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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 420 505 589
Rank change year-on-year +85 +84 +67
Contract jobs citing Remote Desktop 65 37 64
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.27% 0.099% 0.13%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.05% 0.74% 1.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 28 50
10th Percentile £147 £143 £159
25th Percentile £186 £148 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £204 £213 £275
Median % change year-on-year -4.12% -22.59% +2.62%
75th Percentile £259 £360 £575
90th Percentile £488 £378 £603
UK median daily rate £200 £200 £275
% change year-on-year - -27.14% -0.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 0
10th Percentile £21.85 - -
25th Percentile £24.18 - -
Median hourly rate £28.00 £18.27 -
Median % change year-on-year +53.26% - -
75th Percentile £200.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £22.00 £18.27 -
% change year-on-year +20.42% - -

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 3,178 5,012 6,158
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.05% 13.48% 12.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,963 3,022 4,045
10th Percentile £220 £206 £231
25th Percentile £363 £350 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £490 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.04% -6.67% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £650
90th Percentile £675 £700 £738
UK median daily rate £488 £495 £519
% change year-on-year -1.52% -4.53% +3.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 127 399 439
10th Percentile £13.81 £13.50 £9.80
25th Percentile £15.22 £17.35 £10.63
Median hourly rate £28.00 £40.00 £18.82
Median % change year-on-year -30.00% +112.54% -21.29%
75th Percentile £63.50 £63.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £81.01 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £40.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year -27.50% +110.53% -32.74%

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 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Remote Desktop in England

