Virtual Desktop Contracts in England

Virtual Desktop
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Virtual Desktop skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Virtual Desktop over the 6 months leading up to 11 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 423 457 555
Rank change year-on-year +34 +98 -24
Contract jobs citing Virtual Desktop 107 178 223
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.29% 0.38% 0.32%
As % of the System Software category 2.58% 2.95% 2.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 122 134
10th Percentile £290 £300 £250
25th Percentile £425 £400 £339
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £536 £500
Median % change year-on-year +7.23% +7.25% +5.26%
75th Percentile £608 £675 £588
90th Percentile £620 £725 £668
UK median daily rate £588 £550 £500
% change year-on-year +6.82% +10.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 3
10th Percentile - £16.75 £63.50
25th Percentile - £18.29 £68.75
Median hourly rate £18.00 £20.86 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.71% -73.93% +73.91%
75th Percentile - £23.43 £81.25
90th Percentile - £24.97 £82.00
UK median hourly rate £18.59 £20.86 £80.00
% change year-on-year -10.91% -73.93% +73.91%

All System Software Skills
England

Virtual Desktop falls under the System Software category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring system software skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 4,147 6,034 9,478
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.07% 12.83% 13.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,905 4,331 6,882
10th Percentile £205 £200 £190
25th Percentile £363 £375 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £608 £650 £638
90th Percentile £688 £738 £713
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 201 204 252
10th Percentile £14.06 £14.33 £13.01
25th Percentile £14.48 £17.69 £14.94
Median hourly rate £22.30 £50.00 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -55.40% +163.16% +2.43%
75th Percentile £58.69 £66.00 £29.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.92 £56.61
UK median hourly rate £24.18 £54.56 £20.00
% change year-on-year -55.68% +172.80% -

Virtual Desktop
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Virtual Desktop in England

Virtual Desktop
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Virtual Desktop in England

Virtual Desktop
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Virtual Desktop in England over the 6 months to 11 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Virtual Desktop in England

Virtual Desktop
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Virtual Desktop in England

Virtual Desktop
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 Virtual Desktop within the England region over the 6 months to 11 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
London +44 36 £450 -7.69% 15
Midlands +9 24 £450 -31.82% 6
South East +22 22 £605 -3.20% 19
West Midlands +14 18 £443 -15.71% 2
South West -9 13 £600 +20.00% 11
North of England +22 9 £600 +9.09% 12
North West +14 8 £613 +11.36% 7
East Midlands -1 5 £450 -31.82% 4
East of England +1 1 - - 2
Virtual Desktop
UK

