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 10 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 598 424 548
Rank change year-on-year -174 +124 +142
Permanent jobs citing Virtual Desktop 84 195 274
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.11% 0.53% 0.34%
As % of the System Software category 2.01% 4.17% 2.53%
Number of salaries quoted 58 134 222
10th Percentile £37,675 £27,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,625 £35,000 £36,298
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,250 £46,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +22.28% -8.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £76,000 £78,625 £73,250
90th Percentile £78,250 £90,000 £102,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £46,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +19.57% -8.00% -4.76%

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 4,183 4,681 10,830
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 5.65% 12.81% 13.49%
Number of salaries quoted 3,030 3,654 9,055
10th Percentile £28,000 £28,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £32,750 £37,500 £32,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,860 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.53% +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £73,750 £80,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £91,250 £100,000 £87,500
UK median annual salary £51,500 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -6.36% +10.00% -9.09%

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 10 April 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 10 April 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 -38 45 £65,000 -13.33% 7
East of England -44 16 £55,000 -9.47% 2
North of England -82 12 £41,500 -9.78% 8
North West -46 9 £44,750 -2.72% 5
South East -75 5 £38,500 -6.67% 7
South West -50 3 - - 7
Yorkshire -54 2 £31,250 -0.79% 2
East Midlands -58 2 £45,000 +63.64%
Midlands -70 2 £45,000 +63.64% 4
North East - 1 - - 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 24 (28.57%) Microsoft Exchange
2 20 (23.81%) SharePoint
3 2 (2.38%) Apache
3 2 (2.38%) JBoss
3 2 (2.38%) nginx
4 1 (1.19%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (3.57%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.19%) Acrobat
Business Applications
1 1 (1.19%) Alphatax
1 1 (1.19%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 71 (84.52%) Azure
2 65 (77.38%) Microsoft 365
3 30 (35.71%) Entra ID
4 19 (22.62%) OneDrive
5 15 (17.86%) AWS
6 13 (15.48%) SaaS
7 12 (14.29%) IaaS
8 11 (13.10%) Datadog
9 10 (11.90%) Microsoft Purview
9 10 (11.90%) PaaS
10 4 (4.76%) Mimecast
11 3 (3.57%) Tessian
12 2 (2.38%) Azure DevOps
12 2 (2.38%) Dynamics 365
12 2 (2.38%) Power Automate
13 1 (1.19%) Microsoft Copilot
13 1 (1.19%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 45 (53.57%) Firewall
2 21 (25.00%) DHCP
2 21 (25.00%) DNS
3 18 (21.43%) VPN
4 11 (13.10%) VLAN
4 11 (13.10%) Wi-Fi
5 9 (10.71%) SAN
6 4 (4.76%) WAN
7 3 (3.57%) NetScaler
8 2 (2.38%) Cisco IOS
8 2 (2.38%) LAN
8 2 (2.38%) Network Security
8 2 (2.38%) SD-WAN
8 2 (2.38%) SSL
8 2 (2.38%) TCP/IP
9 1 (1.19%) Broadband
9 1 (1.19%) Mobile Broadband
9 1 (1.19%) Softphone
9 1 (1.19%) Wireshark
9 1 (1.19%) WPA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (13.10%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.19%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (1.19%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 9 (10.71%) Chocolatey
2 2 (2.38%) Bitbucket
2 2 (2.38%) Git
2 2 (2.38%) Subversion
3 1 (1.19%) JIRA
General
1 34 (40.48%) Social Skills
2 21 (25.00%) Finance
3 14 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (10.71%) Banking
5 6 (7.14%) Legal
6 4 (4.76%) Law
6 4 (4.76%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (2.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.19%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.19%) Retail
8 1 (1.19%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 20 (23.81%) Support Engineer
2 18 (21.43%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 17 (20.24%) IT Engineer
4 16 (19.05%) 2nd Line Support
4 16 (19.05%) IT Support
