VCAP Job Trends in the North of England

VMware Certified Advanced Professional (VCAP, VCAP4)
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for VCAP qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 16 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 356 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing VCAP 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.004% - -
As % of the Qualifications category 0.030% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £53,750 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 - -
75th Percentile £61,250 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median annual salary £90,000 £65,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +38.46% -10.34% +57.61%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
North of England

VCAP 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 the North of England.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 3,300 3,832 3,384
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 14.83% 39.74% 22.45%
Number of salaries quoted 1,768 1,203 1,688
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,525 £26,250
25th Percentile £41,985 £33,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £48,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.58% -4.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £62,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £74,258 £77,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%

VCAP
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing VCAP relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

VCAP job vacancy trend in the North of England

VCAP
Salary Trend in the North of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing VCAP.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing VCAP

VCAP
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing VCAP within the North of England region over the 6 months to 16 August 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
North West - 1 £57,500 - 1
VCAP
England

VCAP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) SAN
1 1 (100.00%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Lead
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (100.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle Linux
1 1 (100.00%) SUSE
1 1 (100.00%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Break/Fix
1 1 (100.00%) Capacity Management
1 1 (100.00%) Change Advisory Board
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Management
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Problem Management
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Assessment
1 1 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Service Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Task Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) Bicep
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) HP ASE
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) EMC RecoverPoint
1 1 (100.00%) Firmware
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Machines
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (100.00%) VMware NSX
1 1 (100.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) VxRail
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Broadcom
1 1 (100.00%) Dell
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle
1 1 (100.00%) Veeam
1 1 (100.00%) VMware
1 1 (100.00%) Zerto