Virtual Desktop
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 36 (33.64%) Microsoft Exchange
2 10 (9.35%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.93%) Confluence
Applications
1 7 (6.54%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.87%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.93%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 87 (81.31%) Azure
2 60 (56.07%) Microsoft 365
3 40 (37.38%) Entra ID
4 35 (32.71%) Azure Monitor
5 21 (19.63%) Azure Storage
6 10 (9.35%) OneDrive
7 8 (7.48%) Power Platform
8 7 (6.54%) Dynamics 365
8 7 (6.54%) IaaS
9 5 (4.67%) AWS
9 5 (4.67%) Azure Functions
9 5 (4.67%) Microsoft Purview
9 5 (4.67%) PaaS
9 5 (4.67%) Serverless
10 4 (3.74%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 3 (2.80%) Azure Pipelines
11 3 (2.80%) Power Automate
11 3 (2.80%) PowerApps
12 1 (0.93%) Azure Key Vault
12 1 (0.93%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 42 (39.25%) DNS
2 31 (28.97%) Firewall
3 29 (27.10%) DHCP
4 11 (10.28%) NetScaler
5 6 (5.61%) WAN
6 5 (4.67%) LAN
6 5 (4.67%) TCP/IP
6 5 (4.67%) VPN
7 3 (2.80%) Remote Desktop
7 3 (2.80%) SMTP
8 2 (1.87%) FTP
8 2 (1.87%) HTTP
8 2 (1.87%) SNMP
8 2 (1.87%) SSH
8 2 (1.87%) SSL
8 2 (1.87%) Telnet
9 1 (0.93%) Internet
9 1 (0.93%) IPv4
9 1 (0.93%) SAN
9 1 (0.93%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (7.48%) Power BI
2 1 (0.93%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (2.80%) JIRA
2 1 (0.93%) MSI
General
1 41 (38.32%) Social Skills
2 14 (13.08%) Public Sector
3 10 (9.35%) Finance
4 2 (1.87%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (1.87%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (1.87%) German Language
4 2 (1.87%) Local Government
5 1 (0.93%) Banking
5 1 (0.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (0.93%) Law
5 1 (0.93%) Manufacturing
5 1 (0.93%) Military
5 1 (0.93%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (0.93%) Retail
Job Titles
1 20 (18.69%) Active Directory Support
2 19 (17.76%) Azure Engineer
2 19 (17.76%) Support Specialist
3 18 (16.82%) Azure Specialist
4 14 (13.08%) Active Directory Specialist
4 14 (13.08%) Desktop Engineer
5 9 (8.41%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 8 (7.48%) Applications Support
6 8 (7.48%) Architect
6 8 (7.48%) Support Engineer
7 7 (6.54%) Analyst
7 7 (6.54%) Applications Specialist
7 7 (6.54%) Citrix Engineer
8 6 (5.61%) Active Directory Engineer
8 6 (5.61%) Active Directory Support Engineer
8 6 (5.61%) Consultant
9 5 (4.67%) Applications Support Specialist
9 5 (4.67%) Deployment Engineer
9 5 (4.67%) Senior
10 4 (3.74%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (18.69%) ARM Templates
2 1 (0.93%) JSON
2 1 (0.93%) SailPoint
2 1 (0.93%) Software Packaging
2 1 (0.93%) WebRTC
Miscellaneous
1 21 (19.63%) PKI
1 21 (19.63%) Self-Motivation
2 4 (3.74%) Fat Client
2 4 (3.74%) Thin Client
3 3 (2.80%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (2.80%) Management Information System
3 3 (2.80%) Video Conferencing
4 2 (1.87%) Public Cloud
5 1 (0.93%) Clustering
5 1 (0.93%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (0.93%) Grid Computing
5 1 (0.93%) Onboarding
5 1 (0.93%) Replication
5 1 (0.93%) Security Posture
5 1 (0.93%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 79 (73.83%) Windows
2 41 (38.32%) Windows Server
3 24 (22.43%) Windows 10
3 24 (22.43%) Windows Server 2016
4 23 (21.50%) Windows Server 2019
5 21 (19.63%) Linux
6 5 (4.67%) Windows Server 2012
7 2 (1.87%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.93%) Android
8 1 (0.93%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.93%) VMS
8 1 (0.93%) Windows 7
8 1 (0.93%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (35.51%) ITIL
2 27 (25.23%) Agile
2 27 (25.23%) Analytics
2 27 (25.23%) DevOps
3 24 (22.43%) Service Management
4 23 (21.50%) CI/CD
4 23 (21.50%) Identity Management
5 22 (20.56%) Release Management
6 21 (19.63%) Infrastructure as Code
6 21 (19.63%) Log Analytics
7 20 (18.69%) Multi-Factor Authentication
7 20 (18.69%) Privileged Identity Management
7 20 (18.69%) RBAC
8 13 (12.15%) Incident Management
9 12 (11.21%) Application Packaging
9 12 (11.21%) Migration
10 10 (9.35%) Change Management
10 10 (9.35%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 10 (9.35%) Problem-Solving
11 9 (8.41%) Customer Service
Programming Languages
1 51 (47.66%) PowerShell
2 20 (18.69%) Bicep
2 20 (18.69%) C#
2 20 (18.69%) VB
2 20 (18.69%) VBScript
3 7 (6.54%) Python
4 2 (1.87%) Java
4 2 (1.87%) SQL
Qualifications
1 31 (28.97%) Security Cleared
2 28 (26.17%) Degree
3 26 (24.30%) SC Cleared
4 25 (23.36%) DV Cleared
5 20 (18.69%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 6 (5.61%) Azure Certification
7 4 (3.74%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (1.87%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.93%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.67%) QA
2 4 (3.74%) SLA
3 1 (0.93%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (0.93%) GDPR
System Software
1 68 (63.55%) Active Directory
2 21 (19.63%) Virtual Machines
3 15 (14.02%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (11.21%) XenApp
5 11 (10.28%) XenDesktop
6 8 (7.48%) Citrix Hypervisor
7 5 (4.67%) vSphere
8 3 (2.80%) Hyper-V
8 3 (2.80%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (1.87%) Docker
9 2 (1.87%) Microsoft App-V
10 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 1 (0.93%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.93%) VMware NSX
10 1 (0.93%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 36 (33.64%) Microsoft Intune
2 30 (28.04%) SCCM
3 25 (23.36%) SCOM
4 22 (20.56%) Kubernetes
5 21 (19.63%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 20 (18.69%) WSUS
7 7 (6.54%) Single Sign-On
8 5 (4.67%) SysTrack
9 2 (1.87%) Terraform
10 1 (0.93%) Ansible
10 1 (0.93%) FortiGate
10 1 (0.93%) Jamf Pro
10 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Clustering
10 1 (0.93%) OPNET
10 1 (0.93%) Puppet
10 1 (0.93%) vCenter Server
10 1 (0.93%) VxRail
Vendors
1 69 (64.49%) Microsoft
2 35 (32.71%) Citrix
3 15 (14.02%) VMware
4 9 (8.41%) NetApp
5 7 (6.54%) ServiceNow
6 5 (4.67%) New Relic
6 5 (4.67%) OpenAI
6 5 (4.67%) SolarWinds
7 2 (1.87%) Google
8 1 (0.93%) Apple
8 1 (0.93%) CA
8 1 (0.93%) Dell
8 1 (0.93%) EMC
8 1 (0.93%) F5
8 1 (0.93%) Ivanti
8 1 (0.93%) Nexthink
8 1 (0.93%) Remedy
8 1 (0.93%) Sophos
8 1 (0.93%) Splunk
8 1 (0.93%) Wyse