Virtual Desktop Jobs

Virtual Desktop
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 562 635 621
Rank change year-on-year +73 -14 +192
Permanent jobs citing Virtual Desktop 149 286 370
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.27% 0.28% 0.38%
As % of the System Software category 2.40% 2.38% 2.44%
Number of salaries quoted 106 225 180
10th Percentile £27,000 £29,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £36,250 £36,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £44,000 £51,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.73% -7.27% +3.77%
75th Percentile £72,500 £71,250 £73,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £87,500 £77,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £47,500 £40,000
% change year-on-year -10.53% +18.75% -11.11%

All System Software Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 6,212 11,994 15,156
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 11.21% 11.61% 15.60%
Number of salaries quoted 3,576 9,354 9,841
10th Percentile £28,000 £26,250 £27,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £32,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,875 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.75% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £76,840 £67,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £85,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% -5.00%

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 30 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Virtual Desktop in the UK

Virtual Desktop
Top 15 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 30 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
England +38 140 £46,000 -12.38% 257
UK excluding London +95 99 £42,500 -10.53% 256
London +91 52 £70,047 -2.03% 30
South East +62 40 £41,250 -21.43% 69
Work from Home -8 29 £42,500 -22.73% 262
East of England +31 18 £56,250 +89.08% 47
Midlands +71 16 £28,125 -47.67% 43
North of England +22 14 £46,000 +5.75% 48
North West +16 13 £46,000 +3.68% 24
East Midlands +49 9 £27,500 -59.26% 18
Wales +52 8 £38,094 -15.35% 10
West Midlands +40 7 £80,000 +52.38% 23
South West +94 4 £57,500 +15.00% 36
Scotland +113 1 £35,000 -21.79% 9
Yorkshire +38 1 £28,000 -50.44% 17

