Virtual Desktop Job Trends in West Yorkshire

Virtual Desktop
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in West Yorkshire requiring Virtual Desktop skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 117 103 136
Rank change year-on-year -14 +33 +77
Permanent jobs citing Virtual Desktop 1 16 13
As % of all permanent jobs in West Yorkshire 0.059% 0.86% 0.61%
As % of the System Software category 0.53% 7.88% 3.71%
Number of salaries quoted 1 16 10
10th Percentile - £51,500 £34,825
25th Percentile £31,250 £65,760 £37,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 £80,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -59.38% +77.78% -21.74%
75th Percentile £33,750 £85,000 £50,000
90th Percentile - £90,000 £50,750
Yorkshire median annual salary £32,500 £80,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year -59.38% +88.24% -26.09%

All System Software Skills
West Yorkshire

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 West Yorkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 187 203 350
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 11.05% 10.92% 16.47%
Number of salaries quoted 140 134 260
10th Percentile £26,250 £31,250 £28,475
25th Percentile £31,250 £48,250 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £53,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.09% +6.00% -
75th Percentile £67,500 £69,500 £66,778
90th Percentile £80,250 £85,000 £83,750
Yorkshire median annual salary £36,500 £49,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year -26.26% +10.00% -5.26%

Virtual Desktop
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Virtual Desktop job vacancy trend in West Yorkshire

Virtual Desktop
Salary Trend in West Yorkshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing Virtual Desktop.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing Virtual Desktop

Virtual Desktop
Job Locations in West Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 10 November 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
Brighouse - 1 £32,500 - 1
Virtual Desktop
Yorkshire

Virtual Desktop
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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:

Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Acrobat
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
General
1 1 (100.00%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) IT Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) IT Support
1 1 (100.00%) IT Support Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Support Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Asset Management
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) IT Asset Management
1 1 (100.00%) Preventative Maintenance
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (100.00%) vSphere
1 1 (100.00%) XenDesktop
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Adobe
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) Dell
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) VMware