VMware Certified Professional (VCP) Jobs

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 634 773 882
Rank change year-on-year +139 +109 +134
Permanent jobs citing VMware Certified Professional (VCP) 58 123 107
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.11% 0.12% 0.10%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.23% 0.45% 0.31%
Number of salaries quoted 49 111 84
10th Percentile £35,750 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £47,500 £44,219
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £62,500 £58,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +7.76% +16.00%
75th Percentile £58,750 £75,000 £69,500
90th Percentile £68,777 £81,250 £82,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £46,250 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -7.50% - +17.65%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 25,404 27,420 33,991
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 48.81% 27.84% 32.71%
Number of salaries quoted 11,182 17,336 15,221
10th Percentile £32,500 £28,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £44,000 £38,500 £41,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £54,000 £58,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -6.90% +5.45%
75th Percentile £68,568 £71,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,000 £50,000 £50,500
% change year-on-year +4.00% -0.99% +1.00%

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing VMware Certified Professional (VCP) as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

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

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Salary Trend

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

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

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing VMware Certified Professional (VCP) over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

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

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Top 14 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 1 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 +118 57 £50,000 -13.04% 49
UK excluding London +186 46 £46,250 -7.50% 46
South East +116 19 £42,500 - 23
North of England +82 17 £37,500 -26.99% 10
Work from Home +194 15 £55,000 -2.22% 25
London +71 12 £50,000 -33.33% 7
North West +35 12 £62,205 +21.11% 2
East of England +55 5 £55,000 -4.35% 1
Yorkshire +69 3 £37,500 -16.67% 8
Midlands +67 3 £46,250 -7.50% 6
West Midlands +42 3 £46,250 -7.50% 5
North East +51 2 £37,500 - 1
South West +104 1 £52,500 +16.67% 6
Isle of Man +14 1 £34,500 -31.00%

