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 15 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 472 572 523
Rank change year-on-year +100 -49 +97
Permanent jobs citing Virtual Desktop 113 192 231
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.29% 0.27% 0.39%
As % of the System Software category 2.70% 2.19% 2.51%
Number of salaries quoted 76 151 94
10th Percentile £26,250 £26,500 £28,650
25th Percentile £28,000 £32,500 £31,789
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,317 £45,000 £38,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.96% +16.88% -14.44%
75th Percentile £46,875 £58,250 £58,750
90th Percentile £63,750 £72,500 £69,625
UK median annual salary £46,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -8.00% -4.76% -0.94%

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 4,185 8,782 9,219
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 10.71% 12.39% 15.46%
Number of salaries quoted 2,455 7,049 5,801
10th Percentile £26,500 £25,750 £25,750
25th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £45,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £60,000 £66,700
90th Percentile £83,750 £73,750 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -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 15 May 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 15 May 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 +80 46 £40,000 -21.57% 23
Midlands +53 20 £28,125 -46.43% 2
North of England +32 18 £46,000 +13.95% 13
East of England +27 18 £62,500 +110.08% 10
North West +10 16 £46,000 +11.56% 4
West Midlands +39 11 £80,000 +52.38% 1
East Midlands +42 9 £27,500 -38.89% 1
Wales +46 8 £38,094 -15.35% 5
South West +108 4 £56,250 +2.27% 15
Yorkshire +45 2 £31,500 -44.25% 3
Scotland +109 1 £35,000 -4.76%
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 24 (21.24%) SharePoint
2 14 (12.39%) Microsoft Exchange
3 10 (8.85%) Confluence
4 3 (2.65%) Apache
4 3 (2.65%) nginx
5 1 (0.88%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 7 (6.19%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 5 (4.42%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (1.77%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 67 (59.29%) Azure
2 66 (58.41%) Microsoft 365
3 23 (20.35%) Entra ID
4 10 (8.85%) AWS
4 10 (8.85%) SaaS
5 8 (7.08%) IaaS
5 8 (7.08%) PaaS
6 7 (6.19%) Amazon ECS
6 7 (6.19%) Amazon GuardDuty
6 7 (6.19%) Amazon S3
6 7 (6.19%) AWS KMS
6 7 (6.19%) AWS Lambda
6 7 (6.19%) Serverless
6 7 (6.19%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 4 (3.54%) Mimecast
8 3 (2.65%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 3 (2.65%) Amazon EC2
8 3 (2.65%) Amazon Glacier
8 3 (2.65%) GCP
8 3 (2.65%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 25 (22.12%) Firewall
2 17 (15.04%) DNS
3 14 (12.39%) LAN
3 14 (12.39%) WAN
4 11 (9.73%) Remote Desktop
5 9 (7.96%) SD-WAN
6 8 (7.08%) DHCP
7 7 (6.19%) Ethernet
7 7 (6.19%) SSL
8 5 (4.42%) VPN
9 4 (3.54%) WebEx
10 3 (2.65%) Cisco Nexus
11 2 (1.77%) SAN
11 2 (1.77%) VSAN
12 1 (0.88%) NetScaler
12 1 (0.88%) Network Security
12 1 (0.88%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (9.73%) SQL Server
2 4 (3.54%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (0.88%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 15 (13.27%) JIRA
2 10 (8.85%) Jenkins
3 7 (6.19%) Bitbucket Server
4 3 (2.65%) GitLab
4 3 (2.65%) Sonatype Nexus
4 3 (2.65%) Vagrant
General
1 50 (44.25%) Social Skills
2 15 (13.27%) Finance
3 14 (12.39%) Retail
4 8 (7.08%) Legal
4 8 (7.08%) Welsh Language
5 7 (6.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 6 (5.31%) Law
7 3 (2.65%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (2.65%) Games
7 3 (2.65%) Public Sector
8 2 (1.77%) Local Government
9 1 (0.88%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 17 (15.04%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 17 (15.04%) Senior
2 16 (14.16%) Analyst
3 15 (13.27%) Support Engineer
4 14 (12.39%) 1st Line Support
5 12 (10.62%) IT Support
