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 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 570 515 626
Rank change year-on-year -55 +111 -52
Permanent jobs citing Virtual Desktop 191 240 233
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.27% 0.41% 0.32%
As % of the System Software category 2.17% 2.58% 1.89%
Number of salaries quoted 150 94 99
10th Percentile £26,450 £29,075 £28,200
25th Percentile £32,500 £31,367 £37,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £44,250 £37,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +19.59% -17.78% -
75th Percentile £58,938 £59,688 £60,000
90th Percentile £71,375 £70,175 £72,750
UK median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £53,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +3.77% +16.48%

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 8,793 9,314 12,345
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 12.27% 15.75% 17.00%
Number of salaries quoted 7,022 5,785 8,388
10th Percentile £25,625 £25,750 £26,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £32,750
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 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £73,700 £80,000 £82,500
UK median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -

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 20 May 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 20 May 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 +29 61 £51,000 +37.84% 24
North of England +24 43 £41,234 +9.96% 12
East of England +9 33 £29,750 -50.42% 3
Midlands -55 31 £52,500 +12.30% 17
West Midlands +32 26 £52,500 -2.33% 4
Yorkshire +58 22 £56,500 +41.25% 2
North East +8 15 £37,750 +16.15%
South West -31 15 £52,500 +77.97% 10
North West +1 6 £44,367 +10.92% 10
Scotland -62 6 £36,750 +5.00% 2
East Midlands -86 5 £55,000 +69.23% 13
Wales +9 2 £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 92 (48.17%) Microsoft Exchange
2 53 (27.75%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.57%) Apache
3 3 (1.57%) JBoss
3 3 (1.57%) nginx
4 1 (0.52%) Confluence
Applications
1 9 (4.71%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.52%) Carpe Diem
1 1 (0.52%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 147 (76.96%) Azure
2 134 (70.16%) Microsoft 365
3 69 (36.13%) Entra ID
4 23 (12.04%) Azure Storage
5 22 (11.52%) Azure DevOps
6 15 (7.85%) IaaS
6 15 (7.85%) OneDrive
6 15 (7.85%) PaaS
7 14 (7.33%) AWS
7 14 (7.33%) Azure Monitor
8 7 (3.66%) Azure Sentinel
9 6 (3.14%) Cloud Computing
9 6 (3.14%) Microsoft Purview
10 4 (2.09%) Dynamics 365
10 4 (2.09%) OCI
11 3 (1.57%) Datadog
11 3 (1.57%) Mimecast
11 3 (1.57%) OpenShift
11 3 (1.57%) Power Platform
12 2 (1.05%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 63 (32.98%) Firewall
2 34 (17.80%) DNS
3 30 (15.71%) DHCP
4 23 (12.04%) Remote Desktop
4 23 (12.04%) WAN
5 22 (11.52%) LAN
5 22 (11.52%) VPN
6 15 (7.85%) Network Security
7 10 (5.24%) SAN
8 9 (4.71%) NGFW
9 8 (4.19%) NetScaler
10 7 (3.66%) TCP/IP
10 7 (3.66%) VLAN
10 7 (3.66%) Wireless
10 7 (3.66%) Wireshark
11 5 (2.62%) Structured Cabling
12 4 (2.09%) SSL
13 2 (1.05%) VoIP
13 2 (1.05%) Wi-Fi
13 2 (1.05%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (7.33%) Amazon RDS
2 8 (4.19%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.52%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 4 (2.09%) Git
2 3 (1.57%) Bitbucket
2 3 (1.57%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.05%) TeamCity
4 1 (0.52%) JIRA
4 1 (0.52%) Robot Framework
4 1 (0.52%) Selenium
General
1 79 (41.36%) Social Skills
2 29 (15.18%) Finance
3 13 (6.81%) Retail
4 11 (5.76%) Public Sector
5 8 (4.19%) Legal
6 5 (2.62%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (2.62%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (2.09%) Law
8 3 (1.57%) Local Government
8 3 (1.57%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (1.57%) Police
9 2 (1.05%) Advertising
9 2 (1.05%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 43 (22.51%) IT Support
2 26 (13.61%) 2nd Line Support
3 25 (13.09%) Support Engineer
4 24 (12.57%) IT Engineer
5 20 (10.47%) IT Support Engineer
6 18 (9.42%) Lead
7 17 (8.90%) Analyst
7 17 (8.90%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 17 (8.90%) IT Analyst
8 16 (8.38%) Azure Specialist
9 15 (7.85%) IT Support Analyst
10 14 (7.33%) 3rd Line Support
10 14 (7.33%) Active Directory Specialist
10 14 (7.33%) Active Directory Support
