Virtual Desktop Jobs in the UK excluding London

Virtual Desktop
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Virtual Desktop skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Virtual Desktop over the 6 months to 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 580 480 644
Rank change year-on-year -100 +164 -37
Permanent jobs citing Virtual Desktop 204 250 235
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.26% 0.45% 0.31%
As % of the System Software category 2.28% 2.86% 1.86%
Number of salaries quoted 156 96 86
10th Percentile £26,500 £28,750 £29,125
25th Percentile £32,500 £31,930 £37,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,304 £42,500 £45,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.95% -6.59% +1.11%
75th Percentile £59,000 £62,500 £59,688
90th Percentile £72,568 £73,750 £73,125
UK median annual salary £51,750 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% +4.55% +10.00%

All System Software Skills
UK excluding London

Virtual Desktop is in the System Software category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for system software skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 8,941 8,737 12,665
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 11.32% 15.70% 16.70%
Number of salaries quoted 6,936 5,571 8,335
10th Percentile £25,563 £26,000 £26,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £33,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £60,000 £67,285 £67,500
90th Percentile £72,500 £80,000 £82,500
UK median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £56,325
% change year-on-year -9.09% -2.35% +2.41%

Virtual Desktop
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Virtual Desktop as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Virtual Desktop in the UK excluding London

Virtual Desktop
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Virtual Desktop in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Virtual Desktop in the UK excluding London

Virtual Desktop
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Virtual Desktop in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Virtual Desktop in the UK excluding London

Virtual Desktop
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Virtual Desktop within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 9 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
South East +21 70 £55,000 +25.00% 20
North of England +9 43 £43,500 +11.54% 13
East of England -7 35 £29,750 -50.42% 2
Midlands -83 34 £53,750 +14.97% 7
West Midlands +7 24 £52,500 -2.33% 2
Yorkshire +38 23 £56,500 +50.67% 4
North East -8 14 £37,750 -5.63%
South West -36 13 £50,000 +72.41% 11
East Midlands -100 10 £67,500 +107.69% 5
North West -5 6 £44,367 +9.55% 9
Scotland -61 6 £44,750 +8.48% 3
Wales +11 3 £45,000 -37.93% 1
Virtual Desktop
UK

Virtual Desktop
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 93 (45.59%) Microsoft Exchange
2 52 (25.49%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.96%) Apache
3 4 (1.96%) JBoss
3 4 (1.96%) nginx
4 1 (0.49%) Confluence
Applications
1 8 (3.92%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.98%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.98%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.49%) Carpe Diem
1 1 (0.49%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 158 (77.45%) Azure
2 133 (65.20%) Microsoft 365
3 75 (36.76%) Entra ID
4 36 (17.65%) Azure Storage
5 23 (11.27%) Azure DevOps
6 19 (9.31%) Azure Monitor
7 15 (7.35%) AWS
8 14 (6.86%) IaaS
8 14 (6.86%) OneDrive
8 14 (6.86%) PaaS
9 8 (3.92%) Azure Logic Apps
10 7 (3.43%) Azure Event Grid
11 6 (2.94%) Microsoft Purview
12 5 (2.45%) Azure Sentinel
12 5 (2.45%) Cloud Computing
12 5 (2.45%) Mimecast
13 4 (1.96%) Cloudflare
13 4 (1.96%) Datadog
13 4 (1.96%) OpenShift
13 4 (1.96%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 66 (32.35%) Firewall
2 40 (19.61%) DNS
3 35 (17.16%) DHCP
4 26 (12.75%) WAN
5 25 (12.25%) LAN
6 24 (11.76%) Remote Desktop
7 22 (10.78%) VPN
8 12 (5.88%) Network Security
9 10 (4.90%) SAN
10 9 (4.41%) Wireless
11 8 (3.92%) NetScaler
12 7 (3.43%) NGFW
13 6 (2.94%) VLAN
13 6 (2.94%) Wireshark
14 5 (2.45%) SSL
14 5 (2.45%) Structured Cabling
14 5 (2.45%) TCP/IP
15 3 (1.47%) iSCSI
16 2 (0.98%) BGP
16 2 (0.98%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (6.37%) Amazon RDS
2 12 (5.88%) SQL Server
3 2 (0.98%) MariaDB
3 2 (0.98%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 11 (5.39%) Git
2 4 (1.96%) Bitbucket
2 4 (1.96%) Jenkins
3 3 (1.47%) TeamCity
4 1 (0.49%) JIRA
4 1 (0.49%) Robot Framework
4 1 (0.49%) Selenium
General
1 87 (42.65%) Social Skills
2 31 (15.20%) Finance
3 13 (6.37%) Retail
4 12 (5.88%) Public Sector
5 7 (3.43%) Legal
6 6 (2.94%) Organisational Skills
7 5 (2.45%) Presentation Skills
8 4 (1.96%) Analytical Skills
8 4 (1.96%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (1.47%) Local Government
9 3 (1.47%) Police
10 2 (0.98%) Advertising
10 2 (0.98%) Law
11 1 (0.49%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 43 (21.08%) IT Support
2 26 (12.75%) 2nd Line Support
3 25 (12.25%) IT Engineer
4 24 (11.76%) Support Engineer
5 20 (9.80%) Azure Specialist
5 20 (9.80%) IT Support Engineer
6 18 (8.82%) Active Directory Specialist
6 18 (8.82%) Active Directory Support
6 18 (8.82%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 18 (8.82%) Support Specialist
7 16 (7.84%) Analyst
7 16 (7.84%) Cloud Engineer
7 16 (7.84%) IT Analyst
7 16 (7.84%) Lead
8 15 (7.35%) IT Support Analyst
9 14 (6.86%) 3rd Line Support
9 14 (6.86%) Consultant
10 13 (6.37%) 2nd Line Engineer
10 13 (6.37%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
11 12 (5.88%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (15.69%) ARM Templates
2 14 (6.86%) YAML
3 7 (3.43%) JSON
4 4 (1.96%) CSS
4 4 (1.96%) CSS3
4 4 (1.96%) HTML
4 4 (1.96%) HTML5
4 4 (1.96%) Keycloak
4 4 (1.96%) OAuth
4 4 (1.96%) OAuth2
4 4 (1.96%) OpenID
4 4 (1.96%) React
5 2 (0.98%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 24 (11.76%) Self-Motivation
2 20 (9.80%) PKI
3 15 (7.35%) Management Information System
4 12 (5.88%) iPad
5 9 (4.41%) Data Centre
6 8 (3.92%) Mobile App
7 7 (3.43%) Cloud Native
7 7 (3.43%) PMI
7 7 (3.43%) Private Cloud
7 7 (3.43%) Public Cloud
8 5 (2.45%) iPhone
8 5 (2.45%) Low-Code
8 5 (2.45%) Security Operations Centre
8 5 (2.45%) Team-Oriented Environment
9 4 (1.96%) Algorithms
9 4 (1.96%) Data Structures
9 4 (1.96%) Driving Licence
