Virtual Desktop Contracts in Reading

Virtual Desktop
Berkshire > Reading

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading 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 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 84 80 89
Rank change year-on-year -4 +9 -28
Contract jobs citing Virtual Desktop 16 8 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 1.37% 0.79% 0.82%
As % of the System Software category 9.30% 6.67% 6.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 6 10
10th Percentile - £613 £345
25th Percentile £603 £616 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £605 £688 £550
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +25.00% -4.35%
75th Percentile £608 £790 £617
90th Percentile - £799 £623
Berkshire median daily rate £605 £688 £533
% change year-on-year -12.00% +29.11% -7.39%

All System Software Skills
Reading

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 Reading with a requirement for system software skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 172 120 178
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 14.78% 11.83% 13.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 128 91 135
10th Percentile £205 £375 £131
25th Percentile £525 £473 £348
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £605 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% +10.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £616 £675 £625
90th Percentile £675 £700 £695
Berkshire median daily rate £575 £525 £463
% change year-on-year +9.52% +13.51% +1.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 1
10th Percentile - £47.86 -
25th Percentile - £48.40 £9.75
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £10.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% +450.00% -34.43%
75th Percentile - £70.00 £10.25
90th Percentile - £76.82 -
Berkshire median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £41.25
% change year-on-year +18.18% +33.33% +8.91%

Virtual Desktop
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for Virtual Desktop in Reading

Virtual Desktop
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

Daily rate trend for Virtual Desktop in Reading

Virtual Desktop
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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 16 (100.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 16 (100.00%) Azure
1 16 (100.00%) Azure Monitor
1 16 (100.00%) Azure Storage
1 16 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 16 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 16 (100.00%) DHCP
1 16 (100.00%) DNS
1 16 (100.00%) Firewall
General
1 16 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 16 (100.00%) Active Directory Support
2 14 (87.50%) Active Directory Specialist
2 14 (87.50%) Azure Specialist
2 14 (87.50%) Support Specialist
3 2 (12.50%) Active Directory Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Active Directory Support Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Azure Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (100.00%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 16 (100.00%) PKI
1 16 (100.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 16 (100.00%) Linux
1 16 (100.00%) Windows
1 16 (100.00%) Windows Server
1 16 (100.00%) Windows Server 2016
1 16 (100.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (100.00%) Agile
1 16 (100.00%) Analytics
1 16 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 16 (100.00%) DevOps
1 16 (100.00%) Identity Management
1 16 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 16 (100.00%) ITIL
1 16 (100.00%) Log Analytics
1 16 (100.00%) Multi-Factor Authentication
1 16 (100.00%) Privileged Identity Management
1 16 (100.00%) RBAC
1 16 (100.00%) Release Management
1 16 (100.00%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 16 (100.00%) Bicep
1 16 (100.00%) C#
1 16 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 16 (100.00%) VB
1 16 (100.00%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 16 (100.00%) Degree
1 16 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 16 (100.00%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
1 16 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 16 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 16 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 16 (100.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 16 (100.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 16 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 16 (100.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 16 (100.00%) SCCM
1 16 (100.00%) SCOM
1 16 (100.00%) WSUS
Vendors
1 16 (100.00%) Microsoft