Virtual Desktop Job Trends in Essex

Virtual Desktop
East of England > Essex

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Essex requiring Virtual Desktop skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 72 - 72
Rank change year-on-year - - +2
Permanent jobs citing Virtual Desktop 3 0 3
As % of all permanent jobs in Essex 0.25% - 0.31%
As % of the System Software category 5.00% - 2.36%
Number of salaries quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £32,500 - £46,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 - £48,500
Median % change year-on-year - - -25.38%
75th Percentile £37,500 - £50,250
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £27,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% +85.19% -54.04%

All System Software Skills
Essex

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 Essex.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 60 83 127
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Essex 4.99% 16.77% 13.28%
Number of salaries quoted 54 52 116
10th Percentile £25,000 £21,250 £22,750
25th Percentile £31,063 £31,250 £26,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £45,000 £32,250
Median % change year-on-year -22.22% +39.53% -19.38%
75th Percentile £40,000 £48,750 £45,625
90th Percentile £63,750 £64,375 £61,250
East of England median annual salary £41,595 £45,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year -7.57% +12.50% -13.98%

Virtual Desktop
Job Vacancy Trend in Essex

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

Virtual Desktop job vacancy trend in Essex

Virtual Desktop
Salary Trend in Essex

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Essex citing Virtual Desktop.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Essex citing Virtual Desktop

Virtual Desktop
Job Locations in Essex

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Virtual Desktop within the Essex region over the 6 months to 24 June 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
Chelmsford - 3 £35,000 - 1
Virtual Desktop
East of England

Virtual Desktop
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Essex 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) DHCP
1 3 (100.00%) DNS
1 3 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 3 (100.00%) VLAN
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Cloud Engineer
1 3 (100.00%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 3 (100.00%) Senior
1 3 (100.00%) Senior Cloud Engineer
1 3 (100.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
1 3 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Customer Service
1 3 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 3 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 3 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 3 (100.00%) Project Delivery
1 3 (100.00%) Remote Monitoring and Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) PowerShell
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 3 (100.00%) Hyper-V
1 3 (100.00%) Virtual Machines
1 3 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) ConnectWise
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (100.00%) Ubiquiti
1 3 (100.00%) VMware