Terminal Services Contract Job Trends in England

Microsoft Terminal Services
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Terminal Services skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 587 472 530
Rank change year-on-year -115 +58 +95
Contract jobs citing Terminal Services 5 11 9
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.012% 0.045% 0.024%
As % of the System Software category 0.12% 0.36% 0.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 10 7
10th Percentile £521 £558 £200
25th Percentile £540 £563 £281
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £575 £438
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% +31.43% +9.38%
75th Percentile £638 £588 £553
90th Percentile £645 £600 £605
UK median daily rate £625 £575 £438
% change year-on-year +8.70% +31.43% -12.50%

All System Software Skills
England

Terminal Services falls under the System Software category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring system software skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 4,296 3,077 4,150
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 10.09% 12.58% 11.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,887 2,068 2,909
10th Percentile £213 £213 £205
25th Percentile £400 £381 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £608
90th Percentile £688 £700 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 163 71 202
10th Percentile £16.20 £14.99 £14.06
25th Percentile £25.44 £17.73 £14.48
Median hourly rate £52.50 £28.00 £22.23
Median % change year-on-year +87.50% +25.98% -57.37%
75th Percentile £73.00 £69.25 £58.69
90th Percentile £77.50 £88.00 £74.83
UK median hourly rate £51.00 £28.00 £24.18
% change year-on-year +82.14% +15.80% -55.90%

Terminal Services
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Terminal Services job vacancy trend in England

Terminal Services
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Terminal Services.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Terminal Services

Terminal Services
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Terminal Services in England over the 6 months to 11 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Terminal Services in England

Terminal Services
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Terminal Services.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Terminal Services

Terminal Services
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 Terminal Services within the England region over the 6 months to 11 June 2026. 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 -72 3 £625 +13.64% 1
South East -65 2 £528 -8.26%
West Midlands - 1 £540 -
Midlands - 1 £540 - 1
Terminal Services
UK

Terminal Services
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 3 (60.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) GCP
2 2 (40.00%) AWS
2 2 (40.00%) IaaS
2 2 (40.00%) OpenShift
2 2 (40.00%) PaaS
3 1 (20.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 5 (100.00%) DHCP
1 5 (100.00%) DNS
2 3 (60.00%) Firewall
2 3 (60.00%) SMTP
2 3 (60.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (40.00%) Big Data
2 2 (40.00%) Elasticsearch
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
1 3 (60.00%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
1 3 (60.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
2 2 (40.00%) 3rd Line Support
2 2 (40.00%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Support
2 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Support Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Wintel Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Clustering
1 3 (60.00%) Data Centre
1 3 (60.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Windows
1 5 (100.00%) Windows Server
2 2 (40.00%) Linux
3 1 (20.00%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (40.00%) AI
2 2 (40.00%) DevOps
2 2 (40.00%) Machine Learning
2 2 (40.00%) Software Deployment
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (80.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (60.00%) Degree
2 3 (60.00%) DV Cleared
3 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 5 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 3 (60.00%) BitLocker
2 3 (60.00%) Hyper-V
2 3 (60.00%) Microsoft App-V
2 3 (60.00%) VMware ESXi
2 3 (60.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (40.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) vCenter Server
1 3 (60.00%) vMotion
2 2 (40.00%) Ansible
2 2 (40.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (40.00%) Nagios
2 2 (40.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Citrix
1 3 (60.00%) Google
1 3 (60.00%) HP
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (60.00%) Symantec
1 3 (60.00%) VMware
2 1 (20.00%) Dell
2 1 (20.00%) NetApp
2 1 (20.00%) Red Hat