Remote Desktop Jobs in England

Remote Desktop
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England requiring Remote Desktop skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Remote Desktop over the 6 months leading up to 22 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 591 632 653
Rank change year-on-year +41 +21 +192
Permanent jobs citing Remote Desktop 84 205 271
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.17% 0.24% 0.31%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.98% 1.70% 1.94%
Number of salaries quoted 74 188 218
10th Percentile £26,250 £25,760 £26,175
25th Percentile £29,750 £26,500 £27,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 £32,500 £35,000
Median % change year-on-year - -7.14% -12.50%
75th Percentile £44,688 £52,500 £45,000
90th Percentile £58,750 £53,750 £57,875
UK median annual salary £32,500 £32,250 £35,000
% change year-on-year +0.77% -7.86% -12.50%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
England

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

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 8,567 12,042 13,970
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 17.62% 13.91% 15.89%
Number of salaries quoted 3,573 8,506 7,141
10th Percentile £25,087 £26,250 £27,750
25th Percentile £30,625 £32,500 £35,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,500 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.11% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £67,500 £62,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £77,500 £87,500
UK median annual salary £45,000 £47,500 £50,500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.94% -3.81%

Remote Desktop
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Remote Desktop as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Remote Desktop in England

Remote Desktop
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Remote Desktop in England.

Salary trend for Remote Desktop in England

Remote Desktop
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Remote Desktop in England over the 6 months to 22 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Remote Desktop in England

Remote Desktop
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Remote Desktop within the England region over the 6 months to 22 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South East +78 25 £34,000 +4.62% 15
Midlands +63 25 £28,500 +5.56% 16
East Midlands +44 19 £29,125 -39.95% 10
South West +79 14 £31,500 -24.10% 4
London +73 6 £63,750 +21.43% 16
West Midlands +59 6 £26,000 -3.70% 5
North of England +24 6 £42,500 +32.81% 15
East of England +21 6 £37,500 +15.38% 13
North West -24 5 £42,500 +41.67% 5
Yorkshire +67 1 £28,000 -34.12% 8
Remote Desktop
UK

