Hybrid/Remote VMware Certified Professional (VCP) Job Trends

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid work 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 18 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 414 471 513
Rank change year-on-year +57 +42 +203
Permanent jobs citing VMware Certified Professional (VCP) 7 24 9
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.043% 0.10% 0.037%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.12% 0.38% 0.14%
Number of salaries quoted 7 14 8
10th Percentile - £45,900 £45,625
25th Percentile £31,250 £46,250 £50,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -38.10% -12.50% -4.76%
75th Percentile £49,375 £60,313 £65,313
90th Percentile £70,000 £63,750 £74,875
UK median annual salary £50,000 £47,500 £59,250
% change year-on-year +5.26% -19.83% -1.25%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 5,716 6,391 6,545
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 35.07% 27.27% 26.65%
Number of salaries quoted 2,330 3,104 4,901
10th Percentile £31,000 £34,384 £36,174
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £87,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £56,000 £58,500
% change year-on-year -1.79% -4.27% +6.36%

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing VMware Certified Professional (VCP) as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

VMware Certified Professional (VCP) trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Salary Trend for Jobs with Hybrid Work Options

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote work options citing VMware Certified Professional (VCP).

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote work options citing VMware Certified Professional (VCP)

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing VMware Certified Professional (VCP) over the 6 months to 18 September 2025.

VMware Certified Professional (VCP) salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 6 (85.71%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (14.29%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 7 (100.00%) Azure
2 6 (85.71%) Microsoft 365
3 5 (71.43%) IaaS
4 2 (28.57%) AWS
5 1 (14.29%) Entra ID
5 1 (14.29%) GCP
5 1 (14.29%) IBM Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (71.43%) SAN
2 2 (28.57%) Firewall
2 2 (28.57%) VPN
3 1 (14.29%) DNS
3 1 (14.29%) LAN
3 1 (14.29%) VLAN
3 1 (14.29%) WAN
Job Titles
1 5 (71.43%) 2nd Line Support
1 5 (71.43%) Infrastructure Support
2 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Network Infrastructure Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Network Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Network Security Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Security Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Senior
2 1 (14.29%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (71.43%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (85.71%) PKI
2 1 (14.29%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 7 (100.00%) Windows
1 7 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 5 (71.43%) Customer Service
2 5 (71.43%) Innovative Thinking
2 5 (71.43%) Presales
2 5 (71.43%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (71.43%) Project Management
3 2 (28.57%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (14.29%) Business Continuity
4 1 (14.29%) Business Strategy
4 1 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
4 1 (14.29%) Data Loss Prevention
4 1 (14.29%) Incident Response
4 1 (14.29%) Penetration Testing
4 1 (14.29%) Performance Tuning
4 1 (14.29%) Security Management
4 1 (14.29%) SIEM
4 1 (14.29%) Technical Leadership
4 1 (14.29%) Vulnerability Scanning
4 1 (14.29%) Zero Trust
Qualifications
1 5 (71.43%) Azure Certification
1 5 (71.43%) CCNA
1 5 (71.43%) CCNP
1 5 (71.43%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (28.57%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (14.29%) AWS Certification
3 1 (14.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (14.29%) MCP
3 1 (14.29%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (71.43%) SLA
2 1 (14.29%) GDPR
2 1 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 6 (85.71%) Active Directory
1 6 (85.71%) VMware ESXi
2 5 (71.43%) Hyper-V
3 1 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (71.43%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (14.29%) Nessus
2 1 (14.29%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 7 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 7 (100.00%) VMware
2 5 (71.43%) Veeam
3 1 (14.29%) IBM