Microsoft Terminal Services
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Terminal Services skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Terminal Services over the 6 months to 4 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 718 1008 1036
Rank change year-on-year +290 +28 -301
Permanent jobs citing Terminal Services 23 68 62
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.043% 0.055% 0.048%
As % of the System Software category 0.26% 0.36% 0.27%
Number of salaries quoted 22 61 54
10th Percentile £35,125 £27,500 £24,750
25th Percentile £38,625 £36,250 £30,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,000 £42,500 £32,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.18% +30.77% -5.80%
75th Percentile £44,844 £52,500 £48,750
90th Percentile £48,700 £60,000 £68,375
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,000 £42,500 £31,000
% change year-on-year -1.18% +37.10% -4.62%

All System Software Skills
UK

Terminal Services is in the System Software category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for system software skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 8,918 18,819 22,644
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 16.75% 15.18% 17.66%
Number of salaries quoted 7,089 12,537 15,927
10th Percentile £29,000 £29,500 £28,250
25th Percentile £37,000 £38,500 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £56,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.79% +1.82% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £77,715 £77,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £95,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,557 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -4.89% +5.26% +5.56%

Terminal Services
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Terminal Services as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Terminal Services in the UK

Terminal Services
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Terminal Services.

Salary trend for Terminal Services in the UK

Terminal Services
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Terminal Services over the 6 months to 4 December 2023.

Salary histogram for Terminal Services in the UK

Terminal Services
Top 12 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Terminal Services within the UK over the 6 months to 4 December 2023. 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 +206 22 £42,000 -1.18% 17
England +287 21 £41,750 -1.76% 19
South East +158 8 £42,000 -13.85% 3
North of England +142 5 £40,000 -20.00% 7
West Midlands +133 4 £45,375 +0.83% 3
Midlands +115 4 £45,375 -24.38% 4
Yorkshire +95 3 £35,000 -22.22% 5
South West +81 3 £41,000 +70.83% 2
North West +94 2 £42,500 -15.00% 1
Scotland - 2 £52,500 -
London +259 1 - - 2
Work from Home +222 1 £44,250 -11.50% 6

Terminal Services
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 3 (13.04%) SharePoint
2 2 (8.70%) MS Exchange
3 1 (4.35%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 18 (78.26%) Microsoft 365
2 15 (65.22%) Azure
3 8 (34.78%) AWS
3 8 (34.78%) IaaS
4 3 (13.04%) Entra ID
5 2 (8.70%) SaaS
6 1 (4.35%) Google Workspace
6 1 (4.35%) OneDrive
6 1 (4.35%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 17 (73.91%) Firewall
2 14 (60.87%) LAN
2 14 (60.87%) WAN
3 12 (52.17%) DHCP
3 12 (52.17%) DNS
4 11 (47.83%) TCP/IP
4 11 (47.83%) VPN
5 10 (43.48%) VLAN
6 2 (8.70%) Remote Desktop
7 1 (4.35%) Cisco ASA
7 1 (4.35%) Cisco PIX
7 1 (4.35%) Intrusion Detection
7 1 (4.35%) iSCSI
7 1 (4.35%) NetScaler
7 1 (4.35%) Network Security
7 1 (4.35%) SAN
7 1 (4.35%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (13.04%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (4.35%) Oracle Database
2 1 (4.35%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (4.35%) SQL Server
General
1 5 (21.74%) Social Skills
2 1 (4.35%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 7 (30.43%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 6 (26.09%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 6 (26.09%) IT Engineer
2 6 (26.09%) Support Engineer
3 4 (17.39%) IT Support
3 4 (17.39%) IT Support Engineer
4 3 (13.04%) Senior
5 2 (8.70%) 2nd Line Engineer
5 2 (8.70%) 2nd Line Support
5 2 (8.70%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
5 2 (8.70%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (8.70%) 3rd Line Support
5 2 (8.70%) Administrator
5 2 (8.70%) Consultant
5 2 (8.70%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (8.70%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (8.70%) Senior Network Engineer
5 2 (8.70%) Service Desk Engineer
5 2 (8.70%) Service Desk Support
5 2 (8.70%) Systems Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 10 (43.48%) Clustering
1 10 (43.48%) NHS
2 2 (8.70%) Replication
2 2 (8.70%) Security Operations Centre
3 1 (4.35%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (4.35%) Data Centre
3 1 (4.35%) Driving Licence
3 1 (4.35%) Management Information System
3 1 (4.35%) PKI
3 1 (4.35%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 20 (86.96%) Windows
2 17 (73.91%) Windows Server
3 5 (21.74%) Windows Server 2016
4 4 (17.39%) Linux
4 4 (17.39%) Windows 10
4 4 (17.39%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (4.35%) Kali Linux
5 1 (4.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (4.35%) Solaris
5 1 (4.35%) Ubuntu
5 1 (4.35%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (56.52%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 10 (43.48%) Load Balancing
2 10 (43.48%) Network Segmentation
3 9 (39.13%) ITIL
4 3 (13.04%) Customer Service
4 3 (13.04%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (8.70%) Agile
5 2 (8.70%) Identity Access Management
5 2 (8.70%) Root Cause Analysis
5 2 (8.70%) Security Operations
5 2 (8.70%) Vulnerability Scanning
6 1 (4.35%) Active Listening
6 1 (4.35%) Antivirus Management
6 1 (4.35%) Computer Science
6 1 (4.35%) Cybersecurity
6 1 (4.35%) Disaster Recovery
6 1 (4.35%) Presales
6 1 (4.35%) Release Management
6 1 (4.35%) Service Catalogue
6 1 (4.35%) Virtual Environments
Programming Languages
1 3 (13.04%) SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (52.17%) Degree
2 4 (17.39%) Security Cleared
3 3 (13.04%) DV Cleared
4 2 (8.70%) CCNA
4 2 (8.70%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (8.70%) CTC Cleared
4 2 (8.70%) SC Cleared
5 1 (4.35%) Azure Certification
5 1 (4.35%) CCEA
5 1 (4.35%) Citrix Certification
5 1 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (4.35%) MCP
5 1 (4.35%) MCSA
5 1 (4.35%) MCSE
5 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (4.35%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.70%) Cyber Essentials
1 2 (8.70%) SLA
2 1 (4.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 19 (82.61%) Active Directory
2 8 (34.78%) Hyper-V
3 5 (21.74%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (17.39%) XenApp
5 2 (8.70%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (4.35%) Citrix Hypervisor
6 1 (4.35%) Forefront TMG
6 1 (4.35%) VMware Workstation
6 1 (4.35%) Xen
6 1 (4.35%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 11 (47.83%) Microsoft Intune
2 10 (43.48%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 10 (43.48%) FortiGate
2 10 (43.48%) Microsoft Clustering
3 2 (8.70%) vCenter Server
3 2 (8.70%) vMotion
4 1 (4.35%) Forefront Identity Manager
4 1 (4.35%) MOM
4 1 (4.35%) SCOM
4 1 (4.35%) WSUS
Vendors
1 19 (82.61%) Microsoft
2 11 (47.83%) SonicWALL
2 11 (47.83%) VMware
3 6 (26.09%) Citrix
4 5 (21.74%) Cisco
5 3 (13.04%) Dell
6 2 (8.70%) EqualLogic
6 2 (8.70%) Palo Alto
6 2 (8.70%) Veeam
7 1 (4.35%) ConnectWise
7 1 (4.35%) F5
7 1 (4.35%) Google
7 1 (4.35%) HP
7 1 (4.35%) McAfee
7 1 (4.35%) Nimble Storage
7 1 (4.35%) Oracle
7 1 (4.35%) Red Hat