Remote Desktop Contract Job Trends in England

Remote Desktop
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Remote Desktop skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 526 444 496
Rank change year-on-year -82 +52 +173
Contract jobs citing Remote Desktop 27 74 60
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.085% 0.26% 0.16%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.79% 2.02% 1.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 49 49
10th Percentile - £150 £140
25th Percentile £153 £200 £148
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £201 £255 £150
Median % change year-on-year -21.18% +70.00% -50.00%
75th Percentile £418 £438 £238
90th Percentile £451 £570 £371
UK median daily rate £225 £258 £188
% change year-on-year -12.62% +37.33% -37.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 5 1
10th Percentile £19.83 - -
25th Percentile £21.83 £20.30 £15.50
Median hourly rate £25.15 £24.18 £16.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.01% +51.13% -17.95%
75th Percentile - - £16.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £24.18 £16.00
% change year-on-year +4.01% +51.13% -17.95%

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 3,415 3,670 5,204
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 10.80% 12.81% 14.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,209 2,151 3,235
10th Percentile £206 £220 £210
25th Percentile £358 £375 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% - -1.96%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £608
90th Percentile £675 £685 £700
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 172 112 311
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.22 £18.57
25th Percentile £20.42 £21.28 £23.00
Median hourly rate £34.00 £35.00 £56.49
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -38.04% +25.53%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £65.98
90th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £76.25
UK median hourly rate £34.00 £35.00 £55.70
% change year-on-year -2.86% -37.16% +35.75%

Remote Desktop
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Remote Desktop relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Remote Desktop job vacancy trend in England

Remote Desktop
Daily Rate Trend in England

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

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

Remote Desktop
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Remote Desktop in England over the 6 months to 23 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Remote Desktop in England

Remote Desktop
Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

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

Remote Desktop
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 23 December 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 -20 11 £201 -24.34% 4
South East -13 7 £155 -54.74% 7
North West -30 3 £385 +87.80% 4
North of England -49 3 £385 +85.54% 5
Midlands -56 3 £390 +56.00% 4
East Midlands -25 2 - - 1
West Midlands -38 1 £390 +50.00% 3
Remote Desktop
UK

Remote Desktop
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 7 (25.93%) SharePoint
2 4 (14.81%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 5 (18.52%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (3.70%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (3.70%) Remedy ITSM
1 1 (3.70%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 11 (40.74%) Microsoft 365
2 6 (22.22%) AWS
3 4 (14.81%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 4 (14.81%) Amazon EC2
3 4 (14.81%) Amazon S3
3 4 (14.81%) AWS CodePipeline
3 4 (14.81%) AWS Lambda
3 4 (14.81%) Azure
3 4 (14.81%) GitHub
3 4 (14.81%) GitHub Actions
3 4 (14.81%) Serverless
3 4 (14.81%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 3 (11.11%) Entra ID
4 3 (11.11%) SaaS
5 2 (7.41%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (3.70%) Azure Storage
6 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Purview
6 1 (3.70%) OneDrive
6 1 (3.70%) ShareGate
6 1 (3.70%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 14 (51.85%) VPN
2 11 (40.74%) DNS
3 9 (33.33%) Firewall
4 8 (29.63%) TCP/IP
5 2 (7.41%) DHCP
6 1 (3.70%) LAN
6 1 (3.70%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (14.81%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 1 (3.70%) JIRA
General
1 6 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 5 (18.52%) Law
2 5 (18.52%) Legal
3 3 (11.11%) Banking
3 3 (11.11%) Finance
3 3 (11.11%) Public Sector
4 1 (3.70%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (25.93%) IT Support
1 7 (25.93%) Service Desk Support
2 6 (22.22%) Support Engineer
3 5 (18.52%) Help Desk Officer
3 5 (18.52%) Help Desk Support
3 5 (18.52%) Service Desk Officer
3 5 (18.52%) Support Officer
4 4 (14.81%) DevOps Engineer
5 3 (11.11%) Analyst
5 3 (11.11%) AWS DevOps
5 3 (11.11%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 3 (11.11%) AWS Engineer
6 2 (7.41%) Administrator
6 2 (7.41%) Desktop Engineer
6 2 (7.41%) IT Engineer
6 2 (7.41%) IT Support Engineer
6 2 (7.41%) Lead
6 2 (7.41%) Systems Administrator
7 1 (3.70%) 2nd Line Engineer
7 1 (3.70%) Principal DevOps Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (7.41%) Data Centre
1 2 (7.41%) Onboarding
2 1 (3.70%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 15 (55.56%) Windows
2 8 (29.63%) Windows Server
3 5 (18.52%) Windows 10
3 5 (18.52%) Windows Server 2012
3 5 (18.52%) Windows Server 2016
4 2 (7.41%) Linux
4 2 (7.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (3.70%) Android
5 1 (3.70%) Apple iOS
5 1 (3.70%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (44.44%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (29.63%) ITIL
3 6 (22.22%) CI/CD
3 6 (22.22%) DevOps
3 6 (22.22%) Preventative Maintenance
4 5 (18.52%) Agile
4 5 (18.52%) Creative Problem-Solving
4 5 (18.52%) CRM
4 5 (18.52%) Infrastructure as Code
4 5 (18.52%) PRINCE2
5 4 (14.81%) Cloud Security
5 4 (14.81%) Infrastructure Automation
5 4 (14.81%) ITSM
5 4 (14.81%) Load Balancing
5 4 (14.81%) Performance Monitoring
6 3 (11.11%) Asset Management
6 3 (11.11%) Migration
7 2 (7.41%) Continuous Improvement
7 2 (7.41%) Risk Management
7 2 (7.41%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (7.41%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 8 (29.63%) Security Cleared
2 5 (18.52%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.70%) Azure Certification
3 1 (3.70%) DV Cleared
3 1 (3.70%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 1 (3.70%) NVQ Level 3
3 1 (3.70%) VCAP
3 1 (3.70%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (18.52%) GDPR
System Software
1 18 (66.67%) Active Directory
2 10 (37.04%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (25.93%) Hyper-V
4 6 (22.22%) Virtual Desktop
5 5 (18.52%) Terminal Services
6 1 (3.70%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (3.70%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (18.52%) Terraform
2 1 (3.70%) Autotask
2 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 11 (40.74%) Citrix
1 11 (40.74%) Microsoft
2 10 (37.04%) VMware
3 3 (11.11%) ServiceNow
4 2 (7.41%) Blue Prism
4 2 (7.41%) Red Hat
5 1 (3.70%) CrowdStrike
5 1 (3.70%) Remedy
5 1 (3.70%) TOWER Software