Terminal Services Contracts in Scotland

Microsoft Terminal Services
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland requiring Terminal Services skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Terminal Services 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 115 124 161
Rank change year-on-year +9 +37 +4
Contract jobs citing Terminal Services 1 5 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.062% 0.23% 0.070%
As % of the System Software category 0.54% 1.62% 0.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £511
25th Percentile - - £511
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £250 - £525
Median % change year-on-year - - +208.82%
75th Percentile - - £541
90th Percentile - - £544
UK median daily rate £575 £431 £525
% change year-on-year +33.33% -17.86% +55.79%

All System Software Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 184 308 441
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 11.32% 13.89% 15.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 124 190 326
10th Percentile £221 £192 £194
25th Percentile £410 £324 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £464 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +3.00% -5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £550 £579 £538
90th Percentile £589 £650 £629
UK median daily rate £525 £488 £525
% change year-on-year +7.69% -7.14% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 13 2
10th Percentile - - £24.34
25th Percentile - £60.00 £29.66
Median hourly rate £70.00 £60.50 £40.68
Median % change year-on-year +15.70% +48.72% -8.58%
75th Percentile - £60.75 £50.80
90th Percentile - - £55.57
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £22.50 £53.43
% change year-on-year +22.22% -57.88% +167.13%

Terminal Services
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing Terminal Services as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Terminal Services in Scotland

Terminal Services
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Terminal Services in Scotland.

Daily rate trend for Terminal Services in Scotland

Terminal Services
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Terminal Services in Scotland.

Hourly rate trend for Terminal Services in Scotland

Terminal Services
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

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 Scotland 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
Edinburgh - 1 £250 -
Terminal Services
UK

Terminal Services
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 (100.00%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) ICT Analyst
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server 2012
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server 2016
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Digital Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) Mobile Device Management
1 1 (100.00%) Server Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (100.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) Commvault
1 1 (100.00%) Dell
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) SonicWALL