Client/Server Contracts

Client Server
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Client/Server in contract job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Client/Server over the 6 months to 15 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
15 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 512 537 686
Rank change year-on-year +25 +149 -80
Contract jobs citing Client/Server 61 164 171
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.14% 0.29% 0.20%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.47% 0.86% 0.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 100 109
10th Percentile £358 £412 £383
25th Percentile £383 £513 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £516 £612 £600
Median % change year-on-year -15.72% +2.04% +26.32%
75th Percentile £595 £750 £650
90th Percentile £595 - £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £585 £500
% change year-on-year -5.98% +17.00% +31.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 15 17
10th Percentile - £65.50 £36.95
25th Percentile - £71.25 £46.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £75.00 £65.54
Median % change year-on-year -46.67% +14.43% +6.14%
75th Percentile £43.43 - £75.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £149.50 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £72.50 £75.00
% change year-on-year -44.83% -3.33% +14.50%

All Generic Skills
UK

Client/Server is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 12,885 18,988 28,967
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.28% 33.25% 33.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,301 13,052 20,257
10th Percentile £269 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.91% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £674 £676 £660
90th Percentile £800 £800 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 890 627 724
10th Percentile £12.25 £9.80 £14.25
25th Percentile £15.14 £10.63 £17.23
Median hourly rate £31.25 £22.49 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +38.98% -18.24% +4.05%
75th Percentile £61.30 £63.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.50 £22.00 £21.04
% change year-on-year +29.55% +4.56% -12.33%

Client/Server
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Client/Server as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Client/Server in the UK

Client/Server
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Client/Server.

Daily rate trend for Client/Server in the UK

Client/Server
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Client/Server over the 6 months to 15 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Client/Server in the UK

Client/Server
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Client/Server.

Hourly rate trend for Client/Server in the UK

Client/Server
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Client/Server over the 6 months to 15 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Client/Server in the UK

Client/Server
Top 13 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Client/Server within the UK over the 6 months to 15 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +20 52 £504 -18.71% 154
UK excluding London +8 43 £550 -5.98% 55
South East +11 21 £550 -10.13% 15
London +54 18 £400 -46.67% 100
Scotland +28 9 £684 +15.54% 1
Work from Home +54 8 £400 -46.49% 145
South West +24 8 - - 2
North of England +15 4 £278 -47.14% 15
Yorkshire +18 2 £375 -43.40% 2
Midlands +29 1 £425 -46.88% 16
West Midlands +16 1 £425 -46.88% 6
North West +14 1 - - 7
North East - 1 £180 - 8

