Virtual Desktop Contracts in the South East

Virtual Desktop
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East requiring Virtual Desktop skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Virtual Desktop over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 176 198 221
Rank change year-on-year +22 +23 -6
Contract jobs citing Virtual Desktop 24 17 42
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.42% 0.30% 0.55%
As % of the System Software category 2.88% 2.13% 3.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 10 33
10th Percentile - £250 £165
25th Percentile £603 £290 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £605 £638 £300
Median % change year-on-year -5.10% +112.50% -44.95%
75th Percentile £608 £741 £565
90th Percentile - £799 £600
England median daily rate £575 £535 £500
% change year-on-year +7.48% +7.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - £63.50
25th Percentile - - £68.75
Median hourly rate £53.00 - £80.00
75th Percentile - - £81.25
90th Percentile - - £82.00
England median hourly rate £35.50 £20.86 £80.00
% change year-on-year +70.18% -73.93% +73.91%

All System Software Skills
South East

Virtual Desktop falls under the System Software category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring system software skills in the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 832 797 1,282
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 14.46% 14.07% 16.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 527 534 864
10th Percentile £205 £200 £173
25th Percentile £408 £350 £319
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year +7.50% +5.26% +7.95%
75th Percentile £608 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £663
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 49 44 58
10th Percentile £17.69 £15.50 £12.87
25th Percentile £17.80 £32.44 £14.00
Median hourly rate £54.88 £57.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.57% +187.50% -9.09%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.31 £39.81
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £80.75
England median hourly rate £22.40 £50.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year -55.20% +163.16% +2.43%

Virtual Desktop
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Virtual Desktop in the South East

Virtual Desktop
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Daily rate trend for Virtual Desktop in the South East

Virtual Desktop
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Virtual Desktop in the South East over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Virtual Desktop in the South East

Virtual Desktop
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

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

Hourly rate trend for Virtual Desktop in the South East

Virtual Desktop
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 12 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
Thames Valley +20 21 £605 -6.92% 6
Berkshire +3 21 £605 -6.92% 5
Surrey +14 2 £260 +4.00% 3
Kent +9 1 - - 3
Virtual Desktop
England

Virtual Desktop
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 21 (87.50%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (8.33%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 23 (95.83%) Microsoft 365
2 22 (91.67%) Azure
2 22 (91.67%) Entra ID
3 21 (87.50%) Azure Monitor
3 21 (87.50%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 22 (91.67%) DHCP
1 22 (91.67%) DNS
2 21 (87.50%) Firewall
3 2 (8.33%) LAN
3 2 (8.33%) WAN
4 1 (4.17%) TCP/IP
General
1 24 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (4.17%) Finance
2 1 (4.17%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 21 (87.50%) Active Directory Support
2 14 (58.33%) Active Directory Specialist
2 14 (58.33%) Azure Specialist
2 14 (58.33%) Support Specialist
3 8 (33.33%) Support Engineer
4 7 (29.17%) Active Directory Engineer
4 7 (29.17%) Active Directory Support Engineer
4 7 (29.17%) Azure Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Analyst
5 1 (4.17%) Deskside Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Deskside Support
5 1 (4.17%) Deskside Support Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Desktop Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Desktop Support
5 1 (4.17%) IT Analyst
5 1 (4.17%) IT Support
5 1 (4.17%) IT Support Analyst
5 1 (4.17%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (87.50%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 22 (91.67%) Self-Motivation
2 21 (87.50%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 23 (95.83%) Windows
2 21 (87.50%) Linux
2 21 (87.50%) Windows Server
2 21 (87.50%) Windows Server 2016
2 21 (87.50%) Windows Server 2019
3 1 (4.17%) Apple iOS
3 1 (4.17%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (100.00%) ITIL
2 22 (91.67%) Service Management
3 21 (87.50%) Agile
3 21 (87.50%) Analytics
3 21 (87.50%) CI/CD
3 21 (87.50%) DevOps
3 21 (87.50%) Identity Management
3 21 (87.50%) Infrastructure as Code
3 21 (87.50%) Log Analytics
3 21 (87.50%) Multi-Factor Authentication
3 21 (87.50%) Privileged Identity Management
3 21 (87.50%) RBAC
3 21 (87.50%) Release Management
4 2 (8.33%) Incident Management
5 1 (4.17%) Case Management
5 1 (4.17%) Disk Encryption
5 1 (4.17%) ITSM
5 1 (4.17%) Migration
5 1 (4.17%) Performance Measurement
5 1 (4.17%) Problem Management
Programming Languages
1 22 (91.67%) PowerShell
2 21 (87.50%) Bicep
2 21 (87.50%) C#
2 21 (87.50%) VB
2 21 (87.50%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 22 (91.67%) SC Cleared
1 22 (91.67%) Security Cleared
2 21 (87.50%) Degree
2 21 (87.50%) DV Cleared
2 21 (87.50%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.33%) SLA
System Software
1 24 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 21 (87.50%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 22 (91.67%) Microsoft Intune
1 22 (91.67%) SCCM
2 21 (87.50%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 21 (87.50%) Kubernetes
2 21 (87.50%) SCOM
2 21 (87.50%) WSUS
Vendors
1 23 (95.83%) Microsoft
2 1 (4.17%) Apple
2 1 (4.17%) Citrix
2 1 (4.17%) ServiceNow
2 1 (4.17%) Wyse