Virtual Desktop Job Trends in Hampshire

Virtual Desktop
South East > Hampshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Hampshire requiring Virtual Desktop skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 118 142 129
Rank change year-on-year +24 -13 +46
Permanent jobs citing Virtual Desktop 2 12 2
As % of all permanent jobs in Hampshire 0.081% 0.46% 0.10%
As % of the System Software category 1.13% 3.37% 0.60%
Number of salaries quoted 2 7 2
10th Percentile - £25,800 £37,050
25th Percentile £25,500 - £37,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £26,000 £26,000 £39,000
Median % change year-on-year - -33.33% +14.71%
75th Percentile £26,500 £27,000 £41,625
90th Percentile - £28,200 £42,150
South East median annual salary £38,500 £45,000 £56,525
% change year-on-year -14.44% -20.39% +33.00%

All System Software Skills
Hampshire

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 Hampshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 177 356 334
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Hampshire 7.13% 13.51% 16.74%
Number of salaries quoted 140 250 290
10th Percentile £27,500 £30,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £41,250 £31,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £55,000 £44,400
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +23.87% -14.62%
75th Percentile £59,500 £77,500 £61,250
90th Percentile £72,500 £80,250 £75,000
South East median annual salary £37,500 £57,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -34.78% +15.00% +5.26%

Virtual Desktop
Job Vacancy Trend in Hampshire

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

Virtual Desktop job vacancy trend in Hampshire

Virtual Desktop
Salary Trend in Hampshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing Virtual Desktop.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing Virtual Desktop

Virtual Desktop
Job Locations in Hampshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Virtual Desktop within the Hampshire region over the 6 months to 15 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
Southampton +15 2 £26,000 -3.70%
Virtual Desktop
South East

Virtual Desktop
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hampshire 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 2 (100.00%) Confluence
1 2 (100.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (100.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) IT Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) IT Support
1 2 (100.00%) IT Support Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Support Engineer
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Customer Experience
1 2 (100.00%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft