Virtual Desktop Contracts in the City of London

Virtual Desktop
Central London > City of London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for Virtual Desktop skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Virtual Desktop over the 6 months to 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 122 163 188
Rank change year-on-year +41 +25 -48
Contract jobs citing Virtual Desktop 5 9 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.23% 0.25% 0.24%
As % of the System Software category 2.07% 2.04% 1.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 8 5
10th Percentile - £326 £390
25th Percentile - £375 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -10.00% +3.90%
75th Percentile £513 £537 £525
90th Percentile £550 £647 £590
Central London median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +3.90%

All System Software Skills
City of London

Virtual Desktop is in the System Software category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for system software skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 242 441 652
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 10.94% 12.06% 15.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 178 294 553
10th Percentile £240 £213 £294
25th Percentile £383 £423 £465
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -15.22% +4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £650 £725 £665
90th Percentile £740 £788 £761
Central London median daily rate £475 £561 £550
% change year-on-year -15.37% +2.05% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £21.25 - £24.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 - £25.50
Median % change year-on-year - - +10.87%
75th Percentile - - £29.56
90th Percentile £46.15 - £32.83
Central London median hourly rate £40.00 £23.50 £25.50
% change year-on-year +70.21% -7.84% +27.50%

Virtual Desktop
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing Virtual Desktop as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Virtual Desktop in the City of London

Virtual Desktop
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Virtual Desktop in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Virtual Desktop in the City of London

Virtual Desktop
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Virtual Desktop in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for Virtual Desktop in the City of London

Virtual Desktop
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London 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 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) Azure
2 2 (40.00%) Entra ID
2 2 (40.00%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (40.00%) OneDrive
General
1 3 (60.00%) Finance
2 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Applications Specialist
1 2 (40.00%) Azure Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Desktop Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Technical Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 4 (80.00%) Windows
2 2 (40.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Application Packaging
1 2 (40.00%) Application Security
1 2 (40.00%) Asset Management
1 2 (40.00%) Information Security
1 2 (40.00%) Release Management
1 2 (40.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (20.00%) Roadmaps
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (20.00%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 4 (80.00%) SCCM
2 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) Citrix