Microsoft App-V Contracts in England

Microsoft Application Virtualisation (AppV) formerly Softricity SoftGrid
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Microsoft App-V skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Microsoft App-V over the 6 months leading up to 5 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 450 513 594
Rank change year-on-year +63 +81 +80
Contract jobs citing Microsoft App-V 42 32 56
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.16% 0.086% 0.12%
As % of the System Software category 1.28% 0.76% 0.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 18 41
10th Percentile £401 £380 £313
25th Percentile £425 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% -5.26% +2.70%
75th Percentile £588 £506 £500
90th Percentile £599 £552 £588
UK median daily rate £550 £450 £473
% change year-on-year +22.22% -4.76% +4.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £34.25
Median hourly rate - £23.80 £34.50
Median % change year-on-year - -31.01% +43.75%
75th Percentile - £58.49 £34.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - £23.80 £34.50
% change year-on-year - -31.01% +66.27%

All System Software Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 3,269 4,238 6,153
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 12.33% 11.37% 12.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,153 2,935 4,384
10th Percentile £221 £211 £200
25th Percentile £375 £375 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -
75th Percentile £600 £608 £650
90th Percentile £700 £688 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 77 197 217
10th Percentile £15.05 £14.06 £14.25
25th Percentile £22.50 £15.50 £17.50
Median hourly rate £30.00 £22.30 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +34.53% -55.40% +150.00%
75th Percentile £72.50 £58.69 £66.00
90th Percentile £88.30 £70.00 £77.10
UK median hourly rate £28.00 £23.99 £54.00
% change year-on-year +16.72% -55.57% +170.00%

Microsoft App-V
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Microsoft App-V as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft App-V in England

Microsoft App-V
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Microsoft App-V in England.

Daily rate trend for Microsoft App-V in England

Microsoft App-V
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft App-V in England over the 6 months to 5 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft App-V in England

Microsoft App-V
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Microsoft App-V in England.

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft App-V in England

Microsoft App-V
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft App-V within the England region over the 6 months to 5 July 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
London +48 21 £544 +20.83% 9
South East +41 14 £575 +33.10% 2
North of England +5 3 £275 -31.25%
Yorkshire - 3 £275 -
South West +36 1 - -
West Midlands - 1 £700 -
Midlands - 1 £700 - 1
Microsoft App-V
UK

