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 29 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 176 180 236
Rank change year-on-year +4 +56 +15
Permanent jobs citing Virtual Desktop 5 7 13
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.093% 0.18% 0.22%
As % of the System Software category 1.12% 1.14% 1.26%
Number of salaries quoted 1 5 13
10th Percentile - - £28,840
25th Percentile £60,475 £52,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,950 £67,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +17.39% +27.78%
75th Percentile £67,425 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile - £73,000 £71,500
England median annual salary £54,000 £47,500 £56,500
% change year-on-year +13.68% -15.93% +7.62%

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 446 613 1,030
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 8.29% 15.67% 17.27%
Number of salaries quoted 302 326 838
10th Percentile £26,275 £28,125 £27,500
25th Percentile £30,875 £32,500 £32,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £51,500 £49,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.62% +5.10% +8.89%
75th Percentile £62,500 £71,250 £63,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £86,750 £75,000
England median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -13.04% +9.52% -4.55%

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 29 January 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
Gloucestershire +6 3 - - 2
Devon -3 2 £63,950 -
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 (20.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) Azure
2 3 (60.00%) AWS
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Key Vault
3 1 (20.00%) Entra ID
3 1 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Copilot
3 1 (20.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Power BI
General
1 3 (60.00%) Finance
2 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Cloud Developer
1 2 (40.00%) Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Applications Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Applications Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) React
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Windows
2 1 (20.00%) Windows 10
2 1 (20.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Agile
1 3 (60.00%) Asynchronous Programming
1 3 (60.00%) BDD
1 3 (60.00%) Identity Access Management
2 2 (40.00%) API Design
2 2 (40.00%) Observability
2 2 (40.00%) TDD
3 1 (20.00%) API Development
3 1 (20.00%) API Integration
3 1 (20.00%) Application Security
3 1 (20.00%) Cloud Security
3 1 (20.00%) Coaching
3 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) Mentoring
3 1 (20.00%) Mobile Device Management
3 1 (20.00%) Platform Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) Server Management
3 1 (20.00%) Service Design
3 1 (20.00%) Software Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) JavaScript
1 3 (60.00%) Python
2 2 (40.00%) Java
2 2 (40.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) Degree
2 1 (20.00%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (40.00%) SCCM
2 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Atlassian
2 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (20.00%) HP