Virtual Desktop Job Trends in Birmingham

Virtual Desktop
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Birmingham requiring Virtual Desktop skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 106 117 98
Rank change year-on-year +11 -19 +44
Permanent jobs citing Virtual Desktop 2 13 11
As % of all permanent jobs in Birmingham 0.11% 0.72% 0.81%
As % of the System Software category 2.78% 7.51% 6.59%
Number of salaries quoted 2 4 11
10th Percentile £70,750 - £42,500
25th Percentile £71,875 £34,750 £75,507
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £59,750 £110,000
Median % change year-on-year +29.71% -45.68% +100.00%
75th Percentile £81,875 £80,000 £115,000
90th Percentile £82,250 - -
West Midlands median annual salary £64,500 £52,008 £55,000
% change year-on-year +24.02% -5.44% +4.76%

All System Software Skills
Birmingham

Virtual Desktop falls under the System Software category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring system software skills in Birmingham.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 72 173 167
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 4.14% 9.59% 12.32%
Number of salaries quoted 45 75 153
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,500 £41,250 £31,552
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £51,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.50% +14.44% -18.18%
75th Percentile £73,750 £69,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £78,790 £80,000 £78,000
West Midlands median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% +11.11% -3.23%

Virtual Desktop
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Virtual Desktop job vacancy trend in Birmingham

Virtual Desktop
Salary Trend in Birmingham

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Virtual Desktop.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Virtual Desktop

Virtual Desktop
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
General
1 2 (100.00%) Law
2 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Desktop Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) IT Manager
1 1 (50.00%) IT Services Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Desktop Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) User Experience
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Patch Management
2 1 (50.00%) Service Catalogue
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (50.00%) Tech Ops
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (50.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Citrix
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft