VMware Certified Professional (VCP) Contracts

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 520 608 733
Rank change year-on-year +88 +125 -98
Contract jobs citing VMware Certified Professional (VCP) 59 76 108
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.14% 0.13% 0.12%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.46% 0.50% 0.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 62 82
10th Percentile £325 £410 £278
25th Percentile £416 £432 £402
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £531 £455
Median % change year-on-year -2.35% +16.76% -3.09%
75th Percentile £556 £575 £573
90th Percentile £634 £606 £599
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £465 £455
% change year-on-year +12.85% +2.25% +7.06%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK

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 with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 12,878 15,332 19,066
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 29.88% 27.19% 21.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,012 10,240 12,718
10th Percentile £310 £338 £345
25th Percentile £425 £450 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% +4.76% +6.06%
75th Percentile £645 £650 £631
90th Percentile £738 £738 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £535 £525 £500
% change year-on-year +1.90% +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,103 747 759
10th Percentile £13.87 £14.72 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.13 £21.25 £19.52
Median hourly rate £40.00 £55.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% +23.60% +28.84%
75th Percentile £62.50 £68.75 £58.57
90th Percentile £76.25 £79.41 £67.30
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.27 £52.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -21.40% +50.00% +14.01%

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)
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for VMware Certified Professional (VCP) in the UK

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for VMware Certified Professional (VCP) in the UK

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for VMware Certified Professional (VCP) in the UK

