Virtual Desktop Contracts

Virtual Desktop
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 464 472 581
Rank change year-on-year +8 +109 -46
Contract jobs citing Virtual Desktop 111 217 267
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.26% 0.39% 0.30%
As % of the System Software category 2.36% 2.96% 2.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 158 146
10th Percentile £290 £300 £250
25th Percentile £450 £406 £352
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +10.00% -3.61%
75th Percentile £608 £625 £588
90th Percentile £666 £718 £663
UK excluding London median daily rate £605 £600 £495
% change year-on-year +0.83% +21.21% +22.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 0
10th Percentile £18.12 £16.75 -
25th Percentile £18.29 £18.29 -
Median hourly rate £18.59 £20.86 -
Median % change year-on-year -10.91% - -
75th Percentile £18.88 £23.43 -
90th Percentile £19.05 £24.97 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £18.59 £20.86 -
% change year-on-year -10.91% - -

All System Software Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for system software skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 4,701 7,331 11,619
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 10.92% 13.08% 13.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,266 5,173 8,348
10th Percentile £200 £200 £200
25th Percentile £350 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - +6.06%
75th Percentile £607 £638 £625
90th Percentile £688 £725 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £479 £450
% change year-on-year -0.84% +6.44% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 228 248 287
10th Percentile £14.06 £15.23 £13.00
25th Percentile £15.25 £19.75 £14.75
Median hourly rate £24.18 £55.00 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -56.04% +189.47% -5.00%
75th Percentile £60.75 £66.00 £37.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.82 £58.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £48.40 £17.50
% change year-on-year -43.18% +176.57% -3.39%

Virtual Desktop
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Virtual Desktop in the UK

Virtual Desktop
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Virtual Desktop in the UK

Virtual Desktop
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Virtual Desktop over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Virtual Desktop in the UK

Virtual Desktop
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Virtual Desktop in the UK

Virtual Desktop
Top 14 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 1 June 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 +7 101 £600 +12.15% 67
UK excluding London +8 71 £605 +0.83% 59
Work from Home +65 47 £600 +7.14% 36
London +50 33 £450 -5.26% 11
South East +16 22 £605 -3.20% 18
Midlands +14 22 £450 -31.82% 11
West Midlands +16 18 £443 -15.71% 4
South West -11 12 £600 +20.00% 11
North of England +17 10 £550 - 14
North West +20 8 £613 +11.36% 9
Scotland +39 4 £688 - 4
East Midlands 0 3 £450 -31.82% 7
Wales +18 1 - - 1
Yorkshire +12 1 £375 - 5

