Virtual Desktop Job Trends in England

Virtual Desktop
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England 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 537 496 448
Rank change year-on-year -41 -48 +236
Permanent jobs citing Virtual Desktop 80 190 239
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.15% 0.39% 0.49%
As % of the System Software category 2.13% 3.08% 3.02%
Number of salaries quoted 44 125 204
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £40,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £51,930 £56,525
Median % change year-on-year +3.99% -8.13% +7.67%
75th Percentile £67,500 £77,500 £74,250
90th Percentile £79,625 £90,000 £106,250
UK median annual salary £50,860 £52,008 £56,525
% change year-on-year -2.21% -7.99% +7.67%

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 3,760 6,177 7,904
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 7.12% 12.83% 16.04%
Number of salaries quoted 2,748 3,693 6,511
10th Percentile £27,500 £30,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £31,500 £40,500 £36,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,790 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.15% +4.55% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £78,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £91,250
UK median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% -

Virtual Desktop
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Virtual Desktop job vacancy trend in England

Virtual Desktop
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Virtual Desktop.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Virtual Desktop

Virtual Desktop
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Virtual Desktop in England over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

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 14 January 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
London -6 23 £57,500 +3.12% 15
East of England +24 20 £33,500 -39.37% 5
Midlands +13 14 £54,000 +3.83%
North of England -3 13 £40,000 - 5
North West +12 10 £60,000 +87.50% 5
East Midlands 0 10 £45,000 -
South East +11 7 £38,500 -14.44% 9
West Midlands +5 4 £64,500 +24.02%
South West +8 3 £63,950 -5.26% 3
Yorkshire -16 2 £32,500 -59.38%
North East - 1 - -
Virtual Desktop
UK

