Client/Server Contracts in the UK excluding London

Client Server
UK > UK excluding London

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

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 356 351 449
Rank change year-on-year -5 +98 -48
Contract jobs citing Client/Server 42 96 58
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.20% 0.42% 0.19%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.70% 1.30% 0.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 58 31
10th Percentile £393 £393 £400
25th Percentile £501 £433 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £558 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.35% +6.19% +23.53%
75th Percentile £595 £619 £609
90th Percentile - £697 £650
UK median daily rate £501 £592 £600
% change year-on-year -15.37% -1.33% +20.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 12 11
10th Percentile - £63.25 £38.25
25th Percentile - £70.00 £45.63
Median hourly rate £40.00 £72.50 £65.54
Median % change year-on-year -44.83% +10.62% +0.06%
75th Percentile - £75.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £75.50 - -
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £75.00 £65.54
% change year-on-year -46.67% +14.43% +0.06%

All Generic Skills
UK excluding London

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 advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 5,976 7,381 9,790
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 28.66% 32.21% 32.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,568 4,949 6,853
10th Percentile £208 £220 £208
25th Percentile £375 £384 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year - +2.56% +11.43%
75th Percentile £600 £606 £586
90th Percentile £688 £700 £675
UK median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.18% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 743 412 428
10th Percentile £12.15 £9.80 £12.64
25th Percentile £14.12 £10.63 £15.93
Median hourly rate £35.00 £21.88 £21.30
Median % change year-on-year +60.00% +2.70% -7.39%
75th Percentile £61.30 £63.00 £44.16
90th Percentile £70.00 £73.75 £61.50
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £22.00 £26.98
% change year-on-year +59.09% -18.46% +5.80%

Client/Server
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Client/Server as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Client/Server in the UK excluding London

Client/Server
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Client/Server in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Client/Server in the UK excluding London

Client/Server
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Client/Server in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Client/Server in the UK excluding London

Client/Server
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Client/Server in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Client/Server in the UK excluding London

Client/Server
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Client/Server in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Client/Server in the UK excluding London

Client/Server
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 excluding London region over the 6 months to 2 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
South East -3 23 £550 -9.84% 12
South West +15 8 - - 3
Scotland +17 7 £675 +17.39% 1
North of England +21 3 £278 -47.14% 2
Midlands +22 1 £425 -46.88% 12
Yorkshire +18 1 £375 -43.40%
West Midlands +12 1 £425 -46.88% 4
North West +10 1 - - 2
North East - 1 £180 -
Client/Server
UK

