Remote Desktop Contracts in the South West

Remote Desktop
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West requiring Remote Desktop skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Remote Desktop over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 147 146 154
Rank change year-on-year -1 +8 -26
Contract jobs citing Remote Desktop 10 13 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.30% 0.38% 0.38%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.82% 2.26% 2.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 12 6
10th Percentile £457 £218 £188
25th Percentile £462 £400 £207
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £575 £260
Median % change year-on-year +2.17% +121.15% -25.71%
75th Percentile £607 £591 £319
90th Percentile £627 £623 £394
England median daily rate £330 £306 £325
% change year-on-year +7.76% -5.77% -21.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £48.95
Median hourly rate - - £50.20
75th Percentile - - £51.45
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £18.27 - £18.65
% change year-on-year - - +5.97%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
South West

Remote Desktop falls under the Communications and Computer Networking category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring communications or computer networking skills in the South West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 548 575 481
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 16.61% 16.97% 13.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 349 357 306
10th Percentile £310 £219 £214
25th Percentile £463 £388 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £520 £450
Median % change year-on-year +3.37% +15.56% +12.50%
75th Percentile £650 £638 £575
90th Percentile £688 £725 £625
England median daily rate £500 £520 £500
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 113 29
10th Percentile £12.50 - £36.95
25th Percentile £15.75 - £42.33
Median hourly rate £40.00 £9.80 £50.77
Median % change year-on-year +308.16% -80.70% +19.46%
75th Percentile £65.00 £59.28 £60.92
90th Percentile £74.80 £77.50 £70.80
England median hourly rate £40.00 £18.37 £23.91
% change year-on-year +117.75% -23.17% +3.02%

Remote Desktop
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Job postings citing Remote Desktop as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for Remote Desktop in the South West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Remote Desktop in the South West.

Daily rate trend for Remote Desktop in the South West

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Remote Desktop in the South West over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Remote Desktop in the South West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Remote Desktop in the South West.

Hourly rate trend for Remote Desktop in the South West

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Contract Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Remote Desktop within the South West region over the 6 months to 12 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
Wiltshire -6 5 £601 +4.52%
Gloucestershire +1 2 £473 -17.83%
Devon - 2 £600 - 1
Somerset -2 1 - -
Remote Desktop
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 4 (40.00%) Azure
2 3 (30.00%) AWS
3 1 (10.00%) Entra ID
3 1 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) LAN
General
1 3 (30.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (10.00%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Wintel Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Applications Support
2 1 (10.00%) IT Support
2 1 (10.00%) IT Support Technician
2 1 (10.00%) IT Technician
2 1 (10.00%) Support Technician
2 1 (10.00%) Technical Support
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (10.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 9 (90.00%) Windows
2 5 (50.00%) Windows Server 2019
3 1 (10.00%) Windows 10
3 1 (10.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (40.00%) Validation
2 3 (30.00%) Desktop Virtualisation
2 3 (30.00%) Task Automation
3 1 (10.00%) Data Mapping
3 1 (10.00%) ITIL
3 1 (10.00%) Performance Monitoring
3 1 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (10.00%) Project Management
3 1 (10.00%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 8 (80.00%) PowerShell
2 3 (30.00%) Python
3 1 (10.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (80.00%) Security Cleared
2 7 (70.00%) SC Cleared
3 4 (40.00%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 8 (80.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 5 (50.00%) VMFS
2 5 (50.00%) VMware ESXi
3 4 (40.00%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (30.00%) Hyper-V
4 3 (30.00%) Virtual Desktop
4 3 (30.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 9 (90.00%) VMware
2 4 (40.00%) Microsoft
3 3 (30.00%) Citrix
4 1 (10.00%) Oracle