Virtual Desktop
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 7 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 509 726 786
Rank change year-on-year +217 +60 -170
Permanent jobs citing Virtual Desktop 229 362 299
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.43% 0.29% 0.23%
As % of the System Software category 2.58% 1.93% 1.32%
Number of salaries quoted 196 277 269
10th Percentile £33,672 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,000 £37,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,750 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - +16.67%
75th Percentile £74,250 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £106,250 £78,000 £81,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £50,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -5.00% +11.11% -

All System Software Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for system software skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 8,872 18,743 22,601
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 16.75% 15.26% 17.64%
Number of salaries quoted 7,069 12,536 15,960
10th Percentile £29,000 £29,250 £28,250
25th Percentile £37,000 £38,250 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,952 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.70% +1.73% -
75th Percentile £72,647 £77,715 £77,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £95,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £49,787 £47,500
% change year-on-year -4.59% +4.82% +5.56%

Virtual Desktop
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Virtual Desktop in the UK

Virtual Desktop
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Virtual Desktop in the UK

Virtual Desktop
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Virtual Desktop over the 6 months to 7 December 2023.

Salary histogram for Virtual Desktop in the UK

Virtual Desktop
Top 17 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 7 December 2023. 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 +246 219 £59,000 +12.38% 67
UK excluding London +179 125 £47,500 -5.00% 65
Work from Home +189 114 £57,500 +4.55% 35
London +225 94 £72,500 +27.19% 14
South East +126 39 £56,525 +25.61% 9
North of England +139 35 £42,500 -29.17% 19
Midlands +130 28 £50,000 -4.76% 11
West Midlands +121 21 £50,000 -4.76% 6
Yorkshire +104 17 £42,500 -32.00% 10
South West +64 15 £42,500 -10.53% 12
North West +100 11 £32,500 -23.53% 5
East Midlands +59 7 £42,500 - 5
North East +48 7 £47,500 -38.71% 4
Scotland +14 4 £31,000 -52.31% 13
Wales +15 3 £72,500 +38.10% 2
Northern Ireland - 2 £37,500 -
East of England +102 1 £55,000 +37.50% 1

