Virtual Desktop
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Virtual Desktop skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Virtual Desktop over the 6 months to 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 622 685 794
Rank change year-on-year +63 +109 -94
Permanent jobs citing Virtual Desktop 282 319 445
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.29% 0.30% 0.29%
As % of the System Software category 2.29% 1.99% 1.58%
Number of salaries quoted 222 184 280
10th Percentile £29,750 £31,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £35,375 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £53,750
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% +19.44%
75th Percentile £72,500 £70,813 £72,500
90th Percentile £92,250 £82,500 £82,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £41,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year +9.76% -8.89% -

All System Software Skills
UK

Virtual Desktop is in the System Software category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for system software skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 12,311 16,003 28,190
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 12.54% 15.27% 18.29%
Number of salaries quoted 9,774 10,604 15,754
10th Percentile £26,250 £28,000 £28,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £57,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -3.51% +3.64%
75th Percentile £67,500 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £86,250 £95,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +5.26%

Virtual Desktop
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Virtual Desktop as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Virtual Desktop in the UK

Virtual Desktop
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Virtual Desktop.

Salary trend for Virtual Desktop in the UK

Virtual Desktop
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Virtual Desktop over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Virtual Desktop in the UK

Virtual Desktop
Top 16 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Virtual Desktop within the UK over the 6 months to 26 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +79 265 £50,000 -6.54% 64
UK excluding London -22 189 £45,000 +9.76% 36
Work from Home +96 151 £51,000 -11.30% 73
London +135 82 £71,500 +10.00% 28
South East +39 58 £53,000 +47.22% 15
North of England +48 41 £39,500 +12.86% 9
Midlands -20 35 £50,000 -6.54% 5
East of England +32 33 £29,750 -50.42% 4
West Midlands +44 32 £50,000 -10.71% 4
Yorkshire +89 20 £56,500 +61.43% 2
North East +9 16 £39,500 +21.54%
South West -36 14 £55,000 +76.00% 3
Scotland -61 6 £36,500 -14.12% 1
North West +6 5 £41,234 -36.56% 7
East Midlands -61 3 £45,000 +38.46% 1
Wales +8 2 £45,000 -30.23%

