Terminal Services Jobs

Microsoft Terminal Services
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Terminal Services skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Terminal Services 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 675 842 905
Rank change year-on-year +167 +63 +261
Permanent jobs citing Terminal Services 27 65 63
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.048% 0.063% 0.066%
As % of the System Software category 0.43% 0.54% 0.43%
Number of salaries quoted 27 56 38
10th Percentile - £24,500 £32,350
25th Percentile £36,250 £26,250 £39,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £33,000 £48,750
Median % change year-on-year +51.52% -32.31% +24.76%
75th Percentile £55,000 £47,500 £58,438
90th Percentile £58,750 £52,500 £61,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £34,000 £44,250
% change year-on-year +47.06% -23.16% +26.43%

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 6,248 12,009 14,671
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 11.19% 11.58% 15.32%
Number of salaries quoted 3,604 9,344 9,805
10th Percentile £28,000 £26,250 £27,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £32,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,688 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.38% -9.09% -1.20%
75th Percentile £76,840 £67,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £85,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% -5.00%

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 31 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Terminal Services in the UK

Terminal Services
Top 9 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 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
UK excluding London +158 27 £50,000 +47.06% 3
England +137 27 £50,000 +48.15% 7
South East +89 15 £50,000 - 1
Work from Home +113 11 £50,000 +47.06%
Midlands +62 6 £50,000 -
East Midlands +43 6 £50,000 -
North of England +13 6 £42,500 +41.67%
North West -14 5 £42,500 +54.55%
Yorkshire +47 1 £30,000 -25.00%

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 27 (100.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 13 (48.15%) SharePoint
3 6 (22.22%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 19 (70.37%) Azure
2 12 (44.44%) Microsoft 365
3 8 (29.63%) Entra ID
4 7 (25.93%) AWS
5 6 (22.22%) GCP
5 6 (22.22%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 22 (81.48%) Firewall
2 17 (62.96%) Remote Desktop
3 15 (55.56%) DHCP
3 15 (55.56%) DNS
4 8 (29.63%) SMTP
5 7 (25.93%) IP Telephony
6 6 (22.22%) LAN
6 6 (22.22%) Network Security
6 6 (22.22%) SAN
6 6 (22.22%) WAN
7 5 (18.52%) Internet
8 3 (11.11%) VPN
9 1 (3.70%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (48.15%) Amazon RDS
2 6 (22.22%) SQL Server
General
1 8 (29.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 5 (18.52%) Aerospace
2 5 (18.52%) Automotive
2 5 (18.52%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 13 (48.15%) Support Engineer
2 12 (44.44%) Technical Support
3 11 (40.74%) 3rd Line Support
4 8 (29.63%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 7 (25.93%) Infrastructure Support
5 7 (25.93%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
5 7 (25.93%) Support Technician
6 6 (22.22%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 6 (22.22%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
7 5 (18.52%) 3rd Line Technical Support
8 2 (7.41%) Active Directory Engineer
8 2 (7.41%) Active Directory Support
8 2 (7.41%) Active Directory Support Engineer
8 2 (7.41%) SAN Engineer
8 2 (7.41%) SAN Support
8 2 (7.41%) Virtualisation Engineer
9 1 (3.70%) 2nd Line Engineer
9 1 (3.70%) Service Desk Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 8 (29.63%) Clustering
1 8 (29.63%) PKI
2 7 (25.93%) Onboarding
3 6 (22.22%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (3.70%) Fat Client
4 1 (3.70%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 27 (100.00%) Windows
1 27 (100.00%) Windows Server
2 7 (25.93%) Mac OS
3 6 (22.22%) Linux
4 3 (11.11%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (29.63%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 7 (25.93%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (25.93%) Server Management
3 6 (22.22%) Application Virtualisation
3 6 (22.22%) Disk Encryption
3 6 (22.22%) High Availability
3 6 (22.22%) Incident Management
3 6 (22.22%) ITIL
3 6 (22.22%) RBAC
3 6 (22.22%) Task Automation
4 5 (18.52%) Change Management
4 5 (18.52%) Cybersecurity
5 1 (3.70%) Migration
5 1 (3.70%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 15 (55.56%) PowerShell
2 1 (3.70%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (29.63%) DV Cleared
1 8 (29.63%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 27 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 15 (55.56%) Hyper-V
2 15 (55.56%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (44.44%) vSphere
4 8 (29.63%) BitLocker
4 8 (29.63%) Microsoft App-V
4 8 (29.63%) VMware ESXi
5 6 (22.22%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (29.63%) vCenter Server
1 8 (29.63%) vMotion
2 7 (25.93%) Microsoft Intune
3 6 (22.22%) Ansible
3 6 (22.22%) Kubernetes
3 6 (22.22%) Nagios
3 6 (22.22%) Puppet
Vendors
1 26 (96.30%) Microsoft
2 20 (74.07%) VMware
3 12 (44.44%) HP
4 8 (29.63%) Citrix
5 7 (25.93%) Apple
6 6 (22.22%) Dell
6 6 (22.22%) Google
6 6 (22.22%) NetApp
6 6 (22.22%) Symantec
7 5 (18.52%) Cisco
8 1 (3.70%) ServiceNow
8 1 (3.70%) Wyse