Remote Desktop Contracts in England

Remote Desktop
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Remote Desktop skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Remote Desktop over the 6 months to 15 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
15 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 509 583 643
Rank change year-on-year +74 +60 -89
Contract jobs citing Remote Desktop 37 59 125
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.10% 0.12% 0.18%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.77% 1.00% 1.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 47 84
10th Percentile £148 £156 £123
25th Percentile £200 £200 £150
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £299 £250 £268
Median % change year-on-year +19.60% -6.54% -37.06%
75th Percentile £360 £575 £338
90th Percentile £383 £610 £430
UK median daily rate £239 £250 £275
% change year-on-year -4.50% -9.09% -35.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 14
10th Percentile - - £16.25
25th Percentile - - £17.66
Median hourly rate £18.27 - £18.55
75th Percentile - - £21.42
90th Percentile - - £43.04
UK median hourly rate £18.27 - £18.55
% change year-on-year - - +5.40%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
England

Remote Desktop is in the Communications and Computer Networking category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 4,788 5,911 7,837
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.17% 12.24% 11.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,877 3,859 5,152
10th Percentile £210 £231 £225
25th Percentile £350 £400 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.71% +5.00% +14.29%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £613
90th Percentile £700 £738 £700
UK median daily rate £490 £520 £500
% change year-on-year -5.68% +3.90% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 390 424 309
10th Percentile £13.50 £9.80 £14.98
25th Percentile £16.44 £10.63 £16.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £18.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year +122.22% -24.72% -2.41%
75th Percentile £63.75 £59.28 £47.50
90th Percentile £70.07 £75.00 £63.15
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £18.50 £28.33
% change year-on-year +116.22% -34.70% +6.91%

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

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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 15 May 2024.

