Remote Desktop Contract Job Trends in the East of England

Remote Desktop
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East of England 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 90 95 109
Rank change year-on-year +5 +14 +11
Contract jobs citing Remote Desktop 1 1 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 0.077% 0.066% 0.054%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.48% 0.40% 0.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £363 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £350 -
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% - -
75th Percentile £388 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £200 £385 £200
% change year-on-year -48.05% +92.50% -44.83%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
East of England

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 East of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 209 253 350
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 16.05% 16.63% 18.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 87 109 208
10th Percentile £220 £200 £204
25th Percentile £363 £250 £348
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £400 £450
Median % change year-on-year +30.00% -11.11% +5.88%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £575
90th Percentile £700 £588 £683
England median daily rate £490 £508 £500
% change year-on-year -3.45% +1.50% -1.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 63 62 54
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.32 £17.06
25th Percentile £32.74 £20.00 £56.56
Median hourly rate £62.50 £48.56 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +28.71% -25.29% +30.00%
75th Percentile £71.25 £65.00 £67.81
90th Percentile £87.50 - £73.75
England median hourly rate £41.50 £57.35 £56.49
% change year-on-year -27.64% +1.52% +34.50%

Remote Desktop
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Remote Desktop in the East of England

Remote Desktop
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Remote Desktop.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Remote Desktop

Remote Desktop
Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Remote Desktop.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Remote Desktop

Remote Desktop
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Remote Desktop within the East of England region over the 6 months to 17 September 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Essex -1 1 £375 +7.14%
Remote Desktop
England

Remote Desktop
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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:

Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows 10
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) ITSM
1 1 (100.00%) Service Delivery
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft