Fat Client Contracts

Fat Client
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Fat Client in contract job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Fat Client 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 548 635 757
Rank change year-on-year +87 +122 -58
Contract jobs citing Fat Client 27 47 81
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.063% 0.084% 0.092%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.21% 0.25% 0.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 38 54
10th Percentile £256 £158 £122
25th Percentile £434 £161 £161
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £288 £300
Median % change year-on-year +134.78% -4.17% -30.23%
75th Percentile £800 £545 £438
90th Percentile £888 £548 £526
UK excluding London median daily rate £262 £200 £225
% change year-on-year +31.13% -11.11% -30.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 0
Median hourly rate £23.80 £20.93 -
Median % change year-on-year +13.71% - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £20.93 -

All Generic Skills
UK

Fat Client 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%

Fat Client
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Fat Client in the UK

Fat Client
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Fat Client in the UK

Fat Client
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Fat Client over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Fat Client in the UK

Fat Client
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Fat Client in the UK

Fat Client
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 Fat Client 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 +66 27 £675 +134.78% 8
London +88 13 £725 +32.78% 2
UK excluding London +23 13 £262 +31.13% 6
Midlands +25 4 £150 -57.86% 1
South East -1 4 £375 +117.39% 1
West Midlands - 3 - - 1
Work from Home +101 2 £700 +27.97% 2
North of England +23 2 - - 1
East of England +4 2 - - 1
North West +20 1 - - 1
East Midlands +11 1 £150 -57.86%
South West +2 1 - - 3
Yorkshire - 1 - -

