Virtual Desktop Contracts in the North West

Virtual Desktop
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for Virtual Desktop skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Virtual Desktop over the 6 months to 23 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 133 144 169
Rank change year-on-year +11 +25 -35
Contract jobs citing Virtual Desktop 8 14 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.29% 0.44% 0.22%
As % of the System Software category 3.00% 2.69% 1.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 12 5
10th Percentile £248 - £324
25th Percentile £292 £469 £465
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -14.77% -4.35% +66.91%
75th Percentile £580 £563 £700
90th Percentile £638 £600 -
England median daily rate £588 £539 £500
% change year-on-year +9.00% +7.80% +9.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
Median hourly rate £18.00 £26.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -30.77% - -
England median hourly rate £18.00 £26.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year -30.77% +18.18% -52.17%

All System Software Skills
North West

Virtual Desktop is in the System Software category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for system software skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 267 520 550
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 9.61% 16.19% 13.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 194 383 409
10th Percentile £178 £200 £158
25th Percentile £301 £325 £220
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £425
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +17.65% +13.33%
75th Percentile £569 £575 £606
90th Percentile £670 £650 £650
England median daily rate £488 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -7.14% - +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 30 27
10th Percentile - £14.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £15.50 £16.25 £15.13
Median hourly rate £17.72 £21.21 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -16.43% +21.17% -58.82%
75th Percentile £19.81 £52.13 £19.63
90th Percentile £45.19 £65.00 £33.55
England median hourly rate £21.50 £48.95 £19.00
% change year-on-year -56.08% +157.63% -2.56%

Virtual Desktop
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Virtual Desktop in the North West

Virtual Desktop
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Virtual Desktop in the North West.

Daily rate trend for Virtual Desktop in the North West

Virtual Desktop
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Virtual Desktop in the North West over the 6 months to 23 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Virtual Desktop in the North West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Virtual Desktop in the North West.

Hourly rate trend for Virtual Desktop in the North West

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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 Virtual Desktop within the North West region over the 6 months to 23 April 2024. 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
Manchester +13 4 £255 -47.69% 3
Cheshire +3 2 £581 -3.13% 2
Merseyside - 1 - -
Virtual Desktop
England

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

Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 4 (50.00%) Azure
1 4 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (12.50%) Entra ID
2 1 (12.50%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) DHCP
1 1 (12.50%) DNS
1 1 (12.50%) Firewall
1 1 (12.50%) LAN
1 1 (12.50%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) SQL Server
General
1 4 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Digital Economy
2 2 (25.00%) Finance
2 2 (25.00%) Law
3 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Legal
3 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Analyst
1 3 (37.50%) Service Analyst
1 3 (37.50%) Service Desk Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) Architect
2 1 (12.50%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Head of IT
2 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) IT Director
2 1 (12.50%) Solutions Architect
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Data Protection Act
1 2 (25.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (12.50%) Clustering
2 1 (12.50%) Educational Technology
Operating Systems
1 5 (62.50%) Windows
2 2 (25.00%) Windows 10
3 1 (12.50%) Windows Server
3 1 (12.50%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (12.50%) Windows Server 2012
3 1 (12.50%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) Customer Service
2 3 (37.50%) Migration
2 3 (37.50%) Service Management
3 2 (25.00%) Agile
3 2 (25.00%) Business Continuity
3 2 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
3 2 (25.00%) Data Protection
3 2 (25.00%) Document Management
3 2 (25.00%) IT Strategy
3 2 (25.00%) ITIL
3 2 (25.00%) Network Management
3 2 (25.00%) PRINCE2
3 2 (25.00%) Project Management
3 2 (25.00%) Risk Management
3 2 (25.00%) Service Delivery
4 1 (12.50%) Analytical Thinking
4 1 (12.50%) Contingency Planning
4 1 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (12.50%) Service Design
4 1 (12.50%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 1 (12.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (37.50%) Degree
2 2 (25.00%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (12.50%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 5 (62.50%) Active Directory
2 1 (12.50%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (12.50%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 3 (37.50%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Clustering
2 1 (12.50%) vCenter Server
2 1 (12.50%) VxRail
Vendors
1 4 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (37.50%) ServiceNow
3 2 (25.00%) iManage
4 1 (12.50%) Dell
4 1 (12.50%) EMC
4 1 (12.50%) Sophos
4 1 (12.50%) VMware