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 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 569 627 730
Rank change year-on-year +58 +103 -119
Contract jobs citing Microsoft App-V 33 68 126
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.076% 0.12% 0.14%
As % of the System Software category 0.70% 0.94% 1.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 50 83
10th Percentile £380 £313 £302
25th Percentile £400 £367 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% -5.76%
75th Percentile £509 £523 £544
90th Percentile £554 £581 £648
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £478
% change year-on-year - +4.71% +0.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 6
10th Percentile - - £16.27
25th Percentile - £34.25 £17.50
Median hourly rate £23.80 £34.50 £20.75
Median % change year-on-year -31.01% +66.27% -
75th Percentile £58.49 £34.75 £32.25
90th Percentile - - £47.50
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 4,728 7,253 11,547
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 10.91% 13.05% 13.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,276 5,110 8,298
10th Percentile £205 £200 £200
25th Percentile £356 £385 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - +5.47%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £625
90th Percentile £688 £725 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £478 £450
% change year-on-year -0.68% +6.28% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 225 249 285
10th Percentile £14.06 £15.21 £13.00
25th Percentile £15.50 £20.00 £15.00
Median hourly rate £24.18 £54.83 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -55.90% +174.15% -
75th Percentile £60.75 £67.50 £45.00
90th Percentile £79.20 £75.55 £60.93
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £48.40 £17.64
% change year-on-year -43.18% +174.38% -3.04%

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 9 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 9 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 9 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 +60 26 £450 -5.26% 10
UK excluding London +12 17 £500 - 6
London +85 14 £450 +38.46% 3
Work from Home +99 7 £438 -1.69% 4
South East +11 7 £491 -8.18% 4
Scotland +41 3 - -
North of England +11 3 £500 - 1
Wales - 3 £500 -
North West -2 2 £400 -20.00% 1
South West +7 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 (27.27%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (15.15%) SharePoint
3 3 (9.09%) IIS
Applications
1 3 (9.09%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 10 (30.30%) Azure
2 7 (21.21%) Entra ID
3 5 (15.15%) AWS
3 5 (15.15%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (12.12%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 3 (9.09%) Mimecast
5 3 (9.09%) Nutanix
5 3 (9.09%) Rubrik
6 2 (6.06%) OneDrive
7 1 (3.03%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (3.03%) GCP
7 1 (3.03%) IaaS
7 1 (3.03%) PaaS
7 1 (3.03%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 11 (33.33%) DNS
2 8 (24.24%) DHCP
2 8 (24.24%) Firewall
3 7 (21.21%) VPN
4 5 (15.15%) NetScaler
5 4 (12.12%) SMTP
6 3 (9.09%) DKIM
6 3 (9.09%) DMARC
6 3 (9.09%) Extranet
6 3 (9.09%) Internet
6 3 (9.09%) LAN
6 3 (9.09%) NAS
6 3 (9.09%) SAN
6 3 (9.09%) Wi-Fi
6 3 (9.09%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (12.12%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (3.03%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 11 (33.33%) MSI
2 6 (18.18%) InstallShield
3 2 (6.06%) AdminStudio
General
1 7 (21.21%) Social Skills
2 6 (18.18%) Public Sector
3 2 (6.06%) Local Government
4 1 (3.03%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.03%) Finance
4 1 (3.03%) Military
4 1 (3.03%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (30.30%) Applications Packager
2 6 (18.18%) Senior
3 5 (15.15%) Administrator
3 5 (15.15%) Lead
3 5 (15.15%) Systems Administrator
4 4 (12.12%) Senior Systems Administrator
5 3 (9.09%) Architect
5 3 (9.09%) IT Support
5 3 (9.09%) Support Officer
6 2 (6.06%) Applications Architect
6 2 (6.06%) Consultant
6 2 (6.06%) SC Cleared Application Packager
7 1 (3.03%) Azure Consultant
7 1 (3.03%) Citrix Consultant
7 1 (3.03%) Lead Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (12.12%) LDAP
2 3 (9.09%) Software Packaging
3 2 (6.06%) WSH
Miscellaneous
1 7 (21.21%) PKI
2 5 (15.15%) Virtual Team
3 4 (12.12%) Clustering
3 4 (12.12%) Data Centre
4 3 (9.09%) Fat Client
4 3 (9.09%) Thin Client
5 1 (3.03%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (3.03%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 22 (66.67%) Windows
2 9 (27.27%) Windows 10
2 9 (27.27%) Windows Server
3 4 (12.12%) Windows Server 2019
4 3 (9.09%) Unix
4 3 (9.09%) Windows 7
5 2 (6.06%) Windows Server 2003
5 2 (6.06%) Windows Server 2012
5 2 (6.06%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (45.45%) Application Packaging
2 7 (21.21%) High Availability
2 7 (21.21%) Identity Access Management
3 6 (18.18%) Migration
4 5 (15.15%) Agile
4 5 (15.15%) ITIL
4 5 (15.15%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (15.15%) Task Automation
5 4 (12.12%) Customer Requirements
5 4 (12.12%) Deployment Automation
5 4 (12.12%) Project Delivery
5 4 (12.12%) Software Deployment
5 4 (12.12%) User Experience
6 3 (9.09%) Converged Infrastructure
6 3 (9.09%) Kalman Filter
6 3 (9.09%) Mentoring
6 3 (9.09%) Patch Management
6 3 (9.09%) Security Hardening
6 3 (9.09%) Server Management
6 3 (9.09%) Web Filtering
Programming Languages
1 28 (84.85%) PowerShell
2 4 (12.12%) VB
3 2 (6.06%) SQL
3 2 (6.06%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 11 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 9 (27.27%) DV Cleared
3 5 (15.15%) SC Cleared
4 2 (6.06%) AWS Certification
4 2 (6.06%) CESG Certified Professional
4 2 (6.06%) Citrix Certification
4 2 (6.06%) MCSA
4 2 (6.06%) MCSE
4 2 (6.06%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (3.03%) Azure Certification
5 1 (3.03%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (3.03%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (3.03%) DBS Check
5 1 (3.03%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (9.09%) QA
1 3 (9.09%) SLA
2 1 (3.03%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (3.03%) PMO
System Software
1 14 (42.42%) Active Directory
2 11 (33.33%) Hyper-V
3 7 (21.21%) BitLocker
3 7 (21.21%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (18.18%) XenApp
4 6 (18.18%) XenDesktop
5 5 (15.15%) VMware ESXi
6 4 (12.12%) Terminal Services
7 2 (6.06%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 15 (45.45%) SCCM
2 7 (21.21%) Microsoft Intune
3 4 (12.12%) vCenter Server
3 4 (12.12%) vMotion
4 3 (9.09%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 3 (9.09%) NetBackup
4 3 (9.09%) SCOM
4 3 (9.09%) SCVMM
4 3 (9.09%) VxRail
5 2 (6.06%) WMI
Vendors
1 24 (72.73%) Microsoft
2 13 (39.39%) Citrix
3 11 (33.33%) VMware
4 4 (12.12%) HP
4 4 (12.12%) Infoblox
5 3 (9.09%) Avaya
5 3 (9.09%) Brocade
5 3 (9.09%) Cisco
5 3 (9.09%) Commvault
5 3 (9.09%) Dell
5 3 (9.09%) Dell Compellent
5 3 (9.09%) EMC
5 3 (9.09%) Equitrac
5 3 (9.09%) F5
5 3 (9.09%) Forcepoint
5 3 (9.09%) Juniper
5 3 (9.09%) Mitel
5 3 (9.09%) MobileIron
5 3 (9.09%) Proofpoint
5 3 (9.09%) SolarWinds