Microsoft App-V Contracts in England

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

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Microsoft App-V skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Microsoft App-V over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 522 607 660
Rank change year-on-year +85 +53 -117
Contract jobs citing Microsoft App-V 13 56 119
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.035% 0.11% 0.17%
As % of the System Software category 0.32% 0.85% 1.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 42 85
10th Percentile £417 £283 £303
25th Percentile £450 £324 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £531 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +11.84% -5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £561 £528 £623
90th Percentile £598 £587 £650
UK median daily rate £513 £475 £480
% change year-on-year +7.89% -1.04% +6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile - - £15.94
25th Percentile - - £17.28
Median hourly rate £23.80 - £19.93
75th Percentile - - £22.17
90th Percentile - - £23.27
UK median hourly rate £23.80 - £17.50
% change year-on-year - - -73.48%

All System Software Skills
England

Microsoft App-V is in the System Software category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for system software skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 4,023 6,627 9,943
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 10.88% 13.11% 13.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,784 4,805 7,184
10th Percentile £190 £204 £195
25th Percentile £325 £388 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% - +10.53%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £638
90th Percentile £688 £738 £710
UK median daily rate £488 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -7.14% - +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 208 247 277
10th Percentile £14.06 £14.25 £13.31
25th Percentile £14.48 £17.72 £15.00
Median hourly rate £21.00 £50.00 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -58.00% +163.16% -
75th Percentile £57.80 £65.00 £28.75
90th Percentile £72.38 £75.60 £55.18
UK median hourly rate £22.50 £53.75 £20.00
% change year-on-year -58.14% +168.75% -

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 27 April 2024.

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 27 April 2024. 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 +95 7 £525 +61.54% 2
South East +21 2 £551 -19.93% 3
South West +18 2 - - 2
North of England +16 1 £600 +20.00%
North East - 1 £600 -
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 3 (23.08%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (15.38%) IIS
2 2 (15.38%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (15.38%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 4 (30.77%) Azure
2 3 (23.08%) Entra ID
2 3 (23.08%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (15.38%) AWS
3 2 (15.38%) Azure ExpressRoute
3 2 (15.38%) Mimecast
3 2 (15.38%) Nutanix
3 2 (15.38%) Rubrik
4 1 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (7.69%) GCP
4 1 (7.69%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 3 (23.08%) DNS
1 3 (23.08%) Firewall
1 3 (23.08%) VPN
2 2 (15.38%) DKIM
2 2 (15.38%) DMARC
2 2 (15.38%) Extranet
2 2 (15.38%) Internet
2 2 (15.38%) LAN
2 2 (15.38%) NAS
2 2 (15.38%) NetScaler
2 2 (15.38%) SAN
2 2 (15.38%) Wi-Fi
2 2 (15.38%) Wireless
3 1 (7.69%) DHCP
3 1 (7.69%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.69%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (7.69%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (15.38%) MSI
General
1 1 (7.69%) Finance
1 1 (7.69%) Presentation Skills
1 1 (7.69%) Public Sector
1 1 (7.69%) Social Skills
1 1 (7.69%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (30.77%) Applications Packager
2 3 (23.08%) Architect
3 2 (15.38%) Applications Architect
3 2 (15.38%) IT Support
3 2 (15.38%) Lead
3 2 (15.38%) Senior
3 2 (15.38%) Support Officer
4 1 (7.69%) Citrix Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Desktop Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Lead Architect
4 1 (7.69%) SC Cleared Application Packager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (15.38%) Software Packaging
1 2 (15.38%) WSH
2 1 (7.69%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 3 (23.08%) Data Centre
1 3 (23.08%) PKI
2 2 (15.38%) Fat Client
2 2 (15.38%) Thin Client
2 2 (15.38%) Virtual Team
3 1 (7.69%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 7 (53.85%) Windows
2 4 (30.77%) Windows 10
3 3 (23.08%) Windows Server
3 3 (23.08%) Windows Server 2019
4 2 (15.38%) Unix
4 2 (15.38%) Windows 7
4 2 (15.38%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (7.69%) Windows Server 2003
5 1 (7.69%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (38.46%) Application Packaging
2 3 (23.08%) Deployment Automation
2 3 (23.08%) High Availability
2 3 (23.08%) Identity Access Management
2 3 (23.08%) ITIL
2 3 (23.08%) Software Deployment
3 2 (15.38%) Application Virtualisation
3 2 (15.38%) Capacity Management
3 2 (15.38%) Converged Infrastructure
3 2 (15.38%) Infrastructure Management
3 2 (15.38%) Kalman Filter
3 2 (15.38%) Mobile Device Management
3 2 (15.38%) Network Monitoring
3 2 (15.38%) Patch Management
3 2 (15.38%) Security Hardening
3 2 (15.38%) Server Management
3 2 (15.38%) Task Automation
3 2 (15.38%) Technical Debt
3 2 (15.38%) Technical Leadership
3 2 (15.38%) Web Filtering
Programming Languages
1 9 (69.23%) PowerShell
2 2 (15.38%) SQL
2 2 (15.38%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 2 (15.38%) Security Cleared
2 1 (7.69%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (7.69%) Degree
2 1 (7.69%) DV Cleared
2 1 (7.69%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (15.38%) SLA
2 1 (7.69%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (7.69%) PMO
2 1 (7.69%) QA
System Software
1 5 (38.46%) Active Directory
2 3 (23.08%) BitLocker
2 3 (23.08%) Hyper-V
2 3 (23.08%) Virtual Desktop
2 3 (23.08%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (15.38%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (15.38%) XenApp
3 2 (15.38%) XenDesktop
4 1 (7.69%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 6 (46.15%) SCCM
2 2 (15.38%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 2 (15.38%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (15.38%) NetBackup
2 2 (15.38%) SCOM
2 2 (15.38%) SCVMM
2 2 (15.38%) VxRail
2 2 (15.38%) WMI
3 1 (7.69%) vCenter Server
3 1 (7.69%) vMotion
Vendors
1 8 (61.54%) Microsoft
2 7 (53.85%) Citrix
3 3 (23.08%) HP
3 3 (23.08%) VMware
4 2 (15.38%) Avaya
4 2 (15.38%) Brocade
4 2 (15.38%) Cisco
4 2 (15.38%) Commvault
4 2 (15.38%) Dell
4 2 (15.38%) Dell Compellent
4 2 (15.38%) EMC
4 2 (15.38%) Equitrac
4 2 (15.38%) F5
4 2 (15.38%) Forcepoint
4 2 (15.38%) Juniper
4 2 (15.38%) Mitel
4 2 (15.38%) MobileIron
4 2 (15.38%) Proofpoint
4 2 (15.38%) SolarWinds
4 2 (15.38%) Wyse