Remote Desktop Jobs in the UK excluding London

Remote Desktop
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 19 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 489 585 510
Rank change year-on-year +96 -75 +78
Permanent jobs citing Remote Desktop 86 180 231
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.22% 0.25% 0.39%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.30% 1.85% 2.14%
Number of salaries quoted 79 164 180
10th Percentile £25,000 £25,760 £24,900
25th Percentile £28,000 £26,500 £27,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 £30,000 £33,750
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -11.11% -3.57%
75th Percentile £43,750 £42,750 £45,000
90th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £57,500
UK median annual salary £32,500 £32,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year - -7.14% -12.50%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 6,640 9,755 10,813
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 16.68% 13.62% 18.34%
Number of salaries quoted 3,242 7,073 4,698
10th Percentile £23,504 £25,750 £26,250
25th Percentile £25,625 £31,250 £32,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £38,500 £43,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.49% -3.33% -5.26%
75th Percentile £57,500 £58,750 £60,000
90th Percentile £73,725 £68,750 £75,000
UK median annual salary £45,000 £47,500 £50,250
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.47% -4.29%

Remote Desktop
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Remote Desktop as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Remote Desktop in the UK excluding London

Remote Desktop
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Remote Desktop in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Remote Desktop in the UK excluding London

Remote Desktop
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Remote Desktop in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 19 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Remote Desktop in the UK excluding London

Remote Desktop
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Remote Desktop within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 19 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
Midlands +78 27 £28,500 +5.56% 16
South East +81 25 £34,000 +4.62% 17
East Midlands +41 20 £29,500 -39.18% 10
South West +83 15 £31,500 -24.10% 4
North of England +18 8 £42,500 +32.81% 13
West Midlands +35 7 £26,000 -3.70% 5
East of England +22 6 £37,500 +15.38% 12
North West -28 6 £42,500 +41.67% 5
Wales +26 5 £22,500 -20.47%
Yorkshire +64 2 £31,500 -25.88% 6
Remote Desktop
UK

