Virtual Desktop Job Trends in the East Midlands

Virtual Desktop
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring Virtual Desktop skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 146 114 158
Rank change year-on-year -32 +44 0
Permanent jobs citing Virtual Desktop 4 3 7
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 0.12% 0.18% 0.20%
As % of the System Software category 2.13% 1.51% 1.42%
Number of salaries quoted 2 3 7
10th Percentile - - £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £26,250 £35,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £27,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +63.64% -35.29% -43.33%
75th Percentile £47,500 £29,688 £47,500
90th Percentile - £30,250 £48,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £48,750 £50,000
% change year-on-year +12.82% -2.50% -8.26%

All System Software Skills
East Midlands

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 East Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 188 199 493
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 5.76% 12.24% 14.21%
Number of salaries quoted 161 142 436
10th Percentile £25,750 £25,625 £23,500
25th Percentile £27,750 £26,906 £28,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 £43,750 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -25.71% +2.94% -5.56%
75th Percentile £47,500 £58,250 £58,750
90th Percentile £60,000 £62,500 £67,500
England median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -13.04% +15.00% -9.09%

Virtual Desktop
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

Virtual Desktop job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

Virtual Desktop
Salary Trend in the East Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Virtual Desktop.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Virtual Desktop

Virtual Desktop
Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Virtual Desktop within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 11 March 2026. 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
Leicestershire - 2 £45,000 -
Nottinghamshire - 2 - -
Virtual Desktop
England

Virtual Desktop
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 4 (100.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (50.00%) SharePoint
2 2 (50.00%) Skype for Business
Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (50.00%) AWS
2 2 (50.00%) Azure Sentinel
2 2 (50.00%) GCP
2 2 (50.00%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) Firewall
1 2 (50.00%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) DTS
General
1 2 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (50.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 2 (50.00%) Manufacturing
1 2 (50.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Support
2 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) CMDB
1 2 (50.00%) Onboarding
1 2 (50.00%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Windows
1 4 (100.00%) Windows Server
2 2 (50.00%) Linux
2 2 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 2 (50.00%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (50.00%) Customer Service
2 2 (50.00%) Information Security
2 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Management
2 2 (50.00%) ITIL
2 2 (50.00%) Presales
2 2 (50.00%) Problem Management
2 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 2 (50.00%) Server Management
2 2 (50.00%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) PowerShell
System Software
1 4 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 4 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (50.00%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (50.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Nagios
1 2 (50.00%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 4 (100.00%) VMware
2 2 (50.00%) BMC
2 2 (50.00%) Citrix
2 2 (50.00%) Darktrace
2 2 (50.00%) Google
2 2 (50.00%) Proofpoint
2 2 (50.00%) Red Hat
2 2 (50.00%) SolarWinds
2 2 (50.00%) Tanium
2 2 (50.00%) Trend Micro