Virtual Desktop Jobs in the Midlands

Virtual Desktop
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 16 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 241 300 212
Rank change year-on-year +59 -88 +151
Permanent jobs citing Virtual Desktop 16 31 83
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.23% 0.23% 1.05%
As % of the System Software category 2.20% 2.27% 7.03%
Number of salaries quoted 11 26 9
10th Percentile - £36,298 -
25th Percentile £26,250 £37,343 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £27,500 £51,250 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year -46.34% +28.13% -14.64%
75th Percentile £55,000 £71,250 £57,500
90th Percentile £57,500 £89,000 £61,500
England median annual salary £46,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.38% -12.50% +18.68%

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 727 1,368 1,180
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 10.51% 10.25% 14.87%
Number of salaries quoted 550 1,113 707
10th Percentile £26,250 £24,500 £25,750
25th Percentile £29,750 £30,000 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £39,500 £42,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.06% -5.56% -
75th Percentile £58,625 £57,500 £59,500
90th Percentile £73,750 £67,500 £70,500
England median annual salary £50,000 £49,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +1.01% -10.00% -

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 July 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 16 July 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 +42 10 £27,500 -59.26% 3
West Midlands +55 6 £61,250 +43.31% 4
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 11 (68.75%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (50.00%) SharePoint
3 1 (6.25%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 4 (25.00%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 10 (62.50%) Azure
2 9 (56.25%) Microsoft 365
3 7 (43.75%) Entra ID
4 6 (37.50%) AWS
5 4 (25.00%) Amazon ECS
5 4 (25.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
5 4 (25.00%) Amazon S3
5 4 (25.00%) AWS KMS
5 4 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
5 4 (25.00%) Serverless
5 4 (25.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 3 (18.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 3 (18.75%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (18.75%) Amazon ELB
6 3 (18.75%) Amazon Glacier
7 2 (12.50%) GCP
8 1 (6.25%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (6.25%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 7 (43.75%) Ethernet
1 7 (43.75%) Remote Desktop
2 4 (25.00%) Firewall
2 4 (25.00%) SSL
3 2 (12.50%) DHCP
3 2 (12.50%) DNS
4 1 (6.25%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (18.75%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (12.50%) SQL Server
3 1 (6.25%) DTS
Development Applications
1 4 (25.00%) Bitbucket Server
1 4 (25.00%) Jenkins
2 3 (18.75%) Vagrant
General
1 7 (43.75%) Social Skills
2 2 (12.50%) Public Sector
3 1 (6.25%) Games
3 1 (6.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (6.25%) Manufacturing
3 1 (6.25%) Retail
Job Titles
1 6 (37.50%) 1st Line Support
2 5 (31.25%) First Line Help Desk Support
2 5 (31.25%) Help Desk Support
3 3 (18.75%) Linux Engineer
3 3 (18.75%) Platform Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Windows Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) 2nd Line Support
5 1 (6.25%) Administrator
5 1 (6.25%) Cloud Administrator
5 1 (6.25%) Cloud Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Infrastructure Support
5 1 (6.25%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Support Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Technology Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.25%) OAuth
1 1 (6.25%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.25%) CMDB
1 1 (6.25%) Onboarding
1 1 (6.25%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 14 (87.50%) Windows
2 10 (62.50%) Windows Server
3 4 (25.00%) Linux
3 4 (25.00%) Ubuntu
4 3 (18.75%) VMS
5 2 (12.50%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (6.25%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (50.00%) Customer Service
2 7 (43.75%) Data Protection
3 5 (31.25%) DevOps
4 4 (25.00%) Agile
4 4 (25.00%) Capacity Management
4 4 (25.00%) Key Management
4 4 (25.00%) Patch Management
4 4 (25.00%) Server Management
5 3 (18.75%) Cloud Security
5 3 (18.75%) Configuration Management
5 3 (18.75%) Platform Engineering
6 2 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 2 (12.50%) Infrastructure Management
6 2 (12.50%) Time Management
6 2 (12.50%) Virtual Environments
7 1 (6.25%) Asset Management
7 1 (6.25%) ITIL
7 1 (6.25%) Performance Tuning
7 1 (6.25%) Problem Management
7 1 (6.25%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 4 (25.00%) Python
1 4 (25.00%) Shell Script
2 3 (18.75%) Groovy
2 3 (18.75%) Java
2 3 (18.75%) Perl
2 3 (18.75%) Ruby
3 1 (6.25%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (18.75%) Security Cleared
2 2 (12.50%) DV Cleared
2 2 (12.50%) MCP
2 2 (12.50%) MCSA
2 2 (12.50%) MCSE
2 2 (12.50%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (12.50%) SC Cleared
3 1 (6.25%) AWS Certification
3 1 (6.25%) Azure Certification
3 1 (6.25%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (43.75%) SLA
System Software
1 14 (87.50%) Active Directory
2 7 (43.75%) Hyper-V
3 4 (25.00%) Docker
3 4 (25.00%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (18.75%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (12.50%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 5 (31.25%) Ansible
1 5 (31.25%) Terraform
2 4 (25.00%) Nagios
2 4 (25.00%) Nessus
2 4 (25.00%) Proxmox
3 2 (12.50%) vCenter Server
4 1 (6.25%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 9 (56.25%) Microsoft
2 7 (43.75%) Meraki
3 4 (25.00%) Juniper
4 3 (18.75%) VMware
5 2 (12.50%) arcserve
5 2 (12.50%) Citrix
5 2 (12.50%) Google
6 1 (6.25%) BMC
6 1 (6.25%) Darktrace
6 1 (6.25%) Proofpoint
6 1 (6.25%) Red Hat
6 1 (6.25%) SolarWinds
6 1 (6.25%) Tanium
6 1 (6.25%) Trend Micro