Virtual Desktop Contracts in Northern Ireland

Virtual Desktop
UK > Northern Ireland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Northern Ireland 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 31 - 32
Rank change year-on-year - - 0
Contract jobs citing Virtual Desktop 1 0 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 0.63% - 0.50%
As % of the System Software category 6.25% - 3.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
UK median daily rate £525 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -12.50% +9.09% +10.00%

All System Software Skills
Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 16 8 32
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 10.06% 5.37% 15.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 2 9
10th Percentile £150 £366 £164
25th Percentile £155 £391 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £285 £438 £525
Median % change year-on-year -34.86% -16.67% +5.00%
75th Percentile £410 £491 £650
90th Percentile £493 £519 -
UK median daily rate £525 £488 £525
% change year-on-year +7.69% -7.14% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £31.25 -
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £22.50 £53.43
% change year-on-year +22.22% -57.88% +167.13%

Virtual Desktop
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

Job postings citing Virtual Desktop as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland.

Job vacancy trend for Virtual Desktop in Northern Ireland

Virtual Desktop
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Northern Ireland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Virtual Desktop in Northern Ireland.

Daily rate trend for Virtual Desktop in Northern Ireland

Virtual Desktop
Contract Job Locations in Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
County Antrim - 1 - -
Virtual Desktop
UK

Virtual Desktop
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northern Ireland 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 1 (100.00%) Azure
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) 3rd Line Support
1 1 (100.00%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Support Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Blockchain
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Change Management
1 1 (100.00%) Data Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Digital Transformation Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) Generative AI
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Patch Management
1 1 (100.00%) Process Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Citrix
1 1 (100.00%) Zscaler