Virtual Desktop Job Trends in the City of London

Virtual Desktop
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the City of London 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 120 148 140
Rank change year-on-year +28 -8 +85
Permanent jobs citing Virtual Desktop 14 17 27
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 0.61% 0.64% 0.96%
As % of the System Software category 7.78% 4.70% 4.97%
Number of salaries quoted 10 12 22
10th Percentile £40,750 £43,376 £53,000
25th Percentile £48,125 £55,762 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,250 £67,881 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.77% -6.37% +52.63%
75th Percentile £76,000 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £77,400 £85,625 £77,250
Central London median annual salary £61,250 £80,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -23.44% +10.34% +52.63%

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 180 362 543
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 7.80% 13.63% 19.39%
Number of salaries quoted 138 251 514
10th Percentile £31,250 £36,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £39,000 £42,500 £51,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -17.86% - -
75th Percentile £85,000 £92,500 £90,000
90th Percentile £112,375 £110,000 £110,000
Central London median annual salary £57,500 £67,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year -14.81% - -3.57%

Virtual Desktop
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Virtual Desktop job vacancy trend in the City of London

Virtual Desktop
Salary Trend in the City of London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Virtual Desktop.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Virtual Desktop

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 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Virtual Desktop in the City of London

Virtual Desktop
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London 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:

Application Platforms
1 7 (50.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (35.71%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 14 (100.00%) Azure
2 11 (78.57%) Microsoft 365
3 8 (57.14%) Entra ID
4 5 (35.71%) OneDrive
5 4 (28.57%) OpenShift
6 3 (21.43%) Microsoft Purview
7 1 (7.14%) IaaS
7 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Copilot
7 1 (7.14%) PaaS
7 1 (7.14%) Power Automate
7 1 (7.14%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (42.86%) Firewall
2 4 (28.57%) LAN
2 4 (28.57%) VoIP
2 4 (28.57%) WAN
3 2 (14.29%) DHCP
3 2 (14.29%) DNS
3 2 (14.29%) NetScaler
4 1 (7.14%) IP Telephony
4 1 (7.14%) Remote Desktop
4 1 (7.14%) VPN
4 1 (7.14%) Wi-Fi
General
1 5 (35.71%) Finance
2 1 (7.14%) Advertising
2 1 (7.14%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (50.00%) Senior
2 4 (28.57%) Lead
3 2 (14.29%) Citrix Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Senior Citrix Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Citrix Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Deskside Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Deskside Support
4 1 (7.14%) Deskside Support Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Desktop Support
4 1 (7.14%) Field Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) IT Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) IT Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Senior Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Support Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Team Leader
Miscellaneous
1 4 (28.57%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 12 (85.71%) Windows
2 4 (28.57%) Linux
2 4 (28.57%) Unix
2 4 (28.57%) Windows 10
3 3 (21.43%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (42.86%) Application Packaging
1 6 (42.86%) ITIL
2 5 (35.71%) Roadmaps
2 5 (35.71%) Technology Roadmap
3 4 (28.57%) DevSecOps
3 4 (28.57%) Identity Access Management
3 4 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
3 4 (28.57%) Knowledge Transfer
3 4 (28.57%) Service Delivery
3 4 (28.57%) Strategic Planning
3 4 (28.57%) Technology Strategy
4 2 (14.29%) Collaborative Culture
4 2 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
5 1 (7.14%) Customer Service
5 1 (7.14%) Incident Response
5 1 (7.14%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 1 (7.14%) Mentoring
5 1 (7.14%) Multi-Factor Authentication
5 1 (7.14%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (7.14%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 8 (57.14%) PowerShell
2 1 (7.14%) Bash
Qualifications
1 5 (35.71%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (14.29%) A+ Certification
2 2 (14.29%) Azure Certification
2 2 (14.29%) Citrix Certification
3 1 (7.14%) Degree
3 1 (7.14%) Network+ Certification
System Software
1 10 (71.43%) Active Directory
2 6 (42.86%) XenDesktop
3 4 (28.57%) XenApp
4 2 (14.29%) Citrix Hypervisor
4 2 (14.29%) Hyper-V
4 2 (14.29%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (7.14%) BitLocker
5 1 (7.14%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 11 (78.57%) Microsoft Intune
2 10 (71.43%) SCCM
3 4 (28.57%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (7.14%) Ansible
Vendors
1 13 (92.86%) Microsoft
2 8 (57.14%) Citrix
3 2 (14.29%) Pure Storage
3 2 (14.29%) ServiceNow
3 2 (14.29%) VMware
4 1 (7.14%) Apple
4 1 (7.14%) CyberArk