Remote Desktop
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Remote Desktop skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Remote Desktop over the 6 months to 6 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 673 687 860
Rank change year-on-year +14 +173 -177
Permanent jobs citing Remote Desktop 240 306 385
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.24% 0.30% 0.24%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.76% 1.91% 1.83%
Number of salaries quoted 222 248 337
10th Percentile £25,526 £25,500 £24,900
25th Percentile £26,500 £27,938 £27,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 £35,000 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% -12.50% +3.90%
75th Percentile £50,000 £45,813 £55,000
90th Percentile £53,750 £60,000 £67,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £30,000 £34,000 £37,250
% change year-on-year -11.76% -8.72% +4.93%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

Remote Desktop is in the Communications and Computer Networking category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 13,606 15,993 21,040
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.77% 15.46% 13.37%
Number of salaries quoted 9,496 8,163 11,830
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,750 £28,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £35,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,715 £87,500 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £43,500 £45,000 £46,223
% change year-on-year -3.33% -2.64% +2.72%

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 6 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Remote Desktop in the UK

Remote Desktop
Top 17 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 6 May 2024. 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 +21 204 £32,500 -7.14% 58
UK excluding London -69 181 £30,000 -11.76% 53
Work from Home +89 88 £46,250 +2.78% 23
London +124 51 £52,500 +40.00% 13
South East -5 40 £32,500 -18.75% 9
North of England +35 36 £31,750 -9.29% 11
South West -36 36 £42,500 +51.79% 6
North West +19 29 £30,000 -29.41% 8
East of England 0 21 £32,500 +14.04% 8
Midlands -6 20 £28,500 -16.18% 9
Wales +30 17 £28,290 +9.86% 2
West Midlands +17 16 £27,000 -33.33% 4
Scotland -61 8 £29,500 -15.71% 10
North East -2 6 £36,750 -10.37% 1
East Midlands -25 4 £48,500 +49.23% 5
Northern Ireland - 3 £40,000 -
Yorkshire +70 1 £42,500 +30.77% 2

