Virtual Desktop Contracts in the West Midlands

Virtual Desktop
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 93 112 171
Rank change year-on-year +19 +59 -47
Contract jobs citing Virtual Desktop 18 17 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.88% 0.77% 0.17%
As % of the System Software category 9.09% 5.82% 1.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 10 3
10th Percentile £288 £356 £353
25th Percentile £314 £363 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £443 £469 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.60% -1.32% +18.01%
75th Percentile £613 £684 £594
90th Percentile £744 £688 £658
England median daily rate £575 £535 £500
% change year-on-year +7.48% +7.00% +5.26%

All System Software Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 198 292 416
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 9.70% 13.19% 11.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 148 185 288
10th Percentile £183 £160 £150
25th Percentile £261 £295 £204
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £412
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% +9.36% +17.57%
75th Percentile £600 £554 £538
90th Percentile £675 £713 £625
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 9 23
10th Percentile £14.59 £14.70 £12.53
25th Percentile £15.65 £16.23 £13.63
Median hourly rate £16.00 £18.50 £16.50
Median % change year-on-year -13.51% +12.12% +13.79%
75th Percentile £19.95 £28.75 £20.00
90th Percentile £22.23 - £23.10
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 West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Virtual Desktop in the West Midlands

Virtual Desktop
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Virtual Desktop in the West Midlands

Virtual Desktop
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for Virtual Desktop in the West Midlands

Virtual Desktop
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Virtual Desktop in the West Midlands

Virtual Desktop
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands 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
Coventry +10 9 £750 +100.00%
Birmingham - 6 £330 - 1
Warwickshire -3 2 £463 -31.48% 1
Virtual Desktop
England

Virtual Desktop
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West 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 5 (27.78%) Microsoft Exchange
1 5 (27.78%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 18 (100.00%) Azure
2 13 (72.22%) Azure Monitor
3 11 (61.11%) Microsoft 365
4 5 (27.78%) Azure Functions
4 5 (27.78%) OneDrive
4 5 (27.78%) Power Platform
4 5 (27.78%) Serverless
5 2 (11.11%) IaaS
6 1 (5.56%) Entra ID
6 1 (5.56%) PaaS
6 1 (5.56%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (50.00%) DNS
2 8 (44.44%) NetScaler
3 3 (16.67%) Firewall
4 1 (5.56%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (27.78%) Power BI
General
1 2 (11.11%) Social Skills
2 1 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (5.56%) Finance
2 1 (5.56%) German Language
2 1 (5.56%) Law
2 1 (5.56%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (27.78%) Citrix Engineer
1 5 (27.78%) Deployment Engineer
1 5 (27.78%) Desktop Engineer
2 4 (22.22%) Architect
3 3 (16.67%) Senior
3 3 (16.67%) Senior Citrix Engineer
3 3 (16.67%) Senior Desktop Engineer
3 3 (16.67%) Solutions Architect
4 2 (11.11%) Azure Specialist
5 1 (5.56%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Azure Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Citrix Specialist
5 1 (5.56%) Desktop Specialist
5 1 (5.56%) Monitoring Specialist
5 1 (5.56%) Network Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Platform Specialist
5 1 (5.56%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.56%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 3 (16.67%) Fat Client
1 3 (16.67%) Thin Client
2 1 (5.56%) Grid Computing
2 1 (5.56%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 16 (88.89%) Windows
2 10 (55.56%) Windows Server
3 9 (50.00%) Windows 10
4 1 (5.56%) VMS
4 1 (5.56%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (44.44%) Application Packaging
1 8 (44.44%) Change Management
1 8 (44.44%) Patch Management
2 6 (33.33%) Analytics
3 5 (27.78%) Artificial Intelligence
3 5 (27.78%) Incident Management
3 5 (27.78%) ITIL
3 5 (27.78%) Problem Management
3 5 (27.78%) Runbook
3 5 (27.78%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 5 (27.78%) Virtual Environments
4 4 (22.22%) Computer Science
4 4 (22.22%) Data Science
4 4 (22.22%) DevOps
5 3 (16.67%) User Acceptance Testing
6 2 (11.11%) Business Intelligence
6 2 (11.11%) Migration
6 2 (11.11%) Operational Stability
7 1 (5.56%) Identity Management
7 1 (5.56%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 13 (72.22%) PowerShell
2 1 (5.56%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (27.78%) Degree
2 4 (22.22%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (11.11%) Azure Certification
4 1 (5.56%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.11%) SLA
2 1 (5.56%) QA
System Software
1 10 (55.56%) Active Directory
2 8 (44.44%) Citrix Hypervisor
2 8 (44.44%) XenApp
2 8 (44.44%) XenDesktop
3 1 (5.56%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (5.56%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (27.78%) SysTrack
2 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (5.56%) Terraform
Vendors
1 14 (77.78%) Citrix
2 12 (66.67%) Microsoft
3 8 (44.44%) NetApp
4 5 (27.78%) New Relic
4 5 (27.78%) OpenAI
5 1 (5.56%) VMware
5 1 (5.56%) Zscaler