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 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 515 525 692
Rank change year-on-year +10 +167 -79
Contract jobs citing Client/Server 64 170 171
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.15% 0.30% 0.19%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.50% 0.89% 0.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 105 110
10th Percentile £312 £409 £374
25th Percentile £375 £513 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £610 £600
Median % change year-on-year -17.87% +1.67% +26.32%
75th Percentile £589 £750 £669
90th Percentile £595 - £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £585 £525
% change year-on-year -5.98% +11.43% +38.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 15 16
10th Percentile - £65.50 £36.63
25th Percentile - £71.25 £45.94
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 £70.27
% change year-on-year -44.83% +3.17% +7.28%

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 12,902 19,052 29,287
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.33% 33.27% 33.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,318 13,115 20,490
10th Percentile £267 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £663 £680 £660
90th Percentile £800 £800 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 897 626 721
10th Percentile £12.25 £9.80 £14.25
25th Percentile £15.17 £10.63 £17.00
Median hourly rate £31.50 £22.26 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year +41.54% -17.57% +3.85%
75th Percentile £61.30 £62.25 £50.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £65.76
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £22.00 £21.00
% change year-on-year +36.36% +4.76% -10.83%

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 20 May 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 20 May 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 20 May 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 +36 55 £501 -18.57% 199
UK excluding London +7 43 £550 -5.98% 105
London +53 21 £397 -47.07% 142
South East +12 21 £550 -10.13% 65
Work from Home +42 9 £400 -46.31% 176
Scotland +22 9 £684 +15.54% 1
South West +14 8 - - 3
North of England +23 4 £278 -47.14% 13
Yorkshire +17 2 £375 -43.40% 2
West Midlands +18 1 £425 -46.88% 7
Midlands +15 1 £425 -46.88% 18
North West +10 1 - - 5
North East - 1 £180 - 7

