Virtual Desktop Contracts in Birmingham

Virtual Desktop
West Midlands > Birmingham

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Birmingham with a requirement for Virtual Desktop skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Virtual Desktop over the 6 months to 30 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 59 - 91
Rank change year-on-year - - -26
Contract jobs citing Virtual Desktop 8 0 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 1.03% - 0.30%
As % of the System Software category 15.69% - 3.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile £306 - £363
25th Percentile £314 - £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £330 - £525
Median % change year-on-year - - +23.53%
75th Percentile £349 - £619
90th Percentile £359 - £668
West Midlands median daily rate £360 £588 £525
% change year-on-year -38.72% +11.90% +30.43%

All System Software Skills
Birmingham

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 51 111 116
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 6.60% 12.28% 8.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 64 84
10th Percentile £187 £151 £202
25th Percentile £200 £313 £361
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £425 £450
Median % change year-on-year -17.65% -5.56% +28.57%
75th Percentile £456 £600 £541
90th Percentile £618 £713 £625
West Midlands median daily rate £400 £475 £413
% change year-on-year -15.79% +15.15% +17.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 1
10th Percentile £14.49 £15.44 -
25th Percentile £15.40 £15.74 -
Median hourly rate £17.27 £16.48 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.79% +9.87% -44.19%
75th Percentile £18.79 £17.74 -
90th Percentile £19.48 £18.35 -
West Midlands median hourly rate £17.80 £17.72 £16.75
% change year-on-year +0.47% +5.78% +10.74%

Virtual Desktop
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Job vacancy trend for Virtual Desktop in Birmingham

Virtual Desktop
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Daily rate trend for Virtual Desktop in Birmingham

Virtual Desktop
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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 8 (100.00%) Azure
2 5 (62.50%) Azure Functions
2 5 (62.50%) Azure Monitor
2 5 (62.50%) Power Platform
2 5 (62.50%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (62.50%) Power BI
General
1 2 (25.00%) Public Sector
1 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (12.50%) German Language
2 1 (12.50%) Organisational Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (25.00%) Azure Engineer
1 2 (25.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Azure Specialist
2 1 (12.50%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Desktop Specialist
2 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Monitoring Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 5 (62.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (87.50%) ITIL
2 5 (62.50%) Analytics
2 5 (62.50%) Artificial Intelligence
2 5 (62.50%) Incident Management
2 5 (62.50%) Problem Management
2 5 (62.50%) Runbook
2 5 (62.50%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 5 (62.50%) Virtual Environments
3 4 (50.00%) Computer Science
3 4 (50.00%) Data Science
4 3 (37.50%) DevOps
4 3 (37.50%) User Acceptance Testing
5 2 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
5 2 (25.00%) Operational Stability
5 2 (25.00%) Server Management
6 1 (12.50%) Cloud Operations
6 1 (12.50%) Collaborative Working
6 1 (12.50%) Process Improvement
6 1 (12.50%) Statistics
6 1 (12.50%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (62.50%) PowerShell
2 1 (12.50%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (50.00%) Degree
2 1 (12.50%) Azure Certification
2 1 (12.50%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) SLA
2 1 (12.50%) QA
Systems Management
1 5 (62.50%) SysTrack
2 2 (25.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 5 (62.50%) Citrix
1 5 (62.50%) New Relic
1 5 (62.50%) OpenAI
2 2 (25.00%) Microsoft