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 31 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 332 453 558
Rank change year-on-year +121 +105 -97
Contract jobs citing Remote Desktop 14 12 59
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.096% 0.050% 0.13%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.91% 0.43% 1.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 12 38
10th Percentile £209 £318 £247
25th Percentile £230 £500 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £385 £563 £325
Median % change year-on-year -31.56% +73.08% -13.33%
75th Percentile £588 £591 £388
90th Percentile - £623 £490
UK median daily rate £299 £311 £275
% change year-on-year -3.94% +13.18% -32.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 6
10th Percentile - - £16.25
25th Percentile - - £16.56
Median hourly rate - - £18.03
75th Percentile - - £18.55
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £18.27 - £18.65
% change year-on-year - - +5.97%

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 2,810 4,418
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 10.50% 11.63% 10.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,004 1,876 3,017
10th Percentile £300 £342 £313
25th Percentile £413 £420 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £619 £646 £600
90th Percentile £700 £725 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 73 94 104
10th Percentile £12.75 £18.80 £19.21
25th Percentile £14.00 £42.50 £28.00
Median hourly rate £35.00 £55.16 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -36.55% +16.13% +18.75%
75th Percentile £65.00 £71.19 £63.25
90th Percentile £87.46 £80.25 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £18.24 £26.00
% change year-on-year +119.30% -29.85% +4.00%

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 31 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 (14.29%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (7.14%) IIS
2 1 (7.14%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 3 (21.43%) Amazon EC2
1 3 (21.43%) AWS
1 3 (21.43%) Power Platform
2 1 (7.14%) Adobe Creative Cloud
2 1 (7.14%) Azure
2 1 (7.14%) Google Sheets
2 1 (7.14%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (7.14%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 4 (28.57%) DNS
2 2 (14.29%) DHCP
2 2 (14.29%) Radio Access Network
2 2 (14.29%) Wi-Fi
2 2 (14.29%) XCAP
3 1 (7.14%) Bluetooth
3 1 (7.14%) Fibre Channel
3 1 (7.14%) Firewall
3 1 (7.14%) FTP
3 1 (7.14%) LAN
3 1 (7.14%) SAN
3 1 (7.14%) TCP/IP
3 1 (7.14%) VPN
3 1 (7.14%) WAN
3 1 (7.14%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (21.43%) Power BI
2 2 (14.29%) GIS
2 2 (14.29%) Tableau
3 1 (7.14%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (7.14%) SQL Server
General
1 4 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 1 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (7.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 3 (21.43%) Wintel Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) Desktop Support
2 2 (14.29%) Optimisation Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) Performance Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) RAN Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) RAN Performance Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) Remote Support Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) Support Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) 2nd Line Support
3 1 (7.14%) Administrator
3 1 (7.14%) Analyst
3 1 (7.14%) Desktop Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Desktop Support Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Desktop Support Technician
3 1 (7.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) IT Support Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Server Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Support Analyst
3 1 (7.14%) Support Technician
3 1 (7.14%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.14%) X-Windows
Miscellaneous
1 2 (14.29%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (7.14%) Chip and PIN
2 1 (7.14%) Clustering
2 1 (7.14%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (7.14%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 11 (78.57%) Windows
2 7 (50.00%) Windows Server
3 3 (21.43%) Windows Server 2019
4 2 (14.29%) Android
4 2 (14.29%) Linux
4 2 (14.29%) Windows 10
5 1 (7.14%) Apple iOS
5 1 (7.14%) CentOS
5 1 (7.14%) Mac OS
5 1 (7.14%) Mac OS X
5 1 (7.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (7.14%) Ubuntu
5 1 (7.14%) VMS
5 1 (7.14%) Windows 7
5 1 (7.14%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (7.14%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (21.43%) Customer Service
1 3 (21.43%) Data Protection
1 3 (21.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 3 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement Process
2 2 (14.29%) Customer Experience
2 2 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (14.29%) Data Visualisation
2 2 (14.29%) Patch Management
2 2 (14.29%) Visualisation
3 1 (7.14%) Dashboard Development
3 1 (7.14%) Identity Access Management
3 1 (7.14%) Mobile Device Management
3 1 (7.14%) Performance Engineering
3 1 (7.14%) Task Automation
3 1 (7.14%) Ticket Management
3 1 (7.14%) Virtual Environments
3 1 (7.14%) Virtual Infrastructure
Programming Languages
1 3 (21.43%) PowerShell
2 2 (14.29%) Python
3 1 (7.14%) Bash
3 1 (7.14%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (21.43%) DV Cleared
1 3 (21.43%) SC Cleared
1 3 (21.43%) Security Cleared
2 2 (14.29%) Degree
3 1 (7.14%) AWS Certification
3 1 (7.14%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 1 (7.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (7.14%) CCNA
3 1 (7.14%) CCNP
3 1 (7.14%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (7.14%) MCSA
3 1 (7.14%) MCSE
3 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (21.43%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (42.86%) Active Directory
2 4 (28.57%) VMware ESXi
3 3 (21.43%) VMFS
3 3 (21.43%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (14.29%) Hyper-V
4 2 (14.29%) vSphere
5 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 1 (7.14%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (7.14%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (7.14%) VMware NSX
5 1 (7.14%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 2 (14.29%) SCCM
1 2 (14.29%) vCenter Server
2 1 (7.14%) AirWatch
2 1 (7.14%) Failover Clustering
2 1 (7.14%) Jamf Pro
2 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Clustering
2 1 (7.14%) SCOM
2 1 (7.14%) SCOrch
2 1 (7.14%) SCVMM
2 1 (7.14%) WSUS
Vendors
1 6 (42.86%) VMware
2 4 (28.57%) Microsoft
3 2 (14.29%) Meraki
3 2 (14.29%) Okta
3 2 (14.29%) Remedy
4 1 (7.14%) Adobe
4 1 (7.14%) Apple
4 1 (7.14%) Avid
4 1 (7.14%) Cisco
4 1 (7.14%) CrowdStrike
4 1 (7.14%) Google
4 1 (7.14%) ServiceNow
4 1 (7.14%) Varonis