Virtual Desktop Contracts in the East Midlands

Virtual Desktop
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East 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 13 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 64 62 92
Rank change year-on-year -2 +30 -13
Contract jobs citing Virtual Desktop 6 15 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 0.69% 1.51% 0.29%
As % of the System Software category 5.26% 9.49% 1.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 15 1
10th Percentile - £625 -
25th Percentile - £628 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £660 £550
Median % change year-on-year -31.82% +20.00% +7.32%
75th Percentile £475 £715 £575
90th Percentile £490 £722 -
England median daily rate £575 £535 £500
% change year-on-year +7.48% +7.00% +5.26%

All System Software Skills
East 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 East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 114 158 225
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 13.12% 15.93% 16.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 80 125 159
10th Percentile £145 £122 £127
25th Percentile £207 £198 £156
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £356 £350 £250
Median % change year-on-year +1.71% +40.00% -17.36%
75th Percentile £489 £600 £450
90th Percentile £540 £696 £525
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 14 15
10th Percentile - £12.87 £13.30
25th Percentile £45.22 £14.70 £14.25
Median hourly rate £48.56 £26.48 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year +83.38% +43.14% +54.17%
75th Percentile £51.91 £58.81 £23.00
90th Percentile - £65.00 £23.65
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 East Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Virtual Desktop in the East Midlands

Virtual Desktop
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Virtual Desktop in the East Midlands

Virtual Desktop
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Virtual Desktop in the East Midlands

Virtual Desktop
Contract Job Locations in the East 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 East Midlands region over the 6 months to 13 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
Northamptonshire - 6 £450 - 4
Virtual Desktop
England

Virtual Desktop
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East 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 (83.33%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (16.67%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (83.33%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (33.33%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 6 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (16.67%) AWS
2 1 (16.67%) Azure
2 1 (16.67%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 4 (66.67%) DHCP
1 4 (66.67%) DNS
2 1 (16.67%) SAN
2 1 (16.67%) WAN
General
1 3 (50.00%) Local Government
1 3 (50.00%) Public Sector
1 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (83.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (50.00%) IT Engineer
2 3 (50.00%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Exchange Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Manager
3 1 (16.67%) IT Infrastructure Manager
3 1 (16.67%) IT Manager
3 1 (16.67%) Messaging Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 6 (100.00%) Windows
1 6 (100.00%) Windows Server
2 3 (50.00%) Windows Server 2012
2 3 (50.00%) Windows Server 2016
2 3 (50.00%) Windows Server 2019
3 2 (33.33%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Infrastructure Monitoring
2 5 (83.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 5 (83.33%) Migration
3 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (16.67%) Coaching
4 1 (16.67%) Collaborative Working
4 1 (16.67%) Computer Science
4 1 (16.67%) Critical Thinking
4 1 (16.67%) Data Encryption
4 1 (16.67%) Incident Response
4 1 (16.67%) ITIL
4 1 (16.67%) Project Management
4 1 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
4 1 (16.67%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (83.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) Degree
2 1 (16.67%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (16.67%) GDPR
System Software
1 6 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 6 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (83.33%) SCOM
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 6 (100.00%) VMware
2 5 (83.33%) SolarWinds
3 4 (66.67%) Citrix