Virtual Desktop Contract Job Trends in the East Midlands

Virtual Desktop
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring Virtual Desktop skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 69 63 69
Rank change year-on-year -6 +6 +17
Contract jobs citing Virtual Desktop 1 7 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 0.13% 0.89% 0.23%
As % of the System Software category 1.27% 7.45% 1.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 2
10th Percentile - - £633
25th Percentile £103 - £645
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £105 £450 £680
Median % change year-on-year -76.67% -33.82% +29.52%
75th Percentile £108 £475 £705
90th Percentile - £490 £711
England median daily rate £450 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -10.00% +5.26% -5.00%

All System Software Skills
East Midlands

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 East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 79 94 134
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 10.17% 11.97% 15.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 57 100
10th Percentile £142 £182 £156
25th Percentile £265 £263 £196
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £415 £400 £350
Median % change year-on-year +3.75% +14.29% +29.03%
75th Percentile £488 £500 £530
90th Percentile £550 £530 £650
England median daily rate £500 £513 £513
% change year-on-year -2.44% - -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 7
10th Percentile - £18.65 £13.25
25th Percentile - £19.40 £13.89
Median hourly rate - £21.26 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year - +19.98% -1.56%
75th Percentile - £23.60 £20.75
90th Percentile - £24.62 £21.50
England median hourly rate £36.00 £24.18 £47.86
% change year-on-year +48.88% -49.48% +117.56%

Virtual Desktop
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Virtual Desktop in the East Midlands

Virtual Desktop
Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Virtual Desktop.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Virtual Desktop

Virtual Desktop
Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Virtual Desktop.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Virtual Desktop

Virtual Desktop
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

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 East Midlands region over the 6 months to 14 September 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
Nottinghamshire - 1 £105 - 4
Virtual Desktop
England

Virtual Desktop
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands 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:

General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Desktop Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Desktop Support
1 1 (100.00%) Desktop Support Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Support Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (100.00%) vSphere
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) VMware