Virtual Desktop Contract Job Trends in Leeds

Virtual Desktop
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Leeds requiring Virtual Desktop skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 76 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Virtual Desktop 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Leeds 0.11% - -
As % of the System Software category 1.00% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 - -
West Yorkshire median daily rate £700 - £375

All System Software Skills
Leeds

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 Leeds.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 100 92 90
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 11.42% 19.62% 11.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 51 71
10th Percentile £313 £200 £258
25th Percentile £450 £239 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £400 £475
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -15.79% -13.64%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £587
90th Percentile £588 £600 £650
West Yorkshire median daily rate £488 £400 £450
% change year-on-year +21.88% -11.11% -14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 10
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £14.06
Median hourly rate - - £14.63
Median % change year-on-year - - -77.92%
75th Percentile - - £15.19
90th Percentile - - -
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £28.00 - £14.63
% change year-on-year - - -76.60%

Virtual Desktop
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

Virtual Desktop job vacancy trend in Leeds

Virtual Desktop
Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

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

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

Virtual Desktop
Hourly Rate Trend in Leeds

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

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

Virtual Desktop
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leeds 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Copilot
1 1 (100.00%) Power Automate
1 1 (100.00%) Power Platform
1 1 (100.00%) PowerApps
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365 Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) YAML
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Identity Access Management
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Jamf Pro
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Google
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft