Virtual Desktop Contracts in Surrey

Virtual Desktop
South East > Surrey

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Surrey 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 38 - 66
Rank change year-on-year - - +5
Contract jobs citing Virtual Desktop 1 0 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Surrey 0.34% - 0.44%
As % of the System Software category 4.17% - 3.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 3
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - £250
South East median daily rate £550 £605 £600
% change year-on-year -9.09% +0.83% +42.86%

All System Software Skills
Surrey

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 Surrey.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 24 56 89
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Surrey 8.05% 9.54% 13.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 39 82
10th Percentile £188 £196 £161
25th Percentile £203 £298 £253
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £400 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -20.00% +72.41%
75th Percentile £550 £475 £594
90th Percentile £632 £582 £607
South East median daily rate £525 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +5.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 7 0
Median hourly rate £28.00 £17.80 -
Median % change year-on-year +57.30% - -
South East median hourly rate £57.50 £50.75 £54.03
% change year-on-year +13.30% -6.07% +170.15%

Virtual Desktop
Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

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

Job vacancy trend for Virtual Desktop in Surrey

Virtual Desktop
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Surrey

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

Daily rate trend for Virtual Desktop in Surrey

Virtual Desktop
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Surrey

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Virtual Desktop in Surrey.

Hourly rate trend for Virtual Desktop in Surrey

Virtual Desktop
Contract Job Locations in Surrey

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 Surrey 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
Guildford - 1 £550 -
Virtual Desktop
South East

Virtual Desktop
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Surrey 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:

Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Hardware Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Server Management
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) Citrix
1 1 (100.00%) VMware