The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 20 June 2021 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.
Note that daily and hourly rates are treated separately in these statistics. When calculating contractor rate percentiles, daily rates are never derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.
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 with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.
Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills
7,156
5,678
11,444
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK
11.45%
13.50%
12.61%
Number of daily rates quoted
4,580
3,473
7,159
10th Percentile
£237
£188
£203
25th Percentile
£354
£318
£325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile)
£450
£425
£429
Median % change year-on-year
+5.88%
-0.93%
+0.94%
75th Percentile
£540
£538
£538
90th Percentile
£638
£625
£613
UK excluding London median daily rate
£413
£405
£413
% change year-on-year
+1.85%
-1.82%
+4.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted
323
290
536
10th Percentile
£12.25
£13.50
£12.00
25th Percentile
£15.12
£16.25
£14.83
Median hourly rate
£25.00
£25.00
£20.50
Median % change year-on-year
-
+21.95%
+9.19%
75th Percentile
£50.00
£46.25
£43.75
90th Percentile
£64.35
£53.08
£50.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate
£22.19
£20.00
£18.00
% change year-on-year
+10.93%
+11.11%
-3.33%
Remote Desktop Job Vacancy Trend
Job postings citing Remote Desktop as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.
Remote Desktop Contractor Daily Rate Trend
3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Remote Desktop.
Remote Desktop Daily Rate Histogram
Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Remote Desktop over the 6 months to 20 June 2021.
Remote Desktop Contractor Hourly Rate Trend
3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Remote Desktop.
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 20 June 2021. 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
For the 6 months to 20 June 2021, IT contractor jobs citing Remote Desktop also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity.
The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads with a requirement for Remote Desktop.
The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category.
The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:
