Virtual Desktop Jobs in Birmingham

Virtual Desktop
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Birmingham requiring Virtual Desktop skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Virtual Desktop over the 6 months leading up to 16 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 95 140 134
Rank change year-on-year +45 -6 +42
Permanent jobs citing Virtual Desktop 8 10 1
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 0.57% 0.36% 0.052%
As % of the System Software category 5.10% 4.10% 0.38%
Number of salaries quoted 3 10 1
10th Percentile £69,000 - -
25th Percentile £73,125 £105,000 £66,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £110,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% +62.96% -12.90%
75th Percentile - £115,000 £68,750
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median annual salary £80,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +52.38% - +44.83%

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 157 244 265
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 11.21% 8.84% 13.85%
Number of salaries quoted 106 218 213
10th Percentile £28,500 £26,750 £27,000
25th Percentile £39,000 £32,000 £32,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £45,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -18.18% +3.77%
75th Percentile £62,500 £60,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £73,750 £85,388 £82,250
West Midlands median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £46,000
% change year-on-year - -2.17% +2.22%

Virtual Desktop
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Job vacancy trend for Virtual Desktop in Birmingham

Virtual Desktop
Salary Trend in Birmingham

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Virtual Desktop in Birmingham.

Salary trend for Virtual Desktop in Birmingham

Virtual Desktop
Salary Histogram in Birmingham

Salary distribution for jobs citing Virtual Desktop in Birmingham over the 6 months to 16 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Virtual Desktop in Birmingham

Virtual Desktop
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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 (12.50%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 4 (50.00%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 4 (50.00%) Amazon ECS
1 4 (50.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
1 4 (50.00%) Amazon S3
1 4 (50.00%) AWS
1 4 (50.00%) AWS KMS
1 4 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
1 4 (50.00%) Azure
1 4 (50.00%) Serverless
1 4 (50.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
2 3 (37.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 3 (37.50%) Amazon EC2
2 3 (37.50%) Amazon ELB
2 3 (37.50%) Amazon Glacier
2 3 (37.50%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (25.00%) Dynamics 365
3 2 (25.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (50.00%) Firewall
1 4 (50.00%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (37.50%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 4 (50.00%) Bitbucket Server
1 4 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 3 (37.50%) Vagrant
General
1 2 (25.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (12.50%) Games
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Linux Engineer
1 3 (37.50%) Platform Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Applications Manager
2 2 (25.00%) IT Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Architect
3 1 (12.50%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Solutions Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Technology Manager
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Private Cloud
1 2 (25.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 4 (50.00%) Linux
1 4 (50.00%) Ubuntu
1 4 (50.00%) Windows
2 3 (37.50%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) Agile
1 4 (50.00%) Capacity Management
1 4 (50.00%) DevOps
1 4 (50.00%) Key Management
1 4 (50.00%) Patch Management
1 4 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 3 (37.50%) Cloud Security
2 3 (37.50%) Configuration Management
2 3 (37.50%) ITIL
2 3 (37.50%) Platform Engineering
2 3 (37.50%) Server Management
3 2 (25.00%) Change Management
3 2 (25.00%) CRM
3 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (25.00%) Project Delivery
4 1 (12.50%) Asset Management
4 1 (12.50%) Business Case
4 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (12.50%) Service Delivery
4 1 (12.50%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 4 (50.00%) Python
1 4 (50.00%) Shell Script
2 3 (37.50%) Groovy
2 3 (37.50%) Java
2 3 (37.50%) Perl
2 3 (37.50%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
1 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 4 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 4 (50.00%) Docker
1 4 (50.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (50.00%) Ansible
1 4 (50.00%) Nessus
1 4 (50.00%) Proxmox
1 4 (50.00%) Terraform
2 3 (37.50%) Nagios
Vendors
1 4 (50.00%) Juniper
2 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (12.50%) Adobe
3 1 (12.50%) Apple
3 1 (12.50%) Citrix