Virtual Desktop Jobs in London

Virtual Desktop
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in London 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 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 341 432 515
Rank change year-on-year +91 +83 +248
Permanent jobs citing Virtual Desktop 52 75 93
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.41% 0.31% 0.28%
As % of the System Software category 3.09% 2.65% 1.82%
Number of salaries quoted 38 63 81
10th Percentile £30,750 £41,036 £42,789
25th Percentile £47,500 £53,408 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,047 £71,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.03% +5.93% +22.73%
75th Percentile £82,500 £83,125 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £94,500 £90,000
England median annual salary £46,000 £52,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -12.38% -8.70% +15.00%

All System Software Skills
London

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 London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 1,684 2,831 5,107
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 13.27% 11.81% 15.58%
Number of salaries quoted 1,108 2,090 3,711
10th Percentile £36,250 £32,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £48,000 £46,250 £48,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,500 £67,500 £68,823
Median % change year-on-year +5.93% -1.92% -1.68%
75th Percentile £94,063 £87,500 £90,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £110,000 £110,000
England median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% -

Virtual Desktop
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Virtual Desktop in London

Virtual Desktop
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for Virtual Desktop in London

Virtual Desktop
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Virtual Desktop in London over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Virtual Desktop in London

Virtual Desktop
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Virtual Desktop within the London region over the 6 months to 30 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
Central London +21 13 £82,500 +13.79% 3
South London - 4 - -
East London - 1 £52,500 -
Virtual Desktop
England

