Microsoft App-V Contracts in the South West

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West requiring Microsoft App-V skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Microsoft App-V over the 6 months leading up to 21 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 105 - 151
Rank change year-on-year - - +8
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Microsoft App-V 7 0 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.36% - 0.12%
As % of the System Software category 2.95% - 0.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 2
10th Percentile £330 - -
25th Percentile £338 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £345 - £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.05%
75th Percentile £367 - -
90th Percentile £402 - -
England median daily rate £531 £415 £463
% change year-on-year +28.01% -10.27% +2.72%

All System Software Skills
South West

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 West.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 237 432 469
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 12.27% 15.58% 14.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 175 319 319
10th Percentile £203 £213 £196
25th Percentile £309 £463 £392
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £513
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% +4.88% +2.50%
75th Percentile £619 £600 £616
90th Percentile £695 £672 £688
England median daily rate £500 £515 £525
% change year-on-year -2.91% -1.90% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 13 37
10th Percentile £65.98 £22.40 £13.25
25th Percentile £78.70 £58.00 £14.61
Median hourly rate £80.00 £78.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% +246.67% -53.59%
75th Percentile £95.00 £85.00 £65.98
90th Percentile - £89.00 £78.80
England median hourly rate £37.50 £23.99 £39.60
% change year-on-year +56.32% -39.42% +81.82%

Microsoft App-V
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Job postings citing Microsoft App-V as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft App-V in the South West

Microsoft App-V
Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

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

Microsoft App-V
Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

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

Microsoft App-V
DemandTrendContract Job Locations in the South West

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 West region over the 6 months to 21 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Gloucestershire - 6 £345 - 1
Wiltshire - 1 - -
Microsoft App-V
England

Microsoft App-V
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 (14.29%) Azure
Development Applications
1 7 (100.00%) MSI
2 4 (57.14%) AdminStudio
2 4 (57.14%) InstallShield
General
1 1 (14.29%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (85.71%) Deployment Engineer
2 5 (71.43%) Applications Engineer
3 4 (57.14%) SC Cleared Deployment Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Applications Packager
Miscellaneous
1 4 (57.14%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 7 (100.00%) Windows
1 7 (100.00%) Windows 10
2 1 (14.29%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) Application Packaging
2 4 (57.14%) Batch Scripting
2 4 (57.14%) Software Delivery
3 3 (42.86%) Agile
3 3 (42.86%) DevOps
3 3 (42.86%) ITIL
4 2 (28.57%) Change Management
5 1 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
5 1 (14.29%) Root Cause Analysis
5 1 (14.29%) Software Deployment
5 1 (14.29%) User Acceptance Testing
5 1 (14.29%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) PowerShell
2 6 (85.71%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 6 (85.71%) SC Cleared
1 6 (85.71%) Security Cleared
2 3 (42.86%) MCSA
2 3 (42.86%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (14.29%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) QA
System Software
1 6 (85.71%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 7 (100.00%) SCCM
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) Microsoft