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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 511 508 676
Rank change year-on-year -3 +168 -50
Contract jobs citing Client/Server 64 175 162
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.15% 0.31% 0.18%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.49% 0.94% 0.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 111 108
10th Percentile £312 £406 £382
25th Percentile £375 £500 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £592 £600
Median % change year-on-year -15.37% -1.33% +20.42%
75th Percentile £583 £750 £656
90th Percentile £595 - £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £565 £525
% change year-on-year -2.65% +7.62% +23.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 15 14
10th Percentile - £65.50 £40.28
25th Percentile - £71.25 £47.19
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 £65.54
% change year-on-year -44.83% +10.62% +0.06%

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 12,955 18,685 29,032
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.09% 33.33% 33.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,317 12,877 20,364
10th Percentile £270 £313 £315
25th Percentile £413 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.18% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £663 £678 £663
90th Percentile £800 £800 £770
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £488
% change year-on-year - +2.56% +11.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 922 612 691
10th Percentile £12.25 £9.80 £14.25
25th Percentile £15.18 £10.63 £17.19
Median hourly rate £35.00 £22.13 £26.98
Median % change year-on-year +58.19% -17.99% +5.80%
75th Percentile £61.30 £60.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £71.25 £74.93 £65.76
UK excluding London median hourly rate £34.61 £22.00 £21.25
% change year-on-year +57.30% +3.53% -7.61%

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 1 June 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 1 June 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 1 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +7 57 £501 -18.20% 87
UK excluding London -14 42 £550 -2.65% 34
South East -1 23 £550 -9.84% 11
London +48 22 £392 -47.63% 55
Work from Home +37 9 £400 -38.46% 76
South West +11 8 - - 3
Scotland +14 7 £675 +15.38% 1
North of England +15 3 £278 -47.14% 2
Midlands +20 1 £425 -46.88% 11
Yorkshire +15 1 £375 -43.40%
North West +15 1 - - 2
West Midlands +11 1 £425 -46.88% 4
North East - 1 £180 -

