Remote Desktop Contracts in London

Remote Desktop
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring Remote Desktop skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Remote Desktop over the 6 months leading up to 1 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 329 387 473
Rank change year-on-year +58 +86 +114
Contract jobs citing Remote Desktop 25 13 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.19% 0.074% 0.055%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.88% 0.78% 0.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 10 6
10th Percentile £182 £199 £185
25th Percentile £200 £213 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £351 £343 £210
Median % change year-on-year +2.48% +63.10% -20.75%
75th Percentile £478 £385 £243
90th Percentile £496 £419 £400
England median daily rate £200 £343 £299
% change year-on-year -41.61% +14.55% -8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £18.82 - -
Median hourly rate £18.84 - -
75th Percentile £18.85 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £25.15 £18.27 £17.50
% change year-on-year +37.66% +4.40% -21.52%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,333 1,660 2,648
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 10.34% 9.50% 10.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 857 1,100 1,863
10th Percentile £263 £227 £250
25th Percentile £395 £350 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% -
75th Percentile £625 £623 £669
90th Percentile £717 £738 £775
England median daily rate £492 £500 £513
% change year-on-year -1.60% -2.44% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 50 48
10th Percentile £19.07 £14.48 £18.93
25th Percentile £24.66 £17.09 £22.75
Median hourly rate £37.50 £23.80 £38.27
Median % change year-on-year +57.56% -37.81% +39.16%
75th Percentile £50.00 £41.25 £69.63
90th Percentile £62.45 £60.00 £76.50
England median hourly rate £38.41 £45.88 £20.71
% change year-on-year -16.28% +121.59% -17.18%

Remote Desktop
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Remote Desktop as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Remote Desktop in London

Remote Desktop
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Remote Desktop in London.

Daily rate trend for Remote Desktop in London

Remote Desktop
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Remote Desktop in London over the 6 months to 1 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Remote Desktop in London

Remote Desktop
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Remote Desktop in London.

Hourly rate trend for Remote Desktop in London

Remote Desktop
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 1 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
Central London +4 2 - - 2
Remote Desktop
England

Remote Desktop
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 8 (32.00%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (8.00%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 6 (24.00%) Microsoft 365
2 5 (20.00%) Azure
3 3 (12.00%) AWS
3 3 (12.00%) GitHub
3 3 (12.00%) GitHub Actions
4 2 (8.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
4 2 (8.00%) Asana
4 2 (8.00%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (8.00%) Azure Monitor
4 2 (8.00%) Entra ID
4 2 (8.00%) Slack
5 1 (4.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (4.00%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (4.00%) Amazon S3
5 1 (4.00%) AWS CodePipeline
5 1 (4.00%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (4.00%) Serverless
5 1 (4.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (20.00%) VPN
2 3 (12.00%) Network Security
2 3 (12.00%) SNMP
2 3 (12.00%) SSH
2 3 (12.00%) Telnet
2 3 (12.00%) Wireshark
3 2 (8.00%) DHCP
3 2 (8.00%) DNS
3 2 (8.00%) TCP/IP
4 1 (4.00%) DSLAM
4 1 (4.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.00%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (4.00%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 3 (12.00%) GitLab
2 2 (8.00%) Git
2 2 (8.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (8.00%) JIRA
General
1 12 (48.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (24.00%) Finance
3 3 (12.00%) Telecoms
4 2 (8.00%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (8.00%) Banking
4 2 (8.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (8.00%) Public Sector
5 1 (4.00%) Local Government
5 1 (4.00%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 8 (32.00%) Support Engineer
2 6 (24.00%) Analyst
2 6 (24.00%) Support Analyst
3 5 (20.00%) Desktop Engineer
4 4 (16.00%) Desktop Support
4 4 (16.00%) Desktop Support Engineer
5 3 (12.00%) Azure Engineer
5 3 (12.00%) Network Engineer
6 2 (8.00%) 1st/2nd Line Support
6 2 (8.00%) 1st/2nd Line Support Engineer
6 2 (8.00%) 2nd Line Engineer
6 2 (8.00%) 2nd Line Support
6 2 (8.00%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
6 2 (8.00%) Cloud Engineer
6 2 (8.00%) Field Engineer
6 2 (8.00%) Field Support Engineer
6 2 (8.00%) IT Engineer
6 2 (8.00%) IT Support
6 2 (8.00%) IT Support Engineer
6 2 (8.00%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (12.00%) JSON
1 3 (12.00%) XML
2 2 (8.00%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 6 (24.00%) Smartphone
2 3 (12.00%) Replication
3 2 (8.00%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (8.00%) Onboarding
3 2 (8.00%) Video Conferencing
4 1 (4.00%) Device Driver
4 1 (4.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 12 (48.00%) Windows
2 6 (24.00%) Apple iOS
3 4 (16.00%) Windows 10
4 3 (12.00%) Linux
5 1 (4.00%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (32.00%) Asset Management
2 8 (32.00%) User Experience
3 7 (28.00%) ITSM
4 6 (24.00%) ITIL
5 5 (20.00%) Service Management
6 4 (16.00%) Customer Service
6 4 (16.00%) Infrastructure as Code
7 3 (12.00%) CI/CD
7 3 (12.00%) Configuration Management
7 3 (12.00%) Data Analysis
7 3 (12.00%) Database Tuning
7 3 (12.00%) DevOps
7 3 (12.00%) Event Correlation
7 3 (12.00%) Migration
7 3 (12.00%) Performance Tuning
7 3 (12.00%) Service-Level Objective
7 3 (12.00%) SIEM
8 2 (8.00%) Data Protection
8 2 (8.00%) Investment Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (12.00%) Java
1 3 (12.00%) Python
1 3 (12.00%) SQL
2 2 (8.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (8.00%) Azure Certification
1 2 (8.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.00%) A+ Certification
2 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (4.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (12.00%) SLA
System Software
1 18 (72.00%) Active Directory
2 3 (12.00%) FreeRADIUS
2 3 (12.00%) iptables
2 3 (12.00%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 3 (12.00%) Ansible
1 3 (12.00%) Cacti
1 3 (12.00%) Grafana
1 3 (12.00%) Nagios
1 3 (12.00%) Netcool
1 3 (12.00%) Proxmox
1 3 (12.00%) Puppet
1 3 (12.00%) Terraform
1 3 (12.00%) ZABBIX
2 1 (4.00%) Graylog
2 1 (4.00%) logstash
2 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (4.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 15 (60.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (20.00%) ServiceNow
3 3 (12.00%) Nokia
3 3 (12.00%) Palo Alto
3 3 (12.00%) Splunk
3 3 (12.00%) VMware
4 2 (8.00%) Remedy
4 2 (8.00%) Zscaler
5 1 (4.00%) Cisco
5 1 (4.00%) Huawei
5 1 (4.00%) Juniper