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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 535 553 616
Rank change year-on-year +18 +63 +212
Contract jobs citing Terminal Services 22 9 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.067% 0.023% 0.032%
As % of the System Software category 0.56% 0.20% 0.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 8 9
10th Percentile £153 £189 £295
25th Percentile £513 £239 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £425 £350
Median % change year-on-year +27.06% +21.43% +16.67%
75th Percentile £588 £489 £545
90th Percentile £600 £544 £600
UK excluding London median daily rate £556 £375 £350
% change year-on-year +48.27% +7.14% +40.00%

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 3,900 4,405 6,474
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.84% 11.43% 13.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,461 2,959 4,379
10th Percentile £218 £213 £200
25th Percentile £375 £375 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.76%
75th Percentile £588 £608 £625
90th Percentile £670 £688 £722
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £465
% change year-on-year - +2.15% +3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 114 111 272
10th Percentile £13.75 £14.16 £15.50
25th Percentile £19.02 £17.69 £19.22
Median hourly rate £34.00 £25.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +36.00% -50.00% +127.27%
75th Percentile £80.00 £61.19 £66.00
90th Percentile £91.05 £75.00 £77.95
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £28.75 £40.00
% change year-on-year +126.09% -28.13% +100.00%

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
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 19 September 2025.

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 7 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 19 September 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 +19 20 £556 +48.27% 4
UK excluding London +25 18 £556 +48.27% 3
South East +31 14 £575 +119.05% 1
Midlands -10 5 £534 +12.32%
West Midlands - 5 £534 -
Work from Home +23 4 £534 +12.32% 3
London +1 2 £550 +42.86% 1

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 11 (50.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (22.73%) SharePoint
3 1 (4.55%) Exchange Server 2010
3 1 (4.55%) Exchange Server 2013
Applications
1 5 (22.73%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 9 (40.91%) AWS
1 9 (40.91%) GCP
1 9 (40.91%) IaaS
1 9 (40.91%) OpenShift
1 9 (40.91%) PaaS
2 5 (22.73%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 22 (100.00%) DNS
2 17 (77.27%) Firewall
3 16 (72.73%) DHCP
3 16 (72.73%) VPN
4 10 (45.45%) SMTP
5 7 (31.82%) TCP/IP
6 5 (22.73%) Remote Desktop
7 1 (4.55%) Multicast
7 1 (4.55%) NAS
7 1 (4.55%) SAN
7 1 (4.55%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (40.91%) Amazon RDS
1 9 (40.91%) Big Data
1 9 (40.91%) Elasticsearch
General
1 9 (40.91%) Public Sector
2 5 (22.73%) Law
2 5 (22.73%) Legal
3 1 (4.55%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (54.55%) Support Engineer
2 9 (40.91%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 9 (40.91%) 3rd Line Support
2 9 (40.91%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
3 8 (36.36%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 7 (31.82%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
4 7 (31.82%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
4 7 (31.82%) Infrastructure Support
4 7 (31.82%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
5 6 (27.27%) IT Support
6 5 (22.73%) Help Desk Officer
6 5 (22.73%) Help Desk Support
6 5 (22.73%) Service Desk Officer
6 5 (22.73%) Service Desk Support
6 5 (22.73%) Support Officer
7 2 (9.09%) Site Engineer
7 2 (9.09%) Virtualisation Engineer
8 1 (4.55%) IT Engineer
8 1 (4.55%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
8 1 (4.55%) Switch Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 10 (45.45%) Clustering
1 10 (45.45%) PKI
2 9 (40.91%) Data Centre
3 1 (4.55%) ASIC
3 1 (4.55%) FPGA
3 1 (4.55%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 22 (100.00%) Windows
2 21 (95.45%) Windows Server
3 10 (45.45%) Linux
4 6 (27.27%) Windows Server 2003
5 5 (22.73%) Windows 10
5 5 (22.73%) Windows Server 2012
5 5 (22.73%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (4.55%) Unix
6 1 (4.55%) VMS
6 1 (4.55%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (45.45%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 9 (40.91%) Artificial Intelligence
2 9 (40.91%) DevOps
2 9 (40.91%) Machine Learning
2 9 (40.91%) Software Deployment
3 6 (27.27%) ITIL
4 5 (22.73%) Creative Problem-Solving
4 5 (22.73%) CRM
4 5 (22.73%) Preventative Maintenance
4 5 (22.73%) PRINCE2
4 5 (22.73%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (4.55%) Disaster Recovery
5 1 (4.55%) Patch Management
5 1 (4.55%) Security Hardening
5 1 (4.55%) Server Patching
5 1 (4.55%) Service Management
5 1 (4.55%) Software Licensing
5 1 (4.55%) Tech Ops
5 1 (4.55%) UVM
5 1 (4.55%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 11 (50.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 17 (77.27%) Security Cleared
2 10 (45.45%) DV Cleared
3 9 (40.91%) Degree
4 5 (22.73%) SC Cleared
5 1 (4.55%) CCNA
5 1 (4.55%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (4.55%) MCSA
5 1 (4.55%) MCSE
5 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (22.73%) GDPR
System Software
1 22 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 17 (77.27%) VMware Infrastructure
3 16 (72.73%) Hyper-V
4 10 (45.45%) BitLocker
4 10 (45.45%) Microsoft App-V
4 10 (45.45%) VMware ESXi
5 9 (40.91%) Docker
6 1 (4.55%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 10 (45.45%) vCenter Server
1 10 (45.45%) vMotion
2 9 (40.91%) Ansible
2 9 (40.91%) Kubernetes
2 9 (40.91%) Nagios
2 9 (40.91%) Puppet
3 1 (4.55%) Nessus
3 1 (4.55%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 17 (77.27%) VMware
2 16 (72.73%) Microsoft
3 15 (68.18%) Citrix
4 10 (45.45%) Symantec
5 9 (40.91%) Google
5 9 (40.91%) HP
6 2 (9.09%) Cisco
6 2 (9.09%) Veeam
7 1 (4.55%) Dell
7 1 (4.55%) SolarWinds