Remote Desktop
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 36 (41.86%) Microsoft Exchange
2 27 (31.40%) SharePoint
3 6 (6.98%) IIS
4 1 (1.16%) Exchange Server 2003
4 1 (1.16%) Exchange Server 2007
4 1 (1.16%) Exchange Server 2010
4 1 (1.16%) Exchange Server 2013
Applications
1 19 (22.09%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (9.30%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (5.81%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (1.16%) Adobe After Effects
4 1 (1.16%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (1.16%) Adobe Illustrator
4 1 (1.16%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 1 (1.16%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 47 (54.65%) Microsoft 365
2 29 (33.72%) Azure
3 15 (17.44%) Entra ID
4 9 (10.47%) AWS
5 6 (6.98%) GCP
5 6 (6.98%) OpenShift
6 2 (2.33%) OneDrive
7 1 (1.16%) Azure Stack
7 1 (1.16%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (1.16%) Google Workspace
7 1 (1.16%) IaaS
7 1 (1.16%) Mimecast
7 1 (1.16%) Nutanix
7 1 (1.16%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 26 (30.23%) Firewall
2 22 (25.58%) DHCP
2 22 (25.58%) DNS
3 14 (16.28%) WAN
4 13 (15.12%) LAN
5 11 (12.79%) SAN
6 7 (8.14%) Ethernet
6 7 (8.14%) TCP/IP
7 6 (6.98%) Network Security
7 6 (6.98%) SMTP
8 5 (5.81%) Internet
8 5 (5.81%) VPN
9 3 (3.49%) IP Telephony
9 3 (3.49%) SD-WAN
10 2 (2.33%) iSCSI
10 2 (2.33%) SSL
10 2 (2.33%) VLAN
10 2 (2.33%) VSAN
11 1 (1.16%) ADSL
11 1 (1.16%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (9.30%) SQL Server
2 7 (8.14%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (1.16%) MySQL
3 1 (1.16%) PostgreSQL
General
1 32 (37.21%) Social Skills
2 11 (12.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 8 (9.30%) Automotive
4 7 (8.14%) Manufacturing
4 7 (8.14%) Organisational Skills
5 5 (5.81%) Aerospace
6 4 (4.65%) Legal
6 4 (4.65%) Telecoms
7 3 (3.49%) Games
7 3 (3.49%) Retail
8 1 (1.16%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (1.16%) Aviation
8 1 (1.16%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.16%) Finance
8 1 (1.16%) iGaming
8 1 (1.16%) Law
8 1 (1.16%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 25 (29.07%) Support Engineer
2 16 (18.60%) 1st Line Support
2 16 (18.60%) 3rd Line Support
3 13 (15.12%) 2nd Line Support
3 13 (15.12%) Technical Support
4 12 (13.95%) IT Support
5 10 (11.63%) Analyst
5 10 (11.63%) Help Desk Support
6 8 (9.30%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 8 (9.30%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
6 8 (9.30%) 3rd Line Technical Support
6 8 (9.30%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 6 (6.98%) Infrastructure Support
7 6 (6.98%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
7 6 (6.98%) IT Engineer
7 6 (6.98%) Technical Engineer
7 6 (6.98%) Technical Support Engineer
8 5 (5.81%) Graduate
8 5 (5.81%) Help Desk Engineer
8 5 (5.81%) Service Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.16%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (6.98%) Clustering
1 6 (6.98%) Driving Licence
1 6 (6.98%) Legacy Systems
1 6 (6.98%) PKI
2 3 (3.49%) Replication
3 2 (2.33%) Data Centre
3 2 (2.33%) Social Media
3 2 (2.33%) Video Conferencing
4 1 (1.16%) CCTV
4 1 (1.16%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.16%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.16%) Graphic Design
4 1 (1.16%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (1.16%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.16%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.16%) Robotics
4 1 (1.16%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.16%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 60 (69.77%) Windows
2 38 (44.19%) Windows Server
3 14 (16.28%) Mac OS
4 10 (11.63%) Linux
5 4 (4.65%) Android
5 4 (4.65%) Apple iOS
5 4 (4.65%) Windows Server 2016
6 3 (3.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (3.49%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (1.16%) CentOS
7 1 (1.16%) OpenBSD
7 1 (1.16%) Windows 7
7 1 (1.16%) Windows Server 2003
7 1 (1.16%) Windows Vista
7 1 (1.16%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (40.70%) Customer Service
2 33 (38.37%) Problem-Solving
3 31 (36.05%) ITIL
4 17 (19.77%) ITSM
5 16 (18.60%) Service Management
6 14 (16.28%) Change Management
7 10 (11.63%) Case Management
7 10 (11.63%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 9 (10.47%) Data Protection
9 8 (9.30%) Cybersecurity
10 7 (8.14%) High Availability
11 6 (6.98%) Application Virtualisation
11 6 (6.98%) Collaborative Working
11 6 (6.98%) Continuous Improvement
11 6 (6.98%) CRM
11 6 (6.98%) Disk Encryption
11 6 (6.98%) Incident Management
11 6 (6.98%) RBAC
11 6 (6.98%) Task Automation
12 5 (5.81%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 8 (9.30%) PowerShell
2 1 (1.16%) Bash
2 1 (1.16%) Korn
2 1 (1.16%) SQL
2 1 (1.16%) VB
Qualifications
1 15 (17.44%) Microsoft Certification
2 11 (12.79%) Network+ Certification
3 9 (10.47%) A+ Certification
3 9 (10.47%) MCITP
4 7 (8.14%) Security Cleared
5 6 (6.98%) Degree
5 6 (6.98%) DV Cleared
6 2 (2.33%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (1.16%) CCA
7 1 (1.16%) Citrix Certification
7 1 (1.16%) DBS Check
7 1 (1.16%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 1 (1.16%) MCP
7 1 (1.16%) PRINCE2 Certification
7 1 (1.16%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (24.42%) SLA
2 1 (1.16%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (1.16%) GDPR
2 1 (1.16%) PMO
System Software
1 54 (62.79%) Active Directory
2 28 (32.56%) Hyper-V
3 25 (29.07%) VMware Infrastructure
4 17 (19.77%) Terminal Services
5 12 (13.95%) vSphere
6 11 (12.79%) Virtual Desktop
6 11 (12.79%) VMware ESXi
7 7 (8.14%) Docker
8 6 (6.98%) BitLocker
8 6 (6.98%) Microsoft App-V
9 1 (1.16%) Citrix Hypervisor
9 1 (1.16%) DFS Replication
9 1 (1.16%) KVM
9 1 (1.16%) Virtual Machines
9 1 (1.16%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (1.16%) XenApp
9 1 (1.16%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 11 (12.79%) vCenter Server
2 8 (9.30%) Microsoft Intune
3 7 (8.14%) Kubernetes
4 6 (6.98%) Ansible
4 6 (6.98%) Nagios
4 6 (6.98%) Puppet
4 6 (6.98%) vMotion
5 1 (1.16%) Autotask
5 1 (1.16%) Backup Exec
5 1 (1.16%) FortiGate
5 1 (1.16%) SCCM
5 1 (1.16%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (1.16%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
5 1 (1.16%) WSUS
Vendors
1 62 (72.09%) Microsoft
2 32 (37.21%) VMware
3 12 (13.95%) HP
4 9 (10.47%) Citrix
4 9 (10.47%) Dell
5 8 (9.30%) Cisco
6 7 (8.14%) Google
6 7 (8.14%) Meraki
6 7 (8.14%) Symantec
7 6 (6.98%) NetApp
7 6 (6.98%) Ubiquiti
8 5 (5.81%) Sophos
9 4 (4.65%) Veeam
10 3 (3.49%) Fortinet
10 3 (3.49%) Freshdesk
11 2 (2.33%) Aruba
11 2 (2.33%) BT
11 2 (2.33%) Facebook
11 2 (2.33%) Okta
11 2 (2.33%) Red Hat