The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Virtual Desktop skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Virtual Desktop over the 6 months to 11 May 2021 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.
Note that daily and hourly rates are treated separately in these statistics. When calculating contractor rate percentiles, daily rates are never derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.
Virtual Desktop 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
8,041
7,996
14,254
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK
14.37%
15.53%
15.35%
Number of daily rates quoted
5,567
5,375
9,614
10th Percentile
£230
£175
£180
25th Percentile
£380
£325
£355
Median daily rate (50th Percentile)
£488
£450
£475
Median % change year-on-year
+8.33%
-5.26%
+5.56%
75th Percentile
£575
£563
£575
90th Percentile
£650
£638
£638
UK excluding London median daily rate
£425
£425
£425
Number of hourly rates quoted
288
425
630
10th Percentile
£11.47
£11.26
£11.00
25th Percentile
£13.90
£13.49
£12.76
Median hourly rate
£21.75
£17.50
£16.21
Median % change year-on-year
+24.29%
+7.96%
+2.21%
75th Percentile
£50.00
£23.75
£26.43
90th Percentile
£63.63
£51.05
£47.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate
£17.75
£16.50
£15.19
% change year-on-year
+7.58%
+8.62%
+1.27%
Virtual Desktop Job Vacancy Trend
Job postings citing Virtual Desktop as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.
Virtual Desktop Contractor Daily Rate Trend
3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Virtual Desktop.
Virtual Desktop Daily Rate Histogram
Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Virtual Desktop over the 6 months to 11 May 2021.
Virtual Desktop Contractor Hourly Rate Trend
3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Virtual Desktop.
Virtual Desktop Top 17 Contract Locations
The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Virtual Desktop within the UK over the 6 months to 11 May 2021. 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
For the 6 months to 11 May 2021, IT contractor jobs citing Virtual Desktop also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity.
The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads with a requirement for Virtual Desktop.
Virtual Desktop Co-occurring IT Skills by Category
The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category.
The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:
