Terminal Services Contract Job Trends

Microsoft Terminal Services
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Terminal Services skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 623 513 573
Rank change year-on-year -110 +60 +109
Contract jobs citing Terminal Services 5 13 17
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.011% 0.045% 0.040%
As % of the System Software category 0.10% 0.36% 0.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 12 10
10th Percentile £521 £276 £200
25th Percentile £540 £550 £297
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £553 £575 £431
Median % change year-on-year -3.86% +33.33% -15.44%
75th Percentile £584 £588 £516
90th Percentile £624 £599 £583
UK excluding London median daily rate £546 £575 £375
% change year-on-year -4.97% +53.33% -29.25%

All System Software Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 4,815 3,620 4,633
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 10.14% 12.40% 10.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,230 2,461 3,189
10th Percentile £213 £213 £200
25th Percentile £400 £400 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% -4.76%
75th Percentile £588 £613 £600
90th Percentile £676 £700 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £463
% change year-on-year - +2.70% -3.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 185 87 234
10th Percentile £16.25 £14.99 £14.06
25th Percentile £21.25 £15.44 £14.74
Median hourly rate £52.50 £28.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +87.50% +24.44% -58.33%
75th Percentile £74.00 £64.50 £60.56
90th Percentile £90.50 £88.00 £77.10
UK excluding London median hourly rate £52.50 £28.00 £19.95
% change year-on-year +87.50% +40.35% -52.36%

Terminal Services
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Terminal Services job vacancy trend in the UK

Terminal Services
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

Terminal Services
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Terminal Services over the 6 months to 12 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Terminal Services in the UK

Terminal Services
Hourly Rate Trend

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

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

Terminal Services
Top 6 Contract Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 12 May 2026. 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 -132 5 £553 -3.86% 3
UK excluding London -114 4 £546 -4.97% 4
Midlands - 3 £553 - 1
West Midlands - 3 £553 -
South East -62 2 £528 -8.26%
London -55 1 £650 +18.18% 1

Terminal Services
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) Azure
1 1 (20.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 5 (100.00%) DHCP
1 5 (100.00%) DNS
2 1 (20.00%) Firewall
2 1 (20.00%) SMTP
2 1 (20.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Amazon RDS
Job Titles
1 1 (20.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) Wintel Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Clustering
1 1 (20.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (20.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Windows
1 5 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (80.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (60.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (20.00%) Degree
3 1 (20.00%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 5 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (20.00%) BitLocker
2 1 (20.00%) Hyper-V
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft App-V
2 1 (20.00%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) vCenter Server
1 1 (20.00%) vMotion
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Citrix
1 1 (20.00%) Dell
1 1 (20.00%) Google
1 1 (20.00%) HP
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (20.00%) NetApp
1 1 (20.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (20.00%) Symantec
1 1 (20.00%) VMware