Virtual Desktop Contracts in Wiltshire

Virtual Desktop
South West > Wiltshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Wiltshire requiring Virtual Desktop skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Virtual Desktop over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 54 86 90
Rank change year-on-year +32 +4 -29
Contract jobs citing Virtual Desktop 3 3 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wiltshire 0.67% 0.32% 0.27%
As % of the System Software category 3.13% 3.19% 1.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 1
10th Percentile £628 £528 -
25th Percentile £631 £569 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £675 £425
Median % change year-on-year - +58.82% -19.05%
75th Percentile £731 £713 £438
90th Percentile £743 - -
South West median daily rate £470 £625 £550
% change year-on-year -24.80% +13.64% +4.76%

All System Software Skills
Wiltshire

Virtual Desktop 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 in Wiltshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 96 94 199
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wiltshire 21.38% 9.96% 18.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 80 83 173
10th Percentile £453 £264 £200
25th Percentile £513 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% -4.55% +7.58%
75th Percentile £616 £581 £675
90th Percentile £688 £710 £724
South West median daily rate £550 £508 £500
% change year-on-year +8.37% +1.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £60.00
Median hourly rate - - £63.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +24.75%
75th Percentile - - £87.50
90th Percentile - - £102.50
South West median hourly rate £40.63 £68.75 £60.00
% change year-on-year -40.91% +14.58% +21.24%

Virtual Desktop
Job Vacancy Trend in Wiltshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Virtual Desktop in Wiltshire

Virtual Desktop
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Wiltshire

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

Daily rate trend for Virtual Desktop in Wiltshire

Virtual Desktop
Contract Job Locations in Wiltshire

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 Wiltshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Corsham +31 3 £675 - 1
Virtual Desktop
South West

Virtual Desktop
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wiltshire 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 1 (33.33%) Confluence
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (33.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) DHCP
1 1 (33.33%) DNS
1 1 (33.33%) Firewall
1 1 (33.33%) LAN
1 1 (33.33%) Skype
1 1 (33.33%) SMTP
1 1 (33.33%) TCP/IP
1 1 (33.33%) WAN
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Atlassian Bamboo
1 1 (33.33%) JIRA
General
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Military
2 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Administrator
1 1 (33.33%) Computer Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Wintel Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
2 2 (66.67%) Windows 10
2 2 (66.67%) Windows Server
3 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Disaster Recovery
1 2 (66.67%) Service Management
2 1 (33.33%) Agile
2 1 (33.33%) Business Continuity
2 1 (33.33%) Change Management
2 1 (33.33%) Computer Science
2 1 (33.33%) ITIL
2 1 (33.33%) ITSM
2 1 (33.33%) Matrix Management
2 1 (33.33%) Migration
2 1 (33.33%) Office Automation
2 1 (33.33%) Performance Monitoring
2 1 (33.33%) PRINCE2
2 1 (33.33%) Proactive Monitoring
2 1 (33.33%) Project Management
2 1 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (33.33%) Statistical Analysis
2 1 (33.33%) System Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Use Case
2 1 (33.33%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) Degree
1 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) Master's Degree
2 1 (33.33%) MCSA
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (33.33%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Virtual Server
2 1 (33.33%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 1 (33.33%) SCCM
1 1 (33.33%) SCOM
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (66.67%) Remedy
2 2 (66.67%) VMware
3 1 (33.33%) Atlassian
3 1 (33.33%) SolarWinds