Microsoft App-V Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Microsoft Application Virtualisation (AppV) formerly Softricity SoftGrid
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Microsoft App-V skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 134 123 -
Rank change year-on-year -11 - -
Contract jobs citing Microsoft App-V 3 3 0
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.13% 0.16% -
As % of the System Software category 1.64% 2.04% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £613 £425 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £450 -
Median % change year-on-year +38.89% - -
75th Percentile £638 £475 -
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median daily rate £625 £450 -
% change year-on-year +38.89% - -

All System Software Skills
City of London

Microsoft App-V 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 183 147 236
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 7.84% 7.98% 11.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 132 102 171
10th Percentile £221 £264 £321
25th Percentile £416 £408 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £546 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.89% -0.68% -5.98%
75th Percentile £629 £638 £688
90th Percentile £681 £688 £730
Central London median daily rate £525 £525 £527
% change year-on-year - -0.28% -8.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 1
10th Percentile £20.23 £22.48 -
25th Percentile £21.69 £23.19 £77.50
Median hourly rate £24.75 £25.25 £85.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.98% -70.29% +134.48%
75th Percentile £28.19 £28.19 £92.50
90th Percentile £29.88 £29.43 -
Central London median hourly rate £30.00 £26.45 £85.00
% change year-on-year +13.42% -68.88% +134.48%

Microsoft App-V
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Microsoft App-V relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Microsoft App-V job vacancy trend in the City of London

Microsoft App-V
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Microsoft App-V.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Microsoft App-V

Microsoft App-V
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Microsoft App-V.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Microsoft App-V

Microsoft App-V
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of 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 (100.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) GCP
1 3 (100.00%) IaaS
1 3 (100.00%) OpenShift
1 3 (100.00%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) DHCP
1 3 (100.00%) DNS
1 3 (100.00%) Firewall
1 3 (100.00%) SMTP
1 3 (100.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
1 3 (100.00%) Big Data
1 3 (100.00%) Elasticsearch
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
1 3 (100.00%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
1 3 (100.00%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
1 3 (100.00%) 3rd Line Support
1 3 (100.00%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure Support
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
1 3 (100.00%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Clustering
1 3 (100.00%) Data Centre
1 3 (100.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
1 3 (100.00%) Windows Server
2 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) AI
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 3 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 3 (100.00%) Software Deployment
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) Degree
1 3 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 3 (100.00%) BitLocker
1 3 (100.00%) Docker
1 3 (100.00%) Hyper-V
1 3 (100.00%) Terminal Services
1 3 (100.00%) VMware ESXi
1 3 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Ansible
1 3 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (100.00%) Nagios
1 3 (100.00%) Puppet
1 3 (100.00%) vCenter Server
1 3 (100.00%) vMotion
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Citrix
1 3 (100.00%) Google
1 3 (100.00%) HP
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (100.00%) Symantec
1 3 (100.00%) VMware