Virtual Desktop Jobs in the South East

Virtual Desktop
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 291 315 455
Rank change year-on-year +24 +140 -47
Permanent jobs citing Virtual Desktop 63 46 55
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 0.42% 0.40% 0.25%
As % of the System Software category 3.30% 2.28% 1.52%
Number of salaries quoted 38 37 35
10th Percentile £31,250 £33,700 £38,750
25th Percentile £37,813 £35,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £45,500 £47,915
Median % change year-on-year +20.88% -5.04% -20.14%
75th Percentile £58,750 £74,250 £60,938
90th Percentile £59,000 - £73,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £58,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -5.17% +10.48% -4.55%

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 1,911 2,020 3,620
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 12.66% 17.43% 16.41%
Number of salaries quoted 1,458 1,475 2,423
10th Percentile £27,000 £26,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £31,734 £36,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £49,750 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.50% -0.50% -4.76%
75th Percentile £63,750 £67,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £78,750 £80,000 £85,000
England median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -4.35%

Virtual Desktop
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Virtual Desktop in the South East

Virtual Desktop
Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Virtual Desktop in the South East.

Salary trend for Virtual Desktop in the South East

Virtual Desktop
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Virtual Desktop in the South East over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

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 26 July 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
Thames Valley +25 24 £56,525 -23.10% 3
Berkshire +21 19 £58,263 -20.73% 1
Surrey -7 16 £53,750 +30.30%
East Sussex +24 13 - -
Hampshire -28 7 £49,881 +47.63% 2
Buckinghamshire +5 4 £55,000 - 2
Kent -12 2 £45,000 +36.36%
Oxfordshire - 1 £49,881 -
Sussex - 1 £35,000 -
Virtual Desktop
England

