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 27 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 128 125 123
Rank change year-on-year -3 -2 +58
Contract jobs citing Virtual Desktop 7 9 12
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.34% 0.39% 0.45%
As % of the System Software category 3.55% 3.40% 4.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 8 9
10th Percentile £311 £181 £393
25th Percentile £413 £281 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £531 £593 £540
Median % change year-on-year -10.34% +9.72% -12.90%
75th Percentile £591 £645 £588
90th Percentile £596 £725 £880
London median daily rate £575 £515 £540
% change year-on-year +11.65% -4.63% +8.00%

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 197 265 299
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 9.70% 11.46% 11.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 144 170 227
10th Percentile £279 £274 £233
25th Percentile £406 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £546 £550 £495
Median % change year-on-year -0.68% +11.11% -13.91%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £625
90th Percentile £688 £726 £766
London median daily rate £538 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.27% +4.76% -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 0
10th Percentile £22.22 £84.40 -
25th Percentile £24.31 £94.75 -
Median hourly rate £25.47 £112.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -77.26% - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
London median hourly rate £25.15 £23.80 £43.84
% change year-on-year +5.67% -45.71% +75.35%

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 27 December 2025.

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 27 December 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 -9 4 £263 -55.70% 12
Kensington and Chelsea - 2 £588 - 1
City of Westminster - 1 £488 -
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 3 (42.86%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (14.29%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 5 (71.43%) Azure
2 4 (57.14%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (42.86%) Entra ID
4 1 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 4 (57.14%) Firewall
2 1 (14.29%) DNS
2 1 (14.29%) Network Security
2 1 (14.29%) Remote Desktop
2 1 (14.29%) VPN
2 1 (14.29%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (14.29%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (14.29%) SQL Server
General
1 3 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Banking
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) 2nd Line Engineer
1 2 (28.57%) 2nd Line Support
1 2 (28.57%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
1 2 (28.57%) Citrix Engineer
1 2 (28.57%) Cloud Engineer
1 2 (28.57%) Support Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Network Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) QA Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Senior
2 1 (14.29%) Senior Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Hedge funds
1 1 (14.29%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (14.29%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 3 (42.86%) Windows
2 1 (14.29%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 3 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (28.57%) Customer Service
3 1 (14.29%) Application Packaging
3 1 (14.29%) CI/CD
3 1 (14.29%) Cloud Security
3 1 (14.29%) DevOps
3 1 (14.29%) High Availability
3 1 (14.29%) Identity Access Management
3 1 (14.29%) ITIL
3 1 (14.29%) Manual Testing
3 1 (14.29%) PRINCE2
3 1 (14.29%) Regression Testing
3 1 (14.29%) Security Testing
3 1 (14.29%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) PowerShell
2 1 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) Azure Certification
1 1 (14.29%) Degree
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) QA
System Software
1 3 (42.86%) Active Directory
2 1 (14.29%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (42.86%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) Microsoft
2 3 (42.86%) Citrix
2 3 (42.86%) Palo Alto
3 1 (14.29%) VMware