Remote Desktop Job Trends in Manchester

Remote Desktop
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring Remote Desktop skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 197 - 180
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Remote Desktop 4 0 1
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 0.053% - 0.025%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.30% - 0.34%
Number of salaries quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £29,425 - -
25th Percentile £33,813 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 - -
75th Percentile £42,813 - -
90th Percentile £50,125 - -
North West median annual salary £31,500 £27,000 £32,000
% change year-on-year +16.67% -15.63% -1.54%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 308 223 291
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 4.06% 9.41% 7.24%
Number of salaries quoted 205 108 159
10th Percentile £31,100 £28,000 £29,500
25th Percentile £40,500 £30,906 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £37,000 £46,000
Median % change year-on-year +48.65% -19.57% -12.38%
75th Percentile £73,750 £50,313 £64,375
90th Percentile £80,000 £62,500 £72,500
North West median annual salary £45,000 £30,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +47.54% -32.22% -14.29%

Remote Desktop
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Remote Desktop relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Remote Desktop job vacancy trend in Manchester

Remote Desktop
Salary Trend in Manchester

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Remote Desktop.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Remote Desktop

Remote Desktop
Salary Histogram in Manchester

Salary distribution for jobs citing Remote Desktop in Manchester over the 6 months to 24 September 2026.

Salary histogram for Remote Desktop in Manchester

Remote Desktop
Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Remote Desktop within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 24 September 2026. 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
Bolton - 1 £54,000 -
Remote Desktop
North West

Remote Desktop
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (25.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (75.00%) Azure
2 3 (75.00%) Entra ID
3 2 (50.00%) Mimecast
4 1 (25.00%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (25.00%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 3 (75.00%) DHCP
1 3 (75.00%) DNS
2 2 (50.00%) Firewall
2 2 (50.00%) SNMP
3 1 (25.00%) TCP/IP
3 1 (25.00%) Wi-Fi
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (50.00%) Legal
1 2 (50.00%) Manufacturing
2 1 (25.00%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Pharmaceutical
2 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Analyst
1 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) IT Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) IT Support
2 1 (25.00%) IT Support Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Support Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Data Centre
1 2 (50.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (25.00%) Life Science
2 1 (25.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (25.00%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Windows
2 2 (50.00%) VMS
2 2 (50.00%) Windows Server
3 1 (25.00%) Windows 10
3 1 (25.00%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (25.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Business Strategy
1 2 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 2 (50.00%) High Availability
1 2 (50.00%) Information Security
1 2 (50.00%) ITIL
1 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (50.00%) Technology Transformation
1 2 (50.00%) Workload Management
2 1 (25.00%) Biotechnology
2 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (25.00%) Creative Problem-Solving
2 1 (25.00%) Customer Service
2 1 (25.00%) Customer-Centricity
2 1 (25.00%) Preventative Maintenance
2 1 (25.00%) Product Management
2 1 (25.00%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) Azure Certification
2 1 (25.00%) A+ Certification
2 1 (25.00%) Degree
2 1 (25.00%) HNC
2 1 (25.00%) HND
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 4 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (50.00%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) FortiGate
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (50.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (50.00%) Aderant
2 2 (50.00%) iManage
2 2 (50.00%) SolarWinds
2 2 (50.00%) VMware
3 1 (25.00%) Freshdesk