Virtual Desktop Contracts in the South West

Virtual Desktop
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 141 135 130
Rank change year-on-year -6 -5 +6
Contract jobs citing Virtual Desktop 11 32 40
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.35% 0.88% 1.07%
As % of the System Software category 3.06% 5.55% 6.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 26 26
10th Percentile £519 £400 £349
25th Percentile £547 £416 £477
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% +4.76% +16.67%
75th Percentile £713 £600 £588
90th Percentile - - £738
England median daily rate £588 £538 £500
% change year-on-year +9.25% +7.55% +9.29%

All System Software Skills
South West

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 West with a requirement for system software skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 359 577 621
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 11.31% 15.91% 16.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 266 439 441
10th Percentile £153 £200 £185
25th Percentile £265 £357 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.50% - +14.29%
75th Percentile £588 £623 £575
90th Percentile £700 £720 £646
England median daily rate £488 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -7.14% - +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 40 20
10th Percentile - £13.25 £15.79
25th Percentile £40.00 £17.22 £36.12
Median hourly rate £68.75 £60.00 £49.49
Median % change year-on-year +14.58% +21.24% +23.99%
75th Percentile £86.25 £65.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £90.00 £76.19 £61.74
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 South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Virtual Desktop in the South West

Virtual Desktop
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for Virtual Desktop in the South West

Virtual Desktop
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for Virtual Desktop in the South West

Virtual Desktop
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 West region over the 6 months to 28 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
Wiltshire -1 3 £675 +58.82% 1
Gloucestershire -17 3 £575 +4.55%
Devon - 3 - -
Bristol +23 2 - -
Virtual Desktop
England

Virtual Desktop
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 2 (18.18%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (18.18%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 2 (18.18%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 7 (63.64%) Azure
2 4 (36.36%) Entra ID
3 3 (27.27%) Azure ExpressRoute
3 3 (27.27%) Azure Pipelines
3 3 (27.27%) IaaS
3 3 (27.27%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (27.27%) PaaS
4 2 (18.18%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 5 (45.45%) DNS
2 3 (27.27%) VPN
3 2 (18.18%) DHCP
3 2 (18.18%) Firewall
3 2 (18.18%) LAN
3 2 (18.18%) Skype
3 2 (18.18%) SMTP
3 2 (18.18%) TCP/IP
3 2 (18.18%) WAN
4 1 (9.09%) NetScaler
General
1 2 (18.18%) Military
1 2 (18.18%) Social Skills
2 1 (9.09%) Police
2 1 (9.09%) Public Sector
2 1 (9.09%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (45.45%) Consultant
2 4 (36.36%) Azure Consultant
3 3 (27.27%) Azure Engineer
3 3 (27.27%) Desktop Engineer
3 3 (27.27%) Technical Consultant
4 2 (18.18%) Service Desk Engineer
4 2 (18.18%) Wintel Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) Architect
5 1 (9.09%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) Cloud Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) Implementation Consultant
5 1 (9.09%) Implementation Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) PKI
2 1 (9.09%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 5 (45.45%) Windows
1 5 (45.45%) Windows Server
2 4 (36.36%) Windows 10
3 2 (18.18%) Windows Server 2012
3 2 (18.18%) Windows Server 2019
4 1 (9.09%) Windows 7
4 1 (9.09%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (36.36%) Agile
2 3 (27.27%) Change Management
2 3 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (18.18%) Application Virtualisation
3 2 (18.18%) Business Case
3 2 (18.18%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (18.18%) ITIL
3 2 (18.18%) ITSM
3 2 (18.18%) Matrix Management
3 2 (18.18%) Migration
3 2 (18.18%) Office Automation
3 2 (18.18%) Performance Monitoring
3 2 (18.18%) PRINCE2
3 2 (18.18%) Proactive Monitoring
3 2 (18.18%) Project Management
3 2 (18.18%) Roadmaps
3 2 (18.18%) Service Management
3 2 (18.18%) Statistical Analysis
3 2 (18.18%) Technical Debt
3 2 (18.18%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 4 (36.36%) PowerShell
2 2 (18.18%) SQL
3 1 (9.09%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (54.55%) Security Cleared
2 5 (45.45%) SC Cleared
3 2 (18.18%) Degree
4 1 (9.09%) Azure Certification
4 1 (9.09%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (18.18%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (63.64%) Active Directory
2 2 (18.18%) Microsoft App-V
2 2 (18.18%) Microsoft Virtual Server
2 2 (18.18%) Virtual Servers
2 2 (18.18%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (18.18%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (18.18%) XenApp
2 2 (18.18%) XenDesktop
3 1 (9.09%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (27.27%) SCCM
2 2 (18.18%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 2 (18.18%) OPNET
2 2 (18.18%) SCOM
3 1 (9.09%) Kubernetes
3 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (9.09%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (63.64%) Microsoft
2 3 (27.27%) Citrix
3 2 (18.18%) Remedy
3 2 (18.18%) SolarWinds
3 2 (18.18%) VMware
4 1 (9.09%) Ivanti