Virtual Desktop Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Virtual Desktop
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent remote or hybrid work 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 17 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 441 428 504
Rank change year-on-year -13 +76 +145
Permanent jobs citing Virtual Desktop 30 168 128
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.15% 0.47% 0.35%
As % of the System Software category 1.10% 3.93% 2.43%
Number of salaries quoted 25 140 74
10th Percentile £35,868 £31,250 £38,038
25th Percentile £37,170 £38,438 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £55,000 £66,250
Median % change year-on-year -22.73% -16.98% +13.25%
75th Percentile £55,000 £68,438 £74,250
90th Percentile £62,750 £85,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £44,000 £52,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -16.19% -8.70% +4.55%

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 2,738 4,278 5,260
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 14.02% 11.98% 14.24%
Number of salaries quoted 1,340 3,243 4,163
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £38,188 £41,250 £44,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £61,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -9.84% -0.96%
75th Percentile £77,500 £70,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £102,410 £85,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% -

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 a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Virtual Desktop.

Virtual Desktop salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

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 17 June 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 4 (13.33%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (6.67%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (6.67%) Carpe Diem
Cloud Services
1 25 (83.33%) Azure
2 24 (80.00%) Microsoft 365
3 8 (26.67%) IaaS
3 8 (26.67%) PaaS
3 8 (26.67%) SaaS
4 2 (6.67%) AWS
4 2 (6.67%) Cloud Computing
4 2 (6.67%) Mimecast
5 1 (3.33%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (3.33%) Amazon S3
5 1 (3.33%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (3.33%) AWS CloudTrail
5 1 (3.33%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (3.33%) Azure Storage
5 1 (3.33%) Entra ID
5 1 (3.33%) Serverless
5 1 (3.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 11 (36.67%) DNS
2 10 (33.33%) LAN
2 10 (33.33%) WAN
3 9 (30.00%) SD-WAN
4 3 (10.00%) DHCP
4 3 (10.00%) VPN
5 2 (6.67%) WebEx
5 2 (6.67%) Wireless
6 1 (3.33%) Firewall
6 1 (3.33%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.67%) SQL Server
2 1 (3.33%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (3.33%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (3.33%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 1 (3.33%) JIRA
1 1 (3.33%) MSI
General
1 23 (76.67%) Social Skills
2 9 (30.00%) Finance
3 8 (26.67%) Welsh Language
4 2 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (6.67%) Law
4 2 (6.67%) Public Sector
5 1 (3.33%) Retail
Job Titles
1 10 (33.33%) Support Engineer
2 9 (30.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 8 (26.67%) Server Engineer
4 7 (23.33%) Infrastructure Support
4 7 (23.33%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
5 4 (13.33%) IT Support
6 3 (10.00%) 2nd Line Engineer
6 3 (10.00%) 2nd Line Support
6 3 (10.00%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
6 3 (10.00%) Consultant
6 3 (10.00%) Senior
6 3 (10.00%) Windows Engineer
7 2 (6.67%) 3rd Line Engineer
7 2 (6.67%) Analyst
7 2 (6.67%) IT Analyst
7 2 (6.67%) IT Engineer
7 2 (6.67%) IT Support Analyst
7 2 (6.67%) IT Support Engineer
7 2 (6.67%) Senior Consultant
7 2 (6.67%) Support Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 8 (26.67%) IoT
2 2 (6.67%) iPhone
3 1 (3.33%) Data Centre
3 1 (3.33%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (3.33%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 14 (46.67%) Windows
2 10 (33.33%) Windows Server
3 3 (10.00%) Android
4 2 (6.67%) Windows 10
4 2 (6.67%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (3.33%) Apple iOS
5 1 (3.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (36.67%) Continuous Improvement
2 10 (33.33%) Customer Service
3 9 (30.00%) Budget Management
3 9 (30.00%) Business Continuity
3 9 (30.00%) Data Protection
3 9 (30.00%) Incident Management
3 9 (30.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 9 (30.00%) Migration
3 9 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
3 9 (30.00%) Service Management
3 9 (30.00%) Statistics
3 9 (30.00%) Stress Testing
4 8 (26.67%) Collaborative Working
4 8 (26.67%) Data Collection
4 8 (26.67%) ITIL
4 8 (26.67%) Performance Monitoring
4 8 (26.67%) Proactive Maintenance
4 8 (26.67%) Proactive Monitoring
4 8 (26.67%) Problem Management
4 8 (26.67%) Server Migrations
Programming Languages
1 4 (13.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 10 (33.33%) MCSA
1 10 (33.33%) MCSE
1 10 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
2 8 (26.67%) Azure Certification
2 8 (26.67%) DBS Check
3 3 (10.00%) DV Cleared
3 3 (10.00%) Security Cleared
4 2 (6.67%) MCP
4 2 (6.67%) SC Cleared
5 1 (3.33%) AWS Certification
5 1 (3.33%) AWS Certified Developer
5 1 (3.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (3.33%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
5 1 (3.33%) CCA
5 1 (3.33%) Citrix Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (30.00%) SLA
2 1 (3.33%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 14 (46.67%) Active Directory
2 3 (10.00%) VMware ESXi
2 3 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (3.33%) Microsoft App-V
3 1 (3.33%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (3.33%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 3 (10.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 3 (10.00%) SCCM
1 3 (10.00%) vCenter Server
2 1 (3.33%) Ansible
2 1 (3.33%) Avamar
2 1 (3.33%) Progress Chef
2 1 (3.33%) Puppet
2 1 (3.33%) Terraform
2 1 (3.33%) VxRail
Vendors
1 27 (90.00%) Microsoft
2 12 (40.00%) Citrix
3 3 (10.00%) Dell
3 3 (10.00%) VMware
4 2 (6.67%) Aderant
4 2 (6.67%) arcserve
4 2 (6.67%) BeyondTrust
4 2 (6.67%) Canon
4 2 (6.67%) HP
4 2 (6.67%) iManage
4 2 (6.67%) Sophos
4 2 (6.67%) WatchGuard
5 1 (3.33%) Aruba
5 1 (3.33%) Cisco
5 1 (3.33%) CyberArk
5 1 (3.33%) EMC
5 1 (3.33%) Ivanti
5 1 (3.33%) ServiceNow
5 1 (3.33%) Snow