Microsoft App-V Contract Job Trends in London

Microsoft Application Virtualisation (AppV) formerly Softricity SoftGrid
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring Microsoft App-V skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 389 337 389
Rank change year-on-year -52 +52 +110
Contract jobs citing Microsoft App-V 23 10 6
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.13% 0.079% 0.033%
As % of the System Software category 1.33% 0.71% 0.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 8 6
10th Percentile - £494 £413
25th Percentile £613 £523 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £580 £488
Median % change year-on-year +7.76% +18.97% +44.44%
75th Percentile £641 £586 £552
90th Percentile £646 £614 £566
England median daily rate £625 £536 £525
% change year-on-year +16.55% +2.14% +5.00%

All System Software Skills
London

Microsoft App-V 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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 1,733 1,410 1,804
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 10.00% 11.15% 10.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,169 999 1,272
10th Percentile £300 £303 £213
25th Percentile £425 £435 £362
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £630 £667 £613
90th Percentile £726 £800 £719
England median daily rate £500 £525 £480
% change year-on-year -4.76% +9.38% -8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 14 37
10th Percentile £21.00 £21.95 £16.52
25th Percentile £22.26 £23.80 £20.50
Median hourly rate £25.47 £26.45 £22.30
Median % change year-on-year -3.71% +18.61% -27.48%
75th Percentile £54.31 £32.75 £40.00
90th Percentile £67.70 £77.23 £58.50
England median hourly rate £52.50 £29.00 £21.00
% change year-on-year +81.03% +38.10% -49.85%

Microsoft App-V
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Microsoft App-V relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

Microsoft App-V job vacancy trend in London

Microsoft App-V
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Microsoft App-V.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Microsoft App-V

Microsoft App-V
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Microsoft App-V.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Microsoft App-V

Microsoft App-V
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 Microsoft App-V within the London region over the 6 months to 12 April 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
Central London -15 1 - -
Microsoft App-V
England

Microsoft App-V
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 (4.35%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 7 (30.43%) IaaS
1 7 (30.43%) PaaS
2 1 (4.35%) Azure
2 1 (4.35%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 8 (34.78%) DHCP
1 8 (34.78%) DNS
1 8 (34.78%) Firewall
1 8 (34.78%) SMTP
1 8 (34.78%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (30.43%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (4.35%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 15 (65.22%) MSI
2 4 (17.39%) InstallShield
General
1 4 (17.39%) Finance
Job Titles
1 8 (34.78%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 7 (30.43%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
2 7 (30.43%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 7 (30.43%) NetApp Engineer
2 7 (30.43%) Storage Engineer
3 3 (13.04%) Applications Engineer
3 3 (13.04%) Desktop Engineer
3 3 (13.04%) Testing Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) Applications Packager
4 2 (8.70%) Senior
5 1 (4.35%) Citrix Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Senior Citrix Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 8 (34.78%) Clustering
1 8 (34.78%) PKI
2 7 (30.43%) Enterprise Storage
3 1 (4.35%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 19 (82.61%) Windows
2 8 (34.78%) Windows Server
3 7 (30.43%) Linux
3 7 (30.43%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (30.43%) Incident Management
1 7 (30.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 4 (17.39%) Application Packaging
3 1 (4.35%) Migration
3 1 (4.35%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 8 (34.78%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 8 (34.78%) DV Cleared
1 8 (34.78%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.35%) Degree
System Software
1 8 (34.78%) Active Directory
1 8 (34.78%) BitLocker
1 8 (34.78%) Hyper-V
1 8 (34.78%) VMware ESXi
1 8 (34.78%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (30.43%) Docker
3 1 (4.35%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 8 (34.78%) vCenter Server
1 8 (34.78%) vMotion
2 7 (30.43%) Ansible
2 7 (30.43%) Kubernetes
2 7 (30.43%) Puppet
3 4 (17.39%) SCCM
Vendors
1 18 (78.26%) Citrix
2 9 (39.13%) VMware
3 8 (34.78%) Microsoft
3 8 (34.78%) NetApp
4 1 (4.35%) Dell
4 1 (4.35%) Google
4 1 (4.35%) HP
4 1 (4.35%) Red Hat
4 1 (4.35%) Symantec