Virtual Desktop Contracts in the North East

Virtual Desktop
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North East 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 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 32 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Virtual Desktop 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North East 1.05% - -
As % of the System Software category 12.00% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £470 - -
25th Percentile £481 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £450 £483 £475
% change year-on-year -6.74% +1.58% -6.86%

All System Software Skills
North East

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 the North East.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 25 18 39
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 8.77% 7.50% 14.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 11 22
10th Percentile £181 - £283
25th Percentile £188 £190 £366
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £340 £300 £450
Median % change year-on-year +13.33% -33.33% -14.29%
75th Percentile £497 £479 £597
90th Percentile £570 £600 £775
England median daily rate £500 £515 £525
% change year-on-year -2.91% -1.90% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £16.25
Median hourly rate - - £17.50
75th Percentile - - £18.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £37.50 £23.80 £40.00
% change year-on-year +57.56% -40.50% +81.82%

Virtual Desktop
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

Job postings citing Virtual Desktop as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North East.

Job vacancy trend for Virtual Desktop in the North East

Virtual Desktop
Daily Rate Trend in the North East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Virtual Desktop.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Virtual Desktop

Virtual Desktop
DemandTrendContract Job Locations in the North East

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 North East region over the 6 months to 23 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Tyne and Wear - 3 £500 - 2
Virtual Desktop
England

Virtual Desktop
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North East 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) IaaS
1 3 (100.00%) PaaS
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) DNS
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Azure Engineer
1 3 (100.00%) Cloud Engineer
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
1 3 (100.00%) Windows Server
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) SolarWinds