Virtual Desktop Jobs in Gloucestershire

Virtual Desktop
South West > Gloucestershire

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Gloucestershire 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 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 66 129 108
Rank change year-on-year +63 -21 +14
Permanent jobs citing Virtual Desktop 3 4 7
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 0.57% 0.23% 0.58%
As % of the System Software category 3.80% 1.07% 2.28%
Number of salaries quoted 1 4 0
10th Percentile - £45,375 -
25th Percentile £52,500 £45,938 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 -
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -
75th Percentile £57,500 £55,625 -
90th Percentile - £56,750 -
South West median annual salary £56,250 £52,500 £29,500
% change year-on-year +7.14% +77.97% -35.16%

All System Software Skills
Gloucestershire

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 Gloucestershire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 79 375 307
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 15.02% 21.80% 25.31%
Number of salaries quoted 42 278 136
10th Percentile - £30,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £34,625 £36,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £73,438 £62,375 £76,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £75,000 £82,500
South West median annual salary £47,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -4.76%

Virtual Desktop
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Job vacancy trend for Virtual Desktop in Gloucestershire

Virtual Desktop
Salary Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Salary trend for Virtual Desktop in Gloucestershire

Virtual Desktop
Job Locations in Gloucestershire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Virtual Desktop within the Gloucestershire region over the 6 months to 16 May 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
Gloucester - 2 - - 2
Cheltenham +36 1 £55,000 +7.32% 3
Virtual Desktop
South West

Virtual Desktop
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Gloucestershire 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 2 (66.67%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (66.67%) SharePoint
2 1 (33.33%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (66.67%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (33.33%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (33.33%) Entra ID
3 1 (33.33%) GitHub
3 1 (33.33%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) DNS
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) JIRA
General
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Consultant
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft 365 Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Technical Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Technical Consultant
1 1 (33.33%) Wintel Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Wintel Technical Architect
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Onboarding
2 1 (33.33%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (33.33%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Windows
2 1 (33.33%) Android
2 1 (33.33%) Apple iOS
2 1 (33.33%) Mac OS
2 1 (33.33%) Windows 10
2 1 (33.33%) Windows Server
2 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2016
2 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Agile
1 2 (66.67%) Decision-Making
1 2 (66.67%) Line Management
1 2 (66.67%) Migration
1 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (66.67%) Project Delivery
1 2 (66.67%) Scaled Agile Framework
1 2 (66.67%) Validation
2 1 (33.33%) Analytics
2 1 (33.33%) Application Virtualisation
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Customer Requirements
2 1 (33.33%) Data Loss Prevention
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Identity Access Management
2 1 (33.33%) Knowledge Transfer
2 1 (33.33%) Multi-Factor Authentication
2 1 (33.33%) Privileged Access Management
2 1 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (33.33%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) PowerShell
2 1 (33.33%) VB
2 1 (33.33%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft Certification
1 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Certification
2 1 (33.33%) Degree
2 1 (33.33%) MCP
2 1 (33.33%) MCSA
2 1 (33.33%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) NCSC
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Active Directory
1 2 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (33.33%) BitLocker
2 1 (33.33%) Hyper-V
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (33.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 1 (33.33%) SCCM
2 1 (33.33%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
1 2 (66.67%) VMware
2 1 (33.33%) McAfee
2 1 (33.33%) Symantec