Terminal Services Job Trends

Microsoft Terminal Services
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Terminal Services skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 794 648 763
Rank change year-on-year -146 +115 -26
Permanent jobs citing Terminal Services 11 25 21
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.010% 0.050% 0.027%
As % of the System Software category 0.18% 0.43% 0.27%
Number of salaries quoted 7 25 15
10th Percentile £28,500 - £27,750
25th Percentile £40,500 £36,250 £31,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £42,500 £37,500
Median % change year-on-year +29.41% +13.33% -10.71%
75th Percentile £57,500 £57,500 £52,500
90th Percentile £61,500 £58,750 -
UK excluding London median annual salary £29,000 £42,500 £38,500
% change year-on-year -31.76% +10.39% -7.78%

All System Software Skills
UK

Terminal Services 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 6,129 5,858 7,821
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.42% 11.79% 9.97%
Number of salaries quoted 4,428 3,557 5,010
10th Percentile £29,000 £27,500 £29,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £32,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £73,750 £72,500 £70,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £88,750 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £42,500 £49,500
% change year-on-year +17.65% -14.14% -0.50%

Terminal Services
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Terminal Services job vacancy trend in the UK

Terminal Services
Salary Trend

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Terminal Services

Terminal Services
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Terminal Services over the 6 months to 10 September 2026.

Salary histogram for Terminal Services in the UK

Terminal Services
Top 10 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 10 September 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
England -137 11 £55,000 +29.41% 2
UK excluding London -136 7 £29,000 -31.76% 2
Work from Home -39 6 £29,000 -42.00% 1
London - 4 £55,000 -
South East -38 3 - -
North of England -53 3 £29,000 -31.76% 1
Yorkshire - 2 £29,000 -
East Midlands -27 1 £65,000 +30.00%
Midlands -48 1 £65,000 +30.00% 1
North East - 1 - - 1

Terminal Services
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 2 (18.18%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (18.18%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 6 (54.55%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (27.27%) Power Automate
2 3 (27.27%) Power Platform
3 1 (9.09%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 5 (45.45%) DHCP
1 5 (45.45%) DNS
1 5 (45.45%) Firewall
2 3 (27.27%) NAS
2 3 (27.27%) VoIP
2 3 (27.27%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (18.18%) LAN
3 2 (18.18%) VPN
4 1 (9.09%) Ethernet
4 1 (9.09%) Fibre Channel
4 1 (9.09%) Internet
4 1 (9.09%) Remote Desktop
4 1 (9.09%) SAN
4 1 (9.09%) SSH
4 1 (9.09%) Structured Cabling
4 1 (9.09%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (27.27%) Power BI
General
1 3 (27.27%) Advertising
1 3 (27.27%) Documentation Skills
2 2 (18.18%) Social Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Finance
3 1 (9.09%) Legal
Job Titles
1 6 (54.55%) Support Engineer
2 5 (45.45%) IT Engineer
2 5 (45.45%) IT Support
2 5 (45.45%) IT Support Engineer
3 3 (27.27%) 2nd Line Engineer
3 3 (27.27%) 2nd Line Support
3 3 (27.27%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
3 3 (27.27%) Audio Visual Engineer
3 3 (27.27%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (27.27%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) Deskside Support
4 1 (9.09%) Desktop Support
4 1 (9.09%) Network Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Senior
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Systems Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Technical Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) Systems Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) Technical Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 3 (27.27%) Digital Signage
2 2 (18.18%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (9.09%) Client/Server
3 1 (9.09%) Data Centre
3 1 (9.09%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 9 (81.82%) Windows
1 9 (81.82%) Windows Server
2 5 (45.45%) Windows 10
3 3 (27.27%) Linux
3 3 (27.27%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (45.45%) Customer Service
2 4 (36.36%) ITIL
3 3 (27.27%) Business Intelligence
3 3 (27.27%) Critical Thinking
3 3 (27.27%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 3 (27.27%) ITSM
3 3 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (9.09%) Break/Fix
4 1 (9.09%) Change Control
4 1 (9.09%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (9.09%) Data Centre Operations
4 1 (9.09%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (9.09%) Load Balancing
4 1 (9.09%) Proactive Monitoring
4 1 (9.09%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 3 (27.27%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (27.27%) DBS Check
2 1 (9.09%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (36.36%) SLA
2 1 (9.09%) ISO 9001
2 1 (9.09%) ISO/IEC 20000
2 1 (9.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 3 (27.27%) BitLocker
1 3 (27.27%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (18.18%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 11 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (27.27%) Barracuda Networks
2 3 (27.27%) Cisco
2 3 (27.27%) Freshdesk
2 3 (27.27%) ServiceNow
2 3 (27.27%) Sophos
2 3 (27.27%) VMware
3 2 (18.18%) Citrix