Microsoft App-V
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 14 (33.33%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (7.14%) SharePoint
3 2 (4.76%) Confluence
4 1 (2.38%) IIS
4 1 (2.38%) Skype for Business
Cloud Services
1 13 (30.95%) AWS
2 10 (23.81%) IaaS
2 10 (23.81%) Microsoft 365
3 9 (21.43%) GCP
3 9 (21.43%) OpenShift
3 9 (21.43%) PaaS
4 8 (19.05%) Azure
5 4 (9.52%) Entra ID
6 3 (7.14%) Mimecast
6 3 (7.14%) OneDrive
7 2 (4.76%) Microsoft Copilot
8 1 (2.38%) Nutanix
8 1 (2.38%) Power Automate
8 1 (2.38%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 19 (45.24%) DHCP
1 19 (45.24%) DNS
2 16 (38.10%) Firewall
3 12 (28.57%) VPN
4 10 (23.81%) SMTP
5 6 (14.29%) NetScaler
6 3 (7.14%) SD-WAN
6 3 (7.14%) VLAN
6 3 (7.14%) WAN
7 2 (4.76%) HTTP
7 2 (4.76%) Internet
8 1 (2.38%) HTTPS
8 1 (2.38%) Remote Desktop
8 1 (2.38%) SAN
8 1 (2.38%) SSL
8 1 (2.38%) TCP/IP
8 1 (2.38%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (21.43%) Amazon RDS
1 9 (21.43%) Big Data
1 9 (21.43%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 13 (30.95%) MSI
2 3 (7.14%) AdminStudio
General
1 9 (21.43%) Finance
2 8 (19.05%) Public Sector
3 6 (14.29%) Social Skills
4 5 (11.90%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (7.14%) Banking
6 1 (2.38%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 12 (28.57%) Support Engineer
2 10 (23.81%) 3rd Line Support
3 9 (21.43%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 9 (21.43%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
4 8 (19.05%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 7 (16.67%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
5 7 (16.67%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
5 7 (16.67%) Infrastructure Support
5 7 (16.67%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
6 6 (14.29%) Applications Packager
7 5 (11.90%) Citrix Engineer
8 3 (7.14%) Applications Specialist
8 3 (7.14%) Consultant
8 3 (7.14%) Lead
8 3 (7.14%) Project Manager
9 2 (4.76%) Analyst
9 2 (4.76%) Infrastructure Project Manager
9 2 (4.76%) Lead Consultant
9 2 (4.76%) Microsoft Engineer
9 2 (4.76%) SC Cleared Application Packager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.38%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 12 (28.57%) Data Centre
2 10 (23.81%) Clustering
2 10 (23.81%) PKI
3 1 (2.38%) BYOD
3 1 (2.38%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (2.38%) Driving Licence
3 1 (2.38%) Fat Client
3 1 (2.38%) Legacy Applications
3 1 (2.38%) Product Ownership
3 1 (2.38%) Thin Client
3 1 (2.38%) Video Conferencing
3 1 (2.38%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 36 (85.71%) Windows
2 13 (30.95%) Windows Server
3 12 (28.57%) Windows 10
4 10 (23.81%) Linux
5 8 (19.05%) Windows 7
6 5 (11.90%) Windows Server 2003
7 1 (2.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (2.38%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (35.71%) Application Packaging
2 12 (28.57%) Software Deployment
3 9 (21.43%) Artificial Intelligence
3 9 (21.43%) DevOps
3 9 (21.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 9 (21.43%) Machine Learning
4 6 (14.29%) Application Virtualisation
4 6 (14.29%) Migration
5 5 (11.90%) Deployment Automation
5 5 (11.90%) Load Balancing
6 4 (9.52%) Containerisation
6 4 (9.52%) ITIL
6 4 (9.52%) User Acceptance Testing
7 3 (7.14%) Business Continuity
7 3 (7.14%) Desktop Virtualisation
7 3 (7.14%) Threat Management
7 3 (7.14%) Vulnerability Remediation
8 2 (4.76%) Application Discovery
8 2 (4.76%) Design Patterns
8 2 (4.76%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 22 (52.38%) PowerShell
2 3 (7.14%) VBScript
3 1 (2.38%) SQL
Qualifications
1 19 (45.24%) Security Cleared
2 14 (33.33%) DV Cleared
3 10 (23.81%) Degree
4 4 (9.52%) SC Cleared
5 1 (2.38%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (2.38%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (2.38%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (11.90%) QA
System Software
1 25 (59.52%) Active Directory
2 12 (28.57%) BitLocker
3 11 (26.19%) Hyper-V
3 11 (26.19%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (23.81%) Terminal Services
4 10 (23.81%) VMware ESXi
5 9 (21.43%) Docker
6 3 (7.14%) Virtual Desktop
6 3 (7.14%) XenDesktop
7 2 (4.76%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 19 (45.24%) SCCM
2 12 (28.57%) Microsoft Intune
3 10 (23.81%) vCenter Server
3 10 (23.81%) vMotion
4 9 (21.43%) Ansible
4 9 (21.43%) Kubernetes
4 9 (21.43%) Nagios
4 9 (21.43%) Puppet
5 2 (4.76%) ThinApp
5 2 (4.76%) WSUS
6 1 (2.38%) Backup Exec
6 1 (2.38%) NetBackup
6 1 (2.38%) SysTrack
6 1 (2.38%) Terraform
Vendors
1 26 (61.90%) Microsoft
2 24 (57.14%) Citrix
3 11 (26.19%) VMware
4 10 (23.81%) HP
5 9 (21.43%) Google
5 9 (21.43%) Symantec
6 2 (4.76%) Ivanti
7 1 (2.38%) Cisco
7 1 (2.38%) IBM
7 1 (2.38%) NetApp
7 1 (2.38%) Nexthink
7 1 (2.38%) Wyse