Virtual Desktop Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Virtual Desktop
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Virtual Desktop skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 502 396 545
Rank change year-on-year -106 +149 +27
Permanent jobs citing Virtual Desktop 71 116 190
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.11% 0.40% 0.28%
As % of the System Software category 2.31% 2.99% 2.19%
Number of salaries quoted 49 79 149
10th Percentile £33,350 £26,250 £26,400
25th Percentile £40,000 £28,375 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £42,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -5.56% +16.88%
75th Percentile £48,750 £48,750 £59,000
90th Percentile £69,500 £63,750 £72,500
UK median annual salary £49,180 £46,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +6.91% -8.00% -4.76%

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 3,072 3,877 8,668
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 4.70% 13.45% 12.61%
Number of salaries quoted 2,259 2,488 7,070
10th Percentile £27,500 £26,500 £25,750
25th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £47,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% -5.26%
75th Percentile £63,750 £67,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £83,750 £73,750
UK median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -9.09%

Virtual Desktop
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Virtual Desktop relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Virtual Desktop job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Virtual Desktop
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Virtual Desktop.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Virtual Desktop

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 11 May 2026.

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 11 May 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
North of England -45 22 £43,000 -6.52% 4
North West -5 19 £44,750 -2.72% 2
East of England -18 14 £55,000 -12.00% 2
Wales -27 9 £45,000 +18.13% 3
South West -46 8 £42,500 -22.73% 5
Scotland +2 6 - - 2
South East -60 6 £40,000 - 5
Midlands -50 5 £45,000 +60.00% 6
West Midlands -32 3 £80,000 - 5
East Midlands -34 2 £45,000 +63.64% 1
Yorkshire -49 2 £31,250 -0.79% 2
North East - 1 - -
Northern Ireland - 1 £46,000 -
Virtual Desktop
UK

