Virtual Desktop Contracts with Work from Home Options

Virtual Desktop
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 19 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 296 361 482
Rank change year-on-year +65 +121 -111
Contract jobs citing Virtual Desktop 52 112 144
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.33% 0.43% 0.32%
As % of the System Software category 3.51% 3.40% 2.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 88 76
10th Percentile £357 £400 £400
25th Percentile £500 £424 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £555 £525
Median % change year-on-year +8.11% +5.71% -12.50%
75th Percentile £608 £600 £603
90th Percentile - £625 £653
UK median daily rate £600 £550 £500
% change year-on-year +9.09% +10.00% -4.76%

All System Software Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for system software skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 1,482 3,296 5,590
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 9.53% 12.51% 12.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,078 2,368 4,144
10th Percentile £263 £300 £331
25th Percentile £400 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £610 £631 £625
90th Percentile £684 £725 £700
UK median daily rate £488 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -7.14% - +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 105 103
10th Percentile £15.50 £17.11 £14.27
25th Percentile £17.00 £47.50 £17.63
Median hourly rate £40.25 £65.00 £24.50
Median % change year-on-year -38.08% +165.31% -38.75%
75th Percentile £65.00 £71.50 £53.13
90th Percentile £73.00 £81.60 £65.91
UK median hourly rate £22.50 £50.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year -55.00% +150.00% -

Virtual Desktop
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Virtual Desktop as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Virtual Desktop trend for jobs with a WFH option

Virtual Desktop
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Virtual Desktop.

Virtual Desktop daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Virtual Desktop
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Virtual Desktop over the 6 months to 19 April 2024.

Virtual Desktop daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Virtual Desktop
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Virtual Desktop.

Virtual Desktop hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Virtual Desktop
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:

