Remote Desktop Contracts in Scotland

Remote Desktop
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with 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 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 111 167 175
Rank change year-on-year +56 +8 -16
Contract jobs citing Remote Desktop 16 1 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.75% 0.037% 0.029%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 7.11% 0.28% 0.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 1 1
10th Percentile £126 - -
25th Percentile £179 £305 £225
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £200 £310 £250
Median % change year-on-year -35.48% +24.00% -40.48%
75th Percentile - £315 £275
90th Percentile £243 - -
UK median daily rate £299 £311 £275
% change year-on-year -3.94% +13.18% -33.93%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £18.08 - -
25th Percentile £18.20 - -
Median hourly rate £18.27 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £18.27 - £18.55
% change year-on-year - - +5.40%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Scotland

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 advertised in Scotland with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 225 356 307
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 10.49% 13.20% 9.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 134 216 200
10th Percentile £180 £160 £224
25th Percentile £233 £356 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £423 £453 £470
Median % change year-on-year -6.63% -3.72% +10.59%
75th Percentile £584 £538 £538
90th Percentile £634 £575 £638
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 20 18
10th Percentile £12.88 - £20.70
25th Percentile £16.25 - £41.75
Median hourly rate £18.27 £10.63 £49.14
Median % change year-on-year +71.87% -78.37% +35.54%
75th Percentile £52.69 £38.18 £55.94
90th Percentile £60.75 £59.18 £57.50
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £18.34 £26.00
% change year-on-year +118.16% -29.48% +4.00%

Remote Desktop
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Remote Desktop in Scotland

Remote Desktop
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Remote Desktop in Scotland

Remote Desktop
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for Remote Desktop in Scotland

Remote Desktop
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

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 Scotland region over the 6 months to 2 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
Glasgow - 8 £200 - 3
Edinburgh - 6 £238 -
Remote Desktop
UK

Remote Desktop
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 6 (37.50%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (6.25%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (31.25%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 9 (56.25%) Microsoft 365
2 7 (43.75%) Entra ID
3 6 (37.50%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.25%) Amazon RDS
General
1 2 (12.50%) Organisational Skills
1 2 (12.50%) Presentation Skills
1 2 (12.50%) Social Skills
2 1 (6.25%) Finance
2 1 (6.25%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (50.00%) Support Engineer
2 6 (37.50%) IT Engineer
2 6 (37.50%) IT Support
3 5 (31.25%) 1st Line Support
3 5 (31.25%) IT Support Engineer
4 4 (25.00%) Desktop Engineer
4 4 (25.00%) Desktop Support
4 4 (25.00%) Desktop Support Engineer
5 3 (18.75%) Windows Engineer
5 3 (18.75%) Windows Support Engineer
6 2 (12.50%) 1st Line Engineer
6 2 (12.50%) 1st Line Support Engineer
6 2 (12.50%) Analyst
6 2 (12.50%) Support Analyst
6 2 (12.50%) Systems Support Engineer
6 2 (12.50%) Windows Systems Engineer
7 1 (6.25%) 1st Line Support Analyst
7 1 (6.25%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
7 1 (6.25%) Hardware Support Engineer
7 1 (6.25%) Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (31.25%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 11 (68.75%) Windows
2 8 (50.00%) Windows 10
3 6 (37.50%) Mac OS X
4 1 (6.25%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (12.50%) Decision-Making
1 2 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 2 (12.50%) Service Desk Management
1 2 (12.50%) Time Management
2 1 (6.25%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (6.25%) Virtual Environments
Qualifications
1 2 (12.50%) Degree
2 1 (6.25%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (31.25%) SLA
System Software
1 8 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (6.25%) Hyper-V
2 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Virtual Server
2 1 (6.25%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 5 (31.25%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 11 (68.75%) Microsoft
2 6 (37.50%) Apple
3 2 (12.50%) Meraki
4 1 (6.25%) Cisco