Virtual Desktop Contracts in London

Virtual Desktop
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for Virtual Desktop skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Virtual Desktop over the 6 months to 24 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 367 418 484
Rank change year-on-year +51 +66 -71
Contract jobs citing Virtual Desktop 32 84 112
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.18% 0.31% 0.29%
As % of the System Software category 1.79% 2.64% 2.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 63 58
10th Percentile £275 £258 £196
25th Percentile £373 £338 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +2.56%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £588
90th Percentile - £720 £638
England median daily rate £588 £539 £500
% change year-on-year +9.00% +7.80% +9.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £21.50
Median hourly rate - - £22.00
75th Percentile - - £22.50
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £18.00 £26.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year -30.77% +18.18% -52.17%

All System Software Skills
London

Virtual Desktop is in the System Software category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for system software skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 1,791 3,186 5,180
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 10.03% 11.70% 13.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,269 2,342 3,865
10th Percentile £213 £250 £331
25th Percentile £363 £445 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £575 £563
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +2.22% +7.14%
75th Percentile £615 £688 £675
90th Percentile £719 £775 £750
England median daily rate £488 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -7.14% - +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 38 48
10th Percentile £17.60 £15.25 £14.75
25th Percentile £20.50 £22.63 £20.00
Median hourly rate £23.80 £34.00 £24.50
Median % change year-on-year -30.00% +38.78% -44.94%
75th Percentile £33.75 £75.00 £45.48
90th Percentile £58.00 £86.50 £70.88
England median hourly rate £21.50 £49.50 £19.00
% change year-on-year -56.57% +160.53% -1.30%

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 24 April 2024.

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 24 April 2024. 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 +33 5 £450 -5.26% 2
South London - 1 £675 - 1
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 (9.38%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (3.13%) Confluence
2 1 (3.13%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (3.13%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 21 (65.63%) Azure
2 9 (28.13%) Entra ID
3 7 (21.88%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (12.50%) AWS
5 2 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (6.25%) OneDrive
6 1 (3.13%) Azure Key Vault
6 1 (3.13%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (3.13%) IaaS
6 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Purview
6 1 (3.13%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 5 (15.63%) DHCP
1 5 (15.63%) DNS
1 5 (15.63%) Firewall
1 5 (15.63%) LAN
1 5 (15.63%) WAN
2 4 (12.50%) VPN
3 3 (9.38%) NetScaler
3 3 (9.38%) SMTP
3 3 (9.38%) TCP/IP
4 2 (6.25%) FTP
4 2 (6.25%) HTTP
4 2 (6.25%) SNMP
4 2 (6.25%) SSH
4 2 (6.25%) SSL
4 2 (6.25%) Telnet
4 2 (6.25%) Wireless
5 1 (3.13%) IPv4
5 1 (3.13%) Skype
Development Applications
1 1 (3.13%) JIRA
General
1 8 (25.00%) Finance
1 8 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (18.75%) Public Sector
3 2 (6.25%) Banking
4 1 (3.13%) Military
4 1 (3.13%) Retail
Job Titles
1 10 (31.25%) Azure Engineer
2 8 (25.00%) Desktop Engineer
3 3 (9.38%) Citrix Engineer
3 3 (9.38%) Consultant
4 2 (6.25%) Applications Specialist
4 2 (6.25%) Citrix Support
4 2 (6.25%) Citrix Support Engineer
4 2 (6.25%) Project Manager
4 2 (6.25%) Security Engineer
4 2 (6.25%) Support Engineer
4 2 (6.25%) Technical Manager
4 2 (6.25%) Technical Project Manager
4 2 (6.25%) VMware Consultant
4 2 (6.25%) VMware Engineer
4 2 (6.25%) Windows Engineer
5 1 (3.13%) Developer
5 1 (3.13%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
5 1 (3.13%) Platform Engineer
5 1 (3.13%) Programme Manager
5 1 (3.13%) SCCM Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.13%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 2 (6.25%) Management Information System
1 2 (6.25%) NHS
2 1 (3.13%) PKI
2 1 (3.13%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 14 (43.75%) Windows
2 8 (25.00%) Windows 10
3 2 (6.25%) Linux
4 1 (3.13%) Mac OS
4 1 (3.13%) Ubuntu
4 1 (3.13%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (21.88%) Asset Management
2 5 (15.63%) Migration
3 4 (12.50%) Agile
3 4 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
4 3 (9.38%) DevOps
4 3 (9.38%) Identity Access Management
4 3 (9.38%) Project Delivery
4 3 (9.38%) Project Management
5 2 (6.25%) Application Packaging
5 2 (6.25%) Application Security
5 2 (6.25%) Application Virtualisation
5 2 (6.25%) Collaborative Working
5 2 (6.25%) Data Loss Prevention
5 2 (6.25%) Load Balancing
5 2 (6.25%) Problem Management
5 2 (6.25%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (6.25%) Roadmaps
5 2 (6.25%) Server Management
5 2 (6.25%) User Experience
5 2 (6.25%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 7 (21.88%) PowerShell
2 4 (12.50%) Python
3 1 (3.13%) Bash
3 1 (3.13%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (12.50%) SC Cleared
1 4 (12.50%) Security Cleared
2 2 (6.25%) Azure Certification
2 2 (6.25%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (12.50%) QA
2 1 (3.13%) SLA
System Software
1 10 (31.25%) Active Directory
2 6 (18.75%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (12.50%) vSphere
4 3 (9.38%) XenApp
5 2 (6.25%) UAG
5 2 (6.25%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (3.13%) Microsoft App-V
6 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 1 (3.13%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (3.13%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 8 (25.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 6 (18.75%) SCCM
3 2 (6.25%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (6.25%) Terraform
3 2 (6.25%) TrustSec
4 1 (3.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (3.13%) Ansible
4 1 (3.13%) FortiGate
4 1 (3.13%) OPNET
4 1 (3.13%) Packer
4 1 (3.13%) SCOM
Vendors
1 12 (37.50%) Microsoft
2 7 (21.88%) Citrix
3 6 (18.75%) VMware
4 2 (6.25%) Cisco
4 2 (6.25%) F5
4 2 (6.25%) Nexthink
4 2 (6.25%) Splunk
5 1 (3.13%) Red Hat
5 1 (3.13%) Remedy
5 1 (3.13%) SolarWinds