VMware Certified Professional (VCP) Contracts in England

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for VMware Certified Professional (VCP) qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 484 572 710
Rank change year-on-year +88 +138 -149
Contract jobs citing VMware Certified Professional (VCP) 58 67 84
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.16% 0.14% 0.12%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.51% 0.51% 0.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 57 66
10th Percentile £325 £410 £244
25th Percentile £416 £453 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £455
Median % change year-on-year - +15.38% -3.09%
75th Percentile £556 £585 £540
90th Percentile £635 £609 £594
UK median daily rate £519 £531 £455
% change year-on-year -2.35% +16.76% -3.09%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
England

VMware Certified Professional (VCP) 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 advertised in England with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 11,283 13,151 15,488
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 30.55% 27.54% 21.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,990 8,833 10,320
10th Percentile £313 £349 £325
25th Percentile £425 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £638
90th Percentile £745 £745 £725
UK median daily rate £530 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -3.64% +4.76% +6.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,005 654 675
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.25 £13.41
25th Percentile £18.50 £21.24 £19.06
Median hourly rate £40.00 £55.00 £39.50
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% +39.24% +8.22%
75th Percentile £63.75 £68.75 £56.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £80.18 £67.80
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £55.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -27.27% +23.60% +28.84%

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for VMware Certified Professional (VCP) in England

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for VMware Certified Professional (VCP) in England

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VMware Certified Professional (VCP) in England over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for VMware Certified Professional (VCP) in England

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for VMware Certified Professional (VCP) in England

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VMware Certified Professional (VCP) within the England region over the 6 months to 2 June 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
South East +10 23 £500 +9.89% 6
South West +16 21 £538 -2.27% 2
North of England +37 9 £340 -22.29% 4
North West +21 6 £409 -6.57% 2
London +80 3 £450 -17.73% 8
Midlands +24 2 £713 +56.44% 5
Yorkshire - 2 £330 - 1
West Midlands +15 1 £713 +119.23% 4
North East - 1 £625 - 1
VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
UK

