Hybrid/Remote Application Virtualisation Contract Job Trends

Application Virtualization
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Application Virtualisation skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 August 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 305 333 409
Rank change year-on-year +28 +76 +182
Contract jobs citing Application Virtualisation 2 3 15
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.020% 0.023% 0.072%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.022% 0.027% 0.080%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 9
10th Percentile - £408 £397
25th Percentile - £419 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £555 £450 £463
Median % change year-on-year +23.33% -2.70% -1.60%
75th Percentile - £494 £500
90th Percentile - £513 £712
UK median daily rate £548 £553 £550
% change year-on-year -0.90% +0.45% +13.17%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Application 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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 9,126 11,192 18,703
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 92.09% 87.37% 89.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,064 7,366 13,173
10th Percentile £325 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £420 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% -2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -4.76% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 280 333 455
10th Percentile £12.62 £17.65 £17.50
25th Percentile £18.94 £30.12 £25.95
Median hourly rate £35.25 £43.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.02% -14.00% +0.50%
75th Percentile £65.00 £66.61 £69.38
90th Percentile £68.53 £75.00 £81.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £42.03 £41.65
% change year-on-year -40.16% +0.91% +51.45%

Application Virtualisation
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Application Virtualisation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Application Virtualisation trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Application Virtualisation
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with Hybrid Work Options

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote work options citing Application Virtualisation.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote work options citing Application Virtualisation

Application Virtualisation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) SAN
General
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Applications Packager
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Data Centre Architect
1 1 (50.00%) SAN Technical Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Technical Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Virtualisation Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Virtualisation Technical Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
1 1 (50.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Application Packaging
1 1 (50.00%) Customer Service
1 1 (50.00%) Deployment Automation
1 1 (50.00%) Due Diligence
1 1 (50.00%) Migration
1 1 (50.00%) Technical Architecture
1 1 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Capita
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft