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 26 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 325 427 542
Rank change year-on-year +102 +115 +173
Permanent jobs citing Virtual Desktop 67 82 93
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.52% 0.35% 0.26%
As % of the System Software category 3.89% 2.72% 1.63%
Number of salaries quoted 46 67 79
10th Percentile £32,000 £41,036 £40,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £55,283 £48,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,250 £71,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.05% +10.00% +18.18%
75th Percentile £89,688 £87,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £108,500 £90,000
England median annual salary £46,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -8.00% -4.76% +3.84%

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 1,722 3,013 5,703
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 13.39% 12.79% 15.83%
Number of salaries quoted 1,277 2,277 4,092
10th Percentile £36,250 £33,350 £35,388
25th Percentile £50,000 £46,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £65,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.54% -7.14% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £87,500 £91,250
90th Percentile £118,750 £110,000 £110,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -3.51%

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 26 April 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 26 April 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 +35 22 £82,500 +13.79% 4
South London +12 4 - -
East London - 2 £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 27 (40.30%) Microsoft Exchange
2 10 (14.93%) SharePoint
3 3 (4.48%) WordPress
4 1 (1.49%) Apache
4 1 (1.49%) Confluence
4 1 (1.49%) nginx
Applications
1 12 (17.91%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (11.94%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (11.94%) MS Visio
3 4 (5.97%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 4 (5.97%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (2.99%) Carpe Diem
Cloud Services
1 50 (74.63%) Azure
2 43 (64.18%) Microsoft 365
3 25 (37.31%) Entra ID
4 22 (32.84%) AWS
5 17 (25.37%) PaaS
6 15 (22.39%) SaaS
7 10 (14.93%) Azure DevOps
8 9 (13.43%) Amazon S3
8 9 (13.43%) GitHub
8 9 (13.43%) GitHub Actions
9 8 (11.94%) IaaS
9 8 (11.94%) OneDrive
9 8 (11.94%) Serverless
10 6 (8.96%) AWS Lambda
10 6 (8.96%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 5 (7.46%) Amazon EC2
11 5 (7.46%) Azure ExpressRoute
12 4 (5.97%) Amazon GuardDuty
12 4 (5.97%) AWS KMS
12 4 (5.97%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 19 (28.36%) DNS
2 14 (20.90%) DHCP
2 14 (20.90%) VPN
3 13 (19.40%) VLAN
4 12 (17.91%) Firewall
5 9 (13.43%) SAN
6 8 (11.94%) Cisco IOS
6 8 (11.94%) FTP
6 8 (11.94%) IPv4
6 8 (11.94%) PBX
6 8 (11.94%) SMTP
6 8 (11.94%) SSL
6 8 (11.94%) Structured Cabling
6 8 (11.94%) TCP/IP
7 7 (10.45%) LAN
8 5 (7.46%) Network Security
9 4 (5.97%) Remote Desktop
9 4 (5.97%) VoIP
9 4 (5.97%) WAN
10 3 (4.48%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (14.93%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (2.99%) Amazon Redshift
2 2 (2.99%) Data Lake
2 2 (2.99%) Power BI
3 1 (1.49%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (1.49%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (7.46%) Jenkins
2 4 (5.97%) Bitbucket Server
3 2 (2.99%) MSI
4 1 (1.49%) Eclipse
4 1 (1.49%) GitLab
4 1 (1.49%) InstallShield
4 1 (1.49%) JIRA
4 1 (1.49%) Octopus Deploy
4 1 (1.49%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 19 (28.36%) Social Skills
2 16 (23.88%) Finance
3 4 (5.97%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (5.97%) Banking
4 3 (4.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 3 (4.48%) Investment Banking
4 3 (4.48%) Law
4 3 (4.48%) Local Government
5 2 (2.99%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (2.99%) Telecoms
6 1 (1.49%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.49%) Front Office
6 1 (1.49%) Legal
6 1 (1.49%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 20 (29.85%) Senior
2 12 (17.91%) Azure Engineer
2 12 (17.91%) Consultant
3 11 (16.42%) Senior Consultant
4 10 (14.93%) Analyst
4 10 (14.93%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 8 (11.94%) Infrastructure Consultant
