Terminal Services Contracts

Microsoft Terminal Services
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Terminal Services skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Terminal Services over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 561 666 814
Rank change year-on-year +105 +148 -128
Contract jobs citing Terminal Services 14 16 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.033% 0.029% 0.027%
As % of the System Software category 0.30% 0.22% 0.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 15 17
10th Percentile £200 £185 £206
25th Percentile £363 £338 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £500 £325
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +53.85% +147.26%
75th Percentile £530 £576 £388
90th Percentile £590 £595 £482
UK excluding London median daily rate £400 £530 £319
% change year-on-year -24.53% +66.41% +149.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
Median hourly rate - - £18.55
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £18.55
% change year-on-year - - +1.53%

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 contract job vacancies with a requirement for system software skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 4,701 7,331 11,619
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 10.92% 13.08% 13.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,266 5,173 8,348
10th Percentile £200 £200 £200
25th Percentile £350 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - +6.06%
75th Percentile £607 £638 £625
90th Percentile £688 £725 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £479 £450
% change year-on-year -0.84% +6.44% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 228 248 287
10th Percentile £14.06 £15.23 £13.00
25th Percentile £15.25 £19.75 £14.75
Median hourly rate £24.18 £55.00 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -56.04% +189.47% -5.00%
75th Percentile £60.75 £66.00 £37.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.82 £58.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £48.40 £17.50
% change year-on-year -43.18% +176.57% -3.39%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Terminal Services in the UK

Terminal Services
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Terminal Services over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Terminal Services in the UK

Terminal Services
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Terminal Services in the UK

Terminal Services
Top 11 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Terminal Services within the UK over the 6 months to 1 June 2024. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +81 9 £438 +9.38% 12
UK excluding London +37 9 £400 -24.53% 11
Work from Home +112 5 £498 -0.50% 4
London +92 3 £548 +173.75% 1
Scotland +38 3 - -
Midlands +21 2 £200 -56.40% 1
West Midlands +14 2 £200 -64.76%
South East +12 2 £406 -45.83% 5
North of England +23 1 £600 - 4
Wales - 1 £425 -
North East - 1 £600 -

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 7 (50.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (7.14%) IIS
2 1 (7.14%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (14.29%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 7 (50.00%) Azure
2 5 (35.71%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (28.57%) Entra ID
4 2 (14.29%) IaaS
5 1 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (7.14%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 13 (92.86%) VPN
2 9 (64.29%) DHCP
2 9 (64.29%) DNS
3 8 (57.14%) Firewall
4 4 (28.57%) SMTP
5 3 (21.43%) SSH
5 3 (21.43%) SSL
5 3 (21.43%) TCP/IP
6 2 (14.29%) LAN
6 2 (14.29%) Remote Desktop
6 2 (14.29%) WAN
7 1 (7.14%) Fibre Channel
7 1 (7.14%) iSCSI
7 1 (7.14%) MPLS
7 1 (7.14%) Network Security
7 1 (7.14%) SAN
7 1 (7.14%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (42.86%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Oracle APEX
General
1 9 (64.29%) Social Skills
2 2 (14.29%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (21.43%) Senior
2 2 (14.29%) 1st/2nd Line Service Desk Analyst
2 2 (14.29%) 1st/2nd Line Support
2 2 (14.29%) 1st/2nd Line Support Analyst
2 2 (14.29%) 2nd Line Service Desk Analyst
2 2 (14.29%) 2nd Line Support
2 2 (14.29%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
2 2 (14.29%) Analyst
2 2 (14.29%) Consultant
2 2 (14.29%) Linux Consultant
2 2 (14.29%) Service Analyst
2 2 (14.29%) Service Desk Analyst
2 2 (14.29%) Service Desk Support
2 2 (14.29%) Service Desk Support Analyst
2 2 (14.29%) Support Analyst
2 2 (14.29%) Systems Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Senior Consultant
3 1 (7.14%) Senior Linux Consultant
3 1 (7.14%) Senior Technical Consultant
3 1 (7.14%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (28.57%) LDAP
2 3 (21.43%) .NET
3 2 (14.29%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 4 (28.57%) Clustering
1 4 (28.57%) PKI
2 2 (14.29%) Data Centre
2 2 (14.29%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (7.14%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 14 (100.00%) Windows
2 11 (78.57%) Windows Server
3 4 (28.57%) Linux
3 4 (28.57%) Windows Server 2019
4 2 (14.29%) Windows 10
4 2 (14.29%) Windows Server 2003
4 2 (14.29%) Windows Server 2008
4 2 (14.29%) Windows Server 2012
4 2 (14.29%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (7.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (28.57%) High Availability
1 4 (28.57%) Identity Access Management
1 4 (28.57%) Project Delivery
2 3 (21.43%) Customer Requirements
2 3 (21.43%) Customer Service
3 2 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 2 (14.29%) Privileged Access Management
3 2 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (7.14%) BDD
4 1 (7.14%) Conflict Resolution
4 1 (7.14%) Cybersecurity
4 1 (7.14%) Infrastructure Transformation
4 1 (7.14%) Resource Allocation
4 1 (7.14%) Root Cause Analysis
4 1 (7.14%) Scenario Testing
4 1 (7.14%) Software Deployment
4 1 (7.14%) Storage Management
4 1 (7.14%) Test Assurance
4 1 (7.14%) Test Automation
4 1 (7.14%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 4 (28.57%) PowerShell
2 1 (7.14%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (35.71%) Security Cleared
2 4 (28.57%) DV Cleared
2 4 (28.57%) SC Cleared
3 1 (7.14%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (7.14%) Degree
3 1 (7.14%) MCSA
3 1 (7.14%) MCSE
3 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.14%) Disclosure Scotland
1 1 (7.14%) SLA
System Software
1 9 (64.29%) Active Directory
2 5 (35.71%) Hyper-V
2 5 (35.71%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (28.57%) BitLocker
3 4 (28.57%) Microsoft App-V
3 4 (28.57%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (21.43%) vSphere
5 2 (14.29%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (28.57%) vCenter Server
1 4 (28.57%) vMotion
2 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (7.14%) vRealize
Vendors
1 11 (78.57%) VMware
2 10 (71.43%) Microsoft
3 6 (42.86%) Citrix
4 4 (28.57%) Infoblox
5 3 (21.43%) Oracle
6 1 (7.14%) Google
6 1 (7.14%) HP
6 1 (7.14%) Red Hat
6 1 (7.14%) Symantec
6 1 (7.14%) Veeam