Terminal Server Job Trends

Terminal Server
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Terminal Server skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 565 743 717
Rank change year-on-year +178 -26 +391
Permanent jobs citing Terminal Server 87 8 15
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.17% 0.012% 0.028%
As % of the System Software category 1.75% 0.11% 0.17%
Number of salaries quoted 6 8 14
10th Percentile £40,000 £42,125 -
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,000 £46,250 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.54% +15.63% +6.67%
75th Percentile £53,000 £48,750 £41,000
90th Percentile £63,750 - £67,425
UK excluding London median annual salary £46,000 £46,250 £40,000
% change year-on-year -0.54% +15.63% +6.67%

All System Software Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 4,979 7,403 8,868
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.51% 10.99% 16.81%
Number of salaries quoted 3,470 4,291 7,294
10th Percentile £27,250 £30,500 £28,538
25th Percentile £31,750 £40,000 £37,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -
75th Percentile £73,750 £75,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £88,750 £95,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £50,000 £47,557
% change year-on-year -15.00% +5.14% -4.89%

Terminal Server
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Terminal Server job vacancy trend in the UK

Terminal Server
Salary Trend

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Terminal Server

Terminal Server
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Terminal Server over the 6 months to 12 November 2025.

Salary histogram for Terminal Server in the UK

Terminal Server
Top 7 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 12 November 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
UK excluding London +160 85 £46,000 -0.54% 4
England +164 77 £46,000 -0.54% 4
South West - 70 - -
Wales - 10 - -
South East +34 4 £46,000 -3.16% 3
London - 2 £62,500 -
East of England +8 1 £35,000 -22.22%

Terminal Server
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 81 (93.10%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (1.15%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 82 (94.25%) Azure
2 81 (93.10%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (2.30%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (2.30%) IaaS
3 2 (2.30%) PaaS
3 2 (2.30%) SaaS
3 2 (2.30%) Serverless
3 2 (2.30%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 1 (1.15%) AWS
4 1 (1.15%) Entra ID
4 1 (1.15%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 80 (91.95%) DHCP
1 80 (91.95%) DNS
2 4 (4.60%) Cisco ISE
3 2 (2.30%) LAN
3 2 (2.30%) Network Security
3 2 (2.30%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 80 (91.95%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 2 (2.30%) CircleCI
1 2 (2.30%) GitLab
1 2 (2.30%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.15%) JIRA
2 1 (1.15%) Subversion
General
1 84 (96.55%) Social Skills
2 80 (91.95%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (1.15%) Finance
3 1 (1.15%) Legal
Job Titles
1 80 (91.95%) Systems Engineer
2 4 (4.60%) Senior
2 4 (4.60%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
2 4 (4.60%) Test Specialist
3 2 (2.30%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (1.15%) Analyst
4 1 (1.15%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (1.15%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (1.15%) Deskside Analyst
4 1 (1.15%) Deskside Support
4 1 (1.15%) Deskside Support Analyst
4 1 (1.15%) Desktop Support
4 1 (1.15%) Support Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 80 (91.95%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (2.30%) Cloud Native
3 1 (1.15%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 85 (97.70%) Windows
1 85 (97.70%) Windows Server
2 80 (91.95%) Linux
2 80 (91.95%) Windows Server 2016
3 5 (5.75%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (91.95%) Customer Experience
1 80 (91.95%) Customer Service
1 80 (91.95%) Email Filtering
1 80 (91.95%) Kalman Filter
1 80 (91.95%) Migration
1 80 (91.95%) Problem-Solving
1 80 (91.95%) Vulnerability Remediation
1 80 (91.95%) Vulnerability Scanning
1 80 (91.95%) Web Filtering
2 4 (4.60%) Agile
2 4 (4.60%) Defect Management
2 4 (4.60%) End-to-End Testing
2 4 (4.60%) Manual Testing
2 4 (4.60%) Requirements Management
2 4 (4.60%) Test Automation
2 4 (4.60%) Test Scripting
2 4 (4.60%) V-Model
2 4 (4.60%) Waterfall
3 2 (2.30%) Configuration Management
3 2 (2.30%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 4 (4.60%) SQL
2 3 (3.45%) PowerShell
3 2 (2.30%) Bash
3 2 (2.30%) Python
Qualifications
1 84 (96.55%) SC Cleared
1 84 (96.55%) Security Cleared
2 4 (4.60%) ISTQB
3 3 (3.45%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 80 (91.95%) Cyber Essentials
1 80 (91.95%) PCI DSS
2 2 (2.30%) GDPR
System Software
1 85 (97.70%) Active Directory
2 80 (91.95%) Hyper-V
3 4 (4.60%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (2.30%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (4.60%) SCCM
1 4 (4.60%) SCOM
2 2 (2.30%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.30%) Terraform
3 1 (1.15%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 84 (96.55%) VMware
2 82 (94.25%) Microsoft
3 80 (91.95%) Brocade
3 80 (91.95%) Nimble Storage
3 80 (91.95%) SolarWinds
3 80 (91.95%) Splunk
3 80 (91.95%) Tanium
3 80 (91.95%) Veeam
4 4 (4.60%) Cisco
4 4 (4.60%) Juniper
4 4 (4.60%) McAfee
5 2 (2.30%) Citrix
5 2 (2.30%) OneLogin
6 1 (1.15%) Adobe