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 17 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 203 248 213
Rank change year-on-year +45 -35 +130
Permanent jobs citing Virtual Desktop 17 25 16
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.31% 0.27% 0.30%
As % of the System Software category 2.65% 3.03% 1.98%
Number of salaries quoted 8 13 12
10th Percentile - £34,750 £31,375
25th Percentile £52,500 £41,250 £33,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,008 £43,750
Median % change year-on-year +5.75% +18.88% -16.67%
75th Percentile £71,563 £71,250 £60,313
90th Percentile £80,750 - £82,625
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £58,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -5.17% +10.48%

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 642 824 809
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 11.64% 9.00% 15.35%
Number of salaries quoted 463 462 687
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £29,000 £35,000 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £38,500 £46,095 £46,674
Median % change year-on-year -16.48% -1.24% +0.98%
75th Percentile £59,000 £62,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £73,750 £72,500 £67,500
England median annual salary £47,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -13.64% - -

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 17 October 2025.

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 17 October 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
East Midlands +13 11 £55,000 -18.52% 2
West Midlands +49 6 £61,250 +40.80% 4
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 12 (70.59%) Microsoft Exchange
2 9 (52.94%) SharePoint
2 9 (52.94%) Skype for Business
Cloud Services
1 15 (88.24%) Azure
2 12 (70.59%) Microsoft 365
3 10 (58.82%) AWS
3 10 (58.82%) GCP
4 9 (52.94%) Azure Sentinel
5 2 (11.76%) SaaS
6 1 (5.88%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 9 (52.94%) Skype
2 2 (11.76%) DHCP
2 2 (11.76%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (52.94%) DTS
2 2 (11.76%) SQL Server
General
1 9 (52.94%) Manufacturing
1 9 (52.94%) Retail
2 3 (17.65%) Social Skills
3 2 (11.76%) Finance
3 2 (11.76%) Law
3 2 (11.76%) Organisational Skills
3 2 (11.76%) Public Sector
4 1 (5.88%) Games
4 1 (5.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 10 (58.82%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 9 (52.94%) Infrastructure Support
2 9 (52.94%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
2 9 (52.94%) Support Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Analyst
3 2 (11.76%) Service Analyst
3 2 (11.76%) Service Design Analyst
3 2 (11.76%) Service Transition Analyst
3 2 (11.76%) Transition Analyst
3 2 (11.76%) Windows Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Administrator
4 1 (5.88%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Desktop Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) IT Manager
4 1 (5.88%) IT Services Manager
4 1 (5.88%) Senior Desktop Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Service Manager
4 1 (5.88%) Technology Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.88%) OAuth
1 1 (5.88%) SAML
1 1 (5.88%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 9 (52.94%) CMDB
1 9 (52.94%) Onboarding
1 9 (52.94%) Video Conferencing
2 1 (5.88%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 13 (76.47%) Windows
2 11 (64.71%) Windows Server
3 9 (52.94%) Windows Server 2008
4 2 (11.76%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (58.82%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 10 (58.82%) Infrastructure Management
2 9 (52.94%) Customer Service
2 9 (52.94%) Problem Management
2 9 (52.94%) Root Cause Analysis
2 9 (52.94%) Server Management
3 3 (17.65%) Continuous Improvement
3 3 (17.65%) ITIL
3 3 (17.65%) Stakeholder Management
3 3 (17.65%) User Experience
4 2 (11.76%) Acceptance Criteria
4 2 (11.76%) Data Governance
4 2 (11.76%) ITSM
4 2 (11.76%) Service Design
4 2 (11.76%) Service Management
4 2 (11.76%) Time Management
4 2 (11.76%) Virtual Environments
5 1 (5.88%) Asset Management
5 1 (5.88%) Budget Control
5 1 (5.88%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 9 (52.94%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (17.65%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
2 2 (11.76%) DV Cleared
2 2 (11.76%) MCP
2 2 (11.76%) MCSA
2 2 (11.76%) MCSE
2 2 (11.76%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (11.76%) SC Cleared
2 2 (11.76%) Security Cleared
3 1 (5.88%) AWS Certification
3 1 (5.88%) Azure Certification
System Software
1 11 (64.71%) Active Directory
1 11 (64.71%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (11.76%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 9 (52.94%) Nagios
1 9 (52.94%) ZABBIX
2 2 (11.76%) vCenter Server
3 1 (5.88%) Ansible
3 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (5.88%) SCCM
3 1 (5.88%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (70.59%) Citrix
2 11 (64.71%) Microsoft
2 11 (64.71%) VMware
3 10 (58.82%) Google
4 9 (52.94%) BMC
4 9 (52.94%) Darktrace
4 9 (52.94%) Proofpoint
4 9 (52.94%) Red Hat
4 9 (52.94%) SolarWinds
4 9 (52.94%) Tanium
4 9 (52.94%) Trend Micro
5 2 (11.76%) arcserve