Virtual Desktop Contract Job Trends in North Yorkshire

Virtual Desktop
Yorkshire > North Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in North Yorkshire requiring Virtual Desktop skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Virtual Desktop 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in North Yorkshire 1.21% - -
As % of the System Software category 10.53% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 - -
Yorkshire median daily rate £510 £400 -
% change year-on-year +27.50% - -

All System Software Skills
North Yorkshire

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 North Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 19 11 26
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in North Yorkshire 11.52% 14.29% 16.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 6 15
10th Percentile £193 £177 £125
25th Percentile - £229 £145
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £200 £381 £180
Median % change year-on-year -47.54% +111.81% -10.00%
75th Percentile £375 £400 £200
90th Percentile £470 £469 £306
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £450 £455
% change year-on-year +11.11% -1.10% +7.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £13.25
Median hourly rate - - £14.50
Median % change year-on-year - - -34.09%
75th Percentile - - £15.75
90th Percentile - - -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £26.00 - £14.63
% change year-on-year - - -55.00%

Virtual Desktop
Job Vacancy Trend in North Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Virtual Desktop relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in North Yorkshire.

Virtual Desktop job vacancy trend in North Yorkshire

Virtual Desktop
Daily Rate Trend in North Yorkshire

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

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

Virtual Desktop
Contract Job Locations in North Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 25 June 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
Scarborough - 2 £510 - 2
Virtual Desktop
Yorkshire

Virtual Desktop
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in North Yorkshire 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%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (100.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Architect
2 1 (50.00%) Active Directory Architect
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Solutions Architect
2 1 (50.00%) Senior
2 1 (50.00%) Senior Architect
2 1 (50.00%) Senior Solutions Architect
2 1 (50.00%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Architect
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Desktop Virtualisation
1 2 (100.00%) Presales
1 2 (100.00%) PRINCE2
1 2 (100.00%) TOGAF
2 1 (50.00%) Architecture Governance
2 1 (50.00%) Identity Management
2 1 (50.00%) Privileged Identity Management
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Jamf Pro
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (50.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Apple
1 2 (100.00%) BeyondTrust
1 2 (100.00%) Citrix
1 2 (100.00%) CyberArk
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft