Thin Client Contracts with Work from Home Options

Thin Client
UK > Work from Home

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Thin Client in remote or hybrid contract work. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Thin 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 339 442 606
Rank change year-on-year +103 +164 -106
Contract jobs citing Thin Client 2 15 17
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.014% 0.063% 0.039%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.046% 0.20% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 11 11
10th Percentile - £375 £263
25th Percentile £675 £419 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £547 £350
Median % change year-on-year +27.97% +56.29% +12.90%
75th Percentile £725 - £498
90th Percentile - £550 £588
UK median daily rate £675 £288 £300
% change year-on-year +134.78% -4.17% -30.23%

All Generic Skills
Work from Home

Thin 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 with remote or hybrid options requiring generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 4,304 7,539 13,934
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 29.17% 31.58% 31.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,923 5,349 10,060
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £435 £455 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - +10.00%
75th Percentile £675 £684 £650
90th Percentile £835 £800 £750
UK median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 187 147 225
10th Percentile £15.95 £19.00 £15.13
25th Percentile £25.50 £25.36 £21.00
Median hourly rate £51.00 £52.50 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% +17.98% +27.98%
75th Percentile £68.75 £69.38 £62.25
90th Percentile £73.50 £75.00 £68.75
UK median hourly rate £35.65 £22.26 £27.00
% change year-on-year +60.15% -17.56% +8.00%

Thin Client
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Thin Client as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Thin Client trend for jobs with a WFH option

Thin Client
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Thin Client.

Thin Client daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Thin Client
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Thin Client.

Thin Client hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Thin Client
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
2 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Monitor
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Storage
2 1 (50.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Git
1 1 (50.00%) Log4Net
1 1 (50.00%) NUnit
1 1 (50.00%) Selenium
1 1 (50.00%) SpecFlow
General
1 1 (50.00%) Banking
1 1 (50.00%) Front Office
1 1 (50.00%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Test Automation Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) .NET
1 1 (50.00%) Web Services
1 1 (50.00%) WebRTC
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Fat Client
2 1 (50.00%) Derivative
2 1 (50.00%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
2 1 (50.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Application Packaging
2 1 (50.00%) Automated Trading
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (50.00%) Data Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Identity Access Management
2 1 (50.00%) Log Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Manual Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Microservices
2 1 (50.00%) Network Design
2 1 (50.00%) QA Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Software Testing
2 1 (50.00%) System Integration Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) C#
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (50.00%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) NetApp