Virtual Desktop Jobs in the South West

Virtual Desktop
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 14 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 180 277 249
Rank change year-on-year +97 -28 +26
Permanent jobs citing Virtual Desktop 4 14 25
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 0.11% 0.15% 0.37%
As % of the System Software category 1.05% 1.18% 2.16%
Number of salaries quoted 2 13 16
10th Percentile £52,625 £45,250 £26,625
25th Percentile £52,813 £50,000 £27,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,250 £55,000 £29,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.27% +86.44% -35.16%
75th Percentile £60,313 £65,000 £48,438
90th Percentile £60,875 £71,000 £64,375
England median annual salary £46,000 £51,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.80% -7.27% +10.00%

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 382 1,191 1,155
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 10.75% 12.88% 17.04%
Number of salaries quoted 260 966 716
10th Percentile £29,750 £27,338 £27,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £33,125 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £67,500 £62,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £93,900 £80,000 £81,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -

Virtual Desktop
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Virtual Desktop in the South West

Virtual Desktop
Salary Trend in the South West

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

Salary trend 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 14 May 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
Gloucestershire +65 3 £55,000 +10.00% 10
Bristol +59 1 £57,500 +4.55% 3
Virtual Desktop
England

Virtual Desktop
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (50.00%) SharePoint
2 1 (25.00%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
2 3 (75.00%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (50.00%) Entra ID
4 1 (25.00%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (25.00%) GitHub
4 1 (25.00%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) DNS
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) JIRA
General
1 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Architect
1 1 (25.00%) Azure Architect
1 1 (25.00%) Consultant
1 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft 365 Architect
1 1 (25.00%) SCCM Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) SCCM Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Senior
1 1 (25.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Senior SCCM Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Technical Architect
1 1 (25.00%) Technical Consultant
1 1 (25.00%) Wintel Architect
1 1 (25.00%) Wintel Technical Architect
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (25.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (25.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Android
1 2 (50.00%) Apple iOS
1 2 (50.00%) Windows
2 1 (25.00%) Mac OS
2 1 (25.00%) Windows 10
2 1 (25.00%) Windows Server
2 1 (25.00%) Windows Server 2016
2 1 (25.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Agile
1 2 (50.00%) Decision-Making
1 2 (50.00%) Line Management
1 2 (50.00%) Migration
1 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (50.00%) Project Delivery
1 2 (50.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
1 2 (50.00%) Validation
2 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (25.00%) Digital Strategy
2 1 (25.00%) Enterprise Architecture
2 1 (25.00%) GAP Analysis
2 1 (25.00%) Identity Management
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) ITSM
2 1 (25.00%) Knowledge Transfer
2 1 (25.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (25.00%) Scrum
2 1 (25.00%) Technology Roadmap
2 1 (25.00%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (25.00%) VB
2 1 (25.00%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Certification
2 1 (25.00%) Degree
2 1 (25.00%) MCP
2 1 (25.00%) MCSA
2 1 (25.00%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) NCSC
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (25.00%) BitLocker
3 1 (25.00%) Hyper-V
3 1 (25.00%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (50.00%) SCCM
3 1 (25.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (25.00%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (50.00%) VMware
3 1 (25.00%) McAfee
3 1 (25.00%) ServiceNow
3 1 (25.00%) Symantec