Remote Desktop Contracts in the Midlands

Remote Desktop
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 14 November 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Nov 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 114 135 203
Rank change year-on-year +21 +68 -3
Contract jobs citing Remote Desktop 22 7 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.83% 0.25% 0.19%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 6.13% 1.29% 1.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 7 0
10th Percentile £173 £165 -
25th Percentile £238 £188 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £280 £200 -
Median % change year-on-year +40.00% - -
75th Percentile £597 £269 -
90th Percentile £628 £316 -
England median daily rate £405 £150 £325
% change year-on-year +170.00% -53.85% -9.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 2
10th Percentile £21.07 - £17.13
25th Percentile £22.24 - £18.44
Median hourly rate £24.18 - £20.75
75th Percentile - - £22.94
90th Percentile - - £24.18
England median hourly rate £24.18 £16.75 £19.50
% change year-on-year +44.36% -14.10% +7.59%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Midlands

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 Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 359 543 593
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 13.48% 19.53% 12.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 195 302 398
10th Percentile £173 £213 £179
25th Percentile £291 £313 £282
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £409 £425
Median % change year-on-year +22.32% -3.82% +6.25%
75th Percentile £616 £538 £538
90th Percentile £715 £664 £629
England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 29 16
10th Percentile £20.30 £17.05 £15.38
25th Percentile £22.18 £23.00 £16.89
Median hourly rate £24.20 £27.50 £24.25
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +13.40% +45.54%
75th Percentile £35.00 £67.50 £26.91
90th Percentile - - £46.13
England median hourly rate £49.50 £56.49 £45.00
% change year-on-year -12.37% +25.53% +117.39%

Remote Desktop
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Remote Desktop in the Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Remote Desktop in the Midlands

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Remote Desktop in the Midlands over the 6 months to 14 November 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Remote Desktop in the Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Remote Desktop in the Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 14 November 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
West Midlands +9 14 £300 +50.00% 4
East Midlands - 8 £203 - 1
Remote Desktop
England

Remote Desktop
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 4 (18.18%) Microsoft Exchange
1 4 (18.18%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (27.27%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (9.09%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 4 (18.18%) Azure
1 4 (18.18%) Azure AKS
1 4 (18.18%) Azure DevOps
1 4 (18.18%) Azure Monitor
1 4 (18.18%) Cloud Computing
1 4 (18.18%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 4 (18.18%) Firewall
1 4 (18.18%) LAN
1 4 (18.18%) SAN
1 4 (18.18%) Softphone
1 4 (18.18%) WAN
2 2 (9.09%) Bluetooth
2 2 (9.09%) Wi-Fi
Development Applications
1 1 (4.55%) JIRA
General
1 7 (31.82%) Social Skills
2 2 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (18.18%) Analyst
1 4 (18.18%) Azure Engineer
1 4 (18.18%) Cloud Engineer
2 3 (13.64%) IT Engineer
2 3 (13.64%) Support Engineer
3 2 (9.09%) 2nd Line Support
3 2 (9.09%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
3 2 (9.09%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 2 (9.09%) 3rd Line Support
3 2 (9.09%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
3 2 (9.09%) IT Technician
3 2 (9.09%) Service Analyst
3 2 (9.09%) Service Desk Analyst
3 2 (9.09%) Support Analyst
4 1 (4.55%) 2nd Line Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) Senior
4 1 (4.55%) Senior IT Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) Wintel Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (18.18%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 3 (13.64%) Team-Oriented Environment
2 2 (9.09%) Chip and PIN
Operating Systems
1 8 (36.36%) Windows
2 5 (22.73%) Windows Server
3 4 (18.18%) Windows Server 2019
4 2 (9.09%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (27.27%) Break/Fix
2 4 (18.18%) Business Continuity
2 4 (18.18%) Change Control
2 4 (18.18%) Cybersecurity
2 4 (18.18%) DevOps
2 4 (18.18%) Disaster Recovery
2 4 (18.18%) Infrastructure as Code
2 4 (18.18%) Migration
2 4 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (18.18%) System Testing
2 4 (18.18%) Translating Business Requirements
3 3 (13.64%) BCP
3 3 (13.64%) Business Continuity Planning
3 3 (13.64%) Business Intelligence
3 3 (13.64%) High Availability
3 3 (13.64%) Validation
4 2 (9.09%) Customer Service
4 2 (9.09%) Data Protection
4 2 (9.09%) Service Management
4 2 (9.09%) Ticket Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (31.82%) PowerShell
2 6 (27.27%) SQL
3 4 (18.18%) Bash
3 4 (18.18%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 10 (45.45%) Security Cleared
2 9 (40.91%) SC Cleared
3 4 (18.18%) Azure Certification
4 2 (9.09%) Degree
5 1 (4.55%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.09%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (31.82%) Virtual Machines
2 4 (18.18%) VMFS
2 4 (18.18%) VMware ESXi
3 3 (13.64%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (18.18%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (45.45%) Microsoft
2 4 (18.18%) VMware
3 3 (13.64%) ServiceNow
4 1 (4.55%) Dell