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Top 12 Contract Locations

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 UK 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
England +88 58 £525 - 27
UK excluding London +60 55 £525 +12.85% 18
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
Work from Home +88 5 £500 -8.59% 7
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)
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 23 (38.98%) Confluence
2 22 (37.29%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (8.47%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (10.17%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.69%) Adobe Creative Suite
Cloud Services
1 5 (8.47%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (6.78%) PaaS
2 4 (6.78%) SaaS
3 3 (5.08%) AWS
3 3 (5.08%) IaaS
4 2 (3.39%) Azure
4 2 (3.39%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 23 (38.98%) DNS
2 22 (37.29%) DHCP
3 10 (16.95%) VSAN
4 8 (13.56%) VoIP
5 7 (11.86%) SAN
6 6 (10.17%) Software-Defined Networking
7 5 (8.47%) Fibre Channel
7 5 (8.47%) Firewall
8 4 (6.78%) iSCSI
8 4 (6.78%) NAS
8 4 (6.78%) PBX
8 4 (6.78%) SSL
8 4 (6.78%) TCP/IP
8 4 (6.78%) VLAN
8 4 (6.78%) VPN
9 2 (3.39%) Remote Desktop
9 2 (3.39%) Wi-Fi
10 1 (1.69%) LAN
10 1 (1.69%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.69%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 23 (38.98%) JIRA
2 3 (5.08%) Rational DOORS
General
1 35 (59.32%) Social Skills
2 31 (52.54%) Analytical Skills
3 18 (30.51%) Military
4 15 (25.42%) Public Sector
5 6 (10.17%) Telecoms
6 3 (5.08%) Digital Economy
6 3 (5.08%) Finance
7 2 (3.39%) Banking
8 1 (1.69%) Aerospace
8 1 (1.69%) Electronics
8 1 (1.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.69%) Legal
8 1 (1.69%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.69%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 21 (35.59%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 18 (30.51%) Test Engineer
3 16 (27.12%) Integration Engineer
3 16 (27.12%) Test and Integration Engineer
4 9 (15.25%) Virtualisation Engineer
4 9 (15.25%) VMware Engineer
5 8 (13.56%) Senior
6 6 (10.17%) Architect
7 4 (6.78%) 3rd Line Engineer
7 4 (6.78%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
8 3 (5.08%) IT Engineer
8 3 (5.08%) Solutions Architect
9 2 (3.39%) Cisco Engineer
9 2 (3.39%) Data Centre Engineer
9 2 (3.39%) IT Support
9 2 (3.39%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
9 2 (3.39%) Senior Support Engineer
9 2 (3.39%) Support Engineer
9 2 (3.39%) Systems Engineer
9 2 (3.39%) Wintel Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (8.47%) Flash
2 1 (1.69%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 19 (32.20%) PKI
2 8 (13.56%) Clustering
3 6 (10.17%) Data Centre
4 5 (8.47%) Video Conferencing
5 4 (6.78%) Blackberry
6 2 (3.39%) Private Cloud
6 2 (3.39%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 1 (1.69%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.69%) Freedom of Information
7 1 (1.69%) Freedom of Information Act
7 1 (1.69%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.69%) Public Cloud
7 1 (1.69%) Replication
7 1 (1.69%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 33 (55.93%) Windows
2 27 (45.76%) Windows Server
3 22 (37.29%) Windows Server 2012
4 6 (10.17%) Windows 10
5 5 (8.47%) Linux
6 4 (6.78%) Unix
7 2 (3.39%) Windows 7
7 2 (3.39%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (1.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (1.69%) VMS
8 1 (1.69%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (54.24%) Agile
2 24 (40.68%) Critical Thinking
3 22 (37.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 18 (30.51%) Problem-Solving
4 18 (30.51%) Regression Testing
4 18 (30.51%) Test Scripting
5 15 (25.42%) ITIL
6 14 (23.73%) Computer Science
7 8 (13.56%) High Availability
8 7 (11.86%) Validation
9 5 (8.47%) Change Management
9 5 (8.47%) ITSM
9 5 (8.47%) Network Virtualisation
9 5 (8.47%) NsoIT
9 5 (8.47%) Power Management
9 5 (8.47%) Roadmaps
9 5 (8.47%) Service Management
9 5 (8.47%) System Testing
9 5 (8.47%) Waterfall
10 4 (6.78%) Strategic Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 19 (32.20%) SQL
2 5 (8.47%) PowerShell
2 5 (8.47%) Python
3 2 (3.39%) C
4 1 (1.69%) Bash
4 1 (1.69%) C#
4 1 (1.69%) Go
4 1 (1.69%) Java
4 1 (1.69%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 43 (72.88%) Security Cleared
2 33 (55.93%) Microsoft Certification
2 33 (55.93%) SC Cleared
3 30 (50.85%) MCSE
4 23 (38.98%) Degree
5 20 (33.90%) Cisco Certification
6 18 (30.51%) MCSA
7 16 (27.12%) CCNA
8 10 (16.95%) DV Cleared
8 10 (16.95%) VCAP
9 5 (8.47%) Master's Degree
10 4 (6.78%) CCNP
10 4 (6.78%) Chartered Engineer
10 4 (6.78%) Computer Science Degree
11 3 (5.08%) HND
11 3 (5.08%) TOGAF Certification
12 2 (3.39%) A+ Certification
12 2 (3.39%) Network+ Certification
13 1 (1.69%) ITIL Certification
13 1 (1.69%) VERITAS Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.39%) QA
1 2 (3.39%) SLA
2 1 (1.69%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 56 (94.92%) VMware Infrastructure
2 28 (47.46%) Active Directory
3 19 (32.20%) VMware NSX
3 19 (32.20%) vSphere
4 13 (22.03%) VMware ESXi
5 6 (10.17%) Firmware
6 5 (8.47%) Hyper-V
7 3 (5.08%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (5.08%) VMware Workstation
8 2 (3.39%) KVM
9 1 (1.69%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 15 (25.42%) vCenter Server
2 4 (6.78%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (6.78%) vRealize
2 4 (6.78%) vRealize Orchestrator
3 2 (3.39%) VxRail
4 1 (1.69%) Ansible
4 1 (1.69%) Backup Exec
4 1 (1.69%) Microsoft Clustering
4 1 (1.69%) SCOM
Vendors
1 59 (100.00%) VMware
2 43 (72.88%) Microsoft
3 17 (28.81%) Cisco
4 5 (8.47%) Atlassian
5 4 (6.78%) Avaya
5 4 (6.78%) Ericsson
5 4 (6.78%) Juniper
5 4 (6.78%) Nokia
5 4 (6.78%) Ribbon
6 3 (5.08%) Dell
6 3 (5.08%) Google
6 3 (5.08%) IBM
7 2 (3.39%) 3PAR
7 2 (3.39%) Dell Compellent
7 2 (3.39%) EMC
7 2 (3.39%) HP
7 2 (3.39%) Nimble Storage
7 2 (3.39%) Veeam
8 1 (1.69%) F5
8 1 (1.69%) Palo Alto