Terminal Services Contracts in England

Microsoft Terminal Services
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Terminal Services skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Terminal Services over the 6 months leading up to 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 485 548 628
Rank change year-on-year +63 +80 +141
Contract jobs citing Terminal Services 13 8 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.050% 0.021% 0.023%
As % of the System Software category 0.40% 0.19% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 6 10
10th Percentile £189 £200 £174
25th Percentile £550 £241 £231
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £425 £363
Median % change year-on-year +35.29% +17.24% +11.54%
75th Percentile £588 £516 £532
90th Percentile £599 £553 £577
UK median daily rate £575 £450 £388
% change year-on-year +27.78% +16.13% +19.23%

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 3,236 4,223 6,063
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 12.40% 11.30% 12.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,134 2,930 4,321
10th Percentile £222 £210 £200
25th Percentile £378 £375 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -
75th Percentile £603 £608 £650
90th Percentile £700 £688 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 76 198 217
10th Percentile £15.04 £14.06 £14.25
25th Percentile £22.50 £14.74 £17.50
Median hourly rate £29.50 £22.23 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +32.73% -55.55% +150.00%
75th Percentile £67.63 £58.69 £66.00
90th Percentile £88.38 £70.00 £75.70
UK median hourly rate £28.00 £23.80 £53.35
% change year-on-year +17.65% -55.39% +166.75%

Terminal Services
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Terminal Services as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Terminal Services in England

Terminal Services
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Terminal Services in England.

Daily rate trend for Terminal Services in England

Terminal Services
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Terminal Services in England over the 6 months to 3 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Terminal Services in England

Terminal Services
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Terminal Services in England.

Hourly rate trend for Terminal Services in England

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 3 July 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
South East +50 10 £575 +53.33% 5
London +46 2 £550 +0.46% 12
Yorkshire - 1 - -
North of England - 1 - - 1
Terminal Services
UK

Terminal Services
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 10 (76.92%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (15.38%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (23.08%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 9 (69.23%) AWS
1 9 (69.23%) GCP
1 9 (69.23%) IaaS
1 9 (69.23%) OpenShift
1 9 (69.23%) PaaS
2 3 (23.08%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 12 (92.31%) DNS
1 12 (92.31%) Firewall
1 12 (92.31%) VPN
2 10 (76.92%) DHCP
2 10 (76.92%) SMTP
3 2 (15.38%) Remote Desktop
3 2 (15.38%) TCP/IP
4 1 (7.69%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (69.23%) Amazon RDS
1 9 (69.23%) Big Data
1 9 (69.23%) Elasticsearch
General
1 8 (61.54%) Public Sector
2 2 (15.38%) Law
2 2 (15.38%) Legal
Job Titles
1 9 (69.23%) 3rd Line Engineer
1 9 (69.23%) 3rd Line Support
1 9 (69.23%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
1 9 (69.23%) Support Engineer
2 8 (61.54%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 7 (53.85%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
3 7 (53.85%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
3 7 (53.85%) Infrastructure Support
3 7 (53.85%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
4 2 (15.38%) Help Desk Officer
4 2 (15.38%) Help Desk Support
4 2 (15.38%) IT Support
4 2 (15.38%) Service Desk Officer
4 2 (15.38%) Service Desk Support
4 2 (15.38%) Support Officer
4 2 (15.38%) Virtualisation Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Analyst
5 1 (7.69%) Digital Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 10 (76.92%) Clustering
1 10 (76.92%) PKI
2 9 (69.23%) Data Centre
3 1 (7.69%) Fat Client
3 1 (7.69%) Thin Client
3 1 (7.69%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 13 (100.00%) Windows
2 12 (92.31%) Windows Server
3 9 (69.23%) Linux
4 5 (38.46%) Windows Server 2003
5 2 (15.38%) Windows 10
5 2 (15.38%) Windows Server 2012
5 2 (15.38%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (69.23%) Artificial Intelligence
1 9 (69.23%) DevOps
1 9 (69.23%) Machine Learning
1 9 (69.23%) Software Deployment
2 8 (61.54%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 3 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (15.38%) Creative Problem-Solving
4 2 (15.38%) CRM
4 2 (15.38%) ITIL
4 2 (15.38%) Preventative Maintenance
4 2 (15.38%) PRINCE2
5 1 (7.69%) Customer Experience
5 1 (7.69%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 10 (76.92%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 10 (76.92%) Security Cleared
2 9 (69.23%) Degree
2 9 (69.23%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (15.38%) GDPR
System Software
1 13 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 12 (92.31%) Hyper-V
2 12 (92.31%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (76.92%) BitLocker
3 10 (76.92%) Microsoft App-V
3 10 (76.92%) VMware ESXi
4 9 (69.23%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (76.92%) vCenter Server
1 10 (76.92%) vMotion
2 9 (69.23%) Ansible
2 9 (69.23%) Kubernetes
2 9 (69.23%) Nagios
2 9 (69.23%) Puppet
3 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 13 (100.00%) Citrix
1 13 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 12 (92.31%) VMware
3 9 (69.23%) Google
3 9 (69.23%) HP
3 9 (69.23%) Symantec