9 4 (1.96%) Enterprise Cloud
9 4 (1.96%) Product Ownership
10 1 (0.49%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 115 (56.37%) Windows
2 76 (37.25%) Windows Server
3 31 (15.20%) Windows Server 2019
4 29 (14.22%) Linux
5 28 (13.73%) Windows Server 2016
6 19 (9.31%) Windows 10
7 18 (8.82%) Apple iOS
8 14 (6.86%) Android
9 10 (4.90%) VMS
10 5 (2.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 4 (1.96%) Windows 7
12 2 (0.98%) Debian
12 2 (0.98%) Ubuntu
13 1 (0.49%) Unix
13 1 (0.49%) Windows Server 2008
13 1 (0.49%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (24.51%) Agile
2 49 (24.02%) DevOps
2 49 (24.02%) ITIL
3 37 (18.14%) CI/CD
3 37 (18.14%) Problem-Solving
4 30 (14.71%) Customer Service
5 29 (14.22%) Infrastructure as Code
6 28 (13.73%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 23 (11.27%) Mentoring
8 21 (10.29%) Release Management
9 20 (9.80%) Multi-Factor Authentication
10 19 (9.31%) Analytics
10 19 (9.31%) Log Analytics
10 19 (9.31%) RBAC
10 19 (9.31%) Service Management
11 18 (8.82%) Cybersecurity
11 18 (8.82%) Identity Management
11 18 (8.82%) Line Management
11 18 (8.82%) Privileged Identity Management
12 17 (8.33%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 63 (30.88%) PowerShell
2 25 (12.25%) Bicep
3 19 (9.31%) C#
4 18 (8.82%) VB
4 18 (8.82%) VBScript
5 11 (5.39%) Python
6 8 (3.92%) Kusto Query Language
7 5 (2.45%) JavaScript
8 4 (1.96%) Bash
9 3 (1.47%) SQL
10 1 (0.49%) Go
Qualifications
1 35 (17.16%) Degree
2 26 (12.75%) Security Cleared
3 21 (10.29%) Azure Certification
3 21 (10.29%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 18 (8.82%) DV Cleared
5 14 (6.86%) SC Cleared
6 9 (4.41%) Computer Science Degree
7 8 (3.92%) Microsoft Certification
8 7 (3.43%) PMI Certification
9 6 (2.94%) AWS Certification
9 6 (2.94%) Cisco Certification
10 5 (2.45%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 5 (2.45%) CCSP
10 5 (2.45%) CEH
10 5 (2.45%) CISSP
10 5 (2.45%) SANS
10 5 (2.45%) SSCP
11 2 (0.98%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 1 (0.49%) CCA
12 1 (0.49%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (5.88%) QA
2 11 (5.39%) SLA
3 6 (2.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (2.45%) NIST
4 5 (2.45%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 135 (66.18%) Active Directory
2 64 (31.37%) VMware Infrastructure
3 35 (17.16%) Virtual Machines
4 20 (9.80%) Hyper-V
5 18 (8.82%) Virtual Servers
6 16 (7.84%) VMware ESXi
7 11 (5.39%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 11 (5.39%) vSphere
8 6 (2.94%) Docker
9 5 (2.45%) XenApp
10 4 (1.96%) XenDesktop
11 2 (0.98%) Firmware
11 2 (0.98%) NFS
11 2 (0.98%) pfSense
12 1 (0.49%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 77 (37.75%) Microsoft Intune
2 41 (20.10%) SCCM
3 37 (18.14%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 24 (11.76%) Kubernetes
5 22 (10.78%) SCOM
6 19 (9.31%) Terraform
7 18 (8.82%) WSUS
8 7 (3.43%) Ansible
9 5 (2.45%) Nmap
9 5 (2.45%) Puppet
10 4 (1.96%) AirWatch
10 4 (1.96%) Nagios
10 4 (1.96%) Progress Chef
10 4 (1.96%) Single Sign-On
11 3 (1.47%) Nessus
12 1 (0.49%) Autotask
12 1 (0.49%) FortiGate
12 1 (0.49%) Jamf Pro
12 1 (0.49%) NetBackup
12 1 (0.49%) VxRail
Vendors
1 130 (63.73%) Microsoft
2 64 (31.37%) VMware
3 51 (25.00%) Citrix
4 11 (5.39%) Veeam
5 10 (4.90%) ServiceNow
6 9 (4.41%) Splunk
7 8 (3.92%) EMC
8 6 (2.94%) Aruba
9 5 (2.45%) Adobe
9 5 (2.45%) Apple
9 5 (2.45%) Avaya
9 5 (2.45%) Commvault
9 5 (2.45%) Dell
9 5 (2.45%) Qualys
9 5 (2.45%) Rapid7
9 5 (2.45%) Thycotic
10 4 (1.96%) Cisco
10 4 (1.96%) HP
10 4 (1.96%) New Relic
10 4 (1.96%) Symantec