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 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 556 627 730
Rank change year-on-year +71 +103 -113
Contract jobs citing Microsoft App-V 29 62 125
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.068% 0.11% 0.14%
As % of the System Software category 0.62% 0.85% 1.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 45 84
10th Percentile £380 £313 £302
25th Percentile £400 £363 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% -5.26%
75th Percentile £509 £538 £571
90th Percentile £554 £585 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £465
% change year-on-year - +7.53% +0.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 4
10th Percentile - - £15.78
25th Percentile - - £16.89
Median hourly rate £23.80 - £17.50
75th Percentile £41.15 - £19.13
90th Percentile £51.55 - £22.05
UK excluding London median hourly rate £58.49 - £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 4,669 7,336 11,759
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 10.90% 13.04% 13.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,254 5,180 8,443
10th Percentile £200 £201 £200
25th Percentile £350 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - +6.06%
75th Percentile £607 £638 £625
90th Percentile £688 £725 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £479 £450
% change year-on-year -0.84% +6.44% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 226 251 302
10th Percentile £14.06 £15.25 £13.00
25th Percentile £14.74 £18.38 £14.81
Median hourly rate £23.80 £54.83 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -56.59% +188.58% -9.52%
75th Percentile £60.75 £67.50 £40.56
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.99 £57.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.25 £48.40 £17.50
% change year-on-year -54.03% +176.57% -4.21%

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 28 May 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
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Microsoft App-V over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Microsoft App-V in the UK

Microsoft App-V
Top 11 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 28 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
England +72 22 £450 -5.26% 14
UK excluding London +7 16 £500 - 10
London +84 11 £450 +38.46% 3
Work from Home +95 6 £438 -12.50% 5
South East +15 6 £491 -32.24% 7
Scotland +39 3 - -
North of England +13 3 £500 - 1
Wales - 3 £500 -
North West +7 2 £400 -20.00% 1
South West 0 1 - - 1
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 8 (27.59%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (13.79%) SharePoint
3 2 (6.90%) IIS
Applications
1 3 (10.34%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 9 (31.03%) Azure
2 6 (20.69%) Entra ID
3 4 (13.79%) AWS
3 4 (13.79%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (10.34%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 2 (6.90%) Mimecast
5 2 (6.90%) Nutanix
5 2 (6.90%) OneDrive
5 2 (6.90%) Rubrik
6 1 (3.45%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (3.45%) GCP
6 1 (3.45%) IaaS
6 1 (3.45%) PaaS
6 1 (3.45%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 8 (27.59%) DNS
2 7 (24.14%) Firewall
3 6 (20.69%) DHCP
3 6 (20.69%) VPN
4 4 (13.79%) SMTP
5 3 (10.34%) NetScaler
6 2 (6.90%) DKIM
6 2 (6.90%) DMARC
6 2 (6.90%) Extranet
6 2 (6.90%) Internet
6 2 (6.90%) LAN
6 2 (6.90%) NAS
6 2 (6.90%) SAN
6 2 (6.90%) Wi-Fi
6 2 (6.90%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (13.79%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (3.45%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 11 (37.93%) MSI