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
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 3 (5.17%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (3.45%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.72%) Confluence
3 1 (1.72%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 35 (60.34%) Azure
2 20 (34.48%) AWS
3 14 (24.14%) Microsoft 365
4 7 (12.07%) GCP
5 4 (6.90%) IaaS
6 3 (5.17%) Entra ID
7 2 (3.45%) Azure Stack
7 2 (3.45%) Nutanix
8 1 (1.72%) OneDrive
8 1 (1.72%) PaaS
8 1 (1.72%) Power Platform
8 1 (1.72%) Rubrik
8 1 (1.72%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 28 (48.28%) DNS
2 24 (41.38%) DHCP
3 19 (32.76%) SAN
4 16 (27.59%) LAN
5 15 (25.86%) VSAN
6 14 (24.14%) NAS
7 13 (22.41%) TCP/IP
7 13 (22.41%) WAN
8 7 (12.07%) Firewall
8 7 (12.07%) Wireshark
9 4 (6.90%) VLAN
9 4 (6.90%) VPN
10 3 (5.17%) WLAN
11 2 (3.45%) Software-Defined Networking
12 1 (1.72%) BGP
12 1 (1.72%) IPv4
12 1 (1.72%) iSCSI
12 1 (1.72%) Network Security
12 1 (1.72%) Wi-Fi
12 1 (1.72%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (13.79%) SQL Server
2 5 (8.62%) MongoDB
2 5 (8.62%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.72%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (1.72%) MySQL
3 1 (1.72%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (1.72%) Power BI
3 1 (1.72%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (8.62%) Oracle Forms
General
1 17 (29.31%) Finance
1 17 (29.31%) Social Skills
2 14 (24.14%) Banking
3 8 (13.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 5 (8.62%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (8.62%) Telecoms
5 2 (3.45%) Manufacturing
5 2 (3.45%) Pharmaceutical
5 2 (3.45%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.72%) Aviation
6 1 (1.72%) Retail
Job Titles
1 13 (22.41%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 9 (15.52%) Senior
2 9 (15.52%) Wintel Engineer
3 7 (12.07%) NOC Engineer
3 7 (12.07%) Virtualisation Specialist
4 6 (10.34%) Cloud Engineer
4 6 (10.34%) Support Engineer
4 6 (10.34%) Virtualisation Engineer
4 6 (10.34%) VMware Engineer
4 6 (10.34%) VMware Specialist
5 5 (8.62%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
5 5 (8.62%) IT Technician
5 5 (8.62%) Senior IT Technician
5 5 (8.62%) Senior Technician
5 5 (8.62%) Support Specialist
5 5 (8.62%) VMware Support Engineer
6 3 (5.17%) Systems Engineer
7 2 (3.45%) 2nd Line Support
7 2 (3.45%) Analyst
7 2 (3.45%) Infrastructure Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (8.62%) Middleware
2 2 (3.45%) SAML
3 1 (1.72%) .NET
3 1 (1.72%) ARM Templates
3 1 (1.72%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 13 (22.41%) Data Centre
2 7 (12.07%) Hybrid Cloud
3 6 (10.34%) Clustering
4 3 (5.17%) Linux Command Line
4 3 (5.17%) PKI
5 2 (3.45%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.72%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.72%) Hedge funds
6 1 (1.72%) Private Cloud
6 1 (1.72%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 43 (74.14%) Windows
2 33 (56.90%) Windows Server
3 20 (34.48%) Linux
4 11 (18.97%) Windows Server 2016
5 10 (17.24%) Windows Server 2012
6 9 (15.52%) Windows Server 2019
7 8 (13.79%) Windows 10
8 7 (12.07%) CentOS
8 7 (12.07%) Ubuntu
9 5 (8.62%) Mac OS X
10 2 (3.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 1 (1.72%) Android
11 1 (1.72%) Apple iOS
11 1 (1.72%) Data ONTAP
11 1 (1.72%) Mac OS
11 1 (1.72%) Unix
11 1 (1.72%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (39.66%) Problem-Solving
2 16 (27.59%) Incident Management
2 16 (27.59%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 15 (25.86%) ITIL
4 13 (22.41%) Disaster Recovery
5 12 (20.69%) Patch Management
6 11 (18.97%) Collaborative Working
6 11 (18.97%) High Availability
7 10 (17.24%) Process Improvement
8 9 (15.52%) Artificial Intelligence
8 9 (15.52%) Batch Scripting
8 9 (15.52%) Cost Optimisation
8 9 (15.52%) Mentoring
8 9 (15.52%) Root Cause Analysis
8 9 (15.52%) Service Delivery
9 8 (13.79%) Customer Service
9 8 (13.79%) Proactive Monitoring
10 7 (12.07%) Containerisation
10 7 (12.07%) Information Security Management
10 7 (12.07%) Security Management
Programming Languages
1 28 (48.28%) PowerShell
2 11 (18.97%) SQL
3 3 (5.17%) Python
4 1 (1.72%) C#
Qualifications
1 43 (74.14%) Microsoft Certification
2 24 (41.38%) MCSE
3 22 (37.93%) Azure Certification
3 22 (37.93%) MCSA
4 20 (34.48%) CCNA
4 20 (34.48%) Cisco Certification
5 13 (22.41%) Security Cleared
6 12 (20.69%) Network+ Certification
7 11 (18.97%) CCNP
8 8 (13.79%) Degree
8 8 (13.79%) DV Cleared
9 5 (8.62%) ACSP
9 5 (8.62%) HP AIS
9 5 (8.62%) VCAP
10 4 (6.90%) Computer Science Degree
10 4 (6.90%) SC Cleared
11 2 (3.45%) MCP
12 1 (1.72%) CompTIA Security+
12 1 (1.72%) DBS Check
12 1 (1.72%) VCP6
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (27.59%) SLA
2 5 (8.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.72%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (1.72%) NCSC
3 1 (1.72%) NIST
System Software
1 45 (77.59%) VMware Infrastructure
2 33 (56.90%) Active Directory
3 24 (41.38%) Hyper-V
4 20 (34.48%) vSphere
5 12 (20.69%) VMware NSX
6 10 (17.24%) VMware ESXi
7 9 (15.52%) Docker
8 8 (13.79%) Virtual Machines
9 2 (3.45%) EMC RecoverPoint
9 2 (3.45%) Firmware
9 2 (3.45%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (1.72%) KVM
10 1 (1.72%) NFS
10 1 (1.72%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 15 (25.86%) SCCM
2 11 (18.97%) Microsoft Intune
2 11 (18.97%) vRealize
3 10 (17.24%) Kubernetes
3 10 (17.24%) SCOM
3 10 (17.24%) vCenter Server
4 9 (15.52%) NetBackup
5 8 (13.79%) PowerCLI
6 7 (12.07%) Ansible
6 7 (12.07%) Terraform
7 6 (10.34%) Puppet
8 5 (8.62%) Progress Chef
8 5 (8.62%) vMotion
9 4 (6.90%) VxRail
10 3 (5.17%) Failover Clustering
11 2 (3.45%) Dell DRAC
11 2 (3.45%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (3.45%) WSUS
12 1 (1.72%) Nessus
12 1 (1.72%) QRadar
Vendors
1 58 (100.00%) VMware
2 48 (82.76%) Microsoft
3 24 (41.38%) Veeam
4 14 (24.14%) SolarWinds
5 13 (22.41%) Cisco
6 11 (18.97%) HP
6 11 (18.97%) Red Hat
7 10 (17.24%) ServiceNow
8 9 (15.52%) Palo Alto
9 6 (10.34%) Google
9 6 (10.34%) Oracle
10 5 (8.62%) Apple
10 5 (8.62%) Citrix
11 4 (6.90%) Dell
12 3 (5.17%) EMC
13 2 (3.45%) Isilon
13 2 (3.45%) LogicMonitor
13 2 (3.45%) McAfee
14 1 (1.72%) Aruba
14 1 (1.72%) Splunk