Virtual Desktop Contracts in Bedfordshire

Virtual Desktop
East of England > Bedfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Bedfordshire requiring Virtual Desktop skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Virtual Desktop over the 6 months leading up to 5 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 34 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Virtual Desktop 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Bedfordshire 1.26% - -
As % of the System Software category 7.41% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
East of England median daily rate - - £500
% change year-on-year - - -11.11%

All System Software Skills
Bedfordshire

Virtual Desktop falls under the System Software category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring system software skills in Bedfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 27 13 33
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bedfordshire 16.98% 5.70% 19.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 6 23
10th Percentile £189 £213 £161
25th Percentile £284 £263 £181
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £325 £240
Median % change year-on-year +53.85% +35.42% -33.79%
75th Percentile £525 £486 £519
90th Percentile £575 £536 £550
East of England median daily rate £500 £375 £450
% change year-on-year +33.33% -16.67% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 2 0
10th Percentile £54.19 £74.38 -
25th Percentile £77.50 £75.31 -
Median hourly rate £85.00 £78.75 -
Median % change year-on-year +7.94% - -
75th Percentile £88.00 £80.94 -
90th Percentile £92.50 £81.13 -
East of England median hourly rate £19.27 £14.16 £57.50
% change year-on-year +36.09% -75.37% +270.97%

Virtual Desktop
Job Vacancy Trend in Bedfordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Virtual Desktop in Bedfordshire

Virtual Desktop
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Bedfordshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Virtual Desktop in Bedfordshire.

Daily rate trend for Virtual Desktop in Bedfordshire

Virtual Desktop
Contract Job Locations in Bedfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Virtual Desktop within the Bedfordshire region over the 6 months to 5 June 2025. 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
Luton - 2 - - 7
Virtual Desktop
East of England

Virtual Desktop
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bedfordshire 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 2 (100.00%) Azure
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Architect
1 2 (100.00%) Technical Architect
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 2 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 2 (100.00%) High Availability
1 2 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 2 (100.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 2 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Certification
1 2 (100.00%) VCAP
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Citrix
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (100.00%) VMware