Virtual Desktop Contracts in the South West

Virtual Desktop
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West requiring Virtual Desktop skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Virtual Desktop over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 103 146 135
Rank change year-on-year +43 -11 +1
Contract jobs citing Virtual Desktop 8 11 32
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.48% 0.34% 0.88%
As % of the System Software category 2.84% 3.07% 5.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 4 26
10th Percentile £424 £519 £400
25th Percentile £460 £547 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £625 £550
Median % change year-on-year -24.80% +13.64% +4.76%
75th Percentile £675 £713 £600
90th Percentile £720 - -
England median daily rate £538 £588 £538
% change year-on-year -8.51% +9.25% +7.55%

All System Software Skills
South West

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 the South West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 282 358 577
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 16.81% 11.19% 15.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 232 266 439
10th Percentile £213 £153 £200
25th Percentile £413 £275 £357
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £508 £500
Median % change year-on-year +8.37% +1.50% -
75th Percentile £625 £588 £623
90th Percentile £700 £700 £720
England median daily rate £525 £494 £525
% change year-on-year +6.33% -5.95% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 32 40
10th Percentile £16.05 - £13.25
25th Percentile £17.38 £40.00 £17.22
Median hourly rate £40.63 £68.75 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -40.91% +14.58% +21.24%
75th Percentile £68.05 £86.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.44 £90.00 £76.19
England median hourly rate £27.94 £21.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year +33.05% -58.00% +163.16%

Virtual Desktop
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Job postings citing Virtual Desktop as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for Virtual Desktop in the South West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Virtual Desktop in the South West.

Daily rate trend for Virtual Desktop in the South West

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Virtual Desktop in the South West over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Virtual Desktop in the South West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Virtual Desktop in the South West.

Hourly rate trend for Virtual Desktop in the South West

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Contract 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 Virtual Desktop within the South West region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Gloucestershire +19 5 £470 -18.26% 2
Wiltshire +32 3 £675 - 1
Virtual Desktop
England

Virtual Desktop
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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (25.00%) SharePoint
2 1 (12.50%) Confluence
2 1 (12.50%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 5 (62.50%) Azure
2 3 (37.50%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (25.00%) AWS
4 1 (12.50%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (12.50%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 2 (25.00%) DNS
1 2 (25.00%) Remote Desktop
2 1 (12.50%) DHCP
2 1 (12.50%) Firewall
2 1 (12.50%) LAN
2 1 (12.50%) Skype
2 1 (12.50%) SMTP
2 1 (12.50%) TCP/IP
2 1 (12.50%) WAN
Development Applications
1 3 (37.50%) JIRA
2 1 (12.50%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 4 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (37.50%) Public Sector
3 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Military
3 1 (12.50%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Wintel Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Administrator
2 1 (12.50%) Architect
2 1 (12.50%) Azure Architect
2 1 (12.50%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Computer Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Desktop Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft 365 Architect
2 1 (12.50%) Technical Architect
2 1 (12.50%) Wintel Architect
2 1 (12.50%) Wintel Technical Architect
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (12.50%) Management Information System
2 1 (12.50%) Onboarding
2 1 (12.50%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 8 (100.00%) Windows
2 3 (37.50%) Windows 10
2 3 (37.50%) Windows Server
3 1 (12.50%) Android
3 1 (12.50%) Apple iOS
3 1 (12.50%) Mac OS
3 1 (12.50%) Windows Server 2012
3 1 (12.50%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (12.50%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) Agile
2 3 (37.50%) Task Automation
3 2 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (25.00%) Desktop Virtualisation
3 2 (25.00%) DevOps
3 2 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (25.00%) Migration
3 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
3 2 (25.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
3 2 (25.00%) Scrum
3 2 (25.00%) Service Management
3 2 (25.00%) Use Case
3 2 (25.00%) Validation
4 1 (12.50%) Change Management
4 1 (12.50%) GAP Analysis
4 1 (12.50%) ITIL
4 1 (12.50%) ITSM
4 1 (12.50%) PRINCE2
4 1 (12.50%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (75.00%) PowerShell
2 2 (25.00%) Python
3 1 (12.50%) SQL
3 1 (12.50%) VB
3 1 (12.50%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 7 (87.50%) SC Cleared
1 7 (87.50%) Security Cleared
2 3 (37.50%) Degree
3 2 (25.00%) DV Cleared
3 2 (25.00%) MCSA
3 2 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (12.50%) Master's Degree
4 1 (12.50%) MCP
4 1 (12.50%) MCSE
4 1 (12.50%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) NCSC
1 1 (12.50%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (62.50%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (50.00%) Active Directory
3 2 (25.00%) Hyper-V
3 2 (25.00%) vSphere
4 1 (12.50%) BitLocker
4 1 (12.50%) Microsoft App-V
4 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 1 (12.50%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 3 (37.50%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (25.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 2 (25.00%) SCCM
2 2 (25.00%) Terraform
3 1 (12.50%) SCOM
Vendors
1 6 (75.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (62.50%) VMware
3 2 (25.00%) Citrix
3 2 (25.00%) Remedy
4 1 (12.50%) Atlassian
4 1 (12.50%) McAfee
4 1 (12.50%) ServiceNow
4 1 (12.50%) SolarWinds
4 1 (12.50%) Symantec