Fat Client
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 5 (18.52%) SharePoint
2 3 (11.11%) IIS
2 3 (11.11%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 10 (37.04%) Microsoft 365
2 8 (29.63%) Azure
3 4 (14.81%) Akamai
3 4 (14.81%) Azure Monitor
3 4 (14.81%) Entra ID
4 3 (11.11%) AWS
4 3 (11.11%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 3 (11.11%) Mimecast
4 3 (11.11%) Nutanix
4 3 (11.11%) Rubrik
5 1 (3.70%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 1 (3.70%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (3.70%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 10 (37.04%) DNS
2 9 (33.33%) NAS
2 9 (33.33%) SAN
3 7 (25.93%) Firewall
4 4 (14.81%) DHCP
5 3 (11.11%) DKIM
5 3 (11.11%) DMARC
5 3 (11.11%) Extranet
5 3 (11.11%) Internet
5 3 (11.11%) LAN
5 3 (11.11%) NetScaler
5 3 (11.11%) VPN
5 3 (11.11%) Wi-Fi
5 3 (11.11%) Wireless
6 2 (7.41%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (22.22%) MySQL
2 4 (14.81%) Elasticsearch
2 4 (14.81%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (14.81%) SQL Server
3 2 (7.41%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 3 (11.11%) Jenkins
2 2 (7.41%) JIRA
3 1 (3.70%) Git
3 1 (3.70%) Log4Net
3 1 (3.70%) NUnit
3 1 (3.70%) Selenium
3 1 (3.70%) SpecFlow
General
1 2 (7.41%) Public Sector
2 1 (3.70%) Banking
2 1 (3.70%) Finance
2 1 (3.70%) Front Office
2 1 (3.70%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 6 (22.22%) Architect
1 6 (22.22%) Support Engineer
2 4 (14.81%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 4 (14.81%) Consultant
2 4 (14.81%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (11.11%) 3rd Line Support
3 3 (11.11%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
3 3 (11.11%) IT Support
3 3 (11.11%) Solutions Architect
3 3 (11.11%) Support Officer
4 2 (7.41%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) Deployment Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) Infrastructure Deployment Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) IT Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) Security Architect
4 2 (7.41%) Wintel Engineer
5 1 (3.70%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
5 1 (3.70%) Infrastructure Support
5 1 (3.70%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (11.11%) Software Packaging
2 2 (7.41%) Apache NiFi
2 2 (7.41%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (3.70%) .NET
3 1 (3.70%) Web Services
3 1 (3.70%) WebRTC
Miscellaneous
1 27 (100.00%) Thin Client
2 9 (33.33%) PKI
3 4 (14.81%) Onboarding
4 3 (11.11%) Data Centre
4 3 (11.11%) Virtual Team
5 2 (7.41%) Client/Server
5 2 (7.41%) Clustering
6 1 (3.70%) Derivative
6 1 (3.70%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 22 (81.48%) Windows
2 9 (33.33%) Windows Server
3 7 (25.93%) Linux
4 4 (14.81%) Ubuntu
4 4 (14.81%) Windows 10
4 4 (14.81%) Windows Server 2019
5 3 (11.11%) Unix
6 1 (3.70%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (3.70%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (25.93%) Application Packaging
1 7 (25.93%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 7 (25.93%) Patch Management
2 5 (18.52%) Infrastructure Management
2 5 (18.52%) ITIL
3 4 (14.81%) Disaster Recovery
3 4 (14.81%) Identity Access Management
3 4 (14.81%) Mentoring
4 3 (11.11%) Capacity Management
4 3 (11.11%) Change Management
4 3 (11.11%) Converged Infrastructure
4 3 (11.11%) Deployment Automation
4 3 (11.11%) Kalman Filter
4 3 (11.11%) Mobile Device Management
4 3 (11.11%) Network Monitoring
4 3 (11.11%) Network Virtualisation
4 3 (11.11%) Security Hardening
4 3 (11.11%) Server Management
4 3 (11.11%) Task Automation
4 3 (11.11%) Web Filtering
Programming Languages
1 12 (44.44%) PowerShell
2 3 (11.11%) SQL
3 1 (3.70%) C#
Qualifications
1 8 (29.63%) Security Cleared
2 3 (11.11%) DV Cleared
2 3 (11.11%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (11.11%) SLA
2 1 (3.70%) QA
System Software
1 16 (59.26%) Active Directory
2 7 (25.93%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (18.52%) Hyper-V
4 4 (14.81%) Virtual Desktop
4 4 (14.81%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (11.11%) BitLocker
5 3 (11.11%) Citrix Hypervisor
5 3 (11.11%) Microsoft App-V
5 3 (11.11%) XenApp
5 3 (11.11%) XenDesktop
6 2 (7.41%) Docker
6 2 (7.41%) VMware NSX
6 2 (7.41%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 7 (25.93%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 7 (25.93%) Ansible
2 5 (18.52%) SCCM
3 4 (14.81%) Microsoft Intune
3 4 (14.81%) Nessus
3 4 (14.81%) Red Hat Satellite
3 4 (14.81%) vCenter Server
3 4 (14.81%) WSUS
3 4 (14.81%) ZABBIX
4 3 (11.11%) Jamf Pro
4 3 (11.11%) NetBackup
4 3 (11.11%) SCOM
4 3 (11.11%) SCVMM
4 3 (11.11%) VxRail
5 2 (7.41%) Failover Clustering
5 2 (7.41%) Microsoft Clustering
5 2 (7.41%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
Vendors
1 16 (59.26%) Microsoft
2 11 (40.74%) VMware
3 7 (25.93%) Citrix
4 5 (18.52%) ServiceNow
5 4 (14.81%) AlgoSec
5 4 (14.81%) BT
5 4 (14.81%) ForeScout
5 4 (14.81%) HP
5 4 (14.81%) NetApp
5 4 (14.81%) Oracle
5 4 (14.81%) Red Hat
5 4 (14.81%) Veeam
6 3 (11.11%) Brocade
6 3 (11.11%) Commvault
6 3 (11.11%) F5
6 3 (11.11%) Forcepoint
6 3 (11.11%) MobileIron
6 3 (11.11%) Proofpoint
6 3 (11.11%) SolarWinds
6 3 (11.11%) Wyse