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

6 months to
26 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 393 336 387
Rank change year-on-year -57 +51 +96
Contract jobs citing Microsoft App-V 25 11 7
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.14% 0.087% 0.039%
As % of the System Software category 1.44% 0.79% 0.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 9 5
10th Percentile - £498 -
25th Percentile £613 £519 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £575 £525
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% +9.52% +61.54%
75th Percentile £641 £585 £556
90th Percentile £646 £605 £568
England median daily rate £625 £575 £531
% change year-on-year +8.70% +8.24% +11.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Median hourly rate - - £23.80
England median hourly rate - - £23.80

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 1,735 1,401 1,792
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 9.88% 11.05% 10.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,177 991 1,268
10th Percentile £300 £300 £213
25th Percentile £425 £435 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £630 £663 £613
90th Percentile £727 £800 £719
England median daily rate £500 £525 £488
% change year-on-year -4.76% +7.69% -7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 15 39
10th Percentile £20.93 £21.55 £17.60
25th Percentile £22.41 £23.70 £20.50
Median hourly rate £27.00 £26.45 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year +2.08% +11.13% -47.11%
75th Percentile £59.72 £34.88 £33.75
90th Percentile £68.62 £71.30 £58.00
England median hourly rate £56.25 £28.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year +100.89% +27.27% -56.00%

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 26 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 -17 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 (4.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 7 (28.00%) IaaS
1 7 (28.00%) PaaS
2 3 (12.00%) Azure
3 2 (8.00%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (8.00%) Entra ID
4 1 (4.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 8 (32.00%) DHCP
1 8 (32.00%) DNS
1 8 (32.00%) Firewall
1 8 (32.00%) SMTP
1 8 (32.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (28.00%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (4.00%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 17 (68.00%) MSI
2 6 (24.00%) InstallShield
3 2 (8.00%) AdminStudio
General
1 4 (16.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 8 (32.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 7 (28.00%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
2 7 (28.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 7 (28.00%) NetApp Engineer
2 7 (28.00%) Storage Engineer
3 5 (20.00%) Applications Engineer
4 4 (16.00%) Senior
5 3 (12.00%) Desktop Engineer
5 3 (12.00%) Testing Engineer
6 2 (8.00%) Applications Packager
6 2 (8.00%) Senior Applications Engineer
7 1 (4.00%) Citrix Engineer
7 1 (4.00%) Senior Citrix Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (8.00%) ADO
1 2 (8.00%) JSON
1 2 (8.00%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 8 (32.00%) Clustering
1 8 (32.00%) PKI
2 7 (28.00%) Enterprise Storage
3 2 (8.00%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (8.00%) Onboarding
4 1 (4.00%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 21 (84.00%) Windows
2 10 (40.00%) Windows Server
3 7 (28.00%) Linux
3 7 (28.00%) Windows Server 2003
4 2 (8.00%) Windows Server 2016
4 2 (8.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (36.00%) Incident Management
2 7 (28.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 6 (24.00%) Application Packaging
4 2 (8.00%) Application Virtualisation
4 2 (8.00%) Asset Management
4 2 (8.00%) CI/CD
4 2 (8.00%) Deployment Automation
4 2 (8.00%) DevOps
4 2 (8.00%) ITIL
4 2 (8.00%) ITSM
4 2 (8.00%) Release Management
4 2 (8.00%) Software Asset Management
4 2 (8.00%) User Acceptance Testing
4 2 (8.00%) User Experience
5 1 (4.00%) Migration
5 1 (4.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 10 (40.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 8 (32.00%) DV Cleared
1 8 (32.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.00%) Degree
System Software
1 10 (40.00%) Active Directory
2 8 (32.00%) BitLocker
2 8 (32.00%) Hyper-V
2 8 (32.00%) VMware ESXi
2 8 (32.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (28.00%) Docker
4 2 (8.00%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (4.00%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 8 (32.00%) vCenter Server
1 8 (32.00%) vMotion
2 7 (28.00%) Ansible
2 7 (28.00%) Kubernetes
2 7 (28.00%) Puppet
3 6 (24.00%) SCCM
4 2 (8.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 18 (72.00%) Citrix
2 10 (40.00%) Microsoft
3 9 (36.00%) VMware
4 8 (32.00%) NetApp
5 1 (4.00%) Dell
5 1 (4.00%) Google
5 1 (4.00%) HP
5 1 (4.00%) Red Hat
5 1 (4.00%) Symantec