Microsoft App-V Contracts with Work from Home Options

Microsoft Application Virtualisation (AppV) formerly Softricity SoftGrid
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 343 439 579
Rank change year-on-year +96 +140 -113
Contract jobs citing Microsoft App-V 6 20 47
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.041% 0.083% 0.11%
As % of the System Software category 0.42% 0.67% 0.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 16 33
10th Percentile £380 £372 £358
25th Percentile £391 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £445 £463
Median % change year-on-year -1.69% -3.78% -14.75%
75th Percentile £516 £517 £588
90th Percentile £547 £576 £638
UK median daily rate £450 £475 £450
% change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% -2.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £15.53
25th Percentile - - £16.27
Median hourly rate - - £17.50
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £23.80 £34.50 £17.50
% change year-on-year -31.01% +97.14% -

All System Software Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for system software skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 1,434 2,974 5,378
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 9.79% 12.27% 12.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,068 2,112 4,007
10th Percentile £290 £295 £319
25th Percentile £410 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £619 £631 £625
90th Percentile £684 £713 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +6.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 109 86
10th Percentile - £17.72 £15.00
25th Percentile £15.50 £47.50 £17.95
Median hourly rate £43.32 £65.00 £25.50
Median % change year-on-year -33.35% +154.90% +4.08%
75th Percentile £66.25 £70.00 £56.56
90th Percentile £85.23 £75.90 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £24.18 £54.92 £19.00
% change year-on-year -55.97% +189.03% -5.00%

Microsoft App-V
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Microsoft App-V as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Microsoft App-V trend for jobs with a WFH option

Microsoft App-V
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Microsoft App-V.

Microsoft App-V daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Microsoft App-V
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Microsoft App-V over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Microsoft App-V daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Microsoft App-V
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Microsoft App-V.

Microsoft App-V hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Microsoft App-V
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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:

Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (16.67%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) DHCP
1 1 (16.67%) DNS
1 1 (16.67%) NetScaler
Development Applications
1 4 (66.67%) MSI
General
1 1 (16.67%) Finance
1 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Applications Packager
2 2 (33.33%) Applications Architect
2 2 (33.33%) Architect
2 2 (33.33%) Lead
3 1 (16.67%) Lead Architect
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Windows
2 1 (16.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Application Packaging
2 1 (16.67%) Application Discovery
2 1 (16.67%) Deployment Automation
2 1 (16.67%) Mentoring
2 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (16.67%) Project Management
2 1 (16.67%) Smoke Testing
2 1 (16.67%) Strategic Thinking
2 1 (16.67%) Task Automation
2 1 (16.67%) User Acceptance Testing
2 1 (16.67%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 5 (83.33%) PowerShell
2 2 (33.33%) SQL
2 2 (33.33%) VB
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) AWS Certification
1 1 (16.67%) CESG Certified Professional
1 1 (16.67%) Citrix Certification
1 1 (16.67%) MCSA
1 1 (16.67%) MCSE
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) QA
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Active Directory
1 1 (16.67%) Hyper-V
1 1 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (16.67%) XenApp
1 1 (16.67%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) SCCM
2 2 (33.33%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 3 (50.00%) Citrix
3 1 (16.67%) VMware