Remote Desktop Contract Job Trends in Lancashire

Remote Desktop
North West > Lancashire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Lancashire requiring Remote Desktop skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 41 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Remote Desktop 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Lancashire 0.29% - -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.44% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £425 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - -
75th Percentile £475 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median daily rate £450 £145 -
% change year-on-year +210.34% - -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Lancashire

Remote Desktop falls under the Communications and Computer Networking category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring communications or computer networking skills in Lancashire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 41 18 5
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Lancashire 11.88% 9.14% 2.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 7 2
10th Percentile £220 - £417
25th Percentile £350 £153 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £175 £469
Median % change year-on-year +142.86% -62.67% +10.29%
75th Percentile £588 £369 £508
90th Percentile £614 £513 £526
North West median daily rate £489 £446 £515
% change year-on-year +9.53% -13.40% +8.99%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 2
10th Percentile £31.85 - £28.33
25th Percentile £47.76 - £31.44
Median hourly rate £74.26 £70.16 £38.25
Median % change year-on-year +5.84% +83.42% -20.03%
75th Percentile - - £45.44
90th Percentile - - £48.78
North West median hourly rate £17.50 £66.50 £48.03
% change year-on-year -73.68% +38.46% +191.09%

Remote Desktop
Job Vacancy Trend in Lancashire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Remote Desktop relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Lancashire.

Remote Desktop job vacancy trend in Lancashire

Remote Desktop
Daily Rate Trend in Lancashire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Lancashire citing Remote Desktop.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Lancashire citing Remote Desktop

Remote Desktop
Hourly Rate Trend in Lancashire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Lancashire citing Remote Desktop.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Lancashire citing Remote Desktop

Remote Desktop
Contract Job Locations in Lancashire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Remote Desktop within the Lancashire region over the 6 months to 14 August 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
Preston - 1 £450 - 1
Remote Desktop
North West

Remote Desktop
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Lancashire 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) IaaS
1 1 (100.00%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Operations
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Service Delivery
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Desktop