Terminal Services Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Terminal Services
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Terminal Services skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 387 331 410
Rank change year-on-year -56 +79 +94
Contract jobs citing Terminal Services 12 37 9
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.070% 0.22% 0.043%
As % of the System Software category 0.54% 1.64% 0.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 4 3
10th Percentile - - £230
25th Percentile £153 £150 £275
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £340 £250 £350
Median % change year-on-year +36.00% -28.57% -51.72%
75th Percentile £537 £381 -
90th Percentile £549 £438 -
UK median daily rate £525 £230 £388
% change year-on-year +128.26% -40.65% +6.90%

All System Software Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 2,233 2,256 3,152
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 13.09% 13.49% 15.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,503 1,438 2,106
10th Percentile £190 £190 £173
25th Percentile £306 £340 £275
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.56%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £588
90th Percentile £638 £660 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 74 209
10th Percentile £15.50 £17.44 £14.86
25th Percentile £17.33 £21.46 £17.75
Median hourly rate £54.00 £50.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% +33.33% +87.50%
75th Percentile £80.00 £69.92 £67.25
90th Percentile £91.20 £75.00 £76.53
UK median hourly rate £26.00 £44.00 £44.86
% change year-on-year -40.91% -1.92% +92.95%

Terminal Services
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Terminal Services job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Terminal Services
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Terminal Services.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Terminal Services

Terminal Services
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Terminal Services in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 8 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Terminal Services in the UK excluding London

Terminal Services
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Terminal Services.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Terminal Services

Terminal Services
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 8 November 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
Midlands -24 7 £534 +29.33% 2
South East +6 6 £155 +3.33% 5
West Midlands - 5 £534 - 1
East Midlands -15 2 - - 1
Terminal Services
UK

Terminal Services
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (41.67%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (41.67%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 5 (41.67%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 10 (83.33%) DNS
2 6 (50.00%) Firewall
2 6 (50.00%) TCP/IP
3 5 (41.67%) Remote Desktop
3 5 (41.67%) VPN
4 4 (33.33%) DHCP
5 1 (8.33%) Multicast
General
1 5 (41.67%) Law
1 5 (41.67%) Legal
2 1 (8.33%) Aerospace
2 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
2 1 (8.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (50.00%) IT Support
2 5 (41.67%) Help Desk Officer
2 5 (41.67%) Help Desk Support
2 5 (41.67%) Service Desk Officer
2 5 (41.67%) Service Desk Support
2 5 (41.67%) Support Officer
3 3 (25.00%) Support Engineer
4 2 (16.67%) Site Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Consultant
5 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure Consultant
5 1 (8.33%) IT Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) IT Support Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Rollout Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Senior
5 1 (8.33%) Senior Server Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Server Engineer
Operating Systems
1 12 (100.00%) Windows
2 11 (91.67%) Windows Server
3 5 (41.67%) Windows 10
3 5 (41.67%) Windows Server 2012
3 5 (41.67%) Windows Server 2016
4 2 (16.67%) Windows Server 2003
4 2 (16.67%) Windows Server 2008
5 1 (8.33%) Linux
5 1 (8.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (41.67%) Creative Problem-Solving
1 5 (41.67%) CRM
1 5 (41.67%) ITIL
1 5 (41.67%) Preventative Maintenance
1 5 (41.67%) PRINCE2
1 5 (41.67%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (8.33%) Agile
2 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (8.33%) Migration
2 1 (8.33%) Security Hardening
2 1 (8.33%) Server Patching
2 1 (8.33%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (8.33%) Vulnerability Scanning
Qualifications
1 7 (58.33%) Security Cleared
2 5 (41.67%) SC Cleared
3 1 (8.33%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (41.67%) GDPR
System Software
1 12 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 6 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (41.67%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 1 (8.33%) Nessus
1 1 (8.33%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 7 (58.33%) Citrix
1 7 (58.33%) Microsoft
2 6 (50.00%) VMware
3 1 (8.33%) Cisco
3 1 (8.33%) Dell
3 1 (8.33%) SolarWinds
3 1 (8.33%) Veeam