Virtual Desktop Contract Job Trends in Gloucester

Virtual Desktop
Gloucestershire > Gloucester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Gloucester requiring Virtual Desktop skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 29 16 24
Rank change year-on-year -13 +8 +11
Contract jobs citing Virtual Desktop 7 7 9
As % of all contract jobs in Gloucester 5.22% 7.45% 7.83%
As % of the System Software category 11.29% 30.43% 30.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 6 3
10th Percentile £406 £443 -
25th Percentile £408 £460 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £470 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.57% -14.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £434 £480 -
90th Percentile £438 £490 -
Gloucestershire median daily rate £425 £470 £550
% change year-on-year -9.57% -14.55% -4.35%

All System Software Skills
Gloucester

Virtual Desktop 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 Gloucester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 62 23 30
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Gloucester 46.27% 24.47% 26.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 16 17
10th Percentile £253 £406 £470
25th Percentile £350 £451 £522
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £470 £550
Median % change year-on-year +17.02% -14.55% +25.71%
75th Percentile £700 £734 £650
90th Percentile £750 - £708
Gloucestershire median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% +12.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £24.45
25th Percentile - - £33.38
Median hourly rate - - £48.50
75th Percentile - - £63.38
90th Percentile - - £72.15
Gloucestershire median hourly rate £195.00 - £41.00
% change year-on-year - - -31.67%

Virtual Desktop
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucester

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Virtual Desktop relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Gloucester.

Virtual Desktop job vacancy trend in Gloucester

Virtual Desktop
Daily Rate Trend in Gloucester

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Gloucester citing Virtual Desktop.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Gloucester citing Virtual Desktop

Virtual Desktop
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Gloucester 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:

Cloud Services
1 7 (100.00%) Azure
2 5 (71.43%) GitHub
3 4 (57.14%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (57.14%) Cloud Computing
4 2 (28.57%) AWS
Development Applications
1 3 (42.86%) JIRA
General
1 3 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Public Sector
3 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (71.43%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Analytical Mindset
1 1 (14.29%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (100.00%) Windows
2 2 (28.57%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) Agile
1 6 (85.71%) Migration
2 5 (71.43%) CI/CD
2 5 (71.43%) DevOps
2 5 (71.43%) High Availability
2 5 (71.43%) Scaled Agile Framework
3 3 (42.86%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (42.86%) Scrum
4 2 (28.57%) Knowledge Transfer
4 2 (28.57%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (28.57%) User Acceptance Testing
5 1 (14.29%) Compatibility Testing
5 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Automation
5 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Management
5 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 5 (71.43%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 7 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 7 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 4 (57.14%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (71.43%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (71.43%) NetApp
2 2 (28.57%) ServiceNow