2 6 (20.69%) InstallShield
3 2 (6.90%) AdminStudio
General
1 7 (24.14%) Social Skills
2 5 (17.24%) Public Sector
3 1 (3.45%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (3.45%) Finance
3 1 (3.45%) Local Government
3 1 (3.45%) Military
3 1 (3.45%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (34.48%) Applications Packager
2 5 (17.24%) Senior
3 4 (13.79%) Administrator
3 4 (13.79%) Systems Administrator
4 3 (10.34%) Architect
4 3 (10.34%) Lead
4 3 (10.34%) Senior Systems Administrator
5 2 (6.90%) Applications Architect
5 2 (6.90%) Consultant
5 2 (6.90%) IT Support
5 2 (6.90%) SC Cleared Application Packager
5 2 (6.90%) Support Officer
6 1 (3.45%) Azure Consultant
6 1 (3.45%) Citrix Consultant
6 1 (3.45%) Lead Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (13.79%) LDAP
2 2 (6.90%) Software Packaging
2 2 (6.90%) WSH
Miscellaneous
1 6 (20.69%) PKI
2 4 (13.79%) Clustering
3 3 (10.34%) Data Centre
3 3 (10.34%) Virtual Team
4 2 (6.90%) Fat Client
4 2 (6.90%) Thin Client
5 1 (3.45%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (3.45%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 19 (65.52%) Windows
2 9 (31.03%) Windows 10
3 7 (24.14%) Windows Server
4 4 (13.79%) Windows Server 2019
5 3 (10.34%) Windows 7
6 2 (6.90%) Unix
6 2 (6.90%) Windows Server 2003
6 2 (6.90%) Windows Server 2012
6 2 (6.90%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (41.38%) Application Packaging
2 6 (20.69%) High Availability
2 6 (20.69%) Identity Access Management
2 6 (20.69%) Migration
3 4 (13.79%) Customer Requirements
3 4 (13.79%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (13.79%) Project Delivery
3 4 (13.79%) Task Automation
4 3 (10.34%) Change Management
4 3 (10.34%) Deployment Automation
4 3 (10.34%) ITIL
4 3 (10.34%) Mentoring
4 3 (10.34%) Roadmaps
4 3 (10.34%) Software Deployment
4 3 (10.34%) User Acceptance Testing
5 2 (6.90%) Infrastructure Management
5 2 (6.90%) Kalman Filter
5 2 (6.90%) Network Monitoring
5 2 (6.90%) Technical Analysis
5 2 (6.90%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 24 (82.76%) PowerShell
2 4 (13.79%) VB
3 2 (6.90%) SQL
3 2 (6.90%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 10 (34.48%) Security Cleared
2 8 (27.59%) DV Cleared
3 5 (17.24%) SC Cleared
4 2 (6.90%) AWS Certification
4 2 (6.90%) CESG Certified Professional
4 2 (6.90%) Citrix Certification
4 2 (6.90%) MCSA
4 2 (6.90%) MCSE
4 2 (6.90%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (3.45%) Azure Certification
5 1 (3.45%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (3.45%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.34%) QA
2 2 (6.90%) SLA
3 1 (3.45%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (3.45%) PMO
System Software
1 11 (37.93%) Active Directory
2 8 (27.59%) Hyper-V
3 6 (20.69%) BitLocker
4 5 (17.24%) VMware ESXi
5 4 (13.79%) Terminal Services
5 4 (13.79%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (13.79%) XenApp
5 4 (13.79%) XenDesktop
6 2 (6.90%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 14 (48.28%) SCCM
2 6 (20.69%) Microsoft Intune
3 4 (13.79%) vCenter Server
3 4 (13.79%) vMotion
4 2 (6.90%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 2 (6.90%) NetBackup
4 2 (6.90%) SCOM
4 2 (6.90%) SCVMM
4 2 (6.90%) VxRail
4 2 (6.90%) WMI
Vendors
1 22 (75.86%) Microsoft
2 11 (37.93%) Citrix
3 8 (27.59%) VMware
4 4 (13.79%) Infoblox
5 3 (10.34%) HP
6 2 (6.90%) Avaya
6 2 (6.90%) Brocade
6 2 (6.90%) Cisco
6 2 (6.90%) Commvault
6 2 (6.90%) Dell
6 2 (6.90%) Dell Compellent
6 2 (6.90%) EMC
6 2 (6.90%) F5
6 2 (6.90%) Forcepoint
6 2 (6.90%) Juniper
6 2 (6.90%) Mitel
6 2 (6.90%) MobileIron
6 2 (6.90%) Proofpoint
6 2 (6.90%) SolarWinds
6 2 (6.90%) Wyse