Remote Desktop Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Remote Desktop
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Remote Desktop skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 117 127 146
Rank change year-on-year +10 +19 +50
Contract jobs citing Remote Desktop 2 1 3
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.12% 0.047% 0.11%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.29% 0.44% 1.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 2
10th Percentile - - £201
25th Percentile - £321 £202
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £343 £206
Median % change year-on-year - +66.06% -50.36%
75th Percentile - £364 £214
90th Percentile - - £217
Central London median daily rate - £343 £206
% change year-on-year - +66.06% -26.34%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
City of London

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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 155 228 272
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 9.19% 10.79% 9.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 114 139 169
10th Percentile £254 £312 £263
25th Percentile £406 £431 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year +2.86% -2.33% -0.46%
75th Percentile £672 £638 £625
90th Percentile £738 £754 £700
Central London median daily rate £536 £525 £525
% change year-on-year +2.10% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 2
10th Percentile £20.89 - £26.38
25th Percentile £21.96 £31.25 £34.06
Median hourly rate £24.50 £32.50 £48.75
Median % change year-on-year -24.62% -33.33% +134.94%
75th Percentile £45.41 £33.75 £64.06
90th Percentile £57.51 - £72.13
Central London median hourly rate £24.99 £32.50 £48.75
% change year-on-year -23.12% -33.33% +132.14%

Remote Desktop
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Remote Desktop relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Remote Desktop job vacancy trend in the City of London

Remote Desktop
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Remote Desktop.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Remote Desktop

Remote Desktop
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Remote Desktop.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Remote Desktop

Remote Desktop
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) AWS CodePipeline
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (50.00%) Serverless
1 1 (50.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Banking
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) 2nd Line Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) 2nd Line Support
1 1 (50.00%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) AWS DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Support Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 1 (50.00%) Load Balancing
1 1 (50.00%) Performance Monitoring
1 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Virtual Desktop
1 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Citrix
1 1 (50.00%) VMware