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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 492 520 579
Rank change year-on-year +28 +59 +192
Contract jobs citing Terminal Services 20 8 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.072% 0.024% 0.026%
As % of the System Software category 0.59% 0.21% 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 7 7
10th Percentile £153 £183 £265
25th Percentile £423 £228 £338
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £556 £375 £350
Median % change year-on-year +48.27% +7.14% +16.67%
75th Percentile £588 £503 £475
90th Percentile £600 £548 £600
UK median daily rate £540 £425 £350
% change year-on-year +27.06% +21.43% +16.67%

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 3,382 3,850 5,482
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 12.17% 11.69% 13.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,173 2,584 3,763
10th Percentile £214 £218 £198
25th Percentile £375 £380 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £513
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% - -2.38%
75th Percentile £600 £609 £638
90th Percentile £675 £693 £731
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £501
% change year-on-year - -0.10% -4.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 97 101 245
10th Percentile £15.50 £14.16 £15.50
25th Percentile £22.50 £17.00 £18.28
Median hourly rate £37.50 £24.50 £47.90
Median % change year-on-year +53.06% -48.85% +117.70%
75th Percentile £81.00 £63.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.60 £80.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £34.00 £24.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year +38.78% -51.00% +127.27%

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
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 18 September 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 18 September 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 +32 14 £575 +119.05% 1
Midlands -12 5 £534 +12.32%
West Midlands - 5 £534 -
London +19 2 £550 +42.86% 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 (50.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (25.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (25.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 9 (45.00%) AWS
1 9 (45.00%) GCP
1 9 (45.00%) IaaS
1 9 (45.00%) OpenShift
1 9 (45.00%) PaaS
2 5 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 20 (100.00%) DNS
2 16 (80.00%) Firewall
3 15 (75.00%) VPN
4 14 (70.00%) DHCP
5 10 (50.00%) SMTP
6 6 (30.00%) TCP/IP
7 5 (25.00%) Remote Desktop
8 1 (5.00%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (45.00%) Amazon RDS
1 9 (45.00%) Big Data
1 9 (45.00%) Elasticsearch
General
1 9 (45.00%) Public Sector
2 5 (25.00%) Law
2 5 (25.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 12 (60.00%) Support Engineer
2 9 (45.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 9 (45.00%) 3rd Line Support
2 9 (45.00%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
3 8 (40.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 7 (35.00%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
4 7 (35.00%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
4 7 (35.00%) Infrastructure Support
4 7 (35.00%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
5 6 (30.00%) IT Support
6 5 (25.00%) Help Desk Officer
6 5 (25.00%) Help Desk Support
6 5 (25.00%) Service Desk Officer
6 5 (25.00%) Service Desk Support
6 5 (25.00%) Support Officer
7 2 (10.00%) Site Engineer
7 2 (10.00%) Virtualisation Engineer
8 1 (5.00%) IT Support Engineer
8 1 (5.00%) Rollout Engineer
8 1 (5.00%) Server Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 10 (50.00%) Clustering
1 10 (50.00%) PKI
2 9 (45.00%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 20 (100.00%) Windows
2 19 (95.00%) Windows Server
3 10 (50.00%) Linux
4 5 (25.00%) Windows 10
4 5 (25.00%) Windows Server 2003
4 5 (25.00%) Windows Server 2012
4 5 (25.00%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (5.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (45.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 9 (45.00%) DevOps
1 9 (45.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 9 (45.00%) Machine Learning
1 9 (45.00%) Software Deployment
2 5 (25.00%) Creative Problem-Solving
2 5 (25.00%) CRM
2 5 (25.00%) ITIL
2 5 (25.00%) Preventative Maintenance
2 5 (25.00%) PRINCE2
2 5 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (5.00%) Agile
3 1 (5.00%) Security Hardening
3 1 (5.00%) Server Patching
3 1 (5.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 10 (50.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 15 (75.00%) Security Cleared
2 10 (50.00%) DV Cleared
3 9 (45.00%) Degree
4 3 (15.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (25.00%) GDPR
System Software
1 20 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 16 (80.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (75.00%) Hyper-V
4 10 (50.00%) BitLocker
4 10 (50.00%) Microsoft App-V
4 10 (50.00%) VMware ESXi
5 9 (45.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (50.00%) vCenter Server
1 10 (50.00%) vMotion
2 9 (45.00%) Ansible
2 9 (45.00%) Kubernetes
2 9 (45.00%) Nagios
2 9 (45.00%) Puppet
3 1 (5.00%) Nessus
3 1 (5.00%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 16 (80.00%) VMware
2 15 (75.00%) Citrix
2 15 (75.00%) Microsoft
3 9 (45.00%) Google
3 9 (45.00%) HP
3 9 (45.00%) Symantec
4 1 (5.00%) Cisco
4 1 (5.00%) Dell
4 1 (5.00%) SolarWinds
4 1 (5.00%) Veeam