Remote Desktop Contracts

Remote Desktop
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Remote Desktop skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Remote Desktop over the 6 months leading up to 1 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 458 519 620
Rank change year-on-year +61 +101 +110
Contract jobs citing Remote Desktop 78 72 62
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.25% 0.17% 0.11%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.03% 1.34% 0.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 51 44
10th Percentile £151 £170 £153
25th Percentile £186 £200 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £200 £300 £300
Median % change year-on-year -33.33% +0.17% -7.85%
75th Percentile £447 £484 £575
90th Percentile £488 £600 £588
UK excluding London median daily rate £200 £299 £314
% change year-on-year -33.11% -4.70% -3.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 5 1
10th Percentile - £18.11 -
25th Percentile £17.30 - £16.25
Median hourly rate £22.00 £18.27 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year +20.42% +4.40% -21.52%
75th Percentile £25.15 - £18.75
90th Percentile £84.00 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.00 £18.27 £17.50
% change year-on-year +20.42% +4.40% -20.81%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 3,837 5,390 7,165
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.45% 12.49% 12.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,310 3,177 4,614
10th Percentile £230 £213 £240
25th Percentile £363 £350 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £500 £506
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -1.19% +1.20%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £625
90th Percentile £675 £688 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £472 £490 £475
% change year-on-year -3.62% +3.16% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 186 431 433
10th Percentile £14.45 £13.87 £9.80
25th Percentile £20.89 £17.69 £10.63
Median hourly rate £43.00 £45.00 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.44% +114.29% -27.59%
75th Percentile £60.97 £63.75 £62.55
90th Percentile £77.50 £73.25 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £31.93 £47.50 £22.00
% change year-on-year -32.79% +115.91% -2.22%

Remote Desktop
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Remote Desktop as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Remote Desktop in the UK

Remote Desktop
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Remote Desktop.

Daily rate trend for Remote Desktop in the UK

Remote Desktop
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Remote Desktop over the 6 months to 1 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Remote Desktop in the UK

Remote Desktop
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Remote Desktop.

Hourly rate trend for Remote Desktop in the UK

Remote Desktop
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Remote Desktop over the 6 months to 1 July 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Remote Desktop in the UK

Remote Desktop
Top 15 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 1 July 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
England +68 60 £200 -41.61% 136
UK excluding London +29 46 £200 -33.11% 95
London +58 25 £351 +2.48% 50
Midlands +14 15 £200 -33.33% 8
East Midlands +15 13 £200 - 4
Scotland -4 13 £150 -25.00% 8
Work from Home +36 10 £255 -33.77% 61
South East +52 7 £200 -65.22% 28
North of England +12 7 £201 -22.60% 20
East of England +25 3 £375 +50.00% 14
Yorkshire -1 3 £265 +1.92% 5
North East +3 2 £110 - 3
West Midlands -4 2 £700 +133.33% 4
North West - 2 £180 - 13
Wales - 1 £135 - 4

