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 16 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Virtual Desktop 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the City of Westminster 1.41% - -
As % of the System Software category 11.11% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £688 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 - -
75th Percentile £763 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median daily rate £380 £306 £450
% change year-on-year +24.08% -31.94% -13.46%

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 9 9 4
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of Westminster 12.68% 20.45% 8.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 6 2
10th Percentile £505 £331 £463
25th Percentile £513 £425 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £513 £513
Median % change year-on-year +17.07% - +32.26%
75th Percentile - £631 £544
90th Percentile £698 £650 £563
Central London median daily rate £525 £536 £520
% change year-on-year -2.05% +3.08% -9.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Median hourly rate - - £40.00
Central London median hourly rate £30.00 £27.48 £44.25
% change year-on-year +9.19% -37.91% +77.00%

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 16 July 2026. 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
Paddington - 1 £725 - 1
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Entra ID
General
1 1 (100.00%) Retail
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Project Manager
1 1 (100.00%) Strategic Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) FMCG
1 1 (100.00%) IoT
1 1 (100.00%) Operational Technology
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Change Management
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Identity Access Management
1 1 (100.00%) Network Segmentation
1 1 (100.00%) PRINCE2
1 1 (100.00%) Programme Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Project Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Project Management
1 1 (100.00%) Service Management
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) User Experience
1 1 (100.00%) Zero Trust
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) PMI Certification
1 1 (100.00%) PMP
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Zscaler