Virtual Desktop Job Trends in Worcestershire

Virtual Desktop
West Midlands > Worcestershire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Worcestershire requiring Virtual Desktop skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 52 - 45
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Virtual Desktop 1 0 1
As % of all permanent jobs in Worcestershire 0.15% - 0.24%
As % of the System Software category 2.17% - 1.54%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £41,250 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 - £36,298
75th Percentile £43,750 - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median annual salary £46,250 £61,250 £39,989
% change year-on-year -24.49% +53.17% -30.45%

All System Software Skills
Worcestershire

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 Worcestershire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 46 32 65
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Worcestershire 6.89% 16.00% 15.74%
Number of salaries quoted 41 32 51
10th Percentile £27,000 - £35,000
25th Percentile £38,000 £30,750 £49,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £35,750 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +53.85% -40.42% +11.63%
75th Percentile £70,000 £68,938 £67,625
90th Percentile £110,000 £80,000 £71,250
West Midlands median annual salary £51,500 £47,500 £45,595
% change year-on-year +8.42% +4.18% +7.28%

Virtual Desktop
Job Vacancy Trend in Worcestershire

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

Virtual Desktop job vacancy trend in Worcestershire

Virtual Desktop
Salary Trend in Worcestershire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Worcestershire citing Virtual Desktop.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Worcestershire citing Virtual Desktop

Virtual Desktop
Job Locations in Worcestershire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Virtual Desktop within the Worcestershire region over the 6 months to 28 August 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
Worcester - 1 £42,500 - 2
Virtual Desktop
West Midlands

Virtual Desktop
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Worcestershire 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (100.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Purview
1 1 (100.00%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DHCP
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (100.00%) VLAN
1 1 (100.00%) VoIP
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
1 1 (100.00%) Wireless
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Driving Licence
1 1 (100.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (100.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Client Onboarding
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Customer Service
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Data Loss Prevention
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Management
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Major Incident Management
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Server Virtualisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Machines
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) VMware