Remote Desktop Contracts in the South East

Remote Desktop
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 149 192 213
Rank change year-on-year +43 +21 +37
Contract jobs citing Remote Desktop 10 13 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.33% 0.23% 0.16%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.95% 1.04% 0.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 9 7
10th Percentile £147 £142 £156
25th Percentile £174 £148 £165
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £195 £150 £350
Median % change year-on-year +30.00% -57.14% +21.74%
75th Percentile £250 £153 £513
90th Percentile £325 £365 £675
England median daily rate £204 £213 £275
% change year-on-year -4.12% -22.59% +2.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £28.00 - -
England median hourly rate £28.00 £18.27 -
% change year-on-year +53.26% - -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 513 1,255 980
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 17.04% 22.58% 16.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 325 617 590
10th Percentile £216 £205 £235
25th Percentile £325 £371 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £490 £488
Median % change year-on-year -2.04% +0.51% +8.33%
75th Percentile £588 £585 £588
90th Percentile £630 £638 £700
England median daily rate £500 £490 £525
% change year-on-year +2.04% -6.67% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 131 74
10th Percentile £14.20 £16.25 £18.33
25th Percentile £20.26 £27.50 £42.50
Median hourly rate £54.94 £57.35 £53.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.21% +8.21% +146.51%
75th Percentile £62.50 £64.38 £67.50
90th Percentile £66.88 £85.65 £80.25
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 South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Remote Desktop in the South East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Daily rate trend for Remote Desktop in the South East

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Remote Desktop in the South East over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Remote Desktop in the South East

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

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

Hourly rate trend for Remote Desktop in the South East

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Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East 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
Surrey +18 4 £250 -30.56% 5
Thames Valley +36 3 £182 +21.33% 10
Buckinghamshire - 2 £170 - 5
Kent - 2 £145 - 2
Berkshire +22 1 £182 +21.33% 4
West Sussex - 1 £200 - 1
Remote Desktop
England

Remote Desktop
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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:

Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (10.00%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 1 (10.00%) AWS
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) DHCP
1 1 (10.00%) DNS
1 1 (10.00%) Wi-Fi
General
1 5 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (30.00%) Finance
3 2 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (10.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (10.00%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (30.00%) Desktop Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Analyst
2 2 (20.00%) Deployment Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Service Analyst
2 2 (20.00%) Service Desk Analyst
2 2 (20.00%) Windows Deployment Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Windows Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) 1st Line Service Desk Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) 1st Line Support
3 1 (10.00%) 1st Line Support Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Desktop Support
3 1 (10.00%) Desktop Support Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) IT Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) IT Support
3 1 (10.00%) IT Support Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) IT Technician
3 1 (10.00%) Remote Support Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Service Desk Support
3 1 (10.00%) Service Desk Support Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (10.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 8 (80.00%) Windows
2 4 (40.00%) Windows 10
3 2 (20.00%) Apple iOS
3 2 (20.00%) Mac OS
4 1 (10.00%) Android
4 1 (10.00%) Linux
4 1 (10.00%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) Customer Service
1 5 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (30.00%) ITIL
3 2 (20.00%) Analytics
3 2 (20.00%) Migration
4 1 (10.00%) Application Packaging
4 1 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (10.00%) Conversational UI
4 1 (10.00%) Desktop Virtualisation
4 1 (10.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (10.00%) Inventory Management
4 1 (10.00%) Mobile Device Management
4 1 (10.00%) Process Improvement
4 1 (10.00%) QMS
4 1 (10.00%) Quality Management
4 1 (10.00%) Service Management
4 1 (10.00%) Software Deployment
4 1 (10.00%) Time Management
4 1 (10.00%) User Experience
4 1 (10.00%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (10.00%) Bash
1 1 (10.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (10.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) ITIL Certification
1 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (60.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 3 (30.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (20.00%) ServiceNow
2 2 (20.00%) VMware
3 1 (10.00%) Apple
3 1 (10.00%) Citrix
3 1 (10.00%) Nexthink
3 1 (10.00%) Okta