Remote Desktop Contracts

Remote Desktop
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Remote Desktop skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Remote Desktop 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 546 650 705
Rank change year-on-year +104 +55 -112
Contract jobs citing Remote Desktop 52 69 144
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.12% 0.12% 0.16%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.93% 0.94% 1.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 52 98
10th Percentile £131 £151 £123
25th Percentile £148 £196 £163
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £200 £275 £275
Median % change year-on-year -27.14% -0.18% -35.29%
75th Percentile £360 £575 £338
90th Percentile £473 £599 £438
UK excluding London median daily rate £200 £315 £275
% change year-on-year -36.51% +14.55% -34.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 15
10th Percentile £18.11 - £16.25
25th Percentile - - £17.50
Median hourly rate £18.27 - £18.55
75th Percentile - - £20.74
90th Percentile - - £40.46
UK excluding London median hourly rate £18.27 - £18.55
% change year-on-year - - +3.43%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

Remote Desktop is in the Communications and Computer Networking category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 5,616 7,369 9,710
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.97% 12.32% 10.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,363 4,796 6,383
10th Percentile £205 £231 £230
25th Percentile £350 £400 £384
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £519 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.59% +3.80% +11.11%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £606
90th Percentile £700 £725 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £438
% change year-on-year - +8.57% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 420 481 362
10th Percentile £13.50 £9.80 £14.82
25th Percentile £17.00 £10.63 £17.00
Median hourly rate £38.00 £19.00 £28.33
Median % change year-on-year +100.00% -32.93% -0.60%
75th Percentile £62.50 £60.50 £50.77
90th Percentile £67.75 £75.00 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.88 £18.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year +148.00% -13.95% -14.00%

Remote Desktop
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Remote Desktop as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Remote Desktop in the UK

Remote Desktop
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Remote Desktop.

Daily rate trend for Remote Desktop in the UK

Remote Desktop
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Remote Desktop over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Remote Desktop in the UK

Remote Desktop
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Remote Desktop.

Hourly rate trend for Remote Desktop in the UK

Remote Desktop
Top 13 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Remote Desktop within the UK 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
UK excluding London +59 43 £200 -36.51% 58
England +102 38 £213 -22.59% 59
South East +30 13 £150 -57.14% 13
North of England +43 12 £320 +42.22% 11
Scotland +43 11 £200 -35.48% 8
Yorkshire - 10 £338 - 1
Work from Home +124 8 £340 -38.18% 24
London +94 6 £213 -4.49% 10
West Midlands +29 5 £256 +13.89% 6
Midlands +17 5 £256 -16.53% 8
North East - 2 £131 - 1
East of England +8 1 £250 - 11
South West +7 1 £475 -17.39% 8