Remote Desktop
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 39 (46.43%) Microsoft Exchange
2 31 (36.90%) SharePoint
3 6 (7.14%) IIS
4 1 (1.19%) Exchange Server 2003
4 1 (1.19%) Exchange Server 2007
4 1 (1.19%) Exchange Server 2010
4 1 (1.19%) Exchange Server 2013
Applications
1 19 (22.62%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (9.52%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (5.95%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (1.19%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 50 (59.52%) Microsoft 365
2 32 (38.10%) Azure
3 17 (20.24%) Entra ID
4 10 (11.90%) AWS
5 6 (7.14%) GCP
5 6 (7.14%) OpenShift
6 5 (5.95%) OneDrive
7 2 (2.38%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (1.19%) Azure Logic Apps
8 1 (1.19%) Google Workspace
8 1 (1.19%) Mimecast
8 1 (1.19%) Nutanix
8 1 (1.19%) Power Platform
8 1 (1.19%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 27 (32.14%) Firewall
2 22 (26.19%) DNS
3 21 (25.00%) DHCP
4 12 (14.29%) LAN
4 12 (14.29%) WAN
5 11 (13.10%) SAN
6 9 (10.71%) VPN
7 8 (9.52%) Ethernet
8 7 (8.33%) Network Security
8 7 (8.33%) TCP/IP
9 6 (7.14%) SMTP
10 5 (5.95%) Internet
11 3 (3.57%) IP Telephony
11 3 (3.57%) iSCSI
11 3 (3.57%) SSL
12 2 (2.38%) ADSL
12 2 (2.38%) SD-WAN
12 2 (2.38%) VLAN
13 1 (1.19%) VSAN
13 1 (1.19%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (10.71%) SQL Server
2 7 (8.33%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (1.19%) MySQL
3 1 (1.19%) PostgreSQL
General
1 30 (35.71%) Social Skills
2 12 (14.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 8 (9.52%) Automotive
4 7 (8.33%) Manufacturing
4 7 (8.33%) Organisational Skills
5 5 (5.95%) Aerospace
6 4 (4.76%) Telecoms
7 3 (3.57%) Legal
8 2 (2.38%) Aviation
8 2 (2.38%) Finance
8 2 (2.38%) Games
8 2 (2.38%) Public Sector
8 2 (2.38%) Retail
9 1 (1.19%) Banking
9 1 (1.19%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.19%) Law
Job Titles
1 20 (23.81%) Support Engineer
2 15 (17.86%) 3rd Line Support
3 13 (15.48%) 2nd Line Support
3 13 (15.48%) Technical Support
4 12 (14.29%) Analyst
4 12 (14.29%) IT Support
5 11 (13.10%) 1st Line Support
6 10 (11.90%) Help Desk Support
7 8 (9.52%) 3rd Line Engineer
7 8 (9.52%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
7 8 (9.52%) 3rd Line Technical Support
7 8 (9.52%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 6 (7.14%) Infrastructure Support
8 6 (7.14%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
8 6 (7.14%) IT Engineer
8 6 (7.14%) Service Analyst
8 6 (7.14%) Technical Engineer
8 6 (7.14%) Technical Support Engineer
9 5 (5.95%) Help Desk Engineer
9 5 (5.95%) Support Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 7 (8.33%) Clustering
2 6 (7.14%) Legacy Systems
2 6 (7.14%) PKI
3 4 (4.76%) Driving Licence
4 3 (3.57%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (2.38%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (2.38%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.38%) Social Media
5 2 (2.38%) Video Conferencing
6 1 (1.19%) CCTV
6 1 (1.19%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.19%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.19%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.19%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.19%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.19%) Replication
6 1 (1.19%) Robotics
6 1 (1.19%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.19%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 58 (69.05%) Windows
2 41 (48.81%) Windows Server
3 10 (11.90%) Linux
4 9 (10.71%) Mac OS
5 4 (4.76%) Windows 10
5 4 (4.76%) Windows Server 2019
6 3 (3.57%) Android
6 3 (3.57%) Apple iOS
6 3 (3.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (3.57%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (2.38%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (1.19%) CentOS
8 1 (1.19%) OpenBSD
8 1 (1.19%) Windows 7
8 1 (1.19%) Windows Server 2003
8 1 (1.19%) Windows Vista
8 1 (1.19%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (40.48%) Customer Service
2 30 (35.71%) Problem-Solving
3 28 (33.33%) ITIL
4 19 (22.62%) ITSM
5 17 (20.24%) Change Management
6 16 (19.05%) Service Management
7 10 (11.90%) Case Management
7 10 (11.90%) Data Protection
7 10 (11.90%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 9 (10.71%) Cybersecurity
9 7 (8.33%) High Availability
10 6 (7.14%) Application Virtualisation
10 6 (7.14%) CRM
10 6 (7.14%) Disk Encryption
10 6 (7.14%) Incident Management
10 6 (7.14%) Mobile Device Management
10 6 (7.14%) RBAC
10 6 (7.14%) Task Automation
11 5 (5.95%) Service Delivery
11 5 (5.95%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 9 (10.71%) PowerShell
2 2 (2.38%) SQL
3 1 (1.19%) Bash
3 1 (1.19%) Korn
3 1 (1.19%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 14 (16.67%) Microsoft Certification
2 11 (13.10%) Network+ Certification
3 9 (10.71%) MCITP
4 7 (8.33%) Degree
4 7 (8.33%) Security Cleared
5 6 (7.14%) DV Cleared
6 5 (5.95%) A+ Certification
7 3 (3.57%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (1.19%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (1.19%) DBS Check
8 1 (1.19%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 1 (1.19%) PRINCE2 Certification
8 1 (1.19%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (28.57%) SLA
2 2 (2.38%) ISO 22301
2 2 (2.38%) ISO 9001
2 2 (2.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (2.38%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.19%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (1.19%) GDPR
System Software
1 58 (69.05%) Active Directory
2 27 (32.14%) Hyper-V
3 25 (29.76%) VMware Infrastructure
4 17 (20.24%) Terminal Services
5 14 (16.67%) Virtual Desktop
6 13 (15.48%) vSphere
7 12 (14.29%) VMware ESXi
8 7 (8.33%) Docker
9 6 (7.14%) BitLocker
9 6 (7.14%) Microsoft App-V
10 1 (1.19%) Citrix Hypervisor
10 1 (1.19%) KVM
10 1 (1.19%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (1.19%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 11 (13.10%) vCenter Server
2 9 (10.71%) Microsoft Intune
3 7 (8.33%) Kubernetes
4 6 (7.14%) Ansible
4 6 (7.14%) Nagios
4 6 (7.14%) Puppet
4 6 (7.14%) vMotion
5 4 (4.76%) SCCM
6 1 (1.19%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (1.19%) Autotask
6 1 (1.19%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (1.19%) WSUS
6 1 (1.19%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 66 (78.57%) Microsoft
2 32 (38.10%) VMware
3 12 (14.29%) HP
4 11 (13.10%) Citrix
5 9 (10.71%) Cisco
6 8 (9.52%) Dell
7 7 (8.33%) Google
7 7 (8.33%) Meraki
8 6 (7.14%) NetApp
8 6 (7.14%) Symantec
8 6 (7.14%) Ubiquiti
9 5 (5.95%) Sophos
10 3 (3.57%) Freshdesk
10 3 (3.57%) ServiceNow
10 3 (3.57%) Veeam
11 2 (2.38%) Aruba
11 2 (2.38%) Facebook
11 2 (2.38%) Fortinet
11 2 (2.38%) Okta
11 2 (2.38%) Red Hat