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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 37 53 47
Rank change year-on-year +16 -6 +7
Contract jobs citing Virtual Desktop 6 9 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 1.95% 2.00% 2.25%
As % of the System Software category 8.45% 9.18% 10.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 7 7
10th Percentile £409 £446 £400
25th Percentile £413 £460 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £470 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.57% -6.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £438 £490 £550
90th Percentile £460 £570 -
South West median daily rate £450 £533 £500
% change year-on-year -15.49% +6.50% -13.04%

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 71 98 102
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 23.05% 21.78% 20.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 63 62
10th Percentile £220 £460 £407
25th Percentile £325 £522 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £563 £548
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +2.74% +6.83%
75th Percentile £638 £628 £669
90th Percentile £700 £701 £725
South West median daily rate £500 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -6.98% +2.38% +2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 8
10th Percentile - - £19.03
25th Percentile - - £57.69
Median hourly rate - - £78.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +90.10%
75th Percentile - - £81.00
90th Percentile - - £90.00
South West median hourly rate £85.00 £80.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year +6.25% +33.33% +23.76%

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
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
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 15 September 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 -6 6 £425 -9.57%
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 6 (100.00%) Azure
2 4 (66.67%) GitHub
3 3 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (50.00%) Cloud Computing
Development Applications
1 3 (50.00%) JIRA
General
1 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps Engineer
1 1 (16.67%) Azure Engineer
1 1 (16.67%) Desktop Engineer
1 1 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (66.67%) ARM Templates
Operating Systems
1 6 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Agile
1 6 (100.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
2 5 (83.33%) Migration
3 4 (66.67%) CI/CD
3 4 (66.67%) DevOps
4 3 (50.00%) High Availability
4 3 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (50.00%) Knowledge Transfer
4 3 (50.00%) Scrum
5 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Automation
5 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Management
5 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 6 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 6 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (50.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (66.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) NetApp
2 1 (16.67%) ServiceNow