Remote Desktop Contracts with Work from Home Options

Remote Desktop
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for Remote Desktop skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Remote Desktop over the 6 months to 15 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
15 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 328 452 554
Rank change year-on-year +124 +102 -96
Contract jobs citing Remote Desktop 11 13 63
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.074% 0.053% 0.14%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.72% 0.46% 1.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 13 40
10th Percentile £199 £231 £223
25th Percentile £229 £306 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £320 £550 £325
Median % change year-on-year -41.82% +69.23% -23.53%
75th Percentile £407 £588 £388
90th Percentile £473 £620 £487
UK median daily rate £239 £250 £275
% change year-on-year -4.50% -9.09% -35.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 7
10th Percentile - - £16.25
25th Percentile - - £16.88
Median hourly rate - - £18.55
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £18.27 - £18.55
% change year-on-year - - +5.40%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Work from Home

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 contract job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,535 2,854 4,295
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 10.35% 11.54% 9.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 997 1,889 2,908
10th Percentile £300 £350 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £619 £650 £600
90th Percentile £700 £725 £675
UK median daily rate £490 £520 £500
% change year-on-year -5.68% +3.90% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 76 94 104
10th Percentile £12.75 £22.50 £18.55
25th Percentile £14.20 £42.50 £26.44
Median hourly rate £24.13 £58.75 £48.04
Median % change year-on-year -58.94% +22.29% +11.08%
75th Percentile £65.00 £71.19 £63.25
90th Percentile £87.46 £80.25 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £18.50 £28.33
% change year-on-year +116.22% -34.70% +6.91%

Remote Desktop
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Remote Desktop as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Remote Desktop trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Remote Desktop.

Remote Desktop daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Remote Desktop
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Remote Desktop over the 6 months to 15 May 2024.

Remote Desktop daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Remote Desktop
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Remote Desktop.

Remote Desktop hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Remote Desktop
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 2 (18.18%) IIS
1 2 (18.18%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (9.09%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 4 (36.36%) Power Platform
2 2 (18.18%) Amazon EC2
2 2 (18.18%) AWS
3 1 (9.09%) Adobe Creative Cloud
3 1 (9.09%) Azure
3 1 (9.09%) Google Sheets
3 1 (9.09%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (9.09%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 4 (36.36%) DNS
2 3 (27.27%) DHCP
3 2 (18.18%) Radio Access Network
3 2 (18.18%) XCAP
4 1 (9.09%) Fibre Channel
4 1 (9.09%) Firewall
4 1 (9.09%) FTP
4 1 (9.09%) LAN
4 1 (9.09%) SAN
4 1 (9.09%) VPN
4 1 (9.09%) WAN
4 1 (9.09%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (9.09%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (36.36%) Power BI
2 2 (18.18%) GIS
2 2 (18.18%) Tableau
3 1 (9.09%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (9.09%) SQL Server
General
1 4 (36.36%) Social Skills
2 1 (9.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 2 (18.18%) Active Directory Engineer
1 2 (18.18%) Optimisation Engineer
1 2 (18.18%) Performance Engineer
1 2 (18.18%) RAN Engineer
1 2 (18.18%) RAN Performance Engineer
1 2 (18.18%) Server Engineer
1 2 (18.18%) Windows Engineer
1 2 (18.18%) Windows Server Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) Administrator
2 1 (9.09%) Desktop Support
2 1 (9.09%) Desktop Support Technician
2 1 (9.09%) Desktop Technician
2 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) IT Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) IT Support
2 1 (9.09%) IT Support Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) Server Administrator
2 1 (9.09%) Support Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) Support Technician
2 1 (9.09%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (9.09%) X-Windows
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.09%) Clustering
1 1 (9.09%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (9.09%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (9.09%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 9 (81.82%) Windows
2 6 (54.55%) Windows Server
3 3 (27.27%) Windows 10
4 2 (18.18%) Linux
4 2 (18.18%) Windows Server 2012
4 2 (18.18%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (9.09%) Android
5 1 (9.09%) Apple iOS
5 1 (9.09%) CentOS
5 1 (9.09%) Mac OS X
5 1 (9.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (9.09%) Ubuntu
5 1 (9.09%) VMS
5 1 (9.09%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (36.36%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (27.27%) Customer Service
2 3 (27.27%) Cybersecurity
2 3 (27.27%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 2 (18.18%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (18.18%) Change Management
3 2 (18.18%) Collaborative Working
3 2 (18.18%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (18.18%) Continuous Improvement Process
3 2 (18.18%) Customer Experience
3 2 (18.18%) Dashboard Development
3 2 (18.18%) Data Visualisation
3 2 (18.18%) Due Diligence
3 2 (18.18%) Identity Access Management
3 2 (18.18%) Patch Management
3 2 (18.18%) Visualisation
4 1 (9.09%) Data Protection
4 1 (9.09%) Load Balancing
4 1 (9.09%) Migration
4 1 (9.09%) Network Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 4 (36.36%) PowerShell
2 1 (9.09%) Bash
2 1 (9.09%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (9.09%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (18.18%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (63.64%) Active Directory
2 3 (27.27%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (18.18%) Hyper-V
3 2 (18.18%) vSphere
4 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 1 (9.09%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (9.09%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (9.09%) VMware NSX
4 1 (9.09%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 4 (36.36%) SCCM
2 2 (18.18%) SCOM
2 2 (18.18%) vCenter Server
3 1 (9.09%) AirWatch
3 1 (9.09%) Failover Clustering
3 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Clustering
3 1 (9.09%) SCOrch
3 1 (9.09%) SCVMM
3 1 (9.09%) WSUS
Vendors
1 5 (45.45%) Microsoft
2 3 (27.27%) VMware
3 2 (18.18%) CrowdStrike
3 2 (18.18%) Meraki
3 2 (18.18%) Remedy
3 2 (18.18%) Varonis
4 1 (9.09%) Adobe
4 1 (9.09%) Apple
4 1 (9.09%) Avid
4 1 (9.09%) Cisco
4 1 (9.09%) Google
4 1 (9.09%) Okta