VMware Certified Professional (VCP) Jobs in the UK excluding London

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 534 699 696
Rank change year-on-year +165 -3 +37
Permanent jobs citing VMware Certified Professional (VCP) 43 72 59
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.11% 0.097% 0.10%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.20% 0.36% 0.27%
Number of salaries quoted 39 63 37
10th Percentile £31,250 £36,900 £32,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £42,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £51,364 £48,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.21% +5.91% +14.12%
75th Percentile £58,750 £58,750 £60,250
90th Percentile £73,886 £64,800 £62,250
UK median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -13.04% - +9.52%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 21,309 19,804 21,625
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 54.11% 26.56% 37.27%
Number of salaries quoted 8,672 12,268 8,007
10th Percentile £31,000 £27,500 £28,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,900 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £73,708 £79,600 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £53,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +2.80% -10.83% +9.09%

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing VMware Certified Professional (VCP) as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for VMware Certified Professional (VCP) in the UK excluding London

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing VMware Certified Professional (VCP) in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for VMware Certified Professional (VCP) in the UK excluding London

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing VMware Certified Professional (VCP) in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Salary histogram for VMware Certified Professional (VCP) in the UK excluding London

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 30 May 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 +102 24 £42,500 -2.86% 12
North of England +45 12 £62,205 +21.11% 5
North West +11 10 £67,098 +30.63% 4
South West +100 2 £53,750 +19.44%
Midlands +67 2 £46,250 -7.50%
West Midlands +48 2 £46,250 -11.90%
East of England +42 2 £53,750 -6.52%
Yorkshire +51 1 £52,500 +16.67% 1
North East +47 1 £37,500 -
Isle of Man +13 1 £34,500 -31.00%
VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
UK

