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The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 18 January 2022 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.
Rank change year-on-year -80 +208 +95
Permanent jobs citing Virtual Desktop 354 138 198
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.28% 0.22% 0.16%
As % of the System Software category 1.56% 1.21% 0.93%
Number of salaries quoted 281 121 159
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% +5.88% -22.73%
UK excluding London median annual salary £41,250 £45,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +20.00% -37.50%
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 with a requirement for system software skills.
All System Software Skills
Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 22,734 11,391 21,376
As % of all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK 17.85% 18.35% 17.04%
Number of salaries quoted 15,507 9,657 17,678
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% -
% change year-on-year +1.06% +10.59% -
Job Vacancy Trend
Job postings citing Virtual Desktop as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.
3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Virtual Desktop.
Salary Histogram
Salary distribution for jobs citing Virtual Desktop over the 6 months to 18 January 2022.
Top 17 Job Locations
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 over the 6 months to 18 January 2022. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.
England -72 297 £50,000 +11.11% 64
UK excluding London -104 169 £41,250 -8.33% 49
London -134 127 £55,000 -18.52% 19
Work from Home -137 107 £60,000 +29.73% 11
North of England -121 50 £36,500 -18.89% 11
South East -86 39 £39,000 -17.89% 13
South West -31 34 £45,000 +28.57% 7
Midlands -90 27 £47,500 +5.56% 5
Yorkshire -91 26 £36,500 -18.89% 4
North West -73 21 £40,500 -22.86% 4
West Midlands -58 18 £47,500 -18.45% 5
East of England -75 17 £32,500 -28.96% 9
East Midlands -56 9 £45,000 -
Wales -41 5 - - 1
North East - 3 £41,750 - 3
Scotland -67 1 £57,500 +15.00% 4
Northern Ireland - 1 £28,500 -
Top 30 Co-occurring IT Skills
For the 6 months to 18 January 2022, IT jobs citing Virtual Desktop also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads with a requirement for Virtual Desktop.
3 248 (70.06%) Active Directory
5 232 (65.54%) Microsoft 365
6 155 (43.79%) VMware Infrastructure
6 155 (43.79%) VMware
7 151 (42.66%) Citrix
8 140 (39.55%) Windows 10
9 122 (34.46%) ITIL
10 116 (32.77%) PowerShell
11 112 (31.64%) Azure Active Directory
12 102 (28.81%) Microsoft Intune
13 98 (27.68%) SCCM
13 98 (27.68%) Windows Server
14 94 (26.55%) SharePoint
17 81 (22.88%) Microsoft Office
18 75 (21.19%) ITSM
19 69 (19.49%) Agile Software Development
19 69 (19.49%) Service Delivery
19 69 (19.49%) Social Skills
20 67 (18.93%) AWS
20 67 (18.93%) OneDrive
21 61 (17.23%) Migration
22 59 (16.67%) Google
23 58 (16.38%) DNS
23 58 (16.38%) Documentation Skills
24 56 (15.82%) Marketing