6 9 (7.96%) 2nd Line Support
7 8 (7.08%) Server Engineer
7 8 (7.08%) Service Desk Support
8 7 (6.19%) Administrator
8 7 (6.19%) Architect
8 7 (6.19%) Azure Architect
8 7 (6.19%) Infrastructure Support
8 7 (6.19%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
8 7 (6.19%) Support Analyst
9 6 (5.31%) Platform Engineer
9 6 (5.31%) Senior Architect
9 6 (5.31%) Senior Solutions Architect
9 6 (5.31%) Solutions Architect
9 6 (5.31%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (3.54%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 8 (7.08%) IoT
2 6 (5.31%) Onboarding
3 5 (4.42%) Data Centre
3 5 (4.42%) Driving Licence
4 3 (2.65%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (1.77%) Private Cloud
5 2 (1.77%) Product Ownership
6 1 (0.88%) Clustering
6 1 (0.88%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.88%) Robotics
6 1 (0.88%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 66 (58.41%) Windows
2 26 (23.01%) Windows Server
3 14 (12.39%) Mac OS
4 10 (8.85%) Apple iOS
4 10 (8.85%) Linux
5 8 (7.08%) Windows Server 2019
6 7 (6.19%) Ubuntu
7 5 (4.42%) VMS
8 3 (2.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (2.65%) Windows 10
9 2 (1.77%) Android
9 2 (1.77%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.88%) Windows Server 2008
10 1 (0.88%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (31.86%) Problem-Solving
2 34 (30.09%) Customer Service
3 31 (27.43%) ITIL
4 20 (17.70%) Migration
5 19 (16.81%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 19 (16.81%) Roadmaps
6 18 (15.93%) Service Management
7 16 (14.16%) Agile
7 16 (14.16%) Data Protection
7 16 (14.16%) ITSM
8 12 (10.62%) Continuous Improvement
8 12 (10.62%) Time Management
9 11 (9.73%) Mentoring
10 10 (8.85%) Presales
11 9 (7.96%) Business Continuity
11 9 (7.96%) Coaching
11 9 (7.96%) Collaborative Working
11 9 (7.96%) Incident Management
11 9 (7.96%) Statistics
11 9 (7.96%) Stress Testing
Programming Languages
1 22 (19.47%) PowerShell
2 16 (14.16%) Python
3 11 (9.73%) SQL
4 7 (6.19%) Shell Script
5 5 (4.42%) Bash
6 3 (2.65%) Groovy
6 3 (2.65%) Java
6 3 (2.65%) Perl
6 3 (2.65%) Ruby
7 1 (0.88%) VB
7 1 (0.88%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 27 (23.89%) Microsoft Certification
2 17 (15.04%) Azure Certification
3 14 (12.39%) Security Cleared
4 12 (10.62%) MCSE
5 11 (9.73%) MCSA
6 9 (7.96%) SC Cleared
7 8 (7.08%) DBS Check
8 5 (4.42%) DV Cleared
9 4 (3.54%) Degree
10 3 (2.65%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 3 (2.65%) MCP
11 1 (0.88%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (16.81%) SLA
2 6 (5.31%) GDPR
2 6 (5.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (2.65%) Cyber Essentials
3 3 (2.65%) Government Security Classifications
4 1 (0.88%) NCSC
System Software
1 64 (56.64%) Active Directory
2 23 (20.35%) VMware Infrastructure
3 17 (15.04%) Hyper-V
4 14 (12.39%) Virtual Machines
5 9 (7.96%) VMware ESXi
6 7 (6.19%) Docker
7 5 (4.42%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.88%) BitLocker
8 1 (0.88%) Microsoft App-V
8 1 (0.88%) XenApp
8 1 (0.88%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 27 (23.89%) Microsoft Intune
2 15 (13.27%) Ansible
3 10 (8.85%) Terraform
4 7 (6.19%) Nessus
4 7 (6.19%) Proxmox
4 7 (6.19%) SCCM
5 6 (5.31%) Nagios
5 6 (5.31%) Puppet
5 6 (5.31%) vCenter Server
6 4 (3.54%) VxRail
7 3 (2.65%) Avamar
7 3 (2.65%) Graylog
7 3 (2.65%) Progress Chef
7 3 (2.65%) Rundeck
8 1 (0.88%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (0.88%) Microsoft Clustering
8 1 (0.88%) SCOM
8 1 (0.88%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 79 (69.91%) Microsoft
2 32 (28.32%) Citrix
3 23 (20.35%) VMware
4 12 (10.62%) Apple
5 11 (9.73%) Meraki
6 10 (8.85%) Cisco
6 10 (8.85%) Dell
6 10 (8.85%) Juniper
7 8 (7.08%) iManage
8 7 (6.19%) ServiceNow
9 6 (5.31%) Adobe
10 5 (4.42%) Veeam
11 4 (3.54%) EMC
11 4 (3.54%) Sophos
12 3 (2.65%) Aruba
12 3 (2.65%) NetApp
12 3 (2.65%) PagerDuty
12 3 (2.65%) Pure Storage
12 3 (2.65%) SolarWinds
13 2 (1.77%) arcserve