Virtual Desktop Contract Job Trends in Central London

Virtual Desktop
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Central London requiring Virtual Desktop skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 140 129 126
Rank change year-on-year -11 -3 +27
Contract jobs citing Virtual Desktop 10 5 9
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.38% 0.24% 0.38%
As % of the System Software category 4.74% 2.54% 3.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 4 7
10th Percentile £185 £231 £226
25th Percentile £234 £239 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £380 £306 £450
Median % change year-on-year +24.08% -31.94% -9.55%
75th Percentile £667 £431 £614
90th Percentile £763 £578 -
London median daily rate £438 £450 £448
% change year-on-year -2.78% +0.56% -10.50%

All System Software Skills
Central London

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 Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 211 197 289
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 8.08% 9.61% 12.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 157 140 214
10th Percentile £216 £249 £259
25th Percentile £413 £393 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £536 £507
Median % change year-on-year -2.05% +5.82% -11.91%
75th Percentile £625 £641 £663
90th Percentile £676 £694 £759
London median daily rate £525 £525 £510
% change year-on-year - +2.94% -8.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 4 4
10th Percentile £21.20 £23.34 -
25th Percentile £24.13 £25.34 £40.00
Median hourly rate £30.00 £27.48 £44.25
Median % change year-on-year +9.19% -37.91% +77.00%
75th Percentile £45.36 £69.56 £60.81
90th Percentile £53.98 £140.33 £79.83
London median hourly rate £52.50 £25.00 £23.80
% change year-on-year +110.00% +5.04% -60.33%

Virtual Desktop
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Virtual Desktop relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Virtual Desktop job vacancy trend in Central London

Virtual Desktop
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Virtual Desktop.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Virtual Desktop

Virtual Desktop
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Virtual Desktop in Central London over the 6 months to 21 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Virtual Desktop in Central London

Virtual Desktop
Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Virtual Desktop.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Virtual Desktop

Virtual Desktop
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 Virtual Desktop within the Central London region over the 6 months to 21 July 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
City of London -6 6 £190 -37.96% 2
City of Westminster - 2 £725 - 1
Virtual Desktop
London

Virtual Desktop
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London 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:

Cloud Services
1 8 (80.00%) Entra ID
2 6 (60.00%) Azure
3 4 (40.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 6 (60.00%) DNS
2 4 (40.00%) DHCP
3 2 (20.00%) TCP/IP
3 2 (20.00%) VPN
Development Applications
1 2 (20.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (20.00%) Finance
1 2 (20.00%) Retail
2 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (20.00%) Active Directory Engineer
1 2 (20.00%) Analyst
1 2 (20.00%) Citrix Engineer
1 2 (20.00%) Desktop Analyst
1 2 (20.00%) Desktop Support
1 2 (20.00%) Desktop Support Analyst
1 2 (20.00%) Project Manager
1 2 (20.00%) Strategic Project Manager
1 2 (20.00%) Support Analyst
2 1 (10.00%) VMware Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) FMCG
1 2 (20.00%) IoT
1 2 (20.00%) Onboarding
1 2 (20.00%) Operational Technology
1 2 (20.00%) PKI
1 2 (20.00%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 8 (80.00%) Windows
2 2 (20.00%) Mac OS
2 2 (20.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (20.00%) Application Packaging
2 2 (20.00%) Business Continuity
2 2 (20.00%) Change Control
2 2 (20.00%) Cloud Security
2 2 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (20.00%) Customer Service
2 2 (20.00%) Enterprise Architecture
2 2 (20.00%) Identity Access Management
2 2 (20.00%) Incident Management
2 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (20.00%) Network Segmentation
2 2 (20.00%) PRINCE2
2 2 (20.00%) Project Management
2 2 (20.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 2 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (20.00%) User Experience
2 2 (20.00%) Zero Trust
3 1 (10.00%) Change Management
3 1 (10.00%) Service Management
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) PMI Certification
1 2 (20.00%) PMP
1 2 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (20.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 10 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (20.00%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (10.00%) VMware NSX
3 1 (10.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (40.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (20.00%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (20.00%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 6 (60.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (40.00%) Citrix
3 2 (20.00%) Bloomberg
3 2 (20.00%) VMware
3 2 (20.00%) Zscaler
4 1 (10.00%) ServiceNow