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 31 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 526 491 533
Rank change year-on-year -35 +42 +184
Contract jobs citing Terminal Services 15 9 12
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.047% 0.032% 0.033%
As % of the System Software category 0.38% 0.27% 0.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 5 9
10th Percentile - - £260
25th Percentile £153 £150 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £210 £425
Median % change year-on-year +150.00% -50.59% -38.18%
75th Percentile £540 £250 £600
90th Percentile £578 £310 £610
UK median daily rate £529 £205 £425
% change year-on-year +158.17% -51.76% -38.18%

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 3,941 3,385 4,540
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 12.45% 11.96% 12.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,659 2,197 3,134
10th Percentile £213 £205 £190
25th Percentile £400 £367 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% -4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £613
90th Percentile £700 £725 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 138 79 204
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.60 £15.75
25th Percentile £20.93 £21.02 £18.50
Median hourly rate £48.11 £28.41 £46.29
Median % change year-on-year +69.34% -38.62% +78.02%
75th Percentile £70.00 £64.50 £68.63
90th Percentile £90.45 £78.50 £77.85
UK median hourly rate £48.11 £27.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year +74.95% -45.00% +86.92%

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 31 December 2025.

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 31 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
Midlands -25 10 £539 +53.86%
West Midlands - 8 £539 -
South East -12 7 £155 +3.33% 4
East Midlands -14 2 - -
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 4 (26.67%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (26.67%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 4 (26.67%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 13 (86.67%) DNS
2 8 (53.33%) DHCP
3 5 (33.33%) Firewall
3 5 (33.33%) TCP/IP
4 4 (26.67%) Remote Desktop
4 4 (26.67%) VPN
5 1 (6.67%) Multicast
General
1 4 (26.67%) Law
1 4 (26.67%) Legal
2 1 (6.67%) Aerospace
2 1 (6.67%) Public Sector
2 1 (6.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (33.33%) IT Support
2 4 (26.67%) Help Desk Officer
2 4 (26.67%) Help Desk Support
2 4 (26.67%) Service Desk Officer
2 4 (26.67%) Service Desk Support
2 4 (26.67%) Support Officer
3 3 (20.00%) Support Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) Site Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Consultant
5 1 (6.67%) Infrastructure Consultant
5 1 (6.67%) IT Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) IT Support Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Rollout Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Senior
5 1 (6.67%) Senior Server Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Server Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Wintel Engineer
Operating Systems
1 15 (100.00%) Windows
2 14 (93.33%) Windows Server
3 4 (26.67%) Windows 10
3 4 (26.67%) Windows Server 2012
3 4 (26.67%) Windows Server 2016
4 2 (13.33%) Windows Server 2003
4 2 (13.33%) Windows Server 2008
5 1 (6.67%) Linux
5 1 (6.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (26.67%) Creative Problem-Solving
1 4 (26.67%) CRM
1 4 (26.67%) ITIL
1 4 (26.67%) Preventative Maintenance
1 4 (26.67%) PRINCE2
1 4 (26.67%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (6.67%) Agile
2 1 (6.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (6.67%) Migration
2 1 (6.67%) Security Hardening
2 1 (6.67%) Server Patching
2 1 (6.67%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (6.67%) Vulnerability Scanning
Qualifications
1 10 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 8 (53.33%) SC Cleared
3 1 (6.67%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (26.67%) GDPR
System Software
1 15 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 5 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (26.67%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 1 (6.67%) Nessus
1 1 (6.67%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 6 (40.00%) Citrix
1 6 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (33.33%) VMware
3 1 (6.67%) Cisco
3 1 (6.67%) Dell
3 1 (6.67%) SolarWinds
3 1 (6.67%) Veeam