Application Platforms
1 15 (28.85%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (3.85%) Confluence
3 1 (1.92%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (5.77%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (3.85%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 43 (82.69%) Azure
2 23 (44.23%) Entra ID
3 21 (40.38%) Microsoft 365
4 17 (32.69%) Azure Monitor
5 15 (28.85%) Azure Storage
6 3 (5.77%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 3 (5.77%) IaaS
7 2 (3.85%) Azure Key Vault
7 2 (3.85%) Azure Pipelines
7 2 (3.85%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (3.85%) Miro
7 2 (3.85%) PaaS
8 1 (1.92%) AWS
8 1 (1.92%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (1.92%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 18 (34.62%) DNS
2 17 (32.69%) Firewall
3 15 (28.85%) DHCP
4 5 (9.62%) VPN
5 3 (5.77%) WAN
6 2 (3.85%) LAN
6 2 (3.85%) Wireless
7 1 (1.92%) BGP
7 1 (1.92%) Cisco ASA
7 1 (1.92%) Cisco IOS
7 1 (1.92%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 1 (1.92%) IPv4
7 1 (1.92%) NetScaler
7 1 (1.92%) Network Security
7 1 (1.92%) NX-OS
7 1 (1.92%) OSPF
7 1 (1.92%) SD-WAN
7 1 (1.92%) VPLS
7 1 (1.92%) WLAN
Development Applications
1 4 (7.69%) JIRA
2 1 (1.92%) Axure RP
General
1 25 (48.08%) Social Skills
2 9 (17.31%) Finance
3 8 (15.38%) Public Sector
4 2 (3.85%) Law
5 1 (1.92%) Banking
5 1 (1.92%) Digital Economy
5 1 (1.92%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (1.92%) Retail
5 1 (1.92%) Retail Banking
5 1 (1.92%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 15 (28.85%) Azure Specialist
2 14 (26.92%) Active Directory Specialist
2 14 (26.92%) Active Directory Support
2 14 (26.92%) Azure Engineer
2 14 (26.92%) Support Specialist
3 10 (19.23%) Desktop Engineer
4 5 (9.62%) Azure Consultant
4 5 (9.62%) Consultant
5 4 (7.69%) Project Manager
6 3 (5.77%) Technical Consultant
7 2 (3.85%) Analyst
7 2 (3.85%) Applications Specialist
7 2 (3.85%) Architect
7 2 (3.85%) Cloud Engineer
7 2 (3.85%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (3.85%) Service Analyst
7 2 (3.85%) Service Desk Analyst
7 2 (3.85%) Solutions Architect
7 2 (3.85%) Technical Manager
7 2 (3.85%) Technical Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (26.92%) ARM Templates
2 2 (3.85%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 15 (28.85%) PKI
1 15 (28.85%) Self-Motivation
2 5 (9.62%) Management Information System
3 2 (3.85%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (3.85%) NHS
4 1 (1.92%) Data Centre
4 1 (1.92%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.92%) Replication
4 1 (1.92%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 28 (53.85%) Windows
2 16 (30.77%) Linux
2 16 (30.77%) Windows Server
3 15 (28.85%) Windows Server 2019
4 14 (26.92%) Windows Server 2016
5 7 (13.46%) Windows 10
6 2 (3.85%) Mac OS
7 1 (1.92%) Android
7 1 (1.92%) Apple iOS
7 1 (1.92%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (42.31%) Agile
2 19 (36.54%) ITIL
3 18 (34.62%) Service Management
4 17 (32.69%) DevOps
4 17 (32.69%) Identity Management
4 17 (32.69%) Release Management
5 16 (30.77%) Infrastructure as Code
5 16 (30.77%) RBAC
6 15 (28.85%) Analytics
6 15 (28.85%) CI/CD
6 15 (28.85%) Log Analytics
6 15 (28.85%) Multi-Factor Authentication
6 15 (28.85%) Privileged Identity Management
7 9 (17.31%) Migration
8 5 (9.62%) Problem-Solving
8 5 (9.62%) Project Management
8 5 (9.62%) Roadmaps
8 5 (9.62%) Stakeholder Management
9 4 (7.69%) Application Packaging
10 3 (5.77%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 20 (38.46%) PowerShell
2 15 (28.85%) C#
2 15 (28.85%) VB
2 15 (28.85%) VBScript
3 14 (26.92%) Bicep
4 1 (1.92%) Python
Qualifications
1 19 (36.54%) SC Cleared
1 19 (36.54%) Security Cleared
2 18 (34.62%) Degree
3 16 (30.77%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 15 (28.85%) DV Cleared
5 4 (7.69%) Azure Certification
6 2 (3.85%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (1.92%) PMI Certification
7 1 (1.92%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (7.69%) QA
2 1 (1.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 26 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 15 (28.85%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (5.77%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (3.85%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (3.85%) XenApp
5 1 (1.92%) Hyper-V
5 1 (1.92%) Microsoft App-V
5 1 (1.92%) vCloud
5 1 (1.92%) VMware NSX
5 1 (1.92%) VMware Workstation
5 1 (1.92%) vSphere
5 1 (1.92%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 26 (50.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 17 (32.69%) SCCM
3 16 (30.77%) Kubernetes
4 15 (28.85%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 15 (28.85%) SCOM
4 15 (28.85%) WSUS
5 3 (5.77%) Terraform
6 2 (3.85%) TrustSec
7 1 (1.92%) Ansible
7 1 (1.92%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 32 (61.54%) Microsoft
2 8 (15.38%) Citrix
3 3 (5.77%) Cisco
3 3 (5.77%) VMware
4 2 (3.85%) iManage
4 2 (3.85%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.92%) Avaya
5 1 (1.92%) CheckPoint
5 1 (1.92%) F5
5 1 (1.92%) Infoblox
5 1 (1.92%) Palo Alto
5 1 (1.92%) SolarWinds
5 1 (1.92%) Sophos
5 1 (1.92%) Tufin
5 1 (1.92%) Veeam
5 1 (1.92%) Zscaler