Remote Desktop Contracts in the East of England

Remote Desktop
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England requiring Remote Desktop skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Remote Desktop over the 6 months leading up to 25 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 85 111 117
Rank change year-on-year +26 +6 -9
Contract jobs citing Remote Desktop 3 1 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 0.28% 0.051% 0.26%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.19% 0.35% 1.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 4
10th Percentile - - £132
25th Percentile £363 £225 £138
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £250 £233
Median % change year-on-year +50.00% +7.53% -28.46%
75th Percentile £388 £275 £383
90th Percentile - - £498
England median daily rate £200 £343 £300
% change year-on-year -41.61% +14.36% -7.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Median hourly rate £200.00 - -
England median hourly rate £26.58 £18.27 £17.50
% change year-on-year +45.46% +4.40% -6.67%

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 253 286 363
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 23.82% 14.61% 18.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 135 134 214
10th Percentile £225 £200 £207
25th Percentile £363 £260 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £400 £475
Median % change year-on-year +18.75% -15.79% +11.76%
75th Percentile £575 £551 £636
90th Percentile £620 £575 £700
England median daily rate £495 £500 £513
% change year-on-year -0.92% -2.44% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 57 101 36
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.16 £15.25
25th Percentile £16.30 £16.30 £16.45
Median hourly rate £62.00 £40.00 £63.75
Median % change year-on-year +55.00% -37.25% +287.07%
75th Percentile £81.01 £65.00 £70.63
90th Percentile £88.00 - £73.75
England median hourly rate £37.50 £45.88 £19.00
% change year-on-year -18.27% +141.47% -23.23%

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

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Remote Desktop in the East of England.

Daily rate trend for Remote Desktop in the East of England

Remote Desktop
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Remote Desktop in the East of England.

Hourly rate trend for Remote Desktop in the East of England

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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 25 June 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 - 3 £375 - 1
Remote Desktop
England

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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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (66.67%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) AWS
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) Firewall
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
1 1 (33.33%) Windows 10
1 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (33.33%) ITSM
2 1 (33.33%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) PowerShell
1 2 (66.67%) SQL
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Hyper-V
2 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft