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 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 509 518 671
Rank change year-on-year +9 +153 -48
Contract jobs citing Client/Server 62 170 174
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.15% 0.30% 0.20%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.48% 0.90% 0.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 105 111
10th Percentile £319 £409 £363
25th Percentile £375 £513 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £610 £600
Median % change year-on-year -16.89% +1.67% +26.32%
75th Percentile £595 £750 £663
90th Percentile - - £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £585 £513
% change year-on-year -5.98% +14.15% +34.87%
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% +0.06%
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 12,884 18,935 29,011
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.26% 33.25% 33.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,299 13,036 20,297
10th Percentile £266 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £663 £680 £660
90th Percentile £800 £800 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 896 624 711
10th Percentile £12.25 £9.80 £14.25
25th Percentile £15.16 £10.63 £17.00
Median hourly rate £31.38 £22.26 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +40.98% -19.07% +4.90%
75th Percentile £61.30 £63.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £65.76
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £22.00 £21.13
% change year-on-year +36.36% +4.14% -11.29%

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 18 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 18 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 18 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 +28 53 £501 -18.57% 197
UK excluding London +14 43 £550 -5.98% 106
South East +24 21 £550 -10.13% 66
London +49 19 £400 -46.67% 139
Scotland +22 9 £684 +15.54% 1
Work from Home +36 8 £400 -46.31% 179
South West +12 8 - - 3
North of England +26 4 £278 -47.14% 13
Yorkshire +13 2 £375 -43.40% 2
Midlands +20 1 £425 -46.88% 16
West Midlands +20 1 £425 -46.88% 5
North West +15 1 - - 5
North East - 1 £180 - 7

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 (12.90%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (6.45%) OpenStack
2 4 (6.45%) SAS
3 2 (3.23%) Confluence
4 1 (1.61%) OpenEdge
4 1 (1.61%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (1.61%) Site Server
Applications
1 1 (1.61%) Acrobat
1 1 (1.61%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.61%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (1.61%) Dynamics NAV
1 1 (1.61%) MFGPRO
1 1 (1.61%) Sage 50
Cloud Services
1 30 (48.39%) Azure
2 17 (27.42%) Azure DevOps
3 12 (19.35%) PaaS
4 10 (16.13%) AWS
5 9 (14.52%) SaaS
6 8 (12.90%) IaaS
7 5 (8.06%) Microsoft 365
8 4 (6.45%) Cloud Computing
8 4 (6.45%) Entra ID
8 4 (6.45%) OpenShift
9 3 (4.84%) Azure Storage
9 3 (4.84%) iPaaS
10 1 (1.61%) Dynamics 365
10 1 (1.61%) OCI
10 1 (1.61%) Power Platform
10 1 (1.61%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 13 (20.97%) DHCP
1 13 (20.97%) DNS
1 13 (20.97%) LAN
1 13 (20.97%) SAN
1 13 (20.97%) WAN
1 13 (20.97%) Wi-Fi
2 8 (12.90%) MPLS
3 5 (8.06%) Firewall
4 4 (6.45%) Fibre Channel
4 4 (6.45%) iSCSI
5 1 (1.61%) NAS
5 1 (1.61%) NetScaler
5 1 (1.61%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (35.48%) SQL Server
2 4 (6.45%) DB2
2 4 (6.45%) MongoDB
2 4 (6.45%) MySQL
2 4 (6.45%) NoSQL
3 2 (3.23%) CouchDB
3 2 (3.23%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (3.23%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 8 (12.90%) JIRA
1 8 (12.90%) Selenium
2 6 (9.68%) Robot Framework
2 6 (9.68%) Visual Studio
3 5 (8.06%) MSI
3 5 (8.06%) WiX
4 4 (6.45%) Git
5 3 (4.84%) Subversion
6 2 (3.23%) Bitbucket
6 2 (3.23%) Cucumber
6 2 (3.23%) Cypress.io
6 2 (3.23%) Jenkins
6 2 (3.23%) TeamCity
6 2 (3.23%) WebDriver
7 1 (1.61%) GitLab
General
1 24 (38.71%) Social Skills
2 22 (35.48%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (12.90%) Aerospace
4 7 (11.29%) Public Sector
5 4 (6.45%) Banking
5 4 (6.45%) Finance
5 4 (6.45%) Telecoms
6 3 (4.84%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.61%) Back Office
7 1 (1.61%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.61%) Marketing
7 1 (1.61%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 16 (25.81%) Analyst
2 10 (16.13%) Infrastructure Analyst
3 9 (14.52%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 8 (12.90%) IT Analyst
4 8 (12.90%) IT Infrastructure Analyst
4 8 (12.90%) Software Engineer
5 7 (11.29%) Senior
6 5 (8.06%) Applications Engineer
6 5 (8.06%) IT Engineer
6 5 (8.06%) Solutions Analyst
7 4 (6.45%) Architect
7 4 (6.45%) Linux Engineer
7 4 (6.45%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
7 4 (6.45%) Python Engineer
7 4 (6.45%) Storage Engineer
7 4 (6.45%) Support Engineer
8 3 (4.84%) Applications Packager
8 3 (4.84%) Integration Engineer
8 3 (4.84%) Senior Software Engineer
8 3 (4.84%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (20.97%) .NET
2 6 (9.68%) JSON
2 6 (9.68%) Node.js
2 6 (9.68%) REST
2 6 (9.68%) XML
3 5 (8.06%) ASP.NET
3 5 (8.06%) ASP.NET Web API
3 5 (8.06%) Entity Framework
3 5 (8.06%) LDAP
3 5 (8.06%) LINQ
3 5 (8.06%) NHibernate
3 5 (8.06%) Web Services
3 5 (8.06%) XSLT
4 4 (6.45%) Flash
4 4 (6.45%) POSIX
5 3 (4.84%) AngularJS
5 3 (4.84%) CSS
5 3 (4.84%) HTML
5 3 (4.84%) J2EE
6 2 (3.23%) React
Miscellaneous
1 12 (19.35%) Data Centre
2 11 (17.74%) Clustering
3 5 (8.06%) Algorithms
3 5 (8.06%) Data Structures
3 5 (8.06%) Web 2.0
4 4 (6.45%) NVMe
5 3 (4.84%) N-Tier
6 2 (3.23%) Fat Client
6 2 (3.23%) Mobile App
6 2 (3.23%) Product Ownership
6 2 (3.23%) Thin Client
7 1 (1.61%) CMDB
7 1 (1.61%) Embedded Systems
7 1 (1.61%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.61%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.61%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.61%) LIMS
7 1 (1.61%) Operational Technology
7 1 (1.61%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 48 (77.42%) Windows
2 31 (50.00%) Linux
3 27 (43.55%) Windows Server
4 23 (37.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 14 (22.58%) Unix
6 4 (6.45%) Data ONTAP
6 4 (6.45%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (1.61%) HPUX
7 1 (1.61%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (1.61%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (41.94%) Application Packaging
1 26 (41.94%) DevOps
2 22 (35.48%) Agile
3 18 (29.03%) Application Virtualisation
4 15 (24.19%) Scaled Agile Framework
5 13 (20.97%) Capacity Management
5 13 (20.97%) Software Engineering
5 13 (20.97%) Test Automation
6 12 (19.35%) Migration
6 12 (19.35%) Release Management
7 10 (16.13%) Decision-Making
7 10 (16.13%) SDLC
8 9 (14.52%) Data Protection
8 9 (14.52%) OO
9 8 (12.90%) Asset Management
9 8 (12.90%) Business Transformation
9 8 (12.90%) Capacity Planning
9 8 (12.90%) Data Migration
9 8 (12.90%) Network Management
9 8 (12.90%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 27 (43.55%) PowerShell
2 26 (41.94%) Python
3 23 (37.10%) SQL
4 21 (33.87%) VBScript
5 13 (20.97%) C#
6 10 (16.13%) Java
7 6 (9.68%) JavaScript
8 5 (8.06%) C
8 5 (8.06%) C++
8 5 (8.06%) Perl
8 5 (8.06%) T-SQL
9 4 (6.45%) Go
9 4 (6.45%) Shell Script
10 2 (3.23%) Bash
10 2 (3.23%) TypeScript
10 2 (3.23%) VBA
11 1 (1.61%) Ada
11 1 (1.61%) VB
Qualifications
1 22 (35.48%) Security Cleared
2 20 (32.26%) DV Cleared
3 19 (30.65%) Degree
4 2 (3.23%) ISEB
4 2 (3.23%) ISTQB
4 2 (3.23%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 1 (1.61%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.61%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.84%) SLA
2 2 (3.23%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (1.61%) QA
System Software
1 34 (54.84%) VMware Infrastructure
2 11 (17.74%) Active Directory
2 11 (17.74%) Docker
3 8 (12.90%) Virtual Servers
3 8 (12.90%) VMware Workstation
4 5 (8.06%) Hyper-V
5 4 (6.45%) GPFS
5 4 (6.45%) NFS
6 2 (3.23%) VirtualBox
6 2 (3.23%) vSphere
7 1 (1.61%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (1.61%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 9 (14.52%) Kubernetes
2 8 (12.90%) Microsoft Clustering
2 8 (12.90%) Nagios
2 8 (12.90%) NetBackup
2 8 (12.90%) SCCM
3 4 (6.45%) Microsoft Intune
3 4 (6.45%) Veritas Storage Foundation
4 1 (1.61%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (1.61%) FortiGate
4 1 (1.61%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (1.61%) WSUS
Vendors
1 36 (58.06%) VMware
2 13 (20.97%) NetApp
3 11 (17.74%) Microsoft
4 8 (12.90%) Hitachi
5 4 (6.45%) Brocade
5 4 (6.45%) CA
5 4 (6.45%) EMC
5 4 (6.45%) Google
5 4 (6.45%) IBM
5 4 (6.45%) Sybase
5 4 (6.45%) Veritas
6 3 (4.84%) ArcSight
7 2 (3.23%) HP
7 2 (3.23%) Oracle
8 1 (1.61%) Adobe
8 1 (1.61%) Cisco
8 1 (1.61%) Citrix
8 1 (1.61%) Compaq
8 1 (1.61%) Progress
8 1 (1.61%) Red Hat