10 14 (7.33%) Cloud Engineer
10 14 (7.33%) Support Specialist
11 13 (6.81%) 2nd Line Engineer
11 13 (6.81%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
12 11 (5.76%) Consultant
13 10 (5.24%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (12.57%) ARM Templates
2 10 (5.24%) JSON
2 10 (5.24%) YAML
3 3 (1.57%) CSS
3 3 (1.57%) CSS3
3 3 (1.57%) HTML
3 3 (1.57%) HTML5
3 3 (1.57%) Keycloak
3 3 (1.57%) OAuth
3 3 (1.57%) OAuth2
3 3 (1.57%) OpenID
3 3 (1.57%) React
4 2 (1.05%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 20 (10.47%) Self-Motivation
2 16 (8.38%) PKI
3 15 (7.85%) Management Information System
4 12 (6.28%) iPad
5 9 (4.71%) Private Cloud
5 9 (4.71%) Public Cloud
6 8 (4.19%) Mobile App
7 7 (3.66%) Cloud Native
7 7 (3.66%) PMI
8 6 (3.14%) Security Operations Centre
9 5 (2.62%) Data Centre
9 5 (2.62%) Driving Licence
9 5 (2.62%) Low-Code
10 4 (2.09%) Algorithms
10 4 (2.09%) Data Structures
10 4 (2.09%) Enterprise Cloud
11 3 (1.57%) Product Ownership
12 2 (1.05%) iPhone
12 2 (1.05%) Team-Oriented Environment
13 1 (0.52%) Housing Association
Operating Systems
1 111 (58.12%) Windows
2 70 (36.65%) Windows Server
3 27 (14.14%) Windows Server 2019
4 22 (11.52%) Windows Server 2016
5 21 (10.99%) Linux
6 20 (10.47%) Apple iOS
6 20 (10.47%) Windows 10
7 15 (7.85%) Android
8 10 (5.24%) VMS
9 5 (2.62%) Windows 7
10 4 (2.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 1 (0.52%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (24.61%) Agile
2 44 (23.04%) ITIL
3 43 (22.51%) DevOps
4 34 (17.80%) Problem-Solving
5 28 (14.66%) Customer Service
6 27 (14.14%) CI/CD
6 27 (14.14%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 26 (13.61%) Infrastructure as Code
8 20 (10.47%) Cybersecurity
9 18 (9.42%) Line Management
9 18 (9.42%) Mentoring
9 18 (9.42%) Migration
10 17 (8.90%) Continuous Improvement
10 17 (8.90%) Data Loss Prevention
10 17 (8.90%) Release Management
11 16 (8.38%) Information Security
11 16 (8.38%) Server Management
12 15 (7.85%) Multi-Factor Authentication
12 15 (7.85%) Service Management
12 15 (7.85%) Software Deployment
Programming Languages
1 56 (29.32%) PowerShell
2 15 (7.85%) Bicep
3 14 (7.33%) C#
3 14 (7.33%) VB
3 14 (7.33%) VBScript
4 10 (5.24%) Python
5 3 (1.57%) Bash
5 3 (1.57%) JavaScript
5 3 (1.57%) SQL
6 2 (1.05%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 27 (14.14%) Degree
2 21 (10.99%) Security Cleared
3 19 (9.95%) Azure Certification
4 17 (8.90%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 14 (7.33%) DV Cleared
6 9 (4.71%) SC Cleared
7 8 (4.19%) Microsoft Certification
8 7 (3.66%) Cisco Certification
8 7 (3.66%) PMI Certification
9 6 (3.14%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 6 (3.14%) AWS Certification
9 6 (3.14%) CCSP
9 6 (3.14%) CEH
9 6 (3.14%) CISSP
9 6 (3.14%) Computer Science Degree
9 6 (3.14%) SANS
9 6 (3.14%) SSCP
10 1 (0.52%) CCA
10 1 (0.52%) CCNA
10 1 (0.52%) Citrix Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (6.28%) QA
2 10 (5.24%) SLA
3 7 (3.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (3.14%) NIST
4 6 (3.14%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.52%) GDPR
System Software
1 124 (64.92%) Active Directory
2 62 (32.46%) VMware Infrastructure
3 26 (13.61%) Virtual Machines
4 20 (10.47%) Hyper-V
5 17 (8.90%) VMware ESXi
6 16 (8.38%) Virtual Servers
7 10 (5.24%) vSphere
8 9 (4.71%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 7 (3.66%) XenApp
10 6 (3.14%) XenDesktop
11 3 (1.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 76 (39.79%) Microsoft Intune
2 35 (18.32%) SCCM
3 32 (16.75%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 17 (8.90%) Kubernetes
4 17 (8.90%) SCOM
5 15 (7.85%) WSUS
6 13 (6.81%) Terraform
7 6 (3.14%) Nmap
8 5 (2.62%) AirWatch
9 4 (2.09%) Ansible
9 4 (2.09%) Puppet
10 3 (1.57%) Nagios
10 3 (1.57%) Nessus
10 3 (1.57%) Progress Chef
10 3 (1.57%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (1.05%) Jamf Pro
12 1 (0.52%) Autotask
12 1 (0.52%) FortiGate
12 1 (0.52%) PaperCut
12 1 (0.52%) SmoothWall
Vendors
1 119 (62.30%) Microsoft
2 62 (32.46%) VMware
3 52 (27.23%) Citrix
4 10 (5.24%) ServiceNow
4 10 (5.24%) Veeam
5 9 (4.71%) Splunk
6 7 (3.66%) Commvault
6 7 (3.66%) EMC
7 6 (3.14%) Adobe
7 6 (3.14%) Fortinet
7 6 (3.14%) HP
7 6 (3.14%) Qualys
7 6 (3.14%) Rapid7
7 6 (3.14%) Thycotic
8 5 (2.62%) Apple
8 5 (2.62%) Avaya
8 5 (2.62%) Dell
8 5 (2.62%) Symantec
8 5 (2.62%) Toshiba
9 4 (2.09%) Oracle