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 22 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 558 509 608
Rank change year-on-year -49 +99 +194
Contract jobs citing Terminal Services 16 40 14
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.045% 0.11% 0.030%
As % of the System Software category 0.36% 0.92% 0.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 7 7
10th Percentile - £150 £245
25th Percentile £153 £169 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £210 £350
Median % change year-on-year +150.00% -40.00% -46.15%
75th Percentile £540 £300 £519
90th Percentile £578 £400 £600
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £200 £313
% change year-on-year +162.50% -36.00% -56.90%

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 4,435 4,353 6,044
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.34% 11.85% 12.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,902 2,784 4,111
10th Percentile £213 £210 £198
25th Percentile £400 £380 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.76%
75th Percentile £591 £614 £615
90th Percentile £675 £700 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £475
% change year-on-year - - +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 143 97 251
10th Percentile £15.50 £17.87 £15.50
25th Percentile £19.23 £21.46 £18.73
Median hourly rate £30.00 £36.17 £46.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.05% -21.38% +84.00%
75th Percentile £74.26 £65.00 £67.94
90th Percentile £89.45 £75.00 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £50.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +25.00% +25.00% +86.05%

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 22 November 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 22 November 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 14 £525 +128.26% 6
UK excluding London -67 14 £525 +162.50% 6
Midlands -28 9 £537 +30.18% 2
West Midlands - 7 £537 - 2
South East +2 6 £155 +3.33%
Work from Home +4 5 £534 +52.43% 1
East Midlands -12 2 - -

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 5 (31.25%) SharePoint
2 1 (6.25%) Exchange Server 2010
2 1 (6.25%) Exchange Server 2013
2 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 5 (31.25%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 5 (31.25%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 14 (87.50%) DNS
2 8 (50.00%) DHCP
3 7 (43.75%) Firewall
3 7 (43.75%) TCP/IP
4 6 (37.50%) VPN
5 5 (31.25%) Remote Desktop
6 1 (6.25%) Multicast
6 1 (6.25%) NAS
6 1 (6.25%) SAN
6 1 (6.25%) Structured Cabling
General
1 5 (31.25%) Law
1 5 (31.25%) Legal
2 2 (12.50%) Social Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Aerospace
3 1 (6.25%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (37.50%) IT Support
2 5 (31.25%) Help Desk Officer
2 5 (31.25%) Help Desk Support
2 5 (31.25%) Service Desk Officer
2 5 (31.25%) Service Desk Support
2 5 (31.25%) Support Officer
3 3 (18.75%) Support Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Site Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Consultant
5 1 (6.25%) Infrastructure Consultant
5 1 (6.25%) IT Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) IT Support Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Rollout Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Senior
5 1 (6.25%) Senior Server Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Server Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Switch Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Technical Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.25%) ASIC
1 1 (6.25%) FPGA
1 1 (6.25%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 16 (100.00%) Windows
2 15 (93.75%) Windows Server
3 5 (31.25%) Windows 10
3 5 (31.25%) Windows Server 2012
3 5 (31.25%) Windows Server 2016
4 3 (18.75%) Windows Server 2003
5 2 (12.50%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (6.25%) Linux
6 1 (6.25%) Unix
6 1 (6.25%) VMS
6 1 (6.25%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (37.50%) ITIL
2 5 (31.25%) Creative Problem-Solving
2 5 (31.25%) CRM
2 5 (31.25%) Preventative Maintenance
2 5 (31.25%) PRINCE2
2 5 (31.25%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (6.25%) Agile
4 1 (6.25%) Change Control
4 1 (6.25%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (6.25%) Electronic Design Automation
4 1 (6.25%) Migration
4 1 (6.25%) Patch Management
4 1 (6.25%) Security Hardening
4 1 (6.25%) Server Patching
4 1 (6.25%) Service Management
4 1 (6.25%) Software Licensing
4 1 (6.25%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (6.25%) Tech Ops
4 1 (6.25%) UVM
Programming Languages
1 1 (6.25%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 11 (68.75%) Security Cleared
2 9 (56.25%) SC Cleared
3 1 (6.25%) CCNA
3 1 (6.25%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (6.25%) DV Cleared
3 1 (6.25%) MCSA
3 1 (6.25%) MCSE
3 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (31.25%) GDPR
System Software
1 16 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 7 (43.75%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (37.50%) Hyper-V
4 1 (6.25%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (6.25%) Nessus
1 1 (6.25%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 8 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 7 (43.75%) Citrix
2 7 (43.75%) VMware
3 2 (12.50%) Cisco
3 2 (12.50%) Veeam
4 1 (6.25%) Dell
4 1 (6.25%) SolarWinds
4 1 (6.25%) Symantec