Virtual Desktop
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
1 104 (36.88%) Microsoft Exchange
2 59 (20.92%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.42%) Apache
3 4 (1.42%) nginx
4 3 (1.06%) JBoss
Applications
1 12 (4.26%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.06%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.35%) Carpe Diem
1 1 (0.35%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 197 (69.86%) Microsoft 365
2 195 (69.15%) Azure
3 91 (32.27%) Entra ID
4 44 (15.60%) Azure DevOps
5 31 (10.99%) AWS
6 21 (7.45%) OneDrive
7 20 (7.09%) IaaS
7 20 (7.09%) PaaS
8 19 (6.74%) Azure Storage
9 17 (6.03%) Azure Sentinel
10 15 (5.32%) Cloud Computing
11 14 (4.96%) Azure Monitor
11 14 (4.96%) Microsoft Purview
12 8 (2.84%) OCI
13 7 (2.48%) Nutanix
13 7 (2.48%) Power Platform
14 5 (1.77%) GCP
15 4 (1.42%) Dynamics 365
15 4 (1.42%) Serverless
16 3 (1.06%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 85 (30.14%) Firewall
2 51 (18.09%) DNS
3 36 (12.77%) DHCP
4 35 (12.41%) VPN
5 33 (11.70%) WAN
6 32 (11.35%) LAN
7 27 (9.57%) TCP/IP
8 24 (8.51%) Network Security
9 23 (8.16%) Remote Desktop
10 18 (6.38%) SAN
11 15 (5.32%) Wireshark
12 14 (4.96%) NGFW
13 13 (4.61%) VLAN
14 12 (4.26%) NetScaler
15 10 (3.55%) Structured Cabling
16 7 (2.48%) Wi-Fi
17 6 (2.13%) Wireless
18 5 (1.77%) SSL
18 5 (1.77%) VoIP
19 2 (0.71%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (5.67%) Amazon RDS
2 12 (4.26%) SQL Server
3 5 (1.77%) Power BI
4 1 (0.35%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 6 (2.13%) Jenkins
2 4 (1.42%) Git
3 3 (1.06%) Bitbucket
4 2 (0.71%) TeamCity
5 1 (0.35%) Robot Framework
5 1 (0.35%) Selenium
General
1 85 (30.14%) Social Skills
2 56 (19.86%) Finance
3 14 (4.96%) Retail
4 12 (4.26%) Legal
5 11 (3.90%) Documentation Skills
5 11 (3.90%) Public Sector
6 9 (3.19%) Banking
6 9 (3.19%) Law
7 8 (2.84%) Analytical Skills
8 3 (1.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.06%) Local Government
8 3 (1.06%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (1.06%) Police
9 2 (0.71%) Advertising
10 1 (0.35%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 53 (18.79%) IT Support
2 36 (12.77%) Analyst
3 35 (12.41%) IT Analyst
4 32 (11.35%) Senior
4 32 (11.35%) Support Engineer
5 30 (10.64%) 2nd Line Support
6 28 (9.93%) IT Engineer
7 24 (8.51%) IT Support Analyst
7 24 (8.51%) Lead
8 23 (8.16%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 21 (7.45%) IT Support Engineer
10 18 (6.38%) Architect
11 17 (6.03%) 3rd Line Support
11 17 (6.03%) Azure Specialist
12 16 (5.67%) Support Specialist
13 15 (5.32%) Cloud Architect
13 15 (5.32%) DevOps Architect
13 15 (5.32%) Support Analyst
14 14 (4.96%) Cloud Engineer
14 14 (4.96%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (10.64%) ARM Templates
2 21 (7.45%) JSON
3 14 (4.96%) YAML
4 4 (1.42%) OAuth
4 4 (1.42%) OAuth2
4 4 (1.42%) OpenID
5 3 (1.06%) CSS
5 3 (1.06%) CSS3
5 3 (1.06%) HTML
5 3 (1.06%) HTML5
5 3 (1.06%) Keycloak
5 3 (1.06%) React
5 3 (1.06%) Software Packaging
6 2 (0.71%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 31 (10.99%) Management Information System
2 20 (7.09%) Self-Motivation
3 17 (6.03%) Private Cloud
4 16 (5.67%) PKI
5 14 (4.96%) Data Centre
5 14 (4.96%) Public Cloud
5 14 (4.96%) Security Operations Centre
6 13 (4.61%) Cloud Native
7 12 (4.26%) iPad
8 8 (2.84%) Driving Licence
8 8 (2.84%) Mobile App
9 7 (2.48%) PMI
10 5 (1.77%) Low-Code
10 5 (1.77%) Onboarding
11 4 (1.42%) Algorithms
11 4 (1.42%) Data Structures
11 4 (1.42%) Enterprise Cloud
12 3 (1.06%) CMDB
12 3 (1.06%) Product Ownership
