Remote Desktop Job Trends

Remote Desktop
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Remote Desktop skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 641 553 654
Rank change year-on-year -88 +101 +17
Permanent jobs citing Remote Desktop 75 99 239
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.083% 0.23% 0.25%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.85% 1.56% 1.85%
Number of salaries quoted 45 87 221
10th Percentile £25,500 £25,750 £25,500
25th Percentile £29,000 £28,500 £26,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £32,500 £32,001
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +1.56% -8.57%
75th Percentile £43,750 £43,750 £50,000
90th Percentile £72,500 £52,500 £53,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £33,500 £32,500 £30,000
% change year-on-year +3.08% +8.33% -10.45%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 8,812 6,366 12,933
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.75% 14.56% 13.38%
Number of salaries quoted 4,024 3,789 9,419
10th Percentile £27,500 £27,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,219 £32,500 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £68,750 £68,750 £63,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £77,715
UK excluding London median annual salary £40,000 £45,000 £43,500
% change year-on-year -11.11% +3.45% -3.33%

Remote Desktop
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Remote Desktop job vacancy trend in the UK

Remote Desktop
Salary Trend

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Remote Desktop

Remote Desktop
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Remote Desktop over the 6 months to 12 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Remote Desktop in the UK

Remote Desktop
Top 15 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 12 May 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
UK excluding London -53 73 £33,500 +3.08% 13
England -84 55 £35,000 +7.69% 12
South East -4 29 £45,000 +32.35% 4
North of England -31 12 £30,000 -29.41% 3
Northern Ireland - 12 - - 1
Work from Home -12 10 £35,750 +10.00% 4
Midlands -48 8 £35,000 +22.81% 2
North East - 7 - - 1
North West -7 5 £30,000 -29.41% 1
East of England -18 4 £30,000 -20.00% 3
Wales -27 4 £24,250 +7.78% 1
West Midlands -27 4 £35,000 +34.62% 1
East Midlands -46 4 £33,750 +15.88% 1
Scotland - 4 £39,000 -
London -15 2 £53,750 -15.69% 2

