Virtual Desktop Contract Job Trends in Plymouth

Virtual Desktop
Devon > Plymouth

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Plymouth requiring Virtual Desktop skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 11 11 7
Rank change year-on-year 0 -4 -
Contract jobs citing Virtual Desktop 1 2 2
As % of all contract jobs in Plymouth 2.13% 3.85% 4.55%
As % of the System Software category 25.00% 28.57% 100.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 2 2
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £600 £300
Median % change year-on-year - +100.00% -
Devon median daily rate - £600 £638
% change year-on-year - -5.88% -

All System Software Skills
Plymouth

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 Plymouth.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 4 7 2
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Plymouth 8.51% 13.46% 4.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 2
10th Percentile £215 £490 -
25th Percentile £238 £531 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £275 £600 £300
Median % change year-on-year -54.17% +100.00% -20.00%
75th Percentile £381 - -
90th Percentile £445 - -
Devon median daily rate £275 £403 £674
% change year-on-year -31.68% -40.28% +63.39%

Virtual Desktop
Job Vacancy Trend in Plymouth

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

Job vacancy trend for Virtual Desktop in Plymouth

Virtual Desktop
Daily Rate Trend in Plymouth

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

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

Virtual Desktop
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Plymouth 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Key Vault
1 1 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (100.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Power BI
General
1 1 (100.00%) Military
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Lead
1 1 (100.00%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Software Packaging
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Coaching
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Service Design
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (100.00%) SCCM
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft