Virtual Desktop Jobs in the UK excluding London

Virtual Desktop
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Virtual Desktop skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Virtual Desktop over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 562 553 612
Rank change year-on-year -9 +59 -71
Permanent jobs citing Virtual Desktop 188 212 231
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.27% 0.34% 0.33%
As % of the System Software category 2.11% 2.25% 1.89%
Number of salaries quoted 147 102 111
10th Percentile £26,300 £28,550 £28,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £31,438 £36,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £41,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.76% -8.89% -
75th Percentile £57,375 £58,750 £63,750
90th Percentile £69,500 £70,225 £77,500
UK median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £53,375
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.64% +18.61%

All System Software Skills
UK excluding London

Virtual Desktop is in the System Software category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for system software skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 8,927 9,438 12,196
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 12.74% 15.27% 17.28%
Number of salaries quoted 7,160 5,994 8,402
10th Percentile £25,750 £25,750 £25,750
25th Percentile £31,250 £32,000 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £60,000 £66,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £56,325
% change year-on-year -9.09% -2.35% +2.41%

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 27 April 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 27 April 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 +41 58 £53,000 +47.22% 15
North of England +52 41 £39,500 +5.33% 9
Midlands -24 34 £50,000 -6.54% 5
East of England +20 33 £29,750 -50.42% 5
West Midlands +42 31 £50,000 -10.71% 4
Yorkshire +83 20 £56,500 +61.43% 2
North East +7 16 £39,500 +21.54%
South West -13 14 £55,000 +76.00% 3
Scotland -62 6 £36,500 +4.29% 1
North West +11 5 £41,234 -36.56% 7
East Midlands -62 3 £45,000 +38.46% 1
Wales +13 2 £45,000 -30.23%
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 92 (48.94%) Microsoft Exchange
2 52 (27.66%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.06%) Apache
3 2 (1.06%) JBoss
3 2 (1.06%) nginx
Applications
1 9 (4.79%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.53%) Carpe Diem
1 1 (0.53%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 142 (75.53%) Azure
2 139 (73.94%) Microsoft 365
3 70 (37.23%) Entra ID
4 23 (12.23%) Azure DevOps
5 19 (10.11%) Azure Storage
6 16 (8.51%) IaaS
6 16 (8.51%) PaaS
7 15 (7.98%) OneDrive
8 14 (7.45%) Azure Monitor
9 13 (6.91%) AWS
10 7 (3.72%) Azure Sentinel
11 6 (3.19%) Cloud Computing
11 6 (3.19%) Microsoft Purview
12 4 (2.13%) Dynamics 365
12 4 (2.13%) GCP
12 4 (2.13%) OCI
12 4 (2.13%) Power Platform
13 3 (1.60%) Mimecast
14 2 (1.06%) Datadog
14 2 (1.06%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 65 (34.57%) Firewall
2 36 (19.15%) DNS
3 32 (17.02%) DHCP
4 23 (12.23%) Remote Desktop
4 23 (12.23%) VPN
5 22 (11.70%) WAN
6 21 (11.17%) LAN
7 15 (7.98%) Network Security
8 10 (5.32%) NGFW
9 9 (4.79%) SAN
9 9 (4.79%) TCP/IP
9 9 (4.79%) VLAN
10 7 (3.72%) NetScaler
10 7 (3.72%) Wireshark
11 6 (3.19%) Wireless
12 5 (2.66%) Structured Cabling
13 4 (2.13%) VoIP
13 4 (2.13%) Wi-Fi
14 3 (1.60%) SSL
15 2 (1.06%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (8.51%) Amazon RDS
2 8 (4.26%) SQL Server
3 2 (1.06%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (1.06%) Bitbucket
1 2 (1.06%) Git
1 2 (1.06%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.53%) Robot Framework
2 1 (0.53%) Selenium
2 1 (0.53%) TeamCity
General
1 74 (39.36%) Social Skills
2 28 (14.89%) Finance
3 12 (6.38%) Retail
4 11 (5.85%) Public Sector
5 9 (4.79%) Documentation Skills
6 8 (4.26%) Legal
7 5 (2.66%) Analytical Skills
8 4 (2.13%) Law
9 3 (1.60%) Local Government
9 3 (1.60%) Police
10 2 (1.06%) Advertising
10 2 (1.06%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 43 (22.87%) IT Support
2 25 (13.30%) 2nd Line Support
2 25 (13.30%) IT Engineer
2 25 (13.30%) Support Engineer
3 20 (10.64%) IT Support Engineer
4 17 (9.04%) Analyst
4 17 (9.04%) Azure Specialist
4 17 (9.04%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 17 (9.04%) IT Analyst
4 17 (9.04%) Lead
5 15 (7.98%) IT Support Analyst
5 15 (7.98%) Support Specialist
6 14 (7.45%) 3rd Line Support
