Remote Desktop Contracts in England

Remote Desktop
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 2 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 434 500 580
Rank change year-on-year +66 +80 +84
Contract jobs citing Remote Desktop 60 53 54
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.23% 0.14% 0.11%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.82% 1.10% 0.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 39 39
10th Percentile £171 £200 £158
25th Percentile £198 £228 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £200 £343 £299
Median % change year-on-year -41.61% +14.55% -8.00%
75th Percentile £440 £588 £563
90th Percentile £489 £627 £590
UK median daily rate £200 £306 £300
% change year-on-year -34.69% +2.25% -7.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 1 1
10th Percentile £22.62 - -
25th Percentile - - £16.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £18.27 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year +37.66% +4.40% -21.52%
75th Percentile £114.00 - £18.75
90th Percentile £200.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £22.00 £18.27 £17.50
% change year-on-year +20.42% +4.40% -21.52%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 3,288 4,827 6,034
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 12.73% 12.93% 12.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,032 2,880 3,915
10th Percentile £235 £213 £240
25th Percentile £363 £355 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year -1.40% -2.44% +2.50%
75th Percentile £600 £608 £638
90th Percentile £675 £688 £738
UK median daily rate £480 £500 £507
% change year-on-year -4.00% -1.38% +1.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 146 393 392
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.87 £9.80
25th Percentile £16.67 £17.69 £10.63
Median hourly rate £38.41 £45.88 £20.71
Median % change year-on-year -16.28% +121.59% -17.18%
75th Percentile £64.69 £65.00 £62.55
90th Percentile £81.35 £74.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £43.50 £45.00 £21.00
% change year-on-year -3.33% +114.29% -27.88%

Remote Desktop
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Remote Desktop in England

Remote Desktop
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Remote Desktop in England

Remote Desktop
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Remote Desktop in England over the 6 months to 2 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Remote Desktop in England

Remote Desktop
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Remote Desktop in England

Remote Desktop
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Remote Desktop in England over the 6 months to 2 July 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Remote Desktop in England

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Contract Job Locations in 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 England region over the 6 months to 2 July 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
London +49 25 £351 +2.48% 45
Midlands +6 15 £200 -33.33% 8
East Midlands +14 13 £200 - 4
South East +52 7 £200 -65.22% 27
North of England +10 7 £201 -22.60% 21
East of England +23 3 £375 +50.00% 14
Yorkshire -4 3 £265 +1.92% 7
North East 0 2 £110 - 3
West Midlands -1 2 £700 +133.33% 4
North West - 2 £180 - 12
Remote Desktop
UK

