Remote Desktop Jobs with Work from Home Options

Remote Desktop
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 489 590 721
Rank change year-on-year +101 +131 -177
Permanent jobs citing Remote Desktop 86 70 140
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.25% 0.17% 0.20%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.66% 1.53% 1.76%
Number of salaries quoted 84 64 123
10th Percentile £26,500 £27,750 £25,950
25th Percentile £30,001 £30,938 £30,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year - +12.50% -11.11%
75th Percentile £53,750 £57,500 £56,900
90th Percentile £55,000 £63,375 £67,500
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
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 permanent job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 5,180 4,569 7,962
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 15.32% 11.26% 11.17%
Number of salaries quoted 3,323 3,394 5,076
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,569 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £41,717
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% - +4.55%
75th Percentile £67,500 £76,316 £73,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £88,750 £90,000
UK median annual salary £47,500 £50,250 £52,500
% change year-on-year -5.47% -4.29% +5.00%

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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Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Remote Desktop.

Remote Desktop salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Remote Desktop
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Remote Desktop over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Remote Desktop salary histogram 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 48 (55.81%) Microsoft Exchange
2 46 (53.49%) SharePoint
3 2 (2.33%) WordPress
4 1 (1.16%) CMS
4 1 (1.16%) Exchange Server 2010
4 1 (1.16%) Site Server
Applications
1 19 (22.09%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (5.81%) Elite 3E
2 1 (1.16%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 75 (87.21%) Microsoft 365
2 48 (55.81%) Azure
3 22 (25.58%) Entra ID
4 9 (10.47%) Power Platform
5 7 (8.14%) OneDrive
6 4 (4.65%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (4.65%) IaaS
6 4 (4.65%) PaaS
7 3 (3.49%) AWS
7 3 (3.49%) GCP
8 2 (2.33%) Azure Sentinel
9 1 (1.16%) Dynamics 365
9 1 (1.16%) Google Workspace
9 1 (1.16%) Mimecast
9 1 (1.16%) Power Automate
9 1 (1.16%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 42 (48.84%) Firewall
2 30 (34.88%) VPN
3 25 (29.07%) LAN
4 23 (26.74%) DNS
4 23 (26.74%) WAN
5 20 (23.26%) VLAN
5 20 (23.26%) Wi-Fi
6 18 (20.93%) DHCP
7 17 (19.77%) MPLS
8 13 (15.12%) Wireless
9 9 (10.47%) SAN
10 5 (5.81%) Internet
10 5 (5.81%) VoIP
11 4 (4.65%) TCP/IP
12 2 (2.33%) DKIM
12 2 (2.33%) Fibre Channel
12 2 (2.33%) iSCSI
12 2 (2.33%) NAS
12 2 (2.33%) PBX
12 2 (2.33%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (18.60%) Amazon RDS
2 10 (11.63%) SQL Server
3 9 (10.47%) Power BI
4 4 (4.65%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (4.65%) SQL Server Reporting Services
General
1 49 (56.98%) Social Skills
2 9 (10.47%) Finance
3 7 (8.14%) Legal
4 5 (5.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 5 (5.81%) Organisational Skills
4 5 (5.81%) Public Sector
5 4 (4.65%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (3.49%) Retail
6 3 (3.49%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.16%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 26 (30.23%) IT Support
2 25 (29.07%) Support Engineer
3 19 (22.09%) IT Engineer
3 19 (22.09%) IT Support Engineer
4 18 (20.93%) Project Manager
5 16 (18.60%) 3rd Line Support
6 13 (15.12%) 3rd Line Engineer
7 12 (13.95%) Data Centre Manager
7 12 (13.95%) Data Centre Project Manager
8 11 (12.79%) 2nd Line Support
