Virtual Desktop Contracts in England

Virtual Desktop
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Virtual Desktop skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Virtual Desktop 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 445 458 538
Rank change year-on-year +13 +80 +10
Contract jobs citing Virtual Desktop 90 209 246
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.24% 0.41% 0.35%
As % of the System Software category 2.24% 3.15% 2.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 155 141
10th Percentile £275 £285 £210
25th Percentile £415 £403 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £538 £500
Median % change year-on-year +9.20% +7.60% +9.29%
75th Percentile £608 £675 £600
90th Percentile £617 £733 £650
UK median daily rate £600 £550 £500
% change year-on-year +9.09% +10.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £21.50
Median hourly rate £18.00 £26.00 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -30.77% +18.18% -52.17%
75th Percentile - - £22.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £18.59 £26.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year -28.52% +20.93% -53.26%

All System Software Skills
England

Virtual Desktop 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% -

Virtual Desktop
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Virtual Desktop as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Virtual Desktop in England

Virtual Desktop
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Virtual Desktop in England.

Daily rate trend for Virtual Desktop in England

Virtual Desktop
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Virtual Desktop in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Virtual Desktop in England

Virtual Desktop
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Virtual Desktop in England.

Hourly rate trend for Virtual Desktop in England

Virtual Desktop
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 Virtual Desktop 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 +48 32 £500 +5.26% 29
Midlands +12 20 £360 -45.45% 5
West Midlands +33 19 £360 -38.72% 4
South East +22 17 £605 +0.83% 15
South West +3 11 £625 +13.64% 3
North of England +24 8 £400 -27.27% 9
North West +9 6 £340 -38.18% 7
Yorkshire +17 1 £375 - 2
Virtual Desktop
UK

