Virtual Desktop Job Trends in Leicestershire

Virtual Desktop
East Midlands > Leicestershire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Leicestershire requiring Virtual Desktop skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 47 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Virtual Desktop 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Leicestershire 0.17% - -
As % of the System Software category 2.56% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £42,500 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 - -
75th Percentile £47,500 - -
90th Percentile - - -
East Midlands median annual salary £45,000 - £42,500
% change year-on-year - - -43.33%

All System Software Skills
Leicestershire

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 Leicestershire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 39 40 86
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leicestershire 6.82% 8.66% 19.33%
Number of salaries quoted 39 25 71
10th Percentile £23,875 £25,000 £30,500
25th Percentile £30,000 £26,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £36,000 £30,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +18.03% -39.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £47,500 £43,750 £57,500
90th Percentile £58,200 £60,000 £65,000
East Midlands median annual salary £30,000 £42,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -29.41% -19.05% +16.67%

Virtual Desktop
Job Vacancy Trend in Leicestershire

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

Virtual Desktop job vacancy trend in Leicestershire

Virtual Desktop
Salary Trend in Leicestershire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Leicestershire citing Virtual Desktop.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Leicestershire citing Virtual Desktop

Virtual Desktop
Job Locations in Leicestershire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Virtual Desktop within the Leicestershire region over the 6 months to 27 December 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
Leicester - 1 £45,000 - 1
Virtual Desktop
East Midlands

Virtual Desktop
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leicestershire 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 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) IaaS
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Information Security
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Presales
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Service Delivery
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (100.00%) vSphere
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) VMware