Virtual Desktop Contracts

Virtual Desktop
UK

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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 498 474 561
Rank change year-on-year -24 +87 -43
Contract jobs citing Virtual Desktop 100 253 302
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.23% 0.42% 0.34%
As % of the System Software category 2.15% 3.20% 2.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 194 166
10th Percentile £275 £313 £221
25th Percentile £438 £414 £361
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £608 £625 £593
90th Percentile £633 £725 £644
UK excluding London median daily rate £605 £563 £500
% change year-on-year +7.56% +12.50% +20.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 3
10th Percentile £18.12 - -
25th Percentile £18.29 - £20.75
Median hourly rate £18.59 £26.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.52% +20.93% -53.26%
75th Percentile £18.88 - £22.38
90th Percentile £19.05 - £22.45
UK excluding London median hourly rate £18.59 £26.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year -28.52% +20.93% -53.26%

All System Software Skills
UK

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 4,653 7,900 12,040
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 10.75% 13.21% 13.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,179 5,646 8,623
10th Percentile £197 £205 £200
25th Percentile £331 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% - +9.38%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £625
90th Percentile £688 £725 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £460 £485 £450
% change year-on-year -5.13% +7.75% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 232 284 318
10th Percentile £14.06 £14.83 £13.21
25th Percentile £15.50 £18.25 £15.00
Median hourly rate £22.50 £53.75 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -58.14% +168.75% -
75th Percentile £60.19 £66.00 £44.07
90th Percentile £77.95 £75.35 £60.92
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.50 £44.93 £18.12
% change year-on-year -52.15% +148.01% +2.06%

Virtual Desktop
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Virtual Desktop in the UK

Virtual Desktop
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Virtual Desktop in the UK

Virtual Desktop
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Virtual Desktop over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Virtual Desktop in the UK

Virtual Desktop
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Virtual Desktop in the UK

Virtual Desktop
Top 13 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 27 April 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 +13 90 £588 +9.20% 66
UK excluding London +11 61 £605 +7.56% 37
Work from Home +65 48 £600 +7.14% 31
London +48 32 £500 +5.26% 29
Midlands +12 20 £360 -45.45% 5
West Midlands +33 19 £360 -38.72% 4
South East +22 17 £605 +0.83% 15
South West +3 11 £625 +13.64% 3
North of England +24 8 £400 -27.27% 9
North West +9 6 £340 -38.18% 7
Scotland +35 4 £575 - 1
Yorkshire +17 1 £375 - 2
Wales +16 1 - -

