Remote Desktop Job Trends in the Midlands

Remote Desktop
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring Remote Desktop skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 243 200 319
Rank change year-on-year -43 +119 -56
Permanent jobs citing Remote Desktop 5 25 19
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.040% 0.50% 0.14%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.78% 2.95% 1.15%
Number of salaries quoted 5 23 12
10th Percentile £31,750 £25,000 £23,200
25th Percentile £32,500 £26,250 £25,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £28,500 £30,000
Median % change year-on-year +22.81% -5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £37,500 £50,625 £48,188
90th Percentile - £52,500 £50,250
England median annual salary £36,250 £32,500 £32,500
% change year-on-year +11.54% - -4.41%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
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 permanent job vacancies requiring communications or computer networking skills in the Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 643 847 1,650
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 5.19% 16.86% 11.76%
Number of salaries quoted 502 488 1,260
10th Percentile £27,694 £26,968 £25,000
25th Percentile £29,750 £31,000 £30,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £42,500 £40,157
Median % change year-on-year - +5.84% -7.15%
75th Percentile £58,450 £57,500 £53,750
90th Percentile £70,000 £69,125 £65,000
England median annual salary £47,500 £47,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year - - -5.00%

Remote Desktop
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Remote Desktop job vacancy trend in the Midlands

Remote Desktop
Salary Trend in the Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Remote Desktop.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Remote Desktop

Remote Desktop
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Remote Desktop within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 15 June 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
West Midlands -21 3 £35,000 +34.62% 2
East Midlands -35 2 £35,000 +20.17% 4
Remote Desktop
England

Remote Desktop
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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 (40.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (60.00%) Azure
2 3 (60.00%) Entra ID
3 2 (40.00%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 5 (100.00%) VPN
2 4 (80.00%) WAN
3 3 (60.00%) DHCP
3 3 (60.00%) DNS
3 3 (60.00%) TCP/IP
4 2 (40.00%) Firewall
4 2 (40.00%) LAN
4 2 (40.00%) SD-WAN
4 2 (40.00%) Wireless
5 1 (20.00%) SAN
5 1 (20.00%) VLAN
General
1 3 (60.00%) Documentation Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Automotive
3 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) 2nd Line Engineer
2 3 (60.00%) 2nd Line Support
2 3 (60.00%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
2 3 (60.00%) IT Engineer
2 3 (60.00%) IT Support
2 3 (60.00%) IT Support Engineer
2 3 (60.00%) Support Engineer
3 2 (40.00%) IT Security Engineer
3 2 (40.00%) Security Engineer
3 2 (40.00%) Security Support Engineer
3 2 (40.00%) Service Desk Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Driving Licence
2 1 (20.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 4 (80.00%) Windows
2 2 (40.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) ITSM
1 3 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (40.00%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (40.00%) ERP
2 2 (40.00%) Incident Management
2 2 (40.00%) ITIL
2 2 (40.00%) Logistics
2 2 (40.00%) Network Monitoring
2 2 (40.00%) Patch Management
2 2 (40.00%) Remote Monitoring and Management
2 2 (40.00%) Service Management
2 2 (40.00%) SIEM
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) CompTIA Security+
1 2 (40.00%) ITIL Certification
1 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 2 (40.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (40.00%) NIST
System Software
1 3 (60.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (20.00%) Hyper-V
2 1 (20.00%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (40.00%) Nagios
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (40.00%) Cisco
2 2 (40.00%) Epicor
2 2 (40.00%) Google
2 2 (40.00%) SolarWinds
2 2 (40.00%) TP-LINK
3 1 (20.00%) Veeam
3 1 (20.00%) VMware