Desktop Virtualisation Contracts

Desktop Virtualization
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Desktop Virtualisation skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Desktop Virtualisation over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 582 696 832
Rank change year-on-year +114 +136 -147
Contract jobs citing Desktop Virtualisation 9 9 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.021% 0.016% 0.017%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.024% 0.017% 0.019%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 6 11
10th Percentile - £256 -
25th Percentile £213 £350 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £225 £388 £440
Median % change year-on-year -41.94% -11.93% +6.67%
75th Percentile £259 £425 £487
90th Percentile £358 £533 £538
UK excluding London median daily rate £225 £378 £433
% change year-on-year -40.40% -12.72% +1.76%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Desktop Virtualisation is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,140 52,105 79,027
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.25% 89.83% 90.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,924 36,124 55,482
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £426
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,439 1,724 1,874
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.17 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.18
Median % change year-on-year +1.39% +42.97% +2.78%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.57% +75.00% -6.98%

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 9 May 2024.

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 6 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 9 May 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
England +117 9 £225 -47.06% 5
UK excluding London +54 7 £225 -40.40% 4
North of England +35 7 £225 +28.57%
North West +21 7 £225 +28.57%
London +87 2 £450 +5.88%
Work from Home +122 1 - - 4

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 1 (11.11%) IIS
1 1 (11.11%) Tomcat
1 1 (11.11%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 6 (66.67%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (11.11%) AWS
2 1 (11.11%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (11.11%) GitHub
2 1 (11.11%) IaaS
2 1 (11.11%) OCI
2 1 (11.11%) PaaS
2 1 (11.11%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) Cisco ASA
1 1 (11.11%) DHCP
1 1 (11.11%) DNS
1 1 (11.11%) Firewall
1 1 (11.11%) IPsec
1 1 (11.11%) LAN
1 1 (11.11%) NAS
1 1 (11.11%) S/MIME
1 1 (11.11%) SAN
1 1 (11.11%) SSL
1 1 (11.11%) TCP/IP
1 1 (11.11%) Unified Communications
1 1 (11.11%) VLAN
1 1 (11.11%) VoIP
1 1 (11.11%) VPN
1 1 (11.11%) WAN
1 1 (11.11%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (22.22%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Git
General
1 6 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (66.67%) Analyst
2 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Manager
2 1 (11.11%) IT Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) IT Infrastructure Manager
2 1 (11.11%) IT Manager
2 1 (11.11%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) OAuth
1 1 (11.11%) OAuth2
1 1 (11.11%) OpenID
1 1 (11.11%) SAML
1 1 (11.11%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) NHS
2 1 (11.11%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 8 (88.89%) Windows
2 6 (66.67%) Windows 10
3 1 (11.11%) Windows 7
3 1 (11.11%) Windows 8
3 1 (11.11%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (77.78%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (66.67%) ITIL
2 6 (66.67%) Mobile Device Management
3 1 (11.11%) Business Case
3 1 (11.11%) Decision-Making
3 1 (11.11%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (11.11%) High Availability
3 1 (11.11%) Identity Access Management
3 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Automation
3 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (11.11%) PRINCE2
3 1 (11.11%) Software Distribution
Programming Languages
1 2 (22.22%) PowerShell
2 1 (11.11%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (66.67%) ITIL Certification
2 2 (22.22%) Degree
3 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (11.11%) PRINCE2 Certification
System Software
1 9 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (88.89%) Active Directory
3 2 (22.22%) Hyper-V
4 1 (11.11%) Terminal Server
4 1 (11.11%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 6 (66.67%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (11.11%) Kubernetes
2 1 (11.11%) SCCM
2 1 (11.11%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 9 (100.00%) VMware
2 8 (88.89%) Citrix
2 8 (88.89%) Microsoft
3 1 (11.11%) Cisco
3 1 (11.11%) IBM
3 1 (11.11%) Oracle