Virtual Desktop Jobs in the Thames Valley

Virtual Desktop
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 15 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 171 221 244
Rank change year-on-year +50 +23 +13
Permanent jobs citing Virtual Desktop 9 23 15
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.26% 0.34% 0.25%
As % of the System Software category 2.85% 2.31% 1.49%
Number of salaries quoted 5 23 5
10th Percentile £32,750 £49,576 £46,900
25th Percentile £38,750 £51,750 £66,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £59,000 £73,500
Median % change year-on-year -27.97% -19.73% +63.33%
75th Percentile £48,750 - £74,250
90th Percentile - - -
South East median annual salary £40,000 £51,000 £37,000
% change year-on-year -21.57% +37.84% -17.78%

All System Software Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 316 996 1,004
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 9.30% 14.88% 16.90%
Number of salaries quoted 214 800 640
10th Percentile £30,200 £28,950 £25,000
25th Percentile £38,375 £36,000 £30,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% +11.11% -8.16%
75th Percentile £82,500 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £90,925 £85,100 £87,625
South East median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year +15.79% - -5.00%

Virtual Desktop
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Virtual Desktop in the Thames Valley

Virtual Desktop
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Virtual Desktop in the Thames Valley.

Salary trend for Virtual Desktop in the Thames Valley

Virtual Desktop
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing Virtual Desktop in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 15 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Virtual Desktop in the Thames Valley

Virtual Desktop
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Virtual Desktop within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 15 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
Berkshire +37 6 £47,500 -19.49% 4
Oxfordshire +32 3 £42,500 -16.67% 1
Virtual Desktop
South East

Virtual Desktop
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 (22.22%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (44.44%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 7 (77.78%) AWS
2 5 (55.56%) Azure
3 4 (44.44%) Amazon ECS
3 4 (44.44%) Amazon GuardDuty
3 4 (44.44%) Amazon S3
3 4 (44.44%) AWS KMS
3 4 (44.44%) AWS Lambda
3 4 (44.44%) Serverless
3 4 (44.44%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 3 (33.33%) GCP
5 2 (22.22%) Entra ID
5 2 (22.22%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 4 (44.44%) Firewall
1 4 (44.44%) SSL
Development Applications
1 4 (44.44%) Bitbucket Server
1 4 (44.44%) Jenkins
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) DevOps Engineer
2 3 (33.33%) Platform Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Administrator
3 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) IT Administrator
3 2 (22.22%) IT Systems Administrator
3 2 (22.22%) Senior
3 2 (22.22%) Senior IT Administrator
3 2 (22.22%) Senior Systems Administrator
3 2 (22.22%) Systems Administrator
4 1 (11.11%) Platform Support Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Support Engineer
Operating Systems
1 4 (44.44%) Linux
1 4 (44.44%) Ubuntu
2 2 (22.22%) Apple iOS
2 2 (22.22%) VMS
2 2 (22.22%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (44.44%) Agile
1 4 (44.44%) Capacity Management
1 4 (44.44%) DevOps
1 4 (44.44%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 4 (44.44%) Key Management
1 4 (44.44%) Patch Management
2 3 (33.33%) ITSM
3 2 (22.22%) Mentoring
3 2 (22.22%) Platform Engineering
4 1 (11.11%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 7 (77.78%) Python
2 4 (44.44%) Shell Script
3 3 (33.33%) PowerShell
4 2 (22.22%) Bash
Qualifications
1 4 (44.44%) Security Cleared
2 3 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 1 (11.11%) MCSE
3 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 9 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 5 (55.56%) Hyper-V
3 4 (44.44%) Docker
3 4 (44.44%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (66.67%) Ansible
1 6 (66.67%) Terraform
2 4 (44.44%) Nessus
2 4 (44.44%) Proxmox
3 3 (33.33%) SCCM
4 2 (22.22%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 4 (44.44%) Juniper
2 3 (33.33%) Citrix
2 3 (33.33%) SolarWinds
2 3 (33.33%) VMware
3 2 (22.22%) Microsoft