8 11 (12.79%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
8 11 (12.79%) Senior
9 9 (10.47%) 2nd Line Engineer
9 9 (10.47%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
9 9 (10.47%) Analyst
10 8 (9.30%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 7 (8.14%) Service Analyst
12 6 (6.98%) Service Desk Analyst
13 5 (5.81%) Technical Support
13 5 (5.81%) Technical Support Officer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (4.65%) .NET
1 4 (4.65%) ASP.NET
1 4 (4.65%) ASP.NET MVC
2 2 (2.33%) CSS
2 2 (2.33%) HTML
3 1 (1.16%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (18.60%) Data Centre
1 16 (18.60%) Public Cloud
2 12 (13.95%) iPad
3 11 (12.79%) Driving Licence
4 10 (11.63%) Self-Motivation
5 5 (5.81%) Low-Code
6 4 (4.65%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (4.65%) Replication
7 3 (3.49%) EPoS
7 3 (3.49%) Onboarding
7 3 (3.49%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 2 (2.33%) CCTV
8 2 (2.33%) Handset
9 1 (1.16%) Blackberry
9 1 (1.16%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 55 (63.95%) Windows
2 37 (43.02%) Windows Server
3 12 (13.95%) Windows 10
4 11 (12.79%) Windows Server 2016
4 11 (12.79%) Windows Server 2019
5 7 (8.14%) Apple iOS
6 4 (4.65%) Android
6 4 (4.65%) Windows Server 2012
7 2 (2.33%) Mac OS X
8 1 (1.16%) Windows 7
8 1 (1.16%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (24.42%) PRINCE2
2 20 (23.26%) Agile
3 19 (22.09%) Project Management
4 17 (19.77%) ITIL
5 14 (16.28%) Customer Service
5 14 (16.28%) Line Management
5 14 (16.28%) Remote Monitoring and Management
6 12 (13.95%) Continuous Improvement
7 10 (11.63%) Mentoring
8 9 (10.47%) Business Intelligence
8 9 (10.47%) Service Management
9 8 (9.30%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 8 (9.30%) ITSM
9 8 (9.30%) Service Delivery
10 7 (8.14%) Document Management
10 7 (8.14%) Problem Management
11 6 (6.98%) Data Loss Prevention
11 6 (6.98%) Service Desk Management
12 5 (5.81%) Practice Management
12 5 (5.81%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 13 (15.12%) PowerShell
2 10 (11.63%) SQL
3 8 (9.30%) T-SQL
4 4 (4.65%) C#
4 4 (4.65%) VBA
Qualifications
1 16 (18.60%) APMP
2 6 (6.98%) ITIL Certification
2 6 (6.98%) Microsoft Certification
3 5 (5.81%) Azure Certification
3 5 (5.81%) MCP
4 4 (4.65%) CCNA
4 4 (4.65%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (3.49%) CCA
5 3 (3.49%) Citrix Certification
5 3 (3.49%) MCSE
6 2 (2.33%) AWS Certification
6 2 (2.33%) DBS Check
6 2 (2.33%) MCITP
7 1 (1.16%) Degree
7 1 (1.16%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 1 (1.16%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.81%) QA
2 2 (2.33%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (2.33%) GDPR
2 2 (2.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (2.33%) SLA
System Software
1 59 (68.60%) Active Directory
2 47 (54.65%) Hyper-V
3 43 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 23 (26.74%) VMware ESXi
5 22 (25.58%) Virtual Desktop
6 6 (6.98%) XenApp
6 6 (6.98%) XenDesktop
7 2 (2.33%) Terminal Server
7 2 (2.33%) Terminal Services
8 1 (1.16%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (1.16%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (1.16%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 20 (23.26%) Microsoft Intune
2 17 (19.77%) WSUS
3 12 (13.95%) SCCM
4 3 (3.49%) Backup Exec
4 3 (3.49%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
Vendors
1 81 (94.19%) Microsoft
2 44 (51.16%) VMware
3 27 (31.40%) Cisco
4 26 (30.23%) Citrix
5 17 (19.77%) Ruckus Wireless
6 10 (11.63%) Veeam
7 7 (8.14%) HP
8 5 (5.81%) Aruba
8 5 (5.81%) ConnectWise
8 5 (5.81%) iManage
8 5 (5.81%) Intapp
9 4 (4.65%) Dell
9 4 (4.65%) Draytek
9 4 (4.65%) Fortinet
9 4 (4.65%) LexisNexis
10 3 (3.49%) ESET
10 3 (3.49%) Sophos
10 3 (3.49%) Symantec
10 3 (3.49%) Ubiquiti
10 3 (3.49%) Veritas