Virtual Desktop
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 21 (26.25%) Microsoft Exchange
2 16 (20.00%) SharePoint
3 8 (10.00%) Skype for Business
4 2 (2.50%) Confluence
5 1 (1.25%) Apache
5 1 (1.25%) JBoss
5 1 (1.25%) nginx
Applications
1 5 (6.25%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (2.50%) Acrobat
3 1 (1.25%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 65 (81.25%) Azure
2 58 (72.50%) Microsoft 365
3 32 (40.00%) Entra ID
4 12 (15.00%) AWS
5 8 (10.00%) Azure Sentinel
5 8 (10.00%) GCP
6 7 (8.75%) Microsoft Copilot
6 7 (8.75%) OneDrive
6 7 (8.75%) Power Automate
7 6 (7.50%) SaaS
8 5 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (5.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 4 (5.00%) AWS CloudFormation
9 4 (5.00%) Azure Monitor
9 4 (5.00%) IaaS
9 4 (5.00%) OpenShift
10 3 (3.75%) Copilot Studio
10 3 (3.75%) Microsoft Purview
11 2 (2.50%) PaaS
12 1 (1.25%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 33 (41.25%) Firewall
2 8 (10.00%) DHCP
2 8 (10.00%) DNS
2 8 (10.00%) Skype
3 5 (6.25%) WAN
4 4 (5.00%) LAN
4 4 (5.00%) VoIP
4 4 (5.00%) VPN
5 3 (3.75%) NetScaler
6 1 (1.25%) IP Telephony
6 1 (1.25%) Network Security
6 1 (1.25%) Remote Desktop
6 1 (1.25%) SD-WAN
6 1 (1.25%) SSL
6 1 (1.25%) TCP/IP
6 1 (1.25%) VLAN
6 1 (1.25%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (10.00%) DTS
2 1 (1.25%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (1.25%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (1.25%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (1.25%) Data Lake
2 1 (1.25%) Power BI
2 1 (1.25%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (2.50%) JIRA
2 1 (1.25%) Bitbucket
2 1 (1.25%) Git
2 1 (1.25%) Subversion
General
1 30 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 15 (18.75%) Finance
3 11 (13.75%) Manufacturing
4 10 (12.50%) Retail
5 7 (8.75%) Organisational Skills
6 4 (5.00%) Law
7 3 (3.75%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (2.50%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (2.50%) Financial Institution
8 2 (2.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.25%) Advertising
9 1 (1.25%) Banking
9 1 (1.25%) Electronics
9 1 (1.25%) Marketing
9 1 (1.25%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.25%) Public Sector
9 1 (1.25%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 20 (25.00%) Support Engineer
2 19 (23.75%) Analyst
3 17 (21.25%) IT Support
4 16 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 12 (15.00%) IT Engineer
5 12 (15.00%) Senior
6 11 (13.75%) 1st Line Support
6 11 (13.75%) 1st Line Support Analyst
6 11 (13.75%) IT Support Engineer
6 11 (13.75%) Support Analyst
7 10 (12.50%) IT Analyst
8 9 (11.25%) 2nd Line Support
9 8 (10.00%) Infrastructure Support
9 8 (10.00%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
10 7 (8.75%) 2nd Line Engineer
10 7 (8.75%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
11 6 (7.50%) IT Support Analyst
11 6 (7.50%) IT Support Specialist
11 6 (7.50%) Microsoft 365 Specialist
11 6 (7.50%) Microsoft Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.75%) React
2 2 (2.50%) Software Packaging
3 1 (1.25%) CSS
3 1 (1.25%) CSS3
3 1 (1.25%) HTML
3 1 (1.25%) HTML5
3 1 (1.25%) Keycloak
3 1 (1.25%) Microsoft Graph
3 1 (1.25%) OAuth
3 1 (1.25%) OAuth2
3 1 (1.25%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 11 (13.75%) Onboarding
2 8 (10.00%) CMDB
2 8 (10.00%) Video Conferencing
3 4 (5.00%) PKI
4 3 (3.75%) AI Agents
4 3 (3.75%) Cloud Native
5 2 (2.50%) Driving Licence
5 2 (2.50%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.25%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.25%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (1.25%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.25%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 61 (76.25%) Windows
2 42 (52.50%) Windows Server
3 21 (26.25%) Windows Server 2019
4 11 (13.75%) Mac OS
5 10 (12.50%) Windows Server 2016
6 9 (11.25%) Windows 10
7 8 (10.00%) Windows Server 2008
8 7 (8.75%) Linux
9 4 (5.00%) Unix
10 2 (2.50%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (1.25%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (28.75%) Customer Service
2 21 (26.25%) ITIL
3 17 (21.25%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 16 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
5 14 (17.50%) Server Management
6 13 (16.25%) Preventative Maintenance
7 11 (13.75%) Mentoring
7 11 (13.75%) Roadmaps
8 10 (12.50%) Infrastructure Management
9 9 (11.25%) Problem Management
9 9 (11.25%) Service Delivery
10 8 (10.00%) Disaster Recovery
10 8 (10.00%) Identity Access Management
10 8 (10.00%) Root Cause Analysis
11 7 (8.75%) Application Packaging
11 7 (8.75%) Continuous Improvement
11 7 (8.75%) Infrastructure as Code
12 6 (7.50%) High Availability
12 6 (7.50%) Stakeholder Management
12 6 (7.50%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 29 (36.25%) PowerShell
2 4 (5.00%) SQL
3 3 (3.75%) JavaScript
3 3 (3.75%) Python
4 2 (2.50%) Java
5 1 (1.25%) Bash
Qualifications
1 20 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 6 (7.50%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 4 (5.00%) A+ Certification
4 3 (3.75%) Azure Certification
4 3 (3.75%) Citrix Certification
4 3 (3.75%) Degree
5 2 (2.50%) Security Cleared
6 1 (1.25%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.25%) AWS Certified Developer
6 1 (1.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (1.25%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
6 1 (1.25%) CCA
6 1 (1.25%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.25%) GDPR
1 1 (1.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (1.25%) SLA
System Software
1 53 (66.25%) Active Directory
2 20 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (10.00%) XenDesktop
4 7 (8.75%) vSphere
5 5 (6.25%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (5.00%) Hyper-V
6 4 (5.00%) VMware ESXi
6 4 (5.00%) XenApp
7 2 (2.50%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 1 (1.25%) BitLocker
8 1 (1.25%) Docker
8 1 (1.25%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 37 (46.25%) Microsoft Intune
2 14 (17.50%) SCCM
3 9 (11.25%) Nagios
4 8 (10.00%) ZABBIX
5 5 (6.25%) Single Sign-On
5 5 (6.25%) Terraform
6 4 (5.00%) Prometheus
7 2 (2.50%) FortiGate
8 1 (1.25%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (1.25%) Ansible
8 1 (1.25%) Jamf Pro
8 1 (1.25%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 65 (81.25%) Microsoft
2 25 (31.25%) Citrix
3 20 (25.00%) VMware
4 9 (11.25%) Red Hat
5 8 (10.00%) BMC
5 8 (10.00%) Darktrace
5 8 (10.00%) Google
5 8 (10.00%) Proofpoint
5 8 (10.00%) SolarWinds
5 8 (10.00%) Tanium
5 8 (10.00%) Trend Micro
6 3 (3.75%) Atlassian
6 3 (3.75%) Foundry
7 2 (2.50%) Adobe
7 2 (2.50%) Apple
7 2 (2.50%) Cisco
7 2 (2.50%) Dell
7 2 (2.50%) Fortinet
7 2 (2.50%) ServiceNow
7 2 (2.50%) Veeam