Remote Desktop
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 4 (6.67%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (3.33%) IIS
2 2 (3.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 17 (28.33%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (3.33%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (1.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.67%) MS Visio
3 1 (1.67%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (3.33%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 13 (21.67%) Microsoft 365
2 9 (15.00%) AWS
2 9 (15.00%) Azure
3 6 (10.00%) GitHub
3 6 (10.00%) GitHub Actions
4 4 (6.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 4 (6.67%) Amazon EC2
4 4 (6.67%) Amazon S3
4 4 (6.67%) AWS CodePipeline
4 4 (6.67%) AWS Lambda
4 4 (6.67%) Entra ID
4 4 (6.67%) Serverless
4 4 (6.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 2 (3.33%) Amazon OpenSearch
5 2 (3.33%) Asana
5 2 (3.33%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (3.33%) Azure Monitor
5 2 (3.33%) Slack
6 1 (1.67%) Azure Storage
6 1 (1.67%) ShareGate
Communications & Networking
1 9 (15.00%) VPN
2 4 (6.67%) Firewall
3 3 (5.00%) DNS
3 3 (5.00%) Network Security
3 3 (5.00%) SNMP
3 3 (5.00%) SSH
3 3 (5.00%) TCP/IP
3 3 (5.00%) Telnet
3 3 (5.00%) Wireshark
4 2 (3.33%) DHCP
5 1 (1.67%) DSLAM
5 1 (1.67%) Internet
5 1 (1.67%) iSCSI
5 1 (1.67%) LAN
5 1 (1.67%) WAN
5 1 (1.67%) WebEx
5 1 (1.67%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (1.67%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (8.33%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (1.67%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (1.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (5.00%) GitLab
1 3 (5.00%) JIRA
2 2 (3.33%) Git
2 2 (3.33%) Jenkins
General
1 20 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 8 (13.33%) Finance
3 6 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (5.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 3 (5.00%) Public Sector
4 3 (5.00%) Telecoms
5 2 (3.33%) Banking
6 1 (1.67%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.67%) Law
6 1 (1.67%) Legal
6 1 (1.67%) Local Government
6 1 (1.67%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 14 (23.33%) Support Engineer
2 11 (18.33%) Analyst
3 10 (16.67%) Desktop Engineer
4 7 (11.67%) 2nd Line Support
4 7 (11.67%) Desktop Support
4 7 (11.67%) Desktop Support Engineer
4 7 (11.67%) Support Analyst
5 6 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 6 (10.00%) IT Support
5 6 (10.00%) Windows Engineer
6 4 (6.67%) AWS DevOps
6 4 (6.67%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 4 (6.67%) AWS Engineer
6 4 (6.67%) DevOps Engineer
7 3 (5.00%) Azure Engineer
7 3 (5.00%) Infrastructure Support
7 3 (5.00%) IT Engineer
7 3 (5.00%) Senior
7 3 (5.00%) Service Desk Support
7 3 (5.00%) Windows Deployment Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (5.00%) JSON
1 3 (5.00%) XML
2 2 (3.33%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 6 (10.00%) Smartphone
2 4 (6.67%) Onboarding
3 3 (5.00%) Replication
4 2 (3.33%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (3.33%) Video Conferencing
5 1 (1.67%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.67%) Device Driver
5 1 (1.67%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (1.67%) IVR
5 1 (1.67%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 30 (50.00%) Windows
2 17 (28.33%) Windows 10
3 7 (11.67%) Windows 7
4 6 (10.00%) Apple iOS
5 4 (6.67%) Linux
5 4 (6.67%) Windows Vista
6 2 (3.33%) Windows Server
6 2 (3.33%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (1.67%) Android
7 1 (1.67%) Mac OS
7 1 (1.67%) Windows Server 2008
7 1 (1.67%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (38.33%) Problem-Solving
2 13 (21.67%) Break/Fix
3 12 (20.00%) Customer Service
3 12 (20.00%) ITIL
4 10 (16.67%) ITSM
5 8 (13.33%) Asset Management
5 8 (13.33%) User Experience
6 7 (11.67%) Infrastructure as Code
7 6 (10.00%) CI/CD
7 6 (10.00%) DevOps
7 6 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 6 (10.00%) Migration
7 6 (10.00%) Service Management
8 5 (8.33%) Cloud Security
9 4 (6.67%) Agile
9 4 (6.67%) Infrastructure Automation
9 4 (6.67%) Load Balancing
9 4 (6.67%) Performance Monitoring
10 3 (5.00%) Data Analysis
10 3 (5.00%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (10.00%) SQL
2 4 (6.67%) PowerShell
3 3 (5.00%) Java
3 3 (5.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 19 (31.67%) Security Cleared
2 16 (26.67%) SC Cleared
3 3 (5.00%) A+ Certification
4 2 (3.33%) Azure Certification
4 2 (3.33%) Degree
4 2 (3.33%) ITIL Certification
4 2 (3.33%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (8.33%) SLA
2 2 (3.33%) QA
3 1 (1.67%) GDPR
System Software
1 28 (46.67%) Active Directory
2 4 (6.67%) Virtual Desktop
3 3 (5.00%) FreeRADIUS
3 3 (5.00%) Hyper-V
3 3 (5.00%) iptables
4 2 (3.33%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (1.67%) Microsoft App-V
5 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 1 (1.67%) Terminal Services
5 1 (1.67%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 6 (10.00%) Terraform
2 3 (5.00%) Ansible
2 3 (5.00%) Cacti
2 3 (5.00%) Grafana
2 3 (5.00%) Nagios
2 3 (5.00%) Netcool
2 3 (5.00%) Proxmox
2 3 (5.00%) Puppet
2 3 (5.00%) ZABBIX
3 2 (3.33%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (1.67%) Graylog
4 1 (1.67%) logstash
4 1 (1.67%) Prometheus
4 1 (1.67%) SCCM
4 1 (1.67%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 29 (48.33%) Microsoft
2 6 (10.00%) ServiceNow
3 5 (8.33%) VMware
4 3 (5.00%) Citrix
4 3 (5.00%) Nokia
4 3 (5.00%) Palo Alto
4 3 (5.00%) Remedy
4 3 (5.00%) Splunk
5 2 (3.33%) Apple
5 2 (3.33%) Zscaler
6 1 (1.67%) Bomgar
6 1 (1.67%) Cisco
6 1 (1.67%) Huawei
6 1 (1.67%) Juniper