Virtual Desktop Contract Job Trends in the City of Westminster

Virtual Desktop
Central London > City of Westminster

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of Westminster requiring Virtual Desktop skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 11 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Virtual Desktop 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the City of Westminster 2.27% - -
As % of the System Software category 9.09% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £469 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 - -
75th Percentile £506 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median daily rate £263 £593 £540
% change year-on-year -55.70% +9.72% -12.90%

All System Software Skills
City of Westminster

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 Westminster.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 11 3 4
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of Westminster 25.00% 5.08% 8.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 3 4
10th Percentile £444 £420 £558
25th Percentile £464 £431 £633
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £450 £775
Median % change year-on-year +6.94% -41.94% +82.35%
75th Percentile £614 £513 £859
90th Percentile £717 £550 £876
Central London median daily rate £539 £560 £518
% change year-on-year -3.71% +8.21% -7.80%

Virtual Desktop
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of Westminster

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Virtual Desktop relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of Westminster.

Virtual Desktop job vacancy trend in the City of Westminster

Virtual Desktop
Daily Rate Trend in the City of Westminster

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of Westminster citing Virtual Desktop.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of Westminster citing Virtual Desktop

Virtual Desktop
Contract Job Locations in the City of Westminster

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 City of Westminster region over the 6 months to 20 November 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
Mayfair - 1 £488 -
Virtual Desktop
Central London

Virtual Desktop
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of Westminster 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) WebEx
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Citrix Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) QA Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Manual Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Regression Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Security Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Citrix