VMware Certified Advanced Professional (VCAP, VCAP4)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for VCAP qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 27 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 706 905 961
Rank change year-on-year +199 +56 +273
Permanent jobs citing VCAP 3 7 7
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.006% 0.007% 0.007%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.011% 0.025% 0.021%
Number of salaries quoted 1 7 7
10th Percentile - - £47,500
25th Percentile £62,500 £51,364 £49,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £51,364 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +26.55% -6.61% -15.38%
75th Percentile £67,500 £62,557 £57,500
90th Percentile - £73,750 -
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £51,364 £55,000
% change year-on-year +26.55% -6.61% +15.79%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 26,902 27,600 32,565
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 49.34% 27.09% 33.20%
Number of salaries quoted 10,837 17,220 14,707
10th Percentile £32,000 £28,500 £31,956
25th Percentile £43,750 £38,500 £42,228
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £54,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -10.00% +9.09%
75th Percentile £68,250 £71,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £87,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% +5.00%

VCAP
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing VCAP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for VCAP in the UK

VCAP
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing VCAP.

Salary trend for VCAP in the UK

VCAP
Top 4 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing VCAP within the UK over the 6 months to 27 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
England +180 3 £65,000 +26.55% 6
London +112 2 - - 1
UK excluding London +183 1 £65,000 +26.55% 4
South East - 1 £65,000 - 1

VCAP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 1 (33.33%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) DHCP
1 1 (33.33%) DNS
1 1 (33.33%) iSCSI
1 1 (33.33%) SAN
1 1 (33.33%) TCP/IP
1 1 (33.33%) VLAN
General
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Platform Specialist
1 2 (66.67%) Virtualisation Specialist
1 2 (66.67%) Windows Specialist
2 1 (33.33%) VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Native
1 1 (33.33%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
2 1 (33.33%) Linux
2 1 (33.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Computer Science
1 2 (66.67%) Disaster Recovery
1 2 (66.67%) Investment Management
2 1 (33.33%) Analytics
2 1 (33.33%) Change Control
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
2 1 (33.33%) Data Analysis
2 1 (33.33%) Edge Virtualization
2 1 (33.33%) Incident Response
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (33.33%) ITIL
2 1 (33.33%) Knowledge Transfer
2 1 (33.33%) OOP
2 1 (33.33%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Roadmaps
2 1 (33.33%) Service Delivery
2 1 (33.33%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (33.33%) C#
2 1 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 2 (66.67%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (66.67%) Degree
2 2 (66.67%) MCSE
2 2 (66.67%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (33.33%) DV Cleared
3 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 3 (100.00%) vSphere
2 2 (66.67%) Active Directory
3 1 (33.33%) NFS
3 1 (33.33%) vCloud
3 1 (33.33%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (33.33%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (33.33%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) vRealize
2 1 (33.33%) Ansible
2 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 1 (33.33%) PowerCLI
2 1 (33.33%) Prometheus
2 1 (33.33%) Puppet
2 1 (33.33%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) VMware
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft