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 16 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 652 776 875
Rank change year-on-year +124 +99 +161
Permanent jobs citing VMware Certified Professional (VCP) 59 119 104
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.11% 0.12% 0.10%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.22% 0.43% 0.32%
Number of salaries quoted 48 107 82
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,875 £36,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £47,500 £42,656
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £58,750 £75,000 £69,500
90th Percentile £69,416 £80,500 £82,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £50,000 £48,500
% change year-on-year -5.00% +3.09% +14.12%

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 27,423 27,421 32,843
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 49.39% 27.65% 32.94%
Number of salaries quoted 11,388 17,236 14,741
10th Percentile £32,500 £28,500 £31,277
25th Percentile £44,000 £38,500 £41,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £54,000 £59,600
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -9.40% +8.36%
75th Percentile £68,750 £71,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £87,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,000 £50,000 £51,959
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.77% +3.92%

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 16 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 16 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 +101 58 £50,000 -13.04% 41
UK excluding London +168 47 £47,500 -5.00% 37
South East +111 23 £42,500 - 21
Work from Home +122 15 £55,000 -4.35% 19
North of England +48 15 £52,500 +2.21% 6
London +69 12 £50,000 -33.33% 7
North West +11 12 £62,205 +21.11% 3
West Midlands +49 3 £46,250 -9.76% 2
Midlands +48 3 £46,250 -7.50% 2
East of England +40 3 £52,500 -8.70% 2
South West +107 2 £53,750 +19.44% 6
North East +46 2 £37,500 - 1
Yorkshire +59 1 £52,500 +16.67% 3
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 7 (11.86%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (3.39%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.69%) Confluence
3 1 (1.69%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 37 (62.71%) Azure
2 22 (37.29%) AWS
3 19 (32.20%) Microsoft 365
4 7 (11.86%) GCP
5 6 (10.17%) IaaS
6 3 (5.08%) Entra ID
6 3 (5.08%) Nutanix
7 1 (1.69%) Google Workspace
7 1 (1.69%) OneDrive
7 1 (1.69%) PaaS
7 1 (1.69%) Power Platform
7 1 (1.69%) Rubrik
7 1 (1.69%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 27 (45.76%) DNS
2 25 (42.37%) DHCP
3 23 (38.98%) SAN
4 16 (27.12%) NAS
5 14 (23.73%) LAN
5 14 (23.73%) VSAN
6 13 (22.03%) WAN
7 11 (18.64%) TCP/IP
8 7 (11.86%) Firewall
9 6 (10.17%) Wireshark
10 4 (6.78%) VLAN
10 4 (6.78%) VPN
11 2 (3.39%) Software-Defined Networking
12 1 (1.69%) BGP
12 1 (1.69%) IPv4
12 1 (1.69%) iSCSI
12 1 (1.69%) Network Security
12 1 (1.69%) Wi-Fi
12 1 (1.69%) Wireless
12 1 (1.69%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (13.56%) SQL Server
2 5 (8.47%) MongoDB
2 5 (8.47%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.69%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (1.69%) MySQL
3 1 (1.69%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (1.69%) Power BI
3 1 (1.69%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (8.47%) Oracle Forms
General
1 17 (28.81%) Finance
1 17 (28.81%) Social Skills
2 14 (23.73%) Banking
3 10 (16.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 5 (8.47%) Telecoms
5 3 (5.08%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (3.39%) Manufacturing
6 2 (3.39%) Pharmaceutical
6 2 (3.39%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.69%) Aviation
7 1 (1.69%) Retail
Job Titles
1 12 (20.34%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 9 (15.25%) Senior
2 9 (15.25%) Wintel Engineer
3 8 (13.56%) Virtualisation Specialist
4 7 (11.86%) Cloud Engineer
4 7 (11.86%) Virtualisation Engineer
4 7 (11.86%) VMware Engineer
4 7 (11.86%) VMware Specialist
5 6 (10.17%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
5 6 (10.17%) NOC Engineer
5 6 (10.17%) Support Engineer
5 6 (10.17%) Support Specialist
5 6 (10.17%) VMware Support Engineer
