Virtual Desktop Jobs in Scotland

Virtual Desktop
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for Virtual Desktop skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries 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 267 204 254
Rank change year-on-year -63 +50 -59
Permanent jobs citing Virtual Desktop 6 4 4
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 0.088% 0.092% 0.066%
As % of the System Software category 0.85% 0.55% 0.42%
Number of salaries quoted 4 2 3
10th Percentile £33,475 £32,875 £57,000
25th Percentile £34,938 £35,313 £61,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £44,750 £41,250 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.48% -41.07% +40.00%
75th Percentile £62,125 £47,813 £73,750
90th Percentile £75,850 £50,625 £76,000
UK median annual salary £51,000 £57,500 £53,750
% change year-on-year -11.30% +6.98% +7.50%

All System Software Skills
Scotland

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

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 702 725 942
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 10.27% 16.66% 15.49%
Number of salaries quoted 388 354 577
10th Percentile £26,250 £25,150 £26,680
25th Percentile £31,250 £35,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,500 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.82% -4.35% +21.05%
75th Percentile £62,087 £72,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% -0.90% +0.91%

Virtual Desktop
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Virtual Desktop in Scotland

Virtual Desktop
Salary Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Virtual Desktop in Scotland.

Salary trend for Virtual Desktop in Scotland

Virtual Desktop
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Virtual Desktop in Scotland over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Virtual Desktop in Scotland

Virtual Desktop
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Virtual Desktop within the Scotland region 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Edinburgh +32 3 £66,500 +104.62% 4
Glasgow -112 2 £35,750 -28.50%
Highlands - 1 - -
Virtual Desktop
UK

Virtual Desktop
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 6 (100.00%) Azure
2 4 (66.67%) Entra ID
3 3 (50.00%) Azure Storage
4 2 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (33.33%) Azure Event Grid
4 2 (33.33%) Azure Logic Apps
4 2 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (16.67%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) LAN
1 1 (16.67%) Remote Desktop
1 1 (16.67%) WAN
1 1 (16.67%) Wi-Fi
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Git
General
1 2 (33.33%) Finance
1 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Azure Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Automation Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Desktop Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Cloud Automation Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) ARM Templates
1 2 (33.33%) YAML
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Windows
2 1 (16.67%) Windows 10
2 1 (16.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Incident Response
1 3 (50.00%) Threat Detection
2 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 2 (33.33%) DevOps
2 2 (33.33%) Task Automation
3 1 (16.67%) Agile
3 1 (16.67%) Application Packaging
3 1 (16.67%) Digital Transformation Programme
3 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (16.67%) Project Management
3 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) Kusto Query Language
1 3 (50.00%) PowerShell
2 2 (33.33%) Bicep
System Software
1 5 (83.33%) Active Directory
2 3 (50.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (33.33%) Terraform
3 1 (16.67%) SCCM
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft