Virtual Desktop
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 632 657 803
Rank change year-on-year +25 +146 -90
Permanent jobs citing Virtual Desktop 281 342 447
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.28% 0.33% 0.29%
As % of the System Software category 2.30% 2.15% 1.56%
Number of salaries quoted 221 185 273
10th Percentile £29,750 £31,250 £28,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £35,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% +17.78%
75th Percentile £72,500 £70,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £77,500 £82,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £40,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year +12.50% -11.11% -

All System Software Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for system software skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 12,221 15,884 28,634
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 12.39% 15.31% 18.29%
Number of salaries quoted 9,686 10,479 15,796
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,954 £27,750
25th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £56,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -1.79% +1.82%
75th Percentile £67,500 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £86,250 £95,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +5.26%

Virtual Desktop
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Virtual Desktop in the UK

Virtual Desktop
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Virtual Desktop in the UK

Virtual Desktop
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Virtual Desktop over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Virtual Desktop in the UK

Virtual Desktop
Top 16 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Virtual Desktop within the UK over the 6 months to 3 May 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
England +37 264 £50,000 -6.54% 71
UK excluding London -15 191 £45,000 +12.50% 46
Work from Home +107 151 £51,000 -11.30% 34
London +107 78 £71,500 +10.00% 25
South East +21 61 £51,000 +41.67% 17
North of England +51 42 £40,367 +7.65% 11
East of England +20 33 £29,750 -39.59% 7
Midlands -26 33 £50,000 -8.26% 7
West Midlands +33 30 £51,250 -10.87% 2
Yorkshire +66 21 £52,000 +48.57% 2
North East +7 16 £39,500 +21.54%
South West -36 14 £55,000 +76.00% 4
Scotland -61 6 £36,500 +4.29% 2
North West +6 5 £41,234 -36.56% 9
East Midlands -61 3 £45,000 +38.46% 5
Wales +7 2 £45,000 -30.23%