13 2 (0.71%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 166 (58.87%) Windows
2 88 (31.21%) Windows Server
3 35 (12.41%) Windows 10
4 33 (11.70%) Apple iOS
5 31 (10.99%) Windows Server 2019
6 24 (8.51%) Android
6 24 (8.51%) Windows Server 2016
7 23 (8.16%) Linux
8 10 (3.55%) VMS
8 10 (3.55%) Windows 7
9 4 (1.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 2 (0.71%) Mac OS
11 1 (0.35%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (23.05%) DevOps
2 63 (22.34%) ITIL
3 60 (21.28%) Agile
4 47 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
5 35 (12.41%) Customer Service
6 34 (12.06%) CI/CD
6 34 (12.06%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 33 (11.70%) Infrastructure as Code
8 29 (10.28%) Data Loss Prevention
8 29 (10.28%) Line Management
9 28 (9.93%) Migration
9 28 (9.93%) Service Delivery
10 27 (9.57%) Cybersecurity
10 27 (9.57%) Process Improvement
11 26 (9.22%) Information Security
11 26 (9.22%) Roadmaps
12 22 (7.80%) Continuous Improvement
12 22 (7.80%) Service Management
13 21 (7.45%) Identity Access Management
13 21 (7.45%) Server Management
Programming Languages
1 83 (29.43%) PowerShell
2 20 (7.09%) Python
3 16 (5.67%) Bicep
4 14 (4.96%) C#
4 14 (4.96%) VB
4 14 (4.96%) VBScript
5 12 (4.26%) SQL
6 7 (2.48%) Bash
7 3 (1.06%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.35%) PHP
8 1 (0.35%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 40 (14.18%) Degree
2 20 (7.09%) Security Cleared
3 17 (6.03%) Azure Certification
3 17 (6.03%) Cisco Certification
3 17 (6.03%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 14 (4.96%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 14 (4.96%) CCSP
4 14 (4.96%) CEH
4 14 (4.96%) CISSP
4 14 (4.96%) DV Cleared
4 14 (4.96%) SANS
4 14 (4.96%) SSCP
5 10 (3.55%) AWS Certification
6 9 (3.19%) Microsoft Certification
7 8 (2.84%) SC Cleared
8 7 (2.48%) PMI Certification
9 5 (1.77%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 4 (1.42%) Computer Science Degree
11 3 (1.06%) CCNA
11 3 (1.06%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (6.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 19 (6.74%) SLA
2 14 (4.96%) NIST
2 14 (4.96%) PCI DSS
3 12 (4.26%) QA
4 4 (1.42%) Cyber Essentials
4 4 (1.42%) GDPR
4 4 (1.42%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 171 (60.64%) Active Directory
2 92 (32.62%) VMware Infrastructure
3 27 (9.57%) Virtual Machines
3 27 (9.57%) VMware ESXi
4 24 (8.51%) Hyper-V
5 22 (7.80%) Virtual Servers
6 20 (7.09%) vSphere
7 14 (4.96%) XenApp
8 13 (4.61%) XenDesktop
9 9 (3.19%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 6 (2.13%) Docker
Systems Management
1 107 (37.94%) Microsoft Intune
2 55 (19.50%) SCCM
3 33 (11.70%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 20 (7.09%) Kubernetes
4 20 (7.09%) Terraform
5 17 (6.03%) SCOM
5 17 (6.03%) WSUS
6 14 (4.96%) Nmap
7 10 (3.55%) AirWatch
8 7 (2.48%) Ansible
9 6 (2.13%) Jamf Pro
10 4 (1.42%) Nagios
10 4 (1.42%) Progress Chef
10 4 (1.42%) Puppet
11 3 (1.06%) Nessus
11 3 (1.06%) PaperCut
11 3 (1.06%) Single Sign-On
11 3 (1.06%) SmoothWall
12 2 (0.71%) FortiGate
13 1 (0.35%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 145 (51.42%) Microsoft
2 92 (32.62%) VMware
3 89 (31.56%) Citrix
4 17 (6.03%) Splunk
5 15 (5.32%) HP
5 15 (5.32%) ServiceNow
6 14 (4.96%) Qualys
6 14 (4.96%) Rapid7
6 14 (4.96%) Thycotic
7 13 (4.61%) Veeam
8 11 (3.90%) Adobe
8 11 (3.90%) Apple
8 11 (3.90%) Cisco
9 10 (3.55%) Dell
9 10 (3.55%) Symantec
9 10 (3.55%) Toshiba
10 9 (3.19%) Avaya
11 8 (2.84%) Oracle
12 7 (2.48%) Commvault
12 7 (2.48%) EMC