Virtual Desktop Jobs in Reading

Virtual Desktop
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Reading 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 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 58 111 127
Rank change year-on-year +53 +16 +5
Permanent jobs citing Virtual Desktop 5 15 7
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Reading 1.01% 0.84% 0.45%
As % of the System Software category 4.95% 5.47% 2.46%
Number of salaries quoted 1 15 7
10th Percentile - - £53,350
25th Percentile £46,250 - £69,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £59,000 £73,500
Median % change year-on-year -19.49% -19.73% +63.33%
75th Percentile £48,750 - £74,250
90th Percentile - - -
Berkshire median annual salary £47,500 £59,000 £73,500
% change year-on-year -19.49% -19.73% +63.33%

All System Software Skills
Reading

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 Reading.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 101 274 285
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Reading 20.36% 15.31% 18.46%
Number of salaries quoted 52 214 130
10th Percentile £34,000 £27,750 £23,500
25th Percentile £42,188 £34,000 £25,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,500 £52,550 £56,250
Median % change year-on-year +22.74% -6.58% +12.50%
75th Percentile £83,750 £59,000 £74,250
90th Percentile £93,000 £77,500 £83,750
Berkshire median annual salary £64,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +17.27% +4.76% +4.48%

Virtual Desktop
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for Virtual Desktop in Reading

Virtual Desktop
Salary Trend in Reading

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

Salary trend for Virtual Desktop in Reading

Virtual Desktop
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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 (20.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (80.00%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) Amazon ECS
1 4 (80.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
1 4 (80.00%) Amazon S3
1 4 (80.00%) AWS
1 4 (80.00%) AWS KMS
1 4 (80.00%) AWS Lambda
1 4 (80.00%) Serverless
1 4 (80.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
2 1 (20.00%) Azure
2 1 (20.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 4 (80.00%) Firewall
1 4 (80.00%) SSL
Development Applications
1 4 (80.00%) Bitbucket Server
1 4 (80.00%) Jenkins
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Administrator
3 1 (20.00%) IT Administrator
3 1 (20.00%) IT Systems Administrator
3 1 (20.00%) Senior
3 1 (20.00%) Senior IT Administrator
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Systems Administrator
3 1 (20.00%) Systems Administrator
Operating Systems
1 4 (80.00%) Linux
1 4 (80.00%) Ubuntu
2 1 (20.00%) Apple iOS
2 1 (20.00%) VMS
2 1 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Agile
1 4 (80.00%) Capacity Management
1 4 (80.00%) DevOps
1 4 (80.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 4 (80.00%) Key Management
1 4 (80.00%) Patch Management
2 1 (20.00%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) Python
1 4 (80.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 4 (80.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (60.00%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 5 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 4 (80.00%) Docker
2 4 (80.00%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (20.00%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 4 (80.00%) Ansible
1 4 (80.00%) Nessus
1 4 (80.00%) Proxmox
1 4 (80.00%) Terraform
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Juniper
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft