Virtual Desktop Jobs in England

Virtual Desktop
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in 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 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 599 507 823
Rank change year-on-year -92 +316 -46
Permanent jobs citing Virtual Desktop 204 357 386
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.26% 0.50% 0.26%
As % of the System Software category 2.41% 3.13% 1.55%
Number of salaries quoted 149 185 229
10th Percentile £32,250 £32,500 £36,150
25th Percentile £41,750 £40,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £58,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.17% +10.48% -4.55%
75th Percentile £72,500 £73,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £77,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £58,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -5.17% +5.45% -

All System Software Skills
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 England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 8,463 11,392 24,880
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.80% 16.03% 16.92%
Number of salaries quoted 6,390 8,265 13,701
10th Percentile £27,000 £28,000 £28,189
25th Percentile £35,000 £37,000 £38,117
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £67,968 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £93,750 £95,000
UK median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -

Virtual Desktop
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Virtual Desktop in England

Virtual Desktop
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Virtual Desktop in England

Virtual Desktop
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Virtual Desktop in England over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

Salary histogram for Virtual Desktop in England

Virtual Desktop
Job Locations in 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 England region over the 6 months to 26 July 2024. 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
South East +24 63 £55,000 +20.88% 8
London +30 54 £69,000 +0.36% 8
North of England -26 30 £64,746 +47.99% 6
Midlands -72 27 £52,500 +44.83% 7
Yorkshire +26 21 £80,000 +77.78% 2
West Midlands +8 16 £45,000 -20.00% 5
South West -10 13 £50,000 +43.51% 2
East of England -16 13 £25,500 -55.65% 6
East Midlands -90 11 £67,500 +107.69% 2
North East -10 7 £41,500 -12.63% 2
North West -12 2 £57,500 +57.53% 2
Virtual Desktop
UK

