Virtual Desktop Contracts in Reading

Virtual Desktop
Berkshire > Reading

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading 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 24 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 84 77 89
Rank change year-on-year -7 +12 -29
Contract jobs citing Virtual Desktop 15 8 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 1.26% 0.77% 0.89%
As % of the System Software category 8.72% 6.56% 6.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 6 11
10th Percentile - £613 £350
25th Percentile £603 £616 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £605 £688 £600
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +14.58% +4.35%
75th Percentile £608 £790 £623
90th Percentile - £799 -
Berkshire median daily rate £605 £688 £583
% change year-on-year -12.00% +18.03% +1.30%

All System Software Skills
Reading

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 Reading with a requirement for system software skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 172 122 174
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 14.42% 11.69% 12.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 126 91 131
10th Percentile £205 £387 £133
25th Percentile £516 £479 £348
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £605 £575 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.22% +15.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £611 £675 £625
90th Percentile £675 £700 £700
Berkshire median daily rate £575 £525 £475
% change year-on-year +9.52% +10.53% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 7 1
10th Percentile - £15.90 -
25th Percentile - £32.61 £9.75
Median hourly rate £65.00 £50.00 £10.00
Median % change year-on-year +30.00% +400.00% -83.33%
75th Percentile - £63.75 £10.25
90th Percentile - £74.55 -
Berkshire median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £41.25
% change year-on-year +18.18% +33.33% -31.54%

Virtual Desktop
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for Virtual Desktop in Reading

Virtual Desktop
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

Daily rate trend for Virtual Desktop in Reading

Virtual Desktop
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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 14 (93.33%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 15 (100.00%) Azure
1 15 (100.00%) Azure Monitor
1 15 (100.00%) Azure Storage
1 15 (100.00%) Entra ID
2 14 (93.33%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 15 (100.00%) DHCP
1 15 (100.00%) DNS
1 15 (100.00%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Axure RP
General
1 15 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 15 (100.00%) Azure Specialist
2 14 (93.33%) Active Directory Specialist
2 14 (93.33%) Active Directory Support
2 14 (93.33%) Support Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (93.33%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 15 (100.00%) PKI
1 15 (100.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 15 (100.00%) Windows
2 14 (93.33%) Linux
2 14 (93.33%) Windows Server
2 14 (93.33%) Windows Server 2016
2 14 (93.33%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (100.00%) Agile
1 15 (100.00%) Analytics
1 15 (100.00%) Identity Management
1 15 (100.00%) ITIL
1 15 (100.00%) Log Analytics
1 15 (100.00%) Multi-Factor Authentication
1 15 (100.00%) Privileged Identity Management
1 15 (100.00%) RBAC
1 15 (100.00%) Release Management
1 15 (100.00%) Service Management
2 14 (93.33%) CI/CD
2 14 (93.33%) DevOps
2 14 (93.33%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 15 (100.00%) C#
1 15 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 15 (100.00%) VB
1 15 (100.00%) VBScript
2 14 (93.33%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 15 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 15 (100.00%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
1 15 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 15 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 14 (93.33%) Degree
3 1 (6.67%) Azure Certification
System Software
1 15 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 15 (100.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 15 (100.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 15 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 15 (100.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 15 (100.00%) SCCM
1 15 (100.00%) SCOM
1 15 (100.00%) WSUS
Vendors
1 14 (93.33%) Microsoft