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 73 (30.42%) Microsoft Exchange
2 64 (26.67%) SharePoint
3 5 (2.08%) IIS
4 4 (1.67%) Exchange Server 2010
5 3 (1.25%) IBM Notes
6 2 (0.83%) WordPress
7 1 (0.42%) CMS
7 1 (0.42%) Exchange Server 2013
7 1 (0.42%) Site Server
7 1 (0.42%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 43 (17.92%) Microsoft Office
2 27 (11.25%) Microsoft Excel
2 27 (11.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 11 (4.58%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (2.08%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 189 (78.75%) Microsoft 365
2 141 (58.75%) Azure
3 57 (23.75%) Entra ID
4 36 (15.00%) OneDrive
5 10 (4.17%) AWS
5 10 (4.17%) Power Platform
6 7 (2.92%) IaaS
7 6 (2.50%) GCP
7 6 (2.50%) PaaS
8 4 (1.67%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (1.67%) Mimecast
9 2 (0.83%) Azure Sentinel
9 2 (0.83%) PowerApps
9 2 (0.83%) WhatsApp
10 1 (0.42%) Apple Pay
10 1 (0.42%) Dynamics 365
10 1 (0.42%) Google Workspace
10 1 (0.42%) Power Automate
10 1 (0.42%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 69 (28.75%) Firewall
2 59 (24.58%) DNS
3 56 (23.33%) DHCP
4 46 (19.17%) VPN
5 39 (16.25%) LAN
6 38 (15.83%) WAN
7 34 (14.17%) Wi-Fi
8 32 (13.33%) TCP/IP
9 28 (11.67%) VLAN
9 28 (11.67%) Wireless
10 19 (7.92%) MPLS
11 18 (7.50%) SAN
12 16 (6.67%) VoIP
13 6 (2.50%) Fibre Channel
14 5 (2.08%) Internet
14 5 (2.08%) NAS
15 3 (1.25%) iSCSI
15 3 (1.25%) Network Security
15 3 (1.25%) SSL
15 3 (1.25%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (10.42%) Amazon RDS
2 13 (5.42%) SQL Server
3 10 (4.17%) Power BI
4 4 (1.67%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (1.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 3 (1.25%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 3 (1.25%) GitLab
2 1 (0.42%) Subversion
General
1 128 (53.33%) Social Skills
2 35 (14.58%) Finance
3 14 (5.83%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (5.00%) Public Sector
5 10 (4.17%) Legal
6 7 (2.92%) Documentation Skills
6 7 (2.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (2.50%) Organisational Skills
8 5 (2.08%) Retail
9 3 (1.25%) Marketing
9 3 (1.25%) Norwegian Language
9 3 (1.25%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (1.25%) Telecoms
10 2 (0.83%) French Language
10 2 (0.83%) Law
11 1 (0.42%) Back Office
11 1 (0.42%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 77 (32.08%) Support Engineer
2 46 (19.17%) IT Support
3 37 (15.42%) Analyst
4 32 (13.33%) Desktop Support
5 31 (12.92%) IT Engineer
6 29 (12.08%) Desktop Engineer
6 29 (12.08%) Desktop Support Engineer
7 28 (11.67%) IT Support Engineer
8 24 (10.00%) 2nd Line Support
8 24 (10.00%) Service Analyst
9 20 (8.33%) Project Manager
9 20 (8.33%) Service Desk Analyst
10 18 (7.50%) 3rd Line Support
11 17 (7.08%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 17 (7.08%) Technical Support
12 16 (6.67%) Senior
13 15 (6.25%) 3rd Line Engineer
14 14 (5.83%) 2nd Line Engineer
14 14 (5.83%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
14 14 (5.83%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (2.92%) X-Windows
2 4 (1.67%) .NET
2 4 (1.67%) ASP.NET
2 4 (1.67%) ASP.NET MVC
3 3 (1.25%) XML
4 2 (0.83%) CSS
4 2 (0.83%) HTML
5 1 (0.42%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 24 (10.00%) iPad
2 18 (7.50%) Data Centre
3 16 (6.67%) Public Cloud
4 15 (6.25%) Self-Motivation
5 13 (5.42%) Driving Licence
6 11 (4.58%) Enterprise Software
7 10 (4.17%) Smartphone
8 7 (2.92%) Replication
9 6 (2.50%) Onboarding
10 5 (2.08%) Low-Code
11 4 (1.67%) CCTV
11 4 (1.67%) PKI
12 3 (1.25%) Clustering
12 3 (1.25%) Data Structures
12 3 (1.25%) EPoS
12 3 (1.25%) iPhone
12 3 (1.25%) Team-Oriented Environment
13 2 (0.83%) Educational Technology
13 2 (0.83%) Handset
13 2 (0.83%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 168 (70.00%) Windows
2 85 (35.42%) Windows Server
3 44 (18.33%) Windows 10
4 22 (9.17%) Windows Server 2016
5 20 (8.33%) Windows Server 2019
6 17 (7.08%) Windows Server 2012
7 12 (5.00%) Windows 7
8 11 (4.58%) Mac OS X
9 10 (4.17%) Windows Server 2008
10 9 (3.75%) Linux
10 9 (3.75%) Windows Phone
11 6 (2.50%) Android
11 6 (2.50%) Apple iOS
11 6 (2.50%) Mac OS
12 4 (1.67%) CentOS
12 4 (1.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 4 (1.67%) Ubuntu
13 2 (0.83%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (30.83%) Customer Service
2 54 (22.50%) ITIL
3 50 (20.83%) Problem-Solving
4 35 (14.58%) Agile
5 31 (12.92%) Ticket Management
6 28 (11.67%) Break/Fix
6 28 (11.67%) Project Management
7 24 (10.00%) PRINCE2
8 23 (9.58%) Problem Management
9 20 (8.33%) ITSM
9 20 (8.33%) Service Delivery
10 19 (7.92%) Incident Management
11 18 (7.50%) Continuous Improvement
12 17 (7.08%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 17 (7.08%) Service Management
13 15 (6.25%) CRM
13 15 (6.25%) Mentoring
14 14 (5.83%) Decision-Making
14 14 (5.83%) Line Management
15 13 (5.42%) Remote Monitoring and Management
Programming Languages
1 24 (10.00%) PowerShell
2 20 (8.33%) SQL
3 8 (3.33%) T-SQL
4 4 (1.67%) Bash
4 4 (1.67%) C#
4 4 (1.67%) VBA
5 1 (0.42%) Python
Qualifications
1 37 (15.42%) Degree
2 31 (12.92%) Microsoft Certification
3 16 (6.67%) APMP
4 11 (4.58%) A+ Certification
5 10 (4.17%) Security Cleared
6 9 (3.75%) Azure Certification
6 9 (3.75%) MCP
7 8 (3.33%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 7 (2.92%) CCNA
8 7 (2.92%) Cisco Certification
9 6 (2.50%) HND
9 6 (2.50%) ITIL Certification
9 6 (2.50%) SC Cleared
10 4 (1.67%) AWS Certification
10 4 (1.67%) DBS Check
10 4 (1.67%) MCDST
10 4 (1.67%) MCITP
11 3 (1.25%) HNC
11 3 (1.25%) MCSA
11 3 (1.25%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (7.08%) SLA
2 10 (4.17%) GDPR
3 5 (2.08%) QA
4 3 (1.25%) Cyber Essentials
4 3 (1.25%) Disclosure Scotland
4 3 (1.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.42%) PMO
System Software
1 154 (64.17%) Active Directory
2 77 (32.08%) VMware Infrastructure
3 68 (28.33%) Hyper-V
4 35 (14.58%) VMware ESXi
5 23 (9.58%) Virtual Desktop
6 16 (6.67%) Terminal Services
7 7 (2.92%) vSphere
8 5 (2.08%) Virtual Servers
8 5 (2.08%) XenApp
9 4 (1.67%) VMware NSX
9 4 (1.67%) VMware Server
9 4 (1.67%) XenDesktop
10 3 (1.25%) Terminal Server
11 2 (0.83%) Virtual Machines
12 1 (0.42%) DFS Replication
12 1 (0.42%) NFS
Systems Management
1 59 (24.58%) Microsoft Intune
2 19 (7.92%) SCCM
2 19 (7.92%) WSUS
3 9 (3.75%) AirWatch
4 7 (2.92%) vCenter Server
5 3 (1.25%) Failover Clustering
5 3 (1.25%) Microsoft Clustering
6 2 (0.83%) Jamf Pro
7 1 (0.42%) Backup Exec
7 1 (0.42%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.42%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
Vendors
1 194 (80.83%) Microsoft
2 84 (35.00%) VMware
3 34 (14.17%) Cisco
4 33 (13.75%) Citrix
5 21 (8.75%) Ruckus Wireless
6 19 (7.92%) Veeam
7 13 (5.42%) HP
8 7 (2.92%) Aruba
8 7 (2.92%) ConnectWise
8 7 (2.92%) Datto
8 7 (2.92%) Dell
8 7 (2.92%) Ubiquiti
9 6 (2.50%) Meraki
9 6 (2.50%) Sophos
10 5 (2.08%) Apple
10 5 (2.08%) iManage
10 5 (2.08%) Intapp
11 4 (1.67%) LexisNexis
11 4 (1.67%) NEC
11 4 (1.67%) ServiceNow