Remote Desktop Jobs

Remote Desktop
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 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 664 679 920
Rank change year-on-year +15 +241 -214
Permanent jobs citing Remote Desktop 245 272 354
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.23% 0.29% 0.21%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.80% 1.76% 1.57%
Number of salaries quoted 223 223 305
10th Percentile £25,760 £25,600 £25,000
25th Percentile £26,919 £27,750 £27,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,001 £35,000 £38,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.57% -7.89% -1.30%
75th Percentile £50,000 £46,875 £52,500
90th Percentile £53,750 £58,750 £63,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £30,000 £33,750 £35,000
% change year-on-year -11.11% -3.57% -7.89%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 13,603 15,428 22,577
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 12.92% 16.28% 13.35%
Number of salaries quoted 9,416 7,727 11,819
10th Percentile £26,250 £28,000 £28,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £35,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.94% -3.81% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £87,419 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £44,000 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -2.22% -5.26% +5.56%

Remote Desktop
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Remote Desktop in the UK

Remote Desktop
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Remote Desktop.

Salary trend for Remote Desktop in the UK

Remote Desktop
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Remote Desktop over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Remote Desktop in the UK

Remote Desktop
Top 16 Job Locations

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 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +23 210 £32,500 -7.14% 44
UK excluding London -72 184 £30,000 -11.11% 40
Work from Home +71 85 £38,500 -14.44% 15
London +114 54 £52,500 +50.00% 8
South West -22 39 £41,500 +48.21% 5
South East -37 39 £32,500 -18.75% 11
North of England +19 34 £32,000 -8.57% 11
North West -3 30 £30,000 -33.33% 3
East of England -10 25 £32,500 +15.04% 6
Midlands -32 19 £28,500 -16.18% 5
Wales - 18 £28,290 - 2
West Midlands -21 14 £26,500 -34.57% 1
Scotland -65 7 £29,500 +29.67% 3
East Midlands -25 5 £48,500 +51.56% 4
North East - 4 £41,500 - 4
Northern Ireland - 3 £40,000 -

