Virtual Desktop Job Trends in the West Midlands

Virtual Desktop
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring Virtual Desktop skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 174 178 155
Rank change year-on-year +4 -23 +94
Permanent jobs citing Virtual Desktop 4 20 23
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 0.075% 0.48% 0.61%
As % of the System Software category 1.93% 4.60% 4.10%
Number of salaries quoted 4 7 22
10th Percentile - £34,750 £42,851
25th Percentile £52,500 £38,750 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,500 £52,008 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +24.02% -5.44% +4.76%
75th Percentile £80,625 £66,754 £115,000
90th Percentile £81,750 £80,000 -
England median annual salary £54,000 £50,250 £56,525
% change year-on-year +7.46% -11.10% +7.67%

All System Software Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 207 435 561
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 3.90% 10.48% 14.94%
Number of salaries quoted 144 244 503
10th Percentile £28,950 £31,475 £26,800
25th Percentile £31,250 £35,000 £31,776
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% +11.11% -2.96%
75th Percentile £67,313 £65,000 £57,000
90th Percentile £78,790 £75,000 £69,750
England median annual salary £48,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -15.65% +4.55% -

Virtual Desktop
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Virtual Desktop relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Virtual Desktop job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

Virtual Desktop
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Virtual Desktop.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Virtual Desktop

Virtual Desktop
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Virtual Desktop in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 15 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Virtual Desktop in the West Midlands

Virtual Desktop
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Virtual Desktop within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 15 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
Birmingham +15 2 £77,500 +29.71%
Wolverhampton - 2 £54,000 -
Virtual Desktop
England

Virtual Desktop
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (50.00%) SaaS
General
1 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (50.00%) Finance
2 2 (50.00%) Law
2 2 (50.00%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Analyst
1 2 (50.00%) Service Analyst
1 2 (50.00%) Service Design Analyst
1 2 (50.00%) Service Transition Analyst
1 2 (50.00%) Transition Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Desktop Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) IT Manager
2 1 (25.00%) IT Services Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Desktop Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (50.00%) Acceptance Criteria
2 2 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (50.00%) Data Governance
2 2 (50.00%) ITIL
2 2 (50.00%) ITSM
2 2 (50.00%) Service Design
2 2 (50.00%) Service Management
2 2 (50.00%) User Experience
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Patch Management
3 1 (25.00%) Service Catalogue
3 1 (25.00%) Tech Ops
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (25.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Citrix
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft