Desktop Virtualisation Job Trends

Desktop Virtualization
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Desktop Virtualisation skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 649 682 677
Rank change year-on-year +33 -5 +319
Permanent jobs citing Desktop Virtualisation 2 29 36
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.003% 0.053% 0.070%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.004% 0.058% 0.077%
Number of salaries quoted 2 15 34
10th Percentile £30,100 £46,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £31,750 £73,750 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £80,000 £67,000
Median % change year-on-year -56.25% +19.40% +19.85%
75th Percentile £37,750 - £75,000
90th Percentile £39,100 £86,000 -
UK excluding London median annual salary £35,000 £33,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.48% -44.17% +37.93%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Desktop Virtualisation falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 48,455 49,716 46,950
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 81.91% 90.02% 91.47%
Number of salaries quoted 28,359 24,660 35,854
10th Percentile £28,500 £35,000 £31,552
25th Percentile £36,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £49,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -10.91% +4.76% -4.50%

Desktop Virtualisation
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Desktop Virtualisation relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Desktop Virtualisation job vacancy trend in the UK

Desktop Virtualisation
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Desktop Virtualisation.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Desktop Virtualisation

Desktop Virtualisation
Top 6 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 1 January 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
England +62 2 £35,000 -50.00% 1
UK excluding London +50 2 £35,000 +4.48%
Work from Home +73 1 £30,000 -57.14% 1
Yorkshire - 1 £30,000 -
South East - 1 £40,000 -
North of England - 1 £30,000 -

Desktop Virtualisation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (50.00%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
1 1 (50.00%) SAN
1 1 (50.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (50.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) IT Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) IT Assistant
1 1 (50.00%) IT Support
1 1 (50.00%) IT Support Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Support Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Customer Service
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Customer Experience
2 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (50.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (50.00%) ITIL
2 1 (50.00%) Practice Management
2 1 (50.00%) Preventative Maintenance
2 1 (50.00%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (50.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (50.00%) Virtual Machines
1 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (50.00%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) Citrix
2 1 (50.00%) Ivanti
2 1 (50.00%) VMware
2 1 (50.00%) WatchGuard