Virtual Desktop Contracts in the Midlands

Virtual Desktop
England > Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 119 131 195
Rank change year-on-year +12 +64 -52
Contract jobs citing Virtual Desktop 20 31 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.73% 0.90% 0.24%
As % of the System Software category 8.13% 6.42% 1.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 23 3
10th Percentile £285 £428 £365
25th Percentile £300 £625 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £360 £660 £550
Median % change year-on-year -45.45% +20.00% +36.65%
75th Percentile £638 £715 £638
90th Percentile £765 - £675
England median daily rate £588 £538 £500
% change year-on-year +9.20% +7.60% +9.29%

All System Software Skills
Midlands

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 Midlands with a requirement for system software skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 246 483 691
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 9.02% 14.04% 13.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 179 339 485
10th Percentile £150 £158 £134
25th Percentile £205 £255 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £450 £375
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +20.00% +11.94%
75th Percentile £550 £569 £500
90th Percentile £640 £690 £588
England median daily rate £488 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -7.14% - +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 26 39
10th Percentile £14.59 £12.60 £10.70
25th Percentile £15.65 £15.25 £13.44
Median hourly rate £19.95 £19.25 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.64% +13.24% +17.24%
75th Percentile £23.75 £48.13 £20.51
90th Percentile £40.64 £65.00 £23.75
England median hourly rate £21.00 £50.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year -58.00% +163.16% -

Virtual Desktop
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Virtual Desktop in the Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Virtual Desktop in the Midlands

Virtual Desktop
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Virtual Desktop in the Midlands over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Virtual Desktop in the Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Virtual Desktop in the Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 27 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
West Midlands +33 19 £360 -38.72% 4
Virtual Desktop
England

Virtual Desktop
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 (25.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 5 (25.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 19 (95.00%) Azure
2 13 (65.00%) Azure Monitor
3 10 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
4 5 (25.00%) Azure Functions
4 5 (25.00%) OneDrive
4 5 (25.00%) Power Platform
4 5 (25.00%) Serverless
5 1 (5.00%) Entra ID
5 1 (5.00%) IaaS
5 1 (5.00%) PaaS
5 1 (5.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (50.00%) DNS
2 8 (40.00%) NetScaler
3 3 (15.00%) Firewall
4 1 (5.00%) DHCP
4 1 (5.00%) Internet
4 1 (5.00%) LAN
4 1 (5.00%) Network Security
4 1 (5.00%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (25.00%) Power BI
2 1 (5.00%) SQL Server
General
1 3 (15.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (10.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (5.00%) Finance
3 1 (5.00%) German Language
3 1 (5.00%) Law
3 1 (5.00%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (5.00%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (25.00%) Citrix Engineer
1 5 (25.00%) Deployment Engineer
1 5 (25.00%) Desktop Engineer
2 4 (20.00%) Architect
3 3 (15.00%) Azure Engineer
3 3 (15.00%) Senior
3 3 (15.00%) Senior Citrix Engineer
3 3 (15.00%) Senior Desktop Engineer
3 3 (15.00%) Solutions Architect
4 2 (10.00%) Cloud Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Citrix Specialist
5 1 (5.00%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Desktop Specialist
5 1 (5.00%) Monitoring Specialist
5 1 (5.00%) Network Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Technical Architect
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.00%) Fat Client
1 3 (15.00%) Thin Client
2 1 (5.00%) Clustering
2 1 (5.00%) Grid Computing
2 1 (5.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 17 (85.00%) Windows
2 11 (55.00%) Windows Server
3 9 (45.00%) Windows 10
4 2 (10.00%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (5.00%) Windows Server 2008
5 1 (5.00%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (40.00%) Application Packaging
1 8 (40.00%) Change Management
1 8 (40.00%) Patch Management
2 7 (35.00%) ITIL
3 6 (30.00%) Analytics
4 5 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence
4 5 (25.00%) Incident Management
4 5 (25.00%) Problem Management
4 5 (25.00%) Runbook
4 5 (25.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 5 (25.00%) Virtual Environments
5 4 (20.00%) Computer Science
5 4 (20.00%) Data Science
5 4 (20.00%) DevOps
6 3 (15.00%) User Acceptance Testing
7 2 (10.00%) Business Intelligence
7 2 (10.00%) Customer Service
7 2 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 2 (10.00%) Server Management
7 2 (10.00%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 13 (65.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (5.00%) Python
2 1 (5.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (25.00%) Degree
2 4 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (10.00%) Azure Certification
4 1 (5.00%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 1 (5.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.00%) SLA
2 1 (5.00%) QA
System Software
1 11 (55.00%) Active Directory
2 8 (40.00%) Citrix Hypervisor
2 8 (40.00%) XenApp
2 8 (40.00%) XenDesktop
3 2 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (5.00%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (5.00%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 5 (25.00%) SysTrack
2 2 (10.00%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Clustering
3 1 (5.00%) Terraform
3 1 (5.00%) vCenter Server
3 1 (5.00%) VxRail
Vendors
1 14 (70.00%) Citrix
1 14 (70.00%) Microsoft
2 8 (40.00%) NetApp
3 5 (25.00%) New Relic
3 5 (25.00%) OpenAI
4 2 (10.00%) VMware
5 1 (5.00%) Dell
5 1 (5.00%) EMC