Virtual Desktop Jobs in Cambridgeshire

Virtual Desktop
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Cambridgeshire 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 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 57 97 96
Rank change year-on-year +40 -1 +59
Permanent jobs citing Virtual Desktop 5 4 14
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 0.94% 0.23% 1.14%
As % of the System Software category 5.38% 1.66% 6.22%
Number of salaries quoted 3 4 0
10th Percentile £50,250 - -
25th Percentile £54,375 £26,000 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £29,750 -
Median % change year-on-year +110.08% - -
75th Percentile £76,875 £33,750 -
90th Percentile £84,750 - -
East of England median annual salary £56,250 £27,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +108.33% -55.00% +29.73%

All System Software Skills
Cambridgeshire

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 Cambridgeshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 93 241 225
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 17.48% 13.65% 18.31%
Number of salaries quoted 72 178 161
10th Percentile £26,250 £24,790 £27,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £30,500 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £40,000 £46,500
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -13.98% -7.00%
75th Percentile £60,938 £62,500 £66,250
90th Percentile £72,450 £80,000 £85,750
East of England median annual salary £45,000 £40,000 £46,500
% change year-on-year +12.50% -13.98% +3.33%

Virtual Desktop
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Virtual Desktop in Cambridgeshire

Virtual Desktop
Salary Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Salary trend for Virtual Desktop in Cambridgeshire

Virtual Desktop
Salary Histogram in Cambridgeshire

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

Salary histogram for Virtual Desktop in Cambridgeshire

Virtual Desktop
Job Locations in Cambridgeshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Virtual Desktop within the Cambridgeshire region over the 6 months to 16 June 2025. 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Cambridge +36 4 £70,000 +135.29% 5
Virtual Desktop
East of England

Virtual Desktop
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cambridgeshire 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 (20.00%) Apache
1 1 (20.00%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) Azure
1 1 (20.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) Firewall
1 2 (40.00%) Remote Desktop
2 1 (20.00%) Cisco Nexus
2 1 (20.00%) DHCP
2 1 (20.00%) DNS
2 1 (20.00%) LAN
2 1 (20.00%) VPN
2 1 (20.00%) WAN
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) GitLab
1 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (20.00%) JIRA
1 1 (20.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 2 (40.00%) Games
2 1 (20.00%) Retail
2 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Administrator
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Implementation Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Linux Administrator
2 1 (20.00%) Linux Systems Administrator
2 1 (20.00%) Systems Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Windows
2 1 (20.00%) Linux
2 1 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) 3D Rendering
1 2 (40.00%) Cost-Benefit Analysis
1 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 2 (40.00%) Low Latency
1 2 (40.00%) Migration
1 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (20.00%) Agile
2 1 (20.00%) Application Virtualisation
2 1 (20.00%) Asset Management
2 1 (20.00%) Change Control
2 1 (20.00%) Customer Service
2 1 (20.00%) Identity Management
2 1 (20.00%) Innovative Thinking
2 1 (20.00%) ITSM
2 1 (20.00%) Service Management
2 1 (20.00%) Time Management
2 1 (20.00%) Virtual Infrastructure
2 1 (20.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Bash
1 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (20.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 5 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (40.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (40.00%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (20.00%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Ansible
1 2 (40.00%) Puppet
2 1 (20.00%) Avamar
2 1 (20.00%) Graylog
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (20.00%) Nagios
2 1 (20.00%) Progress Chef
2 1 (20.00%) Rundeck
2 1 (20.00%) vCenter Server
2 1 (20.00%) VxRail
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) VMware
2 2 (40.00%) Cisco
2 2 (40.00%) Citrix
2 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (20.00%) Aruba
3 1 (20.00%) Dell
3 1 (20.00%) EMC
3 1 (20.00%) Juniper
3 1 (20.00%) NetApp
3 1 (20.00%) PagerDuty
3 1 (20.00%) Pure Storage