Virtual Desktop Contracts in London

Virtual Desktop
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring Virtual Desktop skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Virtual Desktop over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 310 359 408
Rank change year-on-year +49 +49 +84
Contract jobs citing Virtual Desktop 43 32 85
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.34% 0.18% 0.31%
As % of the System Software category 3.11% 1.80% 2.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 27 61
10th Percentile £250 £275 £256
25th Percentile £363 £373 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% +5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £610 £600 £557
90th Percentile £675 - £725
England median daily rate £538 £588 £538
% change year-on-year -8.51% +9.25% +7.55%

All System Software Skills
London

Virtual Desktop 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 1,384 1,777 3,145
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 11.03% 9.97% 11.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 973 1,262 2,297
10th Percentile £300 £213 £250
25th Percentile £438 £363 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £575
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -13.04% +2.22%
75th Percentile £671 £615 £688
90th Percentile £800 £719 £775
England median daily rate £525 £494 £525
% change year-on-year +6.33% -5.95% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 35 42
10th Percentile £22.64 £17.23 £15.73
25th Percentile £23.90 £20.50 £22.85
Median hourly rate £28.41 £22.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +26.27% -50.00% +83.67%
75th Percentile £35.75 £25.00 £73.63
90th Percentile £91.50 £48.89 £85.00
England median hourly rate £27.94 £21.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year +33.05% -58.00% +163.16%

Virtual Desktop
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Virtual Desktop as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Virtual Desktop in London

Virtual Desktop
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Virtual Desktop in London.

Daily rate trend for Virtual Desktop in London

Virtual Desktop
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Virtual Desktop in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Virtual Desktop in London

Virtual Desktop
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Virtual Desktop in London.

Hourly rate trend for Virtual Desktop in London

Virtual Desktop
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 Virtual Desktop within the London region over the 6 months to 1 May 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 +5 6 £325 -27.78% 3
South London +9 3 £251 -62.89%
Virtual Desktop
England

