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 16 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 546 587 563
Rank change year-on-year +41 -24 +247
Permanent jobs citing Virtual Desktop 133 280 355
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.27% 0.29% 0.44%
As % of the System Software category 2.24% 2.57% 2.82%
Number of salaries quoted 92 222 174
10th Percentile £27,000 £31,250 £31,391
25th Percentile £32,750 £36,298 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,000 £53,573 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.14% -6.83% +13.60%
75th Percentile £72,625 £71,250 £73,750
90th Percentile £85,875 £87,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £44,000 £52,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -16.19% -8.70% +4.55%

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 5,938 10,897 12,602
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 12.04% 11.31% 15.49%
Number of salaries quoted 3,402 8,454 8,731
10th Percentile £27,750 £26,250 £27,750
25th Percentile £35,000 £32,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £75,624 £67,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £96,250 £86,250 £95,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% -1.20%

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 16 June 2025.

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 16 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
London +77 50 £71,024 +1.46% 115
South East +50 39 £41,250 -25.00% 73
East of England +18 16 £56,250 +108.33% 28
Midlands +66 15 £27,500 -48.84% 29
North of England +38 13 £46,000 +5.75% 43
North West +26 12 £46,000 +3.68% 24
East Midlands +51 9 £27,500 -59.26% 11
West Midlands +57 6 £73,750 +43.90% 18
South West +106 4 £57,500 +15.00% 21
Yorkshire +43 1 £28,000 -50.44% 11
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 35 (26.32%) Microsoft Exchange
2 31 (23.31%) SharePoint
3 8 (6.02%) Confluence
4 3 (2.26%) WordPress
5 1 (0.75%) Apache
5 1 (0.75%) nginx
5 1 (0.75%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 11 (8.27%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (5.26%) Mozilla Thunderbird
3 2 (1.50%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.75%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (1.50%) Carpe Diem
1 2 (1.50%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 92 (69.17%) Azure
2 82 (61.65%) Microsoft 365
3 37 (27.82%) Entra ID
4 26 (19.55%) AWS
5 11 (8.27%) Amazon S3
6 10 (7.52%) Azure DevOps
6 10 (7.52%) GitHub
6 10 (7.52%) PaaS
7 9 (6.77%) GitHub Actions
7 9 (6.77%) Serverless
8 8 (6.02%) AWS Lambda
8 8 (6.02%) OneDrive
8 8 (6.02%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 7 (5.26%) Amazon EC2
9 7 (5.26%) Amazon ECS
9 7 (5.26%) Amazon GuardDuty
9 7 (5.26%) AWS KMS
9 7 (5.26%) Mimecast
10 6 (4.51%) Microsoft Purview
10 6 (4.51%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 28 (21.05%) Firewall
2 21 (15.79%) LAN
3 20 (15.04%) DNS
4 18 (13.53%) WAN
5 16 (12.03%) VPN
6 13 (9.77%) Remote Desktop
7 12 (9.02%) SSL
7 12 (9.02%) TCP/IP
8 9 (6.77%) DHCP
8 9 (6.77%) SD-WAN
9 8 (6.02%) Network Security
10 7 (5.26%) Ethernet
11 5 (3.76%) VLAN
12 4 (3.01%) VoIP
13 3 (2.26%) WebEx
13 3 (2.26%) Wi-Fi
14 2 (1.50%) NetScaler
14 2 (1.50%) Wireless
15 1 (0.75%) Cisco Nexus
15 1 (0.75%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (6.77%) SQL Server
2 6 (4.51%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (0.75%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (0.75%) Data Lake
3 1 (0.75%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 11 (8.27%) JIRA
2 8 (6.02%) Jenkins
3 7 (5.26%) Bitbucket Server
4 3 (2.26%) Vagrant
5 2 (1.50%) MSI
6 1 (0.75%) GitLab
6 1 (0.75%) InstallShield
6 1 (0.75%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (0.75%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 53 (39.85%) Social Skills
2 15 (11.28%) Finance
3 9 (6.77%) Legal
4 8 (6.02%) Retail
5 7 (5.26%) Law
6 4 (3.01%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (2.26%) Games
7 3 (2.26%) Public Sector
8 2 (1.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.75%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.75%) Front Office
9 1 (0.75%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.75%) Publishing
9 1 (0.75%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 31 (23.31%) Analyst
2 23 (17.29%) Senior
3 20 (15.04%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 18 (13.53%) IT Support
4 18 (13.53%) Support Engineer
5 15 (11.28%) 1st Line Support
5 15 (11.28%) Azure Engineer
6 13 (9.77%) Platform Engineer
6 13 (9.77%) Support Analyst
6 13 (9.77%) Technical Analyst
7 9 (6.77%) 1st Line Support Analyst
