Terminal Services Contract Job Trends in the South East

Microsoft Terminal Services
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Terminal Services skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 184 171 202
Rank change year-on-year -13 +31 +40
Contract jobs citing Terminal Services 6 2 5
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.14% 0.053% 0.099%
As % of the System Software category 1.15% 0.34% 0.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 2 2
10th Percentile - - £291
25th Percentile £153 - £314
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £155 £150 £356
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% -57.89% -50.86%
75th Percentile £158 - £402
90th Percentile £347 - £427
England median daily rate £525 £230 £388
% change year-on-year +128.26% -40.65% -46.55%

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 522 580 806
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 11.99% 15.42% 15.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 376 397 504
10th Percentile £190 £200 £160
25th Percentile £311 £350 £223
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% - -5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £625 £588
90th Percentile £640 £675 £650
England median daily rate £500 £516 £500
% change year-on-year -3.15% +3.25% -5.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 18 58
10th Percentile £42.44 £22.36 £18.14
25th Percentile £63.38 £45.63 £25.01
Median hourly rate £81.00 £57.00 £58.75
Median % change year-on-year +42.11% -2.98% +144.79%
75th Percentile £87.82 £69.92 £71.42
90th Percentile £101.10 £72.38 £76.82
England median hourly rate £48.11 £31.75 £42.04
% change year-on-year +51.53% -24.47% +68.15%

Terminal Services
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Terminal Services job vacancy trend in the South East

Terminal Services
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

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

Terminal Services
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Terminal Services in the South East over the 6 months to 16 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Terminal Services in the South East

Terminal Services
Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

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

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

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 16 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
Kent - 5 £155 -
Thames Valley -6 1 £537 +258.00% 1
Berkshire - 1 £537 - 1
Terminal Services
England

Terminal Services
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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:

Application Platforms
1 5 (83.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (83.33%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 5 (83.33%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 6 (100.00%) DNS
2 5 (83.33%) Firewall
2 5 (83.33%) Remote Desktop
2 5 (83.33%) TCP/IP
2 5 (83.33%) VPN
3 1 (16.67%) DHCP
General
1 5 (83.33%) Law
1 5 (83.33%) Legal
Job Titles
1 6 (100.00%) IT Support
2 5 (83.33%) Help Desk Officer
2 5 (83.33%) Help Desk Support
2 5 (83.33%) Service Desk Officer
2 5 (83.33%) Service Desk Support
2 5 (83.33%) Support Officer
3 1 (16.67%) IT Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) IT Support Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Rollout Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Support Engineer
Operating Systems
1 6 (100.00%) Windows
1 6 (100.00%) Windows Server
2 5 (83.33%) Windows 10
2 5 (83.33%) Windows Server 2012
2 5 (83.33%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Creative Problem-Solving
1 5 (83.33%) CRM
1 5 (83.33%) ITIL
1 5 (83.33%) Preventative Maintenance
1 5 (83.33%) PRINCE2
1 5 (83.33%) Problem-Solving
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (83.33%) GDPR
System Software
1 6 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 5 (83.33%) Hyper-V
2 5 (83.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 5 (83.33%) Citrix
1 5 (83.33%) Microsoft
1 5 (83.33%) VMware