Client/Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (19.05%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (4.76%) Confluence
2 2 (4.76%) SAS
3 1 (2.38%) OpenEdge
3 1 (2.38%) Site Server
Applications
1 1 (2.38%) Acrobat
1 1 (2.38%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (2.38%) Dynamics NAV
1 1 (2.38%) MFGPRO
1 1 (2.38%) Sage 50
Cloud Services
1 23 (54.76%) Azure
2 18 (42.86%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (11.90%) IaaS
3 5 (11.90%) PaaS
4 3 (7.14%) AWS
4 3 (7.14%) iPaaS
5 2 (4.76%) OpenShift
5 2 (4.76%) SaaS
6 1 (2.38%) Entra ID
6 1 (2.38%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (2.38%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 13 (30.95%) LAN
1 13 (30.95%) WAN
2 11 (26.19%) SAN
3 9 (21.43%) DHCP
3 9 (21.43%) DNS
3 9 (21.43%) Wi-Fi
4 8 (19.05%) MPLS
5 2 (4.76%) Fibre Channel
5 2 (4.76%) iSCSI
6 1 (2.38%) Firewall
6 1 (2.38%) NAS
6 1 (2.38%) NetScaler
6 1 (2.38%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (26.19%) SQL Server
2 3 (7.14%) MongoDB
2 3 (7.14%) MySQL
3 2 (4.76%) CouchDB
3 2 (4.76%) DB2
3 2 (4.76%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 8 (19.05%) Selenium
2 6 (14.29%) Robot Framework
3 5 (11.90%) JIRA
4 4 (9.52%) Git
5 2 (4.76%) Bitbucket
5 2 (4.76%) Cucumber
5 2 (4.76%) Cypress.io
5 2 (4.76%) Jenkins
5 2 (4.76%) Subversion
5 2 (4.76%) TeamCity
5 2 (4.76%) WebDriver
General
1 22 (52.38%) Analytical Skills
2 14 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 8 (19.05%) Aerospace
4 5 (11.90%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.38%) Back Office
5 1 (2.38%) Banking
5 1 (2.38%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (2.38%) Finance
5 1 (2.38%) Investment Banking
5 1 (2.38%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 15 (35.71%) Analyst
2 10 (23.81%) Infrastructure Analyst
3 8 (19.05%) IT Analyst
3 8 (19.05%) IT Infrastructure Analyst
4 7 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 5 (11.90%) Applications Packager
5 5 (11.90%) Solutions Analyst
6 4 (9.52%) Applications Engineer
6 4 (9.52%) Senior
7 3 (7.14%) Application Integration Engineer
7 3 (7.14%) Architect
7 3 (7.14%) DV Cleared Application Packager
7 3 (7.14%) Integration Engineer
7 3 (7.14%) Support Engineer
7 3 (7.14%) Technical Architect
8 2 (4.76%) Functional Analyst
8 2 (4.76%) Senior Analyst
8 2 (4.76%) Senior Technical Architect
8 2 (4.76%) Senior Test Analyst
8 2 (4.76%) Storage Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (14.29%) .NET
2 3 (7.14%) J2EE
2 3 (7.14%) Web Services
3 2 (4.76%) AngularJS
3 2 (4.76%) CSS
3 2 (4.76%) Flash
3 2 (4.76%) HTML
3 2 (4.76%) Node.js
3 2 (4.76%) POSIX
3 2 (4.76%) React
3 2 (4.76%) Vue
4 1 (2.38%) Apache NiFi
4 1 (2.38%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 8 (19.05%) Clustering
1 8 (19.05%) Data Centre
2 3 (7.14%) N-Tier
3 2 (4.76%) Mobile App
3 2 (4.76%) NVMe
4 1 (2.38%) Fat Client
4 1 (2.38%) LIMS
4 1 (2.38%) Operational Technology
4 1 (2.38%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 37 (88.10%) Windows
2 26 (61.90%) Linux
3 24 (57.14%) Windows Server
4 23 (54.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 11 (26.19%) Unix
6 2 (4.76%) Data ONTAP
7 1 (2.38%) HPUX
7 1 (2.38%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (2.38%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (2.38%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (66.67%) Application Packaging
2 20 (47.62%) Agile
2 20 (47.62%) Application Virtualisation
3 19 (45.24%) DevOps
4 16 (38.10%) Scaled Agile Framework
5 12 (28.57%) Migration
6 10 (23.81%) Capacity Management
6 10 (23.81%) Release Management
7 9 (21.43%) Data Protection
8 8 (19.05%) Asset Management
8 8 (19.05%) Business Transformation
8 8 (19.05%) Capacity Planning
8 8 (19.05%) Data Migration
8 8 (19.05%) Decision-Making
8 8 (19.05%) Network Management
8 8 (19.05%) Server Management
8 8 (19.05%) Test Automation
9 7 (16.67%) Scrum
10 5 (11.90%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 5 (11.90%) SOA
Programming Languages
1 28 (66.67%) PowerShell
2 22 (52.38%) Python
2 22 (52.38%) VBScript
3 7 (16.67%) Java
4 6 (14.29%) SQL
5 5 (11.90%) C#
6 4 (9.52%) JavaScript
6 4 (9.52%) Shell Script
7 3 (7.14%) C++
8 2 (4.76%) Bash
8 2 (4.76%) Perl
8 2 (4.76%) VBA
9 1 (2.38%) VB
Qualifications
1 23 (54.76%) Security Cleared
2 21 (50.00%) DV Cleared
3 9 (21.43%) Degree
4 2 (4.76%) ISEB
4 2 (4.76%) ISTQB
4 2 (4.76%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 1 (2.38%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.76%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 35 (83.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (19.05%) Active Directory
2 8 (19.05%) Virtual Servers
2 8 (19.05%) VMware Workstation
3 5 (11.90%) Hyper-V
4 3 (7.14%) Docker
5 2 (4.76%) GPFS
5 2 (4.76%) NFS
5 2 (4.76%) VirtualBox
5 2 (4.76%) vSphere
6 1 (2.38%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (2.38%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 8 (19.05%) Microsoft Clustering
1 8 (19.05%) Nagios
1 8 (19.05%) NetBackup
1 8 (19.05%) SCCM
2 2 (4.76%) Kubernetes
2 2 (4.76%) Veritas Storage Foundation
3 1 (2.38%) FortiGate
3 1 (2.38%) WSUS
Vendors
1 36 (85.71%) VMware
2 11 (26.19%) NetApp
3 8 (19.05%) Hitachi
4 6 (14.29%) Microsoft
5 4 (9.52%) ArcSight
6 2 (4.76%) Brocade
6 2 (4.76%) EMC
6 2 (4.76%) Google
6 2 (4.76%) HP
6 2 (4.76%) IBM
6 2 (4.76%) Sybase
6 2 (4.76%) Veritas
7 1 (2.38%) Cisco
7 1 (2.38%) Citrix
7 1 (2.38%) Compaq
7 1 (2.38%) Fortinet
7 1 (2.38%) Oracle
7 1 (2.38%) Progress
7 1 (2.38%) QAD
7 1 (2.38%) Red Hat