Microsoft App-V Contract Job Trends in the South East

Microsoft Application Virtualisation (AppV) formerly Softricity SoftGrid
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Microsoft App-V skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 163 161 198
Rank change year-on-year -2 +37 +64
Contract jobs citing Microsoft App-V 6 15 14
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.17% 0.35% 0.25%
As % of the System Software category 1.19% 2.30% 1.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 3 6
10th Percentile £519 £430 £405
25th Percentile £547 £431 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £432 £460
Median % change year-on-year +33.10% -6.09% -20.86%
75th Percentile £588 - £501
90th Percentile - - £519
England median daily rate £500 £432 £425
% change year-on-year +15.74% +1.65% -5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £55.87 £34.25
Median hourly rate - £56.75 £34.50
Median % change year-on-year - +64.48% -42.50%
75th Percentile - £58.49 £34.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate - £56.75 £34.50
% change year-on-year - +64.48% -9.04%

All System Software Skills
South East

Microsoft App-V 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 the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 504 652 866
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 14.11% 15.07% 15.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 356 433 550
10th Percentile £190 £221 £180
25th Percentile £256 £360 £294
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £496 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.80% - +4.17%
75th Percentile £575 £610 £592
90th Percentile £638 £674 £663
England median daily rate £500 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 26 62
10th Percentile £56.30 £24.33 £15.50
25th Percentile £67.44 £50.83 £22.02
Median hourly rate £81.00 £57.87 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +39.97% +5.22% -
75th Percentile £81.50 £70.00 £71.74
90th Percentile £88.97 - £76.53
England median hourly rate £34.50 £36.17 £46.84
% change year-on-year -4.60% -22.79% +101.46%

Microsoft App-V
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Microsoft App-V relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Microsoft App-V job vacancy trend in the South East

Microsoft App-V
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Microsoft App-V.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Microsoft App-V

Microsoft App-V
Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Microsoft App-V.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Microsoft App-V

Microsoft App-V
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft App-V within the South East region over the 6 months to 10 October 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
Hampshire - 6 £575 -
Microsoft App-V
England

Microsoft App-V
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 3 (50.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) AWS
1 3 (50.00%) GCP
1 3 (50.00%) IaaS
1 3 (50.00%) OpenShift
1 3 (50.00%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (50.00%) DHCP
1 3 (50.00%) DNS
1 3 (50.00%) Firewall
1 3 (50.00%) SMTP
1 3 (50.00%) VPN
2 2 (33.33%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
1 3 (50.00%) Big Data
1 3 (50.00%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 3 (50.00%) MSI
General
1 3 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
1 3 (50.00%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
1 3 (50.00%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
1 3 (50.00%) 3rd Line Support
1 3 (50.00%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
1 3 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 3 (50.00%) Infrastructure Support
1 3 (50.00%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
1 3 (50.00%) Support Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Applications Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Clustering
1 3 (50.00%) Data Centre
1 3 (50.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 3 (50.00%) Linux
1 3 (50.00%) Windows
1 3 (50.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) AI
1 3 (50.00%) Application Packaging
1 3 (50.00%) DevOps
1 3 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 3 (50.00%) Machine Learning
1 3 (50.00%) Software Deployment
2 2 (33.33%) Application Discovery
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) Degree
1 3 (50.00%) DV Cleared
1 3 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) QA
System Software
1 3 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 3 (50.00%) BitLocker
1 3 (50.00%) Docker
1 3 (50.00%) Hyper-V
1 3 (50.00%) Terminal Services
1 3 (50.00%) VMware ESXi
1 3 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) Ansible
1 3 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (50.00%) Nagios
1 3 (50.00%) Puppet
1 3 (50.00%) vCenter Server
1 3 (50.00%) vMotion
2 2 (33.33%) SCCM
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Citrix
1 3 (50.00%) Google
1 3 (50.00%) HP
1 3 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (50.00%) Symantec
1 3 (50.00%) VMware