Terminal Services Contracts in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Terminal Services
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Terminal Services skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Terminal Services over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 381 446 487
Rank change year-on-year +65 +41 -91
Contract jobs citing Terminal Services 12 12 25
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.058% 0.050% 0.081%
As % of the System Software category 0.49% 0.33% 0.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 11 16
10th Percentile £200 £350 £154
25th Percentile £238 £480 £164
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £568 £275
Median % change year-on-year -33.92% +106.36% +101.55%
75th Percentile £441 £669 £356
90th Percentile £526 £738 £413
UK median daily rate £425 £525 £325
% change year-on-year -19.05% +61.54% +138.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 5
10th Percentile - - £16.35
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate - - £18.55
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - - £18.55
% change year-on-year - - +1.53%

All System Software Skills
UK excluding London

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 2,455 3,642 4,633
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 11.88% 15.10% 14.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,646 2,642 3,302
10th Percentile £175 £181 £158
25th Percentile £275 £313 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £485 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.13% +7.75% +7.14%
75th Percentile £581 £588 £563
90th Percentile £650 £675 £650
UK median daily rate £488 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -7.14% - +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 190 196 241
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.25 £13.00
25th Percentile £14.16 £16.77 £14.25
Median hourly rate £21.50 £44.93 £18.12
Median % change year-on-year -52.15% +148.01% +2.06%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £23.75
90th Percentile £78.20 £70.00 £50.77
UK median hourly rate £22.50 £53.75 £20.00
% change year-on-year -58.14% +168.75% -

Terminal Services
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Terminal Services in the UK excluding London

Terminal Services
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Terminal Services in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Terminal Services in the UK excluding London

Terminal Services
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Terminal Services in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Terminal Services in the UK excluding London

Terminal Services
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Terminal Services in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Terminal Services in the UK excluding London

Terminal Services
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Terminal Services within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 27 April 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Scotland +36 5 - -
South East +26 3 £375 -48.28% 2
West Midlands +30 2 £200 -64.76%
Midlands +21 2 £200 -56.40%
North of England +33 1 £600 - 6
North East - 1 £600 -
Wales - 1 £425 -
Terminal Services
UK

Terminal Services
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 7 (58.33%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (8.33%) IIS
2 1 (8.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (16.67%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 8 (66.67%) Azure
2 6 (50.00%) Entra ID
3 3 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (8.33%) GCP
4 1 (8.33%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (83.33%) DHCP
1 10 (83.33%) DNS
1 10 (83.33%) VPN
2 9 (75.00%) Firewall
3 6 (50.00%) SMTP
4 3 (25.00%) TCP/IP
5 2 (16.67%) Remote Desktop
6 1 (8.33%) Fibre Channel
6 1 (8.33%) iSCSI
6 1 (8.33%) LAN
6 1 (8.33%) MPLS
6 1 (8.33%) Network Security
6 1 (8.33%) SAN
6 1 (8.33%) WAN
6 1 (8.33%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (58.33%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Oracle APEX
General
1 11 (91.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (16.67%) 1st/2nd Line Service Desk Analyst
1 2 (16.67%) 1st/2nd Line Support
1 2 (16.67%) 1st/2nd Line Support Analyst
1 2 (16.67%) 2nd Line Service Desk Analyst
1 2 (16.67%) 2nd Line Support
1 2 (16.67%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
1 2 (16.67%) Analyst
1 2 (16.67%) Service Analyst
1 2 (16.67%) Service Desk Analyst
1 2 (16.67%) Service Desk Support
1 2 (16.67%) Service Desk Support Analyst
1 2 (16.67%) Support Analyst
2 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (8.33%) Senior
2 1 (8.33%) Systems Engineer
2 1 (8.33%) Test Practitioner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (50.00%) LDAP
2 2 (16.67%) .NET
3 1 (8.33%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 6 (50.00%) Clustering
1 6 (50.00%) PKI
2 2 (16.67%) Data Centre
3 1 (8.33%) Legacy Applications
3 1 (8.33%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 11 (91.67%) Windows
1 11 (91.67%) Windows Server
2 6 (50.00%) Windows Server 2019
3 4 (33.33%) Windows Server 2003
4 2 (16.67%) Windows 10
4 2 (16.67%) Windows Server 2008
4 2 (16.67%) Windows Server 2012
4 2 (16.67%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (8.33%) Linux
5 1 (8.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (50.00%) High Availability
1 6 (50.00%) Identity Access Management
1 6 (50.00%) Project Delivery
2 5 (41.67%) Customer Requirements
3 3 (25.00%) Customer Service
4 2 (16.67%) Migration
5 1 (8.33%) Agile
5 1 (8.33%) BDD
5 1 (8.33%) Computer Science
5 1 (8.33%) Data Management
5 1 (8.33%) Disaster Recovery
5 1 (8.33%) Penetration Testing
5 1 (8.33%) Performance Testing
5 1 (8.33%) Project Management
5 1 (8.33%) Scrum
5 1 (8.33%) Service Migration
5 1 (8.33%) Test Assurance
5 1 (8.33%) Test Automation
5 1 (8.33%) Test Scripting
5 1 (8.33%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 6 (50.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (8.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (58.33%) Security Cleared
2 6 (50.00%) DV Cleared
2 6 (50.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (8.33%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (8.33%) Degree
3 1 (8.33%) MCSA
3 1 (8.33%) MCSE
3 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 9 (75.00%) Active Directory
2 6 (50.00%) BitLocker
2 6 (50.00%) Hyper-V
2 6 (50.00%) Microsoft App-V
2 6 (50.00%) VMware ESXi
3 4 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (16.67%) vSphere
5 1 (8.33%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 6 (50.00%) vCenter Server
1 6 (50.00%) vMotion
2 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (8.33%) vRealize
Vendors
1 11 (91.67%) VMware
2 10 (83.33%) Microsoft
3 8 (66.67%) Citrix
4 6 (50.00%) Infoblox
5 1 (8.33%) Google
5 1 (8.33%) HP
5 1 (8.33%) Oracle
5 1 (8.33%) Red Hat
5 1 (8.33%) Symantec