Virtual Desktop Job Trends in the South West

Virtual Desktop
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South West requiring Virtual Desktop skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 179 206 210
Rank change year-on-year +27 +4 +78
Permanent jobs citing Virtual Desktop 4 9 13
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.094% 0.15% 0.29%
As % of the System Software category 0.85% 1.13% 1.40%
Number of salaries quoted 1 7 12
10th Percentile - £40,000 £28,289
25th Percentile £60,475 £50,000 £33,883
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,950 £55,000 £38,670
Median % change year-on-year +16.27% +42.23% -18.59%
75th Percentile £67,425 £69,375 £59,063
90th Percentile - £72,000 £66,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year - -4.35% +7.48%

All System Software Skills
South West

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 West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 469 798 928
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 10.98% 13.33% 20.42%
Number of salaries quoted 314 450 724
10th Percentile £27,000 £28,500 £28,000
25th Percentile £30,500 £35,000 £34,211
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £53,250 £47,557
Median % change year-on-year -15.49% +11.97% -4.89%
75th Percentile £57,500 £72,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £90,000 £79,625
England median annual salary £47,500 £56,252 £55,000
% change year-on-year -15.56% +2.28% -

Virtual Desktop
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Virtual Desktop job vacancy trend in the South West

Virtual Desktop
Salary Trend in the South West

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

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

Virtual Desktop
Job Locations in the South West

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 West region over the 6 months to 16 November 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
Devon +1 2 £63,950 - 1
Gloucestershire +27 1 - - 3
Bristol +24 1 - - 1
Virtual Desktop
England

Virtual Desktop
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Key Vault
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Storage
2 1 (25.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Copilot
2 1 (25.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Power BI
General
1 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Applications Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Cloud Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Lead
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Platform Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Product Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) React
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (25.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Windows
2 1 (25.00%) Windows 10
2 1 (25.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (25.00%) API Development
2 1 (25.00%) API Integration
2 1 (25.00%) Application Security
2 1 (25.00%) Asynchronous Programming
2 1 (25.00%) Business Case
2 1 (25.00%) Business Strategy
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Security
2 1 (25.00%) Coaching
2 1 (25.00%) Identity Access Management
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) ITIL
2 1 (25.00%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) Risk Management
2 1 (25.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (25.00%) Server Management
2 1 (25.00%) Service Design
2 1 (25.00%) Strategic Roadmap
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (25.00%) Technology Transformation
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (25.00%) Java
2 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
1 1 (25.00%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (25.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (50.00%) SCCM
2 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) Atlassian
2 1 (25.00%) HP