Remote Desktop
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 70 (28.57%) Microsoft Exchange
2 60 (24.49%) SharePoint
3 5 (2.04%) IIS
4 3 (1.22%) IBM Notes
5 2 (0.82%) WordPress
6 1 (0.41%) CMS
6 1 (0.41%) Site Server
Applications
1 45 (18.37%) Microsoft Office
2 32 (13.06%) Microsoft Excel
2 32 (13.06%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.41%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 11 (4.49%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (2.04%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 185 (75.51%) Microsoft 365
2 137 (55.92%) Azure
3 58 (23.67%) Entra ID
4 40 (16.33%) OneDrive
5 9 (3.67%) Power Platform
6 8 (3.27%) AWS
7 7 (2.86%) IaaS
8 6 (2.45%) PaaS
9 5 (2.04%) GCP
10 3 (1.22%) Azure DevOps
11 2 (0.82%) Mimecast
11 2 (0.82%) PowerApps
11 2 (0.82%) WhatsApp
12 1 (0.41%) Apple Pay
12 1 (0.41%) Azure Sentinel
12 1 (0.41%) Dynamics 365
12 1 (0.41%) Google Workspace
12 1 (0.41%) Power Automate
12 1 (0.41%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 68 (27.76%) Firewall
2 56 (22.86%) DNS
3 52 (21.22%) DHCP
4 43 (17.55%) VPN
5 36 (14.69%) LAN
5 36 (14.69%) WAN
6 31 (12.65%) TCP/IP
7 30 (12.24%) Wi-Fi
8 28 (11.43%) Wireless
9 25 (10.20%) VLAN
10 21 (8.57%) SAN
11 17 (6.94%) VoIP
12 16 (6.53%) MPLS
13 6 (2.45%) Fibre Channel
14 5 (2.04%) Internet
14 5 (2.04%) NAS
15 3 (1.22%) Network Security
15 3 (1.22%) SSL
15 3 (1.22%) VSAN
16 2 (0.82%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (9.80%) Amazon RDS
2 12 (4.90%) SQL Server
3 9 (3.67%) Power BI
4 4 (1.63%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 3 (1.22%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (1.22%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 9 (3.67%) GitLab
2 6 (2.45%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.41%) Subversion
General
1 127 (51.84%) Social Skills
2 43 (17.55%) Finance
3 14 (5.71%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (4.49%) Public Sector
5 9 (3.67%) Legal
6 7 (2.86%) Documentation Skills
7 6 (2.45%) Banking
7 6 (2.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (2.45%) Investment Banking
7 6 (2.45%) Organisational Skills
8 5 (2.04%) Retail
9 3 (1.22%) Marketing
9 3 (1.22%) Norwegian Language
9 3 (1.22%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (1.22%) Telecoms
10 2 (0.82%) French Language
11 1 (0.41%) Back Office
11 1 (0.41%) Law
11 1 (0.41%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 75 (30.61%) Support Engineer
2 44 (17.96%) IT Support
3 36 (14.69%) Analyst
4 34 (13.88%) Desktop Engineer
5 32 (13.06%) Desktop Support
6 31 (12.65%) IT Engineer
7 30 (12.24%) Desktop Support Engineer
8 28 (11.43%) IT Support Engineer
9 25 (10.20%) Service Analyst
10 22 (8.98%) 2nd Line Support
11 21 (8.57%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 21 (8.57%) Service Desk Analyst
12 18 (7.35%) 3rd Line Support
13 17 (6.94%) Project Manager
13 17 (6.94%) Technical Support
14 16 (6.53%) Senior
15 14 (5.71%) 3rd Line Engineer
16 13 (5.31%) 2nd Line Engineer
16 13 (5.31%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
16 13 (5.31%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (2.86%) X-Windows
2 3 (1.22%) .NET
2 3 (1.22%) ASP.NET
2 3 (1.22%) ASP.NET MVC
2 3 (1.22%) XML
3 2 (0.82%) CSS
3 2 (0.82%) HTML
4 1 (0.41%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 24 (9.80%) iPad
2 18 (7.35%) Data Centre
3 17 (6.94%) Driving Licence
4 16 (6.53%) Public Cloud
5 14 (5.71%) Self-Motivation
6 11 (4.49%) Enterprise Software
6 11 (4.49%) Replication
6 11 (4.49%) Smartphone
7 6 (2.45%) Onboarding
8 5 (2.04%) Low-Code
9 4 (1.63%) CCTV
9 4 (1.63%) PKI
10 3 (1.22%) Clustering
10 3 (1.22%) Data Structures
