Remote Desktop Contracts in the North West

Remote Desktop
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 113 - 155
Rank change year-on-year - - +8
Contract jobs citing Remote Desktop 7 0 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.36% - 0.063%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.14% - 0.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 0 1
10th Percentile £147 - -
25th Percentile £156 - £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £208 - £225
Median % change year-on-year - - +80.00%
75th Percentile £223 - £238
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £204 £213 £275
% change year-on-year -4.12% -22.59% +2.62%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
North West

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 North West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 327 364 421
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 16.62% 13.21% 13.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 191 253 298
10th Percentile £185 £199 £288
25th Percentile £300 £319 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.16% -2.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £530 £653 £575
90th Percentile £600 £825 £650
England median daily rate £500 £490 £525
% change year-on-year +2.04% -6.67% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 14 10
10th Percentile £20.00 £17.72 £17.92
25th Percentile £21.12 £18.48 £19.17
Median hourly rate £24.59 £26.75 £31.25
Median % change year-on-year -8.09% -14.40% +68.92%
75th Percentile £25.47 £45.88 £51.45
90th Percentile £25.90 £83.76 £52.13
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 North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Remote Desktop in the North West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Remote Desktop in the North West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for Remote Desktop in the North West

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Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 North West 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
Manchester - 3 £175 - 2
Merseyside - 3 £215 -
Cheshire - 1 £145 - 1
Remote Desktop
England

Remote Desktop
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 4 (57.14%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (14.29%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (42.86%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 6 (85.71%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (57.14%) Azure
2 4 (57.14%) Entra ID
3 1 (14.29%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (42.86%) Firewall
1 3 (42.86%) Internet
1 3 (42.86%) iSCSI
1 3 (42.86%) LAN
1 3 (42.86%) WAN
1 3 (42.86%) Wi-Fi
1 3 (42.86%) Wireless
2 1 (14.29%) DHCP
2 1 (14.29%) DNS
2 1 (14.29%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (42.86%) SQL Server
General
1 3 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Analyst
2 3 (42.86%) Service Analyst
2 3 (42.86%) Service Desk Analyst
2 3 (42.86%) Support Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) Support Analyst
3 2 (28.57%) Technical Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) Technical Support
3 2 (28.57%) Technical Support Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) 1st Line Service Desk Analyst
4 1 (14.29%) 1st Line Support
4 1 (14.29%) 1st Line Support Analyst
4 1 (14.29%) Desktop Analyst
4 1 (14.29%) Desktop Support
4 1 (14.29%) Desktop Support Analyst
4 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Support
4 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) IT Analyst
4 1 (14.29%) Service Desk Support
4 1 (14.29%) Service Desk Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) IVR
2 1 (14.29%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (14.29%) Blog
2 1 (14.29%) Mobile App
2 1 (14.29%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 6 (85.71%) Windows
2 3 (42.86%) Android
2 3 (42.86%) Linux
2 3 (42.86%) Windows Server
2 3 (42.86%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) Customer Service
1 6 (85.71%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (71.43%) ITIL
3 3 (42.86%) BCP
3 3 (42.86%) Disaster Recovery
3 3 (42.86%) Information Security
3 3 (42.86%) Service Delivery
3 3 (42.86%) Vulnerability Remediation
4 2 (28.57%) ITSM
5 1 (14.29%) Change Management
5 1 (14.29%) Coaching
5 1 (14.29%) Computer Science
5 1 (14.29%) Incident Management
5 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 1 (14.29%) Performance Management
5 1 (14.29%) Problem Management
5 1 (14.29%) Root Cause Analysis
5 1 (14.29%) Service Management
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) Degree
1 1 (14.29%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (42.86%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (85.71%) Active Directory
2 3 (42.86%) Microsoft Virtual Server
2 3 (42.86%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 1 (14.29%) WSUS
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) Microsoft
2 3 (42.86%) Apple
3 1 (14.29%) Remedy