Terminal Services Contracts in England

Microsoft Terminal Services
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Terminal Services skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Terminal Services over the 6 months to 24 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 525 643 758
Rank change year-on-year +118 +115 -164
Contract jobs citing Terminal Services 11 17 30
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.030% 0.033% 0.042%
As % of the System Software category 0.27% 0.25% 0.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 16 22
10th Percentile £200 £188 £166
25th Percentile £275 £353 £272
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £568 £337
Median % change year-on-year -25.11% +68.40% +163.53%
75th Percentile £530 £691 £513
90th Percentile £590 £738 £594
UK median daily rate £425 £549 £331
% change year-on-year -22.55% +65.79% +142.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 5
10th Percentile - - £16.35
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate - - £18.55
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - - £18.55
% change year-on-year - - +1.53%

All System Software Skills
England

Terminal Services is in the System Software 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 system software skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 4,066 6,702 9,991
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 10.92% 13.19% 13.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,817 4,869 7,206
10th Percentile £190 £204 £199
25th Percentile £315 £394 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% - +10.53%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £638
90th Percentile £688 £738 £710
UK median daily rate £488 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -7.14% - +8.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 210 251 287
10th Percentile £14.06 £14.25 £13.25
25th Percentile £14.48 £17.49 £15.00
Median hourly rate £21.50 £49.50 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -56.57% +160.53% -1.30%
75th Percentile £56.56 £65.75 £28.75
90th Percentile £70.66 £75.75 £57.00
UK median hourly rate £22.50 £52.13 £20.00
% change year-on-year -56.84% +160.65% -

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 24 April 2024.

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 24 April 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 +101 3 £548 +173.75% 1
South East +12 3 £375 -48.28% 2
Midlands +37 2 £200 -64.76%
West Midlands +32 2 £200 -64.76%
North of England +40 1 £600 - 6
North East - 1 £600 -
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 3 (27.27%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (9.09%) IIS
2 1 (9.09%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (18.18%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 4 (36.36%) Azure
1 4 (36.36%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (9.09%) Entra ID
2 1 (9.09%) GCP
2 1 (9.09%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (81.82%) VPN
2 6 (54.55%) DHCP
2 6 (54.55%) DNS
3 4 (36.36%) Firewall
4 3 (27.27%) SSH
4 3 (27.27%) SSL
4 3 (27.27%) TCP/IP
5 2 (18.18%) Remote Desktop
6 1 (9.09%) Fibre Channel
6 1 (9.09%) iSCSI
6 1 (9.09%) LAN
6 1 (9.09%) MPLS
6 1 (9.09%) Network Security
6 1 (9.09%) SAN
6 1 (9.09%) SMTP
6 1 (9.09%) WAN
6 1 (9.09%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (27.27%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Oracle APEX
General
1 7 (63.64%) Social Skills
2 2 (18.18%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (27.27%) Senior
2 2 (18.18%) 1st/2nd Line Service Desk Analyst
2 2 (18.18%) 1st/2nd Line Support
2 2 (18.18%) 1st/2nd Line Support Analyst
2 2 (18.18%) 2nd Line Service Desk Analyst
2 2 (18.18%) 2nd Line Support
2 2 (18.18%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
2 2 (18.18%) Analyst
2 2 (18.18%) Consultant
2 2 (18.18%) Linux Consultant
2 2 (18.18%) Service Analyst
2 2 (18.18%) Service Desk Analyst
2 2 (18.18%) Service Desk Support
2 2 (18.18%) Service Desk Support Analyst
2 2 (18.18%) Support Analyst
2 2 (18.18%) Systems Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Senior Consultant
3 1 (9.09%) Senior Linux Consultant
3 1 (9.09%) Senior Technical Consultant
3 1 (9.09%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (27.27%) .NET
2 2 (18.18%) .NET Core
3 1 (9.09%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Data Centre
1 2 (18.18%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (9.09%) Clustering
2 1 (9.09%) Legacy Applications
2 1 (9.09%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 10 (90.91%) Windows
2 7 (63.64%) Windows Server
3 4 (36.36%) Linux
4 3 (27.27%) Windows Server 2019
5 2 (18.18%) Windows 10
5 2 (18.18%) Windows Server 2008
5 2 (18.18%) Windows Server 2012
5 2 (18.18%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (9.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (9.09%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (27.27%) Customer Service
1 3 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (18.18%) Migration
2 2 (18.18%) Privileged Access Management
3 1 (9.09%) Agile
3 1 (9.09%) BDD
3 1 (9.09%) Computer Science
3 1 (9.09%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (9.09%) Data Management
3 1 (9.09%) DevOps
3 1 (9.09%) High Availability
3 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Monitoring
3 1 (9.09%) Penetration Testing
3 1 (9.09%) Performance Optimisation
3 1 (9.09%) Performance Testing
3 1 (9.09%) Scrum
3 1 (9.09%) Software Deployment
3 1 (9.09%) Test Automation
3 1 (9.09%) Test Scripting
3 1 (9.09%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 1 (9.09%) PowerShell
1 1 (9.09%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (18.18%) Security Cleared
2 1 (9.09%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (9.09%) Degree
2 1 (9.09%) DV Cleared
2 1 (9.09%) MCSA
2 1 (9.09%) MCSE
2 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (9.09%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 4 (36.36%) Active Directory
1 4 (36.36%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (27.27%) vSphere
3 1 (9.09%) BitLocker
3 1 (9.09%) Hyper-V
3 1 (9.09%) Microsoft App-V
3 1 (9.09%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (9.09%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (9.09%) vCenter Server
1 1 (9.09%) vMotion
1 1 (9.09%) vRealize
Vendors
1 7 (63.64%) VMware
2 6 (54.55%) Microsoft
3 3 (27.27%) Citrix
3 3 (27.27%) Oracle
4 1 (9.09%) Google
4 1 (9.09%) HP
4 1 (9.09%) Infoblox
4 1 (9.09%) Red Hat
4 1 (9.09%) Symantec