Virtual Desktop
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
1 101 (35.94%) Microsoft Exchange
2 58 (20.64%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.42%) Apache
3 4 (1.42%) nginx
4 3 (1.07%) JBoss
5 1 (0.36%) Confluence
Applications
1 10 (3.56%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.07%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.36%) Carpe Diem
1 1 (0.36%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 195 (69.40%) Azure
2 193 (68.68%) Microsoft 365
3 90 (32.03%) Entra ID
4 42 (14.95%) Azure DevOps
5 31 (11.03%) AWS
6 21 (7.47%) OneDrive
7 19 (6.76%) Azure Storage
7 19 (6.76%) IaaS
7 19 (6.76%) PaaS
8 17 (6.05%) Azure Sentinel
9 14 (4.98%) Azure Monitor
9 14 (4.98%) Cloud Computing
9 14 (4.98%) Microsoft Purview
10 8 (2.85%) OCI
11 7 (2.49%) Nutanix
12 6 (2.14%) Power Platform
13 5 (1.78%) GCP
13 5 (1.78%) Serverless
14 4 (1.42%) Dynamics 365
15 3 (1.07%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 85 (30.25%) Firewall
2 51 (18.15%) DNS
3 36 (12.81%) DHCP
4 32 (11.39%) VPN
4 32 (11.39%) WAN
5 31 (11.03%) LAN
6 26 (9.25%) TCP/IP
7 24 (8.54%) Network Security
8 23 (8.19%) Remote Desktop
9 17 (6.05%) SAN
10 15 (5.34%) Wireshark
11 14 (4.98%) NGFW
12 13 (4.63%) NetScaler
12 13 (4.63%) VLAN
13 9 (3.20%) Structured Cabling
14 7 (2.49%) Wi-Fi
15 6 (2.14%) Wireless
16 5 (1.78%) SSL
17 4 (1.42%) VoIP
18 2 (0.71%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (5.69%) Amazon RDS
2 10 (3.56%) SQL Server
3 4 (1.42%) Power BI
4 1 (0.36%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 6 (2.14%) Jenkins
2 4 (1.42%) Git
3 3 (1.07%) Bitbucket
4 2 (0.71%) TeamCity
5 1 (0.36%) JIRA
5 1 (0.36%) Robot Framework
5 1 (0.36%) Selenium
General
1 86 (30.60%) Social Skills
2 57 (20.28%) Finance
3 14 (4.98%) Retail
4 12 (4.27%) Legal
5 11 (3.91%) Public Sector
6 9 (3.20%) Analytical Skills
6 9 (3.20%) Banking
6 9 (3.20%) Documentation Skills
7 8 (2.85%) Law
8 3 (1.07%) Local Government
8 3 (1.07%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (1.07%) Police
9 2 (0.71%) Advertising
9 2 (0.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.36%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 53 (18.86%) IT Support
2 36 (12.81%) Analyst
3 35 (12.46%) IT Analyst
4 31 (11.03%) 2nd Line Support
4 31 (11.03%) Support Engineer
5 30 (10.68%) Senior
6 27 (9.61%) IT Engineer
7 26 (9.25%) Lead
8 24 (8.54%) IT Support Analyst
9 23 (8.19%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 21 (7.47%) IT Support Engineer
11 18 (6.41%) Architect
12 17 (6.05%) Azure Specialist
13 16 (5.69%) 3rd Line Support
13 16 (5.69%) Support Specialist
14 15 (5.34%) Cloud Engineer
14 15 (5.34%) Support Analyst
15 14 (4.98%) Active Directory Support
15 14 (4.98%) Cloud Architect
15 14 (4.98%) DevOps Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (10.32%) ARM Templates
2 18 (6.41%) JSON
3 13 (4.63%) YAML
4 4 (1.42%) OAuth
4 4 (1.42%) OAuth2
4 4 (1.42%) OpenID
5 3 (1.07%) CSS
5 3 (1.07%) CSS3
5 3 (1.07%) HTML
5 3 (1.07%) HTML5
5 3 (1.07%) Keycloak
5 3 (1.07%) React
5 3 (1.07%) Software Packaging
6 2 (0.71%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 29 (10.32%) Management Information System
2 20 (7.12%) Self-Motivation
3 16 (5.69%) PKI
4 15 (5.34%) Private Cloud
5 14 (4.98%) Cloud Native
5 14 (4.98%) Data Centre
5 14 (4.98%) Security Operations Centre
6 13 (4.63%) Public Cloud
7 12 (4.27%) iPad
8 8 (2.85%) Mobile App
9 7 (2.49%) Driving Licence
9 7 (2.49%) PMI
10 5 (1.78%) Low-Code
10 5 (1.78%) Onboarding
11 4 (1.42%) Algorithms
11 4 (1.42%) Data Structures
11 4 (1.42%) Enterprise Cloud
12 3 (1.07%) CMDB
12 3 (1.07%) Product Ownership
13 2 (0.71%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 165 (58.72%) Windows
2 85 (30.25%) Windows Server
3 36 (12.81%) Windows 10
4 33 (11.74%) Apple iOS
5 31 (11.03%) Windows Server 2019
6 23 (8.19%) Android
6 23 (8.19%) Linux
6 23 (8.19%) Windows Server 2016
7 10 (3.56%) VMS
8 8 (2.85%) Windows 7
9 4 (1.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 2 (0.71%) Mac OS
11 1 (0.36%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (22.42%) DevOps
1 63 (22.42%) ITIL
2 59 (21.00%) Agile
3 47 (16.73%) Problem-Solving
4 35 (12.46%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 34 (12.10%) Customer Service
6 33 (11.74%) CI/CD
6 33 (11.74%) Infrastructure as Code
7 29 (10.32%) Data Loss Prevention
7 29 (10.32%) Line Management
8 28 (9.96%) Cybersecurity
8 28 (9.96%) Migration
9 27 (9.61%) Process Improvement
9 27 (9.61%) Service Delivery
10 25 (8.90%) Information Security
10 25 (8.90%) Roadmaps
11 21 (7.47%) Disaster Recovery
11 21 (7.47%) Identity Access Management
11 21 (7.47%) Service Management
12 20 (7.12%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 81 (28.83%) PowerShell
2 20 (7.12%) Python
3 16 (5.69%) Bicep
4 14 (4.98%) C#
4 14 (4.98%) VB
4 14 (4.98%) VBScript
5 11 (3.91%) SQL
6 7 (2.49%) Bash
7 3 (1.07%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.36%) PHP
8 1 (0.36%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 38 (13.52%) Degree
2 21 (7.47%) Security Cleared
3 18 (6.41%) Azure Certification
4 17 (6.05%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 16 (5.69%) Cisco Certification
6 14 (4.98%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 14 (4.98%) CCSP
6 14 (4.98%) CEH
6 14 (4.98%) CISSP
6 14 (4.98%) DV Cleared
6 14 (4.98%) SANS
6 14 (4.98%) SSCP
7 10 (3.56%) AWS Certification
7 10 (3.56%) Microsoft Certification
8 9 (3.20%) SC Cleared
9 7 (2.49%) PMI Certification
10 5 (1.78%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 4 (1.42%) Computer Science Degree
12 3 (1.07%) DBS Check
13 2 (0.71%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (6.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 18 (6.41%) SLA
3 14 (4.98%) NIST
3 14 (4.98%) PCI DSS
4 12 (4.27%) QA
5 4 (1.42%) Cyber Essentials
5 4 (1.42%) GDPR
5 4 (1.42%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 167 (59.43%) Active Directory
2 89 (31.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 29 (10.32%) Virtual Machines
4 26 (9.25%) VMware ESXi
5 24 (8.54%) Hyper-V
6 22 (7.83%) Virtual Servers
7 19 (6.76%) vSphere
8 15 (5.34%) XenApp
9 14 (4.98%) XenDesktop
10 9 (3.20%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 6 (2.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 105 (37.37%) Microsoft Intune
2 53 (18.86%) SCCM
3 33 (11.74%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 20 (7.12%) Kubernetes
4 20 (7.12%) Terraform
5 17 (6.05%) SCOM
5 17 (6.05%) WSUS
6 14 (4.98%) Nmap
7 8 (2.85%) AirWatch
8 7 (2.49%) Ansible
9 5 (1.78%) Jamf Pro
10 4 (1.42%) Nagios
10 4 (1.42%) Progress Chef
10 4 (1.42%) Puppet
11 3 (1.07%) Nessus
11 3 (1.07%) PaperCut
11 3 (1.07%) Single Sign-On
11 3 (1.07%) SmoothWall
12 2 (0.71%) FortiGate
13 1 (0.36%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 143 (50.89%) Microsoft
2 89 (31.67%) VMware
3 88 (31.32%) Citrix
4 17 (6.05%) Splunk
5 14 (4.98%) Qualys
5 14 (4.98%) Rapid7
5 14 (4.98%) ServiceNow
5 14 (4.98%) Thycotic
6 12 (4.27%) HP
6 12 (4.27%) Veeam
7 11 (3.91%) Adobe
8 10 (3.56%) Cisco
9 9 (3.20%) Apple
9 9 (3.20%) Avaya
10 8 (2.85%) Dell
10 8 (2.85%) Oracle
10 8 (2.85%) Symantec
10 8 (2.85%) Toshiba
11 7 (2.49%) Commvault
11 7 (2.49%) EMC