Virtual Desktop
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 3 (6.98%) SharePoint
1 3 (6.98%) Skype for Business
2 2 (4.65%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (2.33%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (2.33%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (2.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (2.33%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 35 (81.40%) Azure
2 21 (48.84%) Microsoft 365
3 12 (27.91%) AWS
4 7 (16.28%) IaaS
4 7 (16.28%) PaaS
4 7 (16.28%) SaaS
5 6 (13.95%) Entra ID
6 4 (9.30%) OneDrive
7 2 (4.65%) Power Platform
7 2 (4.65%) PowerApps
8 1 (2.33%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (2.33%) Amazon ELB
8 1 (2.33%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (2.33%) Azure Logic Apps
8 1 (2.33%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (2.33%) Azure Stack
8 1 (2.33%) Microsoft Purview
8 1 (2.33%) Power Automate
8 1 (2.33%) Route 53
8 1 (2.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (6.98%) Skype
1 3 (6.98%) VoIP
1 3 (6.98%) VPN
1 3 (6.98%) Wi-Fi
2 2 (4.65%) Remote Desktop
3 1 (2.33%) DHCP
3 1 (2.33%) DNS
3 1 (2.33%) Firewall
3 1 (2.33%) HTTP
3 1 (2.33%) NAS
3 1 (2.33%) SAN
3 1 (2.33%) SD-WAN
3 1 (2.33%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.98%) MySQL
1 3 (6.98%) SQL Server
2 2 (4.65%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (4.65%) Power BI
3 1 (2.33%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (2.33%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 1 (2.33%) AdminStudio
1 1 (2.33%) Git
1 1 (2.33%) Mercurial
1 1 (2.33%) MSI
General
1 13 (30.23%) Social Skills
2 8 (18.60%) Finance
3 6 (13.95%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (9.30%) Public Sector
5 2 (4.65%) Banking
5 2 (4.65%) Financial Institution
5 2 (4.65%) Law
5 2 (4.65%) Local Government
6 1 (2.33%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (2.33%) Investment Banking
6 1 (2.33%) Marketing
6 1 (2.33%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 13 (30.23%) Architect
2 10 (23.26%) Infrastructure Architect
3 9 (20.93%) Senior
4 7 (16.28%) Support Engineer
5 6 (13.95%) Senior Architect
5 6 (13.95%) Senior Infrastructure Architect
6 5 (11.63%) Systems Engineer
7 4 (9.30%) 2nd Line Engineer
7 4 (9.30%) 2nd Line Support
7 4 (9.30%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
7 4 (9.30%) Windows Engineer
8 3 (6.98%) Azure Architect
8 3 (6.98%) Desktop Engineer
8 3 (6.98%) IT Engineer
8 3 (6.98%) IT Support
8 3 (6.98%) IT Support Engineer
8 3 (6.98%) Solutions Architect
8 3 (6.98%) VMware Engineer
8 3 (6.98%) Voice Engineer
9 2 (4.65%) SaaS Architect
Miscellaneous
1 10 (23.26%) Private Cloud
1 10 (23.26%) Public Cloud
2 3 (6.98%) Management Information System
3 2 (4.65%) Data Centre
3 2 (4.65%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (4.65%) Low-Code
4 1 (2.33%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (2.33%) PKI
4 1 (2.33%) Replication
4 1 (2.33%) Video Conferencing
4 1 (2.33%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 20 (46.51%) Windows
2 9 (20.93%) Windows 10
3 6 (13.95%) Windows Server
4 5 (11.63%) VMS
5 4 (9.30%) Android
5 4 (9.30%) Apple iOS
6 2 (4.65%) Linux
6 2 (4.65%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (2.33%) Unix
7 1 (2.33%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (2.33%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (37.21%) ITIL
2 10 (23.26%) Infrastructure Management
2 10 (23.26%) TOGAF
3 9 (20.93%) Agile
3 9 (20.93%) Roadmaps
4 8 (18.60%) Capacity Planning
4 8 (18.60%) ITSM
5 7 (16.28%) Problem-Solving
5 7 (16.28%) Project Management
6 6 (13.95%) Customer Service
6 6 (13.95%) Service Management
7 5 (11.63%) Identity Management
7 5 (11.63%) Prototyping
7 5 (11.63%) Rapid Prototyping
7 5 (11.63%) Technology Roadmap
8 4 (9.30%) Application Packaging
8 4 (9.30%) Change Management
8 4 (9.30%) Service Delivery
9 3 (6.98%) Asset Management
9 3 (6.98%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 10 (23.26%) PowerShell
2 5 (11.63%) SQL
3 2 (4.65%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 9 (20.93%) Security Cleared
2 5 (11.63%) DV Cleared
3 3 (6.98%) Degree
3 3 (6.98%) SC Cleared
4 1 (2.33%) Azure Certification
4 1 (2.33%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (2.33%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.33%) DBS Check
4 1 (2.33%) VCAP
4 1 (2.33%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.98%) SLA
2 2 (4.65%) GDPR
3 1 (2.33%) HIPAA
3 1 (2.33%) QA
System Software
1 11 (25.58%) Active Directory
2 8 (18.60%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (11.63%) vSphere
4 3 (6.98%) KVM
4 3 (6.98%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (6.98%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (4.65%) BitLocker
5 2 (4.65%) Microsoft App-V
6 1 (2.33%) XenApp
6 1 (2.33%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 19 (44.19%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (6.98%) SCCM
3 1 (2.33%) SCOrch
3 1 (2.33%) Terraform
3 1 (2.33%) VxRail
3 1 (2.33%) WSUS
Vendors
1 14 (32.56%) Microsoft
2 10 (23.26%) Citrix
3 8 (18.60%) VMware
4 3 (6.98%) Cisco
5 2 (4.65%) Remedy
5 2 (4.65%) ServiceNow
6 1 (2.33%) Apple
6 1 (2.33%) EMC
6 1 (2.33%) F5
6 1 (2.33%) Nexthink
6 1 (2.33%) Oracle
6 1 (2.33%) Red Hat