Microsoft App-V Contract Job Trends

Microsoft Application Virtualisation (AppV) formerly Softricity SoftGrid
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Microsoft App-V skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 608 480 552
Rank change year-on-year -128 +72 +56
Contract jobs citing Microsoft App-V 38 43 37
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.076% 0.15% 0.085%
As % of the System Software category 0.77% 1.18% 0.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 29 18
10th Percentile £352 £400 £380
25th Percentile £494 £500 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £550 £450
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% +22.22% -4.26%
75th Percentile £663 £588 £488
90th Percentile £690 £600 £552
UK excluding London median daily rate £380 £575 £466
% change year-on-year -33.91% +23.39% -6.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate - - £23.80
75th Percentile - - £58.49
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £58.49
% change year-on-year - - +69.54%

All System Software Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 4,914 3,630 4,752
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.79% 12.26% 10.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,272 2,391 3,274
10th Percentile £219 £214 £205
25th Percentile £400 £385 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.76%
75th Percentile £590 £600 £605
90th Percentile £675 £694 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £475
% change year-on-year - - -0.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 185 86 227
10th Percentile £15.96 £14.99 £14.06
25th Percentile £21.25 £15.44 £15.50
Median hourly rate £51.00 £28.00 £24.18
Median % change year-on-year +82.14% +15.80% -55.45%
75th Percentile £73.00 £66.00 £60.75
90th Percentile £77.50 £88.38 £76.20
UK excluding London median hourly rate £51.00 £37.50 £27.50
% change year-on-year +36.00% +36.36% -36.60%

Microsoft App-V
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Microsoft App-V relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Microsoft App-V job vacancy trend in the UK

Microsoft App-V
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microsoft App-V.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microsoft App-V

Microsoft App-V
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft App-V over the 6 months to 15 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft App-V in the UK

Microsoft App-V
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microsoft App-V.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microsoft App-V

Microsoft App-V
Top 8 Contract Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 15 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
England -109 38 £625 +13.64% 2
London -54 30 £625 +13.64% 2
UK excluding London -132 6 £380 -33.91% 3
Work from Home -51 5 £525 +10.53% 2
Midlands -52 4 £488 -30.36%
West Midlands -58 4 £488 -30.36%
North West -40 2 £268 -
North of England -78 2 £268 -2.73%

Microsoft App-V
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 5 (13.16%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (5.26%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (2.63%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 10 (26.32%) Azure
2 9 (23.68%) Entra ID
2 9 (23.68%) IaaS
2 9 (23.68%) PaaS
3 6 (15.79%) AWS
4 4 (10.53%) GCP
5 3 (7.89%) OneDrive
5 3 (7.89%) OpenShift
6 2 (5.26%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (5.26%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (5.26%) GitHub
6 2 (5.26%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (5.26%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (5.26%) Power Platform
7 1 (2.63%) Microsoft Copilot
7 1 (2.63%) Microsoft Purview
7 1 (2.63%) PowerApps
7 1 (2.63%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (31.58%) DHCP
1 12 (31.58%) DNS
2 11 (28.95%) VPN
3 10 (26.32%) Firewall
3 10 (26.32%) SMTP
4 2 (5.26%) PCoIP
4 2 (5.26%) Remote Desktop
5 1 (2.63%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (23.68%) Elasticsearch
2 4 (10.53%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (7.89%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 24 (63.16%) MSI
2 7 (18.42%) InstallShield
3 2 (5.26%) AdminStudio
General
1 5 (13.16%) Finance
2 2 (5.26%) Influencing Skills
2 2 (5.26%) Social Skills
3 1 (2.63%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (2.63%) Banking
3 1 (2.63%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 10 (26.32%) 3rd Line Engineer
1 10 (26.32%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
1 10 (26.32%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 7 (18.42%) Senior
3 6 (15.79%) Applications Engineer
3 6 (15.79%) Applications Packager
3 6 (15.79%) NetApp Engineer
3 6 (15.79%) Storage Engineer
4 3 (7.89%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
4 3 (7.89%) 3rd Line Support
4 3 (7.89%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
4 3 (7.89%) Desktop Engineer
4 3 (7.89%) Infrastructure Support
4 3 (7.89%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
4 3 (7.89%) Support Engineer
4 3 (7.89%) Testing Engineer
5 2 (5.26%) Architect
5 2 (5.26%) Senior Applications Engineer
6 1 (2.63%) Systems Engineer
6 1 (2.63%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.26%) ADO
1 2 (5.26%) JSON
1 2 (5.26%) Microsoft Graph
1 2 (5.26%) OpenGL
1 2 (5.26%) Qt
Miscellaneous
1 10 (26.32%) Clustering
1 10 (26.32%) PKI
2 6 (15.79%) Data Centre
2 6 (15.79%) Enterprise Storage
3 3 (7.89%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (5.26%) CUDA
4 2 (5.26%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (5.26%) Onboarding
5 1 (2.63%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 28 (73.68%) Windows
2 12 (31.58%) Windows Server
3 11 (28.95%) Linux
4 7 (18.42%) Windows Server 2003
5 2 (5.26%) Windows Server 2016
5 2 (5.26%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (2.63%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (36.84%) Application Packaging
2 10 (26.32%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 8 (21.05%) Incident Management
4 7 (18.42%) CI/CD
5 5 (13.16%) Deployment Automation
5 5 (13.16%) DevOps
5 5 (13.16%) Machine Learning
5 5 (13.16%) Migration
6 4 (10.53%) AI
6 4 (10.53%) ITIL
6 4 (10.53%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (10.53%) User Experience
7 3 (7.89%) Agile
7 3 (7.89%) Software Deployment
8 2 (5.26%) Asset Management
8 2 (5.26%) Configuration Management
8 2 (5.26%) ITSM
8 2 (5.26%) Release Management
8 2 (5.26%) Stakeholder Management
8 2 (5.26%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 21 (55.26%) PowerShell
2 3 (7.89%) VBScript
3 2 (5.26%) Bash
3 2 (5.26%) Python
4 1 (2.63%) SQL
4 1 (2.63%) VB
Qualifications
1 10 (26.32%) DV Cleared
1 10 (26.32%) Security Cleared
2 4 (10.53%) Degree
3 2 (5.26%) AWS Certification
3 2 (5.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 2 (5.26%) Azure Certification
3 2 (5.26%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (5.26%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 1 (2.63%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
System Software
1 19 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 13 (34.21%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (28.95%) Docker
4 10 (26.32%) BitLocker
4 10 (26.32%) Hyper-V
4 10 (26.32%) VMware ESXi
5 6 (15.79%) Virtual Desktop
6 4 (10.53%) Terminal Services
7 2 (5.26%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 16 (42.11%) SCCM
2 11 (28.95%) Ansible
3 10 (26.32%) vCenter Server
3 10 (26.32%) vMotion
4 9 (23.68%) Kubernetes
4 9 (23.68%) Puppet
5 7 (18.42%) Microsoft Intune
6 3 (7.89%) Nagios
7 2 (5.26%) Packer
7 2 (5.26%) Terraform
Vendors
1 23 (60.53%) Citrix
2 21 (55.26%) Microsoft
3 14 (36.84%) VMware
4 8 (21.05%) NetApp
5 6 (15.79%) HP
6 4 (10.53%) Google
6 4 (10.53%) Symantec
7 2 (5.26%) Dynatrace
7 2 (5.26%) Leostream
7 2 (5.26%) NVIDIA
7 2 (5.26%) Ping Identity
7 2 (5.26%) Zscaler
8 1 (2.63%) Dell
8 1 (2.63%) Nexthink
8 1 (2.63%) Red Hat