Virtual Desktop
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 43 (18.78%) SharePoint
2 9 (3.93%) MS Exchange
3 5 (2.18%) IIS
4 1 (0.44%) Apache
4 1 (0.44%) Exchange Server 2010
4 1 (0.44%) JBoss
4 1 (0.44%) nginx
4 1 (0.44%) Site Server
Applications
1 23 (10.04%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (3.06%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (1.75%) Chatbot
4 3 (1.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.87%) Acrobat
Cloud Services
1 168 (73.36%) Azure
2 163 (71.18%) Microsoft 365
3 85 (37.12%) Entra ID
4 37 (16.16%) Azure DevOps
5 24 (10.48%) IaaS
5 24 (10.48%) PaaS
6 23 (10.04%) Azure Storage
7 22 (9.61%) Azure Monitor
8 17 (7.42%) AWS
9 15 (6.55%) Power Platform
10 13 (5.68%) GCP
11 9 (3.93%) WhatsApp
12 7 (3.06%) Azure Sentinel
12 7 (3.06%) OneDrive
13 6 (2.62%) Microsoft Purview
14 5 (2.18%) Cloud Computing
14 5 (2.18%) SaaS
15 4 (1.75%) Mimecast
15 4 (1.75%) PowerApps
15 4 (1.75%) Yammer
Communications & Networking
1 76 (33.19%) Firewall
2 57 (24.89%) DNS
3 54 (23.58%) DHCP
4 39 (17.03%) VPN
5 23 (10.04%) NGFW
5 23 (10.04%) WAN
6 21 (9.17%) LAN
6 21 (9.17%) TCP/IP
7 14 (6.11%) Network Security
8 13 (5.68%) VoIP
9 12 (5.24%) VLAN
10 10 (4.37%) SAN
11 8 (3.49%) Wi-Fi
11 8 (3.49%) Wireless
12 7 (3.06%) Internet
13 6 (2.62%) OSPF
13 6 (2.62%) VSAN
14 5 (2.18%) Cisco ISE
14 5 (2.18%) NetScaler
14 5 (2.18%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (3.93%) Power BI
1 9 (3.93%) SQL Server
2 7 (3.06%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (1.31%) GIS
4 1 (0.44%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 10 (4.37%) Axure RP
2 2 (0.87%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.44%) Bitbucket
3 1 (0.44%) Git
3 1 (0.44%) GitLab
3 1 (0.44%) TeamCity
General
1 68 (29.69%) Social Skills
2 32 (13.97%) Finance
3 14 (6.11%) Legal
4 13 (5.68%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (5.68%) Documentation Skills
4 13 (5.68%) Telecoms
5 8 (3.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 8 (3.49%) Organisational Skills
6 6 (2.62%) Banking
6 6 (2.62%) Law
7 4 (1.75%) Public Sector
8 3 (1.31%) Local Government
8 3 (1.31%) Manufacturing
8 3 (1.31%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (0.87%) Retail
10 1 (0.44%) Billing
10 1 (0.44%) Dutch Language
10 1 (0.44%) French Language
10 1 (0.44%) German Language
10 1 (0.44%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 38 (16.59%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 35 (15.28%) Architect
3 27 (11.79%) Senior
3 27 (11.79%) Support Engineer
4 25 (10.92%) Cloud Architect
5 24 (10.48%) Citrix Architect
6 22 (9.61%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
7 15 (6.55%) Azure Engineer
8 13 (5.68%) 3rd Line Support
8 13 (5.68%) Active Directory Support
8 13 (5.68%) Analyst
9 12 (5.24%) 3rd Line Engineer
9 12 (5.24%) Active Directory Specialist
9 12 (5.24%) Azure Architect
9 12 (5.24%) Support Specialist
10 11 (4.80%) Azure Specialist
10 11 (4.80%) Desktop Engineer
10 11 (4.80%) IT Engineer
11 10 (4.37%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
11 10 (4.37%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (16.59%) ARM Templates
2 31 (13.54%) JSON
3 24 (10.48%) YAML
4 4 (1.75%) Middleware
4 4 (1.75%) Software Packaging
5 1 (0.44%) CSS
5 1 (0.44%) HTML
5 1 (0.44%) Keycloak
5 1 (0.44%) OAuth
5 1 (0.44%) OAuth2
5 1 (0.44%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 27 (11.79%) Management Information System
1 27 (11.79%) Private Cloud
2 26 (11.35%) PKI
3 25 (10.92%) Public Cloud
4 15 (6.55%) Self-Motivation
5 12 (5.24%) Data Centre
5 12 (5.24%) Driving Licence
6 7 (3.06%) Replication
7 5 (2.18%) Blog
7 5 (2.18%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 5 (2.18%) iPhone
8 4 (1.75%) Virtual Team
9 3 (1.31%) Product Ownership
9 3 (1.31%) Security Operations Centre
9 3 (1.31%) Video Conferencing
