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 26 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 551 450 529
Rank change year-on-year -101 +79 +109
Contract jobs citing Microsoft App-V 22 32 19
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.062% 0.12% 0.051%
As % of the System Software category 0.52% 0.98% 0.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 12 12
10th Percentile £421 £466 £379
25th Percentile £472 £500 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £580 £528 £524
Median % change year-on-year +9.95% +0.72% +13.24%
75th Percentile £638 £564 £552
90th Percentile - £586 £573
UK median daily rate £580 £515 £523
% change year-on-year +12.62% -1.44% +16.11%
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 4,213 3,254 4,233
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.91% 12.63% 11.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,895 2,154 2,932
10th Percentile £205 £205 £188
25th Percentile £400 £380 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +10.53% -9.52%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £600
90th Percentile £695 £744 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £480
% change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 137 78 211
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.41 £14.06
25th Percentile £20.00 £21.10 £16.89
Median hourly rate £34.00 £30.75 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +10.57% -5.38% -15.58%
75th Percentile £70.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.40 £83.63 £76.53
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £32.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year +7.69% -18.75% -

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 26 February 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 26 February 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 -12 16 £625 -3.85% 2
Midlands - 4 £488 - 1
West Midlands - 4 £488 - 1
South West -29 2 £325 -39.81%
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 1 (4.55%) Confluence
1 1 (4.55%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 4 (18.18%) Entra ID
1 4 (18.18%) IaaS
1 4 (18.18%) PaaS
2 3 (13.64%) Azure
3 2 (9.09%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Copilot
4 1 (4.55%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 6 (27.27%) DNS
2 5 (22.73%) DHCP
2 5 (22.73%) Firewall
2 5 (22.73%) SMTP
3 4 (18.18%) VPN
4 1 (4.55%) HTTP
4 1 (4.55%) Internet
4 1 (4.55%) SD-WAN
4 1 (4.55%) TCP/IP
4 1 (4.55%) VLAN
4 1 (4.55%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (18.18%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 17 (77.27%) MSI
2 4 (18.18%) InstallShield
3 1 (4.55%) AdminStudio
3 1 (4.55%) GCC
3 1 (4.55%) JIRA
General
1 1 (4.55%) Finance
1 1 (4.55%) Presentation Skills
1 1 (4.55%) Publishing
1 1 (4.55%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (18.18%) 3rd Line Engineer
1 4 (18.18%) NetApp Engineer
1 4 (18.18%) Storage Engineer
2 3 (13.64%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (13.64%) Applications Packager
2 3 (13.64%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (13.64%) Senior
3 2 (9.09%) Applications Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) Applications Specialist
4 1 (4.55%) Citrix Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) Consultant
4 1 (4.55%) Deployment Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) Lead
4 1 (4.55%) SC Cleared Deployment Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) Senior Applications Packager
4 1 (4.55%) Senior Citrix Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
4 1 (4.55%) Senior Packager
4 1 (4.55%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.55%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 4 (18.18%) Clustering
1 4 (18.18%) Enterprise Storage
1 4 (18.18%) PKI
2 3 (13.64%) Legacy Applications
3 1 (4.55%) Cyber Defence
3 1 (4.55%) Data Centre
3 1 (4.55%) Fat Client
3 1 (4.55%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 21 (95.45%) Windows
2 5 (22.73%) Windows 10
3 4 (18.18%) Linux
3 4 (18.18%) Windows Server
3 4 (18.18%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (27.27%) Application Packaging
2 4 (18.18%) Incident Management
3 3 (13.64%) Compatibility Testing
3 3 (13.64%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 3 (13.64%) ITIL
4 2 (9.09%) Containerisation
4 2 (9.09%) Migration
5 1 (4.55%) Agile
5 1 (4.55%) Batch Scripting
5 1 (4.55%) Business Continuity
5 1 (4.55%) Change Management
5 1 (4.55%) Cloud Security
5 1 (4.55%) Data Protection
5 1 (4.55%) DevOps
5 1 (4.55%) High Availability
5 1 (4.55%) Information Security
5 1 (4.55%) Roadmaps
5 1 (4.55%) Software Delivery
5 1 (4.55%) User Experience
5 1 (4.55%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 11 (50.00%) PowerShell
2 5 (22.73%) VBScript
3 3 (13.64%) VB
Qualifications
1 5 (22.73%) Security Cleared
2 4 (18.18%) DV Cleared
3 1 (4.55%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (4.55%) MCSA
3 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (4.55%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 11 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 4 (18.18%) BitLocker
2 4 (18.18%) Docker
2 4 (18.18%) Hyper-V
2 4 (18.18%) VMware ESXi
2 4 (18.18%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (4.55%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 8 (36.36%) SCCM
2 4 (18.18%) Ansible
2 4 (18.18%) Kubernetes
2 4 (18.18%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (18.18%) Puppet
2 4 (18.18%) vCenter Server
2 4 (18.18%) vMotion
Vendors
1 17 (77.27%) Citrix
2 9 (40.91%) Microsoft
3 5 (22.73%) VMware
4 4 (18.18%) NetApp
5 1 (4.55%) Zscaler