Desktop Virtualization
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Desktop Virtualisation skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Desktop Virtualisation over the 6 months to 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 838 968 1163
Rank change year-on-year +130 +195 -320
Permanent jobs citing Desktop Virtualisation 47 18 59
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.048% 0.017% 0.038%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.056% 0.018% 0.040%
Number of salaries quoted 47 14 53
10th Percentile - £50,896 £31,925
25th Percentile £31,250 £55,903 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -46.15% +13.04% +21.05%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £91,250 £74,050
UK excluding London median annual salary £32,500 £52,500 £48,750
% change year-on-year -38.10% +7.69% +8.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Desktop Virtualisation is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84,571 99,456 148,990
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.99% 95.62% 95.61%
Number of salaries quoted 59,798 58,396 83,204
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.57% +2.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

Desktop Virtualisation
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Desktop Virtualisation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Desktop Virtualisation in the UK

Desktop Virtualisation
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Desktop Virtualisation.

Salary trend for Desktop Virtualisation in the UK

Desktop Virtualisation
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Desktop Virtualisation over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Desktop Virtualisation in the UK

Desktop Virtualisation
Top 8 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Desktop Virtualisation within the UK over the 6 months to 29 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
England +133 29 £32,500 -47.79% 3
UK excluding London +30 28 £32,500 -38.10% 2
North of England - 28 £32,500 -
Work from Home +96 27 £32,500 -54.86% 1
North East - 21 £32,500 -
Yorkshire - 5 £35,000 -
North West - 2 £35,250 -
London +124 1 £77,500 +7.64%

Desktop Virtualisation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 1 (2.13%) Site Server
Applications
1 4 (8.51%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 44 (93.62%) Azure
2 18 (38.30%) AWS
3 4 (8.51%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (2.13%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (2.13%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 21 (44.68%) SAN
2 18 (38.30%) LAN
3 4 (8.51%) Internet
4 1 (2.13%) DHCP
4 1 (2.13%) DNS
4 1 (2.13%) NetScaler
4 1 (2.13%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (44.68%) SQL Server
2 10 (21.28%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 4 (8.51%) Katalon Studio
1 4 (8.51%) Postman
General
1 39 (82.98%) Social Skills
2 21 (44.68%) Organisational Skills
3 19 (40.43%) Public Sector
4 18 (38.30%) Presentation Skills
5 4 (8.51%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (2.13%) Banking
6 1 (2.13%) Finance
Job Titles
1 23 (48.94%) IT Engineer
1 23 (48.94%) IT Support
2 22 (46.81%) IT Support Engineer
2 22 (46.81%) Support Engineer
3 18 (38.30%) Architect
3 18 (38.30%) Cybersecurity Architect
3 18 (38.30%) Security Architect
4 17 (36.17%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 17 (36.17%) 3rd Line Support
4 17 (36.17%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
5 16 (34.04%) 2nd/3rd Line Support
5 16 (34.04%) 2nd/3rd Line Support Engineer
6 13 (27.66%) Security Technical Architect
6 13 (27.66%) Technical Architect
7 11 (23.40%) 2nd Line Engineer
7 11 (23.40%) 2nd Line Support
7 11 (23.40%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
8 5 (10.64%) Senior
8 5 (10.64%) Senior Architect
8 5 (10.64%) Senior Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (8.51%) .NET
1 4 (8.51%) Gherkin
1 4 (8.51%) HTML
1 4 (8.51%) Web Services
1 4 (8.51%) XML
1 4 (8.51%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 21 (44.68%) Driving Licence
1 21 (44.68%) Enterprise Storage
2 18 (38.30%) Cyberattack
2 18 (38.30%) Data Centre
2 18 (38.30%) Management Information System
3 13 (27.66%) iPhone
3 13 (27.66%) Onboarding
4 4 (8.51%) NHS
5 1 (2.13%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.26%) Windows
1 2 (4.26%) Windows Server
2 1 (2.13%) Windows Server 2012
2 1 (2.13%) Windows Server 2016
2 1 (2.13%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (46.81%) ITIL
2 21 (44.68%) Incident Management
3 18 (38.30%) Business Development
3 18 (38.30%) Coaching
3 18 (38.30%) Customer-Centricity
3 18 (38.30%) Cyber Assurance
3 18 (38.30%) Cybersecurity
3 18 (38.30%) Digital Thinking
3 18 (38.30%) Identity Management
3 18 (38.30%) Information Security
3 18 (38.30%) Network Architecture
3 18 (38.30%) Practice Management
3 18 (38.30%) Roadmaps
3 18 (38.30%) Security Architecture
3 18 (38.30%) Stakeholder Management
3 18 (38.30%) Threat Management
3 18 (38.30%) Threat Modelling
4 5 (10.64%) GAP Analysis
5 4 (8.51%) Defect Tracking
5 4 (8.51%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 5 (10.64%) SQL
2 4 (8.51%) C#
2 4 (8.51%) Groovy
2 4 (8.51%) JavaScript
3 2 (4.26%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 39 (82.98%) Azure Certification
2 21 (44.68%) Microsoft Certification
3 18 (38.30%) AWS Certification
3 18 (38.30%) CISM
3 18 (38.30%) CISSP
3 18 (38.30%) SC Cleared
3 18 (38.30%) Security Cleared
4 13 (27.66%) BPSS Clearance
4 13 (27.66%) OSCP
5 5 (10.64%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 5 (10.64%) CCSP
5 5 (10.64%) Cisco Certification
5 5 (10.64%) ISACA
6 4 (8.51%) CIPD
6 4 (8.51%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (10.64%) Cyber Essentials
1 5 (10.64%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 5 (10.64%) IASME
1 5 (10.64%) QA
System Software
1 40 (85.11%) Active Directory
2 12 (25.53%) Hyper-V
3 6 (12.77%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (8.51%) VMware Server
5 1 (2.13%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (2.13%) XenApp
5 1 (2.13%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 2 (4.26%) SCCM
Vendors
1 28 (59.57%) Microsoft
2 6 (12.77%) VMware
3 4 (8.51%) Google
4 3 (6.38%) Citrix