10 2 (0.87%) Cyber Security Posture
10 2 (0.87%) Fat Client
10 2 (0.87%) Handset
10 2 (0.87%) Onboarding
10 2 (0.87%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 159 (69.43%) Windows
2 76 (33.19%) Windows Server
3 48 (20.96%) Windows 10
4 34 (14.85%) Windows Server 2016
5 26 (11.35%) Windows Server 2019
6 20 (8.73%) Android
7 16 (6.99%) Linux
8 14 (6.11%) Apple iOS
9 12 (5.24%) Windows 7
10 7 (3.06%) Windows 8
11 6 (2.62%) Mac OS
11 6 (2.62%) Windows Server 2003
12 3 (1.31%) Windows Server 2012
13 2 (0.87%) Unix
13 2 (0.87%) VMS
14 1 (0.44%) Mac OS X
14 1 (0.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 1 (0.44%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (27.07%) Agile
2 59 (25.76%) ITIL
3 58 (25.33%) DevOps
4 45 (19.65%) CI/CD
5 44 (19.21%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 41 (17.90%) Problem-Solving
7 40 (17.47%) Service Management
8 33 (14.41%) Infrastructure as Code
8 33 (14.41%) Migration
9 29 (12.66%) Multi-Factor Authentication
9 29 (12.66%) Release Management
10 28 (12.23%) Identity Management
10 28 (12.23%) SDLC
11 26 (11.35%) Analytics
11 26 (11.35%) Network Design
11 26 (11.35%) Service Delivery
12 25 (10.92%) Customer Service
12 25 (10.92%) Cybersecurity
12 25 (10.92%) Roadmaps
13 23 (10.04%) Network Virtualisation
Programming Languages
1 85 (37.12%) PowerShell
2 24 (10.48%) C#
2 24 (10.48%) VB
2 24 (10.48%) VBScript
3 17 (7.42%) SQL
4 15 (6.55%) Bicep
5 10 (4.37%) Python
6 6 (2.62%) Java
7 5 (2.18%) Kotlin
7 5 (2.18%) TypeScript
8 2 (0.87%) Bash
9 1 (0.44%) JavaScript
9 1 (0.44%) R
Qualifications
1 41 (17.90%) Degree
2 30 (13.10%) Security Cleared
3 28 (12.23%) SC Cleared
4 23 (10.04%) Azure Certification
4 23 (10.04%) DV Cleared
4 23 (10.04%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 17 (7.42%) Microsoft Certification
6 11 (4.80%) Cisco Certification
7 7 (3.06%) CCNA
8 6 (2.62%) DBS Check
9 4 (1.75%) CCSP
9 4 (1.75%) CISSP
9 4 (1.75%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 3 (1.31%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 3 (1.31%) CEH
10 3 (1.31%) ITIL Certification
10 3 (1.31%) SANS
10 3 (1.31%) SSCP
11 2 (0.87%) A+ Certification
11 2 (0.87%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (8.30%) SLA
2 9 (3.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 8 (3.49%) NIST
4 5 (2.18%) Cyber Essentials
5 4 (1.75%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 3 (1.31%) ISO/IEC 20000
6 3 (1.31%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.44%) QA
System Software
1 144 (62.88%) Active Directory
2 103 (44.98%) VMware Infrastructure
3 47 (20.52%) VMware ESXi
4 38 (16.59%) Virtual Machines
5 37 (16.16%) vSphere
6 17 (7.42%) Hyper-V
7 10 (4.37%) Firmware
8 7 (3.06%) Docker
9 5 (2.18%) BitLocker
9 5 (2.18%) XenApp
10 3 (1.31%) XenDesktop
11 2 (0.87%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 2 (0.87%) Virtual Servers
12 1 (0.44%) Microsoft App-V
12 1 (0.44%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 100 (43.67%) Microsoft Intune
2 60 (26.20%) SCCM
3 29 (12.66%) Terraform
3 29 (12.66%) WSUS
4 27 (11.79%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 25 (10.92%) Kubernetes
6 23 (10.04%) SCOM
7 11 (4.80%) Jamf Pro
8 7 (3.06%) AirWatch
9 6 (2.62%) PaperCut
9 6 (2.62%) SmoothWall
10 5 (2.18%) Ansible
10 5 (2.18%) Backup Exec
10 5 (2.18%) FortiGate
10 5 (2.18%) SysTrack
10 5 (2.18%) vCenter Server
11 4 (1.75%) Progress Chef
12 3 (1.31%) Nmap
12 3 (1.31%) Single Sign-On
13 2 (0.87%) XenMobile
Vendors
1 121 (52.84%) Microsoft
2 103 (44.98%) VMware
3 72 (31.44%) Citrix
4 26 (11.35%) Dell
5 24 (10.48%) Cisco
5 24 (10.48%) HP
6 18 (7.86%) Google
7 17 (7.42%) ServiceNow
8 16 (6.99%) Apple
9 13 (5.68%) SolarWinds
10 12 (5.24%) Meraki
11 8 (3.49%) Symantec
12 7 (3.06%) Toshiba
13 6 (2.62%) Adobe
13 6 (2.62%) CheckPoint
14 5 (2.18%) CA
14 5 (2.18%) Veeam
14 5 (2.18%) Veritas
15 4 (1.75%) Ivanti
15 4 (1.75%) Splunk