Virtual Desktop Jobs in the Midlands

Virtual Desktop
England > Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Midlands with a requirement for Virtual Desktop skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Virtual Desktop over the 6 months to 16 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 271 276 327
Rank change year-on-year +5 +51 -77
Permanent jobs citing Virtual Desktop 39 56 33
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.34% 0.56% 0.30%
As % of the System Software category 2.74% 4.13% 1.99%
Number of salaries quoted 39 21 15
10th Percentile £36,298 £31,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £40,478 £46,250 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £54,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.26% +21.11% -21.74%
75th Percentile £102,000 £62,500 £50,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £77,500 £68,250
England median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,250
% change year-on-year -4.76% +4.48% +11.67%

All System Software Skills
Midlands

Virtual Desktop is in the System Software category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the Midlands with a requirement for system software skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 1,422 1,355 1,659
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 12.46% 13.66% 15.26%
Number of salaries quoted 1,221 828 1,323
10th Percentile £24,500 £25,375 £24,750
25th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £30,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £45,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% - +2.27%
75th Percentile £56,250 £61,438 £60,000
90th Percentile £68,750 £72,500 £78,750
England median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% -4.35% +4.55%

Virtual Desktop
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Virtual Desktop in the Midlands

Virtual Desktop
Salary Trend in the Midlands

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

Salary trend for Virtual Desktop in the Midlands

Virtual Desktop
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Virtual Desktop in the Midlands over the 6 months to 16 April 2024.

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 16 April 2024. 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 +64 34 £50,000 -8.26% 5
East Midlands -48 5 £45,000 +38.46%
Virtual Desktop
England

Virtual Desktop
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 9 (23.08%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (5.13%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 37 (94.87%) Microsoft 365
2 19 (48.72%) Azure
3 10 (25.64%) Azure DevOps
3 10 (25.64%) IaaS
3 10 (25.64%) PaaS
4 5 (12.82%) Entra ID
4 5 (12.82%) GCP
5 2 (5.13%) AWS
6 1 (2.56%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (2.56%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (25.64%) NGFW
1 10 (25.64%) VPN
2 5 (12.82%) DHCP
2 5 (12.82%) DNS
2 5 (12.82%) Firewall
2 5 (12.82%) TCP/IP
2 5 (12.82%) VLAN
2 5 (12.82%) VoIP
2 5 (12.82%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (12.82%) Amazon RDS
General
1 12 (30.77%) Documentation Skills
2 4 (10.26%) Local Government
3 2 (5.13%) Finance
3 2 (5.13%) Social Skills
4 1 (2.56%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.56%) Fire and Rescue
Job Titles
1 10 (25.64%) Architect
1 10 (25.64%) Citrix Architect
1 10 (25.64%) Cloud Architect
1 10 (25.64%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
1 10 (25.64%) DevOps Architect
2 5 (12.82%) IT Manager
2 5 (12.82%) Network Manager
3 3 (7.69%) Infrastructure Team Leader
3 3 (7.69%) Lead
3 3 (7.69%) Team Leader
4 2 (5.13%) Head of Infrastructure
4 2 (5.13%) Head of Operations
4 2 (5.13%) Head of Technical Operations
5 1 (2.56%) Applications Engineer
5 1 (2.56%) Infrastructure Services Engineer
5 1 (2.56%) Senior
5 1 (2.56%) Senior Applications Engineer
5 1 (2.56%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (2.56%) Software Manager
5 1 (2.56%) Support Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (25.64%) ARM Templates
1 10 (25.64%) JSON
1 10 (25.64%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (30.77%) Management Information System
2 10 (25.64%) Private Cloud
2 10 (25.64%) Public Cloud
3 5 (12.82%) Driving Licence
4 2 (5.13%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 17 (43.59%) Windows
2 16 (41.03%) Windows Server
3 11 (28.21%) Windows 7
4 1 (2.56%) Android
4 1 (2.56%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (35.90%) Kalman Filter
2 11 (28.21%) Agile
2 11 (28.21%) Migration
2 11 (28.21%) Problem Management
2 11 (28.21%) Project Delivery
2 11 (28.21%) Server Management
2 11 (28.21%) SIAM
3 10 (25.64%) CI/CD
3 10 (25.64%) DevOps
3 10 (25.64%) Infrastructure as Code
3 10 (25.64%) Network Design
3 10 (25.64%) Network Virtualisation
3 10 (25.64%) SDLC
4 9 (23.08%) Disaster Recovery
4 9 (23.08%) Email Filtering
5 7 (17.95%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 6 (15.38%) Cybersecurity
6 6 (15.38%) Line Management
7 5 (12.82%) Web Filtering
8 4 (10.26%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 11 (28.21%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (12.82%) DBS Check
2 1 (2.56%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.13%) QA
2 1 (2.56%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (2.56%) NIST
System Software
1 26 (66.67%) Active Directory
2 17 (43.59%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (25.64%) VMware ESXi
3 10 (25.64%) vSphere
4 9 (23.08%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 9 (23.08%) Virtual Servers
5 5 (12.82%) Hyper-V
6 1 (2.56%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 17 (43.59%) Microsoft Intune
2 12 (30.77%) SCCM
3 11 (28.21%) AirWatch
4 10 (25.64%) Terraform
5 9 (23.08%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 5 (12.82%) PaperCut
6 5 (12.82%) SmoothWall
6 5 (12.82%) WSUS
Vendors
1 22 (56.41%) Microsoft
2 17 (43.59%) VMware
3 13 (33.33%) Citrix
4 11 (28.21%) Apple
4 11 (28.21%) Dell
4 11 (28.21%) HP
4 11 (28.21%) ServiceNow
4 11 (28.21%) Symantec
4 11 (28.21%) Toshiba
5 5 (12.82%) Google
5 5 (12.82%) Meraki