Remote Desktop Contracts in the Midlands

Remote Desktop
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 98 128 156
Rank change year-on-year +30 +28 +36
Contract jobs citing Remote Desktop 13 5 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.68% 0.18% 0.32%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 6.07% 1.02% 2.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 4 8
10th Percentile - - £163
25th Percentile - £200 £192
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £200 £256 £307
Median % change year-on-year -21.95% -16.53% +68.22%
75th Percentile - £319 £324
90th Percentile - - £422
England median daily rate £204 £213 £275
% change year-on-year -4.12% -22.59% +2.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £20.68 - -
25th Percentile £21.27 - -
Median hourly rate £22.89 - -
75th Percentile £23.86 - -
90th Percentile £24.05 - -
England median hourly rate £28.00 £18.27 -
% change year-on-year +53.26% - -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 214 492 513
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 11.18% 17.85% 14.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 127 294 337
10th Percentile £162 £200 £250
25th Percentile £249 £313 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £425 £450
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -5.56% +12.64%
75th Percentile £597 £575 £594
90th Percentile £693 £688 £700
England median daily rate £500 £490 £525
% change year-on-year +2.04% -6.67% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 36 17
10th Percentile £13.78 £12.28 £12.50
25th Percentile - £13.13 £16.25
Median hourly rate £13.81 £14.27 £20.71
Median % change year-on-year -3.22% -31.08% +18.31%
75th Percentile £18.13 £24.35 £28.50
90th Percentile £24.21 £28.75 £40.25
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 the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Remote Desktop in the Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Remote Desktop in the Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Remote Desktop in the Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands 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
East Midlands - 11 £200 - 4
West Midlands +11 2 - - 4
Remote Desktop
England

Remote Desktop
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 (7.69%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (7.69%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (38.46%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (7.69%) Final Cut Pro
2 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (7.69%) QuarkXPress
2 1 (7.69%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 1 (7.69%) Azure
1 1 (7.69%) Azure Storage
1 1 (7.69%) Entra ID
1 1 (7.69%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (7.69%) OneDrive
1 1 (7.69%) SaaS
1 1 (7.69%) ShareGate
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.69%) VPN
Development Applications
1 1 (7.69%) JIRA
General
1 1 (7.69%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (38.46%) 2nd Line Support
2 2 (15.38%) IT Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) 2nd Line Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Architect
3 1 (7.69%) Desktop Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Desktop Support
3 1 (7.69%) Desktop Support Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Mac Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Microsoft 365 Architect
3 1 (7.69%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Migration Architect
3 1 (7.69%) Migration Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Senior
3 1 (7.69%) Senior IT Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Support Engineer
Operating Systems
1 5 (38.46%) Windows
2 4 (30.77%) Windows 10
2 4 (30.77%) Windows 7
2 4 (30.77%) Windows Vista
3 1 (7.69%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (84.62%) Break/Fix
2 6 (46.15%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (7.69%) Change Management
3 1 (7.69%) Customer Service
3 1 (7.69%) Data Security
3 1 (7.69%) Migration
3 1 (7.69%) Problem Management
3 1 (7.69%) Project Management
3 1 (7.69%) Root Cause Analysis
Qualifications
1 11 (84.62%) SC Cleared
1 11 (84.62%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (7.69%) Active Directory
1 1 (7.69%) Virtual Desktop
1 1 (7.69%) Virtual Machines
Vendors
1 5 (38.46%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.69%) Adobe
2 1 (7.69%) Apple
2 1 (7.69%) Quark