Microsoft App-V Contracts in Central London

Microsoft Application Virtualisation (AppV) formerly Softricity SoftGrid
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London requiring Microsoft App-V skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Microsoft App-V over the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 121 133 173
Rank change year-on-year +12 +40 +14
Contract jobs citing Microsoft App-V 3 2 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.15% 0.082% 0.052%
As % of the System Software category 1.34% 0.75% 0.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 2
10th Percentile - £513 £328
25th Percentile £625 £514 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £531 £400
Median % change year-on-year +22.35% +32.81% +3.23%
75th Percentile £675 £552 £450
90th Percentile - £554 £473
London median daily rate £563 £488 £325
% change year-on-year +15.38% +50.00% -25.71%

All System Software Skills
Central London

Microsoft App-V 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 Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 224 266 472
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 11.21% 10.90% 12.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 160 202 322
10th Percentile £237 £213 £213
25th Percentile £383 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £531 £475 £561
Median % change year-on-year +11.68% -15.37% +2.05%
75th Percentile £615 £650 £700
90th Percentile £688 £738 £788
London median daily rate £550 £500 £575
% change year-on-year +10.00% -13.04% +2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 5 2
10th Percentile £21.48 - £21.40
25th Percentile £21.81 £21.25 £22.00
Median hourly rate £24.48 £40.00 £23.50
Median % change year-on-year -38.81% +70.21% -7.84%
75th Percentile £66.71 - £24.50
90th Percentile £139.19 £46.15 £24.80
London median hourly rate £28.71 £22.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year +27.58% -55.00% +104.08%

Microsoft App-V
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Job postings citing Microsoft App-V as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft App-V in Central London

Microsoft App-V
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Microsoft App-V in Central London.

Daily rate trend for Microsoft App-V in Central London

Microsoft App-V
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Microsoft App-V in Central London.

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft App-V in Central London

Microsoft App-V
Contract Job Locations in Central London

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 Central London region over the 6 months to 2 May 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
City of London +8 3 £650 +22.35% 1
Microsoft App-V
London

Microsoft App-V
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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:

Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) Firewall
2 1 (33.33%) HTTP
2 1 (33.33%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) MSI
General
1 1 (33.33%) Banking
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) 3rd Line Support
1 1 (33.33%) Consultant
1 1 (33.33%) SCCM Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) SCCM Specialist
1 1 (33.33%) Windows Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Video Conferencing
1 1 (33.33%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
1 3 (100.00%) Windows 10
2 2 (66.67%) Windows 7
3 1 (33.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Application Packaging
2 2 (66.67%) Application Virtualisation
2 2 (66.67%) Design Patterns
3 1 (33.33%) Capacity Management
3 1 (33.33%) Change Management
3 1 (33.33%) Computer Science
3 1 (33.33%) Disk Encryption
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Maintenance
3 1 (33.33%) Patch Management
3 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (33.33%) Product Roadmap
3 1 (33.33%) Project Delivery
3 1 (33.33%) Roadmaps
3 1 (33.33%) Security Management
3 1 (33.33%) Security Patching
3 1 (33.33%) Server Building
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
1 1 (33.33%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) DV Cleared
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (33.33%) Degree
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (33.33%) BitLocker
2 1 (33.33%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (33.33%) XenApp
2 1 (33.33%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) SCCM
2 1 (33.33%) WSUS
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Citrix
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) VMware