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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 119 128 154
Rank change year-on-year +9 +26 +45
Contract jobs citing Remote Desktop 2 1 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.11% 0.048% 0.17%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.18% 0.52% 1.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 3
10th Percentile - - £201
25th Percentile - £321 £203
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £343 £213
Median % change year-on-year - +61.18% -48.86%
75th Percentile - £364 £384
90th Percentile - - £484
Central London median daily rate - £343 £213
% change year-on-year - +61.18% -48.86%

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 169 194 282
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 9.59% 9.33% 9.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 122 113 179
10th Percentile £263 £350 £210
25th Percentile £365 £420 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £536 £527 £540
Median % change year-on-year +1.80% -2.50% +2.37%
75th Percentile £672 £638 £632
90th Percentile £737 £757 £695
Central London median daily rate £536 £525 £538
% change year-on-year +2.10% -2.33% +2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile £27.56 - £26.38
25th Percentile £33.28 - £34.06
Median hourly rate £44.11 - £48.75
Median % change year-on-year - - +87.50%
75th Percentile £55.49 - £64.06
90th Percentile £61.54 - £72.13
Central London median hourly rate £44.11 - £48.75
% change year-on-year - - +87.50%

Remote Desktop
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Remote Desktop 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 and Capabilities in the City of London 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:

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