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 11 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 666 545 560
Rank change year-on-year -121 +15 +97
Contract jobs citing Terminal Services 5 21 6
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.009% 0.064% 0.015%
As % of the System Software category 0.095% 0.55% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 20 5
10th Percentile £429 £153 £408
25th Percentile £613 £423 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £539 £475
Median % change year-on-year +16.06% +13.37% +3.26%
75th Percentile £638 £588 £530
90th Percentile £645 £589 £557
UK excluding London median daily rate £313 £537 £425
% change year-on-year -41.81% +26.35% -18.27%

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 5,288 3,851 4,458
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.90% 11.70% 11.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,480 2,465 3,076
10th Percentile £225 £230 £220
25th Percentile £400 £388 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -3.85%
75th Percentile £594 £600 £608
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 214 104 145
10th Percentile £15.81 £14.12 £14.06
25th Percentile £21.49 £18.03 £16.00
Median hourly rate £52.75 £33.64 £24.18
Median % change year-on-year +56.83% +39.10% -50.04%
75th Percentile £74.00 £80.00 £58.69
90th Percentile £81.95 £91.50 £70.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £56.25 £62.50 £26.00
% change year-on-year -10.00% +140.38% +3.07%

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 11 August 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 11 August 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 -129 5 £625 +16.39% 2
London -82 4 £625 +13.64%
Work from Home -63 1 £313 -41.42%
UK excluding London -112 1 £313 -41.81% 2
North of England - 1 £313 - 1
Yorkshire - 1 £313 -

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 4 (80.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (20.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) AWS
1 4 (80.00%) GCP
2 3 (60.00%) IaaS
2 3 (60.00%) OpenShift
2 3 (60.00%) PaaS
3 2 (40.00%) Azure
4 1 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (20.00%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 4 (80.00%) DHCP
1 4 (80.00%) DNS
1 4 (80.00%) Firewall
1 4 (80.00%) SMTP
1 4 (80.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (80.00%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (60.00%) Big Data
2 3 (60.00%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
1 4 (80.00%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
1 4 (80.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (60.00%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
2 3 (60.00%) 3rd Line Support
2 3 (60.00%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
2 3 (60.00%) Infrastructure Support
2 3 (60.00%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
2 3 (60.00%) Support Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Administrator
3 1 (20.00%) Systems Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 4 (80.00%) Clustering
1 4 (80.00%) Data Centre
1 4 (80.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Windows
1 5 (100.00%) Windows Server
2 3 (60.00%) Linux
3 1 (20.00%) Windows Server 2003
3 1 (20.00%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (20.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 3 (60.00%) AI
2 3 (60.00%) DevOps
2 3 (60.00%) Machine Learning
2 3 (60.00%) Software Deployment
3 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (80.00%) Degree
1 4 (80.00%) DV Cleared
1 4 (80.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 5 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 4 (80.00%) BitLocker
2 4 (80.00%) Hyper-V
2 4 (80.00%) Microsoft App-V
2 4 (80.00%) VMware ESXi
2 4 (80.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (60.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (80.00%) vCenter Server
1 4 (80.00%) vMotion
2 3 (60.00%) Ansible
2 3 (60.00%) Kubernetes
2 3 (60.00%) Nagios
2 3 (60.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Citrix
1 5 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (80.00%) Google
2 4 (80.00%) HP
2 4 (80.00%) Symantec
2 4 (80.00%) VMware
3 1 (20.00%) Dell
3 1 (20.00%) NetApp
3 1 (20.00%) Red Hat