Fat Client Contracts in the UK excluding London

Fat Client
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Fat Client in contract job vacancies in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Fat Client over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 389 401 458
Rank change year-on-year +12 +57 -27
Contract jobs citing Fat Client 12 29 46
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.056% 0.13% 0.15%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.20% 0.40% 0.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 26 34
10th Percentile £171 £158 £120
25th Percentile £203 £161 £125
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £262 £200 £213
Median % change year-on-year +31.13% -5.88% -34.62%
75th Percentile £328 £380 £372
90th Percentile £364 £517 £449
UK median daily rate £675 £288 £300
% change year-on-year +134.78% -4.17% -30.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £20.93 -
UK median hourly rate £23.80 £20.93 -
% change year-on-year +13.71% - -

All Generic Skills
UK excluding London

Fat Client 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 the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 6,066 7,275 9,769
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 28.45% 32.06% 32.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,573 4,875 6,837
10th Percentile £210 £220 £208
25th Percentile £375 £381 £368
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year - +2.56% +11.43%
75th Percentile £600 £602 £586
90th Percentile £688 £700 £675
UK median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 764 409 422
10th Percentile £12.15 £9.80 £12.90
25th Percentile £14.36 £10.63 £16.25
Median hourly rate £35.25 £22.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +60.23% +2.33% -4.44%
75th Percentile £62.81 £62.50 £45.00
90th Percentile £70.13 £74.40 £61.50
UK median hourly rate £35.65 £22.26 £27.00
% change year-on-year +60.15% -17.56% +8.00%

Fat Client
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Fat Client in the UK excluding London

Fat Client
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Fat Client in the UK excluding London

Fat Client
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Fat Client in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Fat Client in the UK excluding London

Fat Client
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Fat Client in the UK excluding London

Fat Client
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 Fat Client within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 12 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
Midlands +19 4 £150 -57.86%
South East +2 4 £375 +117.39% 1
West Midlands - 3 - -
East of England +4 2 - - 1
North of England +16 1 - - 1
East Midlands +6 1 £150 -57.86%
South West -2 1 - - 3
Yorkshire - 1 - -
Fat Client
UK

Fat Client
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 1 (8.33%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 5 (41.67%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (25.00%) Azure
2 3 (25.00%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 7 (58.33%) DNS
2 5 (41.67%) NAS
2 5 (41.67%) SAN
3 4 (33.33%) DHCP
4 3 (25.00%) NetScaler
5 1 (8.33%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (33.33%) Elasticsearch
1 4 (33.33%) MySQL
1 4 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
1 4 (33.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Jenkins
Job Titles
1 4 (33.33%) 3rd Line Engineer
1 4 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 4 (33.33%) Support Engineer
2 3 (25.00%) 3rd Line Support
2 3 (25.00%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
2 3 (25.00%) Architect
2 3 (25.00%) Solutions Architect
3 2 (16.67%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Deployment Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure Deployment Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) IT Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
4 1 (8.33%) Desktop Technician
4 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure Support
4 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Wintel Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Wintel Support
4 1 (8.33%) Wintel Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 12 (100.00%) Thin Client
2 5 (41.67%) PKI
3 1 (8.33%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 12 (100.00%) Windows
2 8 (66.67%) Windows Server
3 4 (33.33%) Linux
3 4 (33.33%) Ubuntu
3 4 (33.33%) Windows Server 2019
4 3 (25.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (58.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 4 (33.33%) Mentoring
2 4 (33.33%) Patch Management
3 3 (25.00%) Application Packaging
3 3 (25.00%) Change Management
4 2 (16.67%) Data Migration
4 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure Management
4 2 (16.67%) Migration
5 1 (8.33%) Business Continuity
5 1 (8.33%) Customer Service
5 1 (8.33%) Database Mirroring
5 1 (8.33%) Disaster Recovery
5 1 (8.33%) Incident Management
5 1 (8.33%) Key Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (66.67%) PowerShell
2 1 (8.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 3 (25.00%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 11 (91.67%) Active Directory
2 4 (33.33%) VMware ESXi
3 3 (25.00%) Citrix Hypervisor
3 3 (25.00%) Virtual Desktop
3 3 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (25.00%) XenApp
3 3 (25.00%) XenDesktop
4 1 (8.33%) Hyper-V
4 1 (8.33%) VMware NSX
4 1 (8.33%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (41.67%) Ansible
2 4 (33.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 4 (33.33%) Nessus
2 4 (33.33%) Red Hat Satellite
2 4 (33.33%) vCenter Server
2 4 (33.33%) WSUS
2 4 (33.33%) ZABBIX
3 1 (8.33%) Failover Clustering
3 1 (8.33%) Jamf Pro
3 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Clustering
3 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
3 1 (8.33%) SCCM
Vendors
1 11 (91.67%) Microsoft
2 5 (41.67%) VMware
3 4 (33.33%) Citrix
3 4 (33.33%) Oracle
3 4 (33.33%) Red Hat
3 4 (33.33%) Veeam
4 3 (25.00%) NetApp
5 2 (16.67%) CrowdStrike
6 1 (8.33%) ServiceNow