Virtual Desktop Contracts in Berkshire

Virtual Desktop
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire requiring Virtual Desktop skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Virtual Desktop over the 6 months leading up to 31 October 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 88 95 123
Rank change year-on-year +7 +28 -3
Contract jobs citing Virtual Desktop 22 24 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 1.37% 1.34% 0.38%
As % of the System Software category 9.24% 10.04% 3.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 22 9
10th Percentile £331 £444 £350
25th Percentile £519 £605 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £605 £610 £510
Median % change year-on-year -0.82% +19.61% +7.37%
75th Percentile £608 £615 £530
90th Percentile - £675 £532
South East median daily rate £535 £610 £420
% change year-on-year -12.30% +45.24% -16.00%

All System Software Skills
Berkshire

Virtual Desktop falls under the System Software category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring system software skills in Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 238 239 264
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 14.87% 13.30% 11.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 144 170 188
10th Percentile £327 £148 £159
25th Percentile £400 £263 £330
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £500 £480
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% +4.17% +12.94%
75th Percentile £638 £615 £575
90th Percentile £671 £675 £675
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £480
% change year-on-year - +4.17% +6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 7 7
10th Percentile - £22.19 £15.90
25th Percentile £55.87 £39.45 £35.11
Median hourly rate £57.62 £60.00 £92.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.97% -35.14% +32.14%
75th Percentile £58.49 £67.94 £100.63
90th Percentile £64.09 £68.63 £105.00
South East median hourly rate £60.50 £55.70 £24.00
% change year-on-year +8.61% +132.08% -40.90%

Virtual Desktop
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Job postings citing Virtual Desktop as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Virtual Desktop in Berkshire

Virtual Desktop
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Virtual Desktop in Berkshire.

Daily rate trend for Virtual Desktop in Berkshire

Virtual Desktop
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Virtual Desktop in Berkshire over the 6 months to 31 October 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Virtual Desktop in Berkshire

Virtual Desktop
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Virtual Desktop within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 31 October 2024. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Reading -6 11 £605 -0.82% 1
Wokingham - 10 £350 -
Virtual Desktop
South East

Virtual Desktop
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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 11 (50.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 19 (86.36%) Azure
2 16 (72.73%) Microsoft 365
3 12 (54.55%) Azure Storage
3 12 (54.55%) Entra ID
4 11 (50.00%) Azure Monitor
5 5 (22.73%) Power Platform
5 5 (22.73%) PowerApps
6 1 (4.55%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 11 (50.00%) DHCP
1 11 (50.00%) DNS
1 11 (50.00%) Firewall
General
1 12 (54.55%) Social Skills
2 3 (13.64%) Publishing
3 1 (4.55%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (63.64%) Azure Engineer
2 12 (54.55%) Support Engineer
3 11 (50.00%) Active Directory Engineer
3 11 (50.00%) Active Directory Support
3 11 (50.00%) Active Directory Support Engineer
4 5 (22.73%) Product Owner
5 3 (13.64%) Desktop Engineer
6 2 (9.09%) Analyst
6 2 (9.09%) Infrastructure Analyst
7 1 (4.55%) Desktop Support
7 1 (4.55%) Desktop Support Engineer
7 1 (4.55%) Scrum Master
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (50.00%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 11 (50.00%) PKI
1 11 (50.00%) Self-Motivation
2 5 (22.73%) Product Ownership
3 2 (9.09%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 14 (63.64%) Windows
2 13 (59.09%) Windows Server
3 11 (50.00%) Linux
3 11 (50.00%) Windows Server 2016
3 11 (50.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (77.27%) DevOps
2 14 (63.64%) Infrastructure as Code
3 12 (54.55%) Agile
4 11 (50.00%) Analytics
4 11 (50.00%) CI/CD
4 11 (50.00%) Identity Management
4 11 (50.00%) ITIL
4 11 (50.00%) Log Analytics
4 11 (50.00%) Multi-Factor Authentication
4 11 (50.00%) Privileged Identity Management
4 11 (50.00%) RBAC
4 11 (50.00%) Release Management
4 11 (50.00%) Service Management
5 5 (22.73%) Application Packaging
5 5 (22.73%) Product Management
5 5 (22.73%) Product Vision
5 5 (22.73%) Roadmaps
6 3 (13.64%) Capacity Planning
6 3 (13.64%) Load Balancing
6 3 (13.64%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 14 (63.64%) PowerShell
2 11 (50.00%) Bicep
2 11 (50.00%) C#
2 11 (50.00%) VB
2 11 (50.00%) VBScript
3 5 (22.73%) SQL
Qualifications
1 13 (59.09%) SC Cleared
1 13 (59.09%) Security Cleared
2 11 (50.00%) Degree
2 11 (50.00%) DV Cleared
2 11 (50.00%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 2 (9.09%) Azure Certification
System Software
1 14 (63.64%) Active Directory
2 11 (50.00%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (22.73%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 16 (72.73%) Microsoft Intune
2 11 (50.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 11 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 11 (50.00%) SCCM
2 11 (50.00%) SCOM
2 11 (50.00%) WSUS
3 3 (13.64%) Terraform
Vendors
1 15 (68.18%) Microsoft
2 5 (22.73%) Genesys
2 5 (22.73%) VMware
3 2 (9.09%) Citrix