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 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 160 191 193
Rank change year-on-year +31 +2 +41
Permanent jobs citing Virtual Desktop 18 34 31
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 0.54% 0.53% 0.62%
As % of the System Software category 4.15% 3.91% 3.77%
Number of salaries quoted 8 30 5
10th Percentile £34,750 £23,500 £39,000
25th Percentile £40,563 £24,250 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,250 £29,750 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +89.08% -50.42% +29.73%
75th Percentile £90,000 £38,750 £67,500
90th Percentile - £40,000 £69,150
England median annual salary £46,000 £52,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -12.38% -8.70% +15.00%

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 434 869 822
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 13.06% 13.55% 16.46%
Number of salaries quoted 261 721 580
10th Percentile £25,625 £24,807 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £26,750 £32,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £40,000 £46,500
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -13.98% +3.33%
75th Percentile £59,000 £56,250 £63,750
90th Percentile £72,500 £66,250 £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 30 May 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 30 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
Hertfordshire +14 11 £37,500 +38.89% 12
Cambridgeshire +42 7 £90,000 +202.52% 4
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 3 (16.67%) Apache
1 3 (16.67%) nginx
2 2 (11.11%) SharePoint
3 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 12 (66.67%) Azure
2 10 (55.56%) Microsoft 365
3 8 (44.44%) Entra ID
4 2 (11.11%) OneDrive
5 1 (5.56%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 12 (66.67%) Firewall
2 3 (16.67%) Cisco Nexus
2 3 (16.67%) Remote Desktop
3 2 (11.11%) LAN
3 2 (11.11%) WAN
4 1 (5.56%) DHCP
4 1 (5.56%) DNS
4 1 (5.56%) VPN
Development Applications
1 3 (16.67%) GitLab
1 3 (16.67%) Jenkins
1 3 (16.67%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (5.56%) JIRA
General
1 2 (11.11%) Games
1 2 (11.11%) Social Skills
2 1 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (5.56%) Local Government
2 1 (5.56%) Retail
Job Titles
1 9 (50.00%) Analyst
2 8 (44.44%) Technical Analyst
3 7 (38.89%) 1st Line Support
3 7 (38.89%) 1st Line Support Analyst
3 7 (38.89%) 1st Line Technical Support
3 7 (38.89%) Support Analyst
3 7 (38.89%) Technical Support
3 7 (38.89%) Technical Support Analyst
4 3 (16.67%) Administrator
4 3 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (16.67%) Systems Administrator
5 1 (5.56%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Azure Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) IT Analyst
5 1 (5.56%) IT Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) IT Support
5 1 (5.56%) Senior
5 1 (5.56%) Senior Technical Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Technical Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (16.67%) Data Centre
2 1 (5.56%) Driving Licence
2 1 (5.56%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 13 (72.22%) Windows
2 9 (50.00%) Windows Server
3 8 (44.44%) Windows Server 2019
4 7 (38.89%) Mac OS
5 3 (16.67%) Linux
5 3 (16.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (5.56%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (55.56%) Customer Service
2 8 (44.44%) Server Management
3 7 (38.89%) Preventative Maintenance
4 6 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (22.22%) Asset Management
6 3 (16.67%) Change Control
6 3 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 2 (11.11%) 3D Rendering
7 2 (11.11%) Cost-Benefit Analysis
7 2 (11.11%) Low Latency
7 2 (11.11%) Migration
8 1 (5.56%) Agile
8 1 (5.56%) Application Virtualisation
8 1 (5.56%) Identity Management
8 1 (5.56%) ITIL
8 1 (5.56%) ITSM
8 1 (5.56%) Presales
8 1 (5.56%) Project Management
8 1 (5.56%) Service Delivery
8 1 (5.56%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (16.67%) Bash
2 1 (5.56%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 8 (44.44%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (5.56%) Azure Certification
2 1 (5.56%) Degree
2 1 (5.56%) DV Cleared
2 1 (5.56%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
2 1 (5.56%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.56%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 13 (72.22%) Active Directory
2 7 (38.89%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (22.22%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (5.56%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 10 (55.56%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (22.22%) Ansible
2 4 (22.22%) Puppet
3 3 (16.67%) Graylog
3 3 (16.67%) Nagios
3 3 (16.67%) Rundeck
4 1 (5.56%) Avamar
4 1 (5.56%) Progress Chef
4 1 (5.56%) vCenter Server
4 1 (5.56%) VxRail
Vendors
1 13 (72.22%) Microsoft
2 7 (38.89%) VMware
3 5 (27.78%) Citrix
4 4 (22.22%) Cisco
5 3 (16.67%) Juniper
5 3 (16.67%) NetApp
5 3 (16.67%) PagerDuty
5 3 (16.67%) Pure Storage
6 2 (11.11%) Dell
7 1 (5.56%) Aruba
7 1 (5.56%) EMC