Virtual Desktop Jobs in Central London

Virtual Desktop
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Central London 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 138 170 227
Rank change year-on-year +32 +57 +32
Permanent jobs citing Virtual Desktop 22 18 18
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 0.87% 0.48% 0.34%
As % of the System Software category 6.79% 3.61% 1.73%
Number of salaries quoted 17 12 16
10th Percentile £67,500 £67,875 £45,138
25th Percentile £76,250 £71,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £72,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +13.79% +26.09% +21.05%
75th Percentile £100,000 £73,750 £69,688
90th Percentile £104,000 £77,125 £83,750
London median annual salary £72,500 £71,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +1.40% +10.00% +18.18%

All System Software Skills
Central London

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 Central London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 324 499 1,043
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 12.80% 13.21% 19.69%
Number of salaries quoted 268 443 917
10th Percentile £35,000 £35,800 £35,575
25th Percentile £42,375 £46,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,250 £67,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.78% -3.57% -3.45%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £92,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £110,000
London median annual salary £72,500 £67,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +8.21% -4.29% -

Virtual Desktop
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Virtual Desktop in Central London

Virtual Desktop
Salary Trend in Central London

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

Salary trend for Virtual Desktop in Central London

Virtual Desktop
Salary Histogram in Central London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Virtual Desktop in Central London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Virtual Desktop in Central London

Virtual Desktop
Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Virtual Desktop within the Central London region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
City of London +31 18 £81,250 +12.07% 3
Virtual Desktop
London

Virtual Desktop
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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 5 (22.73%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (13.64%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (27.27%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (4.55%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (18.18%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 16 (72.73%) Azure
2 10 (45.45%) Microsoft 365
3 9 (40.91%) PaaS
4 8 (36.36%) Azure DevOps
4 8 (36.36%) GitHub
4 8 (36.36%) GitHub Actions
5 5 (22.73%) SaaS
6 4 (18.18%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 4 (18.18%) Dynamics 365
6 4 (18.18%) Entra ID
7 3 (13.64%) OneDrive
8 1 (4.55%) AWS
8 1 (4.55%) IaaS
8 1 (4.55%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 7 (31.82%) VPN
2 5 (22.73%) Firewall
3 4 (18.18%) Remote Desktop
4 3 (13.64%) DHCP
4 3 (13.64%) DNS
5 2 (9.09%) Network Security
5 2 (9.09%) SAN
5 2 (9.09%) VLAN
6 1 (4.55%) Cisco IOS
6 1 (4.55%) FTP
6 1 (4.55%) IPv4
6 1 (4.55%) LAN
6 1 (4.55%) PBX
6 1 (4.55%) SMTP
6 1 (4.55%) Structured Cabling
6 1 (4.55%) TCP/IP
6 1 (4.55%) VSAN
6 1 (4.55%) WAN
6 1 (4.55%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.55%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (4.55%) Power BI
1 1 (4.55%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (4.55%) Eclipse
General
1 4 (18.18%) Banking
1 4 (18.18%) Finance
2 3 (13.64%) Investment Banking
2 3 (13.64%) Social Skills
3 1 (4.55%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (4.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (4.55%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 8 (36.36%) Azure Engineer
2 7 (31.82%) Senior
3 6 (27.27%) Azure Platform Engineer
3 6 (27.27%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 6 (27.27%) Platform Engineer
3 6 (27.27%) Senior Platform Engineer
4 5 (22.73%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 4 (18.18%) Applications Manager
6 3 (13.64%) Analyst
6 3 (13.64%) IT Manager
7 2 (9.09%) Service Analyst
7 2 (9.09%) Technical Analyst
7 2 (9.09%) Technical Services Analyst
8 1 (4.55%) Desktop Analyst
8 1 (4.55%) Desktop Support Analyst
8 1 (4.55%) Infrastructure Consultant
8 1 (4.55%) IT Technician
8 1 (4.55%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
8 1 (4.55%) Senior Infrastructure Consultant
8 1 (4.55%) Service Manager
Miscellaneous
1 5 (22.73%) Private Cloud
2 4 (18.18%) Product Ownership
3 1 (4.55%) Public Cloud
3 1 (4.55%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 9 (40.91%) Windows
2 7 (31.82%) Linux
3 5 (22.73%) Windows Server
4 4 (18.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (18.18%) Windows 10
5 2 (9.09%) Windows Server 2012
5 2 (9.09%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (4.55%) Android
6 1 (4.55%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (54.55%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (36.36%) CI/CD
2 8 (36.36%) DevOps
2 8 (36.36%) Platform Engineering
2 8 (36.36%) Regulatory Compliance
3 7 (31.82%) ITIL
4 6 (27.27%) Change Management
5 5 (22.73%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 5 (22.73%) Project Delivery
6 4 (18.18%) CRM
6 4 (18.18%) Infrastructure as Code
6 4 (18.18%) Infrastructure Automation
6 4 (18.18%) Network Virtualisation
6 4 (18.18%) Roadmaps
6 4 (18.18%) Test Automation
7 3 (13.64%) BCP
7 3 (13.64%) Business Continuity
7 3 (13.64%) Disaster Recovery
7 3 (13.64%) ITSM
7 3 (13.64%) Network Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (13.64%) SQL
2 1 (4.55%) PowerShell
2 1 (4.55%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (4.55%) CCNA
1 1 (4.55%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (4.55%) Degree
1 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (4.55%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (18.18%) GDPR
2 2 (9.09%) ISO 22301
2 2 (9.09%) ISO 9001
2 2 (9.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (9.09%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 15 (68.18%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (27.27%) Hyper-V
3 5 (22.73%) Active Directory
3 5 (22.73%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (4.55%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 8 (36.36%) Terraform
2 3 (13.64%) SCCM
3 2 (9.09%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (4.55%) WSUS
Vendors
1 15 (68.18%) VMware
2 10 (45.45%) Citrix
3 9 (40.91%) Microsoft
4 4 (18.18%) Cisco
4 4 (18.18%) Red Hat
5 3 (13.64%) Arista
5 3 (13.64%) Palo Alto
6 2 (9.09%) Avaya
6 2 (9.09%) ServiceNow
6 2 (9.09%) Veeam
7 1 (4.55%) Cognos
7 1 (4.55%) SolarWinds
7 1 (4.55%) Sun