7 9 (6.77%) 1st Line Technical Support
7 9 (6.77%) 2nd Line Support
7 9 (6.77%) IT Engineer
7 9 (6.77%) IT Support Engineer
7 9 (6.77%) Technical Support
7 9 (6.77%) Technical Support Analyst
8 8 (6.02%) Service Analyst
9 7 (5.26%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
9 7 (5.26%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (3.01%) 802.1X
2 1 (0.75%) .NET
2 1 (0.75%) Software Packaging
2 1 (0.75%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 11 (8.27%) Hybrid Cloud
2 10 (7.52%) Onboarding
3 5 (3.76%) Driving Licence
3 5 (3.76%) iPhone
4 4 (3.01%) Data Centre
4 4 (3.01%) Public Cloud
5 3 (2.26%) iPad
5 3 (2.26%) Management Information System
5 3 (2.26%) Private Cloud
6 2 (1.50%) Hedge funds
6 2 (1.50%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.75%) Clustering
7 1 (0.75%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.75%) Security Posture
7 1 (0.75%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 73 (54.89%) Windows
2 27 (20.30%) Windows Server
3 26 (19.55%) Mac OS
4 17 (12.78%) Linux
4 17 (12.78%) Windows Server 2019
5 11 (8.27%) Windows 10
6 8 (6.02%) Apple iOS
7 7 (5.26%) Ubuntu
8 6 (4.51%) Android
8 6 (4.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 5 (3.76%) VMS
10 4 (3.01%) Windows Server 2016
11 3 (2.26%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (29.32%) Customer Service
2 33 (24.81%) Problem-Solving
3 27 (20.30%) Migration
4 26 (19.55%) ITIL
5 23 (17.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 18 (13.53%) DevOps
7 17 (12.78%) Continuous Improvement
7 17 (12.78%) ITSM
7 17 (12.78%) Roadmaps
8 16 (12.03%) Agile
8 16 (12.03%) Business Continuity
8 16 (12.03%) Data Protection
9 14 (10.53%) Platform Engineering
9 14 (10.53%) Server Management
10 13 (9.77%) Mentoring
11 10 (7.52%) CI/CD
11 10 (7.52%) Coaching
11 10 (7.52%) Infrastructure as Code
11 10 (7.52%) Time Management
12 9 (6.77%) Preventative Maintenance
Programming Languages
1 33 (24.81%) PowerShell
2 18 (13.53%) Python
3 9 (6.77%) SQL
4 7 (5.26%) Shell Script
5 3 (2.26%) Bash
5 3 (2.26%) Groovy
5 3 (2.26%) Java
5 3 (2.26%) Perl
5 3 (2.26%) Ruby
6 1 (0.75%) Bicep
6 1 (0.75%) C#
6 1 (0.75%) VB
6 1 (0.75%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 25 (18.80%) Microsoft Certification
2 9 (6.77%) Security Cleared
3 8 (6.02%) Azure Certification
4 7 (5.26%) SC Cleared
5 5 (3.76%) Degree
5 5 (3.76%) MCSE
6 3 (2.26%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (2.26%) DV Cleared
6 3 (2.26%) MCP
6 3 (2.26%) MCSA
7 1 (0.75%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.75%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (0.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.75%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
7 1 (0.75%) CCA
7 1 (0.75%) CCNA
7 1 (0.75%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 1 (0.75%) Network+ Certification
7 1 (0.75%) VCAP
7 1 (0.75%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (11.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 11 (8.27%) GDPR
2 11 (8.27%) SLA
3 3 (2.26%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (1.50%) ISO 22301
4 2 (1.50%) ISO 9001
4 2 (1.50%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.75%) Government Security Classifications
5 1 (0.75%) NCSC
System Software
1 72 (54.14%) Active Directory
2 33 (24.81%) VMware Infrastructure
3 17 (12.78%) Virtual Machines
4 16 (12.03%) Hyper-V
5 7 (5.26%) Docker
6 5 (3.76%) VMware ESXi
7 3 (2.26%) Microsoft App-V
8 1 (0.75%) BitLocker
8 1 (0.75%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.75%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.75%) vSphere
8 1 (0.75%) XenApp
8 1 (0.75%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 44 (33.08%) Microsoft Intune
2 25 (18.80%) Terraform
3 14 (10.53%) SCCM
4 13 (9.77%) Ansible
5 7 (5.26%) Nessus
5 7 (5.26%) Proxmox
6 4 (3.01%) Nagios
7 3 (2.26%) Puppet
7 3 (2.26%) vCenter Server
7 3 (2.26%) VxRail
8 1 (0.75%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (0.75%) Avamar
8 1 (0.75%) Graylog
8 1 (0.75%) Jamf Pro
8 1 (0.75%) Kubernetes
8 1 (0.75%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.75%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.75%) Rundeck
8 1 (0.75%) vRealize
8 1 (0.75%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 77 (57.89%) Microsoft
2 46 (34.59%) Citrix
3 33 (24.81%) VMware
4 17 (12.78%) Cisco
5 14 (10.53%) Meraki
6 11 (8.27%) Apple
6 11 (8.27%) iManage
7 10 (7.52%) Dell
8 8 (6.02%) Juniper
9 6 (4.51%) Acronis
9 6 (4.51%) ServiceNow
9 6 (4.51%) Sophos
10 5 (3.76%) Red Hat
10 5 (3.76%) Veeam
11 3 (2.26%) Concur
11 3 (2.26%) HP
11 3 (2.26%) HubSpot
11 3 (2.26%) SAP
11 3 (2.26%) SolarWinds
11 3 (2.26%) Zscaler