Remote Desktop Jobs

Remote Desktop
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 610 665 701
Rank change year-on-year +55 +36 +213
Permanent jobs citing Remote Desktop 92 245 272
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.16% 0.24% 0.28%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.91% 1.80% 1.76%
Number of salaries quoted 83 223 223
10th Percentile £25,000 £25,760 £25,600
25th Percentile £27,375 £26,919 £27,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,000 £32,001 £35,000
Median % change year-on-year 0.00% -8.57% -7.89%
75th Percentile £43,750 £50,000 £46,875
90th Percentile £58,750 £53,750 £58,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £31,500 £30,000 £34,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% -11.76% -2.86%

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 10,094 13,581 15,458
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 18.08% 13.10% 16.14%
Number of salaries quoted 4,436 9,413 7,713
10th Percentile £23,504 £26,250 £28,000
25th Percentile £26,625 £32,500 £35,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £47,500 £50,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% -5.94% -3.81%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £77,500 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £35,000 £44,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -20.45% -2.22% -5.26%

Remote Desktop
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Remote Desktop as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Remote Desktop in the UK

Remote Desktop
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Remote Desktop.

Salary trend for Remote Desktop in the UK

Remote Desktop
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Remote Desktop over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Remote Desktop in the UK

Remote Desktop
Top 14 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 31 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
England +46 85 £32,500 - 56
UK excluding London +83 82 £31,500 +5.00% 46
Work from Home +71 35 £32,500 -15.58% 21
Midlands +71 25 £28,500 - 8
South East +64 25 £34,000 +4.62% 11
East Midlands +57 19 £29,125 -39.95% 4
South West +87 14 £31,500 -24.10% 3
East of England +32 7 £32,500 - 10
London +57 6 £63,750 +21.43% 11
West Midlands +48 6 £26,000 -1.89% 4
North of England +10 6 £42,500 +32.81% 12
Wales +28 5 £22,500 -20.47% 1
North West -23 5 £42,500 +41.67% 4
Yorkshire - 1 £28,000 - 7