Remote Desktop
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 19 (25.33%) Microsoft Exchange
2 9 (12.00%) SharePoint
3 3 (4.00%) IIS
4 2 (2.67%) Apache
Applications
1 9 (12.00%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (2.67%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (1.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (1.33%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (1.33%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 39 (52.00%) Azure
2 35 (46.67%) AWS
2 35 (46.67%) Microsoft 365
3 26 (34.67%) Nutanix
4 9 (12.00%) Entra ID
5 8 (10.67%) OneDrive
6 4 (5.33%) Google Workspace
6 4 (5.33%) Mimecast
6 4 (5.33%) SaaS
6 4 (5.33%) Viva Engage
Communications & Networking
1 36 (48.00%) DNS
2 33 (44.00%) DHCP
3 19 (25.33%) Firewall
4 18 (24.00%) VPN
5 13 (17.33%) VoIP
6 11 (14.67%) LAN
7 8 (10.67%) iSCSI
7 8 (10.67%) SAN
8 7 (9.33%) TCP/IP
8 7 (9.33%) WAN
9 4 (5.33%) Broadband
9 4 (5.33%) Cisco IOS
9 4 (5.33%) WLAN
10 3 (4.00%) NetScaler
11 2 (2.67%) 4G
11 2 (2.67%) Network Security
11 2 (2.67%) PBX
11 2 (2.67%) SD-WAN
11 2 (2.67%) Wireless
12 1 (1.33%) IP Telephony
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (18.67%) SQL Server
2 9 (12.00%) MySQL
3 8 (10.67%) PostgreSQL
General
1 42 (56.00%) Social Skills
2 9 (12.00%) Organisational Skills
3 3 (4.00%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (4.00%) Automotive
3 3 (4.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (2.67%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (2.67%) Manufacturing
4 2 (2.67%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (1.33%) French Language
5 1 (1.33%) Legal
5 1 (1.33%) Retail
Job Titles
1 26 (34.67%) Cloud Engineer
2 17 (22.67%) IT Support
3 12 (16.00%) Support Engineer
4 10 (13.33%) 2nd Line Engineer
4 10 (13.33%) IT Engineer
5 9 (12.00%) IT Support Engineer
5 9 (12.00%) Senior
6 8 (10.67%) 2nd Line Support
6 8 (10.67%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
6 8 (10.67%) Analyst
6 8 (10.67%) Linux Engineer
6 8 (10.67%) Senior Linux Engineer
6 8 (10.67%) Support Technician
7 7 (9.33%) IT Support Technician
7 7 (9.33%) IT Technician
8 5 (6.67%) Service Analyst
9 4 (5.33%) 1st Line Support
9 4 (5.33%) Help Desk Support
9 4 (5.33%) Security Engineer
9 4 (5.33%) Service Desk Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 26 (34.67%) Hybrid Cloud
1 26 (34.67%) Public Cloud
2 10 (13.33%) Management Information System
3 6 (8.00%) Cloud Native
3 6 (8.00%) Driving Licence
4 4 (5.33%) iPad
4 4 (5.33%) iPhone
5 3 (4.00%) Replication
6 2 (2.67%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (2.67%) Smartphone
6 2 (2.67%) Virtual Team
7 1 (1.33%) CCTV
7 1 (1.33%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.33%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 58 (77.33%) Windows
2 41 (54.67%) Windows Server
3 10 (13.33%) Linux
4 8 (10.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (5.33%) Mac OS
5 4 (5.33%) Windows 10
6 2 (2.67%) Android
6 2 (2.67%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (58.67%) ITIL
2 34 (45.33%) High Availability
3 33 (44.00%) ITSM
4 29 (38.67%) Mentoring
5 27 (36.00%) Business Continuity
5 27 (36.00%) Disaster Recovery
6 26 (34.67%) Business Strategy
6 26 (34.67%) Change Management
6 26 (34.67%) Coaching
6 26 (34.67%) Knowledge Transfer
6 26 (34.67%) Server Management
6 26 (34.67%) Storage Management
6 26 (34.67%) Vulnerability Remediation
7 17 (22.67%) Customer Service
8 15 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
9 9 (12.00%) Time Management
10 6 (8.00%) Asset Management
11 5 (6.67%) Continuous Improvement
12 4 (5.33%) Patch Management
12 4 (5.33%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 8 (10.67%) Bash
1 8 (10.67%) PowerShell
2 6 (8.00%) Korn
3 5 (6.67%) SQL
4 2 (2.67%) C
Qualifications
1 7 (9.33%) Security Cleared
2 6 (8.00%) Degree
2 6 (8.00%) ITIL Certification
3 4 (5.33%) CompTIA Security+
3 4 (5.33%) SC Cleared
4 3 (4.00%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (2.67%) CCNA
5 2 (2.67%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (2.67%) MCSA
5 2 (2.67%) MCSE
5 2 (2.67%) RHCE
5 2 (2.67%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (40.00%) SLA
2 4 (5.33%) Cyber Essentials
2 4 (5.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (5.33%) NIST
System Software
1 59 (78.67%) Active Directory
2 29 (38.67%) Hyper-V
2 29 (38.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (10.67%) Citrix Hypervisor
3 8 (10.67%) Docker
4 2 (2.67%) Samba
4 2 (2.67%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (1.33%) Xen
Systems Management
1 9 (12.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 8 (10.67%) Kubernetes
3 5 (6.67%) SCCM
4 2 (2.67%) Nagios
5 1 (1.33%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 40 (53.33%) Microsoft
2 36 (48.00%) Dell
3 31 (41.33%) VMware
4 30 (40.00%) HP
5 26 (34.67%) Dell Compellent
5 26 (34.67%) Nimble Storage
6 8 (10.67%) Cisco
6 8 (10.67%) Red Hat
7 7 (9.33%) Citrix
8 6 (8.00%) Veeam
9 4 (5.33%) BeyondTrust
9 4 (5.33%) Google
9 4 (5.33%) Meraki
9 4 (5.33%) ProCurve
9 4 (5.33%) ServiceNow
9 4 (5.33%) Sophos
10 2 (2.67%) CrowdStrike
10 2 (2.67%) Fortinet
10 2 (2.67%) SonicWALL
10 2 (2.67%) WatchGuard