Remote Desktop
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (13.46%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (3.85%) IIS
Applications
1 23 (44.23%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (11.54%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 19 (36.54%) Microsoft 365
2 11 (21.15%) Azure
3 6 (11.54%) WhatsApp
4 5 (9.62%) Entra ID
5 4 (7.69%) Power Platform
6 3 (5.77%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (5.77%) AWS
6 3 (5.77%) Slack
7 1 (1.92%) Adobe Creative Cloud
7 1 (1.92%) Google Sheets
Communications & Networking
1 14 (26.92%) DNS
2 13 (25.00%) DHCP
3 8 (15.38%) TCP/IP
3 8 (15.38%) Wi-Fi
4 7 (13.46%) LAN
4 7 (13.46%) WAN
5 5 (9.62%) VPN
6 3 (5.77%) Firewall
7 2 (3.85%) Radio Access Network
7 2 (3.85%) XCAP
8 1 (1.92%) Cisco Nexus
8 1 (1.92%) Fibre Channel
8 1 (1.92%) FTP
8 1 (1.92%) SAN
8 1 (1.92%) VSAN
8 1 (1.92%) Wireless
8 1 (1.92%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (7.69%) Power BI
2 2 (3.85%) GIS
2 2 (3.85%) Tableau
3 1 (1.92%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (1.92%) JIRA
General
1 27 (51.92%) Social Skills
2 8 (15.38%) Banking
2 8 (15.38%) Finance
3 7 (13.46%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (5.77%) Legal
5 2 (3.85%) Advertising
5 2 (3.85%) Marketing
5 2 (3.85%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (3.85%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (3.85%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.92%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 13 (25.00%) IT Engineer
2 11 (21.15%) Support Engineer
3 10 (19.23%) IT Support
4 7 (13.46%) IT Support Engineer
4 7 (13.46%) Technical Support
5 6 (11.54%) Data Centre Engineer
5 6 (11.54%) Desktop Engineer
5 6 (11.54%) Support Specialist
5 6 (11.54%) Technical Specialist
5 6 (11.54%) Technical Support Specialist
6 5 (9.62%) 1st Line Support
6 5 (9.62%) 2nd Line Support
6 5 (9.62%) Desktop Support
6 5 (9.62%) Windows Engineer
7 4 (7.69%) Desktop Support Engineer
7 4 (7.69%) IT Technician
8 3 (5.77%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
8 3 (5.77%) Data Centre Technician
8 3 (5.77%) Hardware Engineer
8 3 (5.77%) Windows Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.85%) OLE
2 1 (1.92%) X-Windows
Miscellaneous
1 12 (23.08%) Data Centre
2 5 (9.62%) Management Information System
3 4 (7.69%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 3 (5.77%) NHS
5 2 (3.85%) PKI
6 1 (1.92%) Clustering
6 1 (1.92%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.92%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.92%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 39 (75.00%) Windows
2 28 (53.85%) Windows 10
3 8 (15.38%) Mac OS X
3 8 (15.38%) Windows 7
3 8 (15.38%) Windows Server
4 4 (7.69%) Windows Server 2012
4 4 (7.69%) Windows Server 2016
5 3 (5.77%) Android
5 3 (5.77%) Apple iOS
5 3 (5.77%) Linux
5 3 (5.77%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (3.85%) Ubuntu
6 2 (3.85%) Windows Server 2008
7 1 (1.92%) CentOS
7 1 (1.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (1.92%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (42.31%) Problem-Solving
2 13 (25.00%) Customer Service
3 9 (17.31%) Computer Science
4 8 (15.38%) Migration
4 8 (15.38%) Runbook
5 7 (13.46%) Network Monitoring
6 6 (11.54%) Knowledge Management
7 5 (9.62%) Escalation Management
8 4 (7.69%) Mobile Device Management
8 4 (7.69%) Project Management
9 3 (5.77%) Cybersecurity
9 3 (5.77%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 3 (5.77%) ITIL
9 3 (5.77%) Performance Monitoring
9 3 (5.77%) Test Automation
9 3 (5.77%) Validation
10 2 (3.85%) Customer Experience
10 2 (3.85%) Decision-Making
10 2 (3.85%) Due Diligence
10 2 (3.85%) Patch Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (9.62%) PowerShell
2 1 (1.92%) Bash
2 1 (1.92%) Python
2 1 (1.92%) R
2 1 (1.92%) SQL
Qualifications
1 18 (34.62%) Degree
2 9 (17.31%) A+ Certification
3 8 (15.38%) Security Cleared
4 7 (13.46%) DV Cleared
4 7 (13.46%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 5 (9.62%) MCITP
5 5 (9.62%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (7.69%) CCNA
6 4 (7.69%) Cisco Certification
6 4 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (7.69%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (32.69%) SLA
2 4 (7.69%) QA
System Software
1 36 (69.23%) Active Directory
2 13 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (17.31%) VMware ESXi
4 7 (13.46%) KVM
4 7 (13.46%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (13.46%) VMware Workstation
5 5 (9.62%) Hyper-V
6 2 (3.85%) Terminal Services
6 2 (3.85%) VMware NSX
6 2 (3.85%) vSphere
7 1 (1.92%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 14 (26.92%) SCCM
2 10 (19.23%) vCenter Server
3 5 (9.62%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (3.85%) SCOM
4 2 (3.85%) WSUS
5 1 (1.92%) AirWatch
5 1 (1.92%) Failover Clustering
5 1 (1.92%) FortiGate
5 1 (1.92%) Microsoft Clustering
5 1 (1.92%) SCOrch
5 1 (1.92%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 40 (76.92%) Microsoft
2 14 (26.92%) VMware
3 9 (17.31%) Apple
4 6 (11.54%) HP
4 6 (11.54%) ServiceNow
5 3 (5.77%) Cisco
6 2 (3.85%) Citrix
6 2 (3.85%) CrowdStrike
6 2 (3.85%) Dell
6 2 (3.85%) Laserfiche
6 2 (3.85%) Remedy
6 2 (3.85%) Varonis
7 1 (1.92%) Adobe
7 1 (1.92%) Avid
7 1 (1.92%) Google
7 1 (1.92%) Meraki
7 1 (1.92%) Okta
7 1 (1.92%) Oracle
7 1 (1.92%) Red Hat
7 1 (1.92%) Wyse