Virtual Desktop Contracts in Central London

Virtual Desktop
London > Central London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London 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 6 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 126 163 189
Rank change year-on-year +37 +26 -31
Contract jobs citing Virtual Desktop 5 11 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.21% 0.29% 0.22%
As % of the System Software category 1.85% 2.34% 1.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 9 5
10th Percentile £300 £343 £390
25th Percentile £356 £375 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +3.90%
75th Percentile - £557 £588
90th Percentile - £681 £615
London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% +2.56%

All System Software Skills
Central London

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 Central London with a requirement for system software skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 270 470 729
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 11.09% 12.26% 16.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 206 323 623
10th Percentile £213 £213 £242
25th Percentile £350 £400 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £560 £550
Median % change year-on-year -12.95% +1.82% +4.76%
75th Percentile £650 £700 £650
90th Percentile £738 £788 £749
London median daily rate £500 £575 £563
% change year-on-year -13.04% +2.22% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 4
10th Percentile - £21.40 -
25th Percentile £21.25 £22.00 £24.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £23.50 £25.50
Median % change year-on-year +70.21% -7.84% +27.50%
75th Percentile - £24.50 £29.56
90th Percentile £46.15 £24.80 £32.83
London median hourly rate £22.50 £50.00 £26.50
% change year-on-year -55.00% +88.68% -47.00%

Virtual Desktop
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Virtual Desktop in Central London

Virtual Desktop
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for Virtual Desktop in Central London

Virtual Desktop
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Virtual Desktop in Central London over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Virtual Desktop in Central London

Virtual Desktop
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Virtual Desktop in Central London.

Hourly rate trend for Virtual Desktop in Central London

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 6 May 2024. 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 +40 5 £450 - 2
Virtual Desktop
London

Virtual Desktop
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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) Azure
2 2 (40.00%) Entra ID
2 2 (40.00%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (40.00%) OneDrive
General
1 2 (40.00%) Finance
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Applications Specialist
1 2 (40.00%) Azure Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Desktop Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Applications Support
2 1 (20.00%) Applications Support Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Support Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 4 (80.00%) Windows
2 2 (40.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Application Packaging
1 2 (40.00%) Application Security
1 2 (40.00%) Asset Management
1 2 (40.00%) Information Security
1 2 (40.00%) Release Management
1 2 (40.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 1 (20.00%) Customer Service
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (20.00%) Roadmaps
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (80.00%) SCCM
2 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft