Virtual Desktop Contracts in the East Midlands

Virtual Desktop
England > East Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands with a requirement for Virtual Desktop skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Virtual Desktop over the 6 months to 29 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 67 66 92
Rank change year-on-year -1 +26 -17
Contract jobs citing Virtual Desktop 3 15 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 0.37% 1.50% 0.29%
As % of the System Software category 3.06% 9.32% 1.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 15 1
10th Percentile - £625 -
25th Percentile - £628 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £660 £550
Median % change year-on-year -31.82% +20.00% +7.32%
75th Percentile £475 £715 £575
90th Percentile £490 £722 -
England median daily rate £600 £530 £500
% change year-on-year +13.21% +6.00% +7.53%

All System Software Skills
East Midlands

Virtual Desktop is in the System Software category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands with a requirement for system software skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 98 161 233
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 12.20% 16.10% 16.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 74 125 160
10th Percentile £145 £123 £127
25th Percentile £205 £223 £163
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £375 £269
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +39.53% -10.42%
75th Percentile £475 £591 £450
90th Percentile £557 £696 £525
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +5.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 14 18
10th Percentile - £11.69 £9.17
25th Percentile £45.22 £14.70 £13.28
Median hourly rate £48.56 £26.48 £17.38
Median % change year-on-year +83.38% +52.40% +46.13%
75th Percentile £51.91 £58.81 £22.75
90th Percentile - £65.00 £23.58
England median hourly rate £22.15 £52.50 £18.60
% change year-on-year -57.81% +182.26% -4.62%

Virtual Desktop
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Job postings citing Virtual Desktop as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Virtual Desktop in the East Midlands

Virtual Desktop
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Virtual Desktop in the East Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Virtual Desktop in the East Midlands

Virtual Desktop
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Virtual Desktop in the East Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Virtual Desktop in the East Midlands

Virtual Desktop
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

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 East Midlands region over the 6 months to 29 May 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
Northamptonshire - 3 £450 - 8
Virtual Desktop
England

Virtual Desktop
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 2 (66.67%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (33.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (33.33%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) DHCP
1 2 (66.67%) DNS
2 1 (33.33%) SAN
2 1 (33.33%) WAN
General
1 2 (66.67%) Public Sector
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Exchange Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Manager
2 1 (33.33%) IT Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) IT Infrastructure Manager
2 1 (33.33%) IT Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Messaging Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
1 3 (100.00%) Windows Server
2 1 (33.33%) Windows 10
2 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2012
2 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2016
2 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure Monitoring
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Migration
3 1 (33.33%) Coaching
3 1 (33.33%) Collaborative Working
3 1 (33.33%) Computer Science
3 1 (33.33%) Critical Thinking
3 1 (33.33%) Data Encryption
3 1 (33.33%) Incident Response
3 1 (33.33%) ITIL
3 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (33.33%) Project Management
3 1 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (33.33%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
1 1 (33.33%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (33.33%) GDPR
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 3 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) SCOM
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Citrix
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (100.00%) VMware
2 2 (66.67%) SolarWinds