Remote Desktop
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 40 (43.48%) Microsoft Exchange
2 30 (32.61%) SharePoint
3 6 (6.52%) IIS
Applications
1 21 (22.83%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (8.70%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (5.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (1.09%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 52 (56.52%) Microsoft 365
2 34 (36.96%) Azure
3 19 (20.65%) Entra ID
4 11 (11.96%) AWS
5 6 (6.52%) GCP
5 6 (6.52%) OpenShift
6 5 (5.43%) OneDrive
7 2 (2.17%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (1.09%) Azure Logic Apps
8 1 (1.09%) Google Workspace
8 1 (1.09%) Mimecast
8 1 (1.09%) Nutanix
8 1 (1.09%) Power Platform
8 1 (1.09%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 28 (30.43%) Firewall
2 21 (22.83%) DNS
3 20 (21.74%) DHCP
4 13 (14.13%) LAN
5 12 (13.04%) SAN
5 12 (13.04%) WAN
6 9 (9.78%) VPN
7 8 (8.70%) Ethernet
8 7 (7.61%) Network Security
9 6 (6.52%) SMTP
9 6 (6.52%) TCP/IP
10 5 (5.43%) Internet
11 4 (4.35%) iSCSI
12 3 (3.26%) IP Telephony
12 3 (3.26%) SSL
13 2 (2.17%) SD-WAN
13 2 (2.17%) VLAN
14 1 (1.09%) Fast Ethernet
14 1 (1.09%) Mobile Broadband
14 1 (1.09%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (10.87%) SQL Server
2 7 (7.61%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (2.17%) MySQL
3 2 (2.17%) PostgreSQL
General
1 39 (42.39%) Social Skills
2 12 (13.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 8 (8.70%) Automotive
3 8 (8.70%) Organisational Skills
4 7 (7.61%) Manufacturing
5 5 (5.43%) Aerospace
6 4 (4.35%) Telecoms
7 3 (3.26%) Legal
8 2 (2.17%) Aviation
8 2 (2.17%) Finance
8 2 (2.17%) Games
8 2 (2.17%) Public Sector
8 2 (2.17%) Retail
9 1 (1.09%) Banking
9 1 (1.09%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.09%) Law
Job Titles
1 26 (28.26%) Support Engineer
2 17 (18.48%) 1st Line Support
3 15 (16.30%) 3rd Line Support
4 14 (15.22%) Analyst
4 14 (15.22%) Technical Support
5 12 (13.04%) 2nd Line Support
6 11 (11.96%) IT Support
7 10 (10.87%) Help Desk Support
8 8 (8.70%) 3rd Line Engineer
8 8 (8.70%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
8 8 (8.70%) 3rd Line Technical Support
8 8 (8.70%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 8 (8.70%) Service Analyst
9 7 (7.61%) Technical Engineer
9 7 (7.61%) Technical Support Engineer
10 6 (6.52%) Infrastructure Support
10 6 (6.52%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
10 6 (6.52%) IT Engineer
10 6 (6.52%) Senior
11 5 (5.43%) First Line Help Desk Support
Miscellaneous
1 7 (7.61%) Clustering
2 6 (6.52%) Legacy Systems
2 6 (6.52%) PKI
3 3 (3.26%) Driving Licence
3 3 (3.26%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (3.26%) Management Information System
3 3 (3.26%) Video Conferencing
4 2 (2.17%) Cloud Native
4 2 (2.17%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (2.17%) Social Media
5 1 (1.09%) BYOD
5 1 (1.09%) CCTV
5 1 (1.09%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.09%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.09%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.09%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.09%) Replication
5 1 (1.09%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 64 (69.57%) Windows
2 41 (44.57%) Windows Server
3 13 (14.13%) Mac OS
4 11 (11.96%) Linux
5 5 (5.43%) Windows Server 2019
6 4 (4.35%) Android
6 4 (4.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (4.35%) Windows 10
7 3 (3.26%) Apple iOS
7 3 (3.26%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (2.17%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (1.09%) CentOS
9 1 (1.09%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (39.13%) Customer Service
1 36 (39.13%) ITIL
1 36 (39.13%) Problem-Solving
2 19 (20.65%) ITSM
3 17 (18.48%) Change Management
4 16 (17.39%) Service Management
5 10 (10.87%) Case Management
5 10 (10.87%) Data Protection
5 10 (10.87%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 9 (9.78%) Continuous Improvement
7 8 (8.70%) Cybersecurity
7 8 (8.70%) Incident Management
8 7 (7.61%) High Availability
8 7 (7.61%) Service Delivery
9 6 (6.52%) Application Virtualisation
9 6 (6.52%) Collaborative Working
9 6 (6.52%) CRM
9 6 (6.52%) Disk Encryption
9 6 (6.52%) Mobile Device Management
9 6 (6.52%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 9 (9.78%) PowerShell
2 2 (2.17%) Bash
2 2 (2.17%) Korn
2 2 (2.17%) SQL
3 1 (1.09%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 13 (14.13%) Microsoft Certification
2 11 (11.96%) Network+ Certification
3 10 (10.87%) Degree
4 9 (9.78%) A+ Certification
4 9 (9.78%) MCITP
5 6 (6.52%) DV Cleared
5 6 (6.52%) Security Cleared
6 3 (3.26%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (1.09%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.09%) DBS Check
7 1 (1.09%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 1 (1.09%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (28.26%) SLA
2 2 (2.17%) GDPR
2 2 (2.17%) ISO 22301
2 2 (2.17%) ISO 9001
2 2 (2.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (2.17%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.09%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 60 (65.22%) Active Directory
2 27 (29.35%) Hyper-V
3 25 (27.17%) VMware Infrastructure
4 17 (18.48%) Terminal Services
5 14 (15.22%) Virtual Desktop
6 13 (14.13%) vSphere
7 12 (13.04%) VMware ESXi
8 8 (8.70%) Docker
9 6 (6.52%) BitLocker
9 6 (6.52%) Microsoft App-V
10 2 (2.17%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 1 (1.09%) KVM
11 1 (1.09%) Virtual Servers
11 1 (1.09%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 11 (11.96%) vCenter Server
2 10 (10.87%) Microsoft Intune
3 8 (8.70%) Kubernetes
4 6 (6.52%) Ansible
4 6 (6.52%) Nagios
4 6 (6.52%) Puppet
4 6 (6.52%) vMotion
5 4 (4.35%) SCCM
6 1 (1.09%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (1.09%) Autotask
6 1 (1.09%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (1.09%) WSUS
6 1 (1.09%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 69 (75.00%) Microsoft
2 32 (34.78%) VMware
3 13 (14.13%) HP
4 11 (11.96%) Citrix
5 9 (9.78%) Dell
6 8 (8.70%) Cisco
7 7 (7.61%) Google
7 7 (7.61%) Meraki
8 6 (6.52%) NetApp
8 6 (6.52%) Symantec
8 6 (6.52%) Ubiquiti
9 5 (5.43%) Sophos
10 3 (3.26%) Freshdesk
10 3 (3.26%) Red Hat
10 3 (3.26%) ServiceNow
10 3 (3.26%) Veeam
11 2 (2.17%) Aruba
11 2 (2.17%) Facebook
11 2 (2.17%) Okta
11 2 (2.17%) Splunk