Virtual Desktop Job Trends in Tyne and Wear

Virtual Desktop
North East > Tyne and Wear

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear requiring Virtual Desktop skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 68 - 56
Rank change year-on-year - - +12
Permanent jobs citing Virtual Desktop 1 0 3
As % of all permanent jobs in Tyne and Wear 0.13% - 0.56%
As % of the System Software category 1.89% - 3.85%
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - - £32,500
Median % change year-on-year - - -58.06%
75th Percentile - - £34,125
90th Percentile - - £34,350
North East median annual salary - - £34,500
% change year-on-year - - -55.48%

All System Software Skills
Tyne and Wear

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 Tyne and Wear.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 53 58 78
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 6.66% 8.52% 14.69%
Number of salaries quoted 35 27 71
10th Percentile - £32,500 £28,750
25th Percentile £28,500 £35,500 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £44,274 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.29% +10.69% -33.27%
75th Percentile £60,750 £55,625 £57,500
90th Percentile £71,000 £71,111 £62,500
North East median annual salary £47,500 £52,500 £40,750
% change year-on-year -9.52% +28.83% -20.10%

Virtual Desktop
Job Vacancy Trend in Tyne and Wear

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

Virtual Desktop job vacancy trend in Tyne and Wear

Virtual Desktop
Salary Trend in Tyne and Wear

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing Virtual Desktop.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing Virtual Desktop

Virtual Desktop
Job Locations in Tyne and Wear

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Virtual Desktop within the Tyne and Wear region over the 6 months to 12 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
Newcastle upon Tyne - 1 - - 1
Virtual Desktop
North East

Virtual Desktop
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Tyne and Wear 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 (100.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (100.00%) OneDrive
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Software Packaging
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Patch Management
1 1 (100.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Jamf Pro
1 1 (100.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Citrix
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) VMware