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 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 550 440 661
Rank change year-on-year -110 +221 -36
Permanent jobs citing Virtual Desktop 157 246 222
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.24% 0.51% 0.28%
As % of the System Software category 2.26% 3.08% 1.79%
Number of salaries quoted 113 102 100
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,450 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,478 £34,094 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £43,750 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -7.89% -5.00%
75th Percentile £59,000 £62,188 £62,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £74,250 £73,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £58,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -5.17% +5.45% -

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 6,954 7,997 12,427
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 10.65% 16.61% 15.87%
Number of salaries quoted 5,246 5,183 8,566
10th Percentile £26,250 £26,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,500 £32,500 £33,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £60,769 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £73,750 £80,000 £82,500
UK median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -

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 26 July 2024.

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 26 July 2024. 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 +24 63 £55,000 +20.88% 8
North of England -26 30 £64,746 +47.99% 6
Midlands -72 27 £52,500 +44.83% 7
Yorkshire +26 21 £80,000 +77.78% 2
West Midlands +8 16 £45,000 -20.00% 5
South West -10 13 £50,000 +43.51% 2
East of England -16 13 £25,500 -55.65% 6
East Midlands -90 11 £67,500 +107.69% 2
Scotland -38 9 £53,000 +63.08% 3
North East -10 7 £41,500 -12.63% 2
Wales +26 3 £45,000 -37.93%
North West -12 2 £57,500 +57.53% 2
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 56 (35.67%) Microsoft Exchange
2 30 (19.11%) SharePoint
3 4 (2.55%) Apache
3 4 (2.55%) JBoss
3 4 (2.55%) nginx
4 1 (0.64%) Confluence
Applications
1 7 (4.46%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.27%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 129 (82.17%) Azure
2 89 (56.69%) Microsoft 365
3 70 (44.59%) Entra ID
4 43 (27.39%) Azure Storage
5 19 (12.10%) Azure Monitor
6 17 (10.83%) Azure DevOps
7 16 (10.19%) Azure Event Grid
7 16 (10.19%) Azure Logic Apps
8 13 (8.28%) AWS
9 12 (7.64%) IaaS
9 12 (7.64%) PaaS
10 11 (7.01%) SaaS
11 10 (6.37%) OneDrive
12 7 (4.46%) Mimecast
13 6 (3.82%) Cloudflare
14 5 (3.18%) Azure Data Factory
14 5 (3.18%) Azure Table
15 4 (2.55%) Datadog
15 4 (2.55%) OCI
15 4 (2.55%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 40 (25.48%) Firewall
2 35 (22.29%) DNS
3 29 (18.47%) DHCP
4 18 (11.46%) WAN
5 17 (10.83%) LAN
6 12 (7.64%) Remote Desktop
7 9 (5.73%) VPN
8 8 (5.10%) SAN
9 7 (4.46%) Wireless
10 6 (3.82%) NetScaler
10 6 (3.82%) VLAN
11 5 (3.18%) iSCSI
11 5 (3.18%) Structured Cabling
12 4 (2.55%) BGP
12 4 (2.55%) OSPF
12 4 (2.55%) RIP
12 4 (2.55%) SSL
13 3 (1.91%) Network Security
14 2 (1.27%) VSAN
14 2 (1.27%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (7.64%) SQL Server
2 4 (2.55%) MariaDB
2 4 (2.55%) MySQL
3 1 (0.64%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (0.64%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 20 (12.74%) Git
2 4 (2.55%) Bitbucket
2 4 (2.55%) Jenkins
3 3 (1.91%) TeamCity
4 1 (0.64%) JIRA
4 1 (0.64%) Robot Framework
4 1 (0.64%) Selenium
General
1 65 (41.40%) Social Skills
2 29 (18.47%) Finance
3 10 (6.37%) Retail
4 9 (5.73%) Public Sector
5 7 (4.46%) Organisational Skills
6 6 (3.82%) Presentation Skills
7 4 (2.55%) Analytical Skills
8 3 (1.91%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (1.91%) Legal
8 3 (1.91%) Local Government
8 3 (1.91%) Police
9 2 (1.27%) Advertising
10 1 (0.64%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.64%) Law
Job Titles
1 23 (14.65%) Azure Engineer
2 22 (14.01%) IT Support
3 21 (13.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 18 (11.46%) Azure Specialist
5 17 (10.83%) Cloud Engineer
6 16 (10.19%) Active Directory Specialist
6 16 (10.19%) Active Directory Support
6 16 (10.19%) Automation Engineer
6 16 (10.19%) Support Specialist
7 14 (8.92%) Consultant
8 11 (7.01%) Azure Consultant
8 11 (7.01%) Cloud Automation Engineer
8 11 (7.01%) Senior
