Virtual Desktop Job Trends in the Midlands

Virtual Desktop
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring Virtual Desktop skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 248 191 274
Rank change year-on-year -57 +83 +10
Permanent jobs citing Virtual Desktop 4 24 36
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.032% 0.49% 0.32%
As % of the System Software category 0.90% 4.19% 2.59%
Number of salaries quoted 4 11 36
10th Percentile £35,675 - £36,298
25th Percentile £40,063 £26,250 £40,478
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £27,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +63.64% -45.00% -6.54%
75th Percentile £56,250 £61,875 £115,000
90th Percentile £72,000 £80,000 -
England median annual salary £55,000 £46,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +19.57% -8.00% -4.76%

All System Software Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 444 573 1,391
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 3.59% 11.71% 12.21%
Number of salaries quoted 345 470 1,197
10th Percentile £26,500 £26,250 £24,500
25th Percentile £29,625 £29,188 £30,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £40,427 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.24% -4.88% -5.56%
75th Percentile £57,500 £53,750 £55,000
90th Percentile £68,100 £68,750 £67,500
England median annual salary £52,024 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.41% +10.00% -9.09%

Virtual Desktop
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Virtual Desktop job vacancy trend in the Midlands

Virtual Desktop
Salary Trend in the Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Virtual Desktop.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Virtual Desktop

Virtual Desktop
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Virtual Desktop in the Midlands over the 6 months to 24 April 2026.

Salary histogram for Virtual Desktop in the Midlands

Virtual Desktop
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Virtual Desktop within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 24 April 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
West Midlands -30 2 £56,750 -29.06% 4
East Midlands -64 2 £45,000 +63.64%
Virtual Desktop
England

Virtual Desktop
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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 (50.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
2 3 (75.00%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (50.00%) Entra ID
3 2 (50.00%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) Firewall
2 1 (25.00%) DHCP
2 1 (25.00%) DNS
2 1 (25.00%) VLAN
2 1 (25.00%) VPN
General
1 2 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (50.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Desktop Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Desktop Support
2 1 (25.00%) Desktop Support Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (25.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Linux
1 2 (50.00%) Windows
1 2 (50.00%) Windows Server
1 2 (50.00%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Information Security
1 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 2 (50.00%) ITIL
1 2 (50.00%) Presales
1 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (50.00%) Service Delivery
2 1 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (25.00%) High Availability
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Maintenance
2 1 (25.00%) ITSM
2 1 (25.00%) Migration
2 1 (25.00%) Project Delivery
2 1 (25.00%) Ticket Management
2 1 (25.00%) Virtual Environments
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 3 (75.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (50.00%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (50.00%) vSphere
4 1 (25.00%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (75.00%) VMware
3 1 (25.00%) ServiceNow
3 1 (25.00%) Veeam