Virtual Desktop Jobs in Scotland

Virtual Desktop
UK > Scotland

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

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 163 269 218
Rank change year-on-year +106 -51 +25
Permanent jobs citing Virtual Desktop 1 6 4
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 0.034% 0.090% 0.087%
As % of the System Software category 0.51% 0.85% 0.53%
Number of salaries quoted 1 4 3
10th Percentile - £33,475 £32,000
25th Percentile - £34,938 £33,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £36,750 £35,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -50.00%
75th Percentile - £42,125 £43,750
90th Percentile - £49,550 £49,000
UK median annual salary £46,000 £50,000 £53,750
% change year-on-year -8.00% -6.98% +1.42%

All System Software Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 197 708 753
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 6.68% 10.59% 16.32%
Number of salaries quoted 122 399 372
10th Percentile £32,000 £26,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £43,750 £32,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £76,840 £61,600 £72,813
90th Percentile £106,250 £75,000 £77,715
UK median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -

Virtual Desktop
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Virtual Desktop in Scotland

Virtual Desktop
Salary Trend in Scotland

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

Salary trend for Virtual Desktop in Scotland

Virtual Desktop
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Virtual Desktop within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 16 May 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
Glasgow +177 1 £35,000 -4.11% 1
Virtual Desktop
UK

Virtual Desktop
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 (100.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (100.00%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DHCP
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
General
1 1 (100.00%) Law
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Help Desk Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) IT Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft