Terminal Services Contracts in the South East

Microsoft Terminal Services
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 151 202 219
Rank change year-on-year +51 +17 +36
Contract jobs citing Terminal Services 8 3 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.27% 0.054% 0.052%
As % of the System Software category 1.84% 0.38% 0.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 3 3
10th Percentile - £293 -
25th Percentile £563 £319 £713
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £375 £725
Median % change year-on-year +53.33% -48.28% +163.64%
75th Percentile £591 £416 £744
90th Percentile £600 £433 £748
England median daily rate £575 £406 £534
% change year-on-year +41.54% -23.89% +58.38%

All System Software Skills
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 435 781 852
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 14.45% 14.05% 14.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 319 490 600
10th Percentile £250 £200 £205
25th Percentile £363 £350 £357
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £625 £608 £600
90th Percentile £688 £646 £675
England median daily rate £525 £494 £525
% change year-on-year +6.33% -5.95% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 48 46
10th Percentile £28.00 £17.26 £17.28
25th Percentile £36.50 £17.80 £18.25
Median hourly rate £57.50 £50.75 £54.03
Median % change year-on-year +13.30% -6.07% +170.15%
75th Percentile £63.75 £62.81 £69.38
90th Percentile £71.25 £65.00 £75.00
England median hourly rate £27.94 £21.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year +33.05% -58.00% +163.16%

Terminal Services
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Terminal Services in the South East

Terminal Services
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Terminal Services in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Terminal Services in the South East

Terminal Services
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Terminal Services in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Terminal Services in the South East

Terminal Services
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 Terminal Services 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
Hampshire +33 8 £575 +31.43% 2
Terminal Services
England

Terminal Services
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:

Application Platforms
1 8 (100.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 8 (100.00%) AWS
1 8 (100.00%) GCP
1 8 (100.00%) IaaS
1 8 (100.00%) OpenShift
1 8 (100.00%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (100.00%) DHCP
1 8 (100.00%) DNS
1 8 (100.00%) Firewall
1 8 (100.00%) SMTP
1 8 (100.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
1 8 (100.00%) Big Data
1 8 (100.00%) Elasticsearch
General
1 6 (75.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (100.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
1 8 (100.00%) 3rd Line Support
1 8 (100.00%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
1 8 (100.00%) Support Engineer
2 7 (87.50%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
2 7 (87.50%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
2 7 (87.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 7 (87.50%) Infrastructure Support
2 7 (87.50%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Virtualisation Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 8 (100.00%) Clustering
1 8 (100.00%) Data Centre
1 8 (100.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 8 (100.00%) Linux
1 8 (100.00%) Windows
1 8 (100.00%) Windows Server
2 3 (37.50%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 8 (100.00%) DevOps
1 8 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 8 (100.00%) Software Deployment
2 7 (87.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 8 (100.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 8 (100.00%) Degree
1 8 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 8 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 8 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 8 (100.00%) BitLocker
1 8 (100.00%) Docker
1 8 (100.00%) Hyper-V
1 8 (100.00%) Microsoft App-V
1 8 (100.00%) VMware ESXi
1 8 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (100.00%) Ansible
1 8 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 8 (100.00%) Nagios
1 8 (100.00%) Puppet
1 8 (100.00%) vCenter Server
1 8 (100.00%) vMotion
Vendors
1 8 (100.00%) Citrix
1 8 (100.00%) Google
1 8 (100.00%) HP
1 8 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 8 (100.00%) Symantec
1 8 (100.00%) VMware