Virtual Desktop Contract Job Trends in Nottinghamshire

Virtual Desktop
East Midlands > Nottinghamshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Nottinghamshire requiring Virtual Desktop skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 27 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Virtual Desktop 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Nottinghamshire 0.60% - -
As % of the System Software category 12.50% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £103 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £105 - -
75th Percentile £108 - -
90th Percentile - - -
East Midlands median daily rate £105 £450 £680
% change year-on-year -76.67% -33.82% +29.52%

All System Software Skills
Nottinghamshire

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 Nottinghamshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 8 19 24
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Nottinghamshire 4.76% 12.42% 11.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 13 17
10th Percentile £138 £205 £172
25th Percentile £190 £240 £223
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £375 £420
Median % change year-on-year +38.67% -10.71% -16.00%
75th Percentile £667 £495 £700
90th Percentile £694 £506 -
East Midlands median daily rate £415 £400 £350
% change year-on-year +3.75% +14.29% +29.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £13.25
Median hourly rate - - £13.50
Median % change year-on-year - - -40.00%
75th Percentile - - £16.88
90th Percentile - - £18.75
East Midlands median hourly rate - £21.26 £17.72
% change year-on-year - +19.98% -1.56%

Virtual Desktop
Job Vacancy Trend in Nottinghamshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Virtual Desktop in Nottinghamshire

Virtual Desktop
Daily Rate Trend in Nottinghamshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Nottinghamshire citing Virtual Desktop

Virtual Desktop
Contract Job Locations in Nottinghamshire

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 Nottinghamshire region over the 6 months to 14 September 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
Mansfield - 1 £105 - 1
Virtual Desktop
East Midlands

Virtual Desktop
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Nottinghamshire 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:

General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Desktop Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Desktop Support
1 1 (100.00%) Desktop Support Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Support Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (100.00%) vSphere
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) VMware