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 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 430 548 644
Rank change year-on-year +118 +96 +69
Contract jobs citing Remote Desktop 89 52 69
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.30% 0.12% 0.12%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.38% 0.92% 0.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 39 52
10th Percentile £143 £131 £151
25th Percentile £182 £148 £196
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £200 £200 £275
Median % change year-on-year - -27.14% -0.18%
75th Percentile £259 £360 £575
90th Percentile £484 £473 £599
UK excluding London median daily rate £200 £200 £315
% change year-on-year - -36.51% +14.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 5 0
10th Percentile - £18.11 -
25th Percentile £17.30 - -
Median hourly rate £22.00 £18.27 -
Median % change year-on-year +20.42% - -
75th Percentile £24.66 - -
90th Percentile £100.57 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.00 £18.27 -
% change year-on-year +20.42% - -

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 3,739 5,643 7,361
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.79% 12.94% 12.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,297 3,382 4,789
10th Percentile £213 £205 £235
25th Percentile £363 £350 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £495 £519
Median % change year-on-year -1.52% -4.53% +3.70%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £638
90th Percentile £675 £700 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -2.63% - +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 181 423 478
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.57 £9.80
25th Percentile £17.30 £17.35 £10.63
Median hourly rate £32.50 £38.50 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.58% +102.63% -31.84%
75th Percentile £58.75 £62.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £67.40 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.59 £45.88 £18.50
% change year-on-year -46.41% +148.00% -13.95%

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 30 April 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 30 April 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Remote Desktop in the UK

