Virtual Desktop Jobs in the North of England

Virtual Desktop
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 355 391 386
Rank change year-on-year +36 -5 -90
Permanent jobs citing Virtual Desktop 41 41 60
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 0.24% 0.24% 0.33%
As % of the System Software category 2.08% 1.67% 1.80%
Number of salaries quoted 27 17 29
10th Percentile £26,500 £30,350 £25,750
25th Percentile £31,875 - £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £39,500 £35,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +12.86% -17.65% -5.56%
75th Percentile £48,931 £60,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £57,250 £68,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £50,000 £53,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -6.54% +7.00% +11.11%

All System Software Skills
North of England

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 North of England with a requirement for system software skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 1,969 2,453 3,328
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 11.41% 14.07% 18.45%
Number of salaries quoted 1,675 1,629 2,415
10th Percentile £25,000 £25,750 £25,500
25th Percentile £29,750 £33,750 £31,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £47,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.57% -6.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £57,500 £67,070 £66,250
90th Percentile £70,000 £80,000 £85,000
England median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £56,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% -1.79% +1.82%

Virtual Desktop
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Virtual Desktop in the North of England

Virtual Desktop
Salary Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Virtual Desktop in the North of England.

Salary trend for Virtual Desktop in the North of England

Virtual Desktop
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Virtual Desktop in the North of England over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Virtual Desktop in the North of England

Virtual Desktop
Job Locations in the North of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 28 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
Yorkshire +81 20 £56,500 +61.43% 2
North East +6 16 £39,500 +21.54%
North West +15 5 £41,234 -36.56% 7
Virtual Desktop
England

Virtual Desktop
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 24 (58.54%) Microsoft Exchange
2 9 (21.95%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (4.88%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.44%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (2.44%) Carpe Diem
1 1 (2.44%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 26 (63.41%) Azure
2 25 (60.98%) Microsoft 365
3 16 (39.02%) Entra ID
4 6 (14.63%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (14.63%) Azure Sentinel
4 6 (14.63%) Cloud Computing
4 6 (14.63%) Microsoft Purview
5 4 (9.76%) OCI
6 3 (7.32%) AWS
7 2 (4.88%) Cloudflare
7 2 (4.88%) IaaS
7 2 (4.88%) PaaS
7 2 (4.88%) SaaS
7 2 (4.88%) Serverless
8 1 (2.44%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (2.44%) CloudFront
8 1 (2.44%) Mimecast
8 1 (2.44%) Power Platform
8 1 (2.44%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 15 (36.59%) Firewall
2 14 (34.15%) Network Security
3 10 (24.39%) WAN
4 9 (21.95%) LAN
5 8 (19.51%) DNS
6 7 (17.07%) NetScaler
6 7 (17.07%) Wireshark
7 6 (14.63%) DHCP
7 6 (14.63%) TCP/IP
8 4 (9.76%) SAN
9 2 (4.88%) VPN
9 2 (4.88%) WLAN
10 1 (2.44%) iSCSI
10 1 (2.44%) SD-WAN
10 1 (2.44%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.88%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.44%) Amazon RDS
General
1 12 (29.27%) Finance
2 10 (24.39%) Social Skills
3 7 (17.07%) Public Sector
4 1 (2.44%) Legal
Job Titles
1 12 (29.27%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 9 (21.95%) Cloud Engineer
3 7 (17.07%) ICT Officer
4 6 (14.63%) Information Security Engineer
4 6 (14.63%) Lead
4 6 (14.63%) Security Engineer
4 6 (14.63%) Team Leader
5 4 (9.76%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 4 (9.76%) Developer
5 4 (9.76%) IT Engineer
5 4 (9.76%) Principal Developer
5 4 (9.76%) Principal Software Developer
5 4 (9.76%) Software Developer
6 3 (7.32%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (4.88%) Support Engineer
8 1 (2.44%) 3rd Line Support
8 1 (2.44%) Administrator
8 1 (2.44%) Analyst
8 1 (2.44%) IT Support Engineer
8 1 (2.44%) Systems Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.88%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 6 (14.63%) Management Information System
1 6 (14.63%) Security Operations Centre
2 4 (9.76%) Cloud Native
3 2 (4.88%) Data Centre
3 2 (4.88%) PKI
4 1 (2.44%) Housing Association
4 1 (2.44%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 19 (46.34%) Windows
2 11 (26.83%) Windows Server
3 6 (14.63%) Android
3 6 (14.63%) Apple iOS
4 4 (9.76%) Linux
5 1 (2.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (2.44%) Unix
5 1 (2.44%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (2.44%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (34.15%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 13 (31.71%) Cybersecurity
3 8 (19.51%) Information Security
3 8 (19.51%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (17.07%) Collaborative Working
4 7 (17.07%) ITIL
4 7 (17.07%) Security Hardening
4 7 (17.07%) SIEM
5 6 (14.63%) Agile
5 6 (14.63%) Cryptography
5 6 (14.63%) DevOps
5 6 (14.63%) Ethical Hacking
5 6 (14.63%) High Availability
5 6 (14.63%) Information Security Management
5 6 (14.63%) People Management
5 6 (14.63%) Performance Metrics
5 6 (14.63%) Process Improvement
5 6 (14.63%) Software Deployment
5 6 (14.63%) Validation
5 6 (14.63%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 11 (26.83%) PowerShell
2 6 (14.63%) Python
Qualifications
1 7 (17.07%) Azure Certification
2 6 (14.63%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 6 (14.63%) CCSP
2 6 (14.63%) CEH
2 6 (14.63%) Cisco Certification
2 6 (14.63%) CISSP
2 6 (14.63%) SANS
2 6 (14.63%) SSCP
3 4 (9.76%) Security Cleared
4 3 (7.32%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 2 (4.88%) Degree
6 1 (2.44%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (17.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (14.63%) NIST
2 6 (14.63%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 28 (68.29%) Active Directory
1 28 (68.29%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (17.07%) Virtual Machines
2 7 (17.07%) Virtual Servers
2 7 (17.07%) XenApp
3 6 (14.63%) XenDesktop
4 1 (2.44%) Hyper-V
4 1 (2.44%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (2.44%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 11 (26.83%) Microsoft Intune
2 6 (14.63%) Nmap
2 6 (14.63%) SCCM
3 3 (7.32%) SCOM
4 2 (4.88%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (2.44%) Ansible
5 1 (2.44%) Autotask
5 1 (2.44%) FortiGate
5 1 (2.44%) Jamf Pro
5 1 (2.44%) Puppet
Vendors
1 28 (68.29%) VMware
2 20 (48.78%) Microsoft
3 12 (29.27%) Citrix
4 7 (17.07%) EMC
5 6 (14.63%) Commvault
5 6 (14.63%) Fortinet
5 6 (14.63%) Qualys
5 6 (14.63%) Rapid7
5 6 (14.63%) Splunk
5 6 (14.63%) Thycotic
6 4 (9.76%) Oracle
6 4 (9.76%) Veeam
7 1 (2.44%) CrowdStrike
7 1 (2.44%) iManage
7 1 (2.44%) Netskope
7 1 (2.44%) SAP
7 1 (2.44%) Zerto