Desktop Virtualisation Contracts

Desktop Virtualization
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Desktop Virtualisation skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Desktop Virtualisation 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 512 574 707
Rank change year-on-year +62 +133 +131
Contract jobs citing Desktop Virtualisation 8 8 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.027% 0.018% 0.018%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.030% 0.021% 0.021%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 7 7
10th Percentile £405 - £275
25th Percentile £460 £213 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £528 £225 £425
Median % change year-on-year +134.44% -47.06% -3.41%
75th Percentile £585 £259 £488
90th Percentile - £358 £586
UK excluding London median daily rate £470 £225 £378
% change year-on-year +108.89% -40.40% -12.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Median hourly rate £28.00 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.00 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 26,594 37,597 53,655
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.84% 86.31% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,149 24,227 37,238
10th Percentile £308 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £743 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,071 2,443 1,746
10th Percentile £14.41 £12.75 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.21 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%
75th Percentile £60.38 £59.98 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
% change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%

Desktop Virtualisation
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Desktop Virtualisation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Desktop Virtualisation in the UK

Desktop Virtualisation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Desktop Virtualisation in the UK

Desktop Virtualisation
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Desktop Virtualisation over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Desktop Virtualisation in the UK

Desktop Virtualisation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Desktop Virtualisation in the UK

Desktop Virtualisation
Top 5 Contract Locations

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 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
England +57 8 £528 +134.44% 3
UK excluding London +60 4 £470 +108.89% 2
London +41 4 £585 +30.00% 2
South East - 2 - - 1
South West - 2 £470 -

Desktop Virtualisation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 4 (50.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (37.50%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 5 (62.50%) AWS
1 5 (62.50%) Azure
2 3 (37.50%) Entra ID
2 3 (37.50%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (37.50%) Mimecast
2 3 (37.50%) OneDrive
3 2 (25.00%) Microsoft Copilot
4 1 (12.50%) Power Automate
4 1 (12.50%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (37.50%) DHCP
1 3 (37.50%) DNS
1 3 (37.50%) Firewall
1 3 (37.50%) Remote Desktop
1 3 (37.50%) SD-WAN
1 3 (37.50%) VLAN
1 3 (37.50%) WAN
2 1 (12.50%) Softphone
General
1 3 (37.50%) Finance
2 2 (25.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Lead
2 2 (25.00%) 2nd Line Support
2 2 (25.00%) Consultant
2 2 (25.00%) Lead Consultant
2 2 (25.00%) Microsoft 365 Consultant
2 2 (25.00%) Wintel Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Project Manager
3 1 (12.50%) IT Support
3 1 (12.50%) Lead Project Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Microsoft 365 Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Microsoft 365 Project Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Data Centre
2 2 (25.00%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (25.00%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (12.50%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 8 (100.00%) Windows
2 3 (37.50%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) ITIL
2 3 (37.50%) Business Continuity
2 3 (37.50%) Containerisation
2 3 (37.50%) Threat Management
2 3 (37.50%) Vulnerability Remediation
3 2 (25.00%) Customer Service
3 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (25.00%) Robotic Process Automation
3 2 (25.00%) Service Delivery
3 2 (25.00%) Task Automation
4 1 (12.50%) Agile
4 1 (12.50%) Backlog Management
4 1 (12.50%) Cloud Security
4 1 (12.50%) Fintech
4 1 (12.50%) Identity Management
4 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (12.50%) Project Management
4 1 (12.50%) Roadmaps
4 1 (12.50%) Service Management
4 1 (12.50%) Strategic Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 3 (37.50%) PowerShell
2 2 (25.00%) Python
3 1 (12.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) DV Cleared
1 2 (25.00%) ITIL Certification
1 2 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (25.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 6 (75.00%) Active Directory
2 3 (37.50%) Microsoft App-V
2 3 (37.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (25.00%) Hyper-V
3 2 (25.00%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (25.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (50.00%) SCCM
2 3 (37.50%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (12.50%) Jamf Pro
3 1 (12.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (75.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (50.00%) Citrix
3 3 (37.50%) VMware