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

	6 months to 28 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	445	354	374
Rank change year-on-year	-91	+20	+44
Contract jobs citing Microsoft App-V	9	13	13
As % of all contract jobs in London	0.044%	0.096%	0.083%
As % of the System Software category	0.48%	0.85%	0.79%
Number of daily rates quoted	9	10	7
10^th Percentile	£500	-	£380
25^th Percentile	£525	£425	£390
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£625	£525	£450
Median % change year-on-year	+19.05%	+16.67%	+5.88%
75^th Percentile	£700	£576	-
90^th Percentile	£705	£585	£480
England median daily rate	£588	£450	£450
% change year-on-year	+30.56%	-	+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 28 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Contract vacancies citing system software skills	1,893	1,525	1,637
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London	9.29%	11.27%	10.46%
Number of daily rates quoted	1,310	950	1,095
10^th Percentile	£263	£300	£263
25^th Percentile	£418	£419	£409
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	£700	£750
England median daily rate	£500	£500	£513
% change year-on-year	-	-2.44%	+2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted	16	32	11
10^th Percentile	£18.29	£21.10	£20.00
25^th Percentile	£24.04	£22.50	-
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	£35.75	£77.50
90^th Percentile	£55.00	£50.13	£112.00
England median hourly rate	£63.14	£30.00	£50.00
% change year-on-year	+110.45%	-40.00%	+14.17%

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 28 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 28 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 28 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%	9
2	PowerShell	77.8%	7
3	Active Directory	66.7%	6
3	Application Packaging	66.7%	6
3	MSI	66.7%	6
3	Windows	66.7%	6
7	AI	44.4%	4
7	Citrix	44.4%	4
7	Microsoft Intune	44.4%	4
7	SCCM	44.4%	4
11	Amazon RDS	33.3%	3
11	Ansible	33.3%	3
11	AWS	33.3%	3
11	Azure	33.3%	3
11	Big Data	33.3%	3
11	BitLocker	33.3%	3
11	CI/CD	33.3%	3
11	Degree	33.3%	3
11	Deployment Automation	33.3%	3
11	DevOps	33.3%	3
11	DHCP	33.3%	3
11	DNS	33.3%	3
11	Docker	33.3%	3
11	DV Cleared	33.3%	3
11	Elasticsearch	33.3%	3
11	Firewall	33.3%	3
11	GCP	33.3%	3
11	Google	33.3%	3
11	HP	33.3%	3
11	Hyper-V	33.3%	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	66.7%	6
2	BitLocker	33.3%	3
2	Docker	33.3%	3
2	Hyper-V	33.3%	3
2	Terminal Services	33.3%	3
2	VMware ESXi	33.3%	3
2	VMware Infrastructure	33.3%	3
8	Virtual Desktop	11.1%	1