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 22 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 640 549 689
Rank change year-on-year -91 +140 +156
Permanent jobs citing VMware Certified Professional (VCP) 27 53 114
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.035% 0.14% 0.14%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.13% 0.35% 0.50%
Number of salaries quoted 16 44 105
10th Percentile £62,500 - £37,500
25th Percentile £69,688 £36,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £50,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +55.00% -13.04% -1.71%
75th Percentile £86,250 £58,750 £77,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £71,970 £81,250
UK median annual salary £82,500 £50,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +65.00% -20.00% +5.49%

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 20,497 15,263 22,997
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 26.29% 40.73% 27.91%
Number of salaries quoted 8,191 7,113 15,604
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £28,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,750 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.17% +4.55% -4.45%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £92,500 £92,500 £87,500
UK median annual salary £58,500 £57,500 £54,000
% change year-on-year +1.74% +6.48% -6.59%

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 22 April 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 22 April 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 +6 15 £82,500 +65.00% 8
South East -54 5 £85,000 +100.00% 9
South West -52 3 £72,500 +38.10% 4
North of England -67 2 - - 3
West Midlands -27 1 £35,000 -24.32% 4
North West -37 1 - - 3
Midlands -49 1 £35,000 -24.32% 4
Yorkshire -62 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:

Applications
1 1 (3.70%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 11 (40.74%) Azure
2 10 (37.04%) Nutanix
3 9 (33.33%) AWS
4 4 (14.81%) GCP
5 1 (3.70%) Entra ID
5 1 (3.70%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (3.70%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 6 (22.22%) Firewall
1 6 (22.22%) WAN
2 5 (18.52%) LAN
2 5 (18.52%) VSAN
3 4 (14.81%) DNS
3 4 (14.81%) VPN
4 3 (11.11%) VLAN
4 3 (11.11%) VXLAN
5 2 (7.41%) Cisco Nexus
5 2 (7.41%) NAS
5 2 (7.41%) Network Security
5 2 (7.41%) SAN
5 2 (7.41%) Software-Defined Networking
6 1 (3.70%) Cisco ASA
6 1 (3.70%) DHCP
6 1 (3.70%) Fibre Channel
6 1 (3.70%) iSCSI
6 1 (3.70%) SMTP
6 1 (3.70%) SNMP
6 1 (3.70%) WLAN
Development Applications
1 2 (7.41%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 4 (14.81%) Social Skills
2 2 (7.41%) Aerospace
2 2 (7.41%) Banking
2 2 (7.41%) Finance
3 1 (3.70%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (3.70%) Marketing
3 1 (3.70%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (3.70%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (3.70%) Public Sector
3 1 (3.70%) Retail
3 1 (3.70%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 9 (33.33%) Consultant
2 8 (29.63%) Senior
3 7 (25.93%) Cloud Consultant
3 7 (25.93%) Cloud Infrastructure Consultant
3 7 (25.93%) Infrastructure Consultant
4 6 (22.22%) Architect
4 6 (22.22%) Presales Solution Architect
4 6 (22.22%) Solutions Architect
5 5 (18.52%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 5 (18.52%) Solutions Consultant
6 4 (14.81%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 3 (11.11%) Cloud Architect
7 3 (11.11%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
7 3 (11.11%) Cloud Solutions Architect
7 3 (11.11%) Infrastructure Architect
7 3 (11.11%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
7 3 (11.11%) Network Engineer
7 3 (11.11%) Senior Consultant
7 3 (11.11%) Technical Consultant
7 3 (11.11%) VMware Architect
Miscellaneous
1 13 (48.15%) Data Centre
2 7 (25.93%) Public Cloud
3 3 (11.11%) Enterprise Storage
4 2 (7.41%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (3.70%) Clustering
5 1 (3.70%) Onboarding
5 1 (3.70%) Replication
5 1 (3.70%) Security Operations Centre
5 1 (3.70%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 11 (40.74%) Windows
2 7 (25.93%) Linux
3 3 (11.11%) Windows Server
4 1 (3.70%) CentOS
4 1 (3.70%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (48.15%) Presales
2 8 (29.63%) Disaster Recovery
2 8 (29.63%) Technical Leadership
3 7 (25.93%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 6 (22.22%) Infrastructure as Code
4 6 (22.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 5 (18.52%) DevOps
5 5 (18.52%) Line Management
5 5 (18.52%) SOA
6 4 (14.81%) Cloud Operations
6 4 (14.81%) Customer Engagement
6 4 (14.81%) Performance Tuning
6 4 (14.81%) Strategic Planning
7 3 (11.11%) Agile
7 3 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
7 3 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (11.11%) Requirements Workshops
7 3 (11.11%) Root Cause Analysis
7 3 (11.11%) Workshop Facilitation
8 2 (7.41%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 3 (11.11%) PowerShell
1 3 (11.11%) Python
2 1 (3.70%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 15 (55.56%) Cisco Certification
2 11 (40.74%) VCAP
3 10 (37.04%) CCNP
4 9 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
5 8 (29.63%) MCSE
6 7 (25.93%) CCNA
6 7 (25.93%) Security Cleared
7 6 (22.22%) Degree
8 5 (18.52%) Azure Certification
8 5 (18.52%) LPIC
8 5 (18.52%) RHCSA
8 5 (18.52%) VCDX
9 4 (14.81%) CCDA
10 3 (11.11%) CCIE
11 2 (7.41%) CCIE Data Center
11 2 (7.41%) DV Cleared
12 1 (3.70%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 1 (3.70%) Computer Science Degree
12 1 (3.70%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
12 1 (3.70%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.41%) GDPR
1 2 (7.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (7.41%) PMO
2 1 (3.70%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (3.70%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 1 (3.70%) HIPAA
2 1 (3.70%) NIST
2 1 (3.70%) PCI DSS
2 1 (3.70%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 1 (3.70%) SLA
System Software
1 21 (77.78%) VMware Infrastructure
2 16 (59.26%) vSphere
3 9 (33.33%) VMware NSX
4 5 (18.52%) vCloud
5 3 (11.11%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (7.41%) Hyper-V
7 1 (3.70%) Active Directory
7 1 (3.70%) KVM
7 1 (3.70%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 8 (29.63%) Terraform
2 5 (18.52%) vCenter Server
3 4 (14.81%) Ansible
4 3 (11.11%) vRealize
5 1 (3.70%) PowerCLI
5 1 (3.70%) SCCM
5 1 (3.70%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 27 (100.00%) VMware
2 14 (51.85%) Cisco
3 12 (44.44%) Dell
4 11 (40.74%) NetApp
5 8 (29.63%) Microsoft
6 5 (18.52%) Broadcom
6 5 (18.52%) Nimble Storage
6 5 (18.52%) Red Hat
7 2 (7.41%) Fortinet
7 2 (7.41%) Veeam
8 1 (3.70%) Aruba
8 1 (3.70%) Citrix
8 1 (3.70%) Commvault
8 1 (3.70%) EMC
8 1 (3.70%) Palo Alto
8 1 (3.70%) ServiceNow
8 1 (3.70%) Zerto