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 2 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 32 56 42
Rank change year-on-year +24 -14 +12
Contract jobs citing Virtual Desktop 1 4 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 0.43% 0.84% 3.40%
As % of the System Software category 1.89% 4.44% 13.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 4 14
10th Percentile - - £400
25th Percentile £425 £460 £429
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £523 £488
Median % change year-on-year -13.88% +7.18% -8.88%
75th Percentile £475 £609 £600
90th Percentile - £649 -
South West median daily rate £600 £600 £463
% change year-on-year - +29.73% -19.57%

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 53 90 115
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 22.55% 18.95% 24.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 68 75
10th Percentile £212 £435 £293
25th Percentile £258 £519 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £513
Median % change year-on-year - +7.32% +2.50%
75th Percentile £700 £625 £625
90th Percentile £885 £675 £733
South West median daily rate £550 £538 £513
% change year-on-year +2.33% +4.88% +5.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 6
10th Percentile - - £40.75
25th Percentile - - £72.38
Median hourly rate - - £78.00
75th Percentile - - £87.00
90th Percentile - - £90.00
South West median hourly rate £65.00 £67.25 £60.00
% change year-on-year -3.35% +12.08% +26.34%

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 2 July 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 1 £450 -4.26% 1
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Computing
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Desktop Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) ARM Templates
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Knowledge Transfer
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) NetApp