10 3 (1.22%) EPoS
10 3 (1.22%) iPhone
11 2 (0.82%) Educational Technology
11 2 (0.82%) Handset
11 2 (0.82%) Management Information System
11 2 (0.82%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 173 (70.61%) Windows
2 84 (34.29%) Windows Server
3 43 (17.55%) Windows 10
4 22 (8.98%) Windows Server 2016
5 20 (8.16%) Windows Server 2019
6 15 (6.12%) Linux
7 14 (5.71%) Windows Server 2012
8 12 (4.90%) Android
8 12 (4.90%) Windows 7
9 11 (4.49%) Apple iOS
9 11 (4.49%) Mac OS X
10 10 (4.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 9 (3.67%) Windows Phone
11 9 (3.67%) Windows Server 2008
12 6 (2.45%) Mac OS
13 4 (1.63%) CentOS
13 4 (1.63%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (31.84%) Customer Service
2 61 (24.90%) ITIL
3 50 (20.41%) Problem-Solving
4 39 (15.92%) Ticket Management
5 33 (13.47%) Agile
6 32 (13.06%) Break/Fix
7 25 (10.20%) Project Management
8 23 (9.39%) Problem Management
9 22 (8.98%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 21 (8.57%) PRINCE2
10 21 (8.57%) Service Delivery
11 20 (8.16%) ITSM
12 19 (7.76%) Incident Management
13 17 (6.94%) Remote Monitoring and Management
14 16 (6.53%) Continuous Improvement
14 16 (6.53%) Service Management
15 15 (6.12%) CRM
15 15 (6.12%) Mentoring
16 14 (5.71%) Line Management
17 13 (5.31%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 33 (13.47%) PowerShell
2 18 (7.35%) SQL
3 10 (4.08%) Bash
4 7 (2.86%) Python
4 7 (2.86%) T-SQL
5 6 (2.45%) Korn
5 6 (2.45%) Perl
5 6 (2.45%) Ruby
6 3 (1.22%) C#
6 3 (1.22%) VBA
Qualifications
1 37 (15.10%) Degree
2 28 (11.43%) Microsoft Certification
3 16 (6.53%) APMP
4 13 (5.31%) MCP
4 13 (5.31%) Security Cleared
5 11 (4.49%) A+ Certification
6 10 (4.08%) Azure Certification
7 8 (3.27%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 7 (2.86%) CCNA
8 7 (2.86%) Cisco Certification
9 6 (2.45%) HND
9 6 (2.45%) ITIL Certification
10 5 (2.04%) CCA
10 5 (2.04%) Citrix Certification
10 5 (2.04%) SC Cleared
11 4 (1.63%) AWS Certification
11 4 (1.63%) DBS Check
12 3 (1.22%) MCDST
12 3 (1.22%) MCSA
12 3 (1.22%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (6.12%) SLA
2 10 (4.08%) GDPR
3 5 (2.04%) QA
4 3 (1.22%) Disclosure Scotland
5 2 (0.82%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (0.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.41%) PMO
System Software
1 154 (62.86%) Active Directory
2 82 (33.47%) VMware Infrastructure
3 67 (27.35%) Hyper-V
4 32 (13.06%) VMware ESXi
5 24 (9.80%) Virtual Desktop
6 16 (6.53%) Terminal Services
7 15 (6.12%) XenApp
8 14 (5.71%) XenDesktop
9 7 (2.86%) vSphere
10 6 (2.45%) Docker
11 5 (2.04%) Virtual Servers
12 4 (1.63%) VMware NSX
12 4 (1.63%) VMware Server
13 3 (1.22%) Terminal Server
14 2 (0.82%) Virtual Machines
15 1 (0.41%) DFS Replication
Systems Management
1 62 (25.31%) Microsoft Intune
2 19 (7.76%) SCCM
3 16 (6.53%) WSUS
4 9 (3.67%) AirWatch
5 7 (2.86%) vCenter Server
6 6 (2.45%) Ansible
6 6 (2.45%) Puppet
6 6 (2.45%) Red Hat Satellite
6 6 (2.45%) Terraform
7 5 (2.04%) Backup Exec
7 5 (2.04%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
8 3 (1.22%) Failover Clustering
8 3 (1.22%) Microsoft Clustering
9 2 (0.82%) Jamf Pro
10 1 (0.41%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 203 (82.86%) Microsoft
2 88 (35.92%) VMware
3 43 (17.55%) Citrix
4 31 (12.65%) Cisco
5 23 (9.39%) Veeam
6 18 (7.35%) Ruckus Wireless
7 12 (4.90%) HP
8 10 (4.08%) Dell
9 7 (2.86%) Aruba
9 7 (2.86%) Datto
9 7 (2.86%) Ubiquiti
10 6 (2.45%) Apple
10 6 (2.45%) Fortinet
10 6 (2.45%) Red Hat
10 6 (2.45%) TOWER Software
11 5 (2.04%) Intapp
11 5 (2.04%) Meraki
11 5 (2.04%) ServiceNow
11 5 (2.04%) Symantec
11 5 (2.04%) Veritas