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 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 331 385 480
Rank change year-on-year +54 +95 +97
Contract jobs citing Remote Desktop 22 6 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.18% 0.034% 0.048%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.67% 0.35% 0.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 5 8
10th Percentile £173 £162 £191
25th Percentile £192 £206 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £255 £213 £223
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -4.49% +17.11%
75th Percentile £478 £376 £253
90th Percentile £496 £601 £375
England median daily rate £204 £213 £275
% change year-on-year -4.12% -22.59% +2.62%

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 1,315 1,719 2,676
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 10.48% 9.64% 9.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 838 1,144 1,885
10th Percentile £263 £213 £256
25th Percentile £400 £350 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £560
Median % change year-on-year - -10.71% +1.82%
75th Percentile £625 £619 £675
90th Percentile £725 £741 £775
England median daily rate £500 £490 £525
% change year-on-year +2.04% -6.67% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 59 53
10th Percentile £24.66 £14.48 £20.22
25th Percentile £25.60 £18.36 £22.63
Median hourly rate £43.75 £22.00 £46.00
Median % change year-on-year +98.86% -52.17% +31.43%
75th Percentile £51.50 £41.25 £70.00
90th Percentile £62.65 £60.00 £75.00
England median hourly rate £28.00 £40.00 £18.82
% change year-on-year -30.00% +112.54% -21.29%

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 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Remote Desktop in London

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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

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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 May 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 £190 -58.36% 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 (4.55%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (4.55%) SharePoint
Applications
1 11 (50.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 7 (31.82%) Azure
2 6 (27.27%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (18.18%) Asana
3 4 (18.18%) Slack
4 3 (13.64%) AWS
5 2 (9.09%) Amazon OpenSearch
6 1 (4.55%) Entra ID
6 1 (4.55%) GCP
6 1 (4.55%) OneDrive
6 1 (4.55%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (18.18%) Network Security
1 4 (18.18%) VPN
2 3 (13.64%) SNMP
2 3 (13.64%) SSH
2 3 (13.64%) Telnet
2 3 (13.64%) Wireshark
3 2 (9.09%) Firewall
4 1 (4.55%) DSLAM
4 1 (4.55%) LAN
4 1 (4.55%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.55%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (4.55%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 4 (18.18%) JIRA
2 3 (13.64%) GitLab
3 2 (9.09%) Git
General
1 10 (45.45%) Social Skills
2 5 (22.73%) Finance
3 3 (13.64%) Telecoms
4 2 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (9.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (4.55%) Back Office
5 1 (4.55%) Local Government
5 1 (4.55%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (4.55%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (27.27%) Analyst
1 6 (27.27%) Support Engineer
2 5 (22.73%) 2nd Line Support
2 5 (22.73%) Desktop Support
2 5 (22.73%) Support Analyst
3 4 (18.18%) 1st/2nd Line Support
3 4 (18.18%) 1st/2nd Line Support Engineer
3 4 (18.18%) 2nd Line Engineer
3 4 (18.18%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
3 4 (18.18%) IT Engineer
3 4 (18.18%) IT Support
3 4 (18.18%) IT Support Engineer
4 3 (13.64%) Desktop Engineer
4 3 (13.64%) Network Engineer
5 2 (9.09%) Desktop Support Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Infrastructure Architect
6 1 (4.55%) IT Manager
6 1 (4.55%) Senior Network Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Service Analyst
6 1 (4.55%) Service Desk Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (13.64%) JSON
1 3 (13.64%) XML
2 2 (9.09%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 5 (22.73%) Smartphone
2 4 (18.18%) Onboarding
2 4 (18.18%) Video Conferencing
3 3 (13.64%) Replication
4 1 (4.55%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (4.55%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 12 (54.55%) Windows
2 5 (22.73%) Apple iOS
3 4 (18.18%) Windows 10
4 3 (13.64%) Linux
5 2 (9.09%) Mac OS
6 1 (4.55%) Android
6 1 (4.55%) Windows 7
6 1 (4.55%) Windows Server
6 1 (4.55%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (4.55%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (36.36%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (27.27%) Service Management
3 5 (22.73%) Asset Management
3 5 (22.73%) ITSM
3 5 (22.73%) User Experience
4 4 (18.18%) Investment Management
5 3 (13.64%) Configuration Management
5 3 (13.64%) Customer Service
5 3 (13.64%) Data Analysis
5 3 (13.64%) Database Tuning
5 3 (13.64%) Event Correlation
5 3 (13.64%) Infrastructure as Code
5 3 (13.64%) Performance Tuning
5 3 (13.64%) Service-Level Objective
5 3 (13.64%) SIEM
6 2 (9.09%) ITIL
6 2 (9.09%) Observability
6 2 (9.09%) Project Management
6 2 (9.09%) Validation
6 2 (9.09%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 3 (13.64%) Java
1 3 (13.64%) Python
1 3 (13.64%) SQL
2 2 (9.09%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (13.64%) A+ Certification
1 3 (13.64%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (4.55%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (18.18%) SLA
System Software
1 15 (68.18%) Active Directory
2 3 (13.64%) FreeRADIUS
2 3 (13.64%) iptables
3 2 (9.09%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (9.09%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (4.55%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 3 (13.64%) Ansible
1 3 (13.64%) Cacti
1 3 (13.64%) Grafana
1 3 (13.64%) Nagios
1 3 (13.64%) Netcool
1 3 (13.64%) Proxmox
1 3 (13.64%) Puppet
1 3 (13.64%) ZABBIX
2 2 (9.09%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (9.09%) Terraform
3 1 (4.55%) Graylog
3 1 (4.55%) logstash
3 1 (4.55%) Prometheus
3 1 (4.55%) SCCM
Vendors
1 14 (63.64%) Microsoft
2 5 (22.73%) Palo Alto
2 5 (22.73%) VMware
3 4 (18.18%) Zscaler
4 3 (13.64%) Nokia
4 3 (13.64%) Splunk
5 1 (4.55%) Apple
5 1 (4.55%) Cisco
5 1 (4.55%) Google
5 1 (4.55%) Huawei
5 1 (4.55%) Juniper
5 1 (4.55%) ServiceNow
5 1 (4.55%) Veeam