Virtual Desktop Jobs in the City of London

Virtual Desktop
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 126 160 212
Rank change year-on-year +34 +52 +37
Permanent jobs citing Virtual Desktop 13 18 18
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 0.66% 0.54% 0.40%
As % of the System Software category 5.31% 4.08% 2.04%
Number of salaries quoted 10 11 17
10th Percentile £67,500 - -
25th Percentile £76,250 £71,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £72,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +13.79% +16.00% +31.58%
75th Percentile £100,000 £73,750 £80,000
90th Percentile - £80,000 £88,500
Central London median annual salary £82,500 £72,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +13.79% +16.00% +31.58%

All System Software Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 245 441 884
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 12.53% 13.18% 19.75%
Number of salaries quoted 205 377 758
10th Percentile £36,250 £35,650 £35,375
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,000 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.43% - -6.67%
75th Percentile £83,750 £87,500 £90,625
90th Percentile £98,750 £107,500 £110,000
Central London median annual salary £60,000 £67,500 £68,301
% change year-on-year -11.11% -1.17% -5.79%

Virtual Desktop
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Virtual Desktop in the City of London

Virtual Desktop
Salary Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Virtual Desktop in the City of London.

Salary trend for Virtual Desktop in the City of London

Virtual Desktop
Salary Histogram in the City of London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Virtual Desktop in the City of London over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Virtual Desktop in the City of London

Virtual Desktop
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 3 (23.08%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (15.38%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (15.38%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 12 (92.31%) Azure
2 8 (61.54%) Azure DevOps
2 8 (61.54%) GitHub
2 8 (61.54%) GitHub Actions
2 8 (61.54%) PaaS
3 5 (38.46%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (30.77%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 2 (15.38%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (15.38%) Entra ID
5 2 (15.38%) OneDrive
5 2 (15.38%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (46.15%) VPN
2 3 (23.08%) Remote Desktop
3 1 (7.69%) Firewall
General
1 1 (7.69%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (61.54%) Azure Engineer
2 6 (46.15%) Azure Platform Engineer
2 6 (46.15%) Cloud Platform Engineer
2 6 (46.15%) Platform Engineer
2 6 (46.15%) Senior
2 6 (46.15%) Senior Platform Engineer
3 3 (23.08%) Analyst
4 2 (15.38%) Applications Manager
4 2 (15.38%) IT Manager
4 2 (15.38%) Service Analyst
4 2 (15.38%) Technical Analyst
4 2 (15.38%) Technical Services Analyst
5 1 (7.69%) Desktop Analyst
5 1 (7.69%) Desktop Support
5 1 (7.69%) Desktop Support Analyst
5 1 (7.69%) Support Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) Private Cloud
1 2 (15.38%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 4 (30.77%) Linux
1 4 (30.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (23.08%) Windows
2 3 (23.08%) Windows 10
3 2 (15.38%) Windows Server
3 2 (15.38%) Windows Server 2012
3 2 (15.38%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (69.23%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (61.54%) CI/CD
2 8 (61.54%) DevOps
2 8 (61.54%) Platform Engineering
2 8 (61.54%) Regulatory Compliance
3 4 (30.77%) Change Management
3 4 (30.77%) Infrastructure as Code
3 4 (30.77%) Infrastructure Automation
3 4 (30.77%) ITIL
3 4 (30.77%) Network Virtualisation
3 4 (30.77%) Test Automation
4 2 (15.38%) Asset Management
4 2 (15.38%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (15.38%) CRM
4 2 (15.38%) ITSM
4 2 (15.38%) Knowledge Management
4 2 (15.38%) Mobile Device Management
4 2 (15.38%) Project Delivery
4 2 (15.38%) Roadmaps
5 1 (7.69%) Software Deployment
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (30.77%) GDPR
2 2 (15.38%) ISO 22301
2 2 (15.38%) ISO 9001
2 2 (15.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (15.38%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 8 (61.54%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (23.08%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 8 (61.54%) Terraform
2 1 (7.69%) SCCM
Vendors
1 9 (69.23%) Citrix
2 8 (61.54%) VMware
3 4 (30.77%) Red Hat
4 3 (23.08%) Microsoft
5 2 (15.38%) Avaya
5 2 (15.38%) ServiceNow