Terminal Services Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

Microsoft Terminal Services
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring Terminal Services skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 151 120 134
Rank change year-on-year -31 +14 -
Contract jobs citing Terminal Services 9 2 2
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 0.29% 0.086% 0.076%
As % of the System Software category 1.80% 0.81% 0.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 2 2
10th Percentile £513 £363 -
25th Percentile £522 £381 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £413 £350
Median % change year-on-year +30.18% +17.86% -
75th Percentile £568 £444 -
90th Percentile £610 £463 -
England median daily rate £525 £230 £388
% change year-on-year +128.26% -40.65% -43.64%

All System Software Skills
Midlands

Terminal Services falls under the System Software category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring system software skills in the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 499 247 359
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 16.03% 10.58% 13.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 353 166 258
10th Percentile £188 £159 £163
25th Percentile £316 £200 £238
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £433 £418
Median % change year-on-year +15.57% +3.62% +11.33%
75th Percentile £575 £574 £530
90th Percentile £653 £673 £675
England median daily rate £500 £518 £500
% change year-on-year -3.38% +3.50% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 4 13
10th Percentile £16.25 £16.10 £17.50
25th Percentile £18.54 £17.43 £17.72
Median hourly rate £25.15 £21.26 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year +18.30% +14.92% +4.40%
75th Percentile £25.58 £27.41 £21.50
90th Percentile £38.90 £31.22 £23.28
England median hourly rate £47.50 £32.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year +46.15% -18.75% +60.00%

Terminal Services
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Terminal Services relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Terminal Services job vacancy trend in the Midlands

Terminal Services
Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Terminal Services.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Terminal Services

Terminal Services
Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Terminal Services.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Terminal Services

Terminal Services
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 Terminal Services within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 14 December 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
West Midlands - 7 £537 - 1
East Midlands -19 2 - -
Terminal Services
England

Terminal Services
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

Communications & Networking
1 7 (77.78%) DNS
2 6 (66.67%) DHCP
3 1 (11.11%) Firewall
3 1 (11.11%) Multicast
3 1 (11.11%) TCP/IP
General
1 1 (11.11%) Aerospace
1 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
1 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) Support Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Site Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Consultant
3 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Consultant
3 1 (11.11%) IT Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) IT Support
3 1 (11.11%) IT Support Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Rollout Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Senior
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Server Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Server Engineer
Operating Systems
1 9 (100.00%) Windows
2 8 (88.89%) Windows Server
3 2 (22.22%) Windows Server 2003
3 2 (22.22%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (11.11%) Linux
4 1 (11.11%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (11.11%) Agile
1 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (11.11%) Migration
1 1 (11.11%) Security Hardening
1 1 (11.11%) Server Patching
1 1 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (11.11%) Vulnerability Scanning
Qualifications
1 9 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 7 (77.78%) SC Cleared
3 1 (11.11%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 9 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) Nessus
1 1 (11.11%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) Citrix
1 2 (22.22%) Microsoft
2 1 (11.11%) Cisco
2 1 (11.11%) Dell
2 1 (11.11%) SolarWinds
2 1 (11.11%) Veeam
2 1 (11.11%) VMware