Virtual Desktop Job Trends in the North East

Virtual Desktop
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North East requiring Virtual Desktop skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 113 - 108
Rank change year-on-year - - -21
Permanent jobs citing Virtual Desktop 2 0 13
As % of all permanent jobs in the North East 0.083% - 0.59%
As % of the System Software category 1.82% - 4.91%
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 12
10th Percentile - - £31,375
25th Percentile - - £34,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 - £37,750
Median % change year-on-year - - -5.63%
75th Percentile - - £41,875
90th Percentile - - £45,250
England median annual salary £53,750 £46,000 £53,573
% change year-on-year +16.85% -14.14% -6.83%

All System Software Skills
North East

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 North East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 110 77 265
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 4.56% 11.36% 12.03%
Number of salaries quoted 84 40 223
10th Percentile £32,900 £26,830 £25,650
25th Percentile £41,250 £31,599 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £35,000 £37,500
Median % change year-on-year +42.86% -6.67% -21.05%
75th Percentile £64,688 £63,750 £52,500
90th Percentile £73,146 £72,925 £62,500
England median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +5.00% -9.09%

Virtual Desktop
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

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

Virtual Desktop job vacancy trend in the North East

Virtual Desktop
Salary Trend in the North East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Virtual Desktop.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Virtual Desktop

Virtual Desktop
Job Locations in the North East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Virtual Desktop within the North East region over the 6 months to 16 June 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
Tyne and Wear - 2 £35,000 -
Virtual Desktop
England

Virtual Desktop
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North East 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 (100.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (100.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft Copilot
1 2 (100.00%) OneDrive
1 2 (100.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Power BI
General
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Desktop Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Desktop Support
1 2 (100.00%) Desktop Support Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Onboarding
1 2 (100.00%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) AI
1 2 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Data Loss Prevention
1 2 (100.00%) Kalman Filter
1 2 (100.00%) Mobile Device Management
1 2 (100.00%) Web Filtering
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) PowerShell
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (100.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft