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 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 361 353 384
Rank change year-on-year -8 +31 +149
Contract jobs citing Microsoft App-V 6 1 8
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.043% 0.007% 0.044%
As % of the System Software category 0.38% 0.071% 0.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 7
10th Percentile £574 - £370
25th Percentile £585 - £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £605 - £425
Median % change year-on-year - - -5.56%
75th Percentile £638 - £506
90th Percentile - - £552
England median daily rate £575 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +15.00% - +11.11%

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 1,591 1,406 1,974
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 11.33% 10.10% 10.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,054 923 1,396
10th Percentile £341 £260 £210
25th Percentile £434 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.74% +4.76% -8.70%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £638
90th Percentile £750 £810 £736
England median daily rate £500 £520 £500
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 17 22
10th Percentile - £20.60 £21.25
25th Percentile £21.00 £23.59 £22.74
Median hourly rate £25.15 £23.80 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +5.67% -26.77% +30.00%
75th Percentile £26.00 £35.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £61.28 £101.80 £71.75
England median hourly rate £41.94 £26.96 £50.00
% change year-on-year +55.59% -46.09% +86.92%

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
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 2 (33.33%) SharePoint
2 1 (16.67%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) Entra ID
1 3 (50.00%) IaaS
1 3 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
1 3 (50.00%) PaaS
2 2 (33.33%) Azure
2 2 (33.33%) Microsoft Copilot
2 2 (33.33%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 6 (100.00%) DNS
2 5 (83.33%) DHCP
2 5 (83.33%) Firewall
3 4 (66.67%) SMTP
4 3 (50.00%) VPN
5 2 (33.33%) SD-WAN
5 2 (33.33%) VLAN
5 2 (33.33%) WAN
6 1 (16.67%) HTTP
6 1 (16.67%) Internet
6 1 (16.67%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (50.00%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) GCC
1 1 (16.67%) JIRA
1 1 (16.67%) MSI
General
1 2 (33.33%) Finance
2 1 (16.67%) Presentation Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
1 3 (50.00%) NetApp Engineer
1 3 (50.00%) Storage Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Lead
3 1 (16.67%) Consultant
3 1 (16.67%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Clustering
1 3 (50.00%) Enterprise Storage
1 3 (50.00%) PKI
2 2 (33.33%) Data Centre
3 1 (16.67%) Cyber Defence
3 1 (16.67%) Fat Client
3 1 (16.67%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 6 (100.00%) Windows
2 3 (50.00%) Linux
2 3 (50.00%) Windows Server
2 3 (50.00%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Incident Management
1 3 (50.00%) ITIL
2 2 (33.33%) Business Continuity
2 2 (33.33%) Cloud Security
2 2 (33.33%) Containerisation
2 2 (33.33%) Desktop Virtualisation
2 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (33.33%) Robotic Process Automation
2 2 (33.33%) Threat Management
2 2 (33.33%) Vulnerability Remediation
3 1 (16.67%) Change Management
3 1 (16.67%) Data Protection
3 1 (16.67%) High Availability
3 1 (16.67%) Information Security
3 1 (16.67%) Issue Tracking
3 1 (16.67%) Performance Optimisation
3 1 (16.67%) Security Hardening
3 1 (16.67%) Task Automation
3 1 (16.67%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) DV Cleared
1 3 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (16.67%) ITIL Certification
System Software
1 6 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 3 (50.00%) BitLocker
2 3 (50.00%) Docker
2 3 (50.00%) Hyper-V
2 3 (50.00%) VMware ESXi
2 3 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (16.67%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) Ansible
1 3 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (50.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 3 (50.00%) Puppet
1 3 (50.00%) SCCM
1 3 (50.00%) vCenter Server
1 3 (50.00%) vMotion
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (50.00%) Citrix
2 3 (50.00%) NetApp
2 3 (50.00%) VMware
3 1 (16.67%) Zscaler