Virtual Desktop Contracts in the North of England

Virtual Desktop
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 176 194 233
Rank change year-on-year +18 +39 -50
Contract jobs citing Virtual Desktop 8 19 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.17% 0.33% 0.20%
As % of the System Software category 1.45% 2.32% 1.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 12 10
10th Percentile £248 - £360
25th Percentile £276 £469 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £550 £520
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% +5.77% +104.12%
75th Percentile £444 £563 £700
90th Percentile £525 £600 £710
England median daily rate £563 £538 £500
% change year-on-year +4.65% +7.50% +9.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
Median hourly rate £18.00 £26.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -30.77% - -
England median hourly rate £18.00 £26.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year -30.77% +18.18% -52.17%

All System Software Skills
North of England

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 North of England with a requirement for system software skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 551 820 1,038
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 11.74% 14.37% 14.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 396 614 771
10th Percentile £178 £182 £156
25th Percentile £275 £306 £207
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 £500 £425
Median % change year-on-year -14.00% +17.65% +0.26%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £550
90th Percentile £650 £675 £638
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 51 34 47
10th Percentile - £14.08 £15.00
25th Percentile £14.06 £16.78 £16.00
Median hourly rate £16.00 £26.75 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -40.19% +52.86% -7.89%
75th Percentile £18.97 £63.75 £20.00
90th Percentile £46.18 £65.53 £25.75
England median hourly rate £21.00 £50.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year -58.00% +150.00% +5.26%

Virtual Desktop
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Virtual Desktop in the North of England

Virtual Desktop
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for Virtual Desktop in the North of England

Virtual Desktop
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Virtual Desktop in the North of England over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Virtual Desktop in the North of England

Virtual Desktop
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Hourly rate trend for Virtual Desktop in the North of England

Virtual Desktop
Contract Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 8 May 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 West +16 6 £340 -38.18% 9
Yorkshire +23 1 £375 - 4
Virtual Desktop
England

Virtual Desktop
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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:

Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 5 (62.50%) Azure
1 5 (62.50%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (37.50%) Entra ID
3 1 (12.50%) AWS
3 1 (12.50%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 2 (25.00%) DHCP
1 2 (25.00%) DNS
1 2 (25.00%) Firewall
1 2 (25.00%) LAN
1 2 (25.00%) WAN
2 1 (12.50%) NetScaler
2 1 (12.50%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) SQL Server
General
1 3 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Law
3 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Back Office
3 1 (12.50%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Analyst
1 3 (37.50%) Service Analyst
1 3 (37.50%) Service Desk Analyst
2 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) 2nd/3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Project Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Solutions Architect
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (12.50%) Client/Server
2 1 (12.50%) Clustering
2 1 (12.50%) LIMS
2 1 (12.50%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 6 (75.00%) Windows
2 2 (25.00%) Windows 10
2 2 (25.00%) Windows Server
2 2 (25.00%) Windows Server 2012
2 2 (25.00%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (12.50%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (12.50%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) Customer Service
2 3 (37.50%) Service Management
3 2 (25.00%) Document Management
3 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 2 (25.00%) ITIL
4 1 (12.50%) Application Packaging
4 1 (12.50%) Business Case
4 1 (12.50%) Contingency Planning
4 1 (12.50%) Database Migration
4 1 (12.50%) Identity Management
4 1 (12.50%) Impact Analysis
4 1 (12.50%) Incident Management
4 1 (12.50%) Migration
4 1 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (12.50%) Roadmaps
4 1 (12.50%) Service Design
4 1 (12.50%) Time Management
4 1 (12.50%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) Degree
1 2 (25.00%) ITIL Certification
2 1 (12.50%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 6 (75.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (12.50%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (12.50%) VMware NSX
3 1 (12.50%) vSphere
3 1 (12.50%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 3 (37.50%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (12.50%) FortiGate
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Clustering
2 1 (12.50%) vCenter Server
2 1 (12.50%) VxRail
Vendors
1 5 (62.50%) Microsoft
2 3 (37.50%) ServiceNow
3 2 (25.00%) iManage
3 2 (25.00%) Sophos
3 2 (25.00%) VMware
4 1 (12.50%) Aruba
4 1 (12.50%) Cisco
4 1 (12.50%) Citrix
4 1 (12.50%) Dell
4 1 (12.50%) EMC
4 1 (12.50%) Fortinet
4 1 (12.50%) HP
4 1 (12.50%) NetApp
4 1 (12.50%) Oracle