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 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 544 614 715
Rank change year-on-year +70 +101 -99
Contract jobs citing Microsoft App-V 31 68 123
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.072% 0.12% 0.14%
As % of the System Software category 0.66% 0.93% 1.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 50 82
10th Percentile £380 £313 £301
25th Percentile £400 £367 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% -3.74%
75th Percentile £509 £523 £547
90th Percentile £554 £581 £649
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £465
% change year-on-year - +7.53% +3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 4
10th Percentile - - £15.78
25th Percentile - £34.25 £16.89
Median hourly rate £23.80 £34.50 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -31.01% +97.14% -
75th Percentile £58.49 £34.75 £19.13
90th Percentile - - £22.05
UK excluding London median hourly rate £58.49 £34.50 £17.50
% change year-on-year +69.54% +97.14% -

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 4,701 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%

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 1 June 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
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Microsoft App-V over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Microsoft App-V in the UK

Microsoft App-V
Top 11 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 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 +49 24 £450 -5.26% 11
UK excluding London +7 17 £500 - 7
London +93 12 £450 +38.46% 3
South East +7 7 £491 -8.18% 6
Work from Home +99 6 £438 -1.69% 3
Scotland +38 3 - -
North of England +9 3 £500 - 1
Wales - 3 £500 -
North West +6 2 £400 -20.00% 1
South West +1 1 - -
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 9 (29.03%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (16.13%) SharePoint
3 3 (9.68%) IIS
Applications
1 3 (9.68%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 10 (32.26%) Azure
2 7 (22.58%) Entra ID
3 5 (16.13%) AWS
3 5 (16.13%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (12.90%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 3 (9.68%) Mimecast
5 3 (9.68%) Nutanix
5 3 (9.68%) Rubrik
6 2 (6.45%) OneDrive
7 1 (3.23%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (3.23%) GCP
7 1 (3.23%) IaaS
7 1 (3.23%) PaaS
7 1 (3.23%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 9 (29.03%) DNS
2 8 (25.81%) Firewall
3 7 (22.58%) VPN
4 6 (19.35%) DHCP
5 4 (12.90%) SMTP
6 3 (9.68%) DKIM
6 3 (9.68%) DMARC
6 3 (9.68%) Extranet
6 3 (9.68%) Internet
6 3 (9.68%) LAN
6 3 (9.68%) NAS
6 3 (9.68%) NetScaler
6 3 (9.68%) SAN
6 3 (9.68%) Wi-Fi
6 3 (9.68%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (12.90%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (3.23%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 11 (35.48%) MSI
2 6 (19.35%) InstallShield
3 2 (6.45%) AdminStudio
General
1 7 (22.58%) Social Skills
2 6 (19.35%) Public Sector
3 1 (3.23%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (3.23%) Finance
3 1 (3.23%) Local Government
3 1 (3.23%) Military
3 1 (3.23%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (32.26%) Applications Packager
2 6 (19.35%) Senior
3 5 (16.13%) Administrator
3 5 (16.13%) Systems Administrator
4 4 (12.90%) Senior Systems Administrator
5 3 (9.68%) Architect
5 3 (9.68%) IT Support
5 3 (9.68%) Lead
5 3 (9.68%) Support Officer
6 2 (6.45%) Applications Architect
6 2 (6.45%) Consultant
6 2 (6.45%) SC Cleared Application Packager
7 1 (3.23%) Azure Consultant
7 1 (3.23%) Citrix Consultant
7 1 (3.23%) Lead Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (12.90%) LDAP
2 3 (9.68%) Software Packaging
3 2 (6.45%) WSH
Miscellaneous
1 7 (22.58%) PKI
2 4 (12.90%) Clustering
2 4 (12.90%) Data Centre
2 4 (12.90%) Virtual Team
3 3 (9.68%) Fat Client
3 3 (9.68%) Thin Client
4 1 (3.23%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (3.23%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 20 (64.52%) Windows
2 9 (29.03%) Windows 10
3 7 (22.58%) Windows Server
4 4 (12.90%) Windows Server 2019
5 3 (9.68%) Unix
5 3 (9.68%) Windows 7
6 2 (6.45%) Windows Server 2003
6 2 (6.45%) Windows Server 2012
6 2 (6.45%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (41.94%) Application Packaging
2 7 (22.58%) High Availability
2 7 (22.58%) Identity Access Management
3 6 (19.35%) Migration
4 5 (16.13%) Task Automation
5 4 (12.90%) Customer Requirements
5 4 (12.90%) Deployment Automation
5 4 (12.90%) ITIL
5 4 (12.90%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (12.90%) Project Delivery
5 4 (12.90%) Software Deployment
6 3 (9.68%) Capacity Management
6 3 (9.68%) Converged Infrastructure
6 3 (9.68%) Infrastructure Management
6 3 (9.68%) Kalman Filter
6 3 (9.68%) Mentoring
6 3 (9.68%) Mobile Device Management
6 3 (9.68%) Network Monitoring
6 3 (9.68%) Patch Management
6 3 (9.68%) Security Hardening
Programming Languages
1 26 (83.87%) PowerShell
2 4 (12.90%) VB
3 2 (6.45%) SQL
3 2 (6.45%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 11 (35.48%) Security Cleared
2 9 (29.03%) DV Cleared
3 5 (16.13%) SC Cleared
4 2 (6.45%) AWS Certification
4 2 (6.45%) CESG Certified Professional
4 2 (6.45%) Citrix Certification
4 2 (6.45%) MCSA
4 2 (6.45%) MCSE
4 2 (6.45%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (3.23%) Azure Certification
5 1 (3.23%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (3.23%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (3.23%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (9.68%) QA
1 3 (9.68%) SLA
2 1 (3.23%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (3.23%) PMO
System Software
1 12 (38.71%) Active Directory
2 9 (29.03%) Hyper-V
3 7 (22.58%) BitLocker
4 5 (16.13%) VMware ESXi
4 5 (16.13%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (12.90%) Terminal Services
5 4 (12.90%) XenApp
5 4 (12.90%) XenDesktop
6 2 (6.45%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 15 (48.39%) SCCM
2 7 (22.58%) Microsoft Intune
3 4 (12.90%) vCenter Server
3 4 (12.90%) vMotion
4 3 (9.68%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 3 (9.68%) NetBackup
4 3 (9.68%) SCOM
4 3 (9.68%) SCVMM
4 3 (9.68%) VxRail
5 2 (6.45%) WMI
Vendors
1 24 (77.42%) Microsoft
2 11 (35.48%) Citrix
3 9 (29.03%) VMware
4 4 (12.90%) HP
4 4 (12.90%) Infoblox
5 3 (9.68%) Avaya
5 3 (9.68%) Brocade
5 3 (9.68%) Cisco
5 3 (9.68%) Commvault
5 3 (9.68%) Dell
5 3 (9.68%) Dell Compellent
5 3 (9.68%) EMC
5 3 (9.68%) F5
5 3 (9.68%) Forcepoint
5 3 (9.68%) Juniper
5 3 (9.68%) Mitel
5 3 (9.68%) MobileIron
5 3 (9.68%) Proofpoint
5 3 (9.68%) SolarWinds
5 3 (9.68%) Wyse