Desktop Virtualisation Contract Job Trends in West Sussex

Desktop Virtualization
South East > West Sussex

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in West Sussex requiring Desktop Virtualisation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 34 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Desktop Virtualisation 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in West Sussex 0.40% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.51% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £675 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 - -
75th Percentile £725 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median daily rate £700 £470 £365
% change year-on-year +48.94% +28.77% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Sussex

Desktop Virtualisation falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in West Sussex.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 196 115 210
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Sussex 77.47% 85.19% 94.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 149 77 153
10th Percentile £186 £196 £213
25th Percentile £274 £350 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £513
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -12.20% +2.50%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £575
90th Percentile £720 £638 £680
South East median daily rate £500 £510 £518
% change year-on-year -1.96% -1.62% +1.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 1 4
10th Percentile - - £17.25
25th Percentile £12.63 - £24.75
Median hourly rate £19.50 £15.00 £46.96
Median % change year-on-year +30.00% -68.06% +111.91%
75th Percentile £60.00 - £66.27
90th Percentile £67.50 - £68.55
South East median hourly rate £22.50 £46.12 £55.00
% change year-on-year -51.22% -16.14% +37.50%

Desktop Virtualisation
Job Vacancy Trend in West Sussex

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Desktop Virtualisation relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in West Sussex.

Desktop Virtualisation job vacancy trend in West Sussex

Desktop Virtualisation
Contract Job Locations in West Sussex

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 West Sussex region over the 6 months to 24 December 2025. 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
Worthing - 1 £700 -
Desktop Virtualisation
South East

Desktop Virtualisation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Sussex 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 1 (100.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) BIG-IP
1 1 (100.00%) DHCP
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Lead
1 1 (100.00%) Lead Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Lead Infrastructure Architect
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server 2012
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server 2016
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) BCP
1 1 (100.00%) Business Continuity
1 1 (100.00%) Business Continuity Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Load Balancing
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Management
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (100.00%) Server Virtualisation
1 1 (100.00%) Strategic Roadmap
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (100.00%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (100.00%) SCCM
1 1 (100.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) F5
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) VMware