Virtual Desktop Contract Job Trends in Yorkshire

Virtual Desktop
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Yorkshire requiring Virtual Desktop skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 144 98 -
Rank change year-on-year -46 - -
Contract jobs citing Virtual Desktop 9 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 0.33% 0.083% -
As % of the System Software category 2.37% 0.44% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 0
10th Percentile £270 - -
25th Percentile £360 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £400 -
Median % change year-on-year +27.50% - -
75th Percentile £605 - -
90th Percentile £662 - -
England median daily rate £425 £475 £563
% change year-on-year -10.53% -15.56% +5.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £28.00 - -
England median hourly rate £38.42 - £31.00
% change year-on-year - - +48.61%

All System Software Skills
Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 380 227 247
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 13.88% 18.74% 14.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 241 136 172
10th Percentile £200 £218 £178
25th Percentile £358 £361 £275
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £455
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -1.10% +7.06%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £580
90th Percentile £638 £622 £645
England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 24
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £23.00 - £14.06
Median hourly rate £26.00 - £14.63
Median % change year-on-year - - -55.00%
75th Percentile £28.00 - £15.19
90th Percentile - - £19.78
England median hourly rate £52.75 £28.50 £22.45
% change year-on-year +85.09% +26.95% -55.10%

Virtual Desktop
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Virtual Desktop relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire.

Virtual Desktop job vacancy trend in Yorkshire

Virtual Desktop
Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Virtual Desktop.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Virtual Desktop

Virtual Desktop
Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Virtual Desktop in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 25 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Virtual Desktop in Yorkshire

Virtual Desktop
Hourly Rate Trend in Yorkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Virtual Desktop.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Virtual Desktop

Virtual Desktop
Contract Job Locations in Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 25 June 2026. 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
West Yorkshire - 7 £455 -
North Yorkshire - 2 £510 - 2
Virtual Desktop
England

Virtual Desktop
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Yorkshire 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 7 (77.78%) SharePoint
2 3 (33.33%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 8 (88.89%) Azure
1 8 (88.89%) Entra ID
2 7 (77.78%) Microsoft 365
3 5 (55.56%) AWS
3 5 (55.56%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (55.56%) GCP
3 5 (55.56%) GitHub
3 5 (55.56%) GitHub Actions
3 5 (55.56%) Microsoft Copilot
3 5 (55.56%) Power Automate
3 5 (55.56%) Power Platform
3 5 (55.56%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) Cisco Nexus
1 1 (11.11%) DHCP
1 1 (11.11%) DNS
1 1 (11.11%) Firewall
1 1 (11.11%) Network Security
1 1 (11.11%) TCP/IP
1 1 (11.11%) VoIP
1 1 (11.11%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) Amazon RDS
General
1 5 (55.56%) Finance
1 5 (55.56%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (77.78%) Architect
2 6 (66.67%) Solutions Architect
3 5 (55.56%) Microsoft 365 Architect
4 1 (11.11%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) 3rd Line Support
4 1 (11.11%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Active Directory Architect
4 1 (11.11%) Desktop Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Desktop Support
4 1 (11.11%) Desktop Support Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Solutions Architect
4 1 (11.11%) Mitel Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Senior
4 1 (11.11%) Senior Architect
4 1 (11.11%) Senior Solutions Architect
4 1 (11.11%) Support Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (55.56%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Data Centre
1 1 (11.11%) Freedom of Information
1 1 (11.11%) Management Information System
1 1 (11.11%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 4 (44.44%) Windows
2 2 (22.22%) Windows Server
3 1 (11.11%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (77.78%) Agile
2 5 (55.56%) AI
2 5 (55.56%) CI/CD
2 5 (55.56%) Continuous Delivery
2 5 (55.56%) Continuous Integration
2 5 (55.56%) DevOps
2 5 (55.56%) Identity Access Management
2 5 (55.56%) Observability
2 5 (55.56%) Zero Trust
3 2 (22.22%) Desktop Virtualisation
3 2 (22.22%) ITIL
3 2 (22.22%) ITSM
3 2 (22.22%) Presales
3 2 (22.22%) PRINCE2
3 2 (22.22%) TOGAF
4 1 (11.11%) Identity Management
4 1 (11.11%) Kalman Filter
4 1 (11.11%) Mentoring
4 1 (11.11%) Service Management
4 1 (11.11%) Virtual Environments
Programming Languages
1 6 (66.67%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) DV Cleared
1 2 (22.22%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) QA
1 1 (11.11%) SLA
System Software
1 8 (88.89%) Active Directory
2 2 (22.22%) Hyper-V
3 1 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (88.89%) Microsoft Intune
2 7 (77.78%) Jamf Pro
3 5 (55.56%) Terraform
4 1 (11.11%) SCCM
Vendors
1 8 (88.89%) Microsoft
2 5 (55.56%) Google
3 3 (33.33%) Citrix
4 2 (22.22%) Apple
4 2 (22.22%) BeyondTrust
4 2 (22.22%) CyberArk
5 1 (11.11%) Adobe
5 1 (11.11%) BMC
5 1 (11.11%) Cisco
5 1 (11.11%) Mitel
5 1 (11.11%) Remedy
5 1 (11.11%) Samsung
5 1 (11.11%) ServiceNow
5 1 (11.11%) VMware