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 9 (20.93%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (4.65%) SharePoint
3 1 (2.33%) Confluence
3 1 (2.33%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 28 (65.12%) Azure
2 16 (37.21%) Microsoft 365
3 14 (32.56%) AWS
4 8 (18.60%) GCP
5 5 (11.63%) IaaS
6 3 (6.98%) Nutanix
7 2 (4.65%) Entra ID
8 1 (2.33%) Google Workspace
8 1 (2.33%) OneDrive
8 1 (2.33%) Power Platform
8 1 (2.33%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 21 (48.84%) SAN
2 17 (39.53%) DNS
3 16 (37.21%) NAS
4 15 (34.88%) DHCP
5 12 (27.91%) VSAN
6 6 (13.95%) Wireshark
7 5 (11.63%) Firewall
8 3 (6.98%) LAN
8 3 (6.98%) VLAN
9 2 (4.65%) TCP/IP
9 2 (4.65%) VPN
9 2 (4.65%) WAN
10 1 (2.33%) BGP
10 1 (2.33%) IPv4
10 1 (2.33%) iSCSI
10 1 (2.33%) Network Security
10 1 (2.33%) Wireless
10 1 (2.33%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (16.28%) SQL Server
2 5 (11.63%) MongoDB
2 5 (11.63%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (2.33%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (2.33%) MySQL
3 1 (2.33%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (2.33%) Power BI
3 1 (2.33%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (11.63%) Oracle Forms
General
1 15 (34.88%) Social Skills
2 10 (23.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 7 (16.28%) Finance
4 5 (11.63%) Banking
5 3 (6.98%) Telecoms
6 2 (4.65%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (2.33%) Aviation
7 1 (2.33%) Manufacturing
7 1 (2.33%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (2.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 11 (25.58%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 7 (16.28%) Cloud Engineer
2 7 (16.28%) Senior
2 7 (16.28%) Virtualisation Engineer
2 7 (16.28%) VMware Engineer
3 6 (13.95%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
3 6 (13.95%) NOC Engineer
3 6 (13.95%) Support Engineer
3 6 (13.95%) Support Specialist
3 6 (13.95%) Virtualisation Specialist
3 6 (13.95%) VMware Specialist
3 6 (13.95%) VMware Support Engineer
4 5 (11.63%) 2nd Line Support
4 5 (11.63%) Infrastructure Support
5 3 (6.98%) Administrator
5 3 (6.98%) IT Administrator
5 3 (6.98%) IT Support
5 3 (6.98%) IT Technician
5 3 (6.98%) Senior IT Technician
5 3 (6.98%) Senior Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (11.63%) Middleware
1 5 (11.63%) SAML
2 1 (2.33%) ARM Templates
2 1 (2.33%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 7 (16.28%) Data Centre
1 7 (16.28%) Hybrid Cloud
2 6 (13.95%) Clustering
3 5 (11.63%) PKI
4 3 (6.98%) Driving Licence
5 1 (2.33%) Cloud Native
5 1 (2.33%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (2.33%) Enterprise Storage
5 1 (2.33%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.33%) Private Cloud
5 1 (2.33%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 31 (72.09%) Windows
2 22 (51.16%) Windows Server
3 17 (39.53%) Linux
4 8 (18.60%) Windows 10
5 6 (13.95%) CentOS
5 6 (13.95%) Ubuntu
6 3 (6.98%) Mac OS X
6 3 (6.98%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (2.33%) Android
7 1 (2.33%) Apple iOS
7 1 (2.33%) Mac OS
7 1 (2.33%) Unix
7 1 (2.33%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (48.84%) Problem-Solving
2 17 (39.53%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 12 (27.91%) Mentoring
4 11 (25.58%) Disaster Recovery
5 9 (20.93%) High Availability
6 8 (18.60%) Customer Service
6 8 (18.60%) Service Delivery
7 7 (16.28%) Incident Management
7 7 (16.28%) Security Hardening
7 7 (16.28%) Task Automation
7 7 (16.28%) Virtual Infrastructure
8 6 (13.95%) Configuration Management
8 6 (13.95%) Information Security
8 6 (13.95%) Information Security Management
8 6 (13.95%) Penetration Testing
8 6 (13.95%) Presales
8 6 (13.95%) Proactive Monitoring
8 6 (13.95%) Project Management
8 6 (13.95%) Security Management
8 6 (13.95%) Virtual Environments
Programming Languages
1 14 (32.56%) PowerShell
2 7 (16.28%) SQL
3 2 (4.65%) Python
Qualifications
1 26 (60.47%) Microsoft Certification
2 19 (44.19%) CCNA
2 19 (44.19%) Cisco Certification
3 16 (37.21%) Azure Certification
4 14 (32.56%) MCSA
4 14 (32.56%) MCSE
5 11 (25.58%) CCNP
6 9 (20.93%) Network+ Certification
6 9 (20.93%) Security Cleared
7 7 (16.28%) DV Cleared
8 5 (11.63%) Degree
9 3 (6.98%) ACSP
9 3 (6.98%) HP AIS
10 1 (2.33%) Computer Science Degree
10 1 (2.33%) DBS Check
10 1 (2.33%) Master's Degree
10 1 (2.33%) VCAP
10 1 (2.33%) VCP6
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (18.60%) SLA
2 3 (6.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 25 (58.14%) VMware Infrastructure
2 20 (46.51%) Active Directory
3 17 (39.53%) vSphere
4 15 (34.88%) Hyper-V
5 13 (30.23%) VMware ESXi
6 11 (25.58%) Docker
7 6 (13.95%) Virtual Machines
7 6 (13.95%) VMware NSX
8 1 (2.33%) KVM
8 1 (2.33%) NFS
8 1 (2.33%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 12 (27.91%) Kubernetes
2 9 (20.93%) vCenter Server
3 8 (18.60%) Ansible
3 8 (18.60%) PowerCLI
3 8 (18.60%) vRealize
4 7 (16.28%) Terraform
5 6 (13.95%) Puppet
5 6 (13.95%) vMotion
6 5 (11.63%) Progress Chef
6 5 (11.63%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (6.98%) Microsoft Intune
7 3 (6.98%) SCCM
8 1 (2.33%) Nessus
8 1 (2.33%) OpenVAS
8 1 (2.33%) QRadar
8 1 (2.33%) VxRail
Vendors
1 43 (100.00%) VMware
2 37 (86.05%) Microsoft
3 16 (37.21%) Veeam
4 13 (30.23%) Cisco
5 10 (23.26%) HP
6 8 (18.60%) Red Hat
7 7 (16.28%) Google
7 7 (16.28%) Palo Alto
8 6 (13.95%) Citrix
8 6 (13.95%) Oracle
9 3 (6.98%) Apple
10 1 (2.33%) Aruba
10 1 (2.33%) Dell
10 1 (2.33%) Juniper
10 1 (2.33%) Qualys
10 1 (2.33%) SolarWinds
10 1 (2.33%) Splunk