Virtual Desktop Contracts in Gloucestershire

Virtual Desktop
South West > Gloucestershire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Gloucestershire requiring Virtual Desktop skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Virtual Desktop over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 36 55 36
Rank change year-on-year +19 -19 +19
Contract jobs citing Virtual Desktop 5 3 27
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 1.82% 0.70% 5.71%
As % of the System Software category 7.25% 3.85% 18.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 25
10th Percentile £412 - £400
25th Percentile £430 £563 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -18.26% +4.55% -11.29%
75th Percentile £480 £588 £600
90th Percentile - - -
South West median daily rate £470 £625 £550
% change year-on-year -24.80% +13.64% +4.76%

All System Software Skills
Gloucestershire

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 Gloucestershire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 69 78 148
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 25.18% 18.18% 31.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 61 112
10th Percentile £227 £210 £275
25th Percentile £425 £463 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +10.00% -
75th Percentile £700 £625 £600
90th Percentile £775 £725 £711
South West median daily rate £550 £508 £500
% change year-on-year +8.37% +1.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - £24.95
25th Percentile - - £45.88
Median hourly rate - - £66.50
75th Percentile - - £76.13
90th Percentile - - £77.25
South West median hourly rate £40.63 £68.75 £60.00
% change year-on-year -40.91% +14.58% +21.24%

Virtual Desktop
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Job vacancy trend for Virtual Desktop in Gloucestershire

Virtual Desktop
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Daily rate trend for Virtual Desktop in Gloucestershire

Virtual Desktop
Contract Job Locations in Gloucestershire

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 Gloucestershire region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Gloucester +2 4 £435 - 2
Virtual Desktop
South West

Virtual Desktop
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Gloucestershire 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 (20.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (20.00%) SharePoint
1 1 (20.00%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (40.00%) AWS
3 1 (20.00%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (20.00%) GitHub
3 1 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) Remote Desktop
2 1 (20.00%) DNS
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (40.00%) Public Sector
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Wintel Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Desktop Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft 365 Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Technical Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Wintel Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Wintel Technical Architect
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (20.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (20.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Windows
2 1 (20.00%) Android
2 1 (20.00%) Apple iOS
2 1 (20.00%) Mac OS
2 1 (20.00%) Windows 10
2 1 (20.00%) Windows Server
2 1 (20.00%) Windows Server 2016
2 1 (20.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Agile
1 3 (60.00%) Task Automation
2 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (40.00%) Desktop Virtualisation
2 2 (40.00%) DevOps
2 2 (40.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
2 2 (40.00%) Scrum
3 1 (20.00%) Analytics
3 1 (20.00%) Application Virtualisation
3 1 (20.00%) Data Loss Prevention
3 1 (20.00%) Enterprise Architecture
3 1 (20.00%) GAP Analysis
3 1 (20.00%) Identity Access Management
3 1 (20.00%) Knowledge Transfer
3 1 (20.00%) Line Management
3 1 (20.00%) Migration
3 1 (20.00%) Project Delivery
3 1 (20.00%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (20.00%) Use Case
3 1 (20.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) PowerShell
2 2 (40.00%) Python
3 1 (20.00%) VB
3 1 (20.00%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 5 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 5 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (40.00%) DV Cleared
3 1 (20.00%) Degree
3 1 (20.00%) MCP
3 1 (20.00%) MCSA
3 1 (20.00%) MCSE
3 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) NCSC
System Software
1 3 (60.00%) Active Directory
1 3 (60.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (40.00%) Hyper-V
2 2 (40.00%) vSphere
3 1 (20.00%) BitLocker
3 1 (20.00%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (40.00%) Terraform
3 1 (20.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (20.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (60.00%) VMware
2 2 (40.00%) Citrix
3 1 (20.00%) McAfee
3 1 (20.00%) ServiceNow
3 1 (20.00%) Symantec