VMware Certified Advanced Professional (VCAP, VCAP4)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for VCAP qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 578 677 824
Rank change year-on-year +99 +147 -151
Contract jobs citing VCAP 13 28 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.030% 0.048% 0.026%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.099% 0.18% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 22 15
10th Percentile £416 £410 £423
25th Percentile £455 £419 £446
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £455 £455
Median % change year-on-year +9.89% - +28.17%
75th Percentile £516 £457 £460
90th Percentile £531 £475 £540
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £455 £455
% change year-on-year +9.89% - +24.66%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK

VCAP is in the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 13,071 15,806 18,731
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.36% 27.25% 21.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,080 10,554 12,360
10th Percentile £307 £330 £331
25th Percentile £425 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% +4.76% +7.69%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £626
90th Percentile £738 £743 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £535 £530 £500
% change year-on-year +0.94% +6.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,070 819 757
10th Percentile £13.83 £15.25 £13.74
25th Percentile £17.80 £20.22 £19.35
Median hourly rate £40.00 £54.00 £42.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.93% +28.57% +11.55%
75th Percentile £61.58 £68.25 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.35 £80.00 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.94 £50.00 £31.89
% change year-on-year -18.12% +56.79% -7.67%

VCAP
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for VCAP in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing VCAP.

Daily rate trend for VCAP in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing VCAP.

Hourly rate trend for VCAP in the UK

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Top 6 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VCAP within the UK over the 6 months to 9 May 2024. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +103 13 £500 +9.89% 2
UK excluding London +46 12 £500 +9.89% 2
North of England +34 6 £513 +17.14% 1
North West +20 6 £513 +17.14% 1
South East +19 6 £466 +2.33% 1
London +81 1 £500 +14.29%

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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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (30.77%) AWS
1 4 (30.77%) Azure
1 4 (30.77%) GCP
2 2 (15.38%) IaaS
2 2 (15.38%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 4 (30.77%) BGP
1 4 (30.77%) MPLS
1 4 (30.77%) OSPF
1 4 (30.77%) TCP/IP
1 4 (30.77%) Value-Added Service
1 4 (30.77%) VLAN
1 4 (30.77%) VPN
1 4 (30.77%) VSAN
1 4 (30.77%) Wireshark
2 2 (15.38%) Software-Defined Networking
General
1 6 (46.15%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (7.69%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (30.77%) 3rd Line Engineer
1 4 (30.77%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
1 4 (30.77%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 4 (30.77%) Network Engineer
2 3 (23.08%) Senior
2 3 (23.08%) Virtualisation Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Architect
3 2 (15.38%) Infrastructure Operations Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Operations Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Security Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) VMware Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Infrastructure Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Senior VMware Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (7.69%) VMware Architect
4 1 (7.69%) VMware Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) Data Centre
1 2 (15.38%) Private Cloud
2 1 (7.69%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (61.54%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (53.85%) Computer Science
3 6 (46.15%) Agile
3 6 (46.15%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 5 (38.46%) Network Virtualisation
5 4 (30.77%) Change Management
5 4 (30.77%) ITIL
5 4 (30.77%) ITSM
5 4 (30.77%) Network Monitoring
5 4 (30.77%) Release Management
5 4 (30.77%) Virtual Environments
6 2 (15.38%) Continuous Improvement
6 2 (15.38%) Infrastructure Automation
6 2 (15.38%) Process Improvement
7 1 (7.69%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 2 (15.38%) PowerShell
1 2 (15.38%) Python
Qualifications
1 8 (61.54%) Security Cleared
1 8 (61.54%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 7 (53.85%) Computer Science Degree
2 7 (53.85%) Degree
3 4 (30.77%) CCIE
3 4 (30.77%) CCNP
3 4 (30.77%) Cisco Certification
3 4 (30.77%) SC Cleared
4 2 (15.38%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 8 (61.54%) VMware NSX
2 6 (46.15%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (46.15%) vSphere
3 2 (15.38%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 2 (15.38%) vRealize
1 2 (15.38%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 8 (61.54%) VMware
2 4 (30.77%) LogicMonitor
2 4 (30.77%) SolarWinds
3 2 (15.38%) 3PAR
3 2 (15.38%) Cisco
3 2 (15.38%) Dell
3 2 (15.38%) Dell Compellent
3 2 (15.38%) Microsoft
3 2 (15.38%) Nimble Storage
3 2 (15.38%) Veeam