Virtual Desktop
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 25 (25.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (8.00%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (4.00%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (3.00%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (1.00%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 74 (74.00%) Azure
2 45 (45.00%) Microsoft 365
3 33 (33.00%) Entra ID
4 30 (30.00%) Azure Monitor
5 16 (16.00%) Azure Storage
6 7 (7.00%) OneDrive
7 6 (6.00%) AWS
8 5 (5.00%) Azure Functions
8 5 (5.00%) IaaS
8 5 (5.00%) Power Platform
8 5 (5.00%) Serverless
9 4 (4.00%) PaaS
10 3 (3.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 3 (3.00%) Azure Pipelines
11 2 (2.00%) Azure DevOps
11 2 (2.00%) Cloud Computing
11 2 (2.00%) SaaS
12 1 (1.00%) Azure Key Vault
12 1 (1.00%) Microsoft Purview
12 1 (1.00%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 38 (38.00%) DNS
2 29 (29.00%) Firewall
3 26 (26.00%) DHCP
4 13 (13.00%) NetScaler
5 10 (10.00%) LAN
5 10 (10.00%) WAN
6 8 (8.00%) VPN
7 5 (5.00%) SMTP
7 5 (5.00%) TCP/IP
8 3 (3.00%) Skype
9 2 (2.00%) FTP
9 2 (2.00%) HTTP
9 2 (2.00%) SNMP
9 2 (2.00%) SSH
9 2 (2.00%) SSL
9 2 (2.00%) Telnet
9 2 (2.00%) Wi-Fi
9 2 (2.00%) Wireless
10 1 (1.00%) Internet
10 1 (1.00%) IPv4
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (5.00%) Power BI
2 3 (3.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (1.00%) Axure RP
1 1 (1.00%) Hudson
1 1 (1.00%) JIRA
1 1 (1.00%) MSI
General
1 33 (33.00%) Social Skills
2 13 (13.00%) Public Sector
3 9 (9.00%) Finance
4 4 (4.00%) German Language
5 3 (3.00%) Banking
5 3 (3.00%) Law
5 3 (3.00%) Military
6 2 (2.00%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (1.00%) Back Office
7 1 (1.00%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.00%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.00%) Police
7 1 (1.00%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.00%) Retail
7 1 (1.00%) Retail Banking
7 1 (1.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 18 (18.00%) Azure Engineer
2 16 (16.00%) Azure Specialist
2 16 (16.00%) Desktop Engineer
3 15 (15.00%) Active Directory Support
4 14 (14.00%) Active Directory Specialist
4 14 (14.00%) Support Specialist
5 10 (10.00%) Consultant
6 8 (8.00%) Citrix Engineer
7 7 (7.00%) Architect
7 7 (7.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 6 (6.00%) Azure Consultant
8 6 (6.00%) Project Manager
9 5 (5.00%) Deployment Engineer
10 4 (4.00%) Analyst
10 4 (4.00%) Service Analyst
10 4 (4.00%) Service Desk Analyst
10 4 (4.00%) Solutions Architect
10 4 (4.00%) Support Engineer
10 4 (4.00%) Technical Consultant
11 3 (3.00%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (15.00%) ARM Templates
2 1 (1.00%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 19 (19.00%) PKI
2 16 (16.00%) Self-Motivation
3 4 (4.00%) Management Information System
4 3 (3.00%) Fat Client
4 3 (3.00%) Thin Client
5 2 (2.00%) Clustering
5 2 (2.00%) NHS
6 1 (1.00%) Client/Server
6 1 (1.00%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.00%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.00%) Grid Computing
6 1 (1.00%) LIMS
6 1 (1.00%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.00%) Operational Technology
6 1 (1.00%) Replication
6 1 (1.00%) Security Posture
6 1 (1.00%) Smartphone
6 1 (1.00%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 64 (64.00%) Windows
2 35 (35.00%) Windows Server
3 27 (27.00%) Windows 10
4 19 (19.00%) Windows Server 2016
5 18 (18.00%) Linux
5 18 (18.00%) Windows Server 2019
6 6 (6.00%) Windows Server 2012
7 2 (2.00%) Mac OS
7 2 (2.00%) Windows Server 2008
8 1 (1.00%) Android
8 1 (1.00%) Apple iOS
8 1 (1.00%) Ubuntu
8 1 (1.00%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (30.00%) ITIL
2 26 (26.00%) Agile
3 23 (23.00%) Analytics
3 23 (23.00%) Service Management
4 22 (22.00%) DevOps
5 18 (18.00%) CI/CD
5 18 (18.00%) Identity Management
5 18 (18.00%) Release Management
6 17 (17.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 17 (17.00%) RBAC
7 16 (16.00%) Log Analytics
7 16 (16.00%) Multi-Factor Authentication
7 16 (16.00%) Privileged Identity Management
8 13 (13.00%) Change Management
9 12 (12.00%) Application Packaging
10 9 (9.00%) Migration
11 8 (8.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 8 (8.00%) Patch Management
11 8 (8.00%) Problem-Solving
11 8 (8.00%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 41 (41.00%) PowerShell
2 16 (16.00%) C#
2 16 (16.00%) VB
2 16 (16.00%) VBScript
3 15 (15.00%) Bicep
4 6 (6.00%) Python
4 6 (6.00%) SQL
5 1 (1.00%) Bash
Qualifications
1 28 (28.00%) Degree
2 27 (27.00%) Security Cleared
3 26 (26.00%) SC Cleared
4 17 (17.00%) DV Cleared
4 17 (17.00%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 6 (6.00%) Azure Certification
6 4 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (2.00%) ITIL Certification
7 2 (2.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.00%) SLA
2 5 (5.00%) QA
System Software
1 51 (51.00%) Active Directory
2 17 (17.00%) Virtual Machines
3 14 (14.00%) XenApp
4 13 (13.00%) VMware Infrastructure
5 10 (10.00%) XenDesktop
6 8 (8.00%) Citrix Hypervisor
7 7 (7.00%) VMware ESXi
8 6 (6.00%) vSphere
9 3 (3.00%) Microsoft App-V
9 3 (3.00%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 3 (3.00%) Virtual Servers
9 3 (3.00%) VMware NSX
10 2 (2.00%) UAG
11 1 (1.00%) Docker
11 1 (1.00%) Hyper-V
11 1 (1.00%) vCloud
11 1 (1.00%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 33 (33.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 26 (26.00%) SCCM
3 19 (19.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 19 (19.00%) SCOM
4 18 (18.00%) Kubernetes
5 16 (16.00%) WSUS
6 5 (5.00%) SysTrack
7 4 (4.00%) Terraform
8 3 (3.00%) OPNET
9 2 (2.00%) Ansible
9 2 (2.00%) FortiGate
9 2 (2.00%) Microsoft Clustering
9 2 (2.00%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (2.00%) TrustSec
9 2 (2.00%) vCenter Server
9 2 (2.00%) VxRail
10 1 (1.00%) Packer
Vendors
1 60 (60.00%) Microsoft
2 30 (30.00%) Citrix
3 13 (13.00%) VMware
4 9 (9.00%) NetApp
5 5 (5.00%) New Relic
5 5 (5.00%) OpenAI
6 3 (3.00%) Cisco
6 3 (3.00%) Dell
6 3 (3.00%) Remedy
6 3 (3.00%) ServiceNow
6 3 (3.00%) SolarWinds
7 2 (2.00%) EMC
7 2 (2.00%) F5
7 2 (2.00%) iManage
7 2 (2.00%) Nexthink
7 2 (2.00%) Sophos
7 2 (2.00%) Splunk
8 1 (1.00%) Aruba
8 1 (1.00%) Ivanti
8 1 (1.00%) Red Hat