Virtual Desktop Contract Job Trends in Surrey

Virtual Desktop
South East > Surrey

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Surrey requiring Virtual Desktop skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 58 32 57
Rank change year-on-year -26 +25 +14
Contract jobs citing Virtual Desktop 3 3 2
As % of all contract jobs in Surrey 0.53% 1.09% 0.32%
As % of the System Software category 5.88% 9.68% 3.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 1
10th Percentile £287 - -
25th Percentile £296 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 £250 £260
Median % change year-on-year +30.00% -3.85% +4.00%
75th Percentile £378 £400 -
90th Percentile £403 £490 -
South East median daily rate £413 £430 £605
% change year-on-year -4.07% -28.93% -3.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £53.00
South East median hourly rate - - £53.00

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 51 31 55
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Surrey 9.01% 11.23% 8.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 21 40
10th Percentile £162 £188 £240
25th Percentile £400 £200 £265
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £215 £400
Median % change year-on-year +126.74% -46.25% -21.18%
75th Percentile £563 £423 £475
90th Percentile - £550 £530
South East median daily rate £525 £500 £538
% change year-on-year +5.00% -6.98% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 7
10th Percentile £59.25 - -
25th Percentile £73.13 - -
Median hourly rate £97.50 £28.00 £17.80
Median % change year-on-year +248.21% +57.30% -48.41%
75th Percentile £123.13 - £33.90
90th Percentile £137.75 - £51.20
South East median hourly rate £50.00 £57.50 £54.88
% change year-on-year -13.04% +4.78% -4.57%

Virtual Desktop
Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Virtual Desktop relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Surrey.

Virtual Desktop job vacancy trend in Surrey

Virtual Desktop
Daily Rate Trend in Surrey

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing Virtual Desktop.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing Virtual Desktop

Virtual Desktop
Daily Rate Histogram in Surrey

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Virtual Desktop in Surrey over the 6 months to 13 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Virtual Desktop in Surrey

Virtual Desktop
Hourly Rate Trend in Surrey

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing Virtual Desktop.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing Virtual Desktop

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 13 June 2026. 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
Camberley - 1 £325 -
Virtual Desktop
South East

Virtual Desktop
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Surrey 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Monitor
1 1 (33.33%) Entra ID
1 1 (33.33%) IaaS
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (33.33%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) DHCP
1 2 (66.67%) DNS
2 1 (33.33%) Firewall
2 1 (33.33%) LAN
2 1 (33.33%) TCP/IP
2 1 (33.33%) VPN
2 1 (33.33%) WAN
2 1 (33.33%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Power BI
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
General
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Publishing
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Desktop Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Mac Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Migration Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Windows
2 1 (33.33%) Mac OS
2 1 (33.33%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) ITIL
1 2 (66.67%) Migration
2 1 (33.33%) Analytics
2 1 (33.33%) Application Packaging
2 1 (33.33%) Application Security
2 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (33.33%) Data Protection
2 1 (33.33%) Disk Encryption
2 1 (33.33%) ITSM
2 1 (33.33%) Log Analytics
2 1 (33.33%) Observability
2 1 (33.33%) Patch Management
2 1 (33.33%) Security Patching
2 1 (33.33%) Software Delivery
2 1 (33.33%) Software Distribution
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Active Directory
2 1 (33.33%) BitLocker
2 1 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) SCCM
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Citrix
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 1 (33.33%) VMware
1 1 (33.33%) Wyse