Virtual Desktop Contracts in Coventry

Virtual Desktop
West Midlands > Coventry

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Coventry 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 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 19 31 36
Rank change year-on-year +12 +5 -12
Contract jobs citing Virtual Desktop 9 8 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Coventry 6.34% 2.91% 0.39%
As % of the System Software category 28.13% 25.81% 2.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £650 £363 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £375 -
Median % change year-on-year +100.00% - -
75th Percentile £850 £463 -
90th Percentile - £508 -
West Midlands median daily rate £360 £588 £525
% change year-on-year -38.72% +11.90% +30.43%

All System Software Skills
Coventry

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 Coventry with a requirement for system software skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 32 31 43
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Coventry 22.54% 11.27% 16.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 19 31
10th Percentile £284 £242 £200
25th Percentile £381 £394 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £480 £400
Median % change year-on-year -1.04% +20.00% +25.49%
75th Percentile £675 £519 £481
90th Percentile - £700 £588
West Midlands median daily rate £400 £475 £413
% change year-on-year -15.79% +15.15% +17.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 3
10th Percentile - - £10.55
25th Percentile - £12.50 £10.63
Median hourly rate - £13.00 £11.50
Median % change year-on-year - +13.04% -23.33%
75th Percentile - £13.50 £13.63
90th Percentile - - £14.45
West Midlands median hourly rate £17.80 £17.72 £16.75
% change year-on-year +0.47% +5.78% +10.74%

Virtual Desktop
Job Vacancy Trend in Coventry

Job postings citing Virtual Desktop as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Coventry.

Job vacancy trend for Virtual Desktop in Coventry

Virtual Desktop
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Coventry

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Virtual Desktop in Coventry.

Daily rate trend for Virtual Desktop in Coventry

Virtual Desktop
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Coventry 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 5 (55.56%) Microsoft Exchange
1 5 (55.56%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 9 (100.00%) Azure
2 8 (88.89%) Azure Monitor
2 8 (88.89%) Microsoft 365
3 5 (55.56%) OneDrive
4 1 (11.11%) IaaS
4 1 (11.11%) PaaS
4 1 (11.11%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (88.89%) DNS
1 8 (88.89%) NetScaler
2 1 (11.11%) Internet
Job Titles
1 5 (55.56%) Citrix Engineer
1 5 (55.56%) Deployment Engineer
1 5 (55.56%) Desktop Engineer
2 3 (33.33%) Architect
2 3 (33.33%) Senior
2 3 (33.33%) Senior Citrix Engineer
2 3 (33.33%) Senior Desktop Engineer
2 3 (33.33%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Citrix Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 3 (33.33%) Fat Client
1 3 (33.33%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 9 (100.00%) Windows
1 9 (100.00%) Windows 10
1 9 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (88.89%) Application Packaging
1 8 (88.89%) Change Management
1 8 (88.89%) Patch Management
2 1 (11.11%) Analytics
2 1 (11.11%) DevOps
2 1 (11.11%) Digital Transformation Programme
2 1 (11.11%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 8 (88.89%) PowerShell
System Software
1 8 (88.89%) Active Directory
1 8 (88.89%) Citrix Hypervisor
1 8 (88.89%) XenApp
1 8 (88.89%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (100.00%) Citrix
1 9 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 8 (88.89%) NetApp