Remote Desktop Jobs in the UK excluding London

Remote Desktop
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Remote Desktop skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Remote Desktop over the 6 months to 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 580 522 589
Rank change year-on-year -58 +67 -71
Permanent jobs citing Remote Desktop 179 231 278
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.25% 0.39% 0.38%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.84% 2.13% 2.48%
Number of salaries quoted 163 180 246
10th Percentile £25,760 £24,900 £24,625
25th Percentile £26,500 £27,188 £27,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,000 £33,750 £35,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% -3.57% -2.78%
75th Percentile £42,750 £45,000 £50,000
90th Percentile £52,500 £57,500 £59,063
UK median annual salary £32,500 £35,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% -12.50% +3.90%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK excluding London

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 permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 9,754 10,849 11,194
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 13.62% 18.34% 15.42%
Number of salaries quoted 7,061 4,721 6,541
10th Percentile £25,750 £26,250 £26,750
25th Percentile £31,250 £32,000 £33,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,500 £45,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% -5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £58,750 £60,000 £61,250
90th Percentile £68,750 £75,000 £74,919
UK median annual salary £47,500 £50,250 £52,500
% change year-on-year -5.47% -4.29% +5.00%

Remote Desktop
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Remote Desktop in the UK excluding London

Remote Desktop
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Remote Desktop in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Remote Desktop in the UK excluding London

Remote Desktop
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Remote Desktop in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Remote Desktop in the UK excluding London

Remote Desktop
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Remote Desktop within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 20 May 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South East -10 39 £32,500 -18.75% 11
South West -24 37 £41,500 +43.10% 8
North of England +17 34 £32,000 -8.57% 8
North West +2 29 £30,000 -31.43% 4
East of England -2 23 £32,500 +15.04% 9
Midlands -28 19 £27,000 -19.40% 10
Wales - 17 £28,290 - 3
West Midlands +3 15 £27,000 -33.33% 5
Scotland -64 7 £29,500 +2.16% 6
East Midlands -29 4 £48,500 +51.56% 5
North East - 4 £41,500 - 2
Northern Ireland - 3 £40,000 -
Yorkshire +56 1 £42,500 +30.77% 2
Remote Desktop
UK

