Desktop Virtualisation Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Desktop Virtualization
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Desktop Virtualisation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 449 345 389
Rank change year-on-year -104 +44 +47
Contract jobs citing Desktop Virtualisation 11 2 12
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.042% 0.015% 0.056%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.052% 0.016% 0.068%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 10
10th Percentile £439 - -
25th Percentile £463 - £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 - £243
Median % change year-on-year - - -58.19%
75th Percentile £788 - £480
90th Percentile £795 - £600
UK median daily rate £510 £585 £260
% change year-on-year -12.82% +125.00% -51.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £28.00 -
UK median hourly rate - £28.00 -

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Desktop Virtualisation falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 21,324 12,241 17,563
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 81.90% 90.48% 82.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,663 7,532 10,300
10th Percentile £300 £235 £250
25th Percentile £404 £367 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £593 £575 £600
90th Percentile £688 £650 £688
UK median daily rate £514 £505 £525
% change year-on-year +1.78% -3.81% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,255 992 2,193
10th Percentile £14.25 £14.13 £12.50
25th Percentile £19.33 £16.95 £15.50
Median hourly rate £45.00 £25.04 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +79.73% -34.32% +17.29%
75th Percentile £68.00 £55.00 £61.60
90th Percentile £81.05 £73.75 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £37.50
% change year-on-year +74.79% -32.93% +7.14%

Desktop Virtualisation
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Desktop Virtualisation relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Desktop Virtualisation job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Desktop Virtualisation
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Desktop Virtualisation.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Desktop Virtualisation

Desktop Virtualisation
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Desktop Virtualisation in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 25 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Desktop Virtualisation in the UK excluding London

Desktop Virtualisation
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Desktop Virtualisation.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Desktop Virtualisation

Desktop Virtualisation
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Desktop Virtualisation within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 25 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
South East -60 5 £775 -
Yorkshire - 3 £510 - 2
North of England - 3 £510 - 2
West Midlands - 2 - -
Midlands - 2 - -
South West - 1 £445 -
Desktop Virtualisation
UK

Desktop Virtualisation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 6 (54.55%) SharePoint
2 2 (18.18%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 8 (72.73%) Azure
2 6 (54.55%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (36.36%) Entra ID
4 2 (18.18%) AWS
4 2 (18.18%) Rubrik
5 1 (9.09%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 3 (27.27%) NetScaler
2 2 (18.18%) BIG-IP
2 2 (18.18%) DHCP
2 2 (18.18%) DNS
2 2 (18.18%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (18.18%) SQL Server
General
1 3 (27.27%) Banking
2 1 (9.09%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (36.36%) Architect
2 3 (27.27%) Citrix Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Analyst
3 2 (18.18%) Infrastructure Analyst
3 2 (18.18%) Infrastructure Architect
3 2 (18.18%) Lead
3 2 (18.18%) Lead Architect
3 2 (18.18%) Lead Infrastructure Architect
3 2 (18.18%) Wintel Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Active Directory Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Solutions Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Senior
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Solutions Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Technical Architect
Miscellaneous
1 4 (36.36%) Hybrid Cloud
2 3 (27.27%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 11 (100.00%) Windows
2 9 (81.82%) Windows Server
3 2 (18.18%) Windows Server 2012
3 2 (18.18%) Windows Server 2016
3 2 (18.18%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (27.27%) Data Protection
2 2 (18.18%) Agile
2 2 (18.18%) BCP
2 2 (18.18%) Business Continuity
2 2 (18.18%) Business Continuity Planning
2 2 (18.18%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (18.18%) Enterprise Architecture
2 2 (18.18%) High Availability
2 2 (18.18%) Load Balancing
2 2 (18.18%) Migration
2 2 (18.18%) Performance Monitoring
2 2 (18.18%) Presales
2 2 (18.18%) PRINCE2
2 2 (18.18%) Risk Management
2 2 (18.18%) Roadmaps
2 2 (18.18%) Server Virtualisation
2 2 (18.18%) Strategic Roadmap
2 2 (18.18%) Task Automation
2 2 (18.18%) TOGAF
3 1 (9.09%) Architecture Governance
Programming Languages
1 2 (18.18%) PowerShell
1 2 (18.18%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (36.36%) Security Cleared
2 3 (27.27%) DV Cleared
3 2 (18.18%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) QA
System Software
1 8 (72.73%) Active Directory
2 6 (54.55%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (36.36%) Virtual Desktop
3 4 (36.36%) VMware ESXi
3 4 (36.36%) vSphere
4 3 (27.27%) XenApp
4 3 (27.27%) XenDesktop
5 2 (18.18%) Hyper-V
5 2 (18.18%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (18.18%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 5 (45.45%) SCCM
2 4 (36.36%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (18.18%) Jamf Pro
3 2 (18.18%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 8 (72.73%) Microsoft
2 7 (63.64%) Citrix
3 6 (54.55%) VMware
4 2 (18.18%) Apple
4 2 (18.18%) BeyondTrust
4 2 (18.18%) Cisco
4 2 (18.18%) CyberArk
4 2 (18.18%) F5