Desktop Virtualisation Contracts in England

Desktop Virtualization
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Desktop Virtualisation skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Desktop Virtualisation 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 537 650 748
Rank change year-on-year +113 +98 -139
Contract jobs citing Desktop Virtualisation 8 9 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.022% 0.018% 0.027%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.025% 0.020% 0.029%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 5 11
10th Percentile - £268 -
25th Percentile £213 - £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £225 £425 £440
Median % change year-on-year -47.06% -3.41% +4.64%
75th Percentile £259 £550 £487
90th Percentile £358 £604 £525
UK median daily rate £225 £425 £445
% change year-on-year -47.06% -4.49% +5.83%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Desktop Virtualisation is in the Processes and Methodologies 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 process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 32,171 45,739 64,432
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.55% 90.26% 90.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,096 32,069 45,706
10th Percentile £300 £325 £330
25th Percentile £413 £444 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £535
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +9.18%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £769 £744
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,236 1,617 1,773
10th Percentile £12.89 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.38 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.65 £37.50 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.93% +56.25% -
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.23
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £37.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -5.41% +48.00% -

Desktop Virtualisation
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Desktop Virtualisation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Desktop Virtualisation in England

Desktop Virtualisation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Desktop Virtualisation in England.

Daily rate trend for Desktop Virtualisation in England

Desktop Virtualisation
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Desktop Virtualisation in England over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Desktop Virtualisation in England

Desktop Virtualisation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Desktop Virtualisation in England.

Hourly rate trend for Desktop Virtualisation in England

Desktop Virtualisation
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 Desktop Virtualisation within the England region over the 6 months to 26 April 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
North of England +33 7 £225 +28.57%
North West +26 7 £225 +28.57%
London +107 1 £450 +5.88%
Desktop Virtualisation
UK

Desktop Virtualisation
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 1 (12.50%) IIS
1 1 (12.50%) Tomcat
1 1 (12.50%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 6 (75.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (12.50%) AWS
2 1 (12.50%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (12.50%) GitHub
2 1 (12.50%) IaaS
2 1 (12.50%) OCI
2 1 (12.50%) PaaS
2 1 (12.50%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) DHCP
1 1 (12.50%) DNS
1 1 (12.50%) IPsec
1 1 (12.50%) NAS
1 1 (12.50%) S/MIME
1 1 (12.50%) SAN
1 1 (12.50%) SSL
1 1 (12.50%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Git
General
1 6 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (75.00%) Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) IT Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) OAuth
1 1 (12.50%) OAuth2
1 1 (12.50%) OpenID
1 1 (12.50%) SAML
1 1 (12.50%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Clustering
1 1 (12.50%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 7 (87.50%) Windows
2 6 (75.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (87.50%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (75.00%) ITIL
2 6 (75.00%) Mobile Device Management
3 1 (12.50%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (12.50%) High Availability
3 1 (12.50%) Identity Access Management
3 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Automation
3 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (12.50%) Software Distribution
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 6 (75.00%) ITIL Certification
2 1 (12.50%) Degree
System Software
1 8 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (87.50%) Active Directory
3 1 (12.50%) Hyper-V
3 1 (12.50%) Terminal Server
3 1 (12.50%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 6 (75.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (12.50%) Kubernetes
2 1 (12.50%) SCCM
2 1 (12.50%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 8 (100.00%) Citrix
1 8 (100.00%) VMware
2 7 (87.50%) Microsoft
3 1 (12.50%) IBM
3 1 (12.50%) Oracle