Virtual Desktop Contracts in Manchester

Virtual Desktop
North West > Manchester

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester 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 99 107 135
Rank change year-on-year +8 +28 -39
Contract jobs citing Virtual Desktop 4 10 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 0.26% 0.53% 0.19%
As % of the System Software category 2.92% 3.45% 1.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 8 4
10th Percentile - - £301
25th Percentile £248 £469 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £255 £519 £520
Median % change year-on-year -50.84% -0.24% -
75th Percentile £431 £550 £634
90th Percentile £533 - £674
North West median daily rate £425 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -22.73% -4.35% +66.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £26.00 -
North West median hourly rate £18.00 £26.00 -
% change year-on-year -30.77% - -

All System Software Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester with a requirement for system software skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 137 290 330
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 8.92% 15.26% 12.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 119 208 270
10th Percentile £282 £268 £159
25th Percentile £369 £386 £267
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.50% - +17.65%
75th Percentile £584 £594 £625
90th Percentile £694 £650 £663
North West median daily rate £450 £499 £450
% change year-on-year -9.77% +10.83% +20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 15 12
10th Percentile - £14.07 £15.25
25th Percentile - £20.00 £16.00
Median hourly rate £12.00 £27.50 £18.12
Median % change year-on-year -56.36% +51.81% -60.19%
75th Percentile - £65.00 £20.03
90th Percentile - - £27.89
North West median hourly rate £17.72 £21.21 £18.12
% change year-on-year -16.43% +17.06% -56.61%

Virtual Desktop
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Virtual Desktop in Manchester

Virtual Desktop
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for Virtual Desktop in Manchester

Virtual Desktop
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

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

Daily rate histogram for Virtual Desktop in Manchester

Virtual Desktop
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Hourly rate trend for Virtual Desktop in Manchester

Virtual Desktop
Contract Job Locations in Manchester

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 Manchester 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
Salford - 2 £255 - 1
Virtual Desktop
North West

Virtual Desktop
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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:

Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) Azure
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) DHCP
1 1 (25.00%) DNS
1 1 (25.00%) Firewall
1 1 (25.00%) LAN
1 1 (25.00%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
General
1 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (50.00%) Law
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Analyst
1 2 (50.00%) Service Analyst
1 2 (50.00%) Service Desk Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Solutions Architect
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (25.00%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Windows
2 2 (50.00%) Windows 10
3 1 (25.00%) Windows Server
3 1 (25.00%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (25.00%) Windows Server 2012
3 1 (25.00%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Customer Service
1 3 (75.00%) Service Management
2 2 (50.00%) Document Management
2 2 (50.00%) ITIL
3 1 (25.00%) Contingency Planning
3 1 (25.00%) Identity Management
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Migration
3 1 (25.00%) Service Design
3 1 (25.00%) Time Management
3 1 (25.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) Degree
1 2 (50.00%) ITIL Certification
2 1 (25.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (25.00%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (25.00%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Clustering
2 1 (25.00%) vCenter Server
2 1 (25.00%) VxRail
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (50.00%) iManage
2 2 (50.00%) ServiceNow
3 1 (25.00%) Dell
3 1 (25.00%) EMC
3 1 (25.00%) Sophos
3 1 (25.00%) VMware