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 37 (24.83%) Microsoft Exchange
2 32 (21.48%) SharePoint
3 8 (5.37%) Confluence
4 3 (2.01%) Apache
4 3 (2.01%) nginx
4 3 (2.01%) WordPress
5 1 (0.67%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 11 (7.38%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (4.70%) Mozilla Thunderbird
3 5 (3.36%) Microsoft Excel
4 4 (2.68%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (2.68%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.34%) Carpe Diem
Cloud Services
1 106 (71.14%) Azure
2 95 (63.76%) Microsoft 365
3 40 (26.85%) Entra ID
4 27 (18.12%) AWS
5 21 (14.09%) PaaS
6 19 (12.75%) SaaS
7 12 (8.05%) IaaS
8 11 (7.38%) Amazon S3
9 10 (6.71%) Azure DevOps
9 10 (6.71%) GitHub
9 10 (6.71%) OneDrive
10 9 (6.04%) GitHub Actions
10 9 (6.04%) Serverless
11 8 (5.37%) AWS Lambda
11 8 (5.37%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 7 (4.70%) Amazon EC2
12 7 (4.70%) Amazon ECS
12 7 (4.70%) Amazon GuardDuty
12 7 (4.70%) AWS KMS
12 7 (4.70%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 30 (20.13%) DNS
2 28 (18.79%) Firewall
3 19 (12.75%) LAN
4 16 (10.74%) VPN
4 16 (10.74%) WAN
5 14 (9.40%) Remote Desktop
6 13 (8.72%) DHCP
7 12 (8.05%) SSL
8 11 (7.38%) TCP/IP
9 9 (6.04%) SD-WAN
10 8 (5.37%) VLAN
11 7 (4.70%) Ethernet
12 6 (4.03%) Network Security
13 5 (3.36%) SAN
14 4 (2.68%) Cisco IOS
14 4 (2.68%) FTP
14 4 (2.68%) PBX
14 4 (2.68%) SMTP
14 4 (2.68%) Structured Cabling
14 4 (2.68%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (6.04%) Amazon RDS
1 9 (6.04%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.67%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (0.67%) Data Lake
2 1 (0.67%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 11 (7.38%) JIRA
2 10 (6.71%) Jenkins
3 7 (4.70%) Bitbucket Server
4 3 (2.01%) GitLab
4 3 (2.01%) Sonatype Nexus
4 3 (2.01%) Vagrant
5 2 (1.34%) MSI
6 1 (0.67%) InstallShield
6 1 (0.67%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 63 (42.28%) Social Skills
2 26 (17.45%) Finance
3 9 (6.04%) Legal
4 8 (5.37%) Law
4 8 (5.37%) Retail
4 8 (5.37%) Welsh Language
5 5 (3.36%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (2.01%) Games
6 3 (2.01%) Public Sector
7 2 (1.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.34%) Local Government
8 1 (0.67%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.67%) Front Office
8 1 (0.67%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.67%) Publishing
8 1 (0.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 29 (19.46%) Analyst
2 26 (17.45%) Senior
3 19 (12.75%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 19 (12.75%) IT Support
3 19 (12.75%) Support Engineer
4 15 (10.07%) Azure Engineer
5 14 (9.40%) 1st Line Support
6 13 (8.72%) Platform Engineer
7 11 (7.38%) IT Engineer
7 11 (7.38%) Support Analyst
7 11 (7.38%) Technical Analyst
8 10 (6.71%) IT Support Engineer
9 9 (6.04%) 2nd Line Support
9 9 (6.04%) Consultant
10 8 (5.37%) Server Engineer
10 8 (5.37%) Service Analyst
11 7 (4.70%) 1st Line Support Analyst
11 7 (4.70%) 1st Line Technical Support
11 7 (4.70%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
11 7 (4.70%) Service Desk Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (2.68%) 802.1X
2 2 (1.34%) XMPP
3 1 (0.67%) .NET
3 1 (0.67%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 10 (6.71%) Hybrid Cloud
1 10 (6.71%) Onboarding
2 8 (5.37%) IoT
2 8 (5.37%) Private Cloud
3 7 (4.70%) Public Cloud
4 6 (4.03%) Data Centre
5 5 (3.36%) Driving Licence
5 5 (3.36%) iPhone
6 4 (2.68%) Product Ownership
7 3 (2.01%) iPad
7 3 (2.01%) Management Information System
8 2 (1.34%) Hedge funds
8 2 (1.34%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.67%) Client/Server
9 1 (0.67%) Clustering
9 1 (0.67%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (0.67%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 87 (58.39%) Windows
2 37 (24.83%) Windows Server
3 24 (16.11%) Mac OS
4 19 (12.75%) Linux
5 15 (10.07%) Windows Server 2019
6 14 (9.40%) Windows 10
7 9 (6.04%) Android
7 9 (6.04%) Apple iOS
8 8 (5.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 7 (4.70%) Ubuntu
10 6 (4.03%) VMS
11 4 (2.68%) Windows Server 2016
12 3 (2.01%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (31.54%) Problem-Solving
2 38 (25.50%) Customer Service
3 37 (24.83%) ITIL
4 25 (16.78%) Migration
5 22 (14.77%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 19 (12.75%) Roadmaps
7 18 (12.08%) Continuous Improvement
7 18 (12.08%) DevOps
8 17 (11.41%) ITSM
9 16 (10.74%) Agile
9 16 (10.74%) Data Protection
9 16 (10.74%) Service Management
10 14 (9.40%) Business Continuity
10 14 (9.40%) Mentoring
10 14 (9.40%) Platform Engineering
11 11 (7.38%) Server Management
12 10 (6.71%) CI/CD
12 10 (6.71%) Coaching
12 10 (6.71%) Infrastructure as Code
12 10 (6.71%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 37 (24.83%) PowerShell
2 21 (14.09%) Python
3 9 (6.04%) SQL
4 7 (4.70%) Shell Script
5 5 (3.36%) Bash
6 3 (2.01%) Groovy
6 3 (2.01%) Java
6 3 (2.01%) Perl
6 3 (2.01%) Ruby
7 1 (0.67%) Bicep
7 1 (0.67%) C#
7 1 (0.67%) VB
7 1 (0.67%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 34 (22.82%) Microsoft Certification
2 16 (10.74%) Azure Certification
3 13 (8.72%) MCSE
4 11 (7.38%) MCSA
5 10 (6.71%) Security Cleared
6 9 (6.04%) Degree
7 8 (5.37%) DBS Check
8 7 (4.70%) SC Cleared
9 4 (2.68%) CCNA
9 4 (2.68%) Cisco Certification
9 4 (2.68%) Network+ Certification
10 3 (2.01%) Computer Science Degree
10 3 (2.01%) DV Cleared
10 3 (2.01%) MCP
11 2 (1.34%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 1 (0.67%) AWS Certification
12 1 (0.67%) AWS Certified Developer
12 1 (0.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 1 (0.67%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
12 1 (0.67%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (12.75%) SLA
2 13 (8.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 11 (7.38%) GDPR
4 3 (2.01%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (1.34%) ISO 22301
5 2 (1.34%) ISO 9001
5 2 (1.34%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.67%) Government Security Classifications
6 1 (0.67%) NCSC
System Software
1 86 (57.72%) Active Directory
2 39 (26.17%) VMware Infrastructure
3 20 (13.42%) Hyper-V
4 17 (11.41%) Virtual Machines
5 10 (6.71%) VMware ESXi
6 7 (4.70%) Docker
7 3 (2.01%) Microsoft App-V
8 2 (1.34%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.67%) BitLocker
9 1 (0.67%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.67%) vSphere
9 1 (0.67%) XenApp
9 1 (0.67%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 47 (31.54%) Microsoft Intune
2 25 (16.78%) Terraform
3 17 (11.41%) SCCM
4 15 (10.07%) Ansible
5 7 (4.70%) Nessus
5 7 (4.70%) Proxmox
6 6 (4.03%) Nagios
7 5 (3.36%) Puppet
8 4 (2.68%) WSUS
9 3 (2.01%) Graylog
9 3 (2.01%) Rundeck
9 3 (2.01%) vCenter Server
9 3 (2.01%) VxRail
10 1 (0.67%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 1 (0.67%) Avamar
10 1 (0.67%) Jamf Pro
10 1 (0.67%) Kubernetes
10 1 (0.67%) Prometheus
10 1 (0.67%) vRealize
10 1 (0.67%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 91 (61.07%) Microsoft
2 52 (34.90%) Citrix
3 39 (26.17%) VMware
4 20 (13.42%) Cisco
5 14 (9.40%) Meraki
6 11 (7.38%) Apple
6 11 (7.38%) Dell
6 11 (7.38%) iManage
7 10 (6.71%) Juniper
8 8 (5.37%) Veeam
9 7 (4.70%) ServiceNow
10 6 (4.03%) Sophos
11 5 (3.36%) Red Hat
12 4 (2.68%) Acronis
12 4 (2.68%) NetApp
12 4 (2.68%) Zscaler
13 3 (2.01%) Concur
13 3 (2.01%) HubSpot
13 3 (2.01%) Pure Storage
13 3 (2.01%) SolarWinds