Virtual Desktop
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 57 (27.94%) Microsoft Exchange
2 34 (16.67%) SharePoint
3 7 (3.43%) Apache
3 7 (3.43%) nginx
4 6 (2.94%) JBoss
5 1 (0.49%) Confluence
5 1 (0.49%) WordPress
Applications
1 10 (4.90%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.96%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.98%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 143 (70.10%) Azure
2 105 (51.47%) Microsoft 365
3 75 (36.76%) Entra ID
4 37 (18.14%) Azure Storage
5 21 (10.29%) AWS
6 20 (9.80%) Azure DevOps
7 19 (9.31%) Azure Monitor
8 15 (7.35%) IaaS
8 15 (7.35%) PaaS
9 14 (6.86%) Azure Logic Apps
10 13 (6.37%) Azure Event Grid
11 12 (5.88%) SaaS
12 11 (5.39%) OneDrive
13 7 (3.43%) Mimecast
13 7 (3.43%) OpenShift
13 7 (3.43%) Serverless
14 6 (2.94%) Cloudflare
14 6 (2.94%) Datadog
15 5 (2.45%) Azure Data Factory
15 5 (2.45%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 45 (22.06%) Firewall
2 37 (18.14%) DNS
3 27 (13.24%) DHCP
4 19 (9.31%) LAN
4 19 (9.31%) WAN
5 14 (6.86%) VPN
6 12 (5.88%) Remote Desktop
7 9 (4.41%) NetScaler
7 9 (4.41%) SAN
8 8 (3.92%) SSL
9 7 (3.43%) Wireless
10 6 (2.94%) VLAN
11 5 (2.45%) iSCSI
11 5 (2.45%) Structured Cabling
12 4 (1.96%) BGP
12 4 (1.96%) NGFW
12 4 (1.96%) OSPF
12 4 (1.96%) RIP
12 4 (1.96%) Wi-Fi
13 3 (1.47%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (4.90%) SQL Server
2 4 (1.96%) MariaDB
2 4 (1.96%) MySQL
3 1 (0.49%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (0.49%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (0.49%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 21 (10.29%) Git
2 10 (4.90%) Jenkins
3 6 (2.94%) Bitbucket
4 5 (2.45%) TeamCity
5 1 (0.49%) JIRA
5 1 (0.49%) Robot Framework
5 1 (0.49%) Selenium
General
1 75 (36.76%) Social Skills
2 42 (20.59%) Finance
3 11 (5.39%) Organisational Skills
4 10 (4.90%) Public Sector
4 10 (4.90%) Retail
5 8 (3.92%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (2.94%) Banking
6 6 (2.94%) Presentation Skills
7 4 (1.96%) Legal
8 3 (1.47%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (1.47%) Local Government
8 3 (1.47%) Police
9 2 (0.98%) Law
10 1 (0.49%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 28 (13.73%) IT Support
2 27 (13.24%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 22 (10.78%) Analyst
4 21 (10.29%) Azure Engineer
5 19 (9.31%) Senior
6 18 (8.82%) Azure Specialist
7 17 (8.33%) Support Specialist
8 16 (7.84%) Active Directory Specialist
8 16 (7.84%) Active Directory Support
8 16 (7.84%) Lead
9 15 (7.35%) Automation Engineer
9 15 (7.35%) Cloud Engineer
9 15 (7.35%) IT Analyst
9 15 (7.35%) IT Support Analyst
10 13 (6.37%) Consultant
11 12 (5.88%) 2nd Line Support
11 12 (5.88%) Support Engineer
12 10 (4.90%) Support Analyst
13 9 (4.41%) Azure Consultant
14 8 (3.92%) Cloud Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (15.69%) ARM Templates
2 14 (6.86%) YAML
3 7 (3.43%) OAuth
3 7 (3.43%) OAuth2
3 7 (3.43%) OpenID
3 7 (3.43%) Software Packaging
4 6 (2.94%) CSS
4 6 (2.94%) CSS3
4 6 (2.94%) HTML
4 6 (2.94%) HTML5
4 6 (2.94%) Keycloak
4 6 (2.94%) React
5 4 (1.96%) Web Services
6 2 (0.98%) JSON
7 1 (0.49%) 802.1X
7 1 (0.49%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 21 (10.29%) Self-Motivation
2 18 (8.82%) PKI
3 14 (6.86%) Data Centre
4 11 (5.39%) Cloud Native
5 8 (3.92%) Mobile App
6 7 (3.43%) iPhone
6 7 (3.43%) Management Information System
7 6 (2.94%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 5 (2.45%) Low-Code
9 4 (1.96%) CMDB
9 4 (1.96%) PMI
10 3 (1.47%) Clustering
10 3 (1.47%) Hybrid Cloud
11 2 (0.98%) Product Ownership
11 2 (0.98%) Video Conferencing
12 1 (0.49%) Housing Association
12 1 (0.49%) iPad
12 1 (0.49%) Linux Command Line
12 1 (0.49%) Private Cloud
