Microsoft App-V Contracts in the North of England

Microsoft Application Virtualisation (AppV) formerly Softricity SoftGrid
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England requiring Microsoft App-V skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Microsoft App-V over the 6 months leading up to 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 175 178 193
Rank change year-on-year +3 +15 +51
Contract jobs citing Microsoft App-V 3 3 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.080% 0.063% 0.25%
As % of the System Software category 0.58% 0.54% 1.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 13
10th Percentile - - £421
25th Percentile £273 - £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £275 £400 £500
Median % change year-on-year -31.25% -20.00% +1.01%
75th Percentile £278 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £550 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +22.22% -5.26% +2.70%

All System Software Skills
North of England

Microsoft App-V 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 North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 517 554 799
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 13.82% 11.57% 14.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 338 385 570
10th Percentile £188 £185 £181
25th Percentile £328 £298 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 £463 £475
Median % change year-on-year -7.03% -2.63% +5.56%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £575
90th Percentile £607 £650 £675
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 50 33
10th Percentile - - £14.05
25th Percentile £76.25 £14.06 £16.19
Median hourly rate £82.50 £16.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +415.63% -20.00% +14.29%
75th Percentile £88.75 £20.92 £39.60
90th Percentile - £43.21 £63.75
England median hourly rate £31.39 £22.15 £50.00
% change year-on-year +41.69% -55.70% +150.00%

Microsoft App-V
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing Microsoft App-V as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft App-V in the North of England

Microsoft App-V
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Microsoft App-V in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Microsoft App-V in the North of England

Microsoft App-V
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Microsoft App-V in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft App-V in the North of England

Microsoft App-V
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 North of England region over the 6 months to 6 July 2025. 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
Yorkshire - 3 £275 -
Microsoft App-V
England

Microsoft App-V
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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:

Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) MSI
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Applications Packager
2 1 (33.33%) Applications Specialist
2 1 (33.33%) Migration Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Windows
1 2 (66.67%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Application Packaging
2 2 (66.67%) Application Virtualisation
2 2 (66.67%) Deployment Automation
2 2 (66.67%) Migration
3 1 (33.33%) Customer Requirements
3 1 (33.33%) Kalman Filter
3 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (33.33%) VBScript
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft