Microsoft App-V Contracts

Microsoft Application Virtualisation (AppV) formerly Softricity SoftGrid
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 13 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 560 632 715
Rank change year-on-year +72 +83 -128
Contract jobs citing Microsoft App-V 23 64 126
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.054% 0.11% 0.14%
As % of the System Software category 0.50% 0.84% 1.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 47 83
10th Percentile £382 £313 £302
25th Percentile £419 £350 £395
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £463
Median % change year-on-year - +2.70% +2.78%
75th Percentile £552 £534 £578
90th Percentile £573 £583 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £551 £500 £465
% change year-on-year +10.10% +7.53% +4.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 5
10th Percentile - - £16.02
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £23.80 - £17.50
75th Percentile - - £24.00
90th Percentile - - £45.60
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £17.50
% change year-on-year - - -73.48%

All System Software Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for system software skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 4,603 7,639 11,849
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 10.77% 13.13% 13.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,165 5,442 8,492
10th Percentile £200 £203 £200
25th Percentile £350 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - +7.69%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £625
90th Percentile £688 £725 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £481 £450
% change year-on-year -3.76% +6.79% +6.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 232 268 312
10th Percentile £14.06 £15.23 £13.26
25th Percentile £14.48 £18.25 £15.00
Median hourly rate £22.40 £54.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -58.52% +170.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £60.19 £66.00 £41.11
90th Percentile £77.70 £75.58 £59.88
UK excluding London median hourly rate £19.18 £39.80 £17.88
% change year-on-year -51.81% +122.63% -2.15%

Microsoft App-V
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Microsoft App-V as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft App-V in the UK

Microsoft App-V
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Microsoft App-V.

Daily rate trend for Microsoft App-V in the UK

Microsoft App-V
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft App-V over the 6 months to 13 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft App-V in the UK

Microsoft App-V
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Microsoft App-V.

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft App-V in the UK

Microsoft App-V
Top 10 Contract 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 13 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 +61 14 £488 +2.63% 7
UK excluding London +37 12 £551 +10.10% 5
London +84 9 £450 +38.46% 1
Scotland +50 5 - -
Work from Home +104 4 £475 -5.00% 4
Wales - 3 £500 -
South East +12 2 £551 -19.93% 3
South West +12 1 - - 1
North of England +5 1 £600 +20.00%
North East - 1 £600 -

Microsoft App-V
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 10 (43.48%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (17.39%) SharePoint
3 2 (8.70%) IIS
Applications
1 3 (13.04%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 9 (39.13%) Azure
2 8 (34.78%) Entra ID
3 5 (21.74%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (13.04%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 2 (8.70%) AWS
5 2 (8.70%) Mimecast
5 2 (8.70%) Nutanix
5 2 (8.70%) OneDrive
5 2 (8.70%) Rubrik
6 1 (4.35%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (4.35%) GCP
6 1 (4.35%) IaaS
6 1 (4.35%) PaaS
6 1 (4.35%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 9 (39.13%) Firewall
2 8 (34.78%) DNS
2 8 (34.78%) VPN
3 6 (26.09%) DHCP
3 6 (26.09%) SMTP
4 2 (8.70%) DKIM
4 2 (8.70%) DMARC
4 2 (8.70%) Extranet
4 2 (8.70%) Internet
4 2 (8.70%) LAN
4 2 (8.70%) NAS
4 2 (8.70%) NetScaler
4 2 (8.70%) SAN
4 2 (8.70%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (8.70%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (26.09%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (4.35%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 4 (17.39%) MSI
General
1 7 (30.43%) Social Skills
2 3 (13.04%) Public Sector
3 2 (8.70%) Finance
4 1 (4.35%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (4.35%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (30.43%) Applications Packager
2 3 (13.04%) Architect
3 2 (8.70%) Applications Architect
3 2 (8.70%) IT Support
3 2 (8.70%) Lead
3 2 (8.70%) SC Cleared Application Packager
3 2 (8.70%) Senior
3 2 (8.70%) Support Officer
4 1 (4.35%) Azure Consultant
4 1 (4.35%) Citrix Engineer
4 1 (4.35%) Consultant
4 1 (4.35%) Lead Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (26.09%) LDAP
2 2 (8.70%) Software Packaging
2 2 (8.70%) WSH
Miscellaneous
1 8 (34.78%) PKI
2 6 (26.09%) Clustering
3 3 (13.04%) Data Centre
4 2 (8.70%) Fat Client
4 2 (8.70%) Thin Client
4 2 (8.70%) Virtual Team
5 1 (4.35%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (4.35%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 15 (65.22%) Windows
2 7 (30.43%) Windows Server
3 5 (21.74%) Windows 10
3 5 (21.74%) Windows Server 2019
4 4 (17.39%) Windows Server 2003
5 2 (8.70%) Unix
5 2 (8.70%) Windows 7
6 1 (4.35%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (4.35%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (34.78%) Application Packaging
1 8 (34.78%) High Availability
1 8 (34.78%) Identity Access Management
2 7 (30.43%) Project Delivery
3 6 (26.09%) Customer Requirements
3 6 (26.09%) Migration
4 3 (13.04%) Deployment Automation
4 3 (13.04%) ITIL
4 3 (13.04%) Software Deployment
5 2 (8.70%) Change Management
5 2 (8.70%) Converged Infrastructure
5 2 (8.70%) Data Extraction
5 2 (8.70%) Disaster Recovery
5 2 (8.70%) Infrastructure Management
5 2 (8.70%) Mobile Device Management
5 2 (8.70%) Network Monitoring
5 2 (8.70%) Patch Management
5 2 (8.70%) Security Hardening
5 2 (8.70%) Server Management
5 2 (8.70%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 17 (73.91%) PowerShell
2 2 (8.70%) SQL
2 2 (8.70%) VBScript
3 1 (4.35%) VB
Qualifications
1 8 (34.78%) Security Cleared
2 7 (30.43%) SC Cleared
3 6 (26.09%) DV Cleared
4 1 (4.35%) Azure Certification
4 1 (4.35%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (4.35%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.70%) SLA
2 1 (4.35%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (4.35%) PMO
2 1 (4.35%) QA
System Software
1 11 (47.83%) Active Directory
2 8 (34.78%) BitLocker
2 8 (34.78%) Hyper-V
3 7 (30.43%) VMware ESXi
4 6 (26.09%) Terminal Services
5 3 (13.04%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (8.70%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (8.70%) XenApp
6 2 (8.70%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 11 (47.83%) SCCM
2 6 (26.09%) vCenter Server
2 6 (26.09%) vMotion
3 3 (13.04%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (8.70%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 2 (8.70%) NetBackup
4 2 (8.70%) SCOM
4 2 (8.70%) SCVMM
4 2 (8.70%) VxRail
4 2 (8.70%) WMI
Vendors
1 16 (69.57%) Microsoft
2 12 (52.17%) Citrix
3 8 (34.78%) VMware
4 6 (26.09%) Infoblox
5 3 (13.04%) HP
6 2 (8.70%) Avaya
6 2 (8.70%) Brocade
6 2 (8.70%) Cisco
6 2 (8.70%) Commvault
6 2 (8.70%) Dell
6 2 (8.70%) Dell Compellent
6 2 (8.70%) EMC
6 2 (8.70%) Equitrac
6 2 (8.70%) F5
6 2 (8.70%) Forcepoint
6 2 (8.70%) Juniper
6 2 (8.70%) Mitel
6 2 (8.70%) MobileIron
6 2 (8.70%) Proofpoint
6 2 (8.70%) Wyse