Remote Desktop Contracts in the West Midlands

Remote Desktop
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 104 134 161
Rank change year-on-year +30 +27 -43
Contract jobs citing Remote Desktop 5 6 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.26% 0.25% 0.39%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.27% 1.69% 3.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 3 12
10th Percentile - £175 £110
25th Percentile £200 £184 £125
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £256 £225 £205
Median % change year-on-year +13.89% +9.76% -51.76%
75th Percentile £319 £444 £388
90th Percentile - £560 £433
England median daily rate £213 £275 £275
% change year-on-year -22.59% -0.18% -35.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £16.25
Median hourly rate - - £16.50
75th Percentile - - £16.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £18.27 - £18.55
% change year-on-year - - +3.43%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
West Midlands

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 advertised in the West Midlands with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 394 355 378
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 20.47% 14.89% 10.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 232 218 263
10th Percentile £201 £263 £165
25th Percentile £313 £363 £225
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £500 £400
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +25.00% -5.88%
75th Percentile £575 £606 £509
90th Percentile £688 £700 £624
England median daily rate £490 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -6.67% +5.00% +14.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 6 17
10th Percentile £10.50 £12.50 £11.93
25th Percentile £13.50 £13.13 £12.38
Median hourly rate £19.95 £16.75 £16.50
Median % change year-on-year +19.10% +1.52% +10.00%
75th Percentile £23.75 £20.58 £20.00
90th Percentile £28.75 £21.80 £20.51
England median hourly rate £39.25 £18.82 £23.91
% change year-on-year +108.55% -21.29% -4.36%

Remote Desktop
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Remote Desktop in the West Midlands

Remote Desktop
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Remote Desktop in the West Midlands

Remote Desktop
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Remote Desktop in the West Midlands

Remote Desktop
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 28 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
Birmingham +6 2 £200 -68.00% 1
Tipton - 2 £313 -
Shropshire - 1 - - 4
Remote Desktop
England

Remote 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:

Applications
1 4 (80.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 4 (80.00%) VPN
2 3 (60.00%) DHCP
2 3 (60.00%) DNS
3 2 (40.00%) Firewall
3 2 (40.00%) TCP/IP
4 1 (20.00%) Fibre Channel
4 1 (20.00%) LAN
4 1 (20.00%) SAN
4 1 (20.00%) WAN
General
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) 1st/2nd Line Service Desk Analyst
1 2 (40.00%) 1st/2nd Line Support
1 2 (40.00%) 1st/2nd Line Support Analyst
1 2 (40.00%) 2nd Line Service Desk Analyst
1 2 (40.00%) 2nd Line Support
1 2 (40.00%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
1 2 (40.00%) Analyst
1 2 (40.00%) Lead
1 2 (40.00%) Service Analyst
1 2 (40.00%) Service Desk Analyst
1 2 (40.00%) Service Desk Support
1 2 (40.00%) Service Desk Support Analyst
1 2 (40.00%) Support Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Administrator
2 1 (20.00%) Server Administrator
2 1 (20.00%) VMWare Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 3 (60.00%) Windows
1 3 (60.00%) Windows Server
2 2 (40.00%) Windows 10
2 2 (40.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 2 (40.00%) Windows Server 2012
2 2 (40.00%) Windows Server 2016
2 2 (40.00%) Windows Server 2019
3 1 (20.00%) CentOS
3 1 (20.00%) Linux
3 1 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (20.00%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Customer Service
2 2 (40.00%) ITIL
2 2 (40.00%) Performance Improvement
2 2 (40.00%) Resource Allocation
3 1 (20.00%) Change Control
3 1 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (20.00%) Load Balancing
3 1 (20.00%) Patch Management
3 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (20.00%) Task Automation
3 1 (20.00%) Virtual Infrastructure
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Bash
1 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (60.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (40.00%) Terminal Services
3 1 (20.00%) Active Directory
3 1 (20.00%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (20.00%) VMware NSX
3 1 (20.00%) VMware Server
3 1 (20.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (60.00%) VMware
2 2 (40.00%) Laserfiche