Remote Desktop Contracts in the West Midlands

Remote Desktop
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands requiring Remote Desktop skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Remote Desktop over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 95 106 133
Rank change year-on-year +11 +27 +27
Contract jobs citing Remote Desktop 2 5 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.15% 0.26% 0.25%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.40% 1.27% 1.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 4 3
10th Percentile - - £175
25th Percentile - £200 £184
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £256 £225
Median % change year-on-year - +13.89% +9.76%
75th Percentile - £319 £444
90th Percentile - - £560
England median daily rate £204 £213 £275
% change year-on-year -4.12% -22.59% +2.62%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
West Midlands

Remote Desktop falls under the Communications and Computer Networking category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring communications or computer networking skills in the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 143 395 355
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 10.63% 20.29% 14.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 90 232 218
10th Percentile £145 £201 £263
25th Percentile £263 £313 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £400 £500
Median % change year-on-year +15.63% -20.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £598 £575 £606
90th Percentile £700 £688 £700
England median daily rate £500 £490 £525
% change year-on-year +2.04% -6.67% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 21 6
10th Percentile £12.34 £10.50 £12.50
25th Percentile £13.78 £13.50 £13.13
Median hourly rate £16.23 £19.95 £16.75
Median % change year-on-year -18.67% +19.10% +1.52%
75th Percentile £19.65 £23.75 £20.58
90th Percentile £35.95 £28.75 £21.80
England median hourly rate £28.00 £40.00 £18.82
% change year-on-year -30.00% +112.54% -21.29%

Remote Desktop
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Remote Desktop as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Remote Desktop in the West Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Remote Desktop in the West Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Remote Desktop in the West Midlands

Remote Desktop
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Remote Desktop in the West Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Remote Desktop in the West Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Remote Desktop within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Birmingham +16 1 - - 3
Staffordshire - 1 - - 2
Remote Desktop
England

Remote Desktop
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (50.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Final Cut Pro
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (50.00%) QuarkXPress
1 1 (50.00%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Storage
1 1 (50.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (50.00%) OneDrive
1 1 (50.00%) SaaS
1 1 (50.00%) ShareGate
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) VPN
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Desktop Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Desktop Support
1 1 (50.00%) Desktop Support Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Mac Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft 365 Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Migration Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Migration Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Support Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Mac OS X
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Change Management
1 1 (50.00%) Customer Service
1 1 (50.00%) Data Security
1 1 (50.00%) Migration
1 1 (50.00%) Problem Management
1 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (50.00%) Project Management
1 1 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (50.00%) Virtual Desktop
1 1 (50.00%) Virtual Machines
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Adobe
1 1 (50.00%) Apple
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) Quark