Client/Server
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 8 (13.11%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (6.56%) OpenStack
2 4 (6.56%) SAS
3 2 (3.28%) Confluence
4 1 (1.64%) OpenEdge
4 1 (1.64%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (1.64%) Site Server
Applications
1 1 (1.64%) Acrobat
1 1 (1.64%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.64%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (1.64%) Dynamics NAV
1 1 (1.64%) MFGPRO
1 1 (1.64%) Sage 50
Cloud Services
1 29 (47.54%) Azure
2 17 (27.87%) Azure DevOps
3 12 (19.67%) PaaS
4 10 (16.39%) AWS
5 9 (14.75%) SaaS
6 8 (13.11%) IaaS
7 5 (8.20%) Microsoft 365
8 4 (6.56%) Entra ID
8 4 (6.56%) OpenShift
9 3 (4.92%) Azure Storage
9 3 (4.92%) Cloud Computing
9 3 (4.92%) iPaaS
10 1 (1.64%) Dynamics 365
10 1 (1.64%) OCI
10 1 (1.64%) Power Platform
10 1 (1.64%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 13 (21.31%) DHCP
1 13 (21.31%) DNS
1 13 (21.31%) LAN
1 13 (21.31%) SAN
1 13 (21.31%) WAN
1 13 (21.31%) Wi-Fi
2 8 (13.11%) MPLS
3 5 (8.20%) Firewall
4 4 (6.56%) Fibre Channel
4 4 (6.56%) iSCSI
5 1 (1.64%) NAS
5 1 (1.64%) NetScaler
5 1 (1.64%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (34.43%) SQL Server
2 4 (6.56%) DB2
2 4 (6.56%) MongoDB
2 4 (6.56%) MySQL
2 4 (6.56%) NoSQL
3 2 (3.28%) CouchDB
3 2 (3.28%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (3.28%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 8 (13.11%) JIRA
1 8 (13.11%) Selenium
2 6 (9.84%) Robot Framework
2 6 (9.84%) Visual Studio
3 5 (8.20%) MSI
3 5 (8.20%) WiX
4 4 (6.56%) Git
5 3 (4.92%) Subversion
6 2 (3.28%) Bitbucket
6 2 (3.28%) Cucumber
6 2 (3.28%) Cypress.io
6 2 (3.28%) Jenkins
6 2 (3.28%) TeamCity
6 2 (3.28%) WebDriver
7 1 (1.64%) GitLab
General
1 24 (39.34%) Social Skills
2 22 (36.07%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (13.11%) Aerospace
4 6 (9.84%) Public Sector
5 4 (6.56%) Banking
5 4 (6.56%) Finance
5 4 (6.56%) Telecoms
6 3 (4.92%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.64%) Back Office
7 1 (1.64%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.64%) Marketing
7 1 (1.64%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 16 (26.23%) Analyst
2 10 (16.39%) Infrastructure Analyst
3 9 (14.75%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 8 (13.11%) IT Analyst
4 8 (13.11%) IT Infrastructure Analyst
4 8 (13.11%) Software Engineer
5 7 (11.48%) Senior
6 5 (8.20%) Applications Engineer
6 5 (8.20%) Solutions Analyst
7 4 (6.56%) Architect
7 4 (6.56%) IT Engineer
7 4 (6.56%) Linux Engineer
7 4 (6.56%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
7 4 (6.56%) Python Engineer
7 4 (6.56%) Storage Engineer
7 4 (6.56%) Support Engineer
8 3 (4.92%) Application Integration Engineer
8 3 (4.92%) Integration Engineer
8 3 (4.92%) Senior Software Engineer
8 3 (4.92%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (21.31%) .NET
2 6 (9.84%) JSON
2 6 (9.84%) Node.js
2 6 (9.84%) REST
2 6 (9.84%) XML
3 5 (8.20%) ASP.NET
3 5 (8.20%) ASP.NET Web API
3 5 (8.20%) Entity Framework
3 5 (8.20%) LDAP
3 5 (8.20%) LINQ
3 5 (8.20%) NHibernate
3 5 (8.20%) Web Services
3 5 (8.20%) XSLT
4 4 (6.56%) Flash
4 4 (6.56%) POSIX
5 3 (4.92%) AngularJS
5 3 (4.92%) CSS
5 3 (4.92%) HTML
5 3 (4.92%) J2EE
6 2 (3.28%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 12 (19.67%) Data Centre
2 11 (18.03%) Clustering
3 5 (8.20%) Algorithms
3 5 (8.20%) Data Structures
3 5 (8.20%) Web 2.0
4 4 (6.56%) NVMe
5 3 (4.92%) N-Tier
6 2 (3.28%) Fat Client
6 2 (3.28%) Mobile App
6 2 (3.28%) Product Ownership
6 2 (3.28%) Thin Client
7 1 (1.64%) CMDB
7 1 (1.64%) Embedded Systems
7 1 (1.64%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.64%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.64%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.64%) LIMS
7 1 (1.64%) Operational Technology
7 1 (1.64%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 47 (77.05%) Windows
2 31 (50.82%) Linux
3 27 (44.26%) Windows Server
4 23 (37.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 14 (22.95%) Unix
6 4 (6.56%) Data ONTAP
6 4 (6.56%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (1.64%) HPUX
7 1 (1.64%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (1.64%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (42.62%) Application Packaging
1 26 (42.62%) DevOps
2 22 (36.07%) Agile
3 18 (29.51%) Application Virtualisation
4 15 (24.59%) Scaled Agile Framework
5 13 (21.31%) Capacity Management
5 13 (21.31%) Software Engineering
5 13 (21.31%) Test Automation
6 12 (19.67%) Migration
6 12 (19.67%) Release Management
7 10 (16.39%) Decision-Making
7 10 (16.39%) SDLC
8 9 (14.75%) Data Protection
8 9 (14.75%) OO
9 8 (13.11%) Asset Management
9 8 (13.11%) Business Transformation
9 8 (13.11%) Capacity Planning
9 8 (13.11%) Data Migration
9 8 (13.11%) Network Management
9 8 (13.11%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 27 (44.26%) PowerShell
2 26 (42.62%) Python
3 22 (36.07%) SQL
4 21 (34.43%) VBScript
5 13 (21.31%) C#
6 10 (16.39%) Java
7 6 (9.84%) JavaScript
8 5 (8.20%) C
8 5 (8.20%) C++
8 5 (8.20%) Perl
8 5 (8.20%) T-SQL
9 4 (6.56%) Go
9 4 (6.56%) Shell Script
10 2 (3.28%) Bash
10 2 (3.28%) TypeScript
10 2 (3.28%) VBA
11 1 (1.64%) Ada
11 1 (1.64%) VB
Qualifications
1 22 (36.07%) Security Cleared
2 20 (32.79%) DV Cleared
3 18 (29.51%) Degree
4 2 (3.28%) ISEB
4 2 (3.28%) ISTQB
4 2 (3.28%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 1 (1.64%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.92%) SLA
2 2 (3.28%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (1.64%) QA
System Software
1 34 (55.74%) VMware Infrastructure
2 11 (18.03%) Active Directory
2 11 (18.03%) Docker
3 8 (13.11%) Virtual Servers
3 8 (13.11%) VMware Workstation
4 5 (8.20%) Hyper-V
5 4 (6.56%) GPFS
5 4 (6.56%) NFS
6 2 (3.28%) VirtualBox
6 2 (3.28%) vSphere
7 1 (1.64%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (1.64%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 9 (14.75%) Kubernetes
2 8 (13.11%) Microsoft Clustering
2 8 (13.11%) Nagios
2 8 (13.11%) NetBackup
2 8 (13.11%) SCCM
3 4 (6.56%) Veritas Storage Foundation
4 3 (4.92%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (1.64%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (1.64%) FortiGate
5 1 (1.64%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (1.64%) WSUS
Vendors
1 36 (59.02%) VMware
2 13 (21.31%) NetApp
3 10 (16.39%) Microsoft
4 8 (13.11%) Hitachi
5 4 (6.56%) Brocade
5 4 (6.56%) EMC
5 4 (6.56%) Google
5 4 (6.56%) IBM
5 4 (6.56%) Sybase
5 4 (6.56%) Veritas
6 3 (4.92%) ArcSight
6 3 (4.92%) CA
7 2 (3.28%) HP
7 2 (3.28%) Oracle
8 1 (1.64%) Adobe
8 1 (1.64%) Cisco
8 1 (1.64%) Citrix
8 1 (1.64%) Compaq
8 1 (1.64%) Progress
8 1 (1.64%) Red Hat