5 8 (11.94%) IT Support
5 8 (11.94%) Senior Infrastructure Consultant
6 7 (10.45%) Azure Platform Engineer
6 7 (10.45%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 7 (10.45%) Platform Engineer
7 6 (8.96%) IT Engineer
7 6 (8.96%) IT Support Engineer
7 6 (8.96%) Senior Platform Engineer
7 6 (8.96%) Service Analyst
7 6 (8.96%) Support Engineer
8 4 (5.97%) Applications Manager
8 4 (5.97%) Service Desk Analyst
8 4 (5.97%) Technical Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (4.48%) 802.1X
2 1 (1.49%) .NET
2 1 (1.49%) Azure Blueprints
2 1 (1.49%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 12 (17.91%) Private Cloud
2 10 (14.93%) Public Cloud
3 5 (7.46%) iPhone
4 4 (5.97%) Client/Server
4 4 (5.97%) Data Centre
4 4 (5.97%) Hybrid Cloud
4 4 (5.97%) Product Ownership
5 3 (4.48%) iPad
5 3 (4.48%) Onboarding
6 2 (2.99%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (1.49%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.49%) Hedge funds
7 1 (1.49%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.49%) Mobile App
7 1 (1.49%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 34 (50.75%) Windows
2 19 (28.36%) Linux
3 15 (22.39%) Windows 10
3 15 (22.39%) Windows Server
4 11 (16.42%) Android
5 7 (10.45%) Mac OS
6 6 (8.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (5.97%) Ubuntu
7 4 (5.97%) Windows Server 2019
8 3 (4.48%) Windows Server 2012
9 2 (2.99%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (1.49%) Mac OS X
10 1 (1.49%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (28.36%) Problem-Solving
2 14 (20.90%) DevOps
3 13 (19.40%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 13 (19.40%) ITIL
4 10 (14.93%) CI/CD
4 10 (14.93%) Infrastructure as Code
5 9 (13.43%) Platform Engineering
5 9 (13.43%) Regulatory Compliance
6 8 (11.94%) Commercial Awareness
7 7 (10.45%) Change Management
7 7 (10.45%) Continuous Improvement
7 7 (10.45%) Migration
7 7 (10.45%) Roadmaps
7 7 (10.45%) Time Management
8 6 (8.96%) Business Continuity
8 6 (8.96%) Disaster Recovery
8 6 (8.96%) Project Delivery
9 5 (7.46%) Collaborative Culture
9 5 (7.46%) Infrastructure Automation
9 5 (7.46%) Network Virtualisation
Programming Languages
1 22 (32.84%) PowerShell
2 13 (19.40%) Python
3 6 (8.96%) SQL
4 4 (5.97%) Shell Script
5 1 (1.49%) Bash
5 1 (1.49%) Bicep
5 1 (1.49%) C#
Qualifications
1 10 (14.93%) Degree
2 9 (13.43%) Microsoft Certification
3 8 (11.94%) CCNA
3 8 (11.94%) Cisco Certification
3 8 (11.94%) Network+ Certification
4 4 (5.97%) Security Cleared
5 3 (4.48%) SC Cleared
6 2 (2.99%) AWS Certification
6 2 (2.99%) AWS Certified Developer
6 2 (2.99%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (2.99%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
6 2 (2.99%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.49%) Azure Certification
7 1 (1.49%) CCA
7 1 (1.49%) Citrix Certification
7 1 (1.49%) MCSE
7 1 (1.49%) VCAP
7 1 (1.49%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (7.46%) GDPR
2 4 (5.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (2.99%) ISO 22301
3 2 (2.99%) ISO 9001
3 2 (2.99%) PCI DSS
3 2 (2.99%) SLA
System Software
1 37 (55.22%) Active Directory
2 29 (43.28%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (19.40%) Hyper-V
3 13 (19.40%) VMware ESXi
4 6 (8.96%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (5.97%) Docker
6 2 (2.99%) Microsoft App-V
6 2 (2.99%) vSphere
7 1 (1.49%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 24 (35.82%) Microsoft Intune
2 20 (29.85%) Terraform
3 17 (25.37%) SCCM
4 8 (11.94%) WSUS
5 7 (10.45%) Ansible
6 4 (5.97%) Nessus
6 4 (5.97%) Proxmox
7 2 (2.99%) Puppet
7 2 (2.99%) VxRail
8 1 (1.49%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (1.49%) Graylog
8 1 (1.49%) Kubernetes
8 1 (1.49%) Nagios
8 1 (1.49%) NetBackup
8 1 (1.49%) Prometheus
8 1 (1.49%) Rundeck
8 1 (1.49%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (1.49%) vRealize
Vendors
1 37 (55.22%) Microsoft
2 29 (43.28%) VMware
3 24 (35.82%) Citrix
4 19 (28.36%) Cisco
5 9 (13.43%) Veeam
6 7 (10.45%) Zscaler
7 5 (7.46%) Apple
7 5 (7.46%) Dell
7 5 (7.46%) Juniper
7 5 (7.46%) Palo Alto
7 5 (7.46%) Red Hat
8 4 (5.97%) Arista
8 4 (5.97%) ServiceNow
9 3 (4.48%) Concur
9 3 (4.48%) HP
9 3 (4.48%) HubSpot
9 3 (4.48%) iManage
9 3 (4.48%) Meraki
9 3 (4.48%) SAP
10 2 (2.99%) Avaya