Virtual Desktop Contracts in Cheshire

Virtual Desktop
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire 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 57 - 60
Rank change year-on-year - - -5
Contract jobs citing Virtual Desktop 1 0 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 0.22% - 0.57%
As % of the System Software category 1.61% - 2.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 3
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - £600
North West median daily rate £513 £340 £550
% change year-on-year +50.74% -38.18% -13.73%

All System Software Skills
Cheshire

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 Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 62 44 102
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 13.81% 8.73% 19.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 18 87
10th Percentile £230 £125 £200
25th Percentile £339 £128 £215
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £389 £363 £463
Median % change year-on-year +7.38% -21.62% +19.05%
75th Percentile £463 £428 £575
90th Percentile £537 £560 £638
North West median daily rate £425 £450 £500
% change year-on-year -5.56% -10.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 7 4
10th Percentile - £16.69 £12.08
25th Percentile - £17.26 £13.31
Median hourly rate - £17.72 £18.21
Median % change year-on-year - -2.66% -4.18%
75th Percentile - - £33.25
90th Percentile - £17.74 £52.75
North West median hourly rate £55.75 £17.72 £22.41
% change year-on-year +214.62% -20.93% +23.71%

Virtual Desktop
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Virtual Desktop in Cheshire

Virtual Desktop
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Daily rate trend for Virtual Desktop in Cheshire

Virtual Desktop
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

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 Cheshire 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
Warrington - 1 - -
Virtual Desktop
North West

Virtual Desktop
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (100.00%) SharePoint
1 1 (100.00%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (100.00%) Publishing
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365 Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Wintel Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Wintel Technical Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (100.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Android
1 1 (100.00%) Apple iOS
1 1 (100.00%) Mac OS
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows 10
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server 2016
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Customer Requirements
1 1 (100.00%) Data Loss Prevention
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) GAP Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Identity Access Management
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Privileged Access Management
1 1 (100.00%) Project Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
1 1 (100.00%) Task Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) VB
1 1 (100.00%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
1 1 (100.00%) MCP
1 1 (100.00%) MCSA
1 1 (100.00%) MCSE
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) NCSC
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) BitLocker
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft App-V
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (100.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) McAfee
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Symantec
1 1 (100.00%) VMware