6 14 (7.45%) Active Directory Specialist
6 14 (7.45%) Active Directory Support
6 14 (7.45%) Cloud Engineer
7 12 (6.38%) 2nd Line Engineer
7 12 (6.38%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
8 11 (5.85%) Architect
9 10 (5.32%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (12.77%) ARM Templates
2 12 (6.38%) JSON
3 10 (5.32%) YAML
4 2 (1.06%) CSS
4 2 (1.06%) CSS3
4 2 (1.06%) HTML
4 2 (1.06%) HTML5
4 2 (1.06%) Keycloak
4 2 (1.06%) OAuth
4 2 (1.06%) OAuth2
4 2 (1.06%) OpenID
4 2 (1.06%) React
4 2 (1.06%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 20 (10.64%) Self-Motivation
2 19 (10.11%) Management Information System
3 16 (8.51%) PKI
4 12 (6.38%) iPad
5 10 (5.32%) Private Cloud
5 10 (5.32%) Public Cloud
6 8 (4.26%) Mobile App
7 7 (3.72%) Cloud Native
7 7 (3.72%) Driving Licence
7 7 (3.72%) PMI
8 6 (3.19%) Security Operations Centre
9 5 (2.66%) Data Centre
9 5 (2.66%) Low-Code
10 4 (2.13%) Algorithms
10 4 (2.13%) Data Structures
10 4 (2.13%) Enterprise Cloud
11 3 (1.60%) Product Ownership
12 1 (0.53%) Housing Association
12 1 (0.53%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 114 (60.64%) Windows
2 75 (39.89%) Windows Server
3 27 (14.36%) Windows Server 2019
4 22 (11.70%) Windows Server 2016
5 20 (10.64%) Apple iOS
5 20 (10.64%) Linux
5 20 (10.64%) Windows 10
6 15 (7.98%) Android
7 10 (5.32%) VMS
8 9 (4.79%) Windows 7
9 3 (1.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.53%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (24.47%) Agile
2 43 (22.87%) DevOps
3 41 (21.81%) ITIL
4 31 (16.49%) Problem-Solving
5 27 (14.36%) Customer Service
6 26 (13.83%) CI/CD
6 26 (13.83%) Infrastructure as Code
6 26 (13.83%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 22 (11.70%) Migration
8 20 (10.64%) Cybersecurity
8 20 (10.64%) Server Management
9 18 (9.57%) Continuous Improvement
9 18 (9.57%) Line Management
10 17 (9.04%) Data Loss Prevention
10 17 (9.04%) Release Management
11 16 (8.51%) Information Security
11 16 (8.51%) Kalman Filter
12 15 (7.98%) Mentoring
12 15 (7.98%) Multi-Factor Authentication
12 15 (7.98%) Software Deployment
Programming Languages
1 55 (29.26%) PowerShell
2 14 (7.45%) Bicep
2 14 (7.45%) C#
2 14 (7.45%) VB
2 14 (7.45%) VBScript
3 9 (4.79%) Python
4 3 (1.60%) SQL
5 2 (1.06%) Bash
5 2 (1.06%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 25 (13.30%) Degree
2 19 (10.11%) Security Cleared
3 17 (9.04%) Azure Certification
3 17 (9.04%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 14 (7.45%) DV Cleared
5 8 (4.26%) SC Cleared
6 7 (3.72%) Cisco Certification
6 7 (3.72%) Microsoft Certification
6 7 (3.72%) PMI Certification
7 6 (3.19%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 6 (3.19%) AWS Certification
7 6 (3.19%) CCSP
7 6 (3.19%) CEH
7 6 (3.19%) CISSP
7 6 (3.19%) SANS
7 6 (3.19%) SSCP
8 4 (2.13%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (1.60%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.53%) TOGAF Certification
10 1 (0.53%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (6.38%) QA
2 9 (4.79%) SLA
3 7 (3.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (3.19%) NIST
4 6 (3.19%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.53%) GDPR
System Software
1 129 (68.62%) Active Directory
2 64 (34.04%) VMware Infrastructure
3 25 (13.30%) Virtual Machines
4 22 (11.70%) Hyper-V
5 18 (9.57%) VMware ESXi
6 16 (8.51%) Virtual Servers
7 11 (5.85%) vSphere
8 9 (4.79%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 7 (3.72%) XenApp
10 6 (3.19%) XenDesktop
11 2 (1.06%) Docker
Systems Management
1 81 (43.09%) Microsoft Intune
2 37 (19.68%) SCCM
3 31 (16.49%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 17 (9.04%) SCOM
4 17 (9.04%) WSUS
5 16 (8.51%) Kubernetes
6 12 (6.38%) Terraform
7 9 (4.79%) AirWatch
8 6 (3.19%) Nmap
9 3 (1.60%) Ansible
9 3 (1.60%) Nessus
9 3 (1.60%) PaperCut
9 3 (1.60%) Puppet
9 3 (1.60%) SmoothWall
10 2 (1.06%) Jamf Pro
10 2 (1.06%) Nagios
10 2 (1.06%) Progress Chef
10 2 (1.06%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.53%) Autotask
11 1 (0.53%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 118 (62.77%) Microsoft
2 64 (34.04%) VMware
3 52 (27.66%) Citrix
4 13 (6.91%) ServiceNow
5 11 (5.85%) HP
6 10 (5.32%) Veeam
7 9 (4.79%) Apple
7 9 (4.79%) Dell
7 9 (4.79%) Symantec
7 9 (4.79%) Toshiba
8 8 (4.26%) Splunk
9 7 (3.72%) Adobe
9 7 (3.72%) Commvault
9 7 (3.72%) EMC
10 6 (3.19%) Fortinet
10 6 (3.19%) Qualys
10 6 (3.19%) Rapid7
10 6 (3.19%) Thycotic
11 5 (2.66%) Avaya
12 4 (2.13%) Oracle