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 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 131 122 127
Rank change year-on-year -9 +5 +36
Contract jobs citing Virtual Desktop 12 4 6
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.46% 0.21% 0.25%
As % of the System Software category 6.28% 2.13% 2.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 4 4
10th Percentile £185 £231 £319
25th Percentile £331 £239 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £306 £450
Median % change year-on-year +87.76% -31.94% -9.55%
75th Percentile £600 £431 £491
90th Percentile £649 £578 £565
London median daily rate £500 £449 £450
% change year-on-year +11.48% -0.33% -10.00%

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 191 188 285
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 7.32% 9.81% 11.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 136 136 214
10th Percentile £219 £217 £250
25th Percentile £413 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £507
Median % change year-on-year - +3.65% -11.91%
75th Percentile £617 £632 £681
90th Percentile £672 £694 £773
London median daily rate £525 £525 £500
% change year-on-year - +5.00% -13.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 5 5
10th Percentile £21.20 £21.55 -
25th Percentile £24.13 £22.00 £21.25
Median hourly rate £30.00 £26.45 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.42% -33.88% +6.67%
75th Percentile £45.36 £30.25 -
90th Percentile £53.98 £124.60 £46.15
London median hourly rate £52.50 £26.45 £22.50
% change year-on-year +98.49% +17.56% -62.50%

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 June 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 June 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 -16 6 £190 -37.96% 1
Kensington and Chelsea - 4 £588 -
City of Westminster - 1 £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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (33.33%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (16.67%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 9 (75.00%) Azure
1 9 (75.00%) Entra ID
2 6 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 6 (50.00%) DNS
2 4 (33.33%) DHCP
2 4 (33.33%) Firewall
3 2 (16.67%) Network Security
3 2 (16.67%) TCP/IP
3 2 (16.67%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (33.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 2 (16.67%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (16.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (16.67%) JIRA
General
1 3 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (16.67%) Finance
3 1 (8.33%) Retail
Job Titles
1 2 (16.67%) Active Directory Engineer
1 2 (16.67%) Analyst
1 2 (16.67%) Citrix Engineer
1 2 (16.67%) Cloud Engineer
1 2 (16.67%) Desktop Analyst
1 2 (16.67%) Desktop Support
1 2 (16.67%) Desktop Support Analyst
1 2 (16.67%) Network Engineer
1 2 (16.67%) Senior
1 2 (16.67%) Senior Network Engineer
1 2 (16.67%) Support Analyst
2 1 (8.33%) Project Manager
2 1 (8.33%) Strategic Project Manager
2 1 (8.33%) VMware Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (33.33%) Onboarding
2 2 (16.67%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (16.67%) PKI
2 2 (16.67%) Video Conferencing
3 1 (8.33%) FMCG
3 1 (8.33%) IoT
3 1 (8.33%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 7 (58.33%) Windows
2 2 (16.67%) Mac OS
3 1 (8.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (58.33%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 3 (25.00%) Cloud Security
3 3 (25.00%) Identity Access Management
4 2 (16.67%) Application Packaging
4 2 (16.67%) Business Continuity
4 2 (16.67%) Change Control
4 2 (16.67%) CI/CD
4 2 (16.67%) Customer Service
4 2 (16.67%) DevOps
4 2 (16.67%) High Availability
4 2 (16.67%) Incident Management
5 1 (8.33%) Decision-Making
5 1 (8.33%) Enterprise Architecture
5 1 (8.33%) Network Segmentation
5 1 (8.33%) Programme Delivery
5 1 (8.33%) Project Delivery
5 1 (8.33%) Service Management
5 1 (8.33%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (8.33%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 4 (33.33%) PowerShell
2 2 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (16.67%) Azure Certification
1 2 (16.67%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (8.33%) PMI Certification
2 1 (8.33%) PMP
2 1 (8.33%) SC Cleared
2 1 (8.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 10 (83.33%) Active Directory
2 1 (8.33%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (8.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (8.33%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (33.33%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (16.67%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (8.33%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 10 (83.33%) Microsoft
2 4 (33.33%) Citrix
2 4 (33.33%) Palo Alto
3 2 (16.67%) Bloomberg
4 1 (8.33%) ServiceNow
4 1 (8.33%) VMware
4 1 (8.33%) Zscaler