Virtual Desktop
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 35 (31.53%) Microsoft Exchange
2 11 (9.91%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.90%) Confluence
Applications
1 5 (4.50%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.80%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (2.70%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.90%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 87 (78.38%) Azure
2 61 (54.95%) Microsoft 365
3 39 (35.14%) Entra ID
4 35 (31.53%) Azure Monitor
5 21 (18.92%) Azure Storage
6 9 (8.11%) OneDrive
7 7 (6.31%) AWS
7 7 (6.31%) IaaS
7 7 (6.31%) Power Platform
8 5 (4.50%) Azure Functions
8 5 (4.50%) Dynamics 365
8 5 (4.50%) PaaS
8 5 (4.50%) Serverless
9 4 (3.60%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 3 (2.70%) Azure Pipelines
10 3 (2.70%) Microsoft Purview
11 2 (1.80%) Power Automate
11 2 (1.80%) PowerApps
12 1 (0.90%) Azure Key Vault
12 1 (0.90%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 44 (39.64%) DNS
2 33 (29.73%) Firewall
3 32 (28.83%) DHCP
4 13 (11.71%) NetScaler
5 10 (9.01%) WAN
6 9 (8.11%) LAN
7 6 (5.41%) TCP/IP
7 6 (5.41%) VPN
8 5 (4.50%) SMTP
9 3 (2.70%) Skype
10 2 (1.80%) FTP
10 2 (1.80%) HTTP
10 2 (1.80%) Remote Desktop
10 2 (1.80%) SNMP
10 2 (1.80%) SSH
10 2 (1.80%) SSL
10 2 (1.80%) Telnet
10 2 (1.80%) Wi-Fi
11 1 (0.90%) Internet
11 1 (0.90%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (6.31%) Power BI
2 2 (1.80%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (0.90%) JIRA
1 1 (0.90%) MSI
General
1 43 (38.74%) Social Skills
2 14 (12.61%) Public Sector
3 10 (9.01%) Finance
4 4 (3.60%) German Language
5 3 (2.70%) Military
6 2 (1.80%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (1.80%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (0.90%) Back Office
7 1 (0.90%) Banking
7 1 (0.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (0.90%) Law
7 1 (0.90%) Local Government
7 1 (0.90%) Manufacturing
7 1 (0.90%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (0.90%) Retail
7 1 (0.90%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 20 (18.02%) Active Directory Support
1 20 (18.02%) Azure Engineer
2 19 (17.12%) Azure Specialist
3 18 (16.22%) Support Specialist
4 15 (13.51%) Desktop Engineer
5 14 (12.61%) Active Directory Specialist
6 8 (7.21%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 8 (7.21%) Support Engineer
7 7 (6.31%) Analyst
7 7 (6.31%) Architect
7 7 (6.31%) Citrix Engineer
7 7 (6.31%) Consultant
8 6 (5.41%) Active Directory Engineer
8 6 (5.41%) Active Directory Support Engineer
8 6 (5.41%) Applications Specialist
8 6 (5.41%) Applications Support
9 5 (4.50%) Azure Consultant
9 5 (4.50%) Deployment Engineer
9 5 (4.50%) Project Manager
9 5 (4.50%) Wintel Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (18.92%) ARM Templates
2 1 (0.90%) JSON
2 1 (0.90%) SailPoint
2 1 (0.90%) WebRTC
Miscellaneous
1 23 (20.72%) PKI
2 20 (18.02%) Self-Motivation
3 4 (3.60%) Fat Client
3 4 (3.60%) Thin Client
4 3 (2.70%) Management Information System
5 2 (1.80%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (1.80%) Replication
6 1 (0.90%) Client/Server
6 1 (0.90%) Clustering
6 1 (0.90%) Data Centre
6 1 (0.90%) Grid Computing
6 1 (0.90%) LIMS
6 1 (0.90%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.90%) Operational Technology
6 1 (0.90%) Security Posture
6 1 (0.90%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 77 (69.37%) Windows
2 43 (38.74%) Windows Server
3 25 (22.52%) Windows 10
4 24 (21.62%) Windows Server 2016
5 23 (20.72%) Windows Server 2019
6 22 (19.82%) Linux
7 5 (4.50%) Windows Server 2012
8 2 (1.80%) Apple iOS
8 2 (1.80%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.90%) Android
9 1 (0.90%) VMS
9 1 (0.90%) Windows 7
9 1 (0.90%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (33.33%) ITIL
2 28 (25.23%) Agile
3 27 (24.32%) Analytics
3 27 (24.32%) DevOps
4 25 (22.52%) Service Management
5 23 (20.72%) CI/CD
5 23 (20.72%) Identity Management
6 22 (19.82%) Infrastructure as Code
6 22 (19.82%) RBAC
6 22 (19.82%) Release Management
7 21 (18.92%) Log Analytics
7 21 (18.92%) Multi-Factor Authentication
8 20 (18.02%) Privileged Identity Management
9 13 (11.71%) Application Packaging
10 12 (10.81%) Change Management
10 12 (10.81%) Incident Management
10 12 (10.81%) Problem-Solving
11 11 (9.91%) Migration
12 9 (8.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 9 (8.11%) Patch Management
Programming Languages
1 51 (45.95%) PowerShell
2 21 (18.92%) Bicep
3 20 (18.02%) C#
3 20 (18.02%) VB
3 20 (18.02%) VBScript
4 7 (6.31%) Python
5 5 (4.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 32 (28.83%) Security Cleared
2 30 (27.03%) Degree
3 26 (23.42%) SC Cleared
4 24 (21.62%) DV Cleared
5 20 (18.02%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 7 (6.31%) Azure Certification
7 4 (3.60%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.90%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.90%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.90%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (5.41%) SLA
2 3 (2.70%) QA
3 1 (0.90%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (0.90%) GDPR
System Software
1 65 (58.56%) Active Directory
2 22 (19.82%) Virtual Machines
3 16 (14.41%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (11.71%) XenApp
5 11 (9.91%) XenDesktop
6 8 (7.21%) Citrix Hypervisor
7 7 (6.31%) vSphere
8 5 (4.50%) VMware ESXi
9 3 (2.70%) Hyper-V
9 3 (2.70%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 3 (2.70%) Virtual Servers
10 2 (1.80%) Docker
10 2 (1.80%) Microsoft App-V
10 2 (1.80%) VMware NSX
11 1 (0.90%) vCloud
11 1 (0.90%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 36 (32.43%) Microsoft Intune
2 32 (28.83%) SCCM
3 25 (22.52%) SCOM
4 23 (20.72%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 23 (20.72%) Kubernetes
5 20 (18.02%) WSUS
6 6 (5.41%) Single Sign-On
7 5 (4.50%) SysTrack
8 3 (2.70%) OPNET
9 2 (1.80%) FortiGate
9 2 (1.80%) Terraform
10 1 (0.90%) Ansible
10 1 (0.90%) Microsoft Clustering
10 1 (0.90%) vCenter Server
10 1 (0.90%) VxRail
Vendors
1 70 (63.06%) Microsoft
2 35 (31.53%) Citrix
3 16 (14.41%) VMware
4 10 (9.01%) NetApp
5 6 (5.41%) ServiceNow
6 5 (4.50%) New Relic
6 5 (4.50%) OpenAI
6 5 (4.50%) SolarWinds
7 3 (2.70%) Remedy
8 2 (1.80%) F5
8 2 (1.80%) Google
8 2 (1.80%) Nexthink
8 2 (1.80%) Sophos
8 2 (1.80%) Splunk
9 1 (0.90%) Apple
9 1 (0.90%) Aruba
9 1 (0.90%) Fortinet
9 1 (0.90%) Ivanti
9 1 (0.90%) Wyse
9 1 (0.90%) Zscaler