Remote Desktop Job Trends in the South West

Remote Desktop
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South West 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 160 162 204
Rank change year-on-year +2 +42 +17
Permanent jobs citing Remote Desktop 17 27 14
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.33% 0.65% 0.29%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.85% 5.65% 1.76%
Number of salaries quoted 14 22 13
10th Percentile - - £27,470
25th Percentile £30,750 - £28,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £33,000 £30,000 £41,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -27.71% +59.62%
75th Percentile £34,500 - £47,250
90th Percentile £38,327 £34,725 £48,450
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 West

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 West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 596 478 795
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 11.73% 11.53% 16.75%
Number of salaries quoted 345 275 611
10th Percentile £25,202 £30,000 £29,250
25th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £33,500 £51,058 £49,000
Median % change year-on-year -34.39% +4.20% +3.16%
75th Percentile £48,750 £71,250 £58,750
90th Percentile £67,250 £84,500 £70,000
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 West

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

Remote Desktop job vacancy trend in the South West

Remote Desktop
Salary Trend in the South West

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

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

Remote Desktop
Job Locations in the South West

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 West 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
Wiltshire +13 6 £33,000 -4.35%
Bristol 0 6 £31,500 +5.00% 1
Gloucestershire - 3 £33,500 -
Devon -1 1 £37,500 +41.51%
Remote Desktop
England

Remote Desktop
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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 13 (76.47%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (23.53%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (11.76%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (17.65%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 14 (82.35%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (23.53%) Azure
3 1 (5.88%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 14 (82.35%) DHCP
1 14 (82.35%) DNS
2 10 (58.82%) Firewall
3 7 (41.18%) TCP/IP
4 3 (17.65%) Intranet
4 3 (17.65%) VoIP
4 3 (17.65%) VPN
5 1 (5.88%) LAN
5 1 (5.88%) Telnet
5 1 (5.88%) WAN
General
1 17 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (35.29%) Legal
3 5 (29.41%) Organisational Skills
4 2 (11.76%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (11.76%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 15 (88.24%) IT Support
2 9 (52.94%) 2nd Line Support
3 5 (29.41%) Analyst
3 5 (29.41%) IT Analyst
3 5 (29.41%) IT Support Analyst
3 5 (29.41%) Support Analyst
4 4 (23.53%) IT Engineer
4 4 (23.53%) IT Support Engineer
4 4 (23.53%) Support Engineer
5 3 (17.65%) 2nd Line Engineer
5 3 (17.65%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
5 3 (17.65%) Applications Support
6 2 (11.76%) Applications Support Analyst
6 2 (11.76%) Data Centre Engineer
7 1 (5.88%) Applications Engineer
7 1 (5.88%) Applications Support Engineer
7 1 (5.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 1 (5.88%) Infrastructure Support
7 1 (5.88%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
7 1 (5.88%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 13 (76.47%) Driving Licence
2 3 (17.65%) Smartphone
3 2 (11.76%) Data Centre
4 1 (5.88%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 17 (100.00%) Windows
2 16 (94.12%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (47.06%) Customer Service
2 6 (35.29%) ITIL
3 3 (17.65%) Case Management
3 3 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (11.76%) Change Control
4 2 (11.76%) Change Management
4 2 (11.76%) Cybersecurity
5 1 (5.88%) Antivirus Management
5 1 (5.88%) Continuous Improvement
5 1 (5.88%) Data Centre Operations
5 1 (5.88%) Data Management
5 1 (5.88%) Data Protection
5 1 (5.88%) Email Filtering
5 1 (5.88%) Emotional Intelligence
5 1 (5.88%) Infrastructure Monitoring
5 1 (5.88%) Kalman Filter
5 1 (5.88%) PRINCE
5 1 (5.88%) PRINCE2
5 1 (5.88%) Risk Management
5 1 (5.88%) Software Licensing
Programming Languages
1 3 (17.65%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (17.65%) MCP
1 3 (17.65%) SC Cleared
1 3 (17.65%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.88%) Degree
2 1 (5.88%) HNC
2 1 (5.88%) HND
System Software
1 15 (88.24%) Active Directory
2 3 (17.65%) Hyper-V
3 2 (11.76%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (5.88%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (17.65%) SCCM
2 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (5.88%) WSUS
Vendors
1 14 (82.35%) Microsoft
2 2 (11.76%) VMware
3 1 (5.88%) Clearswift
3 1 (5.88%) Fortinet
3 1 (5.88%) SolarWinds
3 1 (5.88%) Sophos