCP) job vacancy trend 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 29 March 2026.

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 29 March 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +1 14 £72,500 +38.10% 7
South East -31 8 £65,000 +62.50% 4
South West -39 2 £67,500 +28.57% 3
North of England -64 2 - - 7
West Midlands -18 1 £35,000 -28.57% 2
Midlands -30 1 £35,000 -28.57% 3
North West -33 1 - - 7
Yorkshire -55 1 - -
VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
UK

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 3 (10.71%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (3.57%) Confluence
2 1 (3.57%) IIS
2 1 (3.57%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (3.57%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 13 (46.43%) Azure
2 11 (39.29%) AWS
3 7 (25.00%) Nutanix
4 4 (14.29%) GCP
5 2 (7.14%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (7.14%) OpenShift
6 1 (3.57%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (3.57%) Entra ID
6 1 (3.57%) IaaS
6 1 (3.57%) IBM Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 9 (32.14%) Firewall
2 7 (25.00%) VPN
3 6 (21.43%) DNS
4 5 (17.86%) LAN
4 5 (17.86%) VLAN
4 5 (17.86%) WAN
5 4 (14.29%) VSAN
6 3 (10.71%) DHCP
7 2 (7.14%) Cisco ASA
7 2 (7.14%) NAS
7 2 (7.14%) Network Security
7 2 (7.14%) SAN
8 1 (3.57%) Cisco Nexus
8 1 (3.57%) Fibre Channel
8 1 (3.57%) iSCSI
8 1 (3.57%) NetScaler
8 1 (3.57%) PCoIP
8 1 (3.57%) Software-Defined Networking
8 1 (3.57%) VXLAN
8 1 (3.57%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.57%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (3.57%) GitLab
1 1 (3.57%) Jenkins
1 1 (3.57%) JIRA
1 1 (3.57%) MSI
1 1 (3.57%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 6 (21.43%) Social Skills
2 3 (10.71%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (7.14%) Banking
3 2 (7.14%) Telecoms
4 1 (3.57%) Aerospace
4 1 (3.57%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (3.57%) Finance
4 1 (3.57%) Marketing
4 1 (3.57%) Military
4 1 (3.57%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (3.57%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (3.57%) Public Sector
4 1 (3.57%) Retail
Job Titles
1 8 (28.57%) Consultant
1 8 (28.57%) Senior
2 7 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 6 (21.43%) Cloud Consultant
3 6 (21.43%) Cloud Infrastructure Consultant
3 6 (21.43%) Infrastructure Consultant
4 5 (17.86%) Architect
4 5 (17.86%) Solutions Consultant
5 4 (14.29%) Presales Solution Architect
5 4 (14.29%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 4 (14.29%) Solutions Architect
6 2 (7.14%) Network Engineer
6 2 (7.14%) Senior Consultant
6 2 (7.14%) Storage Engineer
6 2 (7.14%) Technical Consultant
6 2 (7.14%) VMware Engineer
7 1 (3.57%) Network Manager
7 1 (3.57%) Principal Consultant
7 1 (3.57%) Senior Network Engineer
7 1 (3.57%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.57%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 8 (28.57%) Data Centre
2 6 (21.43%) Public Cloud
3 3 (10.71%) Enterprise Storage
4 2 (7.14%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (7.14%) PKI
5 1 (3.57%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (3.57%) Clustering
5 1 (3.57%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (3.57%) Onboarding
5 1 (3.57%) Replication
5 1 (3.57%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 16 (57.14%) Windows
2 8 (28.57%) Linux
2 8 (28.57%) Windows Server
3 2 (7.14%) Ubuntu
4 1 (3.57%) Android
4 1 (3.57%) Apple iOS
4 1 (3.57%) CentOS
4 1 (3.57%) Mac OS
4 1 (3.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (3.57%) Unix
4 1 (3.57%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (35.71%) Presales
2 9 (32.14%) Technical Leadership
3 8 (28.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 7 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
5 6 (21.43%) DevOps
5 6 (21.43%) Infrastructure as Code
5 6 (21.43%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 5 (17.86%) Line Management
6 5 (17.86%) Performance Tuning
6 5 (17.86%) SOA
6 5 (17.86%) Strategic Planning
7 4 (14.29%) Cloud Operations
8 3 (10.71%) Continuous Improvement
8 3 (10.71%) Cybersecurity
9 2 (7.14%) Customer Engagement
9 2 (7.14%) High Availability
9 2 (7.14%) Mentoring
9 2 (7.14%) Performance Optimisation
9 2 (7.14%) Root Cause Analysis
9 2 (7.14%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 6 (21.43%) PowerShell
2 4 (14.29%) Python
3 3 (10.71%) Bash
4 1 (3.57%) JavaScript
4 1 (3.57%) SQL
Qualifications
1 13 (46.43%) Cisco Certification
2 12 (42.86%) Microsoft Certification
3 11 (39.29%) Security Cleared
4 10 (35.71%) MCSE
5 8 (28.57%) CCNP
6 7 (25.00%) CCNA
6 7 (25.00%) VCAP
7 5 (17.86%) Azure Certification
7 5 (17.86%) Degree
7 5 (17.86%) LPIC
7 5 (17.86%) RHCSA
7 5 (17.86%) SC Cleared
8 4 (14.29%) CCDA
9 2 (7.14%) CCIE
9 2 (7.14%) DV Cleared
9 2 (7.14%) MCSA
9 2 (7.14%) VCDX
10 1 (3.57%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 1 (3.57%) AWS Certification
10 1 (3.57%) CCIE Data Center
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.14%) GDPR
1 2 (7.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (3.57%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (3.57%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 1 (3.57%) HIPAA
2 1 (3.57%) PMO
2 1 (3.57%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 20 (71.43%) VMware Infrastructure
2 13 (46.43%) vSphere
3 6 (21.43%) VMware ESXi
4 5 (17.86%) VMware NSX
5 4 (14.29%) Active Directory
6 3 (10.71%) Hyper-V
7 2 (7.14%) vCloud
8 1 (3.57%) Docker
8 1 (3.57%) KVM
8 1 (3.57%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 8 (28.57%) Terraform
2 6 (21.43%) vCenter Server
3 4 (14.29%) Ansible
4 2 (7.14%) SCCM
4 2 (7.14%) vRealize
5 1 (3.57%) AirWatch
5 1 (3.57%) Jamf Pro
5 1 (3.57%) Kubernetes
5 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (3.57%) Nessus
5 1 (3.57%) PowerCLI
5 1 (3.57%) Proxmox
5 1 (3.57%) SCOM
5 1 (3.57%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 28 (100.00%) VMware
2 14 (50.00%) Cisco
3 13 (46.43%) Microsoft
4 8 (28.57%) Dell
5 7 (25.00%) NetApp
6 5 (17.86%) Red Hat
7 4 (14.29%) Fortinet
8 3 (10.71%) Palo Alto
9 2 (7.14%) Broadcom
9 2 (7.14%) Commvault
9 2 (7.14%) Nimble Storage
9 2 (7.14%) Veeam
10 1 (3.57%) Aruba
10 1 (3.57%) Citrix
10 1 (3.57%) EMC
10 1 (3.57%) IBM
10 1 (3.57%) Juniper
10 1 (3.57%) Mitel
10 1 (3.57%) SolarWinds
10 1 (3.57%) Veritas