Virtual Desktop
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 24 (46.15%) Microsoft Exchange
2 12 (23.08%) SharePoint
3 3 (5.77%) WordPress
4 1 (1.92%) Confluence
Applications
1 7 (13.46%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (9.62%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (7.69%) Mozilla Thunderbird
3 4 (7.69%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (3.85%) Carpe Diem
1 2 (3.85%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 42 (80.77%) Azure
2 33 (63.46%) Microsoft 365
3 20 (38.46%) AWS
4 16 (30.77%) Entra ID
5 13 (25.00%) PaaS
6 9 (17.31%) Azure DevOps
6 9 (17.31%) GitHub
6 9 (17.31%) GitHub Actions
6 9 (17.31%) SaaS
7 8 (15.38%) Amazon S3
8 7 (13.46%) OneDrive
9 6 (11.54%) Serverless
10 5 (9.62%) AWS Lambda
10 5 (9.62%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 5 (9.62%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 4 (7.69%) Amazon ECS
11 4 (7.69%) Amazon GuardDuty
11 4 (7.69%) AWS KMS
11 4 (7.69%) IaaS
11 4 (7.69%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 16 (30.77%) DNS
2 13 (25.00%) VPN
3 10 (19.23%) TCP/IP
4 9 (17.31%) DHCP
5 8 (15.38%) LAN
5 8 (15.38%) SSL
5 8 (15.38%) VLAN
6 7 (13.46%) Firewall
7 5 (9.62%) Network Security
7 5 (9.62%) WAN
8 4 (7.69%) Cisco IOS
8 4 (7.69%) FTP
8 4 (7.69%) IPv4
8 4 (7.69%) PBX
8 4 (7.69%) SAN
8 4 (7.69%) SMTP
8 4 (7.69%) Structured Cabling
8 4 (7.69%) VoIP
9 3 (5.77%) Remote Desktop
9 3 (5.77%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (9.62%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (1.92%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (1.92%) Data Lake
2 1 (1.92%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 4 (7.69%) Bitbucket Server
1 4 (7.69%) Jenkins
2 2 (3.85%) MSI
3 1 (1.92%) InstallShield
3 1 (1.92%) JIRA
3 1 (1.92%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 14 (26.92%) Social Skills
2 11 (21.15%) Finance
3 4 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (5.77%) Law
5 1 (1.92%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (1.92%) Front Office
5 1 (1.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (1.92%) Legal
5 1 (1.92%) Local Government
5 1 (1.92%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (1.92%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 16 (30.77%) Senior
2 11 (21.15%) Analyst
2 11 (21.15%) Azure Engineer
3 8 (15.38%) IT Support
4 7 (13.46%) Azure Platform Engineer
4 7 (13.46%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 7 (13.46%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 7 (13.46%) Platform Engineer
5 6 (11.54%) Consultant
5 6 (11.54%) IT Engineer
5 6 (11.54%) IT Support Engineer
5 6 (11.54%) Senior Consultant
5 6 (11.54%) Senior Platform Engineer
5 6 (11.54%) Service Analyst
5 6 (11.54%) Support Engineer
6 4 (7.69%) DevOps Engineer
6 4 (7.69%) Infrastructure Consultant
6 4 (7.69%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 4 (7.69%) Service Desk Analyst
6 4 (7.69%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (7.69%) 802.1X
2 1 (1.92%) .NET
2 1 (1.92%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 6 (11.54%) Hybrid Cloud
1 6 (11.54%) Private Cloud
1 6 (11.54%) Public Cloud
2 5 (9.62%) iPhone
3 3 (5.77%) iPad
3 3 (5.77%) Onboarding
4 2 (3.85%) Data Centre
4 2 (3.85%) Hedge funds
4 2 (3.85%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.92%) Client/Server
5 1 (1.92%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.92%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.92%) Security Posture
5 1 (1.92%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 23 (44.23%) Windows
2 13 (25.00%) Linux
3 12 (23.08%) Windows 10
4 9 (17.31%) Windows Server
5 8 (15.38%) Mac OS
6 7 (13.46%) Android
7 5 (9.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 4 (7.69%) Ubuntu
8 4 (7.69%) Windows Server 2019
9 3 (5.77%) Windows Server 2012
10 2 (3.85%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (1.92%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (25.00%) DevOps
2 12 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
3 11 (21.15%) ITIL
4 10 (19.23%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 9 (17.31%) CI/CD
5 9 (17.31%) Infrastructure as Code
5 9 (17.31%) Platform Engineering
5 9 (17.31%) Regulatory Compliance
6 6 (11.54%) Change Management
6 6 (11.54%) Continuous Improvement
6 6 (11.54%) Migration
6 6 (11.54%) Time Management
7 5 (9.62%) Business Continuity
7 5 (9.62%) Disaster Recovery
7 5 (9.62%) Infrastructure Automation
7 5 (9.62%) Network Virtualisation
7 5 (9.62%) Patch Management
7 5 (9.62%) Roadmaps
8 4 (7.69%) Commercial Awareness
8 4 (7.69%) Customer Service
Programming Languages
1 15 (28.85%) PowerShell
2 9 (17.31%) Python
3 4 (7.69%) Shell Script
4 1 (1.92%) C#
4 1 (1.92%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (11.54%) Degree
2 5 (9.62%) Microsoft Certification
3 4 (7.69%) CCNA
3 4 (7.69%) Cisco Certification
3 4 (7.69%) Network+ Certification
3 4 (7.69%) Security Cleared
4 3 (5.77%) SC Cleared
5 2 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.92%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.92%) AWS Certified Developer
6 1 (1.92%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (1.92%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
6 1 (1.92%) CCA
6 1 (1.92%) Citrix Certification
6 1 (1.92%) MCSE
6 1 (1.92%) VCAP
6 1 (1.92%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (13.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (9.62%) GDPR
3 2 (3.85%) ISO 22301
3 2 (3.85%) ISO 9001
3 2 (3.85%) PCI DSS
4 1 (1.92%) SLA
System Software
1 26 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 19 (36.54%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (11.54%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (9.62%) Hyper-V
5 4 (7.69%) Docker
5 4 (7.69%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (3.85%) Microsoft App-V
7 1 (1.92%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (1.92%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 19 (36.54%) Microsoft Intune
2 18 (34.62%) Terraform
3 10 (19.23%) SCCM
4 6 (11.54%) Ansible
5 4 (7.69%) Nessus
5 4 (7.69%) Proxmox
5 4 (7.69%) WSUS
6 2 (3.85%) VxRail
7 1 (1.92%) Jamf Pro
7 1 (1.92%) Kubernetes
7 1 (1.92%) NetBackup
7 1 (1.92%) Prometheus
7 1 (1.92%) Puppet
7 1 (1.92%) vRealize
Vendors
1 25 (48.08%) Microsoft
2 20 (38.46%) Citrix
3 19 (36.54%) VMware
4 12 (23.08%) Cisco
5 5 (9.62%) Apple
5 5 (9.62%) Dell
5 5 (9.62%) Red Hat
6 4 (7.69%) Acronis
6 4 (7.69%) Juniper
6 4 (7.69%) ServiceNow
6 4 (7.69%) Veeam
6 4 (7.69%) Zscaler
7 3 (5.77%) Concur
7 3 (5.77%) HP
7 3 (5.77%) HubSpot
7 3 (5.77%) iManage
7 3 (5.77%) Meraki
7 3 (5.77%) SAP
8 2 (3.85%) Aderant
8 2 (3.85%) BeyondTrust