Virtual Desktop Jobs in the Thames Valley

Virtual Desktop
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Virtual Desktop skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries 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 221 230 275
Rank change year-on-year +9 +45 -45
Permanent jobs citing Virtual Desktop 30 17 15
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.41% 0.31% 0.20%
As % of the System Software category 3.06% 1.86% 1.42%
Number of salaries quoted 27 9 7
10th Percentile £49,729 £59,800 £38,000
25th Percentile £54,513 £72,750 £41,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,000 £73,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -19.73% +63.33% -21.74%
75th Percentile - £74,250 -
90th Percentile - - £58,000
South East median annual salary £55,000 £44,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year +25.00% -2.22% -10.45%

All System Software Skills
Thames Valley

Virtual Desktop falls under the System Software category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring system software skills in the Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 981 916 1,059
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 13.25% 16.45% 14.00%
Number of salaries quoted 758 615 663
10th Percentile £28,500 £24,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £36,063 £29,875 £33,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £74,375
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £82,500
South East median annual salary £47,500 £48,925 £50,000
% change year-on-year -2.91% -2.15% -4.76%

Virtual Desktop
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Virtual Desktop in the Thames Valley

Virtual Desktop
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Salary trend for Virtual Desktop in the Thames Valley

Virtual Desktop
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing Virtual Desktop in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Virtual Desktop in the Thames Valley

Virtual Desktop
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Virtual Desktop within the Thames Valley 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Berkshire +21 20 £59,000 -19.73% 5
Buckinghamshire -16 5 £37,500 -
Oxfordshire - 5 £51,000 - 1
Virtual Desktop
South East

Virtual Desktop
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 22 (73.33%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (6.67%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 30 (100.00%) Azure
2 25 (83.33%) Entra ID
3 24 (80.00%) Azure Storage
4 23 (76.67%) Microsoft 365
5 19 (63.33%) Azure Monitor
6 4 (13.33%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (13.33%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 26 (86.67%) Firewall
2 21 (70.00%) DNS
3 19 (63.33%) DHCP
4 2 (6.67%) VPN
5 1 (3.33%) SAN
General
1 24 (80.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (6.67%) Organisational Skills
2 2 (6.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 19 (63.33%) Active Directory Specialist
1 19 (63.33%) Active Directory Support
1 19 (63.33%) Azure Specialist
1 19 (63.33%) Support Specialist
2 4 (13.33%) Cloud Engineer
2 4 (13.33%) Lead
3 2 (6.67%) 2nd Line Support
3 2 (6.67%) Azure Engineer
3 2 (6.67%) IT Support
3 2 (6.67%) Lead Cloud Engineer
3 2 (6.67%) Senior
4 1 (3.33%) 2nd Line Engineer
4 1 (3.33%) Analyst
4 1 (3.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (3.33%) IT Analyst
4 1 (3.33%) IT Engineer
4 1 (3.33%) IT Support Analyst
4 1 (3.33%) IT Support Engineer
4 1 (3.33%) Support Analyst
4 1 (3.33%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (63.33%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 19 (63.33%) PKI
1 19 (63.33%) Self-Motivation
2 4 (13.33%) Driving Licence
3 2 (6.67%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 24 (80.00%) Windows
2 20 (66.67%) Windows Server
3 19 (63.33%) Linux
3 19 (63.33%) Windows Server 2016
3 19 (63.33%) Windows Server 2019
4 1 (3.33%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (83.33%) ITIL
2 23 (76.67%) DevOps
3 21 (70.00%) Agile
3 21 (70.00%) CI/CD
4 20 (66.67%) Service Management
5 19 (63.33%) Analytics
5 19 (63.33%) Identity Management
5 19 (63.33%) Infrastructure as Code
5 19 (63.33%) Log Analytics
5 19 (63.33%) Multi-Factor Authentication
5 19 (63.33%) Privileged Identity Management
5 19 (63.33%) RBAC
5 19 (63.33%) Release Management
6 9 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (13.33%) Business Case
7 4 (13.33%) Collaborative Working
7 4 (13.33%) Mentoring
7 4 (13.33%) Performance Metrics
7 4 (13.33%) Software Testing
7 4 (13.33%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 21 (70.00%) C#
1 21 (70.00%) PowerShell
2 19 (63.33%) Bicep
2 19 (63.33%) VB
2 19 (63.33%) VBScript
3 2 (6.67%) Go
3 2 (6.67%) JavaScript
3 2 (6.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 19 (63.33%) Degree
1 19 (63.33%) DV Cleared
1 19 (63.33%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
1 19 (63.33%) Security Cleared
2 12 (40.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (16.67%) SLA
System Software
1 27 (90.00%) Active Directory
2 19 (63.33%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (3.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 23 (76.67%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 23 (76.67%) Microsoft Intune
2 21 (70.00%) SCCM
3 19 (63.33%) Kubernetes
3 19 (63.33%) SCOM
3 19 (63.33%) WSUS
4 2 (6.67%) Ansible
4 2 (6.67%) Terraform
5 1 (3.33%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 24 (80.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (10.00%) Citrix
3 1 (3.33%) Commvault
3 1 (3.33%) ServiceNow
3 1 (3.33%) Veritas
3 1 (3.33%) VMware