Virtual Desktop Contract Job Trends in Macclesfield

Virtual Desktop
Cheshire > Macclesfield

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Macclesfield requiring Virtual Desktop skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Virtual Desktop 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Macclesfield 5.56% - -
As % of the System Software category 100.00% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
Cheshire median daily rate £325 £400 £763
% change year-on-year -18.75% -47.54% -

All System Software Skills
Macclesfield

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 Macclesfield.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 2 8 2
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Macclesfield 5.56% 16.00% 4.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 4 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £600 -
Cheshire median daily rate £428 £393 £533
% change year-on-year +8.78% -26.27% +33.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £18.87 -
Cheshire median hourly rate £16.87 £18.31 -
% change year-on-year -7.89% - -

Virtual Desktop
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Macclesfield 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 2 (100.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) Remote Desktop
General
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
1 2 (100.00%) Organisational Skills
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Analyst
1 2 (100.00%) Service Analyst
1 2 (100.00%) Service Desk Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Data Protection Act
1 2 (100.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (50.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Chat Support
1 2 (100.00%) Collaborative Working
1 2 (100.00%) Customer Service
1 2 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 2 (100.00%) ITIL
1 2 (100.00%) ITSM
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (100.00%) Service Management
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Service Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) User Experience
2 1 (50.00%) Value Proposition
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (100.00%) VMware