Virtual Desktop Job Trends in the South East

Virtual Desktop
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Virtual Desktop skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 282 201 320
Rank change year-on-year -81 +119 +41
Permanent jobs citing Virtual Desktop 5 49 58
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.036% 0.72% 0.36%
As % of the System Software category 0.64% 5.74% 2.35%
Number of salaries quoted 4 38 38
10th Percentile - £26,700 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,750 £27,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £39,250 £40,000 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.88% -24.53% +47.22%
75th Percentile £49,375 £43,750 £59,000
90th Percentile £66,250 £49,125 -
England median annual salary £56,250 £46,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +22.28% -8.00% -4.76%

All System Software Skills
South 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 South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 784 853 2,471
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 5.58% 12.49% 15.32%
Number of salaries quoted 600 665 2,019
10th Percentile £28,250 £28,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £32,188 £37,500 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £46,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +18.28% -2.11%
75th Percentile £68,750 £77,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £83,875 £87,500 £82,500
England median annual salary £51,375 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -6.59% +10.00% -9.09%

Virtual Desktop
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Virtual Desktop job vacancy trend in the South East

Virtual Desktop
Salary Trend in the South East

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

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

Virtual Desktop
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Virtual Desktop in the South East over the 6 months to 18 April 2026.

Salary histogram for Virtual Desktop in the South East

Virtual Desktop
Job Locations in the South 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 South East region over the 6 months to 18 April 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
Surrey -37 3 £38,500 -9.41% 2
Buckinghamshire -21 2 £40,000 -50.00% 3
Thames Valley -24 2 £40,000 -11.11% 3
Virtual Desktop
England

Virtual Desktop
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South 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 (40.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (40.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) Azure
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft 365
1 2 (40.00%) OneDrive
2 1 (20.00%) AWS
2 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 3 (60.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
General
1 4 (80.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Law
3 1 (20.00%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) 2nd Line Support
1 2 (40.00%) 2nd Line Support Technician
1 2 (40.00%) Support Technician
2 1 (20.00%) Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Citrix Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Engineering Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Senior
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Citrix Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Service Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Support Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Driving Licence
1 2 (40.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (20.00%) CMDB
2 1 (20.00%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 3 (60.00%) Windows
1 3 (60.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
1 3 (60.00%) Project Delivery
2 2 (40.00%) Client Onboarding
3 1 (20.00%) Capacity Planning
3 1 (20.00%) Change Control
3 1 (20.00%) Change Management
3 1 (20.00%) Cloud Security
3 1 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (20.00%) Data Loss Prevention
3 1 (20.00%) Data Protection
3 1 (20.00%) DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (20.00%) Information Security
3 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (20.00%) ITIL
3 1 (20.00%) Mentoring
3 1 (20.00%) Migration
3 1 (20.00%) Performance Management
3 1 (20.00%) Roadmaps
3 1 (20.00%) Service Delivery
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (20.00%) Degree
1 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (60.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (40.00%) Hyper-V
2 2 (40.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (60.00%) Citrix
2 3 (60.00%) Veeam
3 2 (40.00%) VMware