Virtual Desktop Jobs in the West Midlands

Virtual Desktop
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 11 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 244 247 280
Rank change year-on-year +3 +33 -56
Permanent jobs citing Virtual Desktop 23 7 19
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.27% 0.12% 0.24%
As % of the System Software category 2.77% 1.01% 1.82%
Number of salaries quoted 22 4 6
10th Percentile £36,298 £45,025 -
25th Percentile £37,343 £45,813 £26,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,250 £53,750 £36,250
Median % change year-on-year -4.65% +48.28% -42.00%
75th Percentile £108,500 £64,063 £48,069
90th Percentile £115,000 £66,875 £63,505
England median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £50,614
% change year-on-year -8.70% +13.60% +1.23%

All System Software Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 830 690 1,042
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 9.74% 11.93% 13.39%
Number of salaries quoted 660 488 847
10th Percentile £24,988 £25,750 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,000 £31,250 £35,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year - -5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £57,500 £62,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £70,575 £76,250 £82,500
England median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -2.65%

Virtual Desktop
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Virtual Desktop in the West Midlands

Virtual Desktop
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Virtual Desktop in the West Midlands.

Salary trend for Virtual Desktop in the West Midlands

Virtual Desktop
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Virtual Desktop in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 11 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Virtual Desktop in the West Midlands

Virtual Desktop
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Virtual Desktop within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 11 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
Birmingham -13 6 £110,000 +62.96% 1
Worcestershire -21 6 £36,298 -22.36%
Warwickshire - 4 £40,478 - 1
Wolverhampton - 2 £86,000 -
Virtual Desktop
England

Virtual Desktop
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 9 (39.13%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (8.70%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 21 (91.30%) Microsoft 365
2 9 (39.13%) Azure
3 6 (26.09%) Azure DevOps
3 6 (26.09%) IaaS
3 6 (26.09%) PaaS
4 2 (8.70%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (26.09%) NGFW
1 6 (26.09%) VPN
2 1 (4.35%) DHCP
2 1 (4.35%) DNS
2 1 (4.35%) Firewall
2 1 (4.35%) LAN
2 1 (4.35%) SAN
2 1 (4.35%) VSAN
2 1 (4.35%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.35%) SQL Server
General
1 4 (17.39%) Documentation Skills
2 3 (13.04%) Local Government
3 2 (8.70%) Finance
3 2 (8.70%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (26.09%) Architect
1 6 (26.09%) Citrix Architect
1 6 (26.09%) Cloud Architect
1 6 (26.09%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
1 6 (26.09%) DevOps Architect
2 3 (13.04%) Infrastructure Team Leader
2 3 (13.04%) Lead
2 3 (13.04%) Team Leader
3 2 (8.70%) Head of Infrastructure
3 2 (8.70%) Head of Operations
3 2 (8.70%) Head of Technical Operations
4 1 (4.35%) Administrator
4 1 (4.35%) Software Manager
4 1 (4.35%) Support Manager
4 1 (4.35%) Windows Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (26.09%) ARM Templates
1 6 (26.09%) JSON
1 6 (26.09%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (26.09%) Private Cloud
1 6 (26.09%) Public Cloud
2 4 (17.39%) Management Information System
3 3 (13.04%) Data Centre
4 1 (4.35%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 5 (21.74%) Windows
1 5 (21.74%) Windows Server
2 4 (17.39%) Windows 7
3 1 (4.35%) Windows 10
3 1 (4.35%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (4.35%) Windows Server 2012
3 1 (4.35%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (39.13%) Disaster Recovery
1 9 (39.13%) Email Filtering
1 9 (39.13%) Kalman Filter
2 6 (26.09%) Agile
2 6 (26.09%) CI/CD
2 6 (26.09%) Cybersecurity
2 6 (26.09%) DevOps
2 6 (26.09%) Infrastructure as Code
2 6 (26.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 6 (26.09%) Line Management
2 6 (26.09%) Network Design
2 6 (26.09%) Network Virtualisation
2 6 (26.09%) SDLC
3 4 (17.39%) Migration
3 4 (17.39%) Problem Management
3 4 (17.39%) Project Delivery
3 4 (17.39%) Server Management
3 4 (17.39%) SIAM
4 3 (13.04%) Coaching
4 3 (13.04%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 7 (30.43%) PowerShell
2 1 (4.35%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (4.35%) SC Cleared
1 1 (4.35%) Security Cleared
1 1 (4.35%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.70%) QA
System Software
1 14 (60.87%) Active Directory
2 9 (39.13%) Microsoft Virtual Server
2 9 (39.13%) Virtual Servers
2 9 (39.13%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (30.43%) VMware ESXi
4 6 (26.09%) vSphere
5 1 (4.35%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (4.35%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 9 (39.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 6 (26.09%) Terraform
3 5 (21.74%) SCCM
4 4 (17.39%) AirWatch
4 4 (17.39%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Clustering
5 1 (4.35%) SCOM
5 1 (4.35%) vCenter Server
5 1 (4.35%) VxRail
Vendors
1 15 (65.22%) Microsoft
2 9 (39.13%) VMware
3 8 (34.78%) Citrix
4 5 (21.74%) Dell
4 5 (21.74%) ServiceNow
5 4 (17.39%) Apple
5 4 (17.39%) HP
5 4 (17.39%) Symantec
5 4 (17.39%) Toshiba
6 1 (4.35%) EMC
6 1 (4.35%) Veeam