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 19 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 531 595 663
Rank change year-on-year +64 +68 -143
Contract jobs citing Microsoft App-V 12 63 116
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.032% 0.12% 0.16%
As % of the System Software category 0.30% 0.93% 1.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 48 82
10th Percentile £368 £264 £313
25th Percentile £450 £359 £402
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - +4.71%
75th Percentile £556 £576 £623
90th Percentile £590 £590 £650
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £485
% change year-on-year - +3.09% +7.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £15.94
25th Percentile - - £17.28
Median hourly rate - - £19.93
75th Percentile - - £22.17
90th Percentile - - £23.27
UK median hourly rate - £35.00 £17.50
% change year-on-year - +100.00% -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 4,056 6,797 10,081
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 10.90% 13.27% 14.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,812 4,940 7,282
10th Percentile £190 £205 £198
25th Percentile £313 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% - +10.53%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £634
90th Percentile £688 £738 £706
UK median daily rate £488 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -7.14% - +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 209 260 298
10th Percentile £14.06 £14.25 £13.12
25th Percentile £14.48 £17.49 £14.91
Median hourly rate £21.00 £40.00 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -47.50% +110.53% +2.43%
75th Percentile £53.75 £65.00 £28.25
90th Percentile £70.13 £75.05 £54.25
UK median hourly rate £22.50 £50.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year -55.00% +150.00% -

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 19 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 19 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 +101 6 £488 +44.44% 3
South West +21 2 - - 2
South East +9 2 £551 -19.93% 4
North of England +14 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 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (16.67%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 3 (25.00%) Azure
2 2 (16.67%) Entra ID
3 1 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (8.33%) GCP
3 1 (8.33%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (8.33%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (16.67%) NetScaler
1 2 (16.67%) VPN
2 1 (8.33%) DHCP
2 1 (8.33%) DNS
2 1 (8.33%) Firewall
2 1 (8.33%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.33%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (8.33%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (16.67%) MSI
General
1 1 (8.33%) Finance
1 1 (8.33%) Presentation Skills
1 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
1 1 (8.33%) Social Skills
1 1 (8.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (33.33%) Applications Packager
2 3 (25.00%) Architect
2 3 (25.00%) Senior
3 2 (16.67%) Applications Architect
3 2 (16.67%) Lead
4 1 (8.33%) Citrix Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Desktop Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Lead Architect
4 1 (8.33%) SC Cleared Application Packager
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (16.67%) WSH
2 1 (8.33%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.33%) Clustering
1 1 (8.33%) Data Centre
1 1 (8.33%) PKI
1 1 (8.33%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 6 (50.00%) Windows
2 4 (33.33%) Windows 10
3 3 (25.00%) Windows Server
3 3 (25.00%) Windows Server 2019
4 2 (16.67%) Windows 7
4 2 (16.67%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (8.33%) Windows Server 2003
5 1 (8.33%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (33.33%) Application Packaging
2 3 (25.00%) Migration
3 2 (16.67%) Agile
3 2 (16.67%) Application Virtualisation
3 2 (16.67%) Business Case
3 2 (16.67%) Change Management
3 2 (16.67%) Line Management
3 2 (16.67%) Project Delivery
3 2 (16.67%) Roadmaps
3 2 (16.67%) Technical Debt
3 2 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
4 1 (8.33%) Contingency Planning
4 1 (8.33%) Customer Requirements
4 1 (8.33%) Customer Service
4 1 (8.33%) Deployment Automation
4 1 (8.33%) DevOps
4 1 (8.33%) Identity Access Management
4 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (8.33%) Mentoring
4 1 (8.33%) Smoke Testing
Programming Languages
1 7 (58.33%) PowerShell
2 2 (16.67%) SQL
2 2 (16.67%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 3 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (16.67%) SC Cleared
3 1 (8.33%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (8.33%) Degree
3 1 (8.33%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) Disclosure Scotland
1 1 (8.33%) PMO
1 1 (8.33%) QA
System Software
1 4 (33.33%) Active Directory
1 4 (33.33%) Virtual Desktop
2 3 (25.00%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (16.67%) XenApp
3 2 (16.67%) XenDesktop
4 1 (8.33%) BitLocker
4 1 (8.33%) Hyper-V
4 1 (8.33%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 5 (41.67%) SCCM
2 2 (16.67%) WMI
3 1 (8.33%) AirWatch
3 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (8.33%) vCenter Server
3 1 (8.33%) vMotion
Vendors
1 7 (58.33%) Citrix
2 6 (50.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (8.33%) Google
3 1 (8.33%) HP
3 1 (8.33%) Infoblox
3 1 (8.33%) Ivanti
3 1 (8.33%) Samsung
3 1 (8.33%) Symantec
3 1 (8.33%) VMware