Remote Desktop
Top 16 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 30 April 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 +91 66 £208 -2.35% 50
UK excluding London +72 61 £200 - 40
London +52 23 £255 +20.00% 9
Scotland +14 16 £173 -13.75%
Work from Home +56 14 £238 -30.15% 30
Midlands +32 13 £200 -21.95% 8
North of England +28 12 £211 -33.98% 13
East Midlands - 11 £200 - 4
South East +40 10 £195 +30.00% 13
North West - 7 £208 - 4
East of England +37 5 £258 +3.00% 7
Yorkshire +8 3 £265 -21.48% 7
Wales - 3 £274 -
South West +46 2 £470 -1.05% 1
West Midlands +13 2 - - 4
North East 0 2 £165 +25.95% 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 9 (10.11%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (4.49%) SharePoint
3 2 (2.25%) IIS
Applications
1 27 (30.34%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (3.37%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (3.37%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (2.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (2.25%) MS Visio
4 1 (1.12%) Acrobat
4 1 (1.12%) Chatbot
4 1 (1.12%) Final Cut Pro
4 1 (1.12%) QuarkXPress
4 1 (1.12%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (1.12%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 20 (22.47%) Microsoft 365
2 19 (21.35%) Azure
3 10 (11.24%) AWS
4 7 (7.87%) Entra ID
5 4 (4.49%) Asana
5 4 (4.49%) SaaS
5 4 (4.49%) Slack
6 2 (2.25%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (2.25%) Amazon OpenSearch
6 2 (2.25%) OneDrive
7 1 (1.12%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (1.12%) Amazon S3
7 1 (1.12%) AWS CodePipeline
7 1 (1.12%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (1.12%) Azure Storage
7 1 (1.12%) GCP
7 1 (1.12%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (1.12%) Serverless
7 1 (1.12%) ShareGate
7 1 (1.12%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 9 (10.11%) VPN
2 8 (8.99%) Firewall
3 4 (4.49%) Internet
3 4 (4.49%) LAN
3 4 (4.49%) Network Security
3 4 (4.49%) WAN
3 4 (4.49%) Wi-Fi
3 4 (4.49%) Wireless
4 3 (3.37%) iSCSI
4 3 (3.37%) SNMP
4 3 (3.37%) SSH
4 3 (3.37%) Telnet
4 3 (3.37%) Wireshark
5 2 (2.25%) DHCP
5 2 (2.25%) DNS
5 2 (2.25%) WebEx
6 1 (1.12%) DSLAM
6 1 (1.12%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (4.49%) SQL Server
2 3 (3.37%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (1.12%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 6 (6.74%) JIRA
2 3 (3.37%) GitLab
3 2 (2.25%) Git
General
1 37 (41.57%) Social Skills
2 9 (10.11%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (8.99%) Finance
4 5 (5.62%) Public Sector
5 3 (3.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (3.37%) Telecoms
6 2 (2.25%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (2.25%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.12%) Back Office
7 1 (1.12%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.12%) Local Government
7 1 (1.12%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 25 (28.09%) Support Engineer
2 21 (23.60%) Desktop Support
3 14 (15.73%) Analyst
4 13 (14.61%) Desktop Engineer
5 11 (12.36%) 2nd Line Support
6 10 (11.24%) Desktop Support Engineer
7 9 (10.11%) IT Engineer
7 9 (10.11%) IT Support
8 8 (8.99%) Support Analyst
8 8 (8.99%) Windows Engineer
9 7 (7.87%) IT Support Engineer
9 7 (7.87%) Service Analyst
9 7 (7.87%) Service Desk Analyst
9 7 (7.87%) Service Desk Engineer
9 7 (7.87%) Service Desk Support
10 6 (6.74%) 2nd Line Engineer
10 6 (6.74%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 5 (5.62%) Windows Support Engineer
12 4 (4.49%) 1st/2nd Line Support Engineer
12 4 (4.49%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.37%) JSON
1 3 (3.37%) XML
2 2 (2.25%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (1.12%) CSS
3 1 (1.12%) LDAP
3 1 (1.12%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (10.11%) Device Driver
2 6 (6.74%) Driving Licence
2 6 (6.74%) Onboarding
3 5 (5.62%) Smartphone
3 5 (5.62%) Video Conferencing
4 3 (3.37%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (3.37%) IVR
4 3 (3.37%) Replication
5 2 (2.25%) CMDB
6 1 (1.12%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.12%) Blackberry
6 1 (1.12%) Blog
6 1 (1.12%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.12%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.12%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (1.12%) iPhone
6 1 (1.12%) Microsoft Licensing
6 1 (1.12%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.12%) PDA
Operating Systems
1 56 (62.92%) Windows
2 20 (22.47%) Windows 10
3 8 (8.99%) Mac OS
4 7 (7.87%) Apple iOS
4 7 (7.87%) Linux
4 7 (7.87%) Windows 7
5 6 (6.74%) Windows Server
6 5 (5.62%) Android
7 4 (4.49%) Windows Server 2016
7 4 (4.49%) Windows Vista
8 2 (2.25%) Windows Server 2008
8 2 (2.25%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (1.12%) Mac OS X
9 1 (1.12%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (1.12%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (42.70%) Customer Service
2 37 (41.57%) Problem-Solving
3 21 (23.60%) ITIL
4 18 (20.22%) Break/Fix
5 12 (13.48%) ITSM
5 12 (13.48%) Task Automation
6 8 (8.99%) Customer Experience
6 8 (8.99%) Service Management
6 8 (8.99%) User Experience
7 7 (7.87%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 6 (6.74%) Time Management
9 5 (5.62%) Asset Management
9 5 (5.62%) Disaster Recovery
9 5 (5.62%) Migration
10 4 (4.49%) Change Management
10 4 (4.49%) Data Analysis
10 4 (4.49%) Information Security
10 4 (4.49%) Investment Management
10 4 (4.49%) Mobile Device Management
10 4 (4.49%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 17 (19.10%) PowerShell
2 6 (6.74%) SQL
3 5 (5.62%) Python
4 3 (3.37%) Java
5 1 (1.12%) Bash
Qualifications
1 16 (17.98%) A+ Certification
1 16 (17.98%) Security Cleared
2 14 (15.73%) SC Cleared
3 13 (14.61%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (3.37%) Degree
4 3 (3.37%) ITIL Certification
5 2 (2.25%) DV Cleared
5 2 (2.25%) MCP
6 1 (1.12%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (1.12%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (11.24%) SLA
2 2 (2.25%) QA
System Software
1 41 (46.07%) Active Directory
2 6 (6.74%) Virtual Desktop
2 6 (6.74%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (5.62%) Hyper-V
4 3 (3.37%) FreeRADIUS
4 3 (3.37%) iptables
4 3 (3.37%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 3 (3.37%) Virtual Servers
5 2 (2.25%) vSphere
6 1 (1.12%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (5.62%) SCCM
2 4 (4.49%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (3.37%) Ansible
3 3 (3.37%) Cacti
3 3 (3.37%) Grafana
3 3 (3.37%) Nagios
3 3 (3.37%) Netcool
3 3 (3.37%) Proxmox
3 3 (3.37%) Puppet
3 3 (3.37%) Terraform
3 3 (3.37%) ZABBIX
4 2 (2.25%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
4 2 (2.25%) WSUS
5 1 (1.12%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (1.12%) AirWatch
5 1 (1.12%) Graylog
5 1 (1.12%) Jamf Pro
5 1 (1.12%) logstash
5 1 (1.12%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.12%) ServiceCenter
Vendors
1 46 (51.69%) Microsoft
2 12 (13.48%) ServiceNow
3 10 (11.24%) VMware
4 9 (10.11%) Citrix
5 8 (8.99%) Apple
6 6 (6.74%) Dell
7 5 (5.62%) Palo Alto
8 4 (4.49%) Zscaler
9 3 (3.37%) Cisco
9 3 (3.37%) Nokia
9 3 (3.37%) Splunk
10 2 (2.25%) Adobe
10 2 (2.25%) Bomgar
10 2 (2.25%) Remedy
11 1 (1.12%) Google
11 1 (1.12%) HP
11 1 (1.12%) Juniper
11 1 (1.12%) Peregrine
11 1 (1.12%) Quark
11 1 (1.12%) Veeam