6 5 (8.47%) IT Technician
6 5 (8.47%) Senior IT Technician
6 5 (8.47%) Senior Technician
7 4 (6.78%) 2nd Line Support
7 4 (6.78%) Infrastructure Support
8 3 (5.08%) Administrator
9 2 (3.39%) Infrastructure Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (8.47%) Middleware
2 4 (6.78%) SAML
3 1 (1.69%) .NET
3 1 (1.69%) ARM Templates
3 1 (1.69%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 10 (16.95%) Data Centre
2 8 (13.56%) Hybrid Cloud
3 7 (11.86%) Clustering
4 5 (8.47%) PKI
5 2 (3.39%) Driving Licence
5 2 (3.39%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.69%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.69%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (1.69%) Enterprise Storage
6 1 (1.69%) Hedge funds
6 1 (1.69%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (1.69%) Private Cloud
6 1 (1.69%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 44 (74.58%) Windows
2 34 (57.63%) Windows Server
3 17 (28.81%) Linux
4 11 (18.64%) Windows Server 2016
5 10 (16.95%) Windows 10
5 10 (16.95%) Windows Server 2012
6 9 (15.25%) Windows Server 2019
7 6 (10.17%) CentOS
7 6 (10.17%) Ubuntu
8 5 (8.47%) Mac OS X
9 2 (3.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (1.69%) Android
10 1 (1.69%) Apple iOS
10 1 (1.69%) Data ONTAP
10 1 (1.69%) Mac OS
10 1 (1.69%) Unix
10 1 (1.69%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (38.98%) Problem-Solving
2 17 (28.81%) Incident Management
2 17 (28.81%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 13 (22.03%) ITIL
4 11 (18.64%) Collaborative Working
4 11 (18.64%) Disaster Recovery
5 10 (16.95%) Customer Service
5 10 (16.95%) High Availability
5 10 (16.95%) Mentoring
5 10 (16.95%) Patch Management
5 10 (16.95%) Process Improvement
6 9 (15.25%) Artificial Intelligence
6 9 (15.25%) Batch Scripting
6 9 (15.25%) Cost Optimisation
6 9 (15.25%) Root Cause Analysis
7 8 (13.56%) Service Delivery
8 7 (11.86%) Security Hardening
8 7 (11.86%) Task Automation
8 7 (11.86%) Virtual Infrastructure
9 6 (10.17%) Proactive Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 28 (47.46%) PowerShell
2 9 (15.25%) SQL
3 4 (6.78%) Python
4 1 (1.69%) C#
Qualifications
1 40 (67.80%) Microsoft Certification
2 25 (42.37%) Azure Certification
2 25 (42.37%) MCSE
3 19 (32.20%) CCNA
3 19 (32.20%) Cisco Certification
4 17 (28.81%) MCSA
5 13 (22.03%) Security Cleared
6 11 (18.64%) Network+ Certification
7 10 (16.95%) CCNP
8 9 (15.25%) Degree
8 9 (15.25%) DV Cleared
9 5 (8.47%) ACSP
9 5 (8.47%) HP AIS
9 5 (8.47%) VCAP
10 4 (6.78%) Computer Science Degree
11 3 (5.08%) SC Cleared
12 1 (1.69%) CompTIA Security+
12 1 (1.69%) DBS Check
12 1 (1.69%) Master's Degree
12 1 (1.69%) VCP6
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (30.51%) SLA
2 5 (8.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.69%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (1.69%) NCSC
3 1 (1.69%) NIST
System Software
1 42 (71.19%) VMware Infrastructure
2 34 (57.63%) Active Directory
3 25 (42.37%) Hyper-V
4 22 (37.29%) vSphere
5 13 (22.03%) VMware ESXi
6 11 (18.64%) Docker
7 10 (16.95%) VMware NSX
8 7 (11.86%) Virtual Machines
9 2 (3.39%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (1.69%) KVM
10 1 (1.69%) NFS
10 1 (1.69%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 15 (25.42%) SCCM
2 12 (20.34%) Kubernetes
2 12 (20.34%) Microsoft Intune
3 10 (16.95%) SCOM
3 10 (16.95%) vCenter Server
3 10 (16.95%) vRealize
4 9 (15.25%) Ansible
4 9 (15.25%) NetBackup
4 9 (15.25%) PowerCLI
5 7 (11.86%) Puppet
5 7 (11.86%) Terraform
6 6 (10.17%) vMotion
7 5 (8.47%) Progress Chef
8 4 (6.78%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (3.39%) VxRail
10 1 (1.69%) Failover Clustering
10 1 (1.69%) Microsoft Clustering
10 1 (1.69%) Prometheus
10 1 (1.69%) QRadar
10 1 (1.69%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 59 (100.00%) VMware
2 50 (84.75%) Microsoft
3 28 (47.46%) Veeam
4 14 (23.73%) Cisco
5 12 (20.34%) HP
6 10 (16.95%) ServiceNow
6 10 (16.95%) SolarWinds
7 8 (13.56%) Palo Alto
7 8 (13.56%) Red Hat
8 7 (11.86%) Google
9 6 (10.17%) Citrix
9 6 (10.17%) Oracle
10 5 (8.47%) Apple
11 2 (3.39%) Dell
12 1 (1.69%) Aruba
12 1 (1.69%) EMC
12 1 (1.69%) Fortinet
12 1 (1.69%) Juniper
12 1 (1.69%) NetApp
12 1 (1.69%) Qualys