Virtual Desktop Jobs in the West Midlands

Virtual Desktop
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 16 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 183 221 259
Rank change year-on-year +38 +38 +2
Permanent jobs citing Virtual Desktop 9 28 9
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.21% 0.38% 0.14%
As % of the System Software category 2.34% 3.40% 1.22%
Number of salaries quoted 3 28 6
10th Percentile £69,000 £36,298 £43,250
25th Percentile £73,125 £40,478 £44,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +52.38% - +44.83%
75th Percentile - £115,000 £61,563
90th Percentile - - £65,625
England median annual salary £46,000 £51,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.80% -7.27% +10.00%

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 385 823 739
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 8.92% 11.15% 11.75%
Number of salaries quoted 264 689 511
10th Percentile £26,500 £25,250 £25,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £31,000 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 £46,000
Median % change year-on-year - -2.17% +2.22%
75th Percentile £62,500 £57,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £73,750 £71,250 £76,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -

Virtual Desktop
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Virtual Desktop as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Virtual Desktop in the West Midlands

Virtual Desktop
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

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

Salary trend for Virtual Desktop in the West Midlands

Virtual Desktop
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Virtual Desktop in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 16 May 2025.

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 16 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
Birmingham +45 8 £80,000 -27.27% 1
Warwickshire -10 1 - - 1
Virtual Desktop
England

Virtual Desktop
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 (11.11%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 4 (44.44%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 4 (44.44%) Amazon ECS
1 4 (44.44%) Amazon GuardDuty
1 4 (44.44%) Amazon S3
1 4 (44.44%) AWS
1 4 (44.44%) AWS KMS
1 4 (44.44%) AWS Lambda
1 4 (44.44%) Azure
1 4 (44.44%) Microsoft 365
1 4 (44.44%) Serverless
1 4 (44.44%) Virtual Private Cloud
2 3 (33.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 3 (33.33%) Amazon EC2
2 3 (33.33%) Amazon ELB
2 3 (33.33%) Amazon Glacier
3 2 (22.22%) Dynamics 365
3 2 (22.22%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (55.56%) Firewall
2 4 (44.44%) SSL
3 1 (11.11%) DHCP
3 1 (11.11%) DNS
3 1 (11.11%) LAN
3 1 (11.11%) SAN
3 1 (11.11%) VSAN
3 1 (11.11%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (33.33%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (11.11%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (44.44%) Bitbucket Server
1 4 (44.44%) Jenkins
2 3 (33.33%) Vagrant
General
1 2 (22.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (11.11%) Games
2 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) Linux Engineer
1 3 (33.33%) Platform Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Applications Manager
2 2 (22.22%) IT Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Administrator
3 1 (11.11%) Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Azure Architect
3 1 (11.11%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Senior
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Solutions Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Technology Manager
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Private Cloud
1 2 (22.22%) Product Ownership
2 1 (11.11%) Clustering
2 1 (11.11%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 5 (55.56%) Windows
2 4 (44.44%) Linux
2 4 (44.44%) Ubuntu
3 3 (33.33%) VMS
4 1 (11.11%) Windows 10
4 1 (11.11%) Windows Server
4 1 (11.11%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (11.11%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (11.11%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (44.44%) Agile
1 4 (44.44%) Capacity Management
1 4 (44.44%) DevOps
1 4 (44.44%) Key Management
1 4 (44.44%) Patch Management
1 4 (44.44%) Roadmaps
2 3 (33.33%) Cloud Security
2 3 (33.33%) Configuration Management
2 3 (33.33%) ITIL
2 3 (33.33%) Platform Engineering
2 3 (33.33%) Server Management
3 2 (22.22%) Change Management
3 2 (22.22%) CRM
3 2 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (22.22%) Project Delivery
3 2 (22.22%) Time Management
4 1 (11.11%) Business Case
4 1 (11.11%) Customer Service
4 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (11.11%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 4 (44.44%) Python
1 4 (44.44%) Shell Script
2 3 (33.33%) Groovy
2 3 (33.33%) Java
2 3 (33.33%) Perl
2 3 (33.33%) Ruby
3 1 (11.11%) PowerShell
3 1 (11.11%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) Security Cleared
2 1 (11.11%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
2 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared
2 1 (11.11%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 5 (55.56%) Active Directory
2 4 (44.44%) Docker
2 4 (44.44%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (11.11%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (11.11%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 4 (44.44%) Ansible
1 4 (44.44%) Nessus
1 4 (44.44%) Proxmox
1 4 (44.44%) Terraform
2 3 (33.33%) Nagios
3 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Clustering
3 1 (11.11%) SCCM
3 1 (11.11%) SCOM
3 1 (11.11%) vCenter Server
3 1 (11.11%) VxRail
Vendors
1 4 (44.44%) Juniper
2 3 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 1 (11.11%) Adobe
3 1 (11.11%) Apple
3 1 (11.11%) Citrix
3 1 (11.11%) Dell
3 1 (11.11%) EMC
3 1 (11.11%) ServiceNow
3 1 (11.11%) Veeam
3 1 (11.11%) VMware