Microsoft App-V Contracts in England

Microsoft Application Virtualisation (AppV) formerly Softricity SoftGrid
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Microsoft App-V skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Microsoft App-V over the 6 months to 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 518 589 662
Rank change year-on-year +71 +73 -120
Contract jobs citing Microsoft App-V 13 57 115
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.036% 0.12% 0.16%
As % of the System Software category 0.33% 0.91% 1.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 42 78
10th Percentile £372 £313 £305
25th Percentile £400 £353 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £463
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +2.70% -5.85%
75th Percentile £551 £528 £583
90th Percentile £575 £587 £650
UK median daily rate £450 £475 £450
% change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile - - £15.94
25th Percentile - - £17.28
Median hourly rate £23.80 - £19.93
75th Percentile - - £22.17
90th Percentile - - £23.27
UK median hourly rate £23.80 - £17.50
% change year-on-year - - -73.48%

All System Software Skills
England

Microsoft App-V 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 England with a requirement for system software skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 3,984 6,252 9,779
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 10.95% 12.90% 13.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,790 4,511 7,088
10th Percentile £200 £201 £195
25th Percentile £350 £382 £398
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - +6.06%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £633
90th Percentile £688 £738 £705
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 208 220 276
10th Percentile £14.06 £14.49 £13.06
25th Percentile £14.48 £17.49 £14.84
Median hourly rate £21.00 £50.00 £18.68
Median % change year-on-year -58.00% +167.74% -6.63%
75th Percentile £58.69 £65.19 £28.75
90th Percentile £75.90 £76.04 £52.50
UK median hourly rate £22.50 £54.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year -58.33% +184.21% -11.63%

Microsoft App-V
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Microsoft App-V as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft App-V in England

Microsoft App-V
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Microsoft App-V in England.

Daily rate trend for Microsoft App-V in England

Microsoft App-V
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft App-V in England over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft App-V in England

Microsoft App-V
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Microsoft App-V in England.

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft App-V in England

Microsoft App-V
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft App-V within the England region over the 6 months to 20 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
London +96 8 £450 +38.46% 3
South East +16 2 £551 -19.93% 6
North of England +13 1 £600 +20.00% 2
South West +4 1 - - 1
North East - 1 £600 -
Microsoft App-V
UK

Microsoft App-V
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 3 (23.08%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (15.38%) IIS
2 2 (15.38%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (15.38%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 4 (30.77%) Azure
2 3 (23.08%) Azure ExpressRoute
2 3 (23.08%) Entra ID
3 2 (15.38%) AWS
3 2 (15.38%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (15.38%) Mimecast
3 2 (15.38%) Nutanix
3 2 (15.38%) Rubrik
4 1 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (7.69%) GCP
4 1 (7.69%) IaaS
4 1 (7.69%) PaaS
4 1 (7.69%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 4 (30.77%) Firewall
2 3 (23.08%) DNS
2 3 (23.08%) VPN
3 2 (15.38%) DKIM
3 2 (15.38%) DMARC
3 2 (15.38%) Extranet
3 2 (15.38%) Internet
3 2 (15.38%) LAN
3 2 (15.38%) NAS
3 2 (15.38%) SAN
3 2 (15.38%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (15.38%) Wireless
4 1 (7.69%) DHCP
4 1 (7.69%) NetScaler
4 1 (7.69%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.69%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (7.69%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (23.08%) MSI
General
1 1 (7.69%) Presentation Skills
1 1 (7.69%) Public Sector
1 1 (7.69%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (38.46%) Applications Packager
2 3 (23.08%) Architect
3 2 (15.38%) Applications Architect
3 2 (15.38%) IT Support
3 2 (15.38%) Lead
3 2 (15.38%) Senior
3 2 (15.38%) Support Officer
4 1 (7.69%) Azure Consultant
4 1 (7.69%) Consultant
4 1 (7.69%) Lead Architect
4 1 (7.69%) SC Cleared Application Packager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (15.38%) Software Packaging
1 2 (15.38%) WSH
2 1 (7.69%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 3 (23.08%) Data Centre
1 3 (23.08%) PKI
2 2 (15.38%) Fat Client
2 2 (15.38%) Thin Client
2 2 (15.38%) Virtual Team
3 1 (7.69%) Clustering
3 1 (7.69%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 6 (46.15%) Windows
2 2 (15.38%) Unix
2 2 (15.38%) Windows 10
2 2 (15.38%) Windows 7
2 2 (15.38%) Windows Server
2 2 (15.38%) Windows Server 2019
3 1 (7.69%) Windows Server 2003
3 1 (7.69%) Windows Server 2012
3 1 (7.69%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (46.15%) Application Packaging
2 3 (23.08%) Deployment Automation
2 3 (23.08%) High Availability
2 3 (23.08%) Identity Access Management
2 3 (23.08%) Migration
2 3 (23.08%) Software Deployment
3 2 (15.38%) Capacity Management
3 2 (15.38%) Converged Infrastructure
3 2 (15.38%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (15.38%) Infrastructure Management
3 2 (15.38%) ITIL
3 2 (15.38%) Kalman Filter
3 2 (15.38%) Mobile Device Management
3 2 (15.38%) Network Monitoring
3 2 (15.38%) Network Virtualisation
3 2 (15.38%) Patch Management
3 2 (15.38%) Security Hardening
3 2 (15.38%) Server Management
3 2 (15.38%) Task Automation
3 2 (15.38%) Web Filtering
Programming Languages
1 10 (76.92%) PowerShell
2 2 (15.38%) SQL
2 2 (15.38%) VBScript
3 1 (7.69%) VB
Qualifications
1 2 (15.38%) Security Cleared
2 1 (7.69%) Azure Certification
2 1 (7.69%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (7.69%) Degree
2 1 (7.69%) DV Cleared
2 1 (7.69%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (15.38%) SLA
2 1 (7.69%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (7.69%) PMO
2 1 (7.69%) QA
System Software
1 4 (30.77%) Active Directory
2 3 (23.08%) BitLocker
2 3 (23.08%) Hyper-V
3 2 (15.38%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (15.38%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (15.38%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (15.38%) XenApp
3 2 (15.38%) XenDesktop
4 1 (7.69%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 7 (53.85%) SCCM
2 3 (23.08%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (15.38%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 2 (15.38%) NetBackup
3 2 (15.38%) SCOM
3 2 (15.38%) SCVMM
3 2 (15.38%) VxRail
3 2 (15.38%) WMI
4 1 (7.69%) vCenter Server
4 1 (7.69%) vMotion
Vendors
1 7 (53.85%) Microsoft
2 6 (46.15%) Citrix
3 3 (23.08%) HP
3 3 (23.08%) VMware
4 2 (15.38%) Avaya
4 2 (15.38%) Brocade
4 2 (15.38%) Cisco
4 2 (15.38%) Commvault
4 2 (15.38%) Dell
4 2 (15.38%) Dell Compellent
4 2 (15.38%) EMC
4 2 (15.38%) Equitrac
4 2 (15.38%) F5
4 2 (15.38%) Forcepoint
4 2 (15.38%) Juniper
4 2 (15.38%) Mitel
4 2 (15.38%) MobileIron
4 2 (15.38%) Proofpoint
4 2 (15.38%) SolarWinds
4 2 (15.38%) Wyse