Virtual Desktop Job Trends in Yorkshire

Virtual Desktop
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Yorkshire requiring Virtual Desktop skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 191 168 176
Rank change year-on-year -23 +8 +22
Permanent jobs citing Virtual Desktop 1 1 20
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 0.014% 0.028% 0.39%
As % of the System Software category 0.29% 0.24% 3.80%
Number of salaries quoted 1 1 16
10th Percentile - - £48,875
25th Percentile £53,750 - £65,760
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £28,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +105.36% -65.00% +85.54%
75th Percentile £61,250 - £85,000
90th Percentile - - £87,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £46,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +19.57% -16.36% -4.35%

All System Software Skills
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 Yorkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 350 411 527
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 4.82% 11.60% 10.19%
Number of salaries quoted 260 290 393
10th Percentile £26,250 £26,000 £28,000
25th Percentile £29,000 £27,125 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £32,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% -31.58% +11.76%
75th Percentile £60,000 £49,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £70,025 £69,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £49,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +12.24% -2.00% -9.91%

Virtual Desktop
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

Virtual Desktop job vacancy trend in Yorkshire

Virtual Desktop
Salary Trend in Yorkshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Virtual Desktop.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Virtual Desktop

Virtual Desktop
Job Locations in 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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 7 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
South Yorkshire -32 1 £57,500 +105.36% 1
Virtual Desktop
England

Virtual Desktop
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DHCP
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Transformation
1 1 (100.00%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft