Virtual Desktop Jobs in the Midlands

Virtual Desktop
England > Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 293 228 332
Rank change year-on-year -65 +104 -67
Permanent jobs citing Virtual Desktop 34 86 25
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.26% 1.01% 0.22%
As % of the System Software category 2.40% 7.16% 1.55%
Number of salaries quoted 31 10 7
10th Percentile £36,298 - -
25th Percentile £40,478 £31,250 £26,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £46,750 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.30% +3.89% -26.53%
75th Percentile £102,000 £67,188 £57,880
90th Percentile £115,000 £77,500 £72,000
England median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -8.70% +15.00% -

All System Software Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands with a requirement for system software skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 1,414 1,201 1,618
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 10.82% 14.04% 14.40%
Number of salaries quoted 1,184 723 1,274
10th Percentile £24,500 £25,525 £25,000
25th Percentile £30,000 £29,875 £30,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £45,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% - +2.27%
75th Percentile £56,375 £60,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £67,850 £72,250 £80,000
England median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -

Virtual Desktop
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Virtual Desktop in the Midlands

Virtual Desktop
Salary Trend in the Midlands

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

Salary trend for Virtual Desktop in the Midlands

Virtual Desktop
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

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

Salary histogram for Virtual Desktop in the Midlands

Virtual Desktop
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Virtual Desktop within the Midlands 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
West Midlands +4 25 £52,500 -2.33% 4
East Midlands -87 9 £61,250 +88.46% 7
Virtual Desktop
England

Virtual Desktop
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 (26.47%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (17.65%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (2.94%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (2.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 27 (79.41%) Microsoft 365
2 20 (58.82%) Azure
3 8 (23.53%) Azure DevOps
3 8 (23.53%) IaaS
3 8 (23.53%) PaaS
4 4 (11.76%) Azure Storage
5 2 (5.88%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (32.35%) VPN
2 8 (23.53%) NGFW
3 3 (8.82%) LAN
3 3 (8.82%) WAN
3 3 (8.82%) Wireless
4 1 (2.94%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (8.82%) SQL Server
General
1 5 (14.71%) Documentation Skills
1 5 (14.71%) Social Skills
2 4 (11.76%) Presentation Skills
3 3 (8.82%) Local Government
4 2 (5.88%) Finance
5 1 (2.94%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (23.53%) Architect
1 8 (23.53%) Citrix Architect
1 8 (23.53%) Cloud Architect
1 8 (23.53%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
1 8 (23.53%) DevOps Architect
2 5 (14.71%) Azure Consultant
2 5 (14.71%) Consultant
3 3 (8.82%) Escalation Engineer
3 3 (8.82%) Infrastructure Team Leader
3 3 (8.82%) Lead
3 3 (8.82%) Service Desk Engineer
3 3 (8.82%) Team Leader
4 2 (5.88%) Head of Infrastructure
4 2 (5.88%) Head of Operations
4 2 (5.88%) Head of Technical Operations
5 1 (2.94%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 1 (2.94%) Software Manager
5 1 (2.94%) Support Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (23.53%) ARM Templates
1 8 (23.53%) JSON
1 8 (23.53%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (23.53%) Private Cloud
1 8 (23.53%) Public Cloud
2 5 (14.71%) Management Information System
3 4 (11.76%) iPhone
3 4 (11.76%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 2 (5.88%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 9 (26.47%) Windows
2 8 (23.53%) Windows Server
3 5 (14.71%) Windows 7
4 1 (2.94%) Android
4 1 (2.94%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (29.41%) Mentoring
2 9 (26.47%) Disaster Recovery
2 9 (26.47%) Email Filtering
2 9 (26.47%) Kalman Filter
2 9 (26.47%) Project Delivery
3 8 (23.53%) Agile
3 8 (23.53%) CI/CD
3 8 (23.53%) DevOps
3 8 (23.53%) Infrastructure as Code
3 8 (23.53%) Network Design
3 8 (23.53%) Network Virtualisation
3 8 (23.53%) SDLC
4 6 (17.65%) Cybersecurity
4 6 (17.65%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 6 (17.65%) Line Management
5 5 (14.71%) Migration
5 5 (14.71%) Presales
5 5 (14.71%) Problem Management
5 5 (14.71%) Server Management
5 5 (14.71%) SIAM
Programming Languages
1 8 (23.53%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (14.71%) Azure Certification
2 4 (11.76%) Computer Science Degree
2 4 (11.76%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.88%) QA
2 1 (2.94%) SLA
System Software
1 18 (52.94%) Active Directory
2 13 (38.24%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (26.47%) Microsoft Virtual Server
3 9 (26.47%) Virtual Servers
4 8 (23.53%) VMware ESXi
4 8 (23.53%) vSphere
5 1 (2.94%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 9 (26.47%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 8 (23.53%) Terraform
3 6 (17.65%) Microsoft Intune
4 5 (14.71%) AirWatch
4 5 (14.71%) SCCM
Vendors
1 23 (67.65%) Microsoft
2 13 (38.24%) VMware
3 10 (29.41%) Citrix
4 6 (17.65%) Apple
5 5 (14.71%) Dell
5 5 (14.71%) HP
5 5 (14.71%) ServiceNow
5 5 (14.71%) Symantec
5 5 (14.71%) Toshiba