Microsoft App-V Contracts in the UK excluding London

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Microsoft App-V skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Microsoft App-V over the 6 months leading up to 3 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 316 381 410
Rank change year-on-year +65 +29 +37
Contract jobs citing Microsoft App-V 18 13 45
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.14% 0.063% 0.19%
As % of the System Software category 1.00% 0.53% 1.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 3 31
10th Percentile £400 £510 £315
25th Percentile £500 £525 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £551 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.45% +10.10% -6.98%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £556
90th Percentile £595 £630 £675
UK median daily rate £550 £500 £475
% change year-on-year +10.00% +5.26% -2.06%

All System Software Skills
UK excluding London

Microsoft App-V 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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 1,807 2,463 3,622
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 14.14% 11.90% 15.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,245 1,652 2,629
10th Percentile £191 £175 £180
25th Percentile £325 £275 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £479 £461 £480
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% -3.91% +6.67%
75th Percentile £588 £584 £588
90th Percentile £663 £650 £680
UK median daily rate £525 £488 £525
% change year-on-year +7.69% -7.14% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 192 188
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.01 £14.25
25th Percentile £15.36 £14.16 £16.53
Median hourly rate £28.50 £21.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +32.56% -46.25% +120.81%
75th Percentile £64.50 £60.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £86.78 £79.80 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £27.97 £22.50 £53.43
% change year-on-year +24.31% -57.88% +167.13%

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
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft App-V in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 3 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram 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 3 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
South East +47 13 £575 +4.45% 2
South West +30 2 - -
North of England +12 2 £275 -54.17%
Scotland +7 1 £500 - 1
Yorkshire - 1 £275 -
North West - 1 - -
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 10 (55.56%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (22.22%) IIS
3 2 (11.11%) SharePoint
3 2 (11.11%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 2 (11.11%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 8 (44.44%) AWS
1 8 (44.44%) GCP
1 8 (44.44%) IaaS
1 8 (44.44%) OpenShift
1 8 (44.44%) PaaS
2 6 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (16.67%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 10 (55.56%) DNS
2 8 (44.44%) DHCP
2 8 (44.44%) Firewall
2 8 (44.44%) SMTP
2 8 (44.44%) VPN
3 4 (22.22%) HTTP
3 4 (22.22%) HTTPS
3 4 (22.22%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (44.44%) Amazon RDS
1 8 (44.44%) Big Data
1 8 (44.44%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 4 (22.22%) MSI
2 2 (11.11%) AdminStudio
2 2 (11.11%) JIRA
General
1 7 (38.89%) Social Skills
2 6 (33.33%) Public Sector
3 2 (11.11%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (11.11%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 8 (44.44%) 3rd Line Engineer
1 8 (44.44%) 3rd Line Support
1 8 (44.44%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
1 8 (44.44%) Support Engineer
2 7 (38.89%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
2 7 (38.89%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
2 7 (38.89%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 7 (38.89%) Infrastructure Support
2 7 (38.89%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) Applications Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) Applications Packager
3 2 (11.11%) Architect
3 2 (11.11%) Azure Architect
3 2 (11.11%) Microsoft 365 Architect
3 2 (11.11%) Technical Architect
3 2 (11.11%) Wintel Architect
3 2 (11.11%) Wintel Technical Architect
4 1 (5.56%) SCCM Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Virtualisation Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 8 (44.44%) Clustering
1 8 (44.44%) Data Centre
1 8 (44.44%) PKI
2 2 (11.11%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (11.11%) Management Information System
3 1 (5.56%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 14 (77.78%) Windows
2 13 (72.22%) Windows Server
3 8 (44.44%) Linux
4 6 (33.33%) Windows 10
5 4 (22.22%) Windows 7
6 3 (16.67%) Windows Server 2003
6 3 (16.67%) Windows Server 2012
7 2 (11.11%) Android
7 2 (11.11%) Apple iOS
7 2 (11.11%) Mac OS
7 2 (11.11%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (11.11%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (61.11%) Software Deployment
2 8 (44.44%) Artificial Intelligence
2 8 (44.44%) DevOps
2 8 (44.44%) Machine Learning
3 7 (38.89%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 4 (22.22%) Configuration Management
4 4 (22.22%) Prototyping
4 4 (22.22%) Service Design
4 4 (22.22%) Software Distribution
4 4 (22.22%) Virtual Environments
4 4 (22.22%) Virtual Infrastructure
5 3 (16.67%) Application Packaging
5 3 (16.67%) Customer Requirements
5 3 (16.67%) ITIL
6 2 (11.11%) Agile
6 2 (11.11%) Enterprise Architecture
6 2 (11.11%) GAP Analysis
6 2 (11.11%) Migration
6 2 (11.11%) Root Cause Analysis
6 2 (11.11%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 15 (83.33%) PowerShell
2 3 (16.67%) SQL
2 3 (16.67%) VBScript
3 2 (11.11%) VB
Qualifications
1 15 (83.33%) Security Cleared
2 12 (66.67%) DV Cleared
3 10 (55.56%) Degree
4 3 (16.67%) SC Cleared
5 2 (11.11%) MCP
5 2 (11.11%) MCSA
5 2 (11.11%) MCSE
5 2 (11.11%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.11%) NCSC
2 1 (5.56%) QA
System Software
1 13 (72.22%) Active Directory
2 10 (55.56%) BitLocker
2 10 (55.56%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (44.44%) Docker
3 8 (44.44%) Hyper-V
3 8 (44.44%) Terminal Services
3 8 (44.44%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (11.11%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 9 (50.00%) SCCM
2 8 (44.44%) Ansible
2 8 (44.44%) Kubernetes
2 8 (44.44%) Nagios
2 8 (44.44%) Puppet
2 8 (44.44%) vCenter Server
2 8 (44.44%) vMotion
3 4 (22.22%) WSUS
4 3 (16.67%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (11.11%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 2 (11.11%) ThinApp
Vendors
1 11 (61.11%) Microsoft
2 10 (55.56%) Symantec
2 10 (55.56%) VMware
3 8 (44.44%) Citrix
3 8 (44.44%) Google
3 8 (44.44%) HP
4 2 (11.11%) Ivanti
4 2 (11.11%) McAfee