Terminal Server Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Terminal Server
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Terminal Server skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 418 570 541
Rank change year-on-year +152 -29 +209
Permanent jobs citing Terminal Server 99 10 10
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.24% 0.027% 0.033%
As % of the System Software category 3.50% 0.22% 0.19%
Number of salaries quoted 3 10 10
10th Percentile £37,000 £42,375 £37,725
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,313 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,000 £47,500 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.16% +18.75% +6.67%
75th Percentile £47,875 £67,500 £41,000
90th Percentile £48,400 £73,750 £45,650
UK median annual salary £47,500 £47,500 £40,000
% change year-on-year - +18.75% +6.67%

All System Software Skills
UK excluding London

Terminal Server falls under the System Software category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring system software skills in the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 2,830 4,487 5,282
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 6.75% 12.04% 17.18%
Number of salaries quoted 1,988 2,593 4,380
10th Percentile £26,500 £27,750 £27,000
25th Percentile £30,000 £35,000 £33,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £41,500 £50,000 £47,557
Median % change year-on-year -17.00% +5.14% -1.83%
75th Percentile £60,750 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £81,250 £77,500
UK median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% -0.90%

Terminal Server
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Terminal Server relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Terminal Server job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Terminal Server
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Terminal Server.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Terminal Server

Terminal Server
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 Terminal Server within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 1 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
South West - 84 - -
Wales - 12 - -
South East +24 2 £46,750 -35.52%
East of England +19 1 £35,000 -22.22%
Terminal Server
UK

Terminal Server
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 97 (97.98%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (1.01%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 97 (97.98%) Microsoft 365
2 96 (96.97%) Azure
3 1 (1.01%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 96 (96.97%) DHCP
1 96 (96.97%) DNS
2 2 (2.02%) Cisco ISE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 96 (96.97%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 1 (1.01%) JIRA
1 1 (1.01%) Subversion
General
1 98 (98.99%) Social Skills
2 96 (96.97%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (1.01%) Legal
Job Titles
1 96 (96.97%) Systems Engineer
2 2 (2.02%) Senior
2 2 (2.02%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
2 2 (2.02%) Test Specialist
3 1 (1.01%) Analyst
3 1 (1.01%) Deskside Analyst
3 1 (1.01%) Deskside Support
3 1 (1.01%) Deskside Support Analyst
3 1 (1.01%) Desktop Support
3 1 (1.01%) Support Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 96 (96.97%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 99 (100.00%) Windows
1 99 (100.00%) Windows Server
2 96 (96.97%) Linux
2 96 (96.97%) Windows Server 2016
3 3 (3.03%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 96 (96.97%) Customer Experience
1 96 (96.97%) Customer Service
1 96 (96.97%) Email Filtering
1 96 (96.97%) Kalman Filter
1 96 (96.97%) Migration
1 96 (96.97%) Problem-Solving
1 96 (96.97%) Vulnerability Remediation
1 96 (96.97%) Vulnerability Scanning
1 96 (96.97%) Web Filtering
2 2 (2.02%) Agile
2 2 (2.02%) Manual Testing
2 2 (2.02%) Test Automation
2 2 (2.02%) V-Model
2 2 (2.02%) Waterfall
3 1 (1.01%) Business Continuity
3 1 (1.01%) Case Management
3 1 (1.01%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (1.01%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (1.01%) Defect Management
3 1 (1.01%) Multi-Factor Authentication
Programming Languages
1 2 (2.02%) SQL
2 1 (1.01%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 98 (98.99%) SC Cleared
1 98 (98.99%) Security Cleared
2 2 (2.02%) DV Cleared
2 2 (2.02%) ISTQB
3 1 (1.01%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 96 (96.97%) Cyber Essentials
1 96 (96.97%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 99 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 96 (96.97%) Hyper-V
3 2 (2.02%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (2.02%) SCCM
1 2 (2.02%) SCOM
2 1 (1.01%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 98 (98.99%) VMware
2 97 (97.98%) Microsoft
3 96 (96.97%) Brocade
3 96 (96.97%) Nimble Storage
3 96 (96.97%) SolarWinds
3 96 (96.97%) Splunk
3 96 (96.97%) Tanium
3 96 (96.97%) Veeam
4 2 (2.02%) Cisco
4 2 (2.02%) Juniper
4 2 (2.02%) McAfee
5 1 (1.01%) Adobe