Co-occurring IT Skills by Category
1 94 (26.55%) SharePoint
4 8 (2.26%) Exchange Server 2013
4 8 (2.26%) Skype for Business
6 3 (0.85%) Confluence
7 2 (0.56%) JBoss
7 2 (0.56%) WebSphere
8 1 (0.28%) SharePoint 2010
2 3 (0.85%) SketchUp
3 1 (0.28%) Blender
1 3 (0.85%) Eikon
2 2 (0.56%) Carpe Diem
3 1 (0.28%) Alphatax
3 1 (0.28%) Remedy ITSM
3 112 (31.64%) Azure Active Directory
4 67 (18.93%) AWS
4 67 (18.93%) OneDrive
6 41 (11.58%) PowerApps
7 35 (9.89%) IaaS
8 31 (8.76%) PaaS
9 18 (5.08%) SaaS
10 17 (4.80%) Mimecast
12 11 (3.11%) GCP
12 11 (3.11%) Rubrik
13 9 (2.54%) Azure Monitor
14 8 (2.26%) Google Workspace
15 6 (1.69%) Serverless
15 6 (1.69%) Slack
16 5 (1.41%) AWS CodeDeploy
16 5 (1.41%) AWS CodePipeline
1 58 (16.38%) DNS
2 40 (11.30%) DHCP
3 38 (10.73%) Firewall
5 18 (5.08%) WAN
6 12 (3.39%) Remote Desktop
6 12 (3.39%) VLAN
7 11 (3.11%) Network Security
7 11 (3.11%) SAN
8 10 (2.82%) NAS
8 10 (2.82%) Skype
8 10 (2.82%) Unified Communications
9 8 (2.26%) VSAN
9 8 (2.26%) Wi-Fi
10 7 (1.98%) VoIP
11 6 (1.69%) Softphone
12 5 (1.41%) Internet
12 5 (1.41%) SD-WAN
1 26 (7.34%) SQL Server
2 13 (3.67%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (0.85%) Big Data
6 3 (0.85%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.28%) Electronic Patient Records
2 5 (1.41%) Git (software)
2 5 (1.41%) JIRA
3 4 (1.13%) MSI
4 2 (0.56%) InstallShield
3 58 (16.38%) Documentation Skills
5 39 (11.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 20 (5.65%) Analytical Skills
7 15 (4.24%) Public Sector
8 11 (3.11%) Retail
9 9 (2.54%) Presentation Skills
10 7 (1.98%) Banking
10 7 (1.98%) Legal
11 5 (1.41%) Publishing
12 4 (1.13%) Investment Banking
12 4 (1.13%) Law
12 4 (1.13%) Organisational Skills
12 4 (1.13%) Pharmaceutical
13 3 (0.85%) Retail Banking
14 2 (0.56%) Financial Institution
14 2 (0.56%) Influencing Skills
15 1 (0.28%) Multimedia
1 63 (17.80%) Consultant
2 51 (14.41%) Support Engineer
3 37 (10.45%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 35 (9.89%) Analyst
5 34 (9.60%) IT Consultant
6 33 (9.32%) Service Delivery Consultant
7 31 (8.76%) Architect
8 30 (8.47%) Desktop Support
9 23 (6.50%) Azure Engineer
10 22 (6.21%) 2nd Line Support
11 20 (5.65%) Cloud Engineer
12 19 (5.37%) 3rd Line Support
13 18 (5.08%) IT Support
14 17 (4.80%) 2nd Line Engineer
14 17 (4.80%) Desktop Engineer
15 16 (4.52%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
15 16 (4.52%) 3rd Line Engineer
16 15 (4.24%) Desktop Support Engineer
16 15 (4.24%) Technical Support
17 14 (3.95%) IT Engineer
1 14 (3.95%) ARM Templates
2 11 (3.11%) Web Services
3 9 (2.54%) JSON
4 4 (1.13%) Software Packaging
5 2 (0.56%) Middleware
6 1 (0.28%) LDAP
1 43 (12.15%) Handset
2 29 (8.19%) Data Centre
3 14 (3.95%) Management Information System
3 14 (3.95%) Smartphone
3 14 (3.95%) Video Conferencing
4 9 (2.54%) Fat Client
4 9 (2.54%) Thin Client
5 6 (1.69%) Enterprise Storage
6 5 (1.41%) Driving Licence
6 5 (1.41%) Hybrid Cloud
6 5 (1.41%) Replication
7 4 (1.13%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (1.13%) Private Cloud
