Desktop Virtualisation Contract Job Trends in Berkshire

Desktop Virtualization
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Berkshire requiring Desktop Virtualisation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 115 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Desktop Virtualisation 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 0.055% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.066% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
South East median daily rate £738 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Berkshire

Desktop Virtualisation falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,508 1,089 1,699
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 83.64% 92.84% 88.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 995 652 883
10th Percentile £305 £310 £232
25th Percentile £400 £413 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year - -2.44% -2.38%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £608
90th Percentile £700 £675 £675
South East median daily rate £514 £500 £501
% change year-on-year +2.80% -0.10% -1.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 128 25 100
10th Percentile £31.06 £21.81 £17.45
25th Percentile £73.00 £32.05 £41.25
Median hourly rate £83.00 £61.50 £60.07
Median % change year-on-year +34.97% +2.37% +2.25%
75th Percentile £88.00 £77.19 £71.89
90th Percentile £104.00 £88.32 £87.46
South East median hourly rate £52.50 £27.76 £47.50
% change year-on-year +89.12% -41.56% -5.00%

Desktop Virtualisation
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Desktop Virtualisation relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Desktop Virtualisation job vacancy trend in Berkshire

Desktop Virtualisation
Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Desktop Virtualisation.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Desktop Virtualisation

Desktop Virtualisation
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Desktop Virtualisation within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 19 May 2026. 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
Wokingham - 1 - -
Desktop Virtualisation
South East

Desktop Virtualisation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Berkshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (100.00%) Rubrik
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Monitoring
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Machines
1 1 (100.00%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (100.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) VMware