Microsoft App-V Contracts in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Application Virtualisation (AppV) formerly Softricity SoftGrid
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Microsoft App-V skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Microsoft App-V over the 6 months to 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 377 415 442
Rank change year-on-year +38 +27 -99
Contract jobs citing Microsoft App-V 13 44 73
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.063% 0.18% 0.24%
As % of the System Software category 0.53% 1.20% 1.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 31 52
10th Percentile £510 £315 £325
25th Percentile £525 £456 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £551 £500 £538
Median % change year-on-year +10.10% -6.98% +19.44%
75th Percentile £600 £556 £632
90th Percentile £630 £675 £656
UK median daily rate £513 £475 £480
% change year-on-year +7.89% -1.04% +6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - £15.78
25th Percentile - - £16.89
Median hourly rate - - £17.50
75th Percentile - - £19.13
90th Percentile - - £22.05
UK median hourly rate £23.80 - £17.50
% change year-on-year - - -73.48%

All System Software Skills
UK excluding London

Microsoft App-V is in the System Software category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for system software skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 2,465 3,668 4,627
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 11.86% 15.19% 14.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,653 2,661 3,296
10th Percentile £175 £181 £158
25th Percentile £275 £313 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £481 £450
Median % change year-on-year -4.28% +6.79% +7.14%
75th Percentile £580 £588 £560
90th Percentile £650 £675 £644
UK median daily rate £488 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -7.14% - +9.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 190 202 247
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.25 £12.95
25th Percentile £14.16 £16.50 £14.25
Median hourly rate £21.50 £40.00 £18.12
Median % change year-on-year -46.25% +120.81% +2.06%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £23.75
90th Percentile £78.20 £70.00 £52.55
UK median hourly rate £22.50 £53.35 £20.00
% change year-on-year -57.83% +166.75% -

Microsoft App-V
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Microsoft App-V as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft App-V in the UK excluding London

Microsoft App-V
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Microsoft App-V in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Microsoft App-V in the UK excluding London

Microsoft App-V
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Microsoft App-V in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft App-V in the UK excluding London

Microsoft App-V
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 Microsoft App-V within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 26 April 2024. 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
Scotland +36 5 - -
Wales - 3 £500 -
South East +20 2 £551 -19.93% 3
South West +19 2 - - 2
North of England +10 1 £600 +20.00%
North East - 1 £600 -
Microsoft App-V
UK

Microsoft App-V
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 8 (61.54%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (15.38%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 7 (53.85%) Azure
2 6 (46.15%) Entra ID
3 2 (15.38%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (15.38%) OneDrive
4 1 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (7.69%) GCP
4 1 (7.69%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 6 (46.15%) DHCP
1 6 (46.15%) DNS
1 6 (46.15%) Firewall
1 6 (46.15%) SMTP
1 6 (46.15%) VPN
2 1 (7.69%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (46.15%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (7.69%) Power BI
General
1 7 (53.85%) Social Skills
2 2 (15.38%) Public Sector
3 1 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (7.69%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (7.69%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (15.38%) Applications Packager
1 2 (15.38%) Senior
2 1 (7.69%) Architect
2 1 (7.69%) Desktop Engineer
2 1 (7.69%) Lead
2 1 (7.69%) SC Cleared Application Packager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (46.15%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 6 (46.15%) Clustering
1 6 (46.15%) PKI
2 1 (7.69%) Data Centre
2 1 (7.69%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 11 (84.62%) Windows
2 8 (61.54%) Windows Server
3 6 (46.15%) Windows Server 2019
4 5 (38.46%) Windows 10
5 4 (30.77%) Windows Server 2003
6 2 (15.38%) Windows 7
6 2 (15.38%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (7.69%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (46.15%) High Availability
1 6 (46.15%) Identity Access Management
1 6 (46.15%) Project Delivery
2 5 (38.46%) Customer Requirements
2 5 (38.46%) Migration
3 2 (15.38%) Agile
3 2 (15.38%) Application Virtualisation
3 2 (15.38%) Business Case
3 2 (15.38%) Data Extraction
3 2 (15.38%) Roadmaps
3 2 (15.38%) Technical Debt
3 2 (15.38%) Technical Leadership
4 1 (7.69%) Application Packaging
4 1 (7.69%) Change Control
4 1 (7.69%) Computer Science
4 1 (7.69%) Customer Service
4 1 (7.69%) DevOps
4 1 (7.69%) Line Management
4 1 (7.69%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (7.69%) Software Deployment
Programming Languages
1 9 (69.23%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 7 (53.85%) Security Cleared
2 6 (46.15%) DV Cleared
2 6 (46.15%) SC Cleared
3 1 (7.69%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (7.69%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.69%) Disclosure Scotland
1 1 (7.69%) PMO
System Software
1 10 (76.92%) Active Directory
2 8 (61.54%) VMware ESXi
3 6 (46.15%) BitLocker
3 6 (46.15%) Hyper-V
3 6 (46.15%) Terminal Services
4 2 (15.38%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (15.38%) XenApp
4 2 (15.38%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 6 (46.15%) vCenter Server
1 6 (46.15%) vMotion
2 5 (38.46%) SCCM
Vendors
1 10 (76.92%) Microsoft
2 9 (69.23%) Citrix
3 6 (46.15%) Infoblox
3 6 (46.15%) VMware
4 1 (7.69%) Google
4 1 (7.69%) HP
4 1 (7.69%) Ivanti
4 1 (7.69%) Symantec