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 11 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 546 560 658
Rank change year-on-year +14 +98 +182
Contract jobs citing Terminal Services 21 6 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.064% 0.015% 0.027%
As % of the System Software category 0.55% 0.13% 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 5 12
10th Percentile £153 £408 £190
25th Percentile £423 - £344
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £539 £475 £460
Median % change year-on-year +13.37% +3.26% +53.33%
75th Percentile £588 £530 £576
90th Percentile £589 £557 £586
UK excluding London median daily rate £537 £425 £520
% change year-on-year +26.35% -18.27% +54.30%

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 3,851 4,458 6,869
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.68% 11.45% 13.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,465 3,076 4,704
10th Percentile £230 £220 £200
25th Percentile £388 £380 £372
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £520
Median % change year-on-year - -3.85% -0.95%
75th Percentile £600 £608 £638
90th Percentile £675 £688 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 104 145 251
10th Percentile £14.12 £14.06 £15.21
25th Percentile £18.03 £16.00 £18.38
Median hourly rate £33.64 £24.18 £48.40
Median % change year-on-year +39.10% -50.04% +122.22%
75th Percentile £80.00 £58.69 £66.00
90th Percentile £91.50 £70.75 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £26.00 £25.23
% change year-on-year +140.38% +3.07% +26.13%

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 11 August 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 7 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 11 August 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 +42 19 £537 +7.94% 6
UK excluding London +12 17 £537 +26.35% 6
South East +43 14 £575 +53.33% 3
Work from Home +22 4 £534 +7.24% 4
Midlands -7 4 £529 +11.42% 2
West Midlands - 4 £529 - 1
London +15 2 £550 +0.46%

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 (52.38%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (23.81%) SharePoint
3 1 (4.76%) Exchange Server 2010
3 1 (4.76%) Exchange Server 2013
Applications
1 5 (23.81%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 9 (42.86%) AWS
1 9 (42.86%) GCP
1 9 (42.86%) IaaS
1 9 (42.86%) OpenShift
1 9 (42.86%) PaaS
2 5 (23.81%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 21 (100.00%) DNS
2 16 (76.19%) DHCP
2 16 (76.19%) Firewall
2 16 (76.19%) VPN
3 10 (47.62%) SMTP
4 6 (28.57%) TCP/IP
5 5 (23.81%) Remote Desktop
6 1 (4.76%) NAS
6 1 (4.76%) SAN
6 1 (4.76%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (42.86%) Amazon RDS
1 9 (42.86%) Big Data
1 9 (42.86%) Elasticsearch
General
1 9 (42.86%) Public Sector
2 5 (23.81%) Law
2 5 (23.81%) Legal
3 1 (4.76%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (57.14%) Support Engineer
2 9 (42.86%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 9 (42.86%) 3rd Line Support
2 9 (42.86%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
3 8 (38.10%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 7 (33.33%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
4 7 (33.33%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
4 7 (33.33%) Infrastructure Support
4 7 (33.33%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
5 6 (28.57%) IT Support
6 5 (23.81%) Help Desk Officer
6 5 (23.81%) Help Desk Support
6 5 (23.81%) Service Desk Officer
6 5 (23.81%) Service Desk Support
6 5 (23.81%) Support Officer
7 2 (9.52%) Site Engineer
7 2 (9.52%) Virtualisation Engineer
8 1 (4.76%) IT Engineer
8 1 (4.76%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
8 1 (4.76%) Switch Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 10 (47.62%) Clustering
1 10 (47.62%) PKI
2 9 (42.86%) Data Centre
3 1 (4.76%) ASIC
3 1 (4.76%) FPGA
3 1 (4.76%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 21 (100.00%) Windows
1 21 (100.00%) Windows Server
2 9 (42.86%) Linux
3 6 (28.57%) Windows Server 2003
4 5 (23.81%) Windows 10
4 5 (23.81%) Windows Server 2012
4 5 (23.81%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (4.76%) VMS
5 1 (4.76%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (42.86%) Artificial Intelligence
1 9 (42.86%) DevOps
1 9 (42.86%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 9 (42.86%) Machine Learning
1 9 (42.86%) Software Deployment
2 6 (28.57%) ITIL
3 5 (23.81%) Creative Problem-Solving
3 5 (23.81%) CRM
3 5 (23.81%) Preventative Maintenance
3 5 (23.81%) PRINCE2
3 5 (23.81%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (4.76%) Change Control
4 1 (4.76%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (4.76%) Electronic Design Automation
4 1 (4.76%) Patch Management
4 1 (4.76%) Service Management
4 1 (4.76%) Software Licensing
4 1 (4.76%) Tech Ops
4 1 (4.76%) UVM
Programming Languages
1 11 (52.38%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 16 (76.19%) Security Cleared
2 9 (42.86%) Degree
2 9 (42.86%) DV Cleared
3 5 (23.81%) SC Cleared
4 1 (4.76%) CCNA
4 1 (4.76%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (4.76%) MCSA
4 1 (4.76%) MCSE
4 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (23.81%) GDPR
System Software
1 21 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 16 (76.19%) Hyper-V
2 16 (76.19%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (47.62%) BitLocker
3 10 (47.62%) Microsoft App-V
3 10 (47.62%) VMware ESXi
4 9 (42.86%) Docker
5 1 (4.76%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 10 (47.62%) vCenter Server
1 10 (47.62%) vMotion
2 9 (42.86%) Ansible
2 9 (42.86%) Kubernetes
2 9 (42.86%) Nagios
2 9 (42.86%) Puppet
Vendors
1 16 (76.19%) Microsoft
1 16 (76.19%) VMware
2 15 (71.43%) Citrix
3 10 (47.62%) Symantec
4 9 (42.86%) Google
4 9 (42.86%) HP
5 1 (4.76%) Cisco
5 1 (4.76%) Veeam