Virtual Desktop Contract Job Trends in Gloucestershire

Virtual Desktop
South West > Gloucestershire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Gloucestershire requiring Virtual Desktop skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 36 37 50
Rank change year-on-year +1 +13 -2
Contract jobs citing Virtual Desktop 9 6 9
As % of all contract jobs in Gloucestershire 2.08% 1.96% 2.03%
As % of the System Software category 14.75% 8.45% 9.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 5 7
10th Percentile £381 £409 £446
25th Percentile £404 £413 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £425 £470
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -9.57% -6.00%
75th Percentile £472 £438 £490
90th Percentile £544 £460 £570
South West median daily rate £450 £450 £500
% change year-on-year - -10.00% -

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 61 71 95
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 14.12% 23.20% 21.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 62 60
10th Percentile £205 £220 £460
25th Percentile £322 £325 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £528 £463 £556
Median % change year-on-year +14.05% -16.85% +1.14%
75th Percentile £584 £634 £626
90th Percentile £650 £700 £700
South West median daily rate £540 £500 £538
% change year-on-year +8.00% -6.98% +2.38%

Virtual Desktop
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Virtual Desktop job vacancy trend in Gloucestershire

Virtual Desktop
Daily Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

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

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

Virtual Desktop
Daily Rate Histogram in Gloucestershire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Virtual Desktop in Gloucestershire over the 6 months to 11 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram 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 11 September 2026. 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 +7 9 £438 +2.94%
Virtual Desktop
South West

Virtual Desktop
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Gloucestershire 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 9 (100.00%) Azure
2 3 (33.33%) Entra ID
2 3 (33.33%) GitHub
Development Applications
1 3 (33.33%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 5 (55.56%) Legal
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) Consultant
1 3 (33.33%) Product Engineer
1 3 (33.33%) Technical Consultant
2 2 (22.22%) Senior
3 1 (11.11%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (33.33%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 4 (44.44%) Augmented Reality
1 4 (44.44%) Virtual Reality
2 2 (22.22%) Product Ownership
3 1 (11.11%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 4 (44.44%) Android
1 4 (44.44%) Windows
1 4 (44.44%) Windows 10
2 3 (33.33%) Mac OS
3 1 (11.11%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (55.56%) Data Protection
2 3 (33.33%) Deployment Automation
2 3 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (33.33%) Roadmaps
2 3 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
2 3 (33.33%) TOGAF
2 3 (33.33%) User Experience
3 2 (22.22%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (22.22%) Mentoring
3 2 (22.22%) Product Roadmap
4 1 (11.11%) Decision-Making
4 1 (11.11%) Line Management
4 1 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (11.11%) Use Case
Qualifications
1 8 (88.89%) Azure Certification
1 8 (88.89%) Microsoft Certification
1 8 (88.89%) SC Cleared
1 8 (88.89%) Security Cleared
2 4 (44.44%) BPSS Clearance
3 3 (33.33%) ACSP
System Software
1 4 (44.44%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (44.44%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (11.11%) SCCM
Vendors
1 9 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (55.56%) NetApp
3 4 (44.44%) Apple