Desktop Virtualisation Contracts in London

Desktop Virtualization
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring Desktop Virtualisation skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Desktop Virtualisation over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 349 390 488
Rank change year-on-year +41 +98 +106
Contract jobs citing Desktop Virtualisation 4 1 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.032% 0.006% 0.018%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.035% 0.006% 0.020%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 3
10th Percentile £421 - -
25th Percentile £526 £425 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £585 £450 £425
Median % change year-on-year +30.00% +5.88% -9.19%
75th Percentile - £475 £488
90th Percentile - - £525
England median daily rate £528 £225 £425
% change year-on-year +134.44% -47.06% -3.41%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

Desktop Virtualisation falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,564 15,790 24,631
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.16% 88.55% 91.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,847 11,316 17,711
10th Percentile £350 £338 £375
25th Percentile £440 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £590
Median % change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
75th Percentile £688 £675 £700
90th Percentile £813 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 166 324 278
10th Percentile £16.17 £16.00 £18.59
25th Percentile £22.68 £20.00 £22.53
Median hourly rate £31.67 £29.50 £38.13
Median % change year-on-year +7.36% -22.62% +5.90%
75th Percentile £50.75 £47.56 £62.64
90th Percentile £63.75 £65.93 £76.78
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Desktop Virtualisation
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Desktop Virtualisation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Desktop Virtualisation in London

Desktop Virtualisation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Desktop Virtualisation in London.

Daily rate trend for Desktop Virtualisation in London

Desktop Virtualisation
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Desktop Virtualisation in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Desktop Virtualisation in London

Desktop Virtualisation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Desktop Virtualisation in London.

Hourly rate trend for Desktop Virtualisation in London

Desktop Virtualisation
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Desktop Virtualisation within the London region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
East London - 3 £585 -
Desktop Virtualisation
England

Desktop Virtualisation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (75.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) AWS
1 3 (75.00%) Azure
1 3 (75.00%) Entra ID
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft 365
1 3 (75.00%) Mimecast
1 3 (75.00%) OneDrive
2 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Copilot
3 1 (25.00%) Power Automate
3 1 (25.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (75.00%) DHCP
1 3 (75.00%) DNS
1 3 (75.00%) Firewall
1 3 (75.00%) SD-WAN
1 3 (75.00%) VLAN
1 3 (75.00%) WAN
General
1 3 (75.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Lead
2 2 (50.00%) Consultant
2 2 (50.00%) Lead Consultant
2 2 (50.00%) Microsoft 365 Consultant
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Manager
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Project Manager
3 1 (25.00%) Lead Project Manager
3 1 (25.00%) Microsoft 365 Manager
3 1 (25.00%) Microsoft 365 Project Manager
3 1 (25.00%) Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (25.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Windows
2 1 (25.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) ITIL
2 3 (75.00%) Business Continuity
2 3 (75.00%) Containerisation
2 3 (75.00%) Threat Management
2 3 (75.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
3 2 (50.00%) Robotic Process Automation
4 1 (25.00%) Agile
4 1 (25.00%) Backlog Management
4 1 (25.00%) Cloud Security
4 1 (25.00%) Fintech
4 1 (25.00%) Identity Management
4 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (25.00%) Project Management
4 1 (25.00%) Roadmaps
4 1 (25.00%) Service Delivery
4 1 (25.00%) Strategic Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) Active Directory
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) SCCM
2 3 (75.00%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (25.00%) Jamf Pro
3 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) Citrix