8 3 (0.85%) CMDB
8 3 (0.85%) EMC VNX
3 98 (27.68%) Windows Server
4 41 (11.58%) Linux
7 18 (5.08%) Android
9 12 (3.39%) Apple iOS
10 6 (1.69%) Windows Server 2019
11 5 (1.41%) Mac OS
11 5 (1.41%) Unix
12 3 (0.85%) Mac OS X
12 3 (0.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 3 (0.85%) VMS
12 3 (0.85%) Windows 8
13 2 (0.56%) Windows Phone
14 1 (0.28%) Windows XP
2 90 (25.42%) Problem-Solving
3 75 (21.19%) ITSM
4 69 (19.49%) Service Delivery
6 54 (15.25%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 46 (12.99%) Data Security
8 44 (12.43%) Asset Management
9 41 (11.58%) Risk Management
10 38 (10.73%) Creative Thinking
10 38 (10.73%) Strategic Thinking
11 37 (10.45%) Service Management
12 28 (7.91%) Presales
13 27 (7.63%) Project Delivery
14 26 (7.34%) Continuous Improvement
14 26 (7.34%) Mobile Device Management
15 23 (6.50%) Application Packaging
15 23 (6.50%) DevOps
16 22 (6.21%) Disaster Recovery
1 116 (32.77%) PowerShell
2 35 (9.89%) SQL
3 5 (1.41%) VBScript
5 3 (0.85%) C
6 1 (0.28%) Bash
6 1 (0.28%) C#
1 27 (7.63%) Security Cleared
3 14 (3.95%) SC Cleared
4 11 (3.11%) DV Cleared
5 10 (2.82%) Degree
6 8 (2.26%) EMC Certification
7 5 (1.41%) Citrix Certification
8 4 (1.13%) ITIL Certification
8 4 (1.13%) NVQ Level 3
9 3 (0.85%) A+ Certification
9 3 (0.85%) BC Cleared
9 3 (0.85%) MCSA
9 3 (0.85%) VERITAS Certified Professional (VCP)
10 2 (0.56%) CCA
10 2 (0.56%) CompTIA Security+
10 2 (0.56%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 2 (0.56%) MCP
11 1 (0.28%) DBS Check
2 7 (1.98%) GDPR
3 4 (1.13%) Cyber Essentials
3 4 (1.13%) Government Security Classifications
4 2 (0.56%) GxP
4 2 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.28%) HL7
5 1 (0.28%) NIST
5 1 (0.28%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.28%) PMO
5 1 (0.28%) SOC 2
3 46 (12.99%) VMware ESXi
7 15 (4.24%) XenDesktop
8 13 (3.67%) Microsoft App-V
9 12 (3.39%) BitLocker
10 11 (3.11%) XenApp
11 8 (2.26%) Docker
11 8 (2.26%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 3 (0.85%) Firmware
13 2 (0.56%) Citrix Hypervisor
13 2 (0.56%) Terminal Server
14 1 (0.28%) VMware NSX
14 1 (0.28%) VMware Server
14 1 (0.28%) Xen
1 102 (28.81%) Microsoft Intune
2 98 (27.68%) SCCM
3 19 (5.37%) Terraform
4 12 (3.39%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 9 (2.54%) AirWatch
5 9 (2.54%) Single Sign-On
6 7 (1.98%) Jamf Pro
7 6 (1.69%) CASB
7 6 (1.69%) vCenter Server
9 4 (1.13%) SCOM
10 3 (0.85%) NetBackup
11 2 (0.56%) Backup Exec
11 2 (0.56%) Puppet
12 1 (0.28%) HAProxy
12 1 (0.28%) Opscode Chef
12 1 (0.28%) Packer
12 1 (0.28%) WSUS
12 1 (0.28%) XenMobile
4 59 (16.67%) Google
5 32 (9.04%) Apple
6 26 (7.34%) Cisco
6 26 (7.34%) Dell
7 25 (7.06%) HP
9 12 (3.39%) Sophos
10 11 (3.11%) EMC
10 11 (3.11%) Veeam
11 10 (2.82%) Symantec
12 9 (2.54%) SolarWinds
12 9 (2.54%) Zscaler
13 8 (2.26%) Toshiba
14 7 (1.98%) NetApp
15 6 (1.69%) Bloomberg
15 6 (1.69%) Mitel
16 5 (1.41%) McAfee
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