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 24 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 271 324 332
Rank change year-on-year +53 +8 +127
Permanent jobs citing Virtual Desktop 40 78 43
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 0.41% 0.42% 0.33%
As % of the System Software category 4.23% 3.21% 1.98%
Number of salaries quoted 28 51 34
10th Percentile £27,000 £31,250 £32,000
25th Percentile £27,750 £36,875 £34,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £41,250 £55,000 £45,500
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +20.88% +1.11%
75th Percentile £43,750 £59,000 £72,875
90th Percentile £47,375 - £74,250
England median annual salary £46,000 £54,645 £57,500
% change year-on-year -15.82% -4.97% +9.52%

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 946 2,431 2,174
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 9.78% 12.97% 16.67%
Number of salaries quoted 609 1,879 1,531
10th Percentile £28,250 £26,250 £26,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £32,500 £31,734
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,500 £49,182
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -3.42% -1.64%
75th Percentile £73,750 £62,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £86,250 £78,750 £82,500
England median annual salary £52,500 £49,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +6.06% -10.00% -

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 24 June 2025.

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 24 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
Surrey +43 13 £42,500 -17.07%
Hampshire +79 9 £27,000 -32.50% 13
Thames Valley +37 7 £42,500 -27.97% 13
Middlesex - 6 - -
West Sussex - 5 £50,000 - 5
Berkshire +25 4 - - 11
Oxfordshire +48 3 £42,500 -16.67%
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 7 (17.50%) Confluence
1 7 (17.50%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (10.00%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 28 (70.00%) Microsoft 365
2 23 (57.50%) Azure
3 7 (17.50%) AWS
4 6 (15.00%) Entra ID
5 4 (10.00%) Amazon ECS
5 4 (10.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
5 4 (10.00%) Amazon S3
5 4 (10.00%) AWS KMS
5 4 (10.00%) AWS Lambda
5 4 (10.00%) Mimecast
5 4 (10.00%) Serverless
5 4 (10.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 3 (7.50%) GCP
7 2 (5.00%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (2.50%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 9 (22.50%) LAN
1 9 (22.50%) SD-WAN
1 9 (22.50%) WAN
2 8 (20.00%) Firewall
3 4 (10.00%) SSL
4 2 (5.00%) VPN
5 1 (2.50%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (17.50%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (20.00%) JIRA
2 4 (10.00%) Bitbucket Server
2 4 (10.00%) Jenkins
General
1 19 (47.50%) Social Skills
2 7 (17.50%) Retail
3 6 (15.00%) Finance
4 4 (10.00%) Law
Job Titles
1 12 (30.00%) Support Engineer
2 10 (25.00%) IT Support
3 9 (22.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 7 (17.50%) Infrastructure Support
4 7 (17.50%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
4 7 (17.50%) Service Desk Support
5 6 (15.00%) 2nd Line Support
5 6 (15.00%) Senior
6 4 (10.00%) 2nd Line Support Technician
6 4 (10.00%) DevOps Engineer
6 4 (10.00%) Support Technician
7 3 (7.50%) Azure Engineer
7 3 (7.50%) Consultant
7 3 (7.50%) IT Engineer
7 3 (7.50%) IT Support Engineer
7 3 (7.50%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
7 3 (7.50%) Platform Engineer
8 2 (5.00%) 3rd Line Support
8 2 (5.00%) IT Consultant
8 2 (5.00%) Junior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.50%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 4 (10.00%) Driving Licence
1 4 (10.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (2.50%) Data Centre
2 1 (2.50%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (2.50%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 18 (45.00%) Windows
2 6 (15.00%) Apple iOS
3 4 (10.00%) Linux
3 4 (10.00%) Ubuntu
4 1 (2.50%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (37.50%) Migration
2 14 (35.00%) ITIL
3 13 (32.50%) Customer Service
4 11 (27.50%) Agile
4 11 (27.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 10 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
6 9 (22.50%) Budget Management
6 9 (22.50%) Business Continuity
6 9 (22.50%) Data Protection
6 9 (22.50%) Statistics
6 9 (22.50%) Stress Testing
7 7 (17.50%) Backlog Management
7 7 (17.50%) Roadmaps
8 6 (15.00%) Architectural Design
8 6 (15.00%) Architecture Roadmap
8 6 (15.00%) Coaching
8 6 (15.00%) Creative Thinking
8 6 (15.00%) Mentoring
8 6 (15.00%) Service Management
8 6 (15.00%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 13 (32.50%) Python
2 9 (22.50%) PowerShell
3 7 (17.50%) SQL
4 4 (10.00%) Shell Script
5 2 (5.00%) Bash
6 1 (2.50%) Korn
Qualifications
1 7 (17.50%) Microsoft Certification
2 6 (15.00%) Azure Certification
3 4 (10.00%) Security Cleared
4 3 (7.50%) SC Cleared
5 1 (2.50%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (15.00%) GDPR
1 6 (15.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (5.00%) SLA
System Software
1 18 (45.00%) Active Directory
2 10 (25.00%) Virtual Machines
3 7 (17.50%) Hyper-V
3 7 (17.50%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (10.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (27.50%) Microsoft Intune
2 6 (15.00%) Ansible
2 6 (15.00%) Terraform
3 4 (10.00%) Nessus
3 4 (10.00%) Proxmox
3 4 (10.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 29 (72.50%) Microsoft
2 23 (57.50%) Citrix
3 7 (17.50%) VMware
4 6 (15.00%) Apple
5 4 (10.00%) Cisco
5 4 (10.00%) Dell
5 4 (10.00%) Juniper
5 4 (10.00%) Meraki
5 4 (10.00%) Sophos
5 4 (10.00%) Veeam
6 3 (7.50%) SolarWinds
7 1 (2.50%) ServiceNow
7 1 (2.50%) Snow