Desktop Virtualisation Contracts in the UK excluding London

Desktop Virtualization
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Desktop Virtualisation skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Desktop Virtualisation over the 6 months to 17 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 377 443 495
Rank change year-on-year +66 +52 -49
Contract jobs citing Desktop Virtualisation 8 3 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.039% 0.013% 0.033%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.047% 0.015% 0.037%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 1 6
10th Percentile - - £406
25th Percentile £213 £520 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £225 £580 £433
Median % change year-on-year -61.21% +34.10% +1.76%
75th Percentile £259 £640 £440
90th Percentile £408 - £464
UK median daily rate £225 £425 £440
% change year-on-year -47.06% -3.41% +6.67%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Desktop Virtualisation is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,140 20,557 27,119
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.34% 89.47% 89.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,220 14,177 18,943
10th Percentile £250 £256 £238
25th Percentile £381 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £480
Median % change year-on-year - +4.17% +9.43%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £655
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,064 1,258 1,350
10th Percentile £12.35 £10.63 £12.25
25th Percentile £15.25 £15.25 £14.25
Median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.54%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £47.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £73.72 £61.52
UK median hourly rate £36.05 £35.65 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.11% +38.82% +5.90%

Desktop Virtualisation
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Desktop Virtualisation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Desktop Virtualisation in the UK excluding London

Desktop Virtualisation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Desktop Virtualisation in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Desktop Virtualisation in the UK excluding London

Desktop Virtualisation
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Desktop Virtualisation in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Desktop Virtualisation in the UK excluding London

Desktop Virtualisation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Desktop Virtualisation in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Desktop Virtualisation in the UK excluding London

Desktop Virtualisation
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Desktop Virtualisation within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 17 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 - 7 £225 -
North of England - 7 £225 -
South West - 1 £600 - 2
Desktop Virtualisation
UK

Desktop Virtualisation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Cloud Services
1 6 (75.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (12.50%) AWS
2 1 (12.50%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) DHCP
1 1 (12.50%) DNS
1 1 (12.50%) Remote Desktop
General
1 6 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (75.00%) Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) IT Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Wintel Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (12.50%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 7 (87.50%) Windows
2 6 (75.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (87.50%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (75.00%) ITIL
2 6 (75.00%) Mobile Device Management
3 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (12.50%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (12.50%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (75.00%) ITIL Certification
2 1 (12.50%) DV Cleared
2 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared
2 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 8 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (87.50%) Active Directory
3 2 (25.00%) Hyper-V
4 1 (12.50%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (12.50%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 6 (75.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (12.50%) SCCM
Vendors
1 8 (100.00%) Citrix
1 8 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 8 (100.00%) VMware