Remote Desktop
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 45 (25.14%) Microsoft Exchange
2 39 (21.79%) SharePoint
3 5 (2.79%) IIS
4 3 (1.68%) IBM Notes
5 2 (1.12%) WordPress
6 1 (0.56%) Site Server
Applications
1 32 (17.88%) Microsoft Office
2 26 (14.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 26 (14.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 9 (5.03%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 141 (78.77%) Microsoft 365
2 116 (64.80%) Azure
3 47 (26.26%) Entra ID
4 35 (19.55%) OneDrive
5 8 (4.47%) AWS
6 7 (3.91%) IaaS
7 6 (3.35%) PaaS
8 5 (2.79%) GCP
9 2 (1.12%) Mimecast
10 1 (0.56%) Apple Pay
10 1 (0.56%) Google Workspace
10 1 (0.56%) SaaS
10 1 (0.56%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 45 (25.14%) Firewall
2 32 (17.88%) DNS
3 27 (15.08%) DHCP
4 26 (14.53%) TCP/IP
5 22 (12.29%) VPN
6 21 (11.73%) Wireless
7 20 (11.17%) LAN
8 19 (10.61%) SAN
8 19 (10.61%) WAN
9 15 (8.38%) VoIP
10 9 (5.03%) VLAN
11 6 (3.35%) Fibre Channel
11 6 (3.35%) Wi-Fi
12 5 (2.79%) Internet
12 5 (2.79%) NAS
13 3 (1.68%) Network Security
13 3 (1.68%) SSL
14 2 (1.12%) iSCSI
14 2 (1.12%) WLAN
14 2 (1.12%) WPA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (13.41%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (1.68%) MySQL
3 1 (0.56%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (1.68%) GitLab
2 1 (0.56%) Subversion
General
1 97 (54.19%) Social Skills
2 33 (18.44%) Finance
3 14 (7.82%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (6.15%) Public Sector
5 7 (3.91%) Documentation Skills
5 7 (3.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (2.79%) Organisational Skills
7 4 (2.23%) Legal
7 4 (2.23%) Retail
8 3 (1.68%) Norwegian Language
8 3 (1.68%) Telecoms
9 2 (1.12%) French Language
9 2 (1.12%) Law
9 2 (1.12%) Marketing
10 1 (0.56%) Back Office
10 1 (0.56%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.56%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 69 (38.55%) Support Engineer
2 38 (21.23%) IT Support
3 29 (16.20%) Desktop Support
3 29 (16.20%) IT Engineer
4 28 (15.64%) Desktop Engineer
5 27 (15.08%) Analyst
6 26 (14.53%) Desktop Support Engineer
6 26 (14.53%) IT Support Engineer
7 18 (10.06%) 3rd Line Support
8 16 (8.94%) 2nd Line Support
8 16 (8.94%) Technical Support
9 15 (8.38%) Service Analyst
10 14 (7.82%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 13 (7.26%) 3rd Line Engineer
11 13 (7.26%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
11 13 (7.26%) Support Analyst
12 12 (6.70%) 2nd Line Engineer
12 12 (6.70%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
13 11 (6.15%) Service Desk Analyst
14 10 (5.59%) IT Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.12%) CSS
1 2 (1.12%) HTML
2 1 (0.56%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 22 (12.29%) iPad
2 15 (8.38%) Driving Licence
2 15 (8.38%) Self-Motivation
3 10 (5.59%) Smartphone
4 9 (5.03%) Replication
5 6 (3.35%) Onboarding
6 5 (2.79%) Low-Code
7 4 (2.23%) CCTV
7 4 (2.23%) PKI
8 3 (1.68%) Clustering
8 3 (1.68%) Data Structures
8 3 (1.68%) EPoS
8 3 (1.68%) Team-Oriented Environment
9 2 (1.12%) Educational Technology
9 2 (1.12%) Handset
9 2 (1.12%) Management Information System
10 1 (0.56%) Data Centre
10 1 (0.56%) iPhone
10 1 (0.56%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 135 (75.42%) Windows
2 69 (38.55%) Windows Server
3 24 (13.41%) Windows 10
4 18 (10.06%) Windows Server 2016
5 16 (8.94%) Windows Server 2019
6 10 (5.59%) Windows Server 2012
7 9 (5.03%) Windows Phone
8 7 (3.91%) Apple iOS
8 7 (3.91%) Linux
9 5 (2.79%) Android
9 5 (2.79%) Windows 7
9 5 (2.79%) Windows Server 2008
10 4 (2.23%) CentOS
10 4 (2.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 4 (2.23%) Ubuntu
11 2 (1.12%) Mac OS
11 2 (1.12%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (36.31%) Customer Service
2 50 (27.93%) ITIL
3 44 (24.58%) Problem-Solving
4 30 (16.76%) Ticket Management
5 27 (15.08%) Break/Fix
6 21 (11.73%) Problem Management
7 18 (10.06%) Incident Management
8 16 (8.94%) Agile
8 16 (8.94%) Service Delivery
9 15 (8.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 15 (8.38%) Remote Monitoring and Management
10 14 (7.82%) ITSM
10 14 (7.82%) Line Management
11 13 (7.26%) Continuous Improvement
12 11 (6.15%) Cybersecurity
12 11 (6.15%) Service Management
13 10 (5.59%) Decision-Making
13 10 (5.59%) Migration
13 10 (5.59%) Proactive Management
14 9 (5.03%) Customer-Centricity
Programming Languages
1 24 (13.41%) PowerShell
2 11 (6.15%) SQL
3 4 (2.23%) Bash
4 1 (0.56%) Python
Qualifications
1 35 (19.55%) Degree
2 28 (15.64%) Microsoft Certification
3 11 (6.15%) MCP
4 10 (5.59%) A+ Certification
5 9 (5.03%) Azure Certification
6 8 (4.47%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 7 (3.91%) CCNA
7 7 (3.91%) Cisco Certification
7 7 (3.91%) Security Cleared
8 6 (3.35%) HND
8 6 (3.35%) ITIL Certification
9 4 (2.23%) AWS Certification
9 4 (2.23%) DBS Check
10 3 (1.68%) CCA
10 3 (1.68%) Citrix Certification
10 3 (1.68%) HNC
10 3 (1.68%) MCDST
10 3 (1.68%) MCSA
10 3 (1.68%) MCSE
11 2 (1.12%) MCITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (7.26%) SLA
2 10 (5.59%) GDPR
3 5 (2.79%) QA
4 3 (1.68%) Cyber Essentials
4 3 (1.68%) Disclosure Scotland
4 3 (1.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.56%) PMO
System Software
1 104 (58.10%) Active Directory
2 49 (27.37%) VMware Infrastructure
3 47 (26.26%) Hyper-V
4 23 (12.85%) Virtual Desktop
5 14 (7.82%) VMware ESXi
6 12 (6.70%) Terminal Services
7 7 (3.91%) XenApp
8 6 (3.35%) XenDesktop
9 5 (2.79%) vSphere
10 4 (2.23%) VMware NSX
10 4 (2.23%) VMware Server
11 3 (1.68%) Terminal Server
11 3 (1.68%) Virtual Servers
12 2 (1.12%) Virtual Machines
13 1 (0.56%) DFS Replication
Systems Management
1 51 (28.49%) Microsoft Intune
2 16 (8.94%) SCCM
3 9 (5.03%) AirWatch
4 7 (3.91%) vCenter Server
5 3 (1.68%) Backup Exec
5 3 (1.68%) Failover Clustering
5 3 (1.68%) Microsoft Clustering
5 3 (1.68%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
6 1 (0.56%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 148 (82.68%) Microsoft
2 55 (30.73%) VMware
3 33 (18.44%) Citrix
4 17 (9.50%) Veeam
5 12 (6.70%) Cisco
6 10 (5.59%) HP
7 8 (4.47%) Dell
8 7 (3.91%) Aruba
9 6 (3.35%) Meraki
10 5 (2.79%) ConnectWise
10 5 (2.79%) Datto
10 5 (2.79%) Ubiquiti
11 4 (2.23%) Draytek
11 4 (2.23%) Fortinet
11 4 (2.23%) Sophos
11 4 (2.23%) WatchGuard
12 3 (1.68%) Atlassian
12 3 (1.68%) ESET
12 3 (1.68%) Oracle
12 3 (1.68%) Symantec