Remote Desktop Contracts with Work from Home Options

Remote Desktop
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 336 452 557
Rank change year-on-year +116 +105 -111
Contract jobs citing Remote Desktop 11 15 62
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.073% 0.060% 0.14%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.70% 0.52% 1.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 15 39
10th Percentile £199 £183 £245
25th Percentile £229 £306 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £320 £550 £325
Median % change year-on-year -41.82% +69.23% -23.53%
75th Percentile £388 £588 £388
90th Percentile £473 £615 £489
UK median daily rate £235 £250 £275
% change year-on-year -6.00% -9.09% -35.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 7
10th Percentile - - £16.25
25th Percentile - - £16.88
Median hourly rate - - £18.55
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £18.27 - £18.55
% change year-on-year - - +5.40%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,561 2,895 4,322
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 10.34% 11.52% 9.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,015 1,922 2,924
10th Percentile £300 £350 £313
25th Percentile £411 £425 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £619 £650 £600
90th Percentile £700 £725 £675
UK median daily rate £495 £518 £500
% change year-on-year -4.44% +3.60% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 77 95 104
10th Percentile £12.75 £23.30 £18.55
25th Percentile £14.27 £42.50 £26.06
Median hourly rate £24.50 £60.00 £49.29
Median % change year-on-year -59.17% +21.73% +13.97%
75th Percentile £65.00 £72.63 £63.25
90th Percentile £87.46 £80.25 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £18.88 £28.25
% change year-on-year +111.92% -33.19% +6.60%

Remote Desktop
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Remote Desktop as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Remote Desktop trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Remote Desktop.

Remote Desktop daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Remote Desktop over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Remote Desktop daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Remote Desktop.

Remote Desktop hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 2 (18.18%) IIS
1 2 (18.18%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (9.09%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 4 (36.36%) Power Platform
2 1 (9.09%) Adobe Creative Cloud
2 1 (9.09%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (9.09%) AWS
2 1 (9.09%) Azure
2 1 (9.09%) Google Sheets
2 1 (9.09%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (9.09%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 5 (45.45%) DNS
2 4 (36.36%) DHCP
3 2 (18.18%) Radio Access Network
3 2 (18.18%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (18.18%) XCAP
4 1 (9.09%) Fibre Channel
4 1 (9.09%) FTP
4 1 (9.09%) LAN
4 1 (9.09%) SAN
4 1 (9.09%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (36.36%) Power BI
2 2 (18.18%) GIS
2 2 (18.18%) Tableau
3 1 (9.09%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (9.09%) SQL Server
General
1 5 (45.45%) Social Skills
2 1 (9.09%) Banking
2 1 (9.09%) Finance
2 1 (9.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 2 (18.18%) Active Directory Engineer
1 2 (18.18%) IT Engineer
1 2 (18.18%) Optimisation Engineer
1 2 (18.18%) Performance Engineer
1 2 (18.18%) RAN Engineer
1 2 (18.18%) RAN Performance Engineer
1 2 (18.18%) Server Engineer
1 2 (18.18%) Windows Engineer
1 2 (18.18%) Windows Server Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) Data Centre Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) Data Centre Technician
2 1 (9.09%) Data Technician
2 1 (9.09%) Desktop Support
2 1 (9.09%) Desktop Technician
2 1 (9.09%) IT Support
2 1 (9.09%) IT Technician
2 1 (9.09%) Remote Support Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) Server Administrator
2 1 (9.09%) Systems Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) VMWare Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (9.09%) X-Windows
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.09%) Clustering
1 1 (9.09%) Data Centre
1 1 (9.09%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (9.09%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (9.09%) PKI
1 1 (9.09%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 9 (81.82%) Windows
2 5 (45.45%) Windows Server
3 3 (27.27%) Windows 10
4 2 (18.18%) Linux
4 2 (18.18%) Windows 7
4 2 (18.18%) Windows Server 2012
4 2 (18.18%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (9.09%) Android
5 1 (9.09%) Apple iOS
5 1 (9.09%) CentOS
5 1 (9.09%) Mac OS X
5 1 (9.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (9.09%) Ubuntu
5 1 (9.09%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (45.45%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (27.27%) Cybersecurity
3 2 (18.18%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (18.18%) Change Management
3 2 (18.18%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (18.18%) Continuous Improvement Process
3 2 (18.18%) Customer Experience
3 2 (18.18%) Customer Service
3 2 (18.18%) Dashboard Development
3 2 (18.18%) Data Visualisation
3 2 (18.18%) Due Diligence
3 2 (18.18%) Identity Access Management
3 2 (18.18%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 2 (18.18%) Migration
3 2 (18.18%) Runbook
3 2 (18.18%) Visualisation
4 1 (9.09%) Change Control
4 1 (9.09%) Collaborative Working
4 1 (9.09%) Software Distribution
4 1 (9.09%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 3 (27.27%) PowerShell
2 1 (9.09%) Bash
2 1 (9.09%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (18.18%) Degree
2 1 (9.09%) A+ Certification
2 1 (9.09%) CCNA
2 1 (9.09%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (9.09%) Network+ Certification
2 1 (9.09%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (18.18%) SLA
2 1 (9.09%) QA
System Software
1 7 (63.64%) Active Directory
2 3 (27.27%) Hyper-V
2 3 (27.27%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (18.18%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (18.18%) vSphere
4 1 (9.09%) KVM
4 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 1 (9.09%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (9.09%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (9.09%) VMware NSX
4 1 (9.09%) VMware Server
4 1 (9.09%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 3 (27.27%) SCCM
1 3 (27.27%) vCenter Server
2 2 (18.18%) SCOM
3 1 (9.09%) Failover Clustering
3 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Clustering
3 1 (9.09%) SCOrch
3 1 (9.09%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 5 (45.45%) Microsoft
2 3 (27.27%) VMware
3 2 (18.18%) CrowdStrike
3 2 (18.18%) Meraki
3 2 (18.18%) Remedy
3 2 (18.18%) Varonis
4 1 (9.09%) Adobe
4 1 (9.09%) Avid
4 1 (9.09%) Cisco
4 1 (9.09%) Google
4 1 (9.09%) Okta