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 23 (39.66%) Confluence
2 22 (37.93%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (8.62%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (10.34%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.72%) Adobe Creative Suite
Cloud Services
1 5 (8.62%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (6.90%) PaaS
2 4 (6.90%) SaaS
3 3 (5.17%) AWS
3 3 (5.17%) IaaS
4 2 (3.45%) Azure
4 2 (3.45%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 23 (39.66%) DNS
2 22 (37.93%) DHCP
3 10 (17.24%) VSAN
4 8 (13.79%) VoIP
5 7 (12.07%) SAN
6 6 (10.34%) Software-Defined Networking
7 5 (8.62%) Fibre Channel
7 5 (8.62%) Firewall
8 4 (6.90%) iSCSI
8 4 (6.90%) NAS
8 4 (6.90%) PBX
8 4 (6.90%) SSL
8 4 (6.90%) TCP/IP
8 4 (6.90%) VLAN
8 4 (6.90%) VPN
9 2 (3.45%) Remote Desktop
9 2 (3.45%) Wi-Fi
10 1 (1.72%) LAN
10 1 (1.72%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.72%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 23 (39.66%) JIRA
2 3 (5.17%) Rational DOORS
General
1 34 (58.62%) Social Skills
2 31 (53.45%) Analytical Skills
3 18 (31.03%) Military
4 15 (25.86%) Public Sector
5 6 (10.34%) Telecoms
6 3 (5.17%) Digital Economy
6 3 (5.17%) Finance
7 2 (3.45%) Banking
8 1 (1.72%) Aerospace
8 1 (1.72%) Electronics
8 1 (1.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.72%) Legal
8 1 (1.72%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.72%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 21 (36.21%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 18 (31.03%) Test Engineer
3 16 (27.59%) Integration Engineer
3 16 (27.59%) Test and Integration Engineer
4 9 (15.52%) Virtualisation Engineer
5 8 (13.79%) Senior
5 8 (13.79%) VMware Engineer
6 6 (10.34%) Architect
7 4 (6.90%) 3rd Line Engineer
7 4 (6.90%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
8 3 (5.17%) IT Engineer
8 3 (5.17%) Solutions Architect
9 2 (3.45%) Cisco Engineer
9 2 (3.45%) Data Centre Engineer
9 2 (3.45%) IT Support
9 2 (3.45%) Security Engineer
9 2 (3.45%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
9 2 (3.45%) Senior Support Engineer
9 2 (3.45%) Support Engineer
9 2 (3.45%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (8.62%) Flash
2 1 (1.72%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 19 (32.76%) PKI
2 8 (13.79%) Clustering
3 6 (10.34%) Data Centre
4 5 (8.62%) Video Conferencing
5 4 (6.90%) Blackberry
6 2 (3.45%) Private Cloud
6 2 (3.45%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 1 (1.72%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.72%) Freedom of Information
7 1 (1.72%) Freedom of Information Act
7 1 (1.72%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.72%) Public Cloud
7 1 (1.72%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 32 (55.17%) Windows
2 26 (44.83%) Windows Server
3 22 (37.93%) Windows Server 2012
4 6 (10.34%) Windows 10
5 5 (8.62%) Linux
6 4 (6.90%) Unix
7 2 (3.45%) Windows 7
7 2 (3.45%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (1.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (1.72%) VMS
8 1 (1.72%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (55.17%) Agile
2 24 (41.38%) Critical Thinking
3 22 (37.93%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 18 (31.03%) Regression Testing
4 18 (31.03%) Test Scripting
5 17 (29.31%) Problem-Solving
6 15 (25.86%) ITIL
7 14 (24.14%) Computer Science
8 7 (12.07%) High Availability
8 7 (12.07%) Validation
9 5 (8.62%) Change Management
9 5 (8.62%) ITSM
9 5 (8.62%) Network Virtualisation
9 5 (8.62%) NsoIT
9 5 (8.62%) Power Management
9 5 (8.62%) Roadmaps
9 5 (8.62%) Service Management
9 5 (8.62%) System Testing
9 5 (8.62%) Waterfall
10 4 (6.90%) Security Management
Programming Languages
1 19 (32.76%) SQL
2 5 (8.62%) PowerShell
2 5 (8.62%) Python
3 2 (3.45%) C
4 1 (1.72%) Bash
4 1 (1.72%) C#
4 1 (1.72%) Go
4 1 (1.72%) Java
4 1 (1.72%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 43 (74.14%) Security Cleared
2 33 (56.90%) SC Cleared
3 32 (55.17%) Microsoft Certification
4 29 (50.00%) MCSE
5 23 (39.66%) Degree
6 20 (34.48%) Cisco Certification
7 18 (31.03%) MCSA
8 16 (27.59%) CCNA
9 10 (17.24%) DV Cleared
9 10 (17.24%) VCAP
10 5 (8.62%) Master's Degree
11 4 (6.90%) CCNP
11 4 (6.90%) Chartered Engineer
11 4 (6.90%) Computer Science Degree
12 3 (5.17%) HND
12 3 (5.17%) TOGAF Certification
13 2 (3.45%) A+ Certification
13 2 (3.45%) Network+ Certification
14 1 (1.72%) ITIL Certification
14 1 (1.72%) VERITAS Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.45%) QA
1 2 (3.45%) SLA
2 1 (1.72%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 55 (94.83%) VMware Infrastructure
2 27 (46.55%) Active Directory
3 19 (32.76%) VMware NSX
4 18 (31.03%) vSphere
5 12 (20.69%) VMware ESXi
6 6 (10.34%) Firmware
7 5 (8.62%) Hyper-V
8 3 (5.17%) VMware Workstation
9 2 (3.45%) KVM
9 2 (3.45%) Virtual Machines
10 1 (1.72%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 14 (24.14%) vCenter Server
2 4 (6.90%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (6.90%) vRealize
2 4 (6.90%) vRealize Orchestrator
3 2 (3.45%) VxRail
4 1 (1.72%) Ansible
4 1 (1.72%) Backup Exec
4 1 (1.72%) Microsoft Clustering
4 1 (1.72%) SCOM
Vendors
1 58 (100.00%) VMware
2 42 (72.41%) Microsoft
3 17 (29.31%) Cisco
4 5 (8.62%) Atlassian
5 4 (6.90%) Avaya
5 4 (6.90%) Ericsson
5 4 (6.90%) Juniper
5 4 (6.90%) Nokia
5 4 (6.90%) Ribbon
6 3 (5.17%) Dell
6 3 (5.17%) Google
6 3 (5.17%) IBM
7 2 (3.45%) 3PAR
7 2 (3.45%) Dell Compellent
7 2 (3.45%) EMC
7 2 (3.45%) HP
7 2 (3.45%) Nimble Storage
7 2 (3.45%) Veeam
8 1 (1.72%) F5
8 1 (1.72%) Palo Alto