Virtual Desktop Contracts in the Thames Valley

Virtual Desktop
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 124 139 156
Rank change year-on-year +15 +17 -24
Contract jobs citing Virtual Desktop 16 12 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.60% 0.41% 0.43%
As % of the System Software category 4.60% 3.38% 2.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 8 13
10th Percentile - £559 £370
25th Percentile £603 £600 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £605 £638 £600
Median % change year-on-year -5.10% +6.25% +4.35%
75th Percentile £608 £772 £623
90th Percentile - £799 -
South East median daily rate £605 £600 £420
% change year-on-year +0.83% +42.86% -26.96%

All System Software Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley with a requirement for system software skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 348 355 526
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 12.97% 12.09% 15.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 246 265 394
10th Percentile £175 £230 £150
25th Percentile £310 £365 £346
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £481 £453
Median % change year-on-year +9.25% +6.20% +3.43%
75th Percentile £608 £575 £588
90th Percentile £650 £675 £656
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 16 14
10th Percentile £16.25 £18.86 £10.92
25th Percentile £46.25 £48.18 £12.44
Median hourly rate £50.00 £55.00 £14.85
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +270.37% -32.50%
75th Percentile £65.00 £71.25 £20.00
90th Percentile - £78.56 £53.25
South East median hourly rate £50.75 £54.03 £20.00
% change year-on-year -6.07% +170.15% -4.76%

Virtual Desktop
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Virtual Desktop in the Thames Valley

Virtual Desktop
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Daily rate trend for Virtual Desktop in the Thames Valley

Virtual Desktop
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Hourly rate trend for Virtual Desktop in the Thames Valley

Virtual Desktop
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 29 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
Berkshire +3 16 £605 -12.00% 5
Virtual Desktop
South East

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