Virtual Desktop Contracts in the UK excluding London

Virtual Desktop
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 340 337 389
Rank change year-on-year -3 +52 +4
Contract jobs citing Virtual Desktop 54 113 121
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.27% 0.49% 0.40%
As % of the System Software category 2.26% 3.24% 2.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 79 80
10th Percentile £356 £400 £210
25th Percentile £550 £463 £289
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £605 £575 £481
Median % change year-on-year +5.22% +19.48% +19.57%
75th Percentile £608 £675 £600
90th Percentile £635 £715 £700
UK median daily rate £575 £550 £475
% change year-on-year +4.55% +15.79% -7.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 1
10th Percentile £18.12 £16.75 -
25th Percentile £18.29 £18.29 £20.75
Median hourly rate £18.59 £20.86 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -10.91% -2.98% -53.26%
75th Percentile £18.88 £23.43 £22.25
90th Percentile £19.05 £24.97 -
UK median hourly rate £18.59 £20.86 £21.75
% change year-on-year -10.91% -4.09% -52.72%

All System Software Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for system software skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 2,394 3,486 4,599
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 11.80% 15.15% 15.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,625 2,497 3,265
10th Percentile £179 £181 £158
25th Percentile £299 £313 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £480 £450
Median % change year-on-year -3.65% +6.67% +6.16%
75th Percentile £584 £588 £553
90th Percentile £650 £675 £638
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 189 176 233
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.25 £13.00
25th Percentile £14.16 £16.53 £14.25
Median hourly rate £19.17 £44.93 £17.64
Median % change year-on-year -57.33% +154.69% -3.45%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £23.00
90th Percentile £78.40 £74.38 £49.35
UK median hourly rate £22.30 £54.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year -58.70% +170.00% -9.09%

Virtual Desktop
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Virtual Desktop as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Virtual Desktop in the UK excluding London

Virtual Desktop
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Virtual Desktop in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Virtual Desktop in the UK excluding London

Virtual Desktop
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Virtual Desktop in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Virtual Desktop in the UK excluding London

Virtual Desktop
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Virtual Desktop in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Virtual Desktop in the UK excluding London

Virtual Desktop
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 16 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
Midlands +16 19 £443 -32.95% 17
West Midlands +29 18 £443 -24.68% 4
South East +12 17 £605 -1.22% 22
North of England +12 7 £425 -22.73% 14
South West -13 7 £675 +22.73% 11
North West +10 5 £425 -22.73% 12
Scotland +36 3 £575 - 2
Wales +18 1 - -
Yorkshire +8 1 £375 - 2
Virtual Desktop
UK

