Virtual Desktop Jobs in the North West

Virtual Desktop
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 5 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 274 298 291
Rank change year-on-year +24 -7 +8
Permanent jobs citing Virtual Desktop 13 6 3
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 0.17% 0.055% 0.041%
As % of the System Software category 1.16% 0.62% 0.26%
Number of salaries quoted 9 4 3
10th Percentile £44,924 £32,216 £31,150
25th Percentile - £37,040 £34,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,000 £44,367 £40,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.68% +9.55% -20.98%
75th Percentile - £51,250 £54,875
90th Percentile - £55,750 £62,450
England median annual salary £46,000 £52,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -12.38% -8.70% +15.00%

All System Software Skills
North West

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 West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 1,123 970 1,172
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 14.32% 8.93% 16.06%
Number of salaries quoted 309 819 784
10th Percentile £25,750 £24,250 £25,420
25th Percentile £36,250 £29,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £45,000 £51,000
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% -11.76% +7.37%
75th Percentile £73,886 £61,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £90,500 £72,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% -

Virtual Desktop
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Virtual Desktop in the North West

Virtual Desktop
Salary Trend in the North West

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

Salary trend for Virtual Desktop in the North West

Virtual Desktop
Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 5 June 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
Merseyside +44 8 £46,000 +53.33% 1
Manchester +59 3 - - 8
Cheshire +8 1 - - 3
Lancashire -61 1 £42,134 +2.18% 1
Virtual Desktop
England

Virtual Desktop
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (7.69%) SharePoint
1 1 (7.69%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 4 (30.77%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 4 (30.77%) Azure
1 4 (30.77%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.69%) DNS
1 1 (7.69%) SAN
1 1 (7.69%) VSAN
Development Applications
1 1 (7.69%) JIRA
General
1 9 (69.23%) Social Skills
2 8 (61.54%) Legal
3 1 (7.69%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 8 (61.54%) Analyst
2 1 (7.69%) Administrator
2 1 (7.69%) Architect
2 1 (7.69%) Azure Architect
2 1 (7.69%) Microsoft 365 Architect
2 1 (7.69%) Systems Administrator
2 1 (7.69%) Technical Architect
2 1 (7.69%) Wintel Architect
2 1 (7.69%) Wintel Technical Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.69%) Data Centre
1 1 (7.69%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (7.69%) Management Information System
1 1 (7.69%) Onboarding
1 1 (7.69%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 9 (69.23%) Mac OS
1 9 (69.23%) Windows
2 1 (7.69%) Android
2 1 (7.69%) Apple iOS
2 1 (7.69%) Windows 10
2 1 (7.69%) Windows Server
2 1 (7.69%) Windows Server 2016
2 1 (7.69%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (92.31%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (61.54%) Application Packaging
2 8 (61.54%) Deployment Automation
2 8 (61.54%) ITSM
3 3 (23.08%) Coaching
3 3 (23.08%) Customer Service
3 3 (23.08%) Customer-Centricity
3 3 (23.08%) Mentoring
3 3 (23.08%) Roadmaps
4 1 (7.69%) Customer Requirements
4 1 (7.69%) Data Loss Prevention
4 1 (7.69%) Data Science
4 1 (7.69%) Decision-Making
4 1 (7.69%) Identity Access Management
4 1 (7.69%) Line Management
4 1 (7.69%) Privileged Access Management
4 1 (7.69%) Project Delivery
4 1 (7.69%) Scaled Agile Framework
4 1 (7.69%) Task Automation
4 1 (7.69%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 9 (69.23%) PowerShell
2 1 (7.69%) VB
2 1 (7.69%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 4 (30.77%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (15.38%) Security Cleared
3 1 (7.69%) Degree
3 1 (7.69%) MCP
3 1 (7.69%) MCSA
3 1 (7.69%) MCSE
3 1 (7.69%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (23.08%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (7.69%) NCSC
System Software
1 9 (69.23%) Active Directory
2 2 (15.38%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (7.69%) BitLocker
3 1 (7.69%) Microsoft App-V
3 1 (7.69%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 4 (30.77%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (7.69%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 1 (7.69%) SCCM
Vendors
1 8 (61.54%) iManage
2 4 (30.77%) Microsoft
3 2 (15.38%) VMware
4 1 (7.69%) McAfee
4 1 (7.69%) Symantec