Virtual Desktop Jobs in the East of England

Virtual Desktop
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the East of England 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 17 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 171 187 191
Rank change year-on-year +16 +4 +57
Permanent jobs citing Virtual Desktop 16 34 29
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 0.47% 0.49% 0.63%
As % of the System Software category 3.75% 3.89% 3.90%
Number of salaries quoted 4 29 4
10th Percentile £36,125 £23,500 £36,125
25th Percentile £43,438 £24,250 £49,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,250 £27,000 £58,750
Median % change year-on-year +108.33% -54.04% +27.03%
75th Percentile £70,313 £38,750 £63,750
90th Percentile £82,125 £40,000 £66,000
England median annual salary £46,000 £53,573 £57,500
% change year-on-year -14.14% -6.83% +13.60%

All System Software Skills
East of England

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 of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 427 875 743
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 12.43% 12.64% 16.18%
Number of salaries quoted 260 716 549
10th Percentile £26,225 £24,778 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £26,250 £32,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £40,000 £46,500
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -13.98% +7.51%
75th Percentile £58,813 £55,250 £63,750
90th Percentile £72,000 £65,625 £75,000
England median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% -

Virtual Desktop
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Virtual Desktop in the East of England

Virtual Desktop
Salary Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Virtual Desktop in the East of England.

Salary trend for Virtual Desktop in the East of England

Virtual Desktop
Salary Histogram in the East of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Virtual Desktop in the East of England over the 6 months to 17 June 2025.

Salary histogram for Virtual Desktop in the East of England

Virtual Desktop
Job Locations in the East of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 17 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
Hertfordshire +23 11 £32,500 +20.37% 11
Cambridgeshire +41 5 £62,500 +110.08% 9
Virtual Desktop
England

Virtual Desktop
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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 (6.25%) Apache
1 1 (6.25%) nginx
1 1 (6.25%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 12 (75.00%) Azure
2 10 (62.50%) Entra ID
2 10 (62.50%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (6.25%) Azure ExpressRoute
3 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Copilot
3 1 (6.25%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 12 (75.00%) Firewall
2 2 (12.50%) LAN
2 2 (12.50%) Remote Desktop
2 2 (12.50%) WAN
3 1 (6.25%) Cisco Nexus
3 1 (6.25%) DHCP
3 1 (6.25%) DNS
3 1 (6.25%) VPN
Development Applications
1 1 (6.25%) GitLab
1 1 (6.25%) Jenkins
1 1 (6.25%) JIRA
1 1 (6.25%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 2 (12.50%) Games
1 2 (12.50%) Social Skills
2 1 (6.25%) Retail
Job Titles
1 11 (68.75%) Analyst
2 10 (62.50%) Technical Analyst
3 9 (56.25%) 1st Line Support
3 9 (56.25%) 1st Line Support Analyst
3 9 (56.25%) 1st Line Technical Support
3 9 (56.25%) Support Analyst
3 9 (56.25%) Technical Support
3 9 (56.25%) Technical Support Analyst
4 2 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Administrator
5 1 (6.25%) Azure Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Implementation Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) IT Analyst
5 1 (6.25%) Linux Administrator
5 1 (6.25%) Linux Systems Administrator
5 1 (6.25%) Service Analyst
5 1 (6.25%) Service Desk Analyst
5 1 (6.25%) Systems Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.25%) Data Centre
1 1 (6.25%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 12 (75.00%) Windows
2 10 (62.50%) Windows Server
2 10 (62.50%) Windows Server 2019
3 9 (56.25%) Mac OS
4 1 (6.25%) Linux
4 1 (6.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (6.25%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (68.75%) Customer Service
2 10 (62.50%) Server Management
3 9 (56.25%) Preventative Maintenance
4 3 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (12.50%) 3D Rendering
5 2 (12.50%) Asset Management
5 2 (12.50%) Cost-Benefit Analysis
5 2 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 2 (12.50%) Low Latency
5 2 (12.50%) Migration
6 1 (6.25%) Agile
6 1 (6.25%) Application Virtualisation
6 1 (6.25%) Change Control
6 1 (6.25%) Identity Management
6 1 (6.25%) Innovative Thinking
6 1 (6.25%) ITSM
6 1 (6.25%) Presales
6 1 (6.25%) Service Management
6 1 (6.25%) Time Management
6 1 (6.25%) Virtual Infrastructure
Programming Languages
1 1 (6.25%) Bash
1 1 (6.25%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 10 (62.50%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (6.25%) Azure Certification
2 1 (6.25%) DV Cleared
2 1 (6.25%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.25%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 12 (75.00%) Active Directory
2 5 (31.25%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (12.50%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (6.25%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 11 (68.75%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (12.50%) Ansible
2 2 (12.50%) Puppet
3 1 (6.25%) Avamar
3 1 (6.25%) Graylog
3 1 (6.25%) Nagios
3 1 (6.25%) Progress Chef
3 1 (6.25%) Rundeck
3 1 (6.25%) vCenter Server
3 1 (6.25%) VxRail
Vendors
1 13 (81.25%) Microsoft
2 5 (31.25%) VMware
3 3 (18.75%) Citrix
4 2 (12.50%) Cisco
5 1 (6.25%) Aruba
5 1 (6.25%) Dell
5 1 (6.25%) EMC
5 1 (6.25%) Juniper
5 1 (6.25%) NetApp
5 1 (6.25%) PagerDuty
5 1 (6.25%) Pure Storage