Remote Desktop Contract Job Trends in Birmingham

Remote Desktop
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Birmingham requiring Remote Desktop skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 62 61 73
Rank change year-on-year -1 +12 +21
Contract jobs citing Remote Desktop 2 3 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 0.34% 0.42% 0.23%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.79% 4.55% 1.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 2
10th Percentile - - £155
25th Percentile £370 - £163
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £390 £170 £175
Median % change year-on-year +129.41% -2.86% +35.03%
75th Percentile £410 £235 £188
90th Percentile - £274 £195
West Midlands median daily rate £545 £300 £200
% change year-on-year +81.67% +50.00% -2.44%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Birmingham

Remote Desktop falls under the Communications and Computer Networking category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring communications or computer networking skills in Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 112 66 200
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 19.21% 9.31% 23.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 37 93
10th Percentile £250 £165 £224
25th Percentile £342 £213 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £350 £385
Median % change year-on-year +28.57% -9.09% -4.94%
75th Percentile £488 £550 £650
90th Percentile £575 £699 £731
West Midlands median daily rate £450 £488 £425
% change year-on-year -7.69% +14.71% -2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 8
10th Percentile £44.35 - £16.53
25th Percentile £44.88 £21.25 £51.44
Median hourly rate £47.00 £22.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +108.89% -65.38% +225.00%
75th Percentile £50.38 £23.75 £67.81
90th Percentile £51.65 - £69.13
West Midlands median hourly rate £30.00 £22.50 £27.50
% change year-on-year +33.33% -18.18% +61.76%

Remote Desktop
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Job vacancy trend for Remote Desktop in Birmingham

Remote Desktop
Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Remote Desktop.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Remote Desktop

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Hourly Rate Trend in Birmingham

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Remote Desktop.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Remote Desktop

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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 (100.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (100.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft Project
1 2 (100.00%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Storage
1 2 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
1 2 (100.00%) OneDrive
1 2 (100.00%) SaaS
1 2 (100.00%) ShareGate
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) JIRA
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Architect
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft 365 Architect
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Migration Architect
1 2 (100.00%) Migration Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Data Security
1 2 (100.00%) Migration
1 2 (100.00%) Project Management
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft