Virtual Desktop Contracts in the South East

Virtual Desktop
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 16 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 187 206 213
Rank change year-on-year +19 +7 -11
Contract jobs citing Virtual Desktop 16 20 47
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.28% 0.33% 0.60%
As % of the System Software category 2.03% 2.21% 3.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 14 42
10th Percentile - £329 £165
25th Percentile £603 £531 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £605 £600 £475
Median % change year-on-year +0.83% +26.32% -17.39%
75th Percentile £608 £666 £600
90th Percentile £611 £788 £623
England median daily rate £575 £538 £500
% change year-on-year +6.88% +7.60% +5.26%

All System Software Skills
South East

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 South East with a requirement for system software skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 788 906 1,285
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 14.00% 15.12% 16.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 489 638 905
10th Percentile £200 £204 £163
25th Percentile £325 £363 £319
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £606 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £671
England median daily rate £485 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -7.62% - +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 48 45 60
10th Percentile £17.26 £17.73 £12.50
25th Percentile £17.80 £18.25 £14.00
Median hourly rate £50.00 £52.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +160.00% -
75th Percentile £62.81 £70.00 £24.06
90th Percentile £65.00 £75.45 £65.50
England median hourly rate £21.00 £43.75 £19.00
% change year-on-year -52.00% +130.26% +2.51%

Virtual Desktop
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Virtual Desktop in the South East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Daily rate trend for Virtual Desktop in the South East

Virtual Desktop
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Virtual Desktop in the South East over the 6 months to 16 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Virtual Desktop in the South East

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

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

Hourly rate trend for Virtual Desktop in the South East

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Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 16 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
Thames Valley +13 15 £605 -5.10% 3
Berkshire 0 15 £605 -12.00% 2
Hampshire +8 1 £250 -56.52%
Virtual Desktop
England

Virtual Desktop
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 13 (81.25%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 15 (93.75%) Azure
1 15 (93.75%) Azure Monitor
1 15 (93.75%) Azure Storage
1 15 (93.75%) Entra ID
2 14 (87.50%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 15 (93.75%) DHCP
1 15 (93.75%) DNS
1 15 (93.75%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 2 (12.50%) Axure RP
2 1 (6.25%) Hudson
General
1 15 (93.75%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 15 (93.75%) Azure Specialist
2 13 (81.25%) Active Directory Specialist
2 13 (81.25%) Active Directory Support
2 13 (81.25%) Support Specialist
3 1 (6.25%) 1st/2nd Line Support
3 1 (6.25%) 1st/2nd Line Support Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) 2nd Line Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) 2nd Line Support
3 1 (6.25%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (81.25%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 15 (93.75%) PKI
1 15 (93.75%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (6.25%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 16 (100.00%) Windows
2 13 (81.25%) Linux
2 13 (81.25%) Windows Server
2 13 (81.25%) Windows Server 2016
2 13 (81.25%) Windows Server 2019
3 1 (6.25%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (100.00%) ITIL
1 16 (100.00%) Service Management
2 15 (93.75%) Agile
2 15 (93.75%) Analytics
2 15 (93.75%) Identity Management
2 15 (93.75%) Log Analytics
2 15 (93.75%) Multi-Factor Authentication
2 15 (93.75%) Privileged Identity Management
2 15 (93.75%) RBAC
2 15 (93.75%) Release Management
3 13 (81.25%) CI/CD
3 13 (81.25%) DevOps
3 13 (81.25%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (6.25%) ITSM
4 1 (6.25%) Proactive Maintenance
4 1 (6.25%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 15 (93.75%) C#
1 15 (93.75%) PowerShell
1 15 (93.75%) VB
1 15 (93.75%) VBScript
2 13 (81.25%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 15 (93.75%) DV Cleared
1 15 (93.75%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
1 15 (93.75%) SC Cleared
1 15 (93.75%) Security Cleared
2 13 (81.25%) Degree
3 2 (12.50%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.25%) SLA
System Software
1 16 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 15 (93.75%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 15 (93.75%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 15 (93.75%) Kubernetes
1 15 (93.75%) Microsoft Intune
1 15 (93.75%) SCCM
1 15 (93.75%) SCOM
1 15 (93.75%) WSUS
Vendors
1 13 (81.25%) Microsoft
2 1 (6.25%) Citrix
2 1 (6.25%) Dell
2 1 (6.25%) Wyse