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 permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 334 372 372
Rank change year-on-year +38 0 +227
Permanent jobs citing Virtual Desktop 44 98 118
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.29% 0.48% 0.55%
As % of the System Software category 3.50% 3.42% 3.29%
Number of salaries quoted 16 63 107
10th Percentile £43,000 £41,500 £39,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £52,625 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,475 £67,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.48% +17.39% +4.55%
75th Percentile £79,063 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £93,750 - £114,250
UK median annual salary £54,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -1.82% -4.35% +5.02%

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 1,256 2,862 3,590
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 8.26% 14.13% 16.81%
Number of salaries quoted 967 1,752 3,087
10th Percentile £28,971 £31,250 £32,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £41,250 £42,798
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £59,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +1.69% -1.67%
75th Percentile £75,000 £76,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £93,175 £90,000
UK median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -

Virtual Desktop
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Virtual Desktop and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Virtual Desktop job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Virtual Desktop
Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

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

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

Virtual Desktop
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Virtual Desktop over the 6 months to 23 November 2025.

Virtual Desktop salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Virtual Desktop
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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 9 (20.45%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (18.18%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (4.55%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 37 (84.09%) Azure
2 33 (75.00%) Microsoft 365
3 28 (63.64%) Entra ID
4 15 (34.09%) Azure DevOps
4 15 (34.09%) Azure Monitor
5 8 (18.18%) Microsoft Purview
6 6 (13.64%) AWS CloudFormation
6 6 (13.64%) Microsoft Copilot
7 5 (11.36%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 5 (11.36%) Power Automate
8 4 (9.09%) Copilot Studio
9 1 (2.27%) Amazon EC2
9 1 (2.27%) AWS
9 1 (2.27%) AWS CloudTrail
9 1 (2.27%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (2.27%) Azure Key Vault
9 1 (2.27%) GCP
9 1 (2.27%) Power Platform
9 1 (2.27%) Serverless
9 1 (2.27%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.27%) NetScaler
1 1 (2.27%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.27%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (2.27%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (2.27%) Data Lake
1 1 (2.27%) Power BI
General
1 28 (63.64%) Finance
2 5 (11.36%) Social Skills
3 2 (4.55%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (4.55%) Financial Institution
3 2 (4.55%) Law
4 1 (2.27%) Banking
4 1 (2.27%) Electronics
4 1 (2.27%) Manufacturing
4 1 (2.27%) Marketing
4 1 (2.27%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (2.27%) Public Sector
4 1 (2.27%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 11 (25.00%) Senior
2 6 (13.64%) Cloud Engineer
3 3 (6.82%) Analyst
4 2 (4.55%) IT Analyst
4 2 (4.55%) Lead
4 2 (4.55%) Service Analyst
4 2 (4.55%) Service Desk Analyst
4 2 (4.55%) Service Manager
5 1 (2.27%) AWS Consultant
5 1 (2.27%) Azure Administrator
5 1 (2.27%) Azure Engineer
5 1 (2.27%) Cloud Administrator
5 1 (2.27%) Desktop Engineer
5 1 (2.27%) GCP Administrator
5 1 (2.27%) GCP Engineer
5 1 (2.27%) Microsoft Engineer
5 1 (2.27%) Platform Engineer
5 1 (2.27%) Team Leader
5 1 (2.27%) Windows Build Engineer
5 1 (2.27%) Windows Deployment Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.27%) OAuth
1 1 (2.27%) SAML
1 1 (2.27%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 26 (59.09%) Product Ownership
2 16 (36.36%) Security Posture
3 8 (18.18%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (9.09%) AI Agents
4 4 (9.09%) Cloud Native
5 1 (2.27%) Data Centre
5 1 (2.27%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (2.27%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.27%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 17 (38.64%) Windows
2 3 (6.82%) Windows Server
3 1 (2.27%) Linux
3 1 (2.27%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (65.91%) Roadmaps
2 28 (63.64%) Technology Roadmap
3 27 (61.36%) Coaching
4 26 (59.09%) Asset Management
5 22 (50.00%) AI
5 22 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 21 (47.73%) ITIL
7 20 (45.45%) Continuous Improvement
8 19 (43.18%) Analytics
9 18 (40.91%) Agile
9 18 (40.91%) FinOps
9 18 (40.91%) Machine Learning
10 16 (36.36%) DevOps
11 12 (27.27%) User Experience
12 11 (25.00%) Cost Management
12 11 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
13 10 (22.73%) Business Strategy
13 10 (22.73%) Deployment Automation
13 10 (22.73%) Information Security
13 10 (22.73%) Log Analytics
Programming Languages
1 27 (61.36%) PowerShell
2 10 (22.73%) Bash
2 10 (22.73%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (4.55%) A+ Certification
2 1 (2.27%) AWS Certification
2 1 (2.27%) AWS Certified Developer
2 1 (2.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (2.27%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
2 1 (2.27%) Azure Certification
2 1 (2.27%) CCA
2 1 (2.27%) Citrix Certification
2 1 (2.27%) Degree
2 1 (2.27%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (18.18%) NIST
2 1 (2.27%) SLA
System Software
1 13 (29.55%) Active Directory
2 11 (25.00%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (2.27%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 29 (65.91%) Microsoft Intune
2 25 (56.82%) Terraform
3 13 (29.55%) SCCM
4 5 (11.36%) Prometheus
5 1 (2.27%) Ansible
Vendors
1 20 (45.45%) Microsoft
2 7 (15.91%) Citrix
3 4 (9.09%) Foundry
4 1 (2.27%) Google
4 1 (2.27%) HP
4 1 (2.27%) Nexthink
4 1 (2.27%) SAP
4 1 (2.27%) Snow