Microsoft App-V Contract Job Trends in the North West

Microsoft Application Virtualisation (AppV) formerly Softricity SoftGrid
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North West requiring Microsoft App-V 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 182 - 118
Rank change year-on-year - - +24
Contract jobs citing Microsoft App-V 4 0 3
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.10% - 0.13%
As % of the System Software category 0.82% - 1.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 2
10th Percentile £236 - -
25th Percentile £251 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £285 - £400
Median % change year-on-year - - -7.41%
75th Percentile £365 - -
90th Percentile £409 - -
England median daily rate £625 £500 £431
% change year-on-year +25.00% +16.01% +4.11%

All System Software Skills
North West

Microsoft App-V 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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 486 266 212
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 12.28% 12.28% 8.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 332 165 137
10th Percentile £185 £209 £213
25th Percentile £310 £350 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £447 £500
Median % change year-on-year +0.56% -10.60% +11.11%
75th Percentile £538 £514 £576
90th Percentile £638 £621 £672
England median daily rate £500 £500 £513
% change year-on-year - -2.44% -0.97%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 7 9
10th Percentile £17.74 £15.50 £16.45
25th Percentile £63.13 £16.44 £17.44
Median hourly rate £77.00 £18.87 £19.18
Median % change year-on-year +308.06% -1.62% +3.68%
75th Percentile £178.75 £43.06 £32.50
90th Percentile - £75.85 £84.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £34.50 £24.18
% change year-on-year +88.41% +42.68% -49.48%

Microsoft App-V
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Microsoft App-V relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Microsoft App-V job vacancy trend in the North West

Microsoft App-V
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Microsoft App-V.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Microsoft App-V

Microsoft App-V
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft App-V in the North West over the 6 months to 13 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft App-V in the North West

Microsoft App-V
Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Microsoft App-V.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Microsoft App-V

Microsoft App-V
Contract Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft App-V within the North West region over the 6 months to 13 September 2026. 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
Lancashire - 3 £285 - 3
Manchester - 1 - - 4
Microsoft App-V
England

Microsoft App-V
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) Entra ID
2 3 (75.00%) Azure
3 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) Internet
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) MSI
General
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Military
2 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Applications Packager
2 1 (25.00%) Applications Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Desktop Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Desktop Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) ARM Templates
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Graph
1 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (25.00%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Windows
2 1 (25.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Application Packaging
2 3 (75.00%) Migration
2 3 (75.00%) Zero Trust
3 2 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
3 2 (50.00%) Technical Discovery
4 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
4 1 (25.00%) Decision-Making
4 1 (25.00%) DevOps
4 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (25.00%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (25.00%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) QA
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) Virtual Desktop
2 2 (50.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (75.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (75.00%) Zscaler
3 1 (25.00%) Citrix
3 1 (25.00%) Ivanti