Virtual Desktop Contracts in the South West

Virtual Desktop
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 144 130 126
Rank change year-on-year -14 -4 +5
Contract jobs citing Virtual Desktop 13 29 42
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.39% 0.86% 1.15%
As % of the System Software category 3.17% 5.61% 7.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 23 28
10th Percentile £479 £400 £354
25th Percentile £544 £406 £477
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £500 £575
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -13.04% +27.78%
75th Percentile £619 £600 £605
90th Percentile £686 - £738
England median daily rate £575 £535 £500
% change year-on-year +7.48% +7.00% +5.26%

All System Software Skills
South West

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 South West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 410 517 584
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 12.43% 15.26% 15.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 297 380 423
10th Percentile £183 £200 £180
25th Percentile £450 £363 £306
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £506 £475
Median % change year-on-year +6.17% +6.58% +7.95%
75th Percentile £600 £623 £575
90th Percentile £672 £719 £656
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 38 18
10th Percentile - £13.25 £15.93
25th Percentile £40.00 £17.00 £19.44
Median hourly rate £70.00 £60.00 £48.38
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% +24.03% +22.47%
75th Percentile £87.50 £73.13 £56.48
90th Percentile £90.00 £88.25 £58.53
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 South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Virtual Desktop in the South West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for Virtual Desktop in the South West

Virtual Desktop
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

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

Daily rate histogram for Virtual Desktop in the South West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for Virtual Desktop in the South West

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Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 South West 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
Devon +3 8 £600 +100.00%
Gloucestershire -16 3 £575 +15.00% 4
Bristol +3 1 - -
Wiltshire -8 1 £675 +38.46% 1
Virtual Desktop
England

Virtual Desktop
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 4 (30.77%) Microsoft Exchange
1 4 (30.77%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 11 (84.62%) Azure
2 8 (61.54%) Entra ID
3 4 (30.77%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (23.08%) AWS
4 3 (23.08%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 3 (23.08%) Azure Pipelines
4 3 (23.08%) IaaS
4 3 (23.08%) Microsoft Purview
4 3 (23.08%) OneDrive
4 3 (23.08%) PaaS
4 3 (23.08%) Power Automate
4 3 (23.08%) Power Platform
4 3 (23.08%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 4 (30.77%) DNS
2 3 (23.08%) Remote Desktop
2 3 (23.08%) VPN
3 1 (7.69%) DHCP
3 1 (7.69%) Firewall
3 1 (7.69%) LAN
3 1 (7.69%) NetScaler
3 1 (7.69%) Skype
3 1 (7.69%) SMTP
3 1 (7.69%) TCP/IP
3 1 (7.69%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (23.08%) Power BI
General
1 3 (23.08%) Public Sector
1 3 (23.08%) Social Skills
2 1 (7.69%) Military
Job Titles
1 4 (30.77%) Consultant
1 4 (30.77%) Wintel Engineer
2 3 (23.08%) Azure Consultant
2 3 (23.08%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (23.08%) Technical Consultant
3 2 (15.38%) Cloud Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Microsoft 365 Consultant
4 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Consultant
4 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Service Desk Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Solutions Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 3 (23.08%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (7.69%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 10 (76.92%) Windows
2 4 (30.77%) Windows Server
3 2 (15.38%) Windows 10
4 1 (7.69%) Windows 7
4 1 (7.69%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (7.69%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (7.69%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (30.77%) Technical Leadership
2 3 (23.08%) Business Intelligence
2 3 (23.08%) Desktop Virtualisation
2 3 (23.08%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 3 (23.08%) Risk Management
2 3 (23.08%) Task Automation
3 2 (15.38%) Agile
3 2 (15.38%) Change Management
3 2 (15.38%) CI/CD
4 1 (7.69%) Business Case
4 1 (7.69%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (7.69%) Employee Productivity
4 1 (7.69%) ITSM
4 1 (7.69%) Matrix Management
4 1 (7.69%) Proactive Monitoring
4 1 (7.69%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (7.69%) Roadmaps
4 1 (7.69%) Scrum
4 1 (7.69%) Statistical Analysis
4 1 (7.69%) Technical Debt
Programming Languages
1 7 (53.85%) PowerShell
2 5 (38.46%) Python
3 1 (7.69%) SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (69.23%) Security Cleared
2 5 (38.46%) DV Cleared
2 5 (38.46%) SC Cleared
3 2 (15.38%) Azure Certification
4 1 (7.69%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.69%) SLA
System Software
1 12 (92.31%) Active Directory
2 4 (30.77%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (23.08%) Hyper-V
3 3 (23.08%) vSphere
4 2 (15.38%) Docker
5 1 (7.69%) Microsoft App-V
5 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 1 (7.69%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (7.69%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (7.69%) XenApp
5 1 (7.69%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 3 (23.08%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (15.38%) Kubernetes
2 2 (15.38%) SCCM
3 1 (7.69%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (7.69%) OPNET
3 1 (7.69%) SCOM
Vendors
1 10 (76.92%) Microsoft
2 4 (30.77%) Citrix
2 4 (30.77%) VMware
3 1 (7.69%) Ivanti
3 1 (7.69%) Remedy
3 1 (7.69%) SolarWinds