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

6 months to
12 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 656 772 877
Rank change year-on-year +116 +105 +147
Permanent jobs citing VMware Certified Professional (VCP) 61 122 104
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.11% 0.12% 0.10%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.22% 0.44% 0.31%
Number of salaries quoted 51 110 82
10th Percentile £33,750 £38,063 £36,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £48,125 £41,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £58,750 £73,125 £69,500
90th Percentile £67,500 £80,125 £82,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £46,250 £50,000 £48,500
% change year-on-year -7.50% +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 27,186 27,486 33,056
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 49.31% 27.70% 32.76%
Number of salaries quoted 11,493 17,304 14,953
10th Percentile £32,500 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £44,000 £38,500 £41,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £54,000 £59,526
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -9.28% +8.23%
75th Percentile £68,568 £71,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £87,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,000 £50,000 £51,500
% change year-on-year +4.00% -2.91% +3.00%

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 12 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 12 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 +97 60 £50,000 -13.04% 42
UK excluding London +142 49 £46,250 -7.50% 40
South East +107 22 £42,500 - 21
North of England +61 17 £37,500 -26.99% 7
Work from Home +135 15 £55,000 +4.76% 25
London +76 12 £50,000 -33.33% 5
North West +7 12 £62,205 +21.11% 4
East of England +43 4 £53,750 -6.52% 2
Yorkshire +63 3 £37,500 -16.67% 2
Midlands +53 3 £46,250 -7.50% 4
West Midlands +52 3 £46,250 -7.50% 3
South West +104 2 £53,750 +19.44% 6
North East +47 2 £37,500 - 2
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 5 (8.20%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (3.28%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.64%) Confluence
3 1 (1.64%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 38 (62.30%) Azure
2 22 (36.07%) AWS
3 17 (27.87%) Microsoft 365
4 7 (11.48%) GCP
5 5 (8.20%) IaaS
6 3 (4.92%) Entra ID
6 3 (4.92%) Nutanix
7 2 (3.28%) Azure Stack
8 1 (1.64%) Google Workspace
8 1 (1.64%) OneDrive
8 1 (1.64%) PaaS
8 1 (1.64%) Power Platform
8 1 (1.64%) Rubrik
8 1 (1.64%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 28 (45.90%) DNS
2 25 (40.98%) DHCP
3 22 (36.07%) SAN
4 16 (26.23%) LAN
4 16 (26.23%) NAS
5 15 (24.59%) VSAN
6 13 (21.31%) TCP/IP
6 13 (21.31%) WAN
7 7 (11.48%) Firewall
7 7 (11.48%) Wireshark
8 4 (6.56%) VLAN
8 4 (6.56%) VPN
9 3 (4.92%) WLAN
10 2 (3.28%) Software-Defined Networking
11 1 (1.64%) BGP
11 1 (1.64%) IPv4
11 1 (1.64%) iSCSI
11 1 (1.64%) Network Security
11 1 (1.64%) Wi-Fi
11 1 (1.64%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (13.11%) SQL Server
2 5 (8.20%) MongoDB
2 5 (8.20%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.64%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (1.64%) MySQL
3 1 (1.64%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (1.64%) Power BI
3 1 (1.64%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (8.20%) Oracle Forms
General
1 17 (27.87%) Finance
1 17 (27.87%) Social Skills
2 14 (22.95%) Banking
3 10 (16.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 5 (8.20%) Telecoms
5 4 (6.56%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (3.28%) Manufacturing
6 2 (3.28%) Pharmaceutical
6 2 (3.28%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.64%) Aviation
7 1 (1.64%) Retail
Job Titles
1 13 (21.31%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 9 (14.75%) Senior
2 9 (14.75%) Wintel Engineer
3 8 (13.11%) Virtualisation Specialist
4 7 (11.48%) Cloud Engineer
4 7 (11.48%) NOC Engineer
4 7 (11.48%) Support Engineer
4 7 (11.48%) Virtualisation Engineer
4 7 (11.48%) VMware Engineer
4 7 (11.48%) VMware Specialist
5 6 (9.84%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
5 6 (9.84%) Support Specialist
5 6 (9.84%) VMware Support Engineer
6 5 (8.20%) IT Technician
6 5 (8.20%) Senior IT Technician
6 5 (8.20%) Senior Technician
7 3 (4.92%) 2nd Line Support
7 3 (4.92%) Infrastructure Support
7 3 (4.92%) Systems Engineer
8 2 (3.28%) Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (8.20%) Middleware
2 3 (4.92%) SAML
3 1 (1.64%) .NET
3 1 (1.64%) ARM Templates
3 1 (1.64%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 12 (19.67%) Data Centre
2 8 (13.11%) Hybrid Cloud
3 7 (11.48%) Clustering
4 4 (6.56%) PKI
5 2 (3.28%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (3.28%) Management Information System
5 2 (3.28%) Private Cloud
6 1 (1.64%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.64%) Driving Licence
6 1 (1.64%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (1.64%) Enterprise Storage
6 1 (1.64%) Hedge funds
6 1 (1.64%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 45 (73.77%) Windows
2 34 (55.74%) Windows Server
3 20 (32.79%) Linux
4 11 (18.03%) Windows Server 2016
5 10 (16.39%) Windows Server 2012
6 9 (14.75%) Windows 10
6 9 (14.75%) Windows Server 2019
7 7 (11.48%) CentOS
7 7 (11.48%) Ubuntu
8 5 (8.20%) Mac OS X
9 2 (3.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (1.64%) Android
10 1 (1.64%) Apple iOS
10 1 (1.64%) Data ONTAP
10 1 (1.64%) Mac OS
10 1 (1.64%) Unix
10 1 (1.64%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (37.70%) Problem-Solving
2 17 (27.87%) Incident Management
2 17 (27.87%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 14 (22.95%) ITIL
4 13 (21.31%) Disaster Recovery
5 11 (18.03%) Collaborative Working
5 11 (18.03%) High Availability
5 11 (18.03%) Patch Management
6 10 (16.39%) Mentoring
6 10 (16.39%) Process Improvement
7 9 (14.75%) Artificial Intelligence
7 9 (14.75%) Batch Scripting
7 9 (14.75%) Cost Optimisation
7 9 (14.75%) Customer Service
7 9 (14.75%) Root Cause Analysis
7 9 (14.75%) Service Delivery
8 8 (13.11%) Containerisation
8 8 (13.11%) Proactive Monitoring
9 7 (11.48%) Task Automation
9 7 (11.48%) Virtual Infrastructure
Programming Languages
1 29 (47.54%) PowerShell
2 10 (16.39%) SQL
3 4 (6.56%) Python
4 1 (1.64%) C#
Qualifications
1 43 (70.49%) Microsoft Certification
2 25 (40.98%) MCSE
3 24 (39.34%) Azure Certification
4 21 (34.43%) CCNA
4 21 (34.43%) Cisco Certification
4 21 (34.43%) MCSA
5 14 (22.95%) Security Cleared
6 12 (19.67%) Network+ Certification
7 11 (18.03%) CCNP
8 9 (14.75%) Degree
8 9 (14.75%) DV Cleared
9 5 (8.20%) ACSP
9 5 (8.20%) HP AIS
9 5 (8.20%) VCAP
10 4 (6.56%) Computer Science Degree
10 4 (6.56%) SC Cleared
11 1 (1.64%) CompTIA Security+
11 1 (1.64%) DBS Check
11 1 (1.64%) Master's Degree
11 1 (1.64%) VCP6
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (27.87%) SLA
2 5 (8.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.64%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (1.64%) NCSC
3 1 (1.64%) NIST
System Software
1 46 (75.41%) VMware Infrastructure
2 34 (55.74%) Active Directory
3 26 (42.62%) Hyper-V
4 22 (36.07%) vSphere
5 12 (19.67%) VMware ESXi
6 11 (18.03%) Docker
6 11 (18.03%) VMware NSX
7 8 (13.11%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (3.28%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (1.64%) EMC RecoverPoint
9 1 (1.64%) Firmware
9 1 (1.64%) KVM
9 1 (1.64%) NFS
9 1 (1.64%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 15 (24.59%) SCCM
2 12 (19.67%) Kubernetes
2 12 (19.67%) Microsoft Intune
3 11 (18.03%) vCenter Server
3 11 (18.03%) vRealize
4 10 (16.39%) SCOM
5 9 (14.75%) Ansible
5 9 (14.75%) NetBackup
5 9 (14.75%) PowerCLI
6 7 (11.48%) Puppet
6 7 (11.48%) Terraform
7 6 (9.84%) vMotion
8 5 (8.20%) Progress Chef
9 3 (4.92%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (4.92%) VxRail
10 2 (3.28%) Failover Clustering
11 1 (1.64%) Dell DRAC
11 1 (1.64%) Microsoft Clustering
11 1 (1.64%) QRadar
11 1 (1.64%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 61 (100.00%) VMware
2 50 (81.97%) Microsoft
3 27 (44.26%) Veeam
4 14 (22.95%) Cisco
5 13 (21.31%) SolarWinds
6 12 (19.67%) HP
7 10 (16.39%) Red Hat
7 10 (16.39%) ServiceNow
8 9 (14.75%) Palo Alto
9 7 (11.48%) Google
10 6 (9.84%) Citrix
10 6 (9.84%) Oracle
11 5 (8.20%) Apple
12 3 (4.92%) Dell
13 2 (3.28%) EMC
13 2 (3.28%) LogicMonitor
14 1 (1.64%) Fortinet
14 1 (1.64%) Juniper
14 1 (1.64%) McAfee
14 1 (1.64%) NetApp