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 (12.50%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (6.25%) OpenStack
3 2 (3.13%) Confluence
3 2 (3.13%) SAS
4 1 (1.56%) OpenEdge
4 1 (1.56%) Site Server
Applications
1 1 (1.56%) Acrobat
1 1 (1.56%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.56%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (1.56%) Dynamics NAV
1 1 (1.56%) MFGPRO
1 1 (1.56%) Sage 50
Cloud Services
1 31 (48.44%) Azure
2 18 (28.13%) Azure DevOps
3 12 (18.75%) PaaS
4 9 (14.06%) SaaS
5 8 (12.50%) AWS
5 8 (12.50%) IaaS
6 7 (10.94%) Cloud Computing
7 5 (7.81%) Microsoft 365
8 4 (6.25%) Entra ID
9 3 (4.69%) Azure Storage
9 3 (4.69%) iPaaS
10 2 (3.13%) OpenShift
11 1 (1.56%) Dynamics 365
11 1 (1.56%) OCI
11 1 (1.56%) Power Platform
11 1 (1.56%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 13 (20.31%) DHCP
1 13 (20.31%) DNS
1 13 (20.31%) LAN
1 13 (20.31%) WAN
1 13 (20.31%) Wi-Fi
2 11 (17.19%) SAN
3 8 (12.50%) MPLS
4 5 (7.81%) Firewall
5 2 (3.13%) Fibre Channel
5 2 (3.13%) iSCSI
6 1 (1.56%) NAS
6 1 (1.56%) NetScaler
6 1 (1.56%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (37.50%) SQL Server
2 4 (6.25%) MongoDB
2 4 (6.25%) MySQL
2 4 (6.25%) NoSQL
3 2 (3.13%) CouchDB
3 2 (3.13%) DB2
3 2 (3.13%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (3.13%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 8 (12.50%) JIRA
1 8 (12.50%) Selenium
2 6 (9.38%) Robot Framework
2 6 (9.38%) Visual Studio
3 5 (7.81%) MSI
3 5 (7.81%) WiX
4 4 (6.25%) Git
5 2 (3.13%) Bitbucket
5 2 (3.13%) Cucumber
5 2 (3.13%) Cypress.io
5 2 (3.13%) Jenkins
5 2 (3.13%) Subversion
5 2 (3.13%) TeamCity
5 2 (3.13%) WebDriver
General
1 22 (34.38%) Analytical Skills
1 22 (34.38%) Social Skills
2 8 (12.50%) Aerospace
3 7 (10.94%) Public Sector
4 4 (6.25%) Telecoms
5 2 (3.13%) Banking
5 2 (3.13%) Finance
6 1 (1.56%) Back Office
6 1 (1.56%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.56%) Investment Banking
6 1 (1.56%) Marketing
6 1 (1.56%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 16 (25.00%) Analyst
2 10 (15.63%) Infrastructure Analyst
3 8 (12.50%) IT Analyst
3 8 (12.50%) IT Engineer
3 8 (12.50%) IT Infrastructure Analyst
3 8 (12.50%) Software Engineer
4 7 (10.94%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 7 (10.94%) Senior
5 6 (9.38%) Operations Engineer
6 5 (7.81%) Applications Engineer
6 5 (7.81%) Applications Packager
6 5 (7.81%) Solutions Analyst
7 4 (6.25%) Architect
7 4 (6.25%) Support Engineer
8 3 (4.69%) Application Integration Engineer
8 3 (4.69%) DV Cleared Application Packager
8 3 (4.69%) Integration Engineer
8 3 (4.69%) Senior Software Engineer
8 3 (4.69%) Technical Architect
9 2 (3.13%) Technical Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (20.31%) .NET
2 6 (9.38%) JSON
2 6 (9.38%) Node.js
2 6 (9.38%) REST
2 6 (9.38%) XML
3 5 (7.81%) ASP.NET
3 5 (7.81%) ASP.NET Web API
3 5 (7.81%) Entity Framework
3 5 (7.81%) LDAP
3 5 (7.81%) LINQ
3 5 (7.81%) NHibernate
3 5 (7.81%) Web Services
3 5 (7.81%) XSLT
4 3 (4.69%) AngularJS
4 3 (4.69%) CSS
4 3 (4.69%) HTML
4 3 (4.69%) J2EE
5 2 (3.13%) Flash
5 2 (3.13%) POSIX
5 2 (3.13%) React
Miscellaneous
1 12 (18.75%) Data Centre
2 11 (17.19%) Clustering
3 5 (7.81%) Algorithms
3 5 (7.81%) Data Structures
3 5 (7.81%) Web 2.0
4 3 (4.69%) N-Tier
5 2 (3.13%) Fat Client
5 2 (3.13%) Mobile App
5 2 (3.13%) NVMe
5 2 (3.13%) Product Ownership
5 2 (3.13%) Thin Client
6 1 (1.56%) CMDB
6 1 (1.56%) Embedded Systems
6 1 (1.56%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.56%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.56%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.56%) LIMS
6 1 (1.56%) Operational Technology
6 1 (1.56%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 51 (79.69%) Windows
2 31 (48.44%) Linux
3 27 (42.19%) Windows Server
4 23 (35.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 11 (17.19%) Unix
6 4 (6.25%) Windows Server 2012
7 2 (3.13%) Data ONTAP
8 1 (1.56%) HPUX
8 1 (1.56%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (1.56%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (43.75%) Application Packaging
2 26 (40.63%) DevOps
3 22 (34.38%) Agile
4 20 (31.25%) Application Virtualisation
5 16 (25.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
6 14 (21.88%) Release Management
7 13 (20.31%) Migration
7 13 (20.31%) Software Engineering
7 13 (20.31%) Test Automation
8 10 (15.63%) Capacity Management
8 10 (15.63%) Decision-Making
9 9 (14.06%) Data Protection
9 9 (14.06%) Scrum
10 8 (12.50%) Asset Management
10 8 (12.50%) Business Transformation
10 8 (12.50%) Capacity Planning
10 8 (12.50%) Data Migration
10 8 (12.50%) Network Management
10 8 (12.50%) Server Management
11 7 (10.94%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 29 (45.31%) PowerShell
2 26 (40.63%) Python
3 24 (37.50%) SQL
4 23 (35.94%) VBScript
5 13 (20.31%) C#
6 7 (10.94%) Java
7 6 (9.38%) JavaScript
8 5 (7.81%) C
8 5 (7.81%) C++
8 5 (7.81%) T-SQL
9 4 (6.25%) Go
9 4 (6.25%) Shell Script
10 3 (4.69%) Perl
11 2 (3.13%) Bash
11 2 (3.13%) TypeScript
11 2 (3.13%) VBA
12 1 (1.56%) Ada
12 1 (1.56%) VB
Qualifications
1 24 (37.50%) Security Cleared
2 22 (34.38%) Degree
2 22 (34.38%) DV Cleared
3 4 (6.25%) Azure Certification
4 2 (3.13%) ISEB
4 2 (3.13%) ISTQB
4 2 (3.13%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 1 (1.56%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.69%) SLA
2 2 (3.13%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (1.56%) QA
System Software
1 36 (56.25%) VMware Infrastructure
2 11 (17.19%) Active Directory
3 9 (14.06%) Docker
4 8 (12.50%) Virtual Servers
4 8 (12.50%) VMware Workstation
5 5 (7.81%) Hyper-V
6 2 (3.13%) GPFS
6 2 (3.13%) NFS
6 2 (3.13%) VirtualBox
6 2 (3.13%) vSphere
7 1 (1.56%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (1.56%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 8 (12.50%) Microsoft Clustering
1 8 (12.50%) Nagios
1 8 (12.50%) NetBackup
1 8 (12.50%) SCCM
2 7 (10.94%) Kubernetes
2 7 (10.94%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (3.13%) Veritas Storage Foundation
4 1 (1.56%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (1.56%) FortiGate
4 1 (1.56%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (1.56%) WSUS
Vendors
1 38 (59.38%) VMware
2 14 (21.88%) Microsoft
3 11 (17.19%) NetApp
4 8 (12.50%) Hitachi
5 7 (10.94%) CA
6 4 (6.25%) ArcSight
7 2 (3.13%) Brocade
7 2 (3.13%) EMC
7 2 (3.13%) Google
7 2 (3.13%) HP
7 2 (3.13%) IBM
7 2 (3.13%) Sybase
7 2 (3.13%) Veritas
8 1 (1.56%) Adobe
8 1 (1.56%) Cisco
8 1 (1.56%) Compaq
8 1 (1.56%) Oracle
8 1 (1.56%) QAD
8 1 (1.56%) Red Hat
8 1 (1.56%) Sophos