Microsoft App-V Contracts in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Application Virtualisation (AppV) formerly Softricity SoftGrid
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Microsoft App-V skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Microsoft App-V over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 384 402 447
Rank change year-on-year +18 +45 -83
Contract jobs citing Microsoft App-V 12 45 65
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.059% 0.19% 0.21%
As % of the System Software category 0.50% 1.27% 1.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 31 43
10th Percentile £510 £363 £314
25th Percentile £525 £456 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £551 £500 £465
Median % change year-on-year +10.10% +7.53% +3.33%
75th Percentile £600 £556 £623
90th Percentile £630 £675 £650
UK median daily rate £500 £475 £463
% change year-on-year +5.26% +2.70% +2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - £15.78
25th Percentile - - £16.89
Median hourly rate - - £17.50
75th Percentile - - £19.13
90th Percentile - - £22.05
UK median hourly rate £23.80 - £17.50
% change year-on-year - - -73.48%

All System Software Skills
UK excluding London

Microsoft App-V 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 UK excluding London with a requirement for system software skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 2,415 3,538 4,592
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 11.79% 15.08% 15.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,631 2,553 3,250
10th Percentile £178 £181 £158
25th Percentile £285 £313 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £485 £450
Median % change year-on-year -4.64% +7.78% +6.51%
75th Percentile £585 £588 £559
90th Percentile £650 £676 £644
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 193 185 239
10th Percentile £14.01 £14.25 £13.10
25th Percentile £14.16 £16.62 £14.25
Median hourly rate £19.95 £46.11 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -56.73% +149.22% +5.11%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £23.88
90th Percentile £77.40 £72.25 £52.15
UK median hourly rate £22.50 £54.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year -58.33% +170.00% -2.44%

Microsoft App-V
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Microsoft App-V as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft App-V in the UK excluding London

Microsoft App-V
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Microsoft App-V in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Microsoft App-V in the UK excluding London

Microsoft App-V
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Microsoft App-V in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft App-V in the UK excluding London

Microsoft App-V
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 Microsoft App-V within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 9 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
Scotland +44 5 - -
Wales - 3 £500 -
South East +20 2 £551 -19.93% 3
North of England +12 1 £600 +20.00%
South West +10 1 - - 1
North East - 1 £600 -
Microsoft App-V
UK

Microsoft App-V
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:

Application Platforms
1 8 (66.67%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (16.67%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 6 (50.00%) Azure
1 6 (50.00%) Entra ID
2 2 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (16.67%) OneDrive
3 1 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (8.33%) GCP
3 1 (8.33%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 6 (50.00%) DHCP
1 6 (50.00%) DNS
1 6 (50.00%) Firewall
1 6 (50.00%) SMTP
1 6 (50.00%) VPN
2 1 (8.33%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (8.33%) Power BI
General
1 7 (58.33%) Social Skills
2 2 (16.67%) Public Sector
3 1 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (16.67%) Applications Packager
1 2 (16.67%) Senior
2 1 (8.33%) Architect
2 1 (8.33%) Lead
2 1 (8.33%) SC Cleared Application Packager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (50.00%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 6 (50.00%) Clustering
1 6 (50.00%) PKI
2 1 (8.33%) Data Centre
2 1 (8.33%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 10 (83.33%) Windows
2 7 (58.33%) Windows Server
3 5 (41.67%) Windows Server 2019
4 4 (33.33%) Windows 10
4 4 (33.33%) Windows Server 2003
5 2 (16.67%) Windows 7
6 1 (8.33%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (8.33%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (50.00%) High Availability
1 6 (50.00%) Identity Access Management
1 6 (50.00%) Project Delivery
2 5 (41.67%) Customer Requirements
2 5 (41.67%) Migration
3 2 (16.67%) Data Extraction
4 1 (8.33%) Agile
4 1 (8.33%) Application Packaging
4 1 (8.33%) Application Virtualisation
4 1 (8.33%) Change Control
4 1 (8.33%) Change Management
4 1 (8.33%) Compatibility Testing
4 1 (8.33%) Computer Science
4 1 (8.33%) Data Modelling
4 1 (8.33%) DevOps
4 1 (8.33%) Kanban
4 1 (8.33%) Line Management
4 1 (8.33%) Scrum
4 1 (8.33%) Software Deployment
4 1 (8.33%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (75.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 7 (58.33%) Security Cleared
2 6 (50.00%) DV Cleared
2 6 (50.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (8.33%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (8.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) Disclosure Scotland
1 1 (8.33%) PMO
System Software
1 9 (75.00%) Active Directory
2 7 (58.33%) VMware ESXi
3 6 (50.00%) BitLocker
3 6 (50.00%) Hyper-V
3 6 (50.00%) Terminal Services
4 1 (8.33%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (8.33%) XenApp
4 1 (8.33%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 6 (50.00%) vCenter Server
1 6 (50.00%) vMotion
2 5 (41.67%) SCCM
Vendors
1 9 (75.00%) Microsoft
2 8 (66.67%) Citrix
3 6 (50.00%) Infoblox
3 6 (50.00%) VMware
4 1 (8.33%) Google
4 1 (8.33%) HP
4 1 (8.33%) Ivanti
4 1 (8.33%) Symantec