Virtual Desktop Contracts in Central London

Virtual Desktop
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London requiring Virtual Desktop skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Virtual Desktop over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 123 128 161
Rank change year-on-year +5 +33 +28
Contract jobs citing Virtual Desktop 6 5 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.30% 0.20% 0.29%
As % of the System Software category 2.68% 1.87% 2.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 3 9
10th Percentile £209 - £343
25th Percentile £244 - £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year -27.78% -5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £350 £513 £557
90th Percentile £545 £550 £681
London median daily rate £525 £500 £475
% change year-on-year +5.00% +5.26% -5.00%

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 224 267 476
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 11.22% 10.92% 12.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 160 203 325
10th Percentile £237 £214 £213
25th Percentile £383 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £531 £475 £563
Median % change year-on-year +11.68% -15.56% +2.27%
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 £28.41 £22.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year +26.27% -50.00% +83.67%

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 1 May 2025.

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 1 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 +9 6 £325 -27.78% 3
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 (33.33%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (33.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 4 (66.67%) Azure
2 3 (50.00%) Entra ID
3 2 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (33.33%) OneDrive
4 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Purview
4 1 (16.67%) Power Platform
4 1 (16.67%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) DHCP
1 1 (16.67%) DNS
1 1 (16.67%) Firewall
1 1 (16.67%) HTTP
1 1 (16.67%) Remote Desktop
1 1 (16.67%) TCP/IP
1 1 (16.67%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Power BI
General
1 2 (33.33%) Banking
1 2 (33.33%) Finance
1 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Investment Banking
2 1 (16.67%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Support Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) 2nd Line Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) 2nd Line Support
2 1 (16.67%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Deployment Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Project Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Junior
2 1 (16.67%) Junior Infrastructure Project Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Junior Project Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Project Manager
2 1 (16.67%) SCCM Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) SCCM Specialist
2 1 (16.67%) Service Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Service Desk Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Systems Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Systems Support
2 1 (16.67%) Systems Support Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Windows Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Data Centre
1 1 (16.67%) PKI
1 1 (16.67%) Video Conferencing
1 1 (16.67%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (100.00%) Windows
2 3 (50.00%) Windows Server
3 2 (33.33%) Linux
3 2 (33.33%) Windows 10
4 1 (16.67%) Android
4 1 (16.67%) Apple iOS
4 1 (16.67%) Unix
4 1 (16.67%) VMS
4 1 (16.67%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (16.67%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) ITIL
2 2 (33.33%) Change Management
2 2 (33.33%) Customer Service
2 2 (33.33%) Service Management
3 1 (16.67%) Disk Encryption
3 1 (16.67%) Incident Management
3 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Maintenance
3 1 (16.67%) ITSM
3 1 (16.67%) Knowledge Management
3 1 (16.67%) Mobile Device Management
3 1 (16.67%) Patch Management
3 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (16.67%) Product Roadmap
3 1 (16.67%) Project Delivery
3 1 (16.67%) Roadmaps
3 1 (16.67%) Security Management
3 1 (16.67%) Security Patching
3 1 (16.67%) Server Building
3 1 (16.67%) Server Management
3 1 (16.67%) Workload Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) PowerShell
1 1 (16.67%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) Degree
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Certification
2 1 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
2 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (66.67%) Active Directory
2 2 (33.33%) BitLocker
3 1 (16.67%) Microsoft App-V
3 1 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (16.67%) XenApp
3 1 (16.67%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (33.33%) SCCM
3 1 (16.67%) SCOrch
3 1 (16.67%) WSUS
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 3 (50.00%) Citrix
3 1 (16.67%) Apple
3 1 (16.67%) Nexthink
3 1 (16.67%) Remedy
3 1 (16.67%) ServiceNow
3 1 (16.67%) VMware