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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 1 May 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 1 May 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 +54 22 £255 +20.00% 12
Midlands +30 13 £200 -21.95% 9
North of England +20 12 £211 -35.74% 14
East Midlands - 11 £200 - 4
South East +43 10 £195 +30.00% 13
North West - 7 £208 - 4
East of England +34 5 £258 +3.00% 8
Yorkshire +1 3 £265 -21.48% 8
South West +47 2 £470 -1.05% 2
West Midlands +11 2 - - 4
North East +1 2 £165 +25.95% 4
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 7 (10.77%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (4.62%) SharePoint
3 2 (3.08%) IIS
Applications
1 26 (40.00%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (3.08%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (3.08%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (1.54%) Chatbot
3 1 (1.54%) Final Cut Pro
3 1 (1.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.54%) MS Visio
3 1 (1.54%) QuarkXPress
3 1 (1.54%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 18 (27.69%) Microsoft 365
2 16 (24.62%) Azure
3 9 (13.85%) AWS
4 6 (9.23%) Entra ID
5 4 (6.15%) Asana
5 4 (6.15%) Slack
6 3 (4.62%) SaaS
7 2 (3.08%) Amazon OpenSearch
7 2 (3.08%) OneDrive
8 1 (1.54%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (1.54%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (1.54%) Amazon S3
8 1 (1.54%) AWS CodePipeline
8 1 (1.54%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (1.54%) Azure Storage
8 1 (1.54%) GCP
8 1 (1.54%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (1.54%) Serverless
8 1 (1.54%) ShareGate
8 1 (1.54%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 7 (10.77%) VPN
2 6 (9.23%) Firewall
3 4 (6.15%) LAN
3 4 (6.15%) Network Security
3 4 (6.15%) WAN
3 4 (6.15%) Wi-Fi
4 3 (4.62%) Internet
4 3 (4.62%) iSCSI
4 3 (4.62%) SNMP
4 3 (4.62%) SSH
4 3 (4.62%) Telnet
4 3 (4.62%) Wireless
4 3 (4.62%) Wireshark
5 2 (3.08%) DHCP
5 2 (3.08%) DNS
6 1 (1.54%) DSLAM
6 1 (1.54%) Intranet
6 1 (1.54%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (4.62%) SQL Server
2 2 (3.08%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (1.54%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 5 (7.69%) JIRA
2 3 (4.62%) GitLab
3 2 (3.08%) Git
General
1 24 (36.92%) Social Skills
2 8 (12.31%) Finance
3 6 (9.23%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (6.15%) Public Sector
5 3 (4.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (4.62%) Telecoms
6 2 (3.08%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.54%) Back Office
7 1 (1.54%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.54%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.54%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 16 (24.62%) Support Engineer
2 13 (20.00%) Analyst
3 11 (16.92%) 2nd Line Support
3 11 (16.92%) Desktop Support
4 10 (15.38%) Desktop Engineer
5 8 (12.31%) Support Analyst
6 7 (10.77%) Desktop Support Engineer
7 6 (9.23%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 6 (9.23%) IT Engineer
7 6 (9.23%) IT Support
7 6 (9.23%) Service Analyst
7 6 (9.23%) Service Desk Analyst
8 5 (7.69%) 2nd Line Engineer
9 4 (6.15%) 1st/2nd Line Support
9 4 (6.15%) 1st/2nd Line Support Engineer
9 4 (6.15%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
9 4 (6.15%) IT Support Engineer
10 3 (4.62%) Deployment Engineer
10 3 (4.62%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
10 3 (4.62%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (4.62%) JSON
1 3 (4.62%) XML
2 2 (3.08%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (1.54%) LDAP
3 1 (1.54%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (9.23%) Onboarding
2 5 (7.69%) Smartphone
3 4 (6.15%) Video Conferencing
4 3 (4.62%) IVR
4 3 (4.62%) Replication
5 2 (3.08%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.54%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.54%) Blog
6 1 (1.54%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.54%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.54%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (1.54%) iPhone
6 1 (1.54%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 40 (61.54%) Windows
2 15 (23.08%) Windows 10
3 7 (10.77%) Apple iOS
3 7 (10.77%) Linux
3 7 (10.77%) Mac OS
3 7 (10.77%) Windows 7
4 5 (7.69%) Android
5 4 (6.15%) Windows Server
5 4 (6.15%) Windows Vista
6 3 (4.62%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (1.54%) Mac OS X
7 1 (1.54%) Windows Server 2008
7 1 (1.54%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (1.54%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (41.54%) Problem-Solving
2 19 (29.23%) Customer Service
3 12 (18.46%) Break/Fix
4 10 (15.38%) ITIL
4 10 (15.38%) ITSM
5 8 (12.31%) Service Management
6 6 (9.23%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 6 (9.23%) User Experience
7 5 (7.69%) Asset Management
7 5 (7.69%) Disaster Recovery
8 4 (6.15%) Information Security
8 4 (6.15%) Infrastructure as Code
8 4 (6.15%) Investment Management
8 4 (6.15%) Migration
8 4 (6.15%) Service Delivery
9 3 (4.62%) Desktop Virtualisation
9 3 (4.62%) Event Correlation
9 3 (4.62%) Service-Level Objective
9 3 (4.62%) Task Automation
9 3 (4.62%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 7 (10.77%) PowerShell
2 6 (9.23%) SQL
3 5 (7.69%) Python
4 3 (4.62%) Java
5 1 (1.54%) Bash
Qualifications
1 15 (23.08%) Security Cleared
2 14 (21.54%) SC Cleared
3 6 (9.23%) A+ Certification
4 5 (7.69%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (3.08%) Degree
5 2 (3.08%) DV Cleared
5 2 (3.08%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (1.54%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (12.31%) SLA
System Software
1 35 (53.85%) Active Directory
2 5 (7.69%) Hyper-V
2 5 (7.69%) Virtual Desktop
2 5 (7.69%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (4.62%) FreeRADIUS
3 3 (4.62%) iptables
3 3 (4.62%) Microsoft Virtual Server
3 3 (4.62%) Virtual Servers
4 2 (3.08%) vSphere
5 1 (1.54%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (4.62%) Ansible
1 3 (4.62%) Cacti
1 3 (4.62%) Grafana
1 3 (4.62%) Nagios
1 3 (4.62%) Netcool
1 3 (4.62%) Proxmox
1 3 (4.62%) Puppet
1 3 (4.62%) SCCM
1 3 (4.62%) Terraform
1 3 (4.62%) ZABBIX
2 2 (3.08%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (1.54%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (1.54%) Graylog
3 1 (1.54%) logstash
3 1 (1.54%) Prometheus
3 1 (1.54%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
3 1 (1.54%) WSUS
Vendors
1 34 (52.31%) Microsoft
2 9 (13.85%) VMware
3 7 (10.77%) Apple
4 5 (7.69%) Palo Alto
5 4 (6.15%) Zscaler
6 3 (4.62%) Citrix
6 3 (4.62%) Nokia
6 3 (4.62%) ServiceNow
6 3 (4.62%) Splunk
7 1 (1.54%) Adobe
7 1 (1.54%) Bomgar
7 1 (1.54%) Cisco
7 1 (1.54%) Google
7 1 (1.54%) Huawei
7 1 (1.54%) Juniper
7 1 (1.54%) Nexthink
7 1 (1.54%) Okta
7 1 (1.54%) Quark
7 1 (1.54%) Remedy
7 1 (1.54%) Veeam