Microsoft App-V Contract Job Trends in England

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

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Microsoft App-V skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 530 466 530
Rank change year-on-year -64 +64 +131
Contract jobs citing Microsoft App-V 18 34 19
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.056% 0.13% 0.052%
As % of the System Software category 0.45% 1.05% 0.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 13 12
10th Percentile £325 £406 £379
25th Percentile £343 £463 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% -0.05% +1.06%
75th Percentile £613 £553 £541
90th Percentile £638 £572 £573
UK median daily rate £575 £506 £500
% change year-on-year +13.58% +1.25% +9.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £56.75 -
UK median hourly rate - £56.75 -

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 4,037 3,235 4,399
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 12.47% 12.06% 12.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,755 2,088 3,071
10th Percentile £213 £200 £190
25th Percentile £400 £366 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £490
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +7.14% -7.55%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £600
90th Percentile £700 £725 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 128 78 201
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.59 £14.25
25th Percentile £20.82 £21.10 £18.00
Median hourly rate £37.97 £28.71 £43.84
Median % change year-on-year +32.28% -34.52% +13.87%
75th Percentile £70.00 £64.00 £67.38
90th Percentile £89.13 £75.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £41.94 £28.71 £50.00
% change year-on-year +46.11% -42.59% +29.87%

Microsoft App-V
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Microsoft App-V relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Microsoft App-V job vacancy trend in England

Microsoft App-V
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Microsoft App-V.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Microsoft App-V

Microsoft App-V
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft App-V in England over the 6 months to 22 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft App-V in England

Microsoft App-V
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Microsoft App-V.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Microsoft App-V

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 22 January 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
South West -10 8 £345 -36.11% 6
London -14 8 £605 - 4
Midlands - 2 - - 6
West Midlands - 2 - - 1
Microsoft App-V
UK

Microsoft App-V
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (11.11%) SharePoint
2 1 (5.56%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 5 (27.78%) Entra ID
2 4 (22.22%) Azure
3 3 (16.67%) IaaS
3 3 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (16.67%) PaaS
4 2 (11.11%) Microsoft Copilot
4 2 (11.11%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 6 (33.33%) DNS
2 5 (27.78%) DHCP
2 5 (27.78%) Firewall
3 4 (22.22%) SMTP
4 3 (16.67%) VPN
5 2 (11.11%) SD-WAN
5 2 (11.11%) VLAN
5 2 (11.11%) WAN
6 1 (5.56%) HTTP
6 1 (5.56%) Internet
6 1 (5.56%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (16.67%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 13 (72.22%) MSI
2 7 (38.89%) InstallShield
3 5 (27.78%) AdminStudio
4 1 (5.56%) GCC
4 1 (5.56%) JIRA
General
1 2 (11.11%) Finance
2 1 (5.56%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (5.56%) Presentation Skills
2 1 (5.56%) Public Sector
2 1 (5.56%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (38.89%) Applications Engineer
1 7 (38.89%) Deployment Engineer
2 5 (27.78%) SC Cleared Deployment Engineer
3 3 (16.67%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 3 (16.67%) NetApp Engineer
3 3 (16.67%) Storage Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Lead
5 1 (5.56%) Consultant
5 1 (5.56%) Senior
5 1 (5.56%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.56%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 7 (38.89%) Legacy Applications
2 3 (16.67%) Clustering
2 3 (16.67%) Enterprise Storage
2 3 (16.67%) PKI
3 2 (11.11%) Data Centre
4 1 (5.56%) Cyber Defence
4 1 (5.56%) Fat Client
4 1 (5.56%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 18 (100.00%) Windows
2 10 (55.56%) Windows 10
3 3 (16.67%) Linux
3 3 (16.67%) Windows Server
3 3 (16.67%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (55.56%) Application Packaging
2 7 (38.89%) ITIL
3 5 (27.78%) Batch Scripting
3 5 (27.78%) Software Delivery
4 4 (22.22%) Agile
4 4 (22.22%) DevOps
5 3 (16.67%) Change Management
5 3 (16.67%) Incident Management
6 2 (11.11%) Business Continuity
6 2 (11.11%) Cloud Security
6 2 (11.11%) Compatibility Testing
6 2 (11.11%) Containerisation
6 2 (11.11%) Desktop Virtualisation
6 2 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 2 (11.11%) Robotic Process Automation
6 2 (11.11%) Threat Management
6 2 (11.11%) Vulnerability Remediation
7 1 (5.56%) Issue Tracking
7 1 (5.56%) Performance Optimisation
7 1 (5.56%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 14 (77.78%) PowerShell
2 10 (55.56%) VBScript
3 2 (11.11%) VB
Qualifications
1 9 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 6 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 4 (22.22%) MCSA
3 4 (22.22%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (16.67%) DV Cleared
5 1 (5.56%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (5.56%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
System Software
1 16 (88.89%) Active Directory
2 3 (16.67%) BitLocker
2 3 (16.67%) Docker
2 3 (16.67%) Hyper-V
2 3 (16.67%) VMware ESXi
2 3 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (5.56%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 13 (72.22%) SCCM
2 5 (27.78%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (16.67%) Ansible
3 3 (16.67%) Kubernetes
3 3 (16.67%) Puppet
3 3 (16.67%) vCenter Server
3 3 (16.67%) vMotion
Vendors
1 12 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 7 (38.89%) Citrix
3 3 (16.67%) NetApp
3 3 (16.67%) VMware
4 1 (5.56%) Zscaler