Terminal Services Contracts

Microsoft Terminal Services
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Terminal Services skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Terminal Services over the 6 months leading up to 30 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 521 573 671
Rank change year-on-year +52 +98 +165
Contract jobs citing Terminal Services 13 12 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.042% 0.028% 0.023%
As % of the System Software category 0.35% 0.25% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 8 12
10th Percentile £276 £200 £178
25th Percentile £550 £322 £294
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £450 £388
Median % change year-on-year +27.78% +16.13% +19.23%
75th Percentile £588 £489 £553
90th Percentile £599 £544 £576
UK excluding London median daily rate £575 £375 £525
% change year-on-year +53.33% -28.57% +55.79%

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 3,716 4,757 7,227
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.12% 11.02% 12.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,426 3,283 5,060
10th Percentile £225 £205 £200
25th Percentile £385 £363 £382
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -
75th Percentile £600 £608 £638
90th Percentile £694 £688 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £479
% change year-on-year - -0.89% +6.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 87 220 255
10th Percentile £14.49 £14.06 £15.21
25th Percentile £15.44 £15.50 £20.00
Median hourly rate £28.00 £23.99 £53.35
Median % change year-on-year +16.72% -55.03% +166.75%
75th Percentile £66.00 £59.20 £66.75
90th Percentile £89.85 £70.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.45 £24.34 £33.50
% change year-on-year +70.30% -27.34% +81.08%

Terminal Services
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Terminal Services as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Terminal Services in the UK

Terminal Services
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Terminal Services.

Daily rate trend for Terminal Services in the UK

Terminal Services
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Terminal Services over the 6 months to 30 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Terminal Services in the UK

Terminal Services
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Terminal Services.

Hourly rate trend for Terminal Services in the UK

Terminal Services
Top 8 Contract 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 30 June 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 +61 12 £575 +35.29% 25
UK excluding London +42 11 £575 +53.33% 11
South East +61 9 £575 +53.33% 5
London +52 2 £550 +0.46% 15
Work from Home +36 1 £250 -47.37% 2
Scotland +3 1 £250 -
Yorkshire - 1 - -
North of England - 1 - - 3

Terminal Services
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 10 (76.92%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (7.69%) IIS
2 1 (7.69%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (15.38%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 9 (69.23%) AWS
1 9 (69.23%) GCP
1 9 (69.23%) IaaS
1 9 (69.23%) OpenShift
1 9 (69.23%) PaaS
2 3 (23.08%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (7.69%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 12 (92.31%) Firewall
2 11 (84.62%) DNS
2 11 (84.62%) VPN
3 10 (76.92%) DHCP
3 10 (76.92%) SMTP
4 1 (7.69%) Internet
4 1 (7.69%) Remote Desktop
4 1 (7.69%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (69.23%) Amazon RDS
1 9 (69.23%) Big Data
1 9 (69.23%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (7.69%) SQL Server
General
1 9 (69.23%) Public Sector
2 1 (7.69%) Law
2 1 (7.69%) Legal
Job Titles
1 9 (69.23%) 3rd Line Engineer
1 9 (69.23%) 3rd Line Support
1 9 (69.23%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
1 9 (69.23%) Support Engineer
2 8 (61.54%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 7 (53.85%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
3 7 (53.85%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
3 7 (53.85%) Infrastructure Support
3 7 (53.85%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
4 2 (15.38%) Analyst
4 2 (15.38%) Virtualisation Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Digital Analyst
5 1 (7.69%) Help Desk Officer
5 1 (7.69%) Help Desk Support
5 1 (7.69%) ICT Analyst
5 1 (7.69%) IT Support
5 1 (7.69%) Service Desk Officer
5 1 (7.69%) Service Desk Support
5 1 (7.69%) Support Officer
Miscellaneous
1 10 (76.92%) Clustering
1 10 (76.92%) PKI
2 9 (69.23%) Data Centre
3 1 (7.69%) Fat Client
3 1 (7.69%) Thin Client
3 1 (7.69%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 13 (100.00%) Windows
2 12 (92.31%) Windows Server
3 9 (69.23%) Linux
4 5 (38.46%) Windows Server 2003
5 2 (15.38%) Windows Server 2012
5 2 (15.38%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (7.69%) Windows 10
6 1 (7.69%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (69.23%) Artificial Intelligence
1 9 (69.23%) DevOps
1 9 (69.23%) Machine Learning
1 9 (69.23%) Software Deployment
2 8 (61.54%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 2 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (7.69%) Creative Problem-Solving
4 1 (7.69%) CRM
4 1 (7.69%) Customer Experience
4 1 (7.69%) Digital Strategy
4 1 (7.69%) ITIL
4 1 (7.69%) Mobile Device Management
4 1 (7.69%) Preventative Maintenance
4 1 (7.69%) PRINCE2
4 1 (7.69%) Server Management
4 1 (7.69%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 11 (84.62%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 10 (76.92%) Security Cleared
2 9 (69.23%) Degree
2 9 (69.23%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.69%) GDPR
System Software
1 13 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 12 (92.31%) Hyper-V
3 11 (84.62%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (76.92%) BitLocker
4 10 (76.92%) Microsoft App-V
4 10 (76.92%) VMware ESXi
5 9 (69.23%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (76.92%) vCenter Server
1 10 (76.92%) vMotion
2 9 (69.23%) Ansible
2 9 (69.23%) Kubernetes
2 9 (69.23%) Nagios
2 9 (69.23%) Puppet
3 2 (15.38%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (7.69%) SCCM
Vendors
1 13 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 12 (92.31%) Citrix
3 11 (84.62%) VMware
4 9 (69.23%) Google
4 9 (69.23%) HP
4 9 (69.23%) Symantec
5 1 (7.69%) Cisco
5 1 (7.69%) Commvault
5 1 (7.69%) Dell
5 1 (7.69%) SonicWALL