Hybrid/Remote Virtual Desktop Job Trends

Virtual Desktop
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for remote or hybrid work requiring Virtual Desktop skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 380 404 381
Rank change year-on-year +24 -23 +304
Permanent jobs citing Virtual Desktop 45 91 133
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.28% 0.39% 0.53%
As % of the System Software category 2.29% 3.31% 3.36%
Number of salaries quoted 24 66 104
10th Percentile £31,101 £41,500 £38,825
25th Percentile £37,170 £54,063 £45,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £67,500 £59,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.52% +14.41% +12.38%
75th Percentile £63,750 £84,375 £74,250
90th Percentile £81,300 £85,000 £106,250
UK median annual salary £45,000 £55,631 £58,000
% change year-on-year -19.11% -4.08% +10.48%

All System Software Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring system software skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 1,968 2,749 3,958
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 12.15% 11.81% 15.78%
Number of salaries quoted 1,088 1,724 3,412
10th Percentile £28,750 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £41,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,750 £56,525 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.14% -5.79% -
75th Percentile £72,500 £72,500 £77,715
90th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £90,000
UK median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% -3.64% -

Virtual Desktop
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Virtual Desktop as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Virtual Desktop trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Virtual Desktop
Salary Trend for Jobs with Hybrid Work Options

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote work options citing Virtual Desktop.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote work options citing Virtual Desktop

Virtual Desktop
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Virtual Desktop over the 6 months to 16 September 2025.

Virtual Desktop salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Virtual Desktop
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 9 (20.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (11.11%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (4.44%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (4.44%) Carpe Diem
Cloud Services
1 36 (80.00%) Azure
2 33 (73.33%) Microsoft 365
3 16 (35.56%) Entra ID
4 8 (17.78%) Azure DevOps
4 8 (17.78%) Azure Monitor
4 8 (17.78%) IaaS
4 8 (17.78%) PaaS
4 8 (17.78%) SaaS
5 6 (13.33%) AWS CloudFormation
6 5 (11.11%) Microsoft Purview
7 4 (8.89%) Microsoft Copilot
8 3 (6.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 3 (6.67%) Copilot Studio
8 3 (6.67%) Power Automate
9 2 (4.44%) Amazon EC2
9 2 (4.44%) Amazon S3
9 2 (4.44%) AWS
9 2 (4.44%) AWS CloudTrail
9 2 (4.44%) Serverless
9 2 (4.44%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 10 (22.22%) DNS
2 3 (6.67%) LAN
2 3 (6.67%) SD-WAN
2 3 (6.67%) WAN
3 2 (4.44%) DHCP
3 2 (4.44%) WebEx
3 2 (4.44%) Wireless
4 1 (2.22%) NetScaler
4 1 (2.22%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.44%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (4.44%) Amazon Redshift
1 2 (4.44%) Data Lake
1 2 (4.44%) SQL Server
General
1 24 (53.33%) Finance
2 16 (35.56%) Social Skills
3 8 (17.78%) Welsh Language
4 3 (6.67%) Law
5 2 (4.44%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (4.44%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (4.44%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.22%) Banking
6 1 (2.22%) Financial Institution
6 1 (2.22%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (17.78%) Senior
1 8 (17.78%) Server Engineer
2 5 (11.11%) Analyst
3 4 (8.89%) Cloud Engineer
3 4 (8.89%) IT Analyst
4 3 (6.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (6.67%) Infrastructure Support
4 3 (6.67%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
4 3 (6.67%) Support Engineer
4 3 (6.67%) Windows Engineer
5 2 (4.44%) AWS Consultant
5 2 (4.44%) Consultant
5 2 (4.44%) IT Support
5 2 (4.44%) IT Support Analyst
5 2 (4.44%) Lead
5 2 (4.44%) Senior Consultant
5 2 (4.44%) Service Analyst
5 2 (4.44%) Service Desk Analyst
5 2 (4.44%) Service Manager
5 2 (4.44%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.22%) OAuth
1 1 (2.22%) SAML
1 1 (2.22%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 15 (33.33%) Product Ownership
2 10 (22.22%) Security Posture
3 8 (17.78%) IoT
4 5 (11.11%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (6.67%) AI Agents
5 3 (6.67%) Cloud Native
6 2 (4.44%) iPhone
7 1 (2.22%) Data Centre
7 1 (2.22%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 24 (53.33%) Windows
2 12 (26.67%) Windows Server
3 2 (4.44%) Android
3 2 (4.44%) Linux
3 2 (4.44%) Windows Server 2019
4 1 (2.22%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (44.44%) ITIL
2 18 (40.00%) Roadmaps
3 17 (37.78%) Technology Roadmap
4 15 (33.33%) Asset Management
4 15 (33.33%) Coaching
4 15 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
5 13 (28.89%) Artificial Intelligence
5 13 (28.89%) Infrastructure as Code
6 12 (26.67%) Problem-Solving
7 10 (22.22%) Agile
7 10 (22.22%) Analytics
7 10 (22.22%) FinOps
7 10 (22.22%) Machine Learning
8 9 (20.00%) DevOps
8 9 (20.00%) Incident Management
9 8 (17.78%) Collaborative Working
9 8 (17.78%) Performance Monitoring
9 8 (17.78%) Proactive Monitoring
9 8 (17.78%) Problem Management
9 8 (17.78%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 16 (35.56%) PowerShell
2 5 (11.11%) Bash
2 5 (11.11%) Python
Qualifications
1 10 (22.22%) MCSA
1 10 (22.22%) MCSE
1 10 (22.22%) Microsoft Certification
2 9 (20.00%) Azure Certification
3 8 (17.78%) DBS Check
4 2 (4.44%) A+ Certification
4 2 (4.44%) AWS Certification
4 2 (4.44%) AWS Certified Developer
4 2 (4.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (4.44%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
4 2 (4.44%) DV Cleared
4 2 (4.44%) MCP
4 2 (4.44%) SC Cleared
4 2 (4.44%) Security Cleared
5 1 (2.22%) CCA
5 1 (2.22%) Citrix Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (20.00%) SLA
2 5 (11.11%) NIST
System Software
1 21 (46.67%) Active Directory
2 6 (13.33%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (4.44%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (4.44%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (2.22%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 17 (37.78%) Microsoft Intune
2 16 (35.56%) Terraform
3 9 (20.00%) SCCM
4 3 (6.67%) Prometheus
5 2 (4.44%) vCenter Server
6 1 (2.22%) Ansible
Vendors
1 27 (60.00%) Microsoft
2 11 (24.44%) Citrix
3 3 (6.67%) Foundry
4 2 (4.44%) Aderant
4 2 (4.44%) arcserve
4 2 (4.44%) BeyondTrust
4 2 (4.44%) Canon
4 2 (4.44%) Dell
4 2 (4.44%) HP
4 2 (4.44%) iManage
4 2 (4.44%) VMware
5 1 (2.22%) Google
5 1 (2.22%) Snow