Virtual Desktop
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 25 (27.78%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (8.89%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.11%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (4.44%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (3.33%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (1.11%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 68 (75.56%) Azure
2 42 (46.67%) Microsoft 365
3 33 (36.67%) Entra ID
4 30 (33.33%) Azure Monitor
5 16 (17.78%) Azure Storage
6 7 (7.78%) OneDrive
7 5 (5.56%) AWS
7 5 (5.56%) Azure Functions
7 5 (5.56%) IaaS
7 5 (5.56%) Power Platform
7 5 (5.56%) Serverless
8 4 (4.44%) PaaS
9 3 (3.33%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 3 (3.33%) Azure Pipelines
10 2 (2.22%) Azure DevOps
10 2 (2.22%) Cloud Computing
11 1 (1.11%) Azure Key Vault
11 1 (1.11%) Microsoft Purview
11 1 (1.11%) Miro
11 1 (1.11%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 38 (42.22%) DNS
2 29 (32.22%) Firewall
3 26 (28.89%) DHCP
4 13 (14.44%) NetScaler
5 10 (11.11%) LAN
5 10 (11.11%) WAN
6 8 (8.89%) VPN
7 5 (5.56%) SMTP
7 5 (5.56%) TCP/IP
8 3 (3.33%) Skype
9 2 (2.22%) FTP
9 2 (2.22%) HTTP
9 2 (2.22%) SNMP
9 2 (2.22%) SSH
9 2 (2.22%) SSL
9 2 (2.22%) Telnet
9 2 (2.22%) Wireless
10 1 (1.11%) Internet
10 1 (1.11%) IPv4
10 1 (1.11%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (5.56%) Power BI
2 3 (3.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (1.11%) Axure RP
1 1 (1.11%) Hudson
1 1 (1.11%) JIRA
1 1 (1.11%) MSI
General
1 32 (35.56%) Social Skills
2 10 (11.11%) Public Sector
3 9 (10.00%) Finance
4 3 (3.33%) Law
4 3 (3.33%) Military
5 2 (2.22%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (2.22%) Banking
5 2 (2.22%) German Language
6 1 (1.11%) Back Office
6 1 (1.11%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.11%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.11%) Police
6 1 (1.11%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.11%) Retail
6 1 (1.11%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 18 (20.00%) Azure Engineer
2 16 (17.78%) Azure Specialist
2 16 (17.78%) Desktop Engineer
3 15 (16.67%) Active Directory Support
4 14 (15.56%) Active Directory Specialist
4 14 (15.56%) Support Specialist
5 9 (10.00%) Consultant
6 8 (8.89%) Citrix Engineer
7 6 (6.67%) Architect
8 5 (5.56%) Azure Consultant
8 5 (5.56%) Deployment Engineer
8 5 (5.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 4 (4.44%) Project Manager
9 4 (4.44%) Solutions Architect
9 4 (4.44%) Support Engineer
9 4 (4.44%) Technical Consultant
10 3 (3.33%) Analyst
10 3 (3.33%) Senior Desktop Engineer
10 3 (3.33%) Service Analyst
10 3 (3.33%) Service Desk Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (16.67%) ARM Templates
2 1 (1.11%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 19 (21.11%) PKI
2 16 (17.78%) Self-Motivation
3 4 (4.44%) Management Information System
4 3 (3.33%) Fat Client
4 3 (3.33%) Thin Client
5 2 (2.22%) Clustering
5 2 (2.22%) NHS
6 1 (1.11%) Client/Server
6 1 (1.11%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.11%) Grid Computing
6 1 (1.11%) LIMS
6 1 (1.11%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.11%) Operational Technology
6 1 (1.11%) Security Posture
6 1 (1.11%) Smartphone
6 1 (1.11%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 61 (67.78%) Windows
2 34 (37.78%) Windows Server
3 25 (27.78%) Windows 10
4 19 (21.11%) Windows Server 2016
5 18 (20.00%) Windows Server 2019
6 17 (18.89%) Linux
7 6 (6.67%) Windows Server 2012
8 2 (2.22%) Windows Server 2008
9 1 (1.11%) Mac OS
9 1 (1.11%) Ubuntu
9 1 (1.11%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (33.33%) ITIL
2 24 (26.67%) Agile
3 23 (25.56%) Analytics
3 23 (25.56%) Service Management
4 22 (24.44%) DevOps
5 18 (20.00%) Identity Management
5 18 (20.00%) Release Management
6 17 (18.89%) CI/CD
6 17 (18.89%) Infrastructure as Code
7 16 (17.78%) Log Analytics
7 16 (17.78%) Multi-Factor Authentication
7 16 (17.78%) Privileged Identity Management
7 16 (17.78%) RBAC
8 13 (14.44%) Change Management
9 11 (12.22%) Application Packaging
10 9 (10.00%) Migration
11 8 (8.89%) Patch Management
12 7 (7.78%) Asset Management
12 7 (7.78%) Problem Management
12 7 (7.78%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 40 (44.44%) PowerShell
2 16 (17.78%) C#
2 16 (17.78%) VB
2 16 (17.78%) VBScript
3 15 (16.67%) Bicep
4 6 (6.67%) Python
4 6 (6.67%) SQL
5 1 (1.11%) Bash
Qualifications
1 26 (28.89%) Degree
1 26 (28.89%) Security Cleared
2 25 (27.78%) SC Cleared
3 17 (18.89%) DV Cleared
3 17 (18.89%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 6 (6.67%) Azure Certification
5 4 (4.44%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (2.22%) ITIL Certification
6 2 (2.22%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.67%) SLA
2 5 (5.56%) QA
System Software
1 51 (56.67%) Active Directory
2 17 (18.89%) Virtual Machines
3 14 (15.56%) XenApp
4 12 (13.33%) VMware Infrastructure
5 10 (11.11%) XenDesktop
6 8 (8.89%) Citrix Hypervisor
7 6 (6.67%) VMware ESXi
8 5 (5.56%) vSphere
9 3 (3.33%) Microsoft App-V
9 3 (3.33%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 3 (3.33%) Virtual Servers
10 2 (2.22%) UAG
10 2 (2.22%) VMware NSX
11 1 (1.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 30 (33.33%) Microsoft Intune
2 26 (28.89%) SCCM
3 19 (21.11%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 19 (21.11%) SCOM
4 17 (18.89%) Kubernetes
5 16 (17.78%) WSUS
6 5 (5.56%) SysTrack
7 4 (4.44%) Terraform
8 3 (3.33%) OPNET
9 2 (2.22%) FortiGate
9 2 (2.22%) Microsoft Clustering
9 2 (2.22%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (2.22%) TrustSec
9 2 (2.22%) vCenter Server
9 2 (2.22%) VxRail
10 1 (1.11%) Ansible
10 1 (1.11%) Packer
Vendors
1 55 (61.11%) Microsoft
2 27 (30.00%) Citrix
3 12 (13.33%) VMware
4 9 (10.00%) NetApp
5 5 (5.56%) New Relic
5 5 (5.56%) OpenAI
6 3 (3.33%) Cisco
6 3 (3.33%) Dell
6 3 (3.33%) Remedy
6 3 (3.33%) ServiceNow
6 3 (3.33%) SolarWinds
7 2 (2.22%) EMC
7 2 (2.22%) F5
7 2 (2.22%) iManage
7 2 (2.22%) Nexthink
7 2 (2.22%) Sophos
7 2 (2.22%) Splunk
8 1 (1.11%) Aruba
8 1 (1.11%) HP
8 1 (1.11%) Red Hat