Microsoft App-V Contracts

Microsoft Application Virtualisation (AppV) formerly Softricity SoftGrid
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 576 650 724
Rank change year-on-year +74 +74 -157
Contract jobs citing Microsoft App-V 24 63 132
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.055% 0.11% 0.15%
As % of the System Software category 0.51% 0.80% 1.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 47 92
10th Percentile £380 £300 £308
25th Percentile £438 £350 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £485
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -2.06% +7.78%
75th Percentile £554 £534 £623
90th Percentile £575 £583 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £551 £500 £538
% change year-on-year +10.10% -6.98% +20.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 5
10th Percentile - - £16.02
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £23.80 - £17.50
75th Percentile - - £24.00
90th Percentile - - £45.60
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £17.50
% change year-on-year - - -73.48%

All System Software Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for system software skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 4,691 7,882 12,031
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 10.76% 13.21% 13.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,206 5,629 8,605
10th Percentile £198 £205 £200
25th Percentile £331 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% - +8.25%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £625
90th Percentile £688 £725 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £460 £483 £450
% change year-on-year -4.69% +7.26% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 233 280 317
10th Percentile £14.06 £14.95 £13.20
25th Percentile £15.50 £18.25 £15.00
Median hourly rate £22.50 £53.43 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -57.88% +167.13% -
75th Percentile £60.00 £66.00 £44.69
90th Percentile £77.90 £75.00 £60.92
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.00 £41.88 £18.12
% change year-on-year -47.46% +131.16% +2.93%

Microsoft App-V
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft App-V in the UK

Microsoft App-V
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Microsoft App-V in the UK

Microsoft App-V
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft App-V over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft App-V in the UK

Microsoft App-V
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft App-V in the UK

Microsoft App-V
Top 10 Contract Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 29 April 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
England +63 14 £525 +10.53% 10
UK excluding London +35 13 £551 +10.10% 5
London +102 8 £488 +50.00% 4
Work from Home +107 6 £475 -5.00% 6
Scotland +38 5 - -
Wales - 3 £500 -
South East +13 2 £551 -19.93% 3
South West +8 2 - - 2
North of England +12 1 £600 +20.00%
North East - 1 £600 -

Microsoft App-V
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 10 (41.67%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (16.67%) SharePoint
3 2 (8.33%) IIS
Applications
1 3 (12.50%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 9 (37.50%) Azure
2 8 (33.33%) Entra ID
3 6 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (12.50%) OneDrive
5 2 (8.33%) AWS
5 2 (8.33%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 2 (8.33%) Mimecast
5 2 (8.33%) Nutanix
5 2 (8.33%) Rubrik
6 1 (4.17%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (4.17%) GCP
6 1 (4.17%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 8 (33.33%) DNS
1 8 (33.33%) Firewall
1 8 (33.33%) VPN
2 6 (25.00%) DHCP
2 6 (25.00%) SMTP
3 3 (12.50%) NetScaler
4 2 (8.33%) DKIM
4 2 (8.33%) DMARC
4 2 (8.33%) Extranet
4 2 (8.33%) Internet
4 2 (8.33%) LAN
4 2 (8.33%) NAS
4 2 (8.33%) SAN
4 2 (8.33%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (8.33%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (25.00%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (4.17%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 4 (16.67%) MSI
General
1 7 (29.17%) Social Skills
2 3 (12.50%) Public Sector
3 2 (8.33%) Finance
4 1 (4.17%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (4.17%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (4.17%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 7 (29.17%) Applications Packager
2 3 (12.50%) Architect
3 2 (8.33%) Applications Architect
3 2 (8.33%) IT Support
3 2 (8.33%) Lead
3 2 (8.33%) SC Cleared Application Packager
3 2 (8.33%) Senior
3 2 (8.33%) Support Officer
4 1 (4.17%) Citrix Consultant
4 1 (4.17%) Citrix Engineer
4 1 (4.17%) Citrix Technical Consultant
4 1 (4.17%) Consultant
4 1 (4.17%) Desktop Engineer
4 1 (4.17%) Lead Architect
4 1 (4.17%) SC Cleared Technical Consultant
4 1 (4.17%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (25.00%) LDAP
2 2 (8.33%) Software Packaging
2 2 (8.33%) WSH
Miscellaneous
1 8 (33.33%) PKI
2 6 (25.00%) Clustering
3 3 (12.50%) Data Centre
4 2 (8.33%) Fat Client
4 2 (8.33%) Thin Client
4 2 (8.33%) Virtual Team
5 1 (4.17%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 16 (66.67%) Windows
2 8 (33.33%) Windows Server
3 7 (29.17%) Windows 10
4 6 (25.00%) Windows Server 2019
5 4 (16.67%) Windows Server 2003
6 3 (12.50%) Windows Server 2012
7 2 (8.33%) Unix
7 2 (8.33%) Windows 7
7 2 (8.33%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (33.33%) Application Packaging
1 8 (33.33%) High Availability
1 8 (33.33%) Identity Access Management
2 7 (29.17%) Project Delivery
3 6 (25.00%) Customer Requirements
3 6 (25.00%) Migration
4 3 (12.50%) Deployment Automation
4 3 (12.50%) ITIL
4 3 (12.50%) Roadmaps
4 3 (12.50%) Software Deployment
5 2 (8.33%) Agile
5 2 (8.33%) Analytics
5 2 (8.33%) Business Case
5 2 (8.33%) Capacity Management
5 2 (8.33%) Data Extraction
5 2 (8.33%) Infrastructure Management
5 2 (8.33%) Kalman Filter
5 2 (8.33%) Mobile Device Management
5 2 (8.33%) Network Monitoring
5 2 (8.33%) Server Management
Programming Languages
1 18 (75.00%) PowerShell
2 2 (8.33%) SQL
2 2 (8.33%) VBScript
3 1 (4.17%) VB
Qualifications
1 9 (37.50%) Security Cleared
2 8 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 6 (25.00%) DV Cleared
4 1 (4.17%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (4.17%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.33%) SLA
2 1 (4.17%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (4.17%) PMO
2 1 (4.17%) QA
System Software
1 13 (54.17%) Active Directory
2 9 (37.50%) VMware ESXi
3 8 (33.33%) BitLocker
3 8 (33.33%) Hyper-V
4 6 (25.00%) Terminal Services
5 3 (12.50%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (12.50%) XenApp
5 3 (12.50%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 11 (45.83%) SCCM
2 6 (25.00%) vCenter Server
2 6 (25.00%) vMotion
3 4 (16.67%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (8.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 2 (8.33%) NetBackup
4 2 (8.33%) SCOM
4 2 (8.33%) SCVMM
4 2 (8.33%) VxRail
4 2 (8.33%) WMI
5 1 (4.17%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 18 (75.00%) Microsoft
2 13 (54.17%) Citrix
3 9 (37.50%) VMware
4 6 (25.00%) Infoblox
5 3 (12.50%) Dell
5 3 (12.50%) HP
5 3 (12.50%) Wyse
6 2 (8.33%) Avaya
6 2 (8.33%) Brocade
6 2 (8.33%) Cisco
6 2 (8.33%) Commvault
6 2 (8.33%) Dell Compellent
6 2 (8.33%) EMC
6 2 (8.33%) Equitrac
6 2 (8.33%) F5
6 2 (8.33%) Juniper
6 2 (8.33%) Mitel
6 2 (8.33%) MobileIron
6 2 (8.33%) Proofpoint
6 2 (8.33%) Symantec