Virtual Desktop Contracts in the City of London

Virtual Desktop
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 117 119 148
Rank change year-on-year +2 +29 +37
Contract jobs citing Virtual Desktop 5 7 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.28% 0.33% 0.40%
As % of the System Software category 3.01% 2.69% 2.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 5 12
10th Percentile £231 £338 £379
25th Percentile £239 - £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £306 £450 £498
Median % change year-on-year -31.94% -9.55% -13.48%
75th Percentile £431 £614 £544
90th Percentile £578 - £827
Central London median daily rate £306 £450 £498
% change year-on-year -31.94% -9.55% -13.48%

All System Software Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 166 260 472
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 9.13% 12.19% 13.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 116 188 318
10th Percentile £234 £261 £200
25th Percentile £403 £386 £427
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% -8.70% +4.55%
75th Percentile £653 £688 £738
90th Percentile £700 £754 £813
Central London median daily rate £525 £500 £575
% change year-on-year +5.00% -13.04% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 2
10th Percentile £22.95 - £23.88
25th Percentile £24.38 - £27.81
Median hourly rate £28.50 £40.00 £36.25
Median % change year-on-year -28.75% +10.34% +36.79%
75th Percentile £108.88 £45.13 £45.31
90th Percentile £156.05 £48.20 £49.63
Central London median hourly rate £27.48 £40.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -31.31% +60.00% +7.53%

Virtual Desktop
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Virtual Desktop in the City of London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Virtual Desktop in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Virtual Desktop in the City of London

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Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Virtual Desktop in the City of London over the 6 months to 6 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Virtual Desktop in the City of London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Virtual Desktop in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for Virtual Desktop in the City of London

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 1 (20.00%) IIS
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (20.00%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) Azure
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (20.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (20.00%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (20.00%) Firewall
2 1 (20.00%) HTTP
2 1 (20.00%) Internet
2 1 (20.00%) Intranet
2 1 (20.00%) IP Telephony
2 1 (20.00%) LAN
2 1 (20.00%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
General
1 3 (60.00%) Banking
1 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Finance
3 1 (20.00%) Investment Banking
3 1 (20.00%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Support Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) 2nd Line Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) 2nd Line Support
2 1 (20.00%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Banking Infrastructure Project Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Banking Project Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Desktop Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Desktop Support
2 1 (20.00%) Desktop Support Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Project Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Junior
2 1 (20.00%) Junior Infrastructure Project Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Junior Project Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Monitoring Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Project Manager
2 1 (20.00%) SCCM Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) SCCM Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Video Conferencing
2 1 (20.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (20.00%) Mobile App
2 1 (20.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (80.00%) Windows
2 2 (40.00%) Windows 10
2 2 (40.00%) Windows Server
3 1 (20.00%) Linux
3 1 (20.00%) Mac OS X
3 1 (20.00%) VMS
3 1 (20.00%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Change Management
1 2 (40.00%) ITIL
1 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (20.00%) CRM
2 1 (20.00%) Customer Service
2 1 (20.00%) Disk Encryption
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Maintenance
2 1 (20.00%) Microservices
2 1 (20.00%) Patch Management
2 1 (20.00%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (20.00%) PRINCE2
2 1 (20.00%) Product Roadmap
2 1 (20.00%) Project Delivery
2 1 (20.00%) Project Management
2 1 (20.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (20.00%) SDLC
2 1 (20.00%) Security Management
2 1 (20.00%) Security Patching
2 1 (20.00%) Server Building
2 1 (20.00%) Server Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (20.00%) Python
1 1 (20.00%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) Degree
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Certification
2 1 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (20.00%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
2 1 (20.00%) MCSA
2 1 (20.00%) MCSE
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (20.00%) MOS
System Software
1 3 (60.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (20.00%) BitLocker
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft App-V
2 1 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (20.00%) XenApp
2 1 (20.00%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) SCCM
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (20.00%) WMI
2 1 (20.00%) WSUS
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Citrix
2 3 (60.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (20.00%) Apple
3 1 (20.00%) Avaya
3 1 (20.00%) Polycom
3 1 (20.00%) Spotify
3 1 (20.00%) VMware
3 1 (20.00%) Wyse