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
2 4 (6.25%) SAS
3 2 (3.13%) Confluence
4 1 (1.56%) OpenEdge
4 1 (1.56%) Oracle SOA Suite
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 32 (50.00%) Azure
2 17 (26.56%) Azure DevOps
3 12 (18.75%) PaaS
4 10 (15.63%) AWS
5 9 (14.06%) SaaS
6 8 (12.50%) IaaS
7 6 (9.38%) Cloud Computing
8 5 (7.81%) Microsoft 365
9 4 (6.25%) Entra ID
9 4 (6.25%) OpenShift
10 3 (4.69%) Azure Storage
10 3 (4.69%) iPaaS
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%) SAN
1 13 (20.31%) WAN
1 13 (20.31%) Wi-Fi
2 8 (12.50%) MPLS
3 5 (7.81%) Firewall
4 4 (6.25%) Fibre Channel
4 4 (6.25%) iSCSI
5 1 (1.56%) NAS
5 1 (1.56%) NetScaler
5 1 (1.56%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (37.50%) SQL Server
2 4 (6.25%) DB2
2 4 (6.25%) MongoDB
2 4 (6.25%) MySQL
2 4 (6.25%) NoSQL
3 2 (3.13%) CouchDB
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 3 (4.69%) Subversion
6 2 (3.13%) Bitbucket
6 2 (3.13%) Cucumber
6 2 (3.13%) Cypress.io
6 2 (3.13%) Jenkins
6 2 (3.13%) TeamCity
6 2 (3.13%) WebDriver
7 1 (1.56%) GitLab
General
1 24 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 22 (34.38%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (12.50%) Aerospace
4 7 (10.94%) Public Sector
5 4 (6.25%) Banking
5 4 (6.25%) Finance
5 4 (6.25%) Telecoms
6 3 (4.69%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.56%) Back Office
7 1 (1.56%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.56%) Marketing
7 1 (1.56%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 16 (25.00%) Analyst
2 10 (15.63%) Infrastructure Analyst
3 9 (14.06%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 8 (12.50%) IT Analyst
4 8 (12.50%) IT Infrastructure Analyst
4 8 (12.50%) Software Engineer
5 7 (10.94%) IT Engineer
5 7 (10.94%) Senior
6 5 (7.81%) Applications Engineer
6 5 (7.81%) Operations Engineer
6 5 (7.81%) Solutions Analyst
7 4 (6.25%) Architect
7 4 (6.25%) Linux Engineer
7 4 (6.25%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
7 4 (6.25%) Python Engineer
7 4 (6.25%) Storage Engineer
7 4 (6.25%) Support Engineer
8 3 (4.69%) Application Integration Engineer
8 3 (4.69%) Integration Engineer
8 3 (4.69%) Senior Software Engineer
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 4 (6.25%) Flash
4 4 (6.25%) POSIX
5 3 (4.69%) AngularJS
5 3 (4.69%) CSS
5 3 (4.69%) HTML
5 3 (4.69%) J2EE
6 2 (3.13%) Elastic Stack
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 4 (6.25%) NVMe
5 3 (4.69%) N-Tier
6 2 (3.13%) Fat Client
6 2 (3.13%) Mobile App
6 2 (3.13%) Product Ownership
6 2 (3.13%) Thin Client
7 1 (1.56%) CMDB
7 1 (1.56%) Embedded Systems
7 1 (1.56%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.56%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.56%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.56%) LIMS
7 1 (1.56%) Operational Technology
7 1 (1.56%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 50 (78.13%) Windows
2 31 (48.44%) Linux
3 27 (42.19%) Windows Server
4 23 (35.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 14 (21.88%) Unix
6 4 (6.25%) Data ONTAP
6 4 (6.25%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (1.56%) HPUX
7 1 (1.56%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (1.56%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (40.63%) Application Packaging
1 26 (40.63%) DevOps
2 22 (34.38%) Agile
3 18 (28.13%) Application Virtualisation
4 15 (23.44%) Scaled Agile Framework
5 13 (20.31%) Capacity Management
5 13 (20.31%) Software Engineering
5 13 (20.31%) Test Automation
6 12 (18.75%) Migration
6 12 (18.75%) Release Management
7 10 (15.63%) Decision-Making
7 10 (15.63%) SDLC
8 9 (14.06%) Data Protection
8 9 (14.06%) OO
9 8 (12.50%) Asset Management
9 8 (12.50%) Business Transformation
9 8 (12.50%) Capacity Planning
9 8 (12.50%) Data Migration
9 8 (12.50%) Network Management
9 8 (12.50%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 27 (42.19%) PowerShell
2 26 (40.63%) Python
3 25 (39.06%) SQL
4 21 (32.81%) VBScript
5 13 (20.31%) C#
6 10 (15.63%) Java
7 6 (9.38%) JavaScript
8 5 (7.81%) C
8 5 (7.81%) C++
8 5 (7.81%) Perl
8 5 (7.81%) T-SQL
9 4 (6.25%) Go
9 4 (6.25%) Shell Script
10 2 (3.13%) Bash
10 2 (3.13%) TypeScript
10 2 (3.13%) VBA
11 1 (1.56%) Ada
11 1 (1.56%) VB
Qualifications
1 22 (34.38%) Security Cleared
2 21 (32.81%) Degree
3 20 (31.25%) DV Cleared
4 3 (4.69%) Azure Certification
5 2 (3.13%) ISEB
5 2 (3.13%) ISTQB
5 2 (3.13%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 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 34 (53.13%) VMware Infrastructure
2 11 (17.19%) Active Directory
2 11 (17.19%) Docker
3 8 (12.50%) Virtual Servers
3 8 (12.50%) VMware Workstation
4 5 (7.81%) Hyper-V
5 4 (6.25%) GPFS
5 4 (6.25%) 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 9 (14.06%) Kubernetes
2 8 (12.50%) Microsoft Clustering
2 8 (12.50%) Nagios
2 8 (12.50%) NetBackup
2 8 (12.50%) SCCM
3 6 (9.38%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (6.25%) Veritas Storage Foundation
5 1 (1.56%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (1.56%) FortiGate
5 1 (1.56%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (1.56%) WSUS
Vendors
1 36 (56.25%) VMware
2 13 (20.31%) Microsoft
2 13 (20.31%) NetApp
3 8 (12.50%) Hitachi
4 6 (9.38%) CA
5 4 (6.25%) Brocade
5 4 (6.25%) EMC
5 4 (6.25%) Google
5 4 (6.25%) IBM
5 4 (6.25%) Sybase
5 4 (6.25%) Veritas
6 3 (4.69%) ArcSight
7 2 (3.13%) HP
7 2 (3.13%) Oracle
8 1 (1.56%) Adobe
8 1 (1.56%) Cisco
8 1 (1.56%) Citrix
8 1 (1.56%) Compaq
8 1 (1.56%) Progress
8 1 (1.56%) Red Hat