Virtual Desktop
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 24 (44.44%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (12.96%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (3.70%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (3.70%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (1.85%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 45 (83.33%) Azure
2 35 (64.81%) Microsoft 365
3 30 (55.56%) Azure Monitor
4 25 (46.30%) Entra ID
5 17 (31.48%) Azure Storage
6 5 (9.26%) Azure Functions
6 5 (9.26%) IaaS
6 5 (9.26%) OneDrive
6 5 (9.26%) Power Platform
6 5 (9.26%) Serverless
7 4 (7.41%) PaaS
8 3 (5.56%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 3 (5.56%) Azure Pipelines
9 1 (1.85%) AWS
9 1 (1.85%) OCI
9 1 (1.85%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 34 (62.96%) DNS
2 25 (46.30%) Firewall
3 22 (40.74%) DHCP
4 10 (18.52%) NetScaler
5 5 (9.26%) LAN
5 5 (9.26%) WAN
6 3 (5.56%) VPN
7 2 (3.70%) Skype
7 2 (3.70%) SMTP
7 2 (3.70%) TCP/IP
7 2 (3.70%) Wi-Fi
8 1 (1.85%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (9.26%) Power BI
2 3 (5.56%) SQL Server
General
1 24 (44.44%) Social Skills
2 2 (3.70%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (3.70%) Law
2 2 (3.70%) Military
3 1 (1.85%) Back Office
3 1 (1.85%) Banking
3 1 (1.85%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (1.85%) Finance
3 1 (1.85%) German Language
3 1 (1.85%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (1.85%) Public Sector
3 1 (1.85%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 17 (31.48%) Active Directory Support
2 16 (29.63%) Azure Specialist
3 14 (25.93%) Active Directory Specialist
3 14 (25.93%) Support Specialist
4 6 (11.11%) Architect
4 6 (11.11%) Azure Engineer
5 5 (9.26%) Citrix Engineer
5 5 (9.26%) Deployment Engineer
5 5 (9.26%) Desktop Engineer
6 4 (7.41%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 4 (7.41%) Solutions Architect
7 3 (5.56%) Analyst
7 3 (5.56%) Azure Consultant
7 3 (5.56%) Consultant
7 3 (5.56%) Senior Citrix Engineer
7 3 (5.56%) Senior Desktop Engineer
7 3 (5.56%) Service Analyst
7 3 (5.56%) Service Desk Analyst
7 3 (5.56%) Support Engineer
7 3 (5.56%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (31.48%) ARM Templates
2 1 (1.85%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 19 (35.19%) PKI
2 17 (31.48%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (5.56%) Fat Client
3 3 (5.56%) Thin Client
4 2 (3.70%) Clustering
5 1 (1.85%) Client/Server
5 1 (1.85%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.85%) Grid Computing
5 1 (1.85%) LIMS
5 1 (1.85%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.85%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.85%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 43 (79.63%) Windows
2 34 (62.96%) Windows Server
3 21 (38.89%) Windows Server 2016
4 19 (35.19%) Windows Server 2019
5 17 (31.48%) Linux
6 13 (24.07%) Windows 10
7 5 (9.26%) Windows Server 2012
8 2 (3.70%) Windows Server 2008
9 1 (1.85%) VMS
9 1 (1.85%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (46.30%) ITIL
2 23 (42.59%) Analytics
3 21 (38.89%) Agile
3 21 (38.89%) DevOps
3 21 (38.89%) Service Management
4 19 (35.19%) Identity Management
5 18 (33.33%) CI/CD
6 17 (31.48%) Infrastructure as Code
6 17 (31.48%) Log Analytics
6 17 (31.48%) Multi-Factor Authentication
6 17 (31.48%) Privileged Identity Management
6 17 (31.48%) RBAC
6 17 (31.48%) Release Management
7 11 (20.37%) Change Management
8 9 (16.67%) Application Packaging
9 8 (14.81%) Patch Management
10 6 (11.11%) Incident Management
11 5 (9.26%) Artificial Intelligence
11 5 (9.26%) Problem Management
11 5 (9.26%) Virtual Environments
Programming Languages
1 34 (62.96%) PowerShell
2 17 (31.48%) Bicep
2 17 (31.48%) C#
2 17 (31.48%) VB
2 17 (31.48%) VBScript
3 5 (9.26%) SQL
4 2 (3.70%) Python
Qualifications
1 26 (48.15%) Degree
2 21 (38.89%) Security Cleared
3 19 (35.19%) SC Cleared
4 18 (33.33%) DV Cleared
5 17 (31.48%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 4 (7.41%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (5.56%) Azure Certification
8 2 (3.70%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 1 (1.85%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (7.41%) SLA
2 1 (1.85%) QA
System Software
1 39 (72.22%) Active Directory
2 18 (33.33%) Virtual Machines
3 10 (18.52%) XenApp
4 9 (16.67%) XenDesktop
5 8 (14.81%) Citrix Hypervisor
6 6 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
7 3 (5.56%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (3.70%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 2 (3.70%) Virtual Servers
8 2 (3.70%) VMware NSX
9 1 (1.85%) Docker
9 1 (1.85%) Microsoft App-V
9 1 (1.85%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 22 (40.74%) Microsoft Intune
2 20 (37.04%) SCCM
3 19 (35.19%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 19 (35.19%) SCOM
4 18 (33.33%) Kubernetes
5 17 (31.48%) WSUS
6 5 (9.26%) SysTrack
7 2 (3.70%) Microsoft Clustering
7 2 (3.70%) OPNET
7 2 (3.70%) vCenter Server
7 2 (3.70%) VxRail
8 1 (1.85%) FortiGate
8 1 (1.85%) Terraform
Vendors
1 39 (72.22%) Microsoft
2 17 (31.48%) Citrix
3 9 (16.67%) NetApp
4 6 (11.11%) VMware
5 5 (9.26%) New Relic
5 5 (9.26%) OpenAI
6 2 (3.70%) Dell
6 2 (3.70%) EMC
6 2 (3.70%) Remedy
6 2 (3.70%) ServiceNow
6 2 (3.70%) SolarWinds
6 2 (3.70%) Sophos
7 1 (1.85%) Aruba
7 1 (1.85%) Cisco
7 1 (1.85%) Fortinet
7 1 (1.85%) HP
7 1 (1.85%) iManage
7 1 (1.85%) Ivanti
7 1 (1.85%) Oracle
7 1 (1.85%) Zscaler