Virtual Desktop
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 26 (41.27%) Microsoft Exchange
2 10 (15.87%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.59%) Confluence
Applications
1 6 (9.52%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 59 (93.65%) Azure
2 48 (76.19%) Microsoft 365
3 34 (53.97%) Entra ID
4 19 (30.16%) Azure Monitor
5 17 (26.98%) Azure Storage
6 6 (9.52%) OneDrive
7 5 (7.94%) AWS
7 5 (7.94%) Azure Data Factory
7 5 (7.94%) Azure Table
7 5 (7.94%) IaaS
7 5 (7.94%) PaaS
7 5 (7.94%) SaaS
8 4 (6.35%) Cloudflare
8 4 (6.35%) Mimecast
9 1 (1.59%) Power Automate
9 1 (1.59%) Power Platform
9 1 (1.59%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 30 (47.62%) Firewall
2 25 (39.68%) DNS
3 23 (36.51%) DHCP
4 5 (7.94%) iSCSI
4 5 (7.94%) NetScaler
4 5 (7.94%) Remote Desktop
4 5 (7.94%) Structured Cabling
4 5 (7.94%) VLAN
5 4 (6.35%) BGP
5 4 (6.35%) OSPF
5 4 (6.35%) RIP
6 3 (4.76%) LAN
6 3 (4.76%) SAN
6 3 (4.76%) VPN
6 3 (4.76%) WAN
7 1 (1.59%) Fibre Channel
7 1 (1.59%) NAS
7 1 (1.59%) TCP/IP
7 1 (1.59%) VoIP
7 1 (1.59%) WAAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (6.35%) MariaDB
1 4 (6.35%) MySQL
1 4 (6.35%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.59%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (1.59%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (1.59%) JIRA
General
1 39 (61.90%) Social Skills
2 10 (15.87%) Retail
3 8 (12.70%) Finance
4 3 (4.76%) Police
5 2 (3.17%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (3.17%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.59%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 17 (26.98%) Azure Specialist
2 16 (25.40%) Active Directory Specialist
2 16 (25.40%) Active Directory Support
2 16 (25.40%) Support Specialist
3 11 (17.46%) IT Support
4 10 (15.87%) Azure Engineer
5 9 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 8 (12.70%) Senior
7 6 (9.52%) 2nd Line Support
8 5 (7.94%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
8 5 (7.94%) 3rd Line Support
8 5 (7.94%) Analyst
8 5 (7.94%) Help Desk Analyst
8 5 (7.94%) Help Desk Support
8 5 (7.94%) Help Desk Support Analyst
8 5 (7.94%) IT Support Analyst
8 5 (7.94%) Junior
8 5 (7.94%) Lead
8 5 (7.94%) Technical Support
8 5 (7.94%) Technical Support Officer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (25.40%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 17 (26.98%) Self-Motivation
2 16 (25.40%) PKI
3 8 (12.70%) Mobile App
4 5 (7.94%) Low-Code
5 4 (6.35%) Data Centre
5 4 (6.35%) PMI
6 2 (3.17%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.59%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 53 (84.13%) Windows
2 32 (50.79%) Windows Server
3 23 (36.51%) Windows Server 2019
4 21 (33.33%) Linux
5 17 (26.98%) Windows Server 2016
6 15 (23.81%) Apple iOS
7 8 (12.70%) Android
8 6 (9.52%) Windows 10
9 4 (6.35%) Debian
9 4 (6.35%) Ubuntu
10 3 (4.76%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (42.86%) ITIL
2 26 (41.27%) Agile
3 19 (30.16%) Analytics
3 19 (30.16%) Log Analytics
3 19 (30.16%) RBAC
4 18 (28.57%) CI/CD
4 18 (28.57%) Service Management
5 16 (25.40%) DevOps
5 16 (25.40%) Identity Management
5 16 (25.40%) Infrastructure as Code
5 16 (25.40%) Multi-Factor Authentication
5 16 (25.40%) Privileged Identity Management
5 16 (25.40%) Release Management
6 10 (15.87%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 10 (15.87%) Problem-Solving
7 9 (14.29%) Service Delivery
8 8 (12.70%) Scenario Testing
9 7 (11.11%) Customer Service
10 5 (7.94%) Data Loss Prevention
10 5 (7.94%) Mobile Device Management
Programming Languages
1 18 (28.57%) C#
1 18 (28.57%) PowerShell
2 16 (25.40%) Bicep
2 16 (25.40%) VB
2 16 (25.40%) VBScript
3 2 (3.17%) Go
3 2 (3.17%) JavaScript
3 2 (3.17%) Python
4 1 (1.59%) SQL
Qualifications
1 19 (30.16%) Degree
2 18 (28.57%) Security Cleared
3 16 (25.40%) DV Cleared
3 16 (25.40%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 11 (17.46%) SC Cleared
5 5 (7.94%) AWS Certification
5 5 (7.94%) Azure Certification
6 4 (6.35%) PMI Certification
7 2 (3.17%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (1.59%) CCA
8 1 (1.59%) CISM
8 1 (1.59%) CISSP
8 1 (1.59%) Citrix Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (7.94%) QA
1 5 (7.94%) SLA
System Software
1 37 (58.73%) Active Directory
2 23 (36.51%) Virtual Machines
3 13 (20.63%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (9.52%) Hyper-V
5 5 (7.94%) pfSense
5 5 (7.94%) vSphere
6 4 (6.35%) Docker
6 4 (6.35%) Firmware
6 4 (6.35%) NFS
7 1 (1.59%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 39 (61.90%) Microsoft Intune
2 23 (36.51%) SCCM
3 20 (31.75%) Kubernetes
4 16 (25.40%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 16 (25.40%) SCOM
4 16 (25.40%) WSUS
5 3 (4.76%) Nessus
6 2 (3.17%) Ansible
6 2 (3.17%) NetBackup
6 2 (3.17%) Terraform
7 1 (1.59%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 52 (82.54%) Microsoft
2 18 (28.57%) Citrix
3 13 (20.63%) VMware
4 5 (7.94%) Adobe
4 5 (7.94%) Avaya
4 5 (7.94%) CheckPoint
4 5 (7.94%) Cisco
4 5 (7.94%) ServiceNow
5 4 (6.35%) Aruba
5 4 (6.35%) NetApp
5 4 (6.35%) QNAP
5 4 (6.35%) Synology
5 4 (6.35%) Ubiquiti
6 2 (3.17%) Veritas
7 1 (1.59%) Commvault
7 1 (1.59%) Dell
7 1 (1.59%) HP
7 1 (1.59%) WatchGuard