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 26 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 210 162 248
Rank change year-on-year -48 +86 -20
Permanent jobs citing Virtual Desktop 21 4 13
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.25% 0.12% 0.15%
As % of the System Software category 3.55% 0.95% 1.29%
Number of salaries quoted 6 1 12
10th Percentile £36,250 - £39,150
25th Percentile £36,875 £53,750 £46,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,750 £57,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.96% +15.00% +43.51%
75th Percentile £75,125 £61,250 £55,625
90th Percentile £86,250 - £59,750
England median annual salary £52,500 £46,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +14.13% -16.36% -5.17%

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 591 421 1,006
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 6.94% 12.36% 11.69%
Number of salaries quoted 358 297 791
10th Percentile £28,500 £29,566 £27,750
25th Percentile £32,750 £31,250 £33,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £46,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% -8.00% -
75th Percentile £60,000 £63,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £76,625 £88,500 £82,500
England median annual salary £54,750 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +9.50% - -9.09%

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
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Virtual Desktop in the South West over the 6 months to 26 July 2026.

Salary histogram for Virtual Desktop in the South West

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 26 July 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
Bristol -13 14 £82,500 +43.48% 2
Somerset - 4 £40,000 -
Gloucestershire -35 3 - -
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 13 (61.90%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (14.29%) Apache
2 3 (14.29%) JBoss
2 3 (14.29%) nginx
3 1 (4.76%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 21 (100.00%) Azure
2 12 (57.14%) Azure DevOps
2 12 (57.14%) Azure ExpressRoute
2 12 (57.14%) Azure Functions
2 12 (57.14%) Azure Key Vault
2 12 (57.14%) Azure Monitor
2 12 (57.14%) GitHub
2 12 (57.14%) IaaS
2 12 (57.14%) PaaS
2 12 (57.14%) Serverless
3 6 (28.57%) Entra ID
4 4 (19.05%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (14.29%) AWS
5 3 (14.29%) Datadog
6 1 (4.76%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (4.76%) OpenShift
6 1 (4.76%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 12 (57.14%) VPN
2 3 (14.29%) SSL
3 1 (4.76%) Firewall
3 1 (4.76%) SD-WAN
3 1 (4.76%) WAN
3 1 (4.76%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (57.14%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (4.76%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 15 (71.43%) Git
2 3 (14.29%) Bitbucket
3 2 (9.52%) Subversion
4 1 (4.76%) Jenkins
4 1 (4.76%) Robot Framework
4 1 (4.76%) Selenium
4 1 (4.76%) TeamCity
General
1 18 (85.71%) Social Skills
2 12 (57.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 12 (57.14%) Law
3 3 (14.29%) Finance
3 3 (14.29%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (57.14%) Analyst
1 12 (57.14%) Infrastructure Analyst
2 10 (47.62%) Senior
3 6 (28.57%) Senior Analyst
3 6 (28.57%) Senior Infrastructure Analyst
4 3 (14.29%) IT Engineer
4 3 (14.29%) IT Support
4 3 (14.29%) IT Support Engineer
4 3 (14.29%) Senior IT Engineer
4 3 (14.29%) Senior IT Support
4 3 (14.29%) Senior Support Engineer
4 3 (14.29%) Support Engineer
5 2 (9.52%) Applications Developer
5 2 (9.52%) Azure Engineer
5 2 (9.52%) Cloud Developer
5 2 (9.52%) Cloud Engineer
5 2 (9.52%) Developer
5 2 (9.52%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) Applications Manager
6 1 (4.76%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (14.29%) CSS
1 3 (14.29%) CSS3
1 3 (14.29%) HTML
1 3 (14.29%) HTML5
1 3 (14.29%) Keycloak
1 3 (14.29%) OAuth
1 3 (14.29%) OAuth2
1 3 (14.29%) OpenID
1 3 (14.29%) React
Miscellaneous
1 12 (57.14%) Podcast
1 12 (57.14%) Public Cloud
1 12 (57.14%) Security Posture
2 6 (28.57%) Self-Motivation
3 5 (23.81%) Data Centre
4 3 (14.29%) Private Cloud
4 3 (14.29%) Social Media
5 1 (4.76%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 13 (61.90%) Windows
2 12 (57.14%) VMS
3 1 (4.76%) Linux
3 1 (4.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (4.76%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (71.43%) Agile
2 13 (61.90%) AI
2 13 (61.90%) CI/CD
2 13 (61.90%) Infrastructure as Code
3 12 (57.14%) Analytics
3 12 (57.14%) API Management
3 12 (57.14%) Cloud Security
3 12 (57.14%) Computer Science
3 12 (57.14%) DevOps
3 12 (57.14%) DevSecOps
3 12 (57.14%) Generative AI
3 12 (57.14%) Log Analytics
3 12 (57.14%) Observability
3 12 (57.14%) Performance Tuning
3 12 (57.14%) Root Cause Analysis
3 12 (57.14%) Scrum
3 12 (57.14%) Task Automation
4 6 (28.57%) Decision-Making
4 6 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (28.57%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 15 (71.43%) PowerShell
1 15 (71.43%) SQL
2 13 (61.90%) Bash
3 12 (57.14%) Bicep
3 12 (57.14%) Kusto Query Language
4 3 (14.29%) JavaScript
4 3 (14.29%) Python
Qualifications
1 12 (57.14%) Azure Certification
1 12 (57.14%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.76%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 18 (85.71%) Active Directory
2 13 (61.90%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (57.14%) vSphere
4 3 (14.29%) Hyper-V
5 1 (4.76%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (61.90%) Terraform
2 4 (19.05%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (14.29%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 3 (14.29%) Nagios
3 3 (14.29%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (4.76%) Ansible
4 1 (4.76%) Kubernetes
4 1 (4.76%) Progress Chef
4 1 (4.76%) Puppet
Vendors
1 15 (71.43%) Microsoft
2 13 (61.90%) VMware
3 12 (57.14%) ScienceLogic
4 3 (14.29%) Atlassian
4 3 (14.29%) New Relic
4 3 (14.29%) Red Hat
4 3 (14.29%) Splunk
5 2 (9.52%) ServiceNow
6 1 (4.76%) Aruba
6 1 (4.76%) Veeam
6 1 (4.76%) Zerto
6 1 (4.76%) Zoho