12 1 (0.49%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 112 (54.90%) Windows
2 57 (27.94%) Windows Server
3 35 (17.16%) Linux
4 24 (11.76%) Windows 10
4 24 (11.76%) Windows Server 2019
5 23 (11.27%) Windows Server 2016
6 19 (9.31%) Apple iOS
7 12 (5.88%) Android
8 10 (4.90%) Mac OS
9 7 (3.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 4 (1.96%) Debian
10 4 (1.96%) Ubuntu
11 3 (1.47%) VMS
11 3 (1.47%) Windows 7
12 2 (0.98%) Windows Server 2008
12 2 (0.98%) Windows Server 2012
13 1 (0.49%) CoreOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (21.57%) ITIL
2 42 (20.59%) CI/CD
2 42 (20.59%) DevOps
2 42 (20.59%) Problem-Solving
3 37 (18.14%) Agile
4 34 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 29 (14.22%) Infrastructure as Code
6 27 (13.24%) Service Management
7 24 (11.76%) Identity Management
8 20 (9.80%) Analytics
8 20 (9.80%) Multi-Factor Authentication
8 20 (9.80%) Service Delivery
9 19 (9.31%) Log Analytics
9 19 (9.31%) Project Delivery
9 19 (9.31%) RBAC
10 18 (8.82%) Migration
10 18 (8.82%) Release Management
10 18 (8.82%) Task Automation
11 17 (8.33%) Customer Service
12 16 (7.84%) Privileged Identity Management
Programming Languages
1 66 (32.35%) PowerShell
2 31 (15.20%) Bicep
3 18 (8.82%) C#
4 16 (7.84%) VB
4 16 (7.84%) VBScript
5 15 (7.35%) Bash
6 14 (6.86%) Kusto Query Language
6 14 (6.86%) Python
7 8 (3.92%) JavaScript
8 5 (2.45%) SQL
9 2 (0.98%) Go
10 1 (0.49%) Java
10 1 (0.49%) PHP
10 1 (0.49%) Ruby
10 1 (0.49%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 34 (16.67%) Degree
2 22 (10.78%) Security Cleared
3 20 (9.80%) Azure Certification
4 16 (7.84%) DV Cleared
4 16 (7.84%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 12 (5.88%) SC Cleared
6 8 (3.92%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (2.94%) AWS Certification
7 6 (2.94%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (1.96%) PMI Certification
9 3 (1.47%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 2 (0.98%) PRINCE2 Certification
11 1 (0.49%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 1 (0.49%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.49%) CCA
11 1 (0.49%) CISM
11 1 (0.49%) CISSP
11 1 (0.49%) Citrix Certification
11 1 (0.49%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (6.37%) SLA
2 7 (3.43%) QA
3 1 (0.49%) GDPR
System Software
1 119 (58.33%) Active Directory
2 47 (23.04%) Virtual Machines
3 41 (20.10%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (6.37%) Docker
5 12 (5.88%) Hyper-V
5 12 (5.88%) Virtual Servers
6 9 (4.41%) XenApp
6 9 (4.41%) XenDesktop
7 8 (3.92%) vSphere
8 7 (3.43%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 5 (2.45%) pfSense
10 4 (1.96%) Firmware
10 4 (1.96%) NFS
10 4 (1.96%) VMware ESXi
11 2 (0.98%) VMware NSX
12 1 (0.49%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 72 (35.29%) Microsoft Intune
2 50 (24.51%) SCCM
3 31 (15.20%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 30 (14.71%) Kubernetes
5 29 (14.22%) Terraform
6 18 (8.82%) SCOM
7 16 (7.84%) WSUS
8 13 (6.37%) Ansible
9 10 (4.90%) Jamf Pro
10 7 (3.43%) Nagios
10 7 (3.43%) Progress Chef
10 7 (3.43%) Puppet
11 6 (2.94%) Single Sign-On
12 3 (1.47%) AirWatch
12 3 (1.47%) Nessus
12 3 (1.47%) vCenter Server
13 2 (0.98%) Microsoft Clustering
13 2 (0.98%) NetBackup
13 2 (0.98%) VxRail
14 1 (0.49%) Rancher
Vendors
1 109 (53.43%) Microsoft
2 41 (20.10%) VMware
3 31 (15.20%) Citrix
4 11 (5.39%) ServiceNow
5 7 (3.43%) Aruba
5 7 (3.43%) Red Hat
6 6 (2.94%) Apple
6 6 (2.94%) Atlassian
6 6 (2.94%) Cisco
6 6 (2.94%) Dell
6 6 (2.94%) New Relic
6 6 (2.94%) Splunk
6 6 (2.94%) Veeam
7 5 (2.45%) Adobe
7 5 (2.45%) Avaya
7 5 (2.45%) CheckPoint
7 5 (2.45%) EMC
8 4 (1.96%) HP
8 4 (1.96%) NetApp
8 4 (1.96%) Oracle