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

6 months to
26 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 542 446 535
Rank change year-on-year -96 +89 +76
Contract jobs citing Microsoft App-V 30 30 13
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.075% 0.12% 0.035%
As % of the System Software category 0.70% 0.96% 0.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 25 8
10th Percentile £469 £400 £417
25th Percentile £509 £500 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £575 £531
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% +8.24% +11.84%
75th Percentile £638 £588 £561
90th Percentile £644 £595 £598
UK median daily rate £625 £550 £513
% change year-on-year +13.64% +7.32% +7.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
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 4,296 3,121 4,059
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 10.75% 12.76% 10.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,920 2,164 2,812
10th Percentile £213 £213 £190
25th Percentile £400 £400 £319
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £488
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +7.69% -7.14%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £600
90th Percentile £694 £725 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £488
% change year-on-year -4.76% +7.69% -7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 158 76 211
10th Percentile £17.64 £14.99 £14.06
25th Percentile £25.85 £18.13 £14.48
Median hourly rate £56.25 £28.00 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +100.89% +27.27% -56.00%
75th Percentile £74.00 £64.63 £58.09
90th Percentile £95.00 £87.13 £70.66
UK median hourly rate £52.50 £28.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year +87.50% +24.44% -57.14%

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 April 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 April 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 -57 25 £625 +8.70% 1
Midlands - 5 £488 -
West Midlands - 5 £488 -
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 (6.67%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (6.67%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 7 (23.33%) IaaS
1 7 (23.33%) PaaS
2 6 (20.00%) Azure
3 5 (16.67%) Entra ID
4 2 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (6.67%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (3.33%) AWS
5 1 (3.33%) GCP
5 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Copilot
5 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Purview
5 1 (3.33%) OneDrive
5 1 (3.33%) Power Platform
5 1 (3.33%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (30.00%) VPN
2 8 (26.67%) DHCP
2 8 (26.67%) DNS
2 8 (26.67%) Firewall
2 8 (26.67%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (23.33%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (3.33%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 22 (73.33%) MSI
2 8 (26.67%) InstallShield
3 2 (6.67%) AdminStudio
General
1 4 (13.33%) Finance
2 2 (6.67%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (3.33%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (3.33%) Publishing
3 1 (3.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (26.67%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 7 (23.33%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
2 7 (23.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 7 (23.33%) NetApp Engineer
2 7 (23.33%) Storage Engineer
3 5 (16.67%) Applications Engineer
3 5 (16.67%) Applications Packager
3 5 (16.67%) Senior
4 3 (10.00%) Desktop Engineer
4 3 (10.00%) Testing Engineer
5 2 (6.67%) Senior Applications Engineer
6 1 (3.33%) Applications Specialist
6 1 (3.33%) Citrix Engineer
6 1 (3.33%) Senior Applications Packager
6 1 (3.33%) Senior Citrix Engineer
6 1 (3.33%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
6 1 (3.33%) Senior Packager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.67%) ADO
1 2 (6.67%) JSON
1 2 (6.67%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 8 (26.67%) Clustering
1 8 (26.67%) PKI
2 7 (23.33%) Enterprise Storage
3 2 (6.67%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (6.67%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (6.67%) Onboarding
4 1 (3.33%) Data Centre
4 1 (3.33%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (3.33%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 25 (83.33%) Windows
2 10 (33.33%) Windows Server
3 7 (23.33%) Linux
3 7 (23.33%) Windows Server 2003
4 2 (6.67%) Windows 10
4 2 (6.67%) Windows Server 2016
4 2 (6.67%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (33.33%) Application Packaging
2 9 (30.00%) Incident Management
3 7 (23.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 4 (13.33%) ITIL
5 2 (6.67%) Application Virtualisation
5 2 (6.67%) Asset Management
5 2 (6.67%) CI/CD
5 2 (6.67%) Compatibility Testing
5 2 (6.67%) Data Protection
5 2 (6.67%) Deployment Automation
5 2 (6.67%) DevOps
5 2 (6.67%) ITSM
5 2 (6.67%) Migration
5 2 (6.67%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (6.67%) Release Management
5 2 (6.67%) Software Asset Management
5 2 (6.67%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (6.67%) User Acceptance Testing
5 2 (6.67%) User Experience
6 1 (3.33%) Patch Management
Programming Languages
1 15 (50.00%) PowerShell
2 4 (13.33%) VBScript
3 2 (6.67%) VB
4 1 (3.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (26.67%) DV Cleared
1 8 (26.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.33%) Degree
2 1 (3.33%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
System Software
1 14 (46.67%) Active Directory
2 9 (30.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (26.67%) BitLocker
3 8 (26.67%) Hyper-V
3 8 (26.67%) VMware ESXi
4 7 (23.33%) Docker
5 2 (6.67%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (3.33%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 10 (33.33%) SCCM
2 8 (26.67%) vCenter Server
2 8 (26.67%) vMotion
3 7 (23.33%) Ansible
3 7 (23.33%) Kubernetes
3 7 (23.33%) Puppet
4 5 (16.67%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 22 (73.33%) Citrix
2 13 (43.33%) Microsoft
3 10 (33.33%) VMware
4 9 (30.00%) NetApp
5 1 (3.33%) Dell
5 1 (3.33%) Google
5 1 (3.33%) HP
5 1 (3.33%) Red Hat
5 1 (3.33%) Symantec