9 10 (6.37%) 2nd Line Support
9 10 (6.37%) Analyst
9 10 (6.37%) IT Analyst
9 10 (6.37%) IT Support Analyst
10 8 (5.10%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
10 8 (5.10%) Lead
10 8 (5.10%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (21.02%) ARM Templates
2 17 (10.83%) YAML
3 4 (2.55%) CSS
3 4 (2.55%) CSS3
3 4 (2.55%) HTML
3 4 (2.55%) HTML5
3 4 (2.55%) Keycloak
3 4 (2.55%) OAuth
3 4 (2.55%) OAuth2
3 4 (2.55%) OpenID
3 4 (2.55%) React
4 2 (1.27%) Web Services
5 1 (0.64%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 20 (12.74%) Self-Motivation
2 18 (11.46%) PKI
3 13 (8.28%) Data Centre
4 8 (5.10%) Mobile App
5 6 (3.82%) iPhone
5 6 (3.82%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 5 (3.18%) Low-Code
6 5 (3.18%) Management Information System
7 4 (2.55%) Cloud Native
7 4 (2.55%) PMI
8 3 (1.91%) Clustering
9 2 (1.27%) Product Ownership
10 1 (0.64%) Housing Association
10 1 (0.64%) Private Cloud
10 1 (0.64%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 84 (53.50%) Windows
2 54 (34.39%) Windows Server
3 29 (18.47%) Linux
4 24 (15.29%) Windows Server 2019
5 22 (14.01%) Windows Server 2016
6 16 (10.19%) Apple iOS
6 16 (10.19%) Windows 10
7 10 (6.37%) Android
8 5 (3.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 5 (3.18%) VMS
9 4 (2.55%) Debian
9 4 (2.55%) Ubuntu
10 3 (1.91%) Windows 7
11 2 (1.27%) Windows Server 2008
11 2 (1.27%) Windows Server 2012
12 1 (0.64%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (24.84%) CI/CD
2 37 (23.57%) DevOps
3 36 (22.93%) Agile
4 33 (21.02%) ITIL
5 27 (17.20%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 24 (15.29%) Problem-Solving
7 21 (13.38%) Infrastructure as Code
8 20 (12.74%) Analytics
8 20 (12.74%) Incident Response
8 20 (12.74%) Threat Detection
9 19 (12.10%) Log Analytics
9 19 (12.10%) Multi-Factor Authentication
9 19 (12.10%) RBAC
10 18 (11.46%) Release Management
10 18 (11.46%) Service Management
10 18 (11.46%) Task Automation
11 16 (10.19%) Customer Service
11 16 (10.19%) Identity Management
11 16 (10.19%) Mentoring
11 16 (10.19%) Privileged Identity Management
Programming Languages
1 56 (35.67%) PowerShell
2 32 (20.38%) Bicep
3 20 (12.74%) Kusto Query Language
4 18 (11.46%) C#
5 16 (10.19%) VB
5 16 (10.19%) VBScript
6 7 (4.46%) Python
7 6 (3.82%) JavaScript
8 4 (2.55%) Bash
9 3 (1.91%) SQL
10 2 (1.27%) Go
Qualifications
1 29 (18.47%) Degree
2 20 (12.74%) Security Cleared
3 16 (10.19%) Azure Certification
3 16 (10.19%) DV Cleared
3 16 (10.19%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 12 (7.64%) SC Cleared
5 6 (3.82%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (3.18%) AWS Certification
7 4 (2.55%) PMI Certification
8 3 (1.91%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (1.27%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 1 (0.64%) CCA
10 1 (0.64%) CISM
10 1 (0.64%) CISSP
10 1 (0.64%) Citrix Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.46%) QA
1 7 (4.46%) SLA
2 1 (0.64%) GDPR
System Software
1 103 (65.61%) Active Directory
2 49 (31.21%) Virtual Machines
3 37 (23.57%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (7.64%) Hyper-V
5 11 (7.01%) Virtual Servers
6 8 (5.10%) Docker
7 7 (4.46%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 7 (4.46%) vSphere
8 5 (3.18%) pfSense
9 4 (2.55%) Firmware
9 4 (2.55%) NFS
10 3 (1.91%) VMware ESXi
11 2 (1.27%) VMware NSX
12 1 (0.64%) Terminal Server
12 1 (0.64%) XenApp
12 1 (0.64%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 65 (41.40%) Microsoft Intune
2 37 (23.57%) SCCM
3 27 (17.20%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 24 (15.29%) Kubernetes
5 23 (14.65%) Terraform
6 18 (11.46%) SCOM
7 16 (10.19%) WSUS
8 8 (5.10%) Ansible
9 5 (3.18%) Puppet
10 4 (2.55%) Nagios
10 4 (2.55%) Progress Chef
10 4 (2.55%) Single Sign-On
11 3 (1.91%) AirWatch
11 3 (1.91%) Nessus
12 2 (1.27%) Microsoft Clustering
12 2 (1.27%) NetBackup
12 2 (1.27%) vCenter Server
12 2 (1.27%) VxRail
13 1 (0.64%) Failover Clustering
13 1 (0.64%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 97 (61.78%) Microsoft
2 37 (23.57%) VMware
3 23 (14.65%) Citrix
4 10 (6.37%) ServiceNow
5 7 (4.46%) Aruba
6 6 (3.82%) Dell
7 5 (3.18%) Adobe
7 5 (3.18%) Avaya
7 5 (3.18%) CheckPoint
7 5 (3.18%) Cisco
7 5 (3.18%) EMC
7 5 (3.18%) Veeam
8 4 (2.55%) Apple
8 4 (2.55%) Atlassian
8 4 (2.55%) New Relic
8 4 (2.55%) QNAP
8 4 (2.55%) Red Hat
8 4 (2.55%) Splunk
8 4 (2.55%) Synology
8 4 (2.55%) Ubiquiti