5 15 (17.86%) IT Support Engineer
6 13 (15.48%) 2nd Line Engineer
6 13 (15.48%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
7 11 (13.10%) Azure Engineer
8 10 (11.90%) Senior
9 9 (10.71%) Cloud Developer
9 9 (10.71%) Developer
10 8 (9.52%) Lead
11 6 (7.14%) Applications Developer
11 6 (7.14%) Identity Management Engineer
11 6 (7.14%) Infrastructure Support
11 6 (7.14%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
12 5 (5.95%) Cloud Engineer
12 5 (5.95%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
13 4 (4.76%) Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (11.90%) React
2 2 (2.38%) CSS
2 2 (2.38%) CSS3
2 2 (2.38%) HTML
2 2 (2.38%) HTML5
2 2 (2.38%) Keycloak
2 2 (2.38%) OAuth
2 2 (2.38%) OAuth2
2 2 (2.38%) OpenID
3 1 (1.19%) Microsoft Graph
3 1 (1.19%) Software Packaging
3 1 (1.19%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 9 (10.71%) Cyber Threat
2 4 (4.76%) Onboarding
3 3 (3.57%) Driving Licence
3 3 (3.57%) Management Information System
4 2 (2.38%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.19%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.19%) CMDB
5 1 (1.19%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.19%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.19%) iPhone
5 1 (1.19%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 54 (64.29%) Windows
2 28 (33.33%) Windows Server
3 16 (19.05%) Windows Server 2016
3 16 (19.05%) Windows Server 2019
4 11 (13.10%) Windows 10
5 4 (4.76%) Apple iOS
6 3 (3.57%) Windows Server 2012
7 2 (2.38%) Linux
7 2 (2.38%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (41.67%) Problem-Solving
2 18 (21.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 18 (21.43%) Mentoring
3 15 (17.86%) ITIL
4 14 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
5 13 (15.48%) Identity Access Management
6 11 (13.10%) ITSM
7 10 (11.90%) Agile
7 10 (11.90%) Asynchronous Programming
7 10 (11.90%) BDD
7 10 (11.90%) Migration
7 10 (11.90%) RBAC
8 9 (10.71%) Analytical Thinking
8 9 (10.71%) High Availability
8 9 (10.71%) Identity Management
8 9 (10.71%) Security Patching
9 7 (8.33%) Cybersecurity
9 7 (8.33%) User Experience
10 6 (7.14%) API Design
10 6 (7.14%) Collaborative Working
Programming Languages
1 15 (17.86%) PowerShell
2 10 (11.90%) JavaScript
2 10 (11.90%) Python
3 5 (5.95%) Java
4 3 (3.57%) SQL
Qualifications
1 21 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 14 (16.67%) Security Cleared
3 7 (8.33%) Azure Certification
4 6 (7.14%) Degree
4 6 (7.14%) SC Cleared
5 3 (3.57%) CCNP
5 3 (3.57%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (2.38%) A+ Certification
6 2 (2.38%) Citrix Certification
6 2 (2.38%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (2.38%) Network+ Certification
7 1 (1.19%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (1.19%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (13.10%) SLA
2 4 (4.76%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (1.19%) GDPR
3 1 (1.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 52 (61.90%) Active Directory
2 25 (29.76%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (10.71%) Hyper-V
4 7 (8.33%) vSphere
5 5 (5.95%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (4.76%) VMware ESXi
6 4 (4.76%) XenDesktop
7 2 (2.38%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 1 (1.19%) BitLocker
8 1 (1.19%) Docker
8 1 (1.19%) Firmware
8 1 (1.19%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 48 (57.14%) Microsoft Intune
2 21 (25.00%) SCCM
3 5 (5.95%) Terraform
4 3 (3.57%) FortiGate
5 2 (2.38%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 2 (2.38%) Nagios
5 2 (2.38%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (1.19%) Jamf Pro
6 1 (1.19%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 68 (80.95%) Microsoft
2 25 (29.76%) VMware
3 10 (11.90%) Atlassian
3 10 (11.90%) Citrix
4 9 (10.71%) AppDynamics
4 9 (10.71%) Dynatrace
4 9 (10.71%) Tenable
5 7 (8.33%) iManage
6 4 (4.76%) Dell
7 3 (3.57%) Cisco
7 3 (3.57%) Fortinet
7 3 (3.57%) Intapp
7 3 (3.57%) Nexthink
7 3 (3.57%) Veeam
8 2 (2.38%) New Relic
8 2 (2.38%) Pure Storage
8 2 (2.38%) Red Hat
8 2 (2.38%) ServiceNow
8 2 (2.38%) Splunk
9 1 (1.19%) Apple