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 20 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 614 482 492
Rank change year-on-year -132 +10 +73
Contract jobs citing Microsoft App-V 24 39 42
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.052% 0.14% 0.13%
As % of the System Software category 0.52% 1.15% 1.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 29 20
10th Percentile £332 £339 £376
25th Percentile £444 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £538 £432
Median % change year-on-year +16.28% +24.42% +4.35%
75th Percentile £675 £588 £532
90th Percentile £700 £590 £576
UK median daily rate £625 £538 £441
% change year-on-year +16.28% +21.88% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 7
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £23.80
Median hourly rate - - £56.75
75th Percentile - - £58.05
90th Percentile - - £58.49
UK median hourly rate - - £56.75
% change year-on-year - - +64.48%

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 4,624 3,392 3,847
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.98% 12.21% 11.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,009 2,174 2,580
10th Percentile £218 £213 £220
25th Percentile £390 £375 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year - -2.44% -
75th Percentile £600 £600 £611
90th Percentile £688 £675 £699
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
Number of hourly rates quoted 232 101 99
10th Percentile £17.75 £15.50 £14.16
25th Percentile £33.70 £22.50 £17.22
Median hourly rate £65.00 £34.50 £24.50
Median % change year-on-year +88.41% +40.82% -48.81%
75th Percentile £75.00 £80.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £92.11 £90.00 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £63.14 £33.39 £24.50
% change year-on-year +89.11% +36.27% -51.00%

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 20 September 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 20 September 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
London -79 15 £625 +17.65% 5
North of England -63 6 £425 +54.55% 3
North West - 6 £425 - 3
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 3 (12.50%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 12 (50.00%) Entra ID
2 10 (41.67%) Azure
3 5 (20.83%) AWS
4 4 (16.67%) IaaS
4 4 (16.67%) PaaS
5 3 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (12.50%) GCP
5 3 (12.50%) OpenShift
6 2 (8.33%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (8.33%) GitHub
6 2 (8.33%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (8.33%) OneDrive
7 1 (4.17%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (4.17%) Power Platform
7 1 (4.17%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 6 (25.00%) DHCP
1 6 (25.00%) DNS
2 4 (16.67%) Firewall
2 4 (16.67%) SMTP
2 4 (16.67%) VPN
3 2 (8.33%) PCoIP
3 2 (8.33%) Remote Desktop
4 1 (4.17%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (16.67%) Elasticsearch
2 3 (12.50%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (12.50%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 15 (62.50%) MSI
2 6 (25.00%) InstallShield
3 2 (8.33%) AdminStudio
General
1 6 (25.00%) Finance
2 4 (16.67%) Social Skills
3 3 (12.50%) Military
4 2 (8.33%) Banking
4 2 (8.33%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (8.33%) Public Sector
5 1 (4.17%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (4.17%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 7 (29.17%) Applications Engineer
2 5 (20.83%) Applications Packager
2 5 (20.83%) Senior
3 4 (16.67%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 4 (16.67%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
3 4 (16.67%) Desktop Engineer
3 4 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (12.50%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
4 3 (12.50%) 3rd Line Support
4 3 (12.50%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
4 3 (12.50%) Infrastructure Support
4 3 (12.50%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
4 3 (12.50%) Support Engineer
4 3 (12.50%) Testing Engineer
5 2 (8.33%) Architect
5 2 (8.33%) Senior Applications Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) Azure Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) Migration Specialist
6 1 (4.17%) NetApp Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) Senior Wintel Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (20.83%) Microsoft Graph
2 3 (12.50%) Terraform
3 2 (8.33%) ADO
3 2 (8.33%) JSON
3 2 (8.33%) OpenGL
3 2 (8.33%) Qt
4 1 (4.17%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 6 (25.00%) Enterprise Software
2 5 (20.83%) Data Centre
3 4 (16.67%) Clustering
3 4 (16.67%) Legacy Applications
3 4 (16.67%) PKI
4 2 (8.33%) CUDA
4 2 (8.33%) Onboarding
5 1 (4.17%) Enterprise Storage
Operating Systems
1 15 (62.50%) Windows
2 7 (29.17%) Windows Server
3 6 (25.00%) Linux
4 2 (8.33%) Windows Server 2003
4 2 (8.33%) Windows Server 2016
4 2 (8.33%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (75.00%) Application Packaging
2 8 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 6 (25.00%) DevOps
4 5 (20.83%) Deployment Automation
4 5 (20.83%) Machine Learning
4 5 (20.83%) Migration
4 5 (20.83%) Technical Discovery
5 4 (16.67%) AI
5 4 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 4 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (16.67%) User Experience
5 4 (16.67%) Zero Trust
6 3 (12.50%) Incident Management
6 3 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
6 3 (12.50%) Root Cause Analysis
6 3 (12.50%) Software Deployment
6 3 (12.50%) User Acceptance Testing
7 2 (8.33%) Project Delivery
7 2 (8.33%) Scaled Agile Framework
7 2 (8.33%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 17 (70.83%) PowerShell
2 2 (8.33%) Bash
2 2 (8.33%) Python
3 1 (4.17%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 6 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (16.67%) DV Cleared
3 3 (12.50%) Degree
4 2 (8.33%) AWS Certification
4 2 (8.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (8.33%) Azure Certification
4 2 (8.33%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (8.33%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (12.50%) QA
System Software
1 15 (62.50%) Active Directory
2 8 (33.33%) Virtual Desktop
3 6 (25.00%) Docker
3 6 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (16.67%) BitLocker
4 4 (16.67%) Hyper-V
4 4 (16.67%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (12.50%) Terminal Services
6 2 (8.33%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 18 (75.00%) SCCM
2 10 (41.67%) Microsoft Intune
3 6 (25.00%) Ansible
4 4 (16.67%) Kubernetes
4 4 (16.67%) Puppet
4 4 (16.67%) vCenter Server
4 4 (16.67%) vMotion
5 3 (12.50%) Nagios
6 2 (8.33%) Packer
Vendors
1 20 (83.33%) Microsoft
2 9 (37.50%) Citrix
3 6 (25.00%) VMware
4 5 (20.83%) HP
5 3 (12.50%) Google
5 3 (12.50%) Ivanti
5 3 (12.50%) Symantec
5 3 (12.50%) Zscaler
6 2 (8.33%) Dynatrace
6 2 (8.33%) Leostream
6 2 (8.33%) NVIDIA
6 2 (8.33%) Ping Identity
7 1 (4.17%) NetApp
7 1 (4.17%) Nexthink