Client/Server Contracts in England

Client Server
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Client/Server in contract job vacancies in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Client/Server over the 6 months leading up to 13 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 493 503 672
Rank change year-on-year +10 +169 -102
Contract jobs citing Client/Server 57 133 115
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.15% 0.28% 0.16%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.50% 0.84% 0.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 87 80
10th Percentile £312 £400 £393
25th Percentile £375 £513 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £612 £581
Median % change year-on-year -18.14% +5.29% +13.41%
75th Percentile £579 £750 £757
90th Percentile £595 - £788
UK median daily rate £501 £591 £600
% change year-on-year -15.23% -1.50% +18.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 13 8
10th Percentile - £70.00 £45.88
25th Percentile - £71.25 £49.06
Median hourly rate £40.00 £75.00 £70.27
Median % change year-on-year -46.67% +6.73% +7.25%
75th Percentile £43.43 - £75.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £159.00 -
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £75.00 £65.54
% change year-on-year -46.67% +14.43% +0.03%

All Generic Skills
England

Client/Server falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 11,349 15,786 23,854
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 30.26% 33.56% 33.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,319 11,005 17,096
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £565 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.65% +2.73% +10.00%
75th Percentile £675 £698 £675
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 850 549 600
10th Percentile £12.25 £9.80 £14.25
25th Percentile £15.39 £10.63 £17.50
Median hourly rate £36.50 £22.49 £26.50
Median % change year-on-year +62.33% -15.15% +6.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.04
UK median hourly rate £35.65 £22.26 £27.00
% change year-on-year +60.15% -17.56% +8.00%

Client/Server
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Client/Server in England

Client/Server
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Client/Server in England

Client/Server
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Client/Server in England over the 6 months to 13 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Client/Server in England

Client/Server
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Client/Server in England

Client/Server
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Client/Server in England over the 6 months to 13 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Client/Server in England

Client/Server
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 13 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
London +39 24 £399 -46.51% 59
South East +3 23 £550 -7.17% 14
South West +7 8 - - 5
West Midlands +17 1 £425 -41.38% 2
Midlands +16 1 £425 -41.38% 6
North of England +9 1 £180 -64.00% 4
North East - 1 £180 - 1
Client/Server
UK

