diff --git a/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/delta/commands/VacuumCommand.scala b/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/delta/commands/VacuumCommand.scala
index 84525c8d7c6..de221bb1b73 100644
--- a/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/delta/commands/VacuumCommand.scala
+++ b/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/delta/commands/VacuumCommand.scala
@@ -21,8 +21,6 @@ import java.net.URI
 import java.util.Date
 import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit
 
-import scala.collection.JavaConverters._
-
 import org.apache.spark.sql.delta._
 import org.apache.spark.sql.delta.actions.{FileAction, RemoveFile}
 import org.apache.spark.sql.delta.sources.DeltaSQLConf
@@ -31,6 +29,7 @@ import org.apache.spark.sql.delta.util.DeltaFileOperations.tryDeleteNonRecursive
 import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.annotation.JsonDeserialize
 import org.apache.hadoop.fs.{FileSystem, Path}
 
+import org.apache.spark.broadcast.Broadcast
 import org.apache.spark.sql.{DataFrame, Dataset, SparkSession}
 import org.apache.spark.util.{Clock, SerializableConfiguration, SystemClock}
 
@@ -120,6 +119,8 @@ object VacuumCommand extends VacuumCommandImpl {
         new SerializableConfiguration(sessionHadoopConf))
       val basePath = fs.makeQualified(path).toString
       var isBloomFiltered = false
+      val parallelDeleteEnabled =
+        spark.sessionState.conf.getConf(DeltaSQLConf.DELTA_VACUUM_PARALLEL_DELETE_ENABLED)
 
       val validFiles = snapshot.state
         .mapPartitions { actions =>
@@ -224,7 +225,13 @@ object VacuumCommand extends VacuumCommandImpl {
         }
         logInfo(s"Deleting untracked files and empty directories in $path")
 
-        val filesDeleted = delete(diff, fs)
+        val toDelete = if (parallelDeleteEnabled) diff else diff.coalesce(1)
+        val filesDeleted = toDelete.mapPartitions { files =>
+          val fs = new Path(basePath).getFileSystem(hadoopConf.value.value)
+          val filesDeletedPerPartition =
+            files.map(p => stringToPath(p)).count(f => tryDeleteNonRecursive(fs, f))
+          Iterator(filesDeletedPerPartition)
+        }.reduce(_ + _)
 
         val stats = DeltaVacuumStats(
           isDryRun = false,
@@ -267,14 +274,6 @@ trait VacuumCommandImpl extends DeltaCommand {
     DeltaFileOperations.getAllSubDirectories(base, file)._1
   }
 
-  /**
-   * Attempts to delete the list of candidate files. Returns the number of files deleted.
-   */
-  protected def delete(diff: Dataset[String], fs: FileSystem): Long = {
-    val fileResultSet = diff.toLocalIterator().asScala
-    fileResultSet.map(p => stringToPath(p)).count(f => tryDeleteNonRecursive(fs, f))
-  }
-
   protected def stringToPath(path: String): Path = new Path(new URI(path))
 
   protected def pathToString(path: Path): String = path.toUri.toString
diff --git a/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/delta/sources/DeltaSQLConf.scala b/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/delta/sources/DeltaSQLConf.scala
index 9645d92e9f4..0589f8482e6 100644
--- a/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/delta/sources/DeltaSQLConf.scala
+++ b/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/delta/sources/DeltaSQLConf.scala
@@ -222,6 +222,14 @@ object DeltaSQLConf {
       .booleanConf
       .createWithDefault(true)
 
+  val DELTA_VACUUM_PARALLEL_DELETE_ENABLED =
+    buildConf("vacuum.parallelDelete.enabled")
+      .doc("Enables parallelizing the deletion of files during a vacuum command. Enabling " +
+        "may result hitting rate limits on some storage backends. When enabled, parallelization " +
+        "is controlled by the default number of shuffle partitions.")
+      .booleanConf
+      .createWithDefault(false)
+
   val DELTA_CHECKPOINT_PART_SIZE =
     buildConf("checkpoint.partSize")
       .internal()