Remote Desktop Contracts in the UK excluding London

Remote Desktop
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Remote Desktop skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Remote Desktop over the 6 months to 24 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 352 399 410
Rank change year-on-year +47 +11 -43
Contract jobs citing Remote Desktop 43 53 107
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.21% 0.22% 0.34%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.23% 1.46% 2.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 44 73
10th Percentile £131 £153 £123
25th Percentile £148 £196 £160
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £200 £314 £275
Median % change year-on-year -36.25% +14.09% -34.52%
75th Percentile £324 £578 £338
90th Percentile £360 £618 £408
UK median daily rate £200 £250 £275
% change year-on-year -20.00% -9.09% -35.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 16
10th Percentile £18.11 - £16.25
25th Percentile - - £17.50
Median hourly rate £18.27 - £18.55
75th Percentile - - £20.06
90th Percentile - - £37.89
UK median hourly rate £18.27 £18.93 £18.55
% change year-on-year -3.49% +2.05% +3.43%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK excluding London

Remote Desktop is in the Communications and Computer Networking category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 3,498 3,633 4,126
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 16.83% 15.01% 13.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,013 2,310 2,661
10th Percentile £203 £209 £185
25th Percentile £350 £350 £306
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £433
Median % change year-on-year - +9.70% +8.25%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £540
90th Percentile £675 £690 £638
UK median daily rate £490 £520 £500
% change year-on-year -5.77% +4.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 356 338 239
10th Percentile £13.50 - £13.25
25th Percentile £17.00 £9.80 £15.63
Median hourly rate £46.95 £18.50 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +153.76% -13.95% -11.34%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.54 £47.40
90th Percentile £70.66 £74.50 £59.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £19.00 £28.25
% change year-on-year +110.53% -32.74% +6.89%

Remote Desktop
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Remote Desktop as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Remote Desktop in the UK excluding London

Remote Desktop
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Remote Desktop in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Remote Desktop in the UK excluding London

Remote Desktop
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Remote Desktop in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Remote Desktop in the UK excluding London

Remote Desktop
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Remote Desktop in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Remote Desktop in the UK excluding London

Remote Desktop
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 Remote Desktop within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 24 April 2024. 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
South East +17 13 £150 -57.14% 12
North of England +50 12 £320 +42.22% 11
Scotland +41 11 £200 -35.48% 8
Yorkshire - 10 £338 - 2
Midlands +31 5 £256 -16.53% 2
West Midlands +30 5 £256 +13.89% 1
North East - 2 £131 - 1
South West +3 1 £475 -17.39% 7
East of England +3 1 £250 - 9
Remote Desktop
UK

Remote Desktop
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 6 (13.95%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 20 (46.51%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (13.95%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 17 (39.53%) Microsoft 365
2 8 (18.60%) Azure
3 5 (11.63%) Entra ID
4 3 (6.98%) WhatsApp
5 2 (4.65%) Power Platform
5 2 (4.65%) Slack
6 1 (2.33%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (2.33%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (23.26%) DHCP
1 10 (23.26%) DNS
2 8 (18.60%) TCP/IP
3 7 (16.28%) LAN
3 7 (16.28%) WAN
3 7 (16.28%) Wi-Fi
4 5 (11.63%) VPN
5 3 (6.98%) Firewall
6 2 (4.65%) Radio Access Network
6 2 (4.65%) XCAP
7 1 (2.33%) Fibre Channel
7 1 (2.33%) FTP
7 1 (2.33%) SAN
7 1 (2.33%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.65%) GIS
1 2 (4.65%) Power BI
1 2 (4.65%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (2.33%) JIRA
General
1 25 (58.14%) Social Skills
2 8 (18.60%) Banking
3 7 (16.28%) Finance
4 5 (11.63%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (6.98%) Legal
6 2 (4.65%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (4.65%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (2.33%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (2.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (2.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 12 (27.91%) IT Engineer
2 10 (23.26%) Support Engineer
3 7 (16.28%) IT Support
3 7 (16.28%) Technical Support
4 6 (13.95%) Data Centre Engineer
4 6 (13.95%) Desktop Engineer
4 6 (13.95%) IT Support Engineer
4 6 (13.95%) Support Specialist
4 6 (13.95%) Technical Specialist
4 6 (13.95%) Technical Support Specialist
5 5 (11.63%) 1st Line Support
6 4 (9.30%) Desktop Support
6 4 (9.30%) Desktop Support Engineer
6 4 (9.30%) IT Technician
7 3 (6.98%) 1st Line Support Engineer
7 3 (6.98%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
7 3 (6.98%) Analyst
7 3 (6.98%) Hardware Engineer
7 3 (6.98%) Windows Engineer
7 3 (6.98%) Windows Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.65%) OLE
Miscellaneous
1 12 (27.91%) Data Centre
2 4 (9.30%) Team-Oriented Environment
3 3 (6.98%) Management Information System
3 3 (6.98%) NHS
4 1 (2.33%) PKI
4 1 (2.33%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 31 (72.09%) Windows
2 25 (58.14%) Windows 10
3 7 (16.28%) Mac OS X
3 7 (16.28%) Windows 7
4 5 (11.63%) Windows Server
5 2 (4.65%) Android
5 2 (4.65%) Apple iOS
5 2 (4.65%) Windows Server 2008
5 2 (4.65%) Windows Server 2012
5 2 (4.65%) Windows Server 2016
5 2 (4.65%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (2.33%) CentOS
6 1 (2.33%) Linux
6 1 (2.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (2.33%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (37.21%) Problem-Solving
2 11 (25.58%) Customer Service
3 7 (16.28%) Computer Science
3 7 (16.28%) Migration
3 7 (16.28%) Network Monitoring
3 7 (16.28%) Runbook
4 6 (13.95%) Knowledge Management
5 4 (9.30%) Project Management
6 3 (6.98%) Escalation Management
6 3 (6.98%) ITIL
6 3 (6.98%) Mobile Device Management
6 3 (6.98%) Performance Monitoring
6 3 (6.98%) Test Automation
6 3 (6.98%) Validation
7 2 (4.65%) Customer Experience
7 2 (4.65%) Decision-Making
7 2 (4.65%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 2 (4.65%) Patch Management
7 2 (4.65%) Resource Allocation
7 2 (4.65%) Ticket Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (6.98%) PowerShell
2 1 (2.33%) Bash
2 1 (2.33%) R
2 1 (2.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 15 (34.88%) Degree
2 7 (16.28%) A+ Certification
2 7 (16.28%) Security Cleared
2 7 (16.28%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 6 (13.95%) DV Cleared
4 4 (9.30%) CCNA
4 4 (9.30%) Cisco Certification
4 4 (9.30%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (9.30%) Network+ Certification
5 3 (6.98%) MCITP
5 3 (6.98%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (39.53%) SLA
2 4 (9.30%) QA
System Software
1 28 (65.12%) Active Directory
2 11 (25.58%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (18.60%) VMware ESXi
4 7 (16.28%) KVM
4 7 (16.28%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (16.28%) VMware Workstation
5 4 (9.30%) Hyper-V
6 2 (4.65%) Terminal Services
7 1 (2.33%) VMware NSX
7 1 (2.33%) VMware Server
7 1 (2.33%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 11 (25.58%) SCCM
2 8 (18.60%) vCenter Server
3 5 (11.63%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (2.33%) WSUS
Vendors
1 37 (86.05%) Microsoft
2 11 (25.58%) VMware
3 8 (18.60%) Apple
4 6 (13.95%) HP
4 6 (13.95%) ServiceNow
5 2 (4.65%) Citrix
5 2 (4.65%) Laserfiche
5 2 (4.65%) Remedy
6 1 (2.33%) Cisco
6 1 (2.33%) Dell
6 1 (2.33%) Oracle
6 1 (2.33%) Red Hat