Virtual Desktop Contracts in Hampshire

Virtual Desktop
South East > Hampshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Hampshire 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 24 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 79 97 94
Rank change year-on-year +18 -3 +20
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Virtual Desktop 2 1 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hampshire 0.20% 0.068% 0.47%
As % of the System Software category 1.27% 0.33% 2.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £421 - -
25th Percentile £434 £460 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £470 -
Median % change year-on-year -1.60% - -
75th Percentile £484 £480 -
90th Percentile £494 - -
South East median daily rate £430 £605 £600
% change year-on-year -28.93% +0.83% +36.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £72.50
Median hourly rate - - £77.50
75th Percentile - - £80.00
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate - £53.00 £77.50
% change year-on-year - -31.61% +6.90%

All System Software Skills
Hampshire

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 Hampshire.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 158 305 257
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 15.80% 20.73% 20.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 138 174 115
10th Percentile £263 £360 £289
25th Percentile £500 £481 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £613
90th Percentile £650 £685 £675
South East median daily rate £500 £535 £500
% change year-on-year -6.54% +7.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 24 36
10th Percentile £52.10 £19.06 £15.50
25th Percentile £53.66 £44.86 £18.87
Median hourly rate £57.50 £56.06 £56.25
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% -0.33% +21.62%
75th Percentile £58.75 £70.00 £70.31
90th Percentile - - £76.25
South East median hourly rate £67.25 £54.88 £53.53
% change year-on-year +22.55% +2.51% +143.32%

Virtual Desktop
Job Vacancy Trend in Hampshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Virtual Desktop in Hampshire

Virtual Desktop
Daily Rate Trend in Hampshire

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

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

Virtual Desktop
Hourly Rate Trend in Hampshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing Virtual Desktop.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing Virtual Desktop

Virtual Desktop
DemandTrendContract Job Locations in Hampshire

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 Hampshire region over the 6 months to 24 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Havant - 1 £425 - 1
Farnborough - 1 £500 -
Virtual Desktop
South East

Virtual Desktop
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hampshire 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:

Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) GCP
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) JIRA
1 1 (50.00%) JIRA Agile
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) Design Patterns
1 1 (50.00%) Manual Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Runbook
1 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (50.00%) Test Management
1 1 (50.00%) Test Scripting
1 1 (50.00%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (50.00%) UAG
1 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) NetIQ
1 1 (50.00%) VMware