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

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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 15 May 2024. 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 +99 10 £343 +71.25% 9
South East +22 10 £150 -57.14% 7
Midlands +32 9 £300 -2.44% 10
West Midlands +24 9 £300 +33.11% 4
North of England +25 6 £320 +42.22% 10
Yorkshire - 6 £320 - 3
South West +4 1 £475 -17.39% 6
East of England +4 1 £250 - 13
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 2 (5.41%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 14 (37.84%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (13.51%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 10 (27.03%) Microsoft 365
2 7 (18.92%) Amazon EC2
2 7 (18.92%) AWS
3 3 (8.11%) Azure
3 3 (8.11%) Slack
3 3 (8.11%) WhatsApp
4 2 (5.41%) Power Platform
5 1 (2.70%) Adobe Creative Cloud
5 1 (2.70%) Google Sheets
Communications & Networking
1 11 (29.73%) DNS
2 10 (27.03%) DHCP
2 10 (27.03%) VPN
3 9 (24.32%) LAN
3 9 (24.32%) WAN
4 7 (18.92%) Firewall
4 7 (18.92%) TCP/IP
5 5 (13.51%) Fibre Channel
5 5 (13.51%) SAN
5 5 (13.51%) Wireless
6 4 (10.81%) Wi-Fi
7 2 (5.41%) Radio Access Network
7 2 (5.41%) XCAP
8 1 (2.70%) FTP
8 1 (2.70%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.41%) GIS
1 2 (5.41%) Power BI
1 2 (5.41%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (10.81%) JIRA
General
1 20 (54.05%) Social Skills
2 9 (24.32%) Finance
3 5 (13.51%) Banking
4 3 (8.11%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (5.41%) Advertising
5 2 (5.41%) Financial Institution
5 2 (5.41%) Marketing
6 1 (2.70%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (2.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.70%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (16.22%) IT Engineer
1 6 (16.22%) Technical Support
2 5 (13.51%) Administrator
2 5 (13.51%) Server Administrator
2 5 (13.51%) Support Specialist
2 5 (13.51%) Technical Specialist
2 5 (13.51%) Technical Support Specialist
2 5 (13.51%) VMWare Administrator
3 4 (10.81%) 2nd Line Support
3 4 (10.81%) IT Support
4 3 (8.11%) Data Centre Engineer
4 3 (8.11%) Lead
4 3 (8.11%) Senior
5 2 (5.41%) 1st/2nd Line Service Desk Analyst
5 2 (5.41%) 1st/2nd Line Support
5 2 (5.41%) 1st/2nd Line Support Analyst
5 2 (5.41%) Data Technician
5 2 (5.41%) Optimisation Engineer
5 2 (5.41%) Service Desk Support
5 2 (5.41%) Service Desk Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.70%) X-Windows
Miscellaneous
1 5 (13.51%) PKI
2 4 (10.81%) Team-Oriented Environment
3 3 (8.11%) Data Centre
4 2 (5.41%) Management Information System
4 2 (5.41%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (2.70%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (2.70%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (2.70%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 29 (78.38%) Windows
2 20 (54.05%) Windows 10
3 15 (40.54%) Windows Server
4 5 (13.51%) Linux
5 4 (10.81%) CentOS
5 4 (10.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (10.81%) Ubuntu
5 4 (10.81%) Windows 7
6 3 (8.11%) Android
6 3 (8.11%) Apple iOS
7 2 (5.41%) Mac OS X
7 2 (5.41%) Windows Server 2008
7 2 (5.41%) Windows Server 2012
7 2 (5.41%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (5.41%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (2.70%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (43.24%) Customer Service
2 14 (37.84%) Problem-Solving
3 9 (24.32%) Patch Management
4 8 (21.62%) Mobile Device Management
5 6 (16.22%) Change Control
5 6 (16.22%) Collaborative Working
6 5 (13.51%) Computer Science
6 5 (13.51%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 5 (13.51%) Knowledge Management
6 5 (13.51%) Load Balancing
6 5 (13.51%) Virtual Infrastructure
7 4 (10.81%) Cybersecurity
7 4 (10.81%) Task Automation
8 3 (8.11%) ITIL
8 3 (8.11%) Migration
8 3 (8.11%) Network Monitoring
8 3 (8.11%) Performance Monitoring
8 3 (8.11%) Proactive Monitoring
8 3 (8.11%) Runbook
8 3 (8.11%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (27.03%) PowerShell
2 4 (10.81%) Bash
3 1 (2.70%) Python
3 1 (2.70%) SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (29.73%) Degree
2 5 (13.51%) A+ Certification
2 5 (13.51%) DV Cleared
2 5 (13.51%) Security Cleared
3 3 (8.11%) CCNA
3 3 (8.11%) Cisco Certification
3 3 (8.11%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (8.11%) Network+ Certification
3 3 (8.11%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 2 (5.41%) MCITP
4 2 (5.41%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (29.73%) SLA
2 3 (8.11%) QA
System Software
1 27 (72.97%) Active Directory
2 16 (43.24%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (21.62%) VMware ESXi
4 5 (13.51%) VMware NSX
4 5 (13.51%) VMware Server
4 5 (13.51%) vSphere
5 3 (8.11%) Hyper-V
5 3 (8.11%) KVM
5 3 (8.11%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (8.11%) VMware Workstation
6 2 (5.41%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 14 (37.84%) SCCM
2 8 (21.62%) vCenter Server
3 5 (13.51%) WSUS
4 3 (8.11%) AirWatch
Vendors
1 29 (78.38%) Microsoft
2 16 (43.24%) VMware
3 7 (18.92%) Apple
4 5 (13.51%) HP
4 5 (13.51%) ServiceNow
5 3 (8.11%) Cisco
6 2 (5.41%) Dell
6 2 (5.41%) Fortinet
6 2 (5.41%) Laserfiche
6 2 (5.41%) Red Hat
6 2 (5.41%) Remedy
7 1 (2.70%) Adobe
7 1 (2.70%) Avid
7 1 (2.70%) Google
7 1 (2.70%) Meraki
7 1 (2.70%) Okta
7 1 (2.70%) Oracle