Remote Desktop Contract Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Remote Desktop
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Remote Desktop skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 140 102 130
Rank change year-on-year -38 +28 +22
Contract jobs citing Remote Desktop 1 3 15
As % of all contract jobs in the Thames Valley 0.038% 0.19% 0.54%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.26% 1.00% 2.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 12
10th Percentile - £156 -
25th Percentile £425 £166 £148
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £182 £150
Median % change year-on-year +147.25% +21.33% -
75th Percentile £475 £186 £153
90th Percentile - £188 -
South East median daily rate £450 £190 £150
% change year-on-year +136.84% +26.67% -70.00%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 388 300 672
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 14.61% 19.39% 24.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 244 148 348
10th Percentile £231 £235 £205
25th Percentile £350 £379 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £491 £481
Median % change year-on-year -8.30% +1.97% -3.75%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £564
90th Percentile £638 £650 £650
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 6 49
10th Percentile £19.53 £14.20 £17.58
25th Percentile £24.99 £15.28 £24.00
Median hourly rate £42.25 £20.45 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +106.60% -56.95% +52.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 £24.23 £83.11
90th Percentile £83.60 £58.58 £87.53
South East median hourly rate £48.72 £59.13 £56.95
% change year-on-year -17.60% +3.82% +26.56%

Remote Desktop
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Remote Desktop relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Remote Desktop job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

Remote Desktop
Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Remote Desktop.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Remote Desktop

Remote Desktop
Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Remote Desktop.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Remote Desktop

Remote Desktop
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 11 March 2026. 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
Buckinghamshire -16 1 £450 +165.10% 4
Remote Desktop
South East

Remote Desktop
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) iSCSI
1 1 (100.00%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) MySQL
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (100.00%) Organisational Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Linux Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Linux Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (100.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) Korn
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) Citrix Hypervisor
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Dell
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat