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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 454 528 597
Rank change year-on-year +74 +69 +67
Contract jobs citing Microsoft App-V 31 14 56
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.13% 0.038% 0.11%
As % of the System Software category 1.00% 0.35% 0.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 9 42
10th Percentile £400 £372 £283
25th Percentile £453 £450 £324
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £525 £475
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +10.53% -5.00%
75th Percentile £588 £556 £528
90th Percentile £594 £590 £587
UK median daily rate £544 £500 £475
% change year-on-year +8.75% +5.26% -2.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £23.80 -
UK median hourly rate - £23.80 -

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 3,088 4,031 6,595
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 12.68% 10.84% 13.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,136 2,794 4,778
10th Percentile £213 £190 £204
25th Percentile £400 £325 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £494 £525
Median % change year-on-year +6.33% -5.95% -
75th Percentile £625 £600 £650
90th Percentile £725 £688 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £488 £525
% change year-on-year +7.69% -7.14% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 73 209 243
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.06 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.13 £14.48 £17.72
Median hourly rate £27.94 £21.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +33.05% -58.00% +163.16%
75th Percentile £64.50 £58.69 £65.00
90th Percentile £87.65 £72.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £22.50 £53.43
% change year-on-year +22.22% -57.88% +167.13%

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 1 May 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 1 May 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
South East +57 13 £575 +4.45% 2
London +42 12 £563 +15.38% 4
South West +46 2 - -
North of England +20 2 £275 -54.17%
Yorkshire - 1 £275 -
North West - 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 16 (51.61%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (16.13%) SharePoint
3 3 (9.68%) IIS
4 2 (6.45%) SharePoint Server
5 1 (3.23%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 2 (6.45%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 12 (38.71%) AWS
2 10 (32.26%) Azure
3 9 (29.03%) GCP
3 9 (29.03%) IaaS
3 9 (29.03%) OpenShift
3 9 (29.03%) PaaS
4 8 (25.81%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (12.90%) Entra ID
6 3 (9.68%) Mimecast
6 3 (9.68%) OneDrive
7 2 (6.45%) Microsoft Copilot
8 1 (3.23%) Power Automate
8 1 (3.23%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 16 (51.61%) Firewall
2 15 (48.39%) DNS
3 13 (41.94%) DHCP
4 11 (35.48%) VPN
5 10 (32.26%) SMTP
6 4 (12.90%) HTTP
7 3 (9.68%) HTTPS
7 3 (9.68%) SD-WAN
7 3 (9.68%) SSL
7 3 (9.68%) VLAN
7 3 (9.68%) WAN
8 1 (3.23%) SAN
8 1 (3.23%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (29.03%) Amazon RDS
1 9 (29.03%) Big Data
1 9 (29.03%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 10 (32.26%) MSI
2 3 (9.68%) AdminStudio
3 2 (6.45%) JIRA
General
1 8 (25.81%) Public Sector
1 8 (25.81%) Social Skills
2 5 (16.13%) Finance
3 3 (9.68%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (6.45%) Publishing
5 1 (3.23%) Banking
Job Titles
1 10 (32.26%) 3rd Line Support
1 10 (32.26%) Support Engineer
2 9 (29.03%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 9 (29.03%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
3 8 (25.81%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 7 (22.58%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
4 7 (22.58%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
4 7 (22.58%) Infrastructure Support
4 7 (22.58%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
5 5 (16.13%) Applications Packager
6 3 (9.68%) Consultant
6 3 (9.68%) Lead
7 2 (6.45%) Azure Architect
7 2 (6.45%) Infrastructure Project Manager
7 2 (6.45%) Lead Consultant
7 2 (6.45%) Microsoft 365 Architect
7 2 (6.45%) Microsoft 365 Consultant
7 2 (6.45%) Microsoft Engineer
7 2 (6.45%) SC Cleared Application Packager
7 2 (6.45%) Wintel Technical Architect
Miscellaneous
1 12 (38.71%) Data Centre
2 10 (32.26%) Clustering
2 10 (32.26%) PKI
3 2 (6.45%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (6.45%) Management Information System
4 1 (3.23%) Driving Licence
4 1 (3.23%) Product Ownership
4 1 (3.23%) Video Conferencing
4 1 (3.23%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 27 (87.10%) Windows
2 16 (51.61%) Windows Server
3 11 (35.48%) Windows 10
4 9 (29.03%) Linux
5 8 (25.81%) Windows 7
6 5 (16.13%) Windows Server 2003
7 2 (6.45%) Android
7 2 (6.45%) Apple iOS
7 2 (6.45%) Mac OS
7 2 (6.45%) Windows Server 2012
7 2 (6.45%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (6.45%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (38.71%) Software Deployment
2 9 (29.03%) Artificial Intelligence
2 9 (29.03%) DevOps
2 9 (29.03%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 9 (29.03%) Machine Learning
3 8 (25.81%) Application Packaging
4 5 (16.13%) ITIL
5 4 (12.90%) User Acceptance Testing
6 3 (9.68%) Agile
6 3 (9.68%) Application Virtualisation
6 3 (9.68%) Business Continuity
6 3 (9.68%) Configuration Management
6 3 (9.68%) Containerisation
6 3 (9.68%) Customer Requirements
6 3 (9.68%) Migration
6 3 (9.68%) Project Delivery
6 3 (9.68%) Service Design
6 3 (9.68%) Software Distribution
6 3 (9.68%) Threat Management
6 3 (9.68%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 22 (70.97%) PowerShell
2 5 (16.13%) VBScript
3 2 (6.45%) SQL
3 2 (6.45%) VB
Qualifications
1 22 (70.97%) Security Cleared
2 15 (48.39%) DV Cleared
3 12 (38.71%) Degree
4 5 (16.13%) SC Cleared
5 2 (6.45%) MCP
5 2 (6.45%) MCSA
5 2 (6.45%) MCSE
5 2 (6.45%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (3.23%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (3.23%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (3.23%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (9.68%) QA
2 2 (6.45%) NCSC
System Software
1 22 (70.97%) Active Directory
2 14 (45.16%) BitLocker
3 13 (41.94%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (35.48%) Hyper-V
5 10 (32.26%) Terminal Services
5 10 (32.26%) VMware ESXi
6 9 (29.03%) Docker
7 4 (12.90%) Virtual Desktop
8 2 (6.45%) XenDesktop
9 1 (3.23%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 19 (61.29%) SCCM
2 10 (32.26%) Microsoft Intune
2 10 (32.26%) vCenter Server
2 10 (32.26%) vMotion
3 9 (29.03%) Ansible
3 9 (29.03%) Kubernetes
3 9 (29.03%) Nagios
3 9 (29.03%) Puppet
4 4 (12.90%) WSUS
5 2 (6.45%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 2 (6.45%) ThinApp
6 1 (3.23%) Backup Exec
6 1 (3.23%) NetBackup
6 1 (3.23%) Terraform
Vendors
1 24 (77.42%) Microsoft
2 16 (51.61%) Citrix
3 13 (41.94%) VMware
4 11 (35.48%) Symantec
5 10 (32.26%) HP
6 9 (29.03%) Google
7 2 (6.45%) Ivanti
7 2 (6.45%) McAfee
8 1 (3.23%) IBM
8 1 (3.23%) NetApp