Remote Desktop Job Trends in the South East

Remote Desktop
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Remote Desktop skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 249 299 280
Rank change year-on-year +50 -19 +90
Permanent jobs citing Remote Desktop 21 7 15
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.20% 0.078% 0.17%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.39% 0.50% 1.22%
Number of salaries quoted 8 7 14
10th Percentile £25,200 £32,000 £25,000
25th Percentile £27,000 £32,500 £28,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £29,000 £37,500 £37,000
Median % change year-on-year -22.67% +1.35% -12.94%
75th Percentile £33,875 £52,500 £43,750
90th Percentile £50,750 £60,000 £49,625
England median annual salary £30,000 £37,000 £35,000
% change year-on-year -18.92% +5.71% -7.89%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
South East

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 South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,507 1,395 1,233
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 14.52% 15.54% 14.01%
Number of salaries quoted 675 722 1,038
10th Percentile £27,000 £31,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £42,500 £34,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £59,500 £63,750 £61,738
90th Percentile £73,650 £77,500 £75,000
England median annual salary £40,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -27.27% +10.00% -4.76%

Remote Desktop
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Remote Desktop job vacancy trend in the South East

Remote Desktop
Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Remote Desktop.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Remote Desktop

Remote Desktop
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Remote Desktop in the South East over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Remote Desktop in the South East

Remote Desktop
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Remote Desktop within the South East region over the 6 months to 14 January 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
Kent 0 13 - -
Hampshire +36 6 £29,000 -17.14%
Buckinghamshire +7 1 £70,000 +16.67% 2
Thames Valley +7 1 £70,000 +43.59% 4
Surrey - 1 £40,000 - 1
Remote Desktop
England

Remote Desktop
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 10 (47.62%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (28.57%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 15 (71.43%) AWS
2 11 (52.38%) Microsoft 365
3 5 (23.81%) Azure
4 4 (19.05%) Nutanix
5 1 (4.76%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (23.81%) DHCP
1 5 (23.81%) DNS
2 2 (9.52%) Firewall
3 1 (4.76%) iSCSI
3 1 (4.76%) SAN
3 1 (4.76%) TCP/IP
3 1 (4.76%) VLAN
3 1 (4.76%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.76%) MySQL
1 1 (4.76%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (4.76%) SQL Server
General
1 19 (90.48%) Social Skills
2 9 (42.86%) French Language
2 9 (42.86%) Swedish Language
3 2 (9.52%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (4.76%) Finance
4 1 (4.76%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 15 (71.43%) Analyst
2 11 (52.38%) Senior
3 9 (42.86%) Senior Analyst
3 9 (42.86%) Senior Service Desk Analyst
3 9 (42.86%) Service Analyst
3 9 (42.86%) Service Desk Analyst
4 6 (28.57%) Support Analyst
5 5 (23.81%) Applications Support
5 5 (23.81%) Applications Support Analyst
6 4 (19.05%) Cloud Engineer
7 1 (4.76%) 2nd/3rd Line Support
7 1 (4.76%) 3rd Line Support
7 1 (4.76%) 3rd Line Support Technician
7 1 (4.76%) ERP Analyst
7 1 (4.76%) ERP Support
7 1 (4.76%) Linux Engineer
7 1 (4.76%) Senior Linux Engineer
7 1 (4.76%) Senior Support Technician
7 1 (4.76%) Senior Technician
7 1 (4.76%) Support Technician
Miscellaneous
1 4 (19.05%) Hybrid Cloud
1 4 (19.05%) Public Cloud
2 1 (4.76%) Cloud Native
2 1 (4.76%) Management Information System
2 1 (4.76%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 7 (33.33%) Windows
2 5 (23.81%) Windows Server
3 2 (9.52%) Linux
4 1 (4.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (4.76%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (66.67%) ITIL
1 14 (66.67%) Mentoring
2 13 (61.90%) Business Continuity
2 13 (61.90%) ITSM
3 6 (28.57%) ERP
3 6 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (19.05%) Business Strategy
4 4 (19.05%) Change Management
4 4 (19.05%) Coaching
4 4 (19.05%) Disaster Recovery
4 4 (19.05%) High Availability
4 4 (19.05%) Knowledge Transfer
4 4 (19.05%) Server Management
4 4 (19.05%) Storage Management
4 4 (19.05%) Vulnerability Remediation
5 1 (4.76%) Capacity Management
5 1 (4.76%) Client Onboarding
5 1 (4.76%) Customer Service
5 1 (4.76%) Project Delivery
5 1 (4.76%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (28.57%) SQL
2 1 (4.76%) Bash
2 1 (4.76%) Korn
Qualifications
1 9 (42.86%) A+ Certification
1 9 (42.86%) AWS Certification
1 9 (42.86%) MCSE
1 9 (42.86%) Microsoft Certification
2 7 (33.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (19.05%) SLA
System Software
1 14 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (28.57%) Active Directory
3 5 (23.81%) Hyper-V
4 1 (4.76%) Citrix Hypervisor
4 1 (4.76%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (4.76%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 17 (80.95%) Microsoft
2 14 (66.67%) VMware
3 9 (42.86%) ServiceNow
4 6 (28.57%) Epicor
4 6 (28.57%) Sage
4 6 (28.57%) SAP
5 5 (23.81%) Dell
6 4 (19.05%) Dell Compellent
6 4 (19.05%) HP
6 4 (19.05%) Nimble Storage
7 1 (4.76%) Citrix
7 1 (4.76%) Red Hat
7 1 (4.76%) Splunk