Virtual Desktop
North West > Merseyside
The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Merseyside 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 23 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.
| 6 months to 23 May 2025 |
Same period 2024 | Same period 2023 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rank | - | 31 | - |
| Rank change year-on-year | - | - | - |
| Contract jobs citing Virtual Desktop | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| As % of all contract jobs advertised in Merseyside | - | 0.47% | - |
| As % of the System Software category | - | 4.00% | - |
| Number of daily rates quoted | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Median daily rate (50th Percentile) | - | - | - |
| North West median daily rate | £475 | £513 | £550 |
| % change year-on-year | -7.32% | -6.82% | +3.29% |
| Number of hourly rates quoted | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Median hourly rate | - | £18.00 | - |
| North West median hourly rate | - | £18.00 | £20.86 |
| % change year-on-year | - | -13.71% | - |
All System Software Skills
Merseyside
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 Merseyside.
| Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills | 23 | 25 | 46 |
| As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Merseyside | 14.47% | 11.74% | 15.03% |
| Number of daily rates quoted | 19 | 16 | 32 |
| 10th Percentile | £133 | £143 | £144 |
| 25th Percentile | £141 | £156 | £256 |
| Median daily rate (50th Percentile) | £150 | £225 | £438 |
| Median % change year-on-year | -33.33% | -48.57% | +35.14% |
| 75th Percentile | £223 | £240 | £650 |
| 90th Percentile | £413 | £337 | £691 |
| North West median daily rate | £425 | £450 | £498 |
| % change year-on-year | -5.56% | -9.55% | +7.39% |
| Number of hourly rates quoted | 0 | 9 | 5 |
| 10th Percentile | - | - | £16.21 |
| 25th Percentile | - | £15.50 | £16.25 |
| Median hourly rate | - | £16.00 | £17.50 |
| Median % change year-on-year | - | -8.57% | +16.67% |
| 75th Percentile | - | £16.50 | £18.75 |
| 90th Percentile | - | £18.15 | - |
| North West median hourly rate | £82.50 | £17.72 | £20.00 |
| % change year-on-year | +365.58% | -11.40% | +10.41% |
Virtual Desktop
Job Vacancy Trend in Merseyside
Job postings citing Virtual Desktop as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Merseyside.
Virtual Desktop
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Merseyside
3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Virtual Desktop in Merseyside.