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 citing Microsoft App-V skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

	6 months to 31 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	448	359	369
Rank change year-on-year	-89	+10	+55
Contract jobs citing Microsoft App-V	7	12	12
As % of all contract jobs in London	0.035%	0.088%	0.077%
As % of the System Software category	0.37%	0.77%	0.73%
Number of daily rates quoted	7	9	6
10^th Percentile	£488	-	£390
25^th Percentile	£519	£425	£413
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£625	£550	£450
Median % change year-on-year	+13.64%	+22.22%	+5.88%
75^th Percentile	£638	£585	-
90^th Percentile	£673	£586	£488
England median daily rate	£588	£475	£450
% change year-on-year	+23.68%	+5.56%	+6.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted	0	0	1
Median hourly rate	-	-	£23.80
England median hourly rate	-	-	£56.75
% change year-on-year	-	-	+64.48%

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 citing system software skills in London.

	6 months to 31 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Contract vacancies citing system software skills	1,885	1,551	1,652
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London	9.31%	11.36%	10.55%
Number of daily rates quoted	1,301	969	1,101
10^th Percentile	£263	£300	£263
25^th Percentile	£418	£419	£408
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£525	£525	£525
Median % change year-on-year	-	-	-2.78%
75^th Percentile	£638	£638	£650
90^th Percentile	£725	£713	£750
England median daily rate	£500	£500	£513
% change year-on-year	-	-2.44%	+2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted	16	32	13
10^th Percentile	£18.29	£21.10	£20.20
25^th Percentile	£24.04	£22.50	£23.59
Median hourly rate	£32.50	£24.00	£23.80
Median % change year-on-year	+35.42%	+0.84%	-52.29%
75^th Percentile	£44.69	£31.63	£62.50
90^th Percentile	£55.00	£39.88	£108.10
England median hourly rate	£63.14	£30.00	£51.25
% change year-on-year	+110.45%	-41.46%	+17.14%

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 Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Microsoft App-V Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft App-V in London over the 6 months to 31 October 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft App-V in London

Microsoft App-V Hourly Rate Trend in London

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 31 October 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	Job Ads Past 6 Months	Median Daily Rate Past 6 Months	Median Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Central London	-16	4	£625	+38.89%
West London	-	1	£450	-
Microsoft App-V England

Microsoft App-V Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 31 October 2026, contractor job vacancies citing Microsoft App-V also mentioned the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the London region citing Microsoft App-V.

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Microsoft	100.0%	7
2	Active Directory	85.7%	6
2	Windows	85.7%	6
4	PowerShell	71.4%	5
5	AI	57.1%	4
5	Application Packaging	57.1%	4
5	Citrix	57.1%	4
5	Microsoft Intune	57.1%	4
5	MSI	57.1%	4
10	Amazon RDS	42.9%	3
10	Ansible	42.9%	3
10	AWS	42.9%	3
10	Azure	42.9%	3
10	Big Data	42.9%	3
10	BitLocker	42.9%	3
10	Degree	42.9%	3
10	DevOps	42.9%	3
10	DHCP	42.9%	3
10	DNS	42.9%	3
10	Docker	42.9%	3
10	DV Cleared	42.9%	3
10	Elasticsearch	42.9%	3
10	Firewall	42.9%	3
10	GCP	42.9%	3
10	Google	42.9%	3
10	HP	42.9%	3
10	Hyper-V	42.9%	3
10	IaaS	42.9%	3
10	Infrastructure Engineering	42.9%	3
10	Kubernetes	42.9%	3

Microsoft App-V Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

System Software

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Active Directory	85.7%	6
2	BitLocker	42.9%	3
2	Docker	42.9%	3
2	Hyper-V	42.9%	3
2	Terminal Services	42.9%	3
2	VMware ESXi	42.9%	3
2	VMware Infrastructure	42.9%	3
8	Virtual Desktop	14.3%	1