Virtual Desktop
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 18 (25.35%) Microsoft Exchange
2 11 (15.49%) SharePoint
3 2 (2.82%) Apache
3 2 (2.82%) JBoss
3 2 (2.82%) nginx
4 1 (1.41%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 5 (7.04%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.41%) Acrobat
2 1 (1.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (2.82%) Alphatax
Cloud Services
1 58 (81.69%) Azure
2 53 (74.65%) Microsoft 365
3 21 (29.58%) Entra ID
4 11 (15.49%) OneDrive
5 9 (12.68%) AWS
6 2 (2.82%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (2.82%) Datadog
6 2 (2.82%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (2.82%) IaaS
6 2 (2.82%) Mimecast
6 2 (2.82%) Power Platform
7 1 (1.41%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 30 (42.25%) Firewall
2 7 (9.86%) VPN
3 6 (8.45%) DHCP
3 6 (8.45%) DNS
4 5 (7.04%) Broadband
5 4 (5.63%) VLAN
5 4 (5.63%) WAN
6 3 (4.23%) SD-WAN
7 2 (2.82%) Mobile Broadband
7 2 (2.82%) Network Security
7 2 (2.82%) Softphone
7 2 (2.82%) SSL
7 2 (2.82%) Wireshark
7 2 (2.82%) WPA
8 1 (1.41%) LAN
8 1 (1.41%) NetScaler
8 1 (1.41%) Remote Desktop
8 1 (1.41%) Skype
8 1 (1.41%) TCP/IP
8 1 (1.41%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.82%) Power BI
1 2 (2.82%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.41%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 2 (2.82%) Bitbucket
1 2 (2.82%) Git
1 2 (2.82%) Subversion
General
1 35 (49.30%) Social Skills
2 24 (33.80%) Finance
3 12 (16.90%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (14.08%) Organisational Skills
5 9 (12.68%) Public Sector
6 7 (9.86%) Legal
7 3 (4.23%) Financial Institution
7 3 (4.23%) Law
8 2 (2.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (2.82%) Social Housing
9 1 (1.41%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 27 (38.03%) Support Engineer
2 26 (36.62%) IT Support
3 21 (29.58%) IT Engineer
3 21 (29.58%) IT Support Engineer
4 18 (25.35%) Analyst
5 11 (15.49%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 10 (14.08%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 9 (12.68%) 2nd Line Support
7 9 (12.68%) 3rd Line Support
7 9 (12.68%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
7 9 (12.68%) Support Analyst
8 8 (11.27%) IT Analyst
9 7 (9.86%) 2nd Line Engineer
9 7 (9.86%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
9 7 (9.86%) Cloud Developer
9 7 (9.86%) Developer
9 7 (9.86%) Lead
10 6 (8.45%) Senior
11 5 (7.04%) Cloud Engineer
11 5 (7.04%) Infrastructure Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (11.27%) React
2 2 (2.82%) CSS
2 2 (2.82%) CSS3
2 2 (2.82%) HTML
2 2 (2.82%) HTML5
2 2 (2.82%) Keycloak
2 2 (2.82%) OAuth
2 2 (2.82%) OAuth2
2 2 (2.82%) OpenID
2 2 (2.82%) Web Services
3 1 (1.41%) Microsoft Graph
3 1 (1.41%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 4 (5.63%) Data Centre
2 3 (4.23%) Virtual Team
3 2 (2.82%) iPhone
4 1 (1.41%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (1.41%) CMDB
4 1 (1.41%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.41%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 35 (49.30%) Windows
2 18 (25.35%) Windows Server
3 9 (12.68%) Mac OS
4 7 (9.86%) Windows Server 2016
4 7 (9.86%) Windows Server 2019
5 4 (5.63%) Windows Server 2012
6 3 (4.23%) Windows 10
7 2 (2.82%) Apple iOS
7 2 (2.82%) Linux
8 1 (1.41%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (36.62%) Problem-Solving
2 23 (32.39%) ITIL
2 23 (32.39%) Mentoring
3 15 (21.13%) Problem Management
3 15 (21.13%) Root Cause Analysis
4 12 (16.90%) Continuous Improvement
4 12 (16.90%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 10 (14.08%) Service Delivery
6 9 (12.68%) Kalman Filter
6 9 (12.68%) Security Management
6 9 (12.68%) Technical Leadership
6 9 (12.68%) Web Filtering
7 8 (11.27%) Agile
7 8 (11.27%) Asynchronous Programming
7 8 (11.27%) BDD
7 8 (11.27%) Configuration Management
7 8 (11.27%) Customer Service
7 8 (11.27%) Identity Access Management
7 8 (11.27%) Migration
8 7 (9.86%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 13 (18.31%) PowerShell
2 8 (11.27%) JavaScript
2 8 (11.27%) Python
3 5 (7.04%) SQL
4 4 (5.63%) Java
5 1 (1.41%) VB
5 1 (1.41%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 21 (29.58%) Security Cleared
2 19 (26.76%) Microsoft Certification
3 15 (21.13%) SC Cleared
4 6 (8.45%) Degree
4 6 (8.45%) ITIL Certification
5 4 (5.63%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (2.82%) Azure Certification
7 1 (1.41%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (9.86%) SLA
2 1 (1.41%) GDPR
2 1 (1.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 45 (63.38%) Active Directory
2 18 (25.35%) Hyper-V
2 18 (25.35%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (7.04%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (4.23%) BitLocker
4 3 (4.23%) vSphere
5 2 (2.82%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (2.82%) XenDesktop
6 1 (1.41%) Docker
6 1 (1.41%) Firmware
6 1 (1.41%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 22 (30.99%) Microsoft Intune
2 9 (12.68%) Proxmox
2 9 (12.68%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
3 4 (5.63%) FortiGate
3 4 (5.63%) SCCM
4 2 (2.82%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 2 (2.82%) Jamf Pro
4 2 (2.82%) Nagios
4 2 (2.82%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (1.41%) Kubernetes
5 1 (1.41%) Terraform
Vendors
1 59 (83.10%) Microsoft
2 18 (25.35%) VMware
3 8 (11.27%) Atlassian
4 5 (7.04%) iManage
5 4 (5.63%) Citrix
5 4 (5.63%) ServiceNow
6 3 (4.23%) Fortinet
7 2 (2.82%) Bomgar
7 2 (2.82%) CrowdStrike
7 2 (2.82%) Netskope
7 2 (2.82%) New Relic
7 2 (2.82%) Red Hat
7 2 (2.82%) Splunk
7 2 (2.82%) Veeam
8 1 (1.41%) Adobe
8 1 (1.41%) Cisco
8 1 (1.41%) Commvault
8 1 (1.41%) Dell
8 1 (1.41%) Zoho