Remote Desktop
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 5 (6.41%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (3.85%) SharePoint
3 2 (2.56%) IIS
Applications
1 17 (21.79%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (2.56%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (1.28%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (1.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.28%) MS Visio
3 1 (1.28%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (2.56%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 14 (17.95%) Microsoft 365
2 11 (14.10%) AWS
3 10 (12.82%) Azure
4 8 (10.26%) GitHub
4 8 (10.26%) GitHub Actions
5 6 (7.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 6 (7.69%) Amazon EC2
5 6 (7.69%) Amazon S3
5 6 (7.69%) AWS CodePipeline
5 6 (7.69%) AWS Lambda
5 6 (7.69%) Serverless
5 6 (7.69%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 4 (5.13%) Entra ID
7 2 (2.56%) Amazon OpenSearch
7 2 (2.56%) Asana
7 2 (2.56%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (2.56%) Azure Monitor
7 2 (2.56%) SaaS
7 2 (2.56%) Slack
8 1 (1.28%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (14.10%) VPN
2 4 (5.13%) Firewall
3 3 (3.85%) DNS
3 3 (3.85%) Network Security
3 3 (3.85%) SNMP
3 3 (3.85%) SSH
3 3 (3.85%) TCP/IP
3 3 (3.85%) Telnet
3 3 (3.85%) Wireshark
4 2 (2.56%) DHCP
5 1 (1.28%) DSLAM
5 1 (1.28%) Internet
5 1 (1.28%) iSCSI
5 1 (1.28%) LAN
5 1 (1.28%) WAN
5 1 (1.28%) WebEx
5 1 (1.28%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (1.28%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (10.26%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (2.56%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.28%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 3 (3.85%) GitLab
1 3 (3.85%) JIRA
2 2 (2.56%) Git
2 2 (2.56%) Jenkins
General
1 28 (35.90%) Social Skills
2 8 (10.26%) Analytical Skills
2 8 (10.26%) Finance
3 4 (5.13%) Public Sector
4 3 (3.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 3 (3.85%) Telecoms
5 2 (2.56%) Banking
6 1 (1.28%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.28%) Law
6 1 (1.28%) Legal
6 1 (1.28%) Local Government
6 1 (1.28%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 21 (26.92%) Support Engineer
2 16 (20.51%) Desktop Support
3 13 (16.67%) Desktop Engineer
4 12 (15.38%) Analyst
5 11 (14.10%) Windows Engineer
6 10 (12.82%) Desktop Support Engineer
7 8 (10.26%) Service Desk Support
8 7 (8.97%) 2nd Line Support
8 7 (8.97%) IT Support
8 7 (8.97%) Service Desk Engineer
8 7 (8.97%) Support Analyst
8 7 (8.97%) Windows Support Engineer
9 6 (7.69%) AWS Engineer
9 6 (7.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 5 (6.41%) AWS DevOps
10 5 (6.41%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 5 (6.41%) DevOps Engineer
11 4 (5.13%) IT Engineer
11 4 (5.13%) Service Analyst
11 4 (5.13%) Service Desk Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.85%) JSON
1 3 (3.85%) XML
2 2 (2.56%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 8 (10.26%) Device Driver
2 6 (7.69%) Driving Licence
2 6 (7.69%) Smartphone
3 4 (5.13%) Onboarding
4 3 (3.85%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (3.85%) Replication
5 2 (2.56%) Video Conferencing
6 1 (1.28%) CMDB
6 1 (1.28%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.28%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.28%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (1.28%) IVR
6 1 (1.28%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (1.28%) Microsoft Licensing
Operating Systems
1 39 (50.00%) Windows
2 19 (24.36%) Windows 10
3 7 (8.97%) Windows 7
4 6 (7.69%) Apple iOS
5 4 (5.13%) Linux
5 4 (5.13%) Windows Vista
6 3 (3.85%) Windows Server
7 2 (2.56%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (1.28%) Android
8 1 (1.28%) Mac OS
8 1 (1.28%) Windows Server 2008
8 1 (1.28%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (38.46%) Problem-Solving
2 25 (32.05%) Customer Service
3 19 (24.36%) Break/Fix
3 19 (24.36%) ITIL
4 10 (12.82%) ITSM
5 9 (11.54%) Customer Experience
5 9 (11.54%) DevOps
5 9 (11.54%) Infrastructure as Code
5 9 (11.54%) Task Automation
5 9 (11.54%) User Experience
6 8 (10.26%) Asset Management
6 8 (10.26%) CI/CD
7 7 (8.97%) Cloud Security
7 7 (8.97%) Migration
8 6 (7.69%) Agile
8 6 (7.69%) Infrastructure Automation
8 6 (7.69%) Load Balancing
8 6 (7.69%) Performance Monitoring
8 6 (7.69%) Service Management
8 6 (7.69%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 11 (14.10%) PowerShell
2 6 (7.69%) SQL
3 3 (3.85%) Java
3 3 (3.85%) Python
Qualifications
1 21 (26.92%) Security Cleared
2 17 (21.79%) SC Cleared
3 9 (11.54%) A+ Certification
4 8 (10.26%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (2.56%) Azure Certification
5 2 (2.56%) Degree
5 2 (2.56%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (7.69%) SLA
2 4 (5.13%) QA
3 1 (1.28%) GDPR
System Software
1 30 (38.46%) Active Directory
2 5 (6.41%) Virtual Desktop
3 3 (3.85%) FreeRADIUS
3 3 (3.85%) Hyper-V
3 3 (3.85%) iptables
4 2 (2.56%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (1.28%) Microsoft App-V
5 1 (1.28%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 1 (1.28%) Terminal Services
5 1 (1.28%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 8 (10.26%) Terraform
2 3 (3.85%) Ansible
2 3 (3.85%) Cacti
2 3 (3.85%) Grafana
2 3 (3.85%) Nagios
2 3 (3.85%) Netcool
2 3 (3.85%) Proxmox
2 3 (3.85%) Puppet
2 3 (3.85%) ZABBIX
3 2 (2.56%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (2.56%) SCCM
4 1 (1.28%) Graylog
4 1 (1.28%) logstash
4 1 (1.28%) Prometheus
4 1 (1.28%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 36 (46.15%) Microsoft
2 13 (16.67%) ServiceNow
3 9 (11.54%) Citrix
4 6 (7.69%) Dell
5 5 (6.41%) VMware
6 3 (3.85%) Nokia
6 3 (3.85%) Palo Alto
6 3 (3.85%) Remedy
6 3 (3.85%) Splunk
7 2 (2.56%) Apple
7 2 (2.56%) Zscaler
8 1 (1.28%) Bomgar
8 1 (1.28%) Cisco
8 1 (1.28%) Huawei
8 1 (1.28%) Juniper