Client/Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 (14.04%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (7.02%) OpenStack
3 2 (3.51%) Confluence
4 1 (1.75%) OpenEdge
4 1 (1.75%) Site Server
Applications
1 1 (1.75%) Acrobat
1 1 (1.75%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.75%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (1.75%) MFGPRO
1 1 (1.75%) Sage 50
Cloud Services
1 25 (43.86%) Azure
2 16 (28.07%) Azure DevOps
3 8 (14.04%) Cloud Computing
3 8 (14.04%) PaaS
3 8 (14.04%) SaaS
4 5 (8.77%) AWS
4 5 (8.77%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (7.02%) Azure Storage
5 4 (7.02%) Entra ID
5 4 (7.02%) IaaS
6 1 (1.75%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (1.75%) Power Platform
6 1 (1.75%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 12 (21.05%) DHCP
1 12 (21.05%) DNS
1 12 (21.05%) Wi-Fi
2 9 (15.79%) LAN
2 9 (15.79%) SAN
2 9 (15.79%) WAN
3 8 (14.04%) MPLS
4 4 (7.02%) Firewall
5 1 (1.75%) NAS
5 1 (1.75%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (42.11%) SQL Server
2 4 (7.02%) NoSQL
3 3 (5.26%) MongoDB
3 3 (5.26%) MySQL
4 2 (3.51%) CouchDB
4 2 (3.51%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (3.51%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (10.53%) Robot Framework
1 6 (10.53%) Selenium
1 6 (10.53%) Visual Studio
2 5 (8.77%) JIRA
2 5 (8.77%) MSI
2 5 (8.77%) WiX
3 2 (3.51%) Bitbucket
3 2 (3.51%) Git
General
1 21 (36.84%) Analytical Skills
2 17 (29.82%) Social Skills
3 8 (14.04%) Aerospace
4 4 (7.02%) Telecoms
5 2 (3.51%) Banking
5 2 (3.51%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.75%) Finance
6 1 (1.75%) Games
6 1 (1.75%) Marketing
6 1 (1.75%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 14 (24.56%) Analyst
2 10 (17.54%) Infrastructure Analyst
3 9 (15.79%) IT Engineer
3 9 (15.79%) Software Engineer
4 8 (14.04%) IT Analyst
4 8 (14.04%) IT Infrastructure Analyst
5 7 (12.28%) Operations Engineer
6 5 (8.77%) Applications Engineer
6 5 (8.77%) Applications Packager
6 5 (8.77%) Solutions Analyst
7 4 (7.02%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 3 (5.26%) Application Integration Engineer
8 3 (5.26%) DV Cleared Application Packager
8 3 (5.26%) Integration Engineer
8 3 (5.26%) Senior
8 3 (5.26%) Senior Software Engineer
8 3 (5.26%) Support Engineer
9 2 (3.51%) Product Owner
9 2 (3.51%) Technical Product Owner
10 1 (1.75%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (14.04%) .NET
2 6 (10.53%) JSON
2 6 (10.53%) Node.js
2 6 (10.53%) REST
2 6 (10.53%) XML
3 5 (8.77%) ASP.NET
3 5 (8.77%) ASP.NET Web API
3 5 (8.77%) Entity Framework
3 5 (8.77%) LDAP
3 5 (8.77%) LINQ
3 5 (8.77%) NHibernate
3 5 (8.77%) XSLT
4 3 (5.26%) AngularJS
4 3 (5.26%) CSS
4 3 (5.26%) HTML
5 2 (3.51%) React
5 2 (3.51%) Vue
5 2 (3.51%) Web Services
6 1 (1.75%) Apache NiFi
6 1 (1.75%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 12 (21.05%) Data Centre
2 11 (19.30%) Clustering
3 5 (8.77%) Algorithms
3 5 (8.77%) Data Structures
3 5 (8.77%) Web 2.0
4 2 (3.51%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.75%) CMDB
5 1 (1.75%) Embedded Systems
5 1 (1.75%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.75%) Fat Client
5 1 (1.75%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.75%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.75%) Social Media
5 1 (1.75%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 48 (84.21%) Windows
2 28 (49.12%) Linux
3 25 (43.86%) Windows Server
4 21 (36.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 9 (15.79%) Unix
6 4 (7.02%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (1.75%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (49.12%) Application Packaging
2 23 (40.35%) DevOps
3 20 (35.09%) Agile
3 20 (35.09%) Application Virtualisation
4 16 (28.07%) Scaled Agile Framework
5 14 (24.56%) Release Management
5 14 (24.56%) Software Engineering
6 11 (19.30%) Migration
6 11 (19.30%) Test Automation
7 10 (17.54%) Decision-Making
8 9 (15.79%) Data Protection
8 9 (15.79%) Scrum
9 8 (14.04%) Asset Management
9 8 (14.04%) Business Transformation
9 8 (14.04%) Capacity Management
9 8 (14.04%) Capacity Planning
9 8 (14.04%) Data Migration
9 8 (14.04%) Network Management
9 8 (14.04%) Problem-Solving
9 8 (14.04%) Server Management
Programming Languages
1 29 (50.88%) PowerShell
2 25 (43.86%) Python
3 21 (36.84%) VBScript
4 20 (35.09%) SQL
5 12 (21.05%) C#
6 5 (8.77%) C
6 5 (8.77%) T-SQL
7 4 (7.02%) Go
7 4 (7.02%) JavaScript
8 3 (5.26%) C++
8 3 (5.26%) Java
9 2 (3.51%) Bash
9 2 (3.51%) Shell Script
9 2 (3.51%) TypeScript
10 1 (1.75%) Ada
10 1 (1.75%) Perl
10 1 (1.75%) Rust
10 1 (1.75%) VB
Qualifications
1 23 (40.35%) Degree
1 23 (40.35%) Security Cleared
2 21 (36.84%) DV Cleared
3 4 (7.02%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.75%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.26%) SLA
2 1 (1.75%) QA
System Software
1 32 (56.14%) VMware Infrastructure
2 12 (21.05%) Active Directory
3 8 (14.04%) Virtual Servers
3 8 (14.04%) VMware Workstation
4 6 (10.53%) Docker
5 2 (3.51%) Hyper-V
5 2 (3.51%) VirtualBox
6 1 (1.75%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 8 (14.04%) Microsoft Clustering
1 8 (14.04%) Microsoft Intune
1 8 (14.04%) Nagios
1 8 (14.04%) NetBackup
1 8 (14.04%) SCCM
2 5 (8.77%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.75%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (1.75%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (1.75%) WSUS
Vendors
1 33 (57.89%) VMware
2 11 (19.30%) Microsoft
3 8 (14.04%) CA
3 8 (14.04%) Hitachi
3 8 (14.04%) NetApp
4 4 (7.02%) ArcSight
5 1 (1.75%) Adobe
5 1 (1.75%) Compaq
5 1 (1.75%) Facebook
5 1 (1.75%) HP
5 1 (1.75%) Progress
5 1 (1.75%) QAD
5 1 (1.75%) Red Hat
5 1 (1.75%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.75%) Twitter