Virtual Desktop Jobs in the UK excluding London

Virtual Desktop
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 484 559 492
Rank change year-on-year +75 -67 +161
Permanent jobs citing Virtual Desktop 94 209 249
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.24% 0.26% 0.45%
As % of the System Software category 2.21% 2.32% 2.88%
Number of salaries quoted 59 161 95
10th Percentile £26,750 £26,500 £29,100
25th Percentile £28,000 £32,500 £32,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £47,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% +11.76% -6.59%
75th Percentile £46,000 £59,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £55,000 £71,250 £73,750
UK median annual salary £44,000 £52,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -16.19% -8.70% +4.55%

All System Software Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 4,258 9,013 8,653
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 10.73% 11.21% 15.73%
Number of salaries quoted 2,395 6,942 5,536
10th Percentile £26,500 £25,625 £26,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,500 £45,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% -5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £66,250 £60,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £82,751 £72,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% -2.35%

Virtual Desktop
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Virtual Desktop as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Virtual Desktop in the UK excluding London

Virtual Desktop
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Virtual Desktop in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Virtual Desktop in the UK excluding London

Virtual Desktop
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Virtual Desktop in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 14 June 2025.

Salary histogram for Virtual Desktop in the UK excluding London

Virtual Desktop
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Virtual Desktop within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 14 June 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
South East +62 39 £41,250 -25.00% 11
East of England +27 16 £56,250 +89.08% 3
Midlands +61 15 £27,500 -48.84% 10
North of England +32 13 £46,000 +5.75% 8
North West +32 12 £46,000 +3.68% 7
East Midlands +53 9 £27,500 -59.26% 4
Wales +48 8 £38,094 -15.35% 2
West Midlands +47 6 £73,750 +43.90% 6
South West +106 4 £57,500 +15.00% 3
Scotland +108 1 £35,000 -21.79% 2
Yorkshire +40 1 £28,000 -50.44%
Virtual Desktop
UK

