Terminal Services Contracts with Work from Home Options

Microsoft Terminal Services
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 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 338 469 609
Rank change year-on-year +131 +140 -156
Contract jobs citing Terminal Services 6 6 13
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.039% 0.023% 0.029%
As % of the System Software category 0.41% 0.19% 0.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 5 9
10th Percentile - £335 £162
25th Percentile £413 £350 £165
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £337
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +48.37% +144.98%
75th Percentile £530 £576 £388
90th Percentile £557 - £451
UK median daily rate £425 £525 £325
% change year-on-year -19.05% +61.54% +138.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
Median hourly rate - - £18.55
UK median hourly rate - - £18.55
% change year-on-year - - +1.53%

All System Software Skills
Work from Home

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 with a WFH option and a requirement for system software skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 1,449 3,211 5,511
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 9.48% 12.38% 12.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,053 2,298 4,076
10th Percentile £263 £300 £325
25th Percentile £405 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £613 £633 £625
90th Percentile £675 £725 £700
UK median daily rate £488 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -7.14% - +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 102 104
10th Percentile £15.50 £19.10 £14.28
25th Percentile £16.25 £47.73 £17.69
Median hourly rate £40.25 £65.00 £24.50
Median % change year-on-year -38.08% +165.31% -38.75%
75th Percentile £65.00 £71.19 £52.81
90th Percentile £84.42 £78.00 £65.86
UK median hourly rate £22.50 £53.75 £20.00
% change year-on-year -58.14% +168.75% -

Terminal Services
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Terminal Services trend for jobs with a WFH option

Terminal Services
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 Terminal Services.

Terminal Services daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Terminal Services
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Terminal Services over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Terminal Services daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Terminal Services
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 Terminal Services.

Terminal Services hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Terminal Services
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 4 (66.67%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 4 (66.67%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (50.00%) Azure
3 2 (33.33%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (100.00%) VPN
2 3 (50.00%) DHCP
2 3 (50.00%) DNS
3 2 (33.33%) SSH
3 2 (33.33%) SSL
4 1 (16.67%) Firewall
4 1 (16.67%) LAN
4 1 (16.67%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
General
1 2 (33.33%) Organisational Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Systems Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Senior
3 1 (16.67%) Consultant
3 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Manager
3 1 (16.67%) Lead
3 1 (16.67%) Linux Consultant
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Consultant
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Linux Consultant
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Technical Consultant
3 1 (16.67%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (50.00%) .NET
1 3 (50.00%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Replication
1 1 (16.67%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 6 (100.00%) Windows
2 4 (66.67%) Windows Server
3 2 (33.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Privileged Access Management
2 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (16.67%) Resource Allocation
3 1 (16.67%) Root Cause Analysis
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 3 (50.00%) vSphere
2 2 (33.33%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (16.67%) Hyper-V
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Microsoft
1 4 (66.67%) VMware
2 1 (16.67%) Citrix
2 1 (16.67%) Oracle
2 1 (16.67%) Veeam