Microsoft App-V Contracts

Microsoft Application Virtualisation (AppV) formerly Softricity SoftGrid
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 575 656 716
Rank change year-on-year +81 +60 -150
Contract jobs citing Microsoft App-V 23 63 133
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.053% 0.11% 0.15%
As % of the System Software category 0.49% 0.80% 1.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 47 93
10th Percentile £417 £300 £302
25th Percentile £450 £350 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £475 £480
Median % change year-on-year +7.89% -1.04% +6.67%
75th Percentile £555 £534 £623
90th Percentile £583 £583 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £551 £500 £538
% change year-on-year +10.10% -6.98% +19.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 5
10th Percentile - - £16.02
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £23.80 - £17.50
75th Percentile - - £24.00
90th Percentile - - £45.60
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £17.50
% change year-on-year - - -73.48%

All System Software Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for system software skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 4,653 7,900 12,040
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 10.75% 13.21% 13.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,179 5,646 8,623
10th Percentile £197 £205 £200
25th Percentile £331 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% - +9.38%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £625
90th Percentile £688 £725 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £460 £485 £450
% change year-on-year -5.13% +7.75% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 232 284 318
10th Percentile £14.06 £14.83 £13.21
25th Percentile £15.50 £18.25 £15.00
Median hourly rate £22.50 £53.75 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -58.14% +168.75% -
75th Percentile £60.19 £66.00 £44.07
90th Percentile £77.95 £75.35 £60.92
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.50 £44.93 £18.12
% change year-on-year -52.15% +148.01% +2.06%

Microsoft App-V
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Microsoft App-V as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft App-V in the UK

Microsoft App-V
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Microsoft App-V.

Daily rate trend for Microsoft App-V in the UK

Microsoft App-V
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft App-V over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft App-V in the UK

Microsoft App-V
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Microsoft App-V.

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft App-V in the UK

Microsoft App-V
Top 10 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 27 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
England +85 13 £531 +11.84% 8
UK excluding London +34 13 £551 +10.10% 5
London +95 7 £525 +61.54% 2
Work from Home +119 5 £525 +5.00% 5
Scotland +36 5 - -
Wales - 3 £500 -
South East +21 2 £551 -19.93% 3
South West +18 2 - - 2
North of England +16 1 £600 +20.00%
North East - 1 £600 -

Microsoft App-V
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 10 (43.48%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (17.39%) SharePoint
3 2 (8.70%) IIS
Applications
1 3 (13.04%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 9 (39.13%) Azure
2 8 (34.78%) Entra ID
3 6 (26.09%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (13.04%) OneDrive
5 2 (8.70%) AWS
5 2 (8.70%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 2 (8.70%) Mimecast
5 2 (8.70%) Nutanix
5 2 (8.70%) Rubrik
6 1 (4.35%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (4.35%) GCP
6 1 (4.35%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 8 (34.78%) DNS
1 8 (34.78%) Firewall
1 8 (34.78%) VPN
2 6 (26.09%) DHCP
2 6 (26.09%) SMTP
3 3 (13.04%) NetScaler
4 2 (8.70%) DKIM
4 2 (8.70%) DMARC
4 2 (8.70%) Extranet
4 2 (8.70%) Internet
4 2 (8.70%) LAN
4 2 (8.70%) NAS
4 2 (8.70%) SAN
4 2 (8.70%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (8.70%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (26.09%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (4.35%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (13.04%) MSI
General
1 7 (30.43%) Social Skills
2 3 (13.04%) Public Sector
3 2 (8.70%) Finance
4 1 (4.35%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (4.35%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (4.35%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (26.09%) Applications Packager
2 3 (13.04%) Architect
3 2 (8.70%) Applications Architect
3 2 (8.70%) IT Support
3 2 (8.70%) Lead
3 2 (8.70%) SC Cleared Application Packager
3 2 (8.70%) Senior
3 2 (8.70%) Support Officer
4 1 (4.35%) Citrix Consultant
4 1 (4.35%) Citrix Engineer
4 1 (4.35%) Citrix Technical Consultant
4 1 (4.35%) Consultant
4 1 (4.35%) Desktop Engineer
4 1 (4.35%) Lead Architect
4 1 (4.35%) SC Cleared Technical Consultant
4 1 (4.35%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (26.09%) LDAP
2 2 (8.70%) Software Packaging
2 2 (8.70%) WSH
Miscellaneous
1 8 (34.78%) PKI
2 6 (26.09%) Clustering
3 3 (13.04%) Data Centre
4 2 (8.70%) Fat Client
4 2 (8.70%) Thin Client
4 2 (8.70%) Virtual Team
5 1 (4.35%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 16 (69.57%) Windows
2 8 (34.78%) Windows Server
3 7 (30.43%) Windows 10
4 6 (26.09%) Windows Server 2019
5 4 (17.39%) Windows Server 2003
6 3 (13.04%) Windows Server 2012
7 2 (8.70%) Unix
7 2 (8.70%) Windows 7
7 2 (8.70%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (34.78%) High Availability
1 8 (34.78%) Identity Access Management
2 7 (30.43%) Application Packaging
2 7 (30.43%) Project Delivery
3 6 (26.09%) Customer Requirements
3 6 (26.09%) Migration
4 3 (13.04%) Deployment Automation
4 3 (13.04%) ITIL
4 3 (13.04%) Roadmaps
4 3 (13.04%) Software Deployment
5 2 (8.70%) Agile
5 2 (8.70%) Business Case
5 2 (8.70%) Capacity Management
5 2 (8.70%) Data Extraction
5 2 (8.70%) Network Virtualisation
5 2 (8.70%) Server Management
5 2 (8.70%) Task Automation
5 2 (8.70%) Technical Debt
5 2 (8.70%) Technical Leadership
5 2 (8.70%) Web Filtering
Programming Languages
1 17 (73.91%) PowerShell
2 2 (8.70%) SQL
2 2 (8.70%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 9 (39.13%) Security Cleared
2 8 (34.78%) SC Cleared
3 6 (26.09%) DV Cleared
4 1 (4.35%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (4.35%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.70%) SLA
2 1 (4.35%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (4.35%) PMO
2 1 (4.35%) QA
System Software
1 13 (56.52%) Active Directory
2 9 (39.13%) VMware ESXi
3 8 (34.78%) BitLocker
3 8 (34.78%) Hyper-V
4 6 (26.09%) Terminal Services
5 3 (13.04%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (13.04%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (13.04%) XenApp
5 3 (13.04%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 10 (43.48%) SCCM
2 6 (26.09%) vCenter Server
2 6 (26.09%) vMotion
3 3 (13.04%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (8.70%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 2 (8.70%) NetBackup
4 2 (8.70%) SCOM
4 2 (8.70%) SCVMM
4 2 (8.70%) VxRail
4 2 (8.70%) WMI
5 1 (4.35%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 17 (73.91%) Microsoft
2 13 (56.52%) Citrix
3 9 (39.13%) VMware
4 6 (26.09%) Infoblox
5 3 (13.04%) Dell
5 3 (13.04%) HP
5 3 (13.04%) Wyse
6 2 (8.70%) Avaya
6 2 (8.70%) Brocade
6 2 (8.70%) Cisco
6 2 (8.70%) Commvault
6 2 (8.70%) EMC
6 2 (8.70%) F5
6 2 (8.70%) Forcepoint
6 2 (8.70%) Juniper
6 2 (8.70%) Mitel
6 2 (8.70%) MobileIron
6 2 (8.70%) Proofpoint
6 2 (8.70%) SolarWinds
6 2 (8.70%) Symantec