Virtual Desktop
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 18 (19.15%) SharePoint
2 12 (12.77%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (7.45%) Confluence
4 1 (1.06%) Apache
4 1 (1.06%) nginx
4 1 (1.06%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 7 (7.45%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 4 (4.26%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.06%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 61 (64.89%) Microsoft 365
2 60 (63.83%) Azure
3 25 (26.60%) Entra ID
4 10 (10.64%) AWS
5 9 (9.57%) SaaS
6 8 (8.51%) IaaS
6 8 (8.51%) PaaS
7 7 (7.45%) Amazon ECS
7 7 (7.45%) Amazon GuardDuty
7 7 (7.45%) Amazon S3
7 7 (7.45%) AWS KMS
7 7 (7.45%) AWS Lambda
7 7 (7.45%) Serverless
7 7 (7.45%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 4 (4.26%) Mimecast
9 3 (3.19%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 3 (3.19%) Amazon EC2
9 3 (3.19%) Amazon ELB
9 3 (3.19%) Amazon Glacier
9 3 (3.19%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 24 (25.53%) Firewall
2 13 (13.83%) DNS
3 11 (11.70%) LAN
3 11 (11.70%) WAN
4 9 (9.57%) Remote Desktop
4 9 (9.57%) SD-WAN
5 7 (7.45%) Ethernet
5 7 (7.45%) SSL
6 4 (4.26%) DHCP
7 3 (3.19%) VPN
8 1 (1.06%) Cisco Nexus
8 1 (1.06%) NetScaler
8 1 (1.06%) Network Security
8 1 (1.06%) TCP/IP
8 1 (1.06%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (9.57%) SQL Server
2 3 (3.19%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 10 (10.64%) JIRA
2 8 (8.51%) Jenkins
3 7 (7.45%) Bitbucket Server
4 3 (3.19%) Vagrant
5 1 (1.06%) GitLab
5 1 (1.06%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 49 (52.13%) Social Skills
2 15 (15.96%) Finance
3 8 (8.51%) Legal
3 8 (8.51%) Retail
3 8 (8.51%) Welsh Language
4 5 (5.32%) Law
5 3 (3.19%) Games
6 2 (2.13%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.06%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 20 (21.28%) Analyst
2 15 (15.96%) 1st Line Support
3 13 (13.83%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 12 (12.77%) Support Engineer
5 10 (10.64%) IT Support
5 10 (10.64%) Technical Analyst
6 9 (9.57%) 1st Line Support Analyst
6 9 (9.57%) 1st Line Technical Support
6 9 (9.57%) Support Analyst
6 9 (9.57%) Technical Support
6 9 (9.57%) Technical Support Analyst
7 8 (8.51%) Server Engineer
8 7 (7.45%) 2nd Line Support
8 7 (7.45%) Infrastructure Support
8 7 (7.45%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
8 7 (7.45%) Senior
8 7 (7.45%) Service Desk Support
9 6 (6.38%) Platform Engineer
10 5 (5.32%) First Line Help Desk Support
10 5 (5.32%) Help Desk Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.06%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 8 (8.51%) IoT
2 7 (7.45%) Onboarding
3 5 (5.32%) Driving Licence
4 2 (2.13%) Data Centre
4 2 (2.13%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.06%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.06%) Private Cloud
5 1 (1.06%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 62 (65.96%) Windows
2 28 (29.79%) Windows Server
3 18 (19.15%) Mac OS
4 13 (13.83%) Windows Server 2019
5 8 (8.51%) Apple iOS
5 8 (8.51%) Linux
6 7 (7.45%) Ubuntu
7 3 (3.19%) VMS
7 3 (3.19%) Windows 10
8 2 (2.13%) Android
8 2 (2.13%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (1.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (37.23%) Customer Service
2 31 (32.98%) Problem-Solving
3 24 (25.53%) ITIL
4 19 (20.21%) Migration
5 16 (17.02%) Agile
5 16 (17.02%) Data Protection
6 15 (15.96%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 15 (15.96%) Service Management
7 14 (14.89%) Server Management
8 13 (13.83%) ITSM
8 13 (13.83%) Roadmaps
9 11 (11.70%) Continuous Improvement
10 10 (10.64%) Mentoring
11 9 (9.57%) Budget Management
11 9 (9.57%) Business Continuity
11 9 (9.57%) Coaching
11 9 (9.57%) Collaborative Working
11 9 (9.57%) Incident Management
11 9 (9.57%) Statistics
11 9 (9.57%) Stress Testing
Programming Languages
1 21 (22.34%) PowerShell
2 16 (17.02%) Python
3 7 (7.45%) Shell Script
3 7 (7.45%) SQL
4 3 (3.19%) Bash
4 3 (3.19%) Groovy
4 3 (3.19%) Java
4 3 (3.19%) Perl
4 3 (3.19%) Ruby
5 1 (1.06%) VB
5 1 (1.06%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 31 (32.98%) Microsoft Certification
2 16 (17.02%) Azure Certification
3 12 (12.77%) MCSE
4 11 (11.70%) MCSA
5 9 (9.57%) Security Cleared
6 8 (8.51%) DBS Check
7 7 (7.45%) SC Cleared
8 3 (3.19%) DV Cleared
8 3 (3.19%) MCP
9 1 (1.06%) Degree
9 1 (1.06%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (18.09%) SLA
2 6 (6.38%) GDPR
2 6 (6.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (3.19%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (1.06%) Government Security Classifications
4 1 (1.06%) NCSC
System Software
1 62 (65.96%) Active Directory
2 16 (17.02%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (15.96%) Virtual Machines
4 14 (14.89%) Hyper-V
5 7 (7.45%) Docker
6 4 (4.26%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (1.06%) BitLocker
7 1 (1.06%) Microsoft App-V
7 1 (1.06%) VMware NSX
7 1 (1.06%) XenApp
7 1 (1.06%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 28 (29.79%) Microsoft Intune
2 11 (11.70%) Ansible
3 10 (10.64%) Terraform
4 7 (7.45%) Nessus
4 7 (7.45%) Proxmox
4 7 (7.45%) SCCM
5 4 (4.26%) Nagios
6 3 (3.19%) vCenter Server
7 2 (2.13%) Puppet
8 1 (1.06%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (1.06%) Avamar
8 1 (1.06%) Graylog
8 1 (1.06%) Progress Chef
8 1 (1.06%) Rundeck
8 1 (1.06%) VxRail
Vendors
1 65 (69.15%) Microsoft
2 28 (29.79%) Citrix
3 16 (17.02%) VMware
4 11 (11.70%) Meraki
5 8 (8.51%) iManage
5 8 (8.51%) Juniper
6 6 (6.38%) Apple
6 6 (6.38%) Cisco
7 5 (5.32%) Dell
8 4 (4.26%) Sophos
8 4 (4.26%) Veeam
9 3 (3.19%) SolarWinds
10 2 (2.13%) arcserve
10 2 (2.13%) ServiceNow
11 1 (1.06%) Commvault
11 1 (1.06%) EMC
11 1 (1.06%) Fortinet
11 1 (1.06%) McAfee
11 1 (1.06%) NetApp
11 1 (1.06%) Symantec