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 29 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 364 385 412
Rank change year-on-year +21 +27 +136
Contract jobs citing Microsoft App-V 10 8 9
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.071% 0.050% 0.045%
As % of the System Software category 0.61% 0.49% 0.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 2 7
10th Percentile - £453 £370
25th Percentile £425 £456 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £475 £425
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% +11.76% -5.56%
75th Percentile £585 £506 £506
90th Percentile £586 £518 £552
England median daily rate £450 £500 £425
% change year-on-year -10.00% +17.65% -5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £23.80 -
England median hourly rate - £56.75 £34.50
% change year-on-year - +64.48% -42.50%

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 1,636 1,617 2,296
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 11.54% 10.21% 11.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,048 1,070 1,630
10th Percentile £312 £263 £213
25th Percentile £425 £413 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -8.70%
75th Percentile £638 £652 £650
90th Percentile £719 £788 £750
England median daily rate £500 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 14 26
10th Percentile £21.00 £20.30 £22.00
25th Percentile £22.50 £23.64 £27.13
Median hourly rate £23.00 £23.80 £46.86
Median % change year-on-year -3.36% -49.21% +70.40%
75th Percentile £25.60 £85.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £52.98 £106.90 £75.63
England median hourly rate £33.39 £50.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year -33.23% +25.00% +60.00%

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 29 November 2025. 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 - 2 £450 -
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 3 (30.00%) Confluence
2 2 (20.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 8 (80.00%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (30.00%) Entra ID
3 2 (20.00%) Azure
3 2 (20.00%) Microsoft Copilot
3 2 (20.00%) OneDrive
4 1 (10.00%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (90.00%) DNS
2 8 (80.00%) DHCP
3 6 (60.00%) NetScaler
4 2 (20.00%) Firewall
4 2 (20.00%) SD-WAN
4 2 (20.00%) VLAN
4 2 (20.00%) WAN
5 1 (10.00%) HTTP
5 1 (10.00%) Internet
5 1 (10.00%) SMTP
5 1 (10.00%) TCP/IP
5 1 (10.00%) VPN
5 1 (10.00%) Wi-Fi
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) GCC
1 1 (10.00%) JIRA
1 1 (10.00%) MSI
General
1 5 (50.00%) Finance
2 2 (20.00%) Documentation Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Banking
3 1 (10.00%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) Citrix Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Lead
2 2 (20.00%) Support Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Citrix Support
3 1 (10.00%) Citrix Support Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Consultant
3 1 (10.00%) Desktop Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Technical Consultant
3 1 (10.00%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (20.00%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (10.00%) BYOD
2 1 (10.00%) Cyber Defence
2 1 (10.00%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (10.00%) Fat Client
2 1 (10.00%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 10 (100.00%) Windows
2 1 (10.00%) Linux
2 1 (10.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (10.00%) Windows 10
2 1 (10.00%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) Load Balancing
2 3 (30.00%) Containerisation
2 3 (30.00%) ITIL
3 2 (20.00%) Business Continuity
3 2 (20.00%) Cloud Security
3 2 (20.00%) Data Protection
3 2 (20.00%) Desktop Virtualisation
3 2 (20.00%) Robotic Process Automation
3 2 (20.00%) Threat Management
3 2 (20.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
4 1 (10.00%) Change Management
4 1 (10.00%) Fintech
4 1 (10.00%) High Availability
4 1 (10.00%) Information Security
4 1 (10.00%) Issue Tracking
4 1 (10.00%) Migration
4 1 (10.00%) Performance Optimisation
4 1 (10.00%) Security Hardening
4 1 (10.00%) Task Automation
4 1 (10.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 1 (10.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (10.00%) ITIL Certification
1 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 9 (90.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (20.00%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (10.00%) XenApp
3 1 (10.00%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 5 (50.00%) SCCM
2 3 (30.00%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (10.00%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 6 (60.00%) Citrix
2 3 (30.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (10.00%) Nexthink
3 1 (10.00%) Zscaler