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 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 450 446 565
Rank change year-on-year -4 +119 -19
Contract jobs citing Virtual Desktop 90 214 223
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.24% 0.44% 0.32%
As % of the System Software category 2.25% 3.37% 2.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 157 125
10th Percentile £277 £300 £211
25th Percentile £363 £400 £335
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £538 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.65% +7.50% +9.29%
75th Percentile £608 £675 £600
90th Percentile - £731 £665
UK median daily rate £575 £550 £481
% change year-on-year +4.55% +14.46% -7.37%
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 £21.75
% change year-on-year -28.52% +19.54% -52.72%

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 4,003 6,349 9,740
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 10.88% 12.94% 13.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,790 4,596 7,048
10th Percentile £200 £203 £196
25th Percentile £325 £388 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - +7.69%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £634
90th Percentile £688 £738 £701
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 211 231 274
10th Percentile £14.06 £14.25 £13.41
25th Percentile £14.48 £17.61 £15.00
Median hourly rate £21.00 £50.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -58.00% +150.00% +2.56%
75th Percentile £58.69 £65.38 £33.59
90th Percentile £71.25 £75.75 £56.44
UK median hourly rate £22.50 £54.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year -58.33% +170.00% -2.44%

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 9 May 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 9 May 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 +38 37 £450 -5.26% 23
Midlands +25 21 £443 -32.95% 13
West Midlands +26 20 £443 -24.68% 3
South East +22 16 £605 +0.83% 20
North of England +16 7 £425 -22.73% 14
South West -10 7 £675 +22.73% 4
North West +6 5 £425 -22.73% 10
Yorkshire +14 1 £375 - 4
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 26 (28.89%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (8.89%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.11%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (3.33%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (3.33%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (1.11%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 70 (77.78%) Azure
2 45 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
3 32 (35.56%) Entra ID
4 30 (33.33%) Azure Monitor
5 16 (17.78%) Azure Storage
6 7 (7.78%) OneDrive
7 6 (6.67%) IaaS
8 5 (5.56%) AWS
8 5 (5.56%) Azure Functions
8 5 (5.56%) Dynamics 365
8 5 (5.56%) Power Platform
8 5 (5.56%) Serverless
9 4 (4.44%) PaaS
10 3 (3.33%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 3 (3.33%) Azure Pipelines
11 1 (1.11%) Azure DevOps
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%) JIRA
1 1 (1.11%) MSI
General
1 34 (37.78%) Social Skills
2 9 (10.00%) Public Sector
3 8 (8.89%) Finance
4 3 (3.33%) Military
5 2 (2.22%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (2.22%) Banking
5 2 (2.22%) German Language
5 2 (2.22%) Law
6 1 (1.11%) Back Office
6 1 (1.11%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.11%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.11%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.11%) Retail
Job Titles
1 18 (20.00%) Support Specialist
2 17 (18.89%) Azure Engineer
3 16 (17.78%) Active Directory Support
3 16 (17.78%) Azure Specialist
4 14 (15.56%) Active Directory Specialist
5 13 (14.44%) Desktop Engineer
6 8 (8.89%) Citrix Engineer
7 6 (6.67%) Applications Specialist
7 6 (6.67%) Applications Support
7 6 (6.67%) Architect
7 6 (6.67%) Consultant
8 5 (5.56%) Deployment Engineer
8 5 (5.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 4 (4.44%) Analyst
9 4 (4.44%) Applications Support Specialist
9 4 (4.44%) Project Manager
9 4 (4.44%) Solutions Architect
9 4 (4.44%) Support Engineer
10 3 (3.33%) Senior Desktop Engineer
10 3 (3.33%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (17.78%) ARM Templates
2 1 (1.11%) JSON
2 1 (1.11%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 19 (21.11%) PKI
2 16 (17.78%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (3.33%) Fat Client
3 3 (3.33%) Management Information System
3 3 (3.33%) Thin Client
4 2 (2.22%) Clustering
4 2 (2.22%) NHS
5 1 (1.11%) Client/Server
5 1 (1.11%) Grid Computing
5 1 (1.11%) LIMS
5 1 (1.11%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.11%) Operational Technology
5 1 (1.11%) Security Posture
5 1 (1.11%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 59 (65.56%) Windows
2 34 (37.78%) Windows Server
3 22 (24.44%) Windows 10
4 20 (22.22%) Windows Server 2016
5 18 (20.00%) Windows Server 2019
6 17 (18.89%) Linux
7 5 (5.56%) Windows Server 2012
8 2 (2.22%) Windows Server 2008
9 1 (1.11%) Mac OS
9 1 (1.11%) VMS
9 1 (1.11%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (36.67%) ITIL
2 23 (25.56%) Agile
2 23 (25.56%) Analytics
3 22 (24.44%) DevOps
4 21 (23.33%) Service Management
5 19 (21.11%) Identity Management
6 18 (20.00%) CI/CD
6 18 (20.00%) Release Management
7 17 (18.89%) Infrastructure as Code
8 16 (17.78%) Log Analytics
8 16 (17.78%) Multi-Factor Authentication
8 16 (17.78%) Privileged Identity Management
8 16 (17.78%) RBAC
9 13 (14.44%) Change Management
10 11 (12.22%) Application Packaging
11 10 (11.11%) Customer Service
11 10 (11.11%) Incident Management
12 9 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
13 8 (8.89%) Migration
13 8 (8.89%) Patch Management
Programming Languages
1 39 (43.33%) PowerShell
2 16 (17.78%) Bicep
2 16 (17.78%) C#
2 16 (17.78%) VB
2 16 (17.78%) VBScript
3 6 (6.67%) Python
3 6 (6.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 25 (27.78%) Degree
2 24 (26.67%) Security Cleared
3 22 (24.44%) SC Cleared
4 17 (18.89%) DV Cleared
4 17 (18.89%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 5 (5.56%) Azure Certification
6 4 (4.44%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (2.22%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 1 (1.11%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.56%) QA
1 5 (5.56%) SLA
System Software
1 51 (56.67%) Active Directory
2 17 (18.89%) Virtual Machines
3 12 (13.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (13.33%) XenApp
4 9 (10.00%) XenDesktop
5 8 (8.89%) Citrix Hypervisor
6 5 (5.56%) VMware ESXi
6 5 (5.56%) vSphere
7 3 (3.33%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 3 (3.33%) Virtual Servers
8 2 (2.22%) Microsoft App-V
8 2 (2.22%) UAG
8 2 (2.22%) VMware NSX
9 1 (1.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 29 (32.22%) 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 6 (6.67%) Single Sign-On
7 5 (5.56%) SysTrack
8 3 (3.33%) OPNET
9 2 (2.22%) FortiGate
9 2 (2.22%) Microsoft Clustering
9 2 (2.22%) Terraform
9 2 (2.22%) TrustSec
9 2 (2.22%) vCenter Server
9 2 (2.22%) VxRail
Vendors
1 57 (63.33%) Microsoft
2 23 (25.56%) Citrix
3 12 (13.33%) VMware
4 9 (10.00%) NetApp
5 6 (6.67%) ServiceNow
6 5 (5.56%) New Relic
6 5 (5.56%) OpenAI
7 3 (3.33%) Cisco
7 3 (3.33%) Remedy
7 3 (3.33%) SolarWinds
8 2 (2.22%) Dell
8 2 (2.22%) EMC
8 2 (2.22%) F5
8 2 (2.22%) Nexthink
8 2 (2.22%) Sophos
8 2 (2.22%) Splunk
9 1 (1.11%) Aruba
9 1 (1.11%) HP
9 1 (1.11%) iManage
9 1 (1.11%) Zscaler