Client/Server Contracts with Work from Home Options

Client Server
UK > Work from Home

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Client/Server in remote or hybrid contract work. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Client/Server 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 330 376 542
Rank change year-on-year +46 +166 -81
Contract jobs citing Client/Server 11 81 81
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.075% 0.34% 0.18%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.26% 1.07% 0.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 54 51
10th Percentile £319 £413 £425
25th Percentile £375 £496 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £610 £600
Median % change year-on-year -34.43% +1.67% +27.66%
75th Percentile £438 £750 £713
90th Percentile £465 - £838
UK median daily rate £501 £591 £600
% change year-on-year -15.23% -1.50% +18.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 12 6
10th Percentile - £70.00 £45.63
25th Percentile - £70.94 £47.19
Median hourly rate - £73.75 £57.77
Median % change year-on-year - +27.66% -11.86%
75th Percentile - £75.00 £65.54
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £75.00 £65.54
% change year-on-year -46.67% +14.43% +0.03%

All Generic Skills
Work from Home

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 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%

Client/Server
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Client/Server trend for jobs with a WFH option

Client/Server
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 Client/Server.

Client/Server daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Client/Server
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Client/Server over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Client/Server daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Client/Server
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 Client/Server.

Client/Server hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Client/Server
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (9.09%) OpenEdge
Business Applications
1 1 (9.09%) MFGPRO
1 1 (9.09%) Sage 50
Cloud Services
1 4 (36.36%) Azure
2 3 (27.27%) IaaS
2 3 (27.27%) PaaS
3 2 (18.18%) Cloud Computing
3 2 (18.18%) SaaS
4 1 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (9.09%) Azure Storage
4 1 (9.09%) Entra ID
4 1 (9.09%) iPaaS
4 1 (9.09%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (9.09%) LAN
1 1 (9.09%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (63.64%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (45.45%) MSI
1 5 (45.45%) Visual Studio
1 5 (45.45%) WiX
2 1 (9.09%) Cucumber
2 1 (9.09%) Cypress.io
2 1 (9.09%) Git
2 1 (9.09%) Jenkins
2 1 (9.09%) JIRA
2 1 (9.09%) Selenium
2 1 (9.09%) Subversion
2 1 (9.09%) TeamCity
2 1 (9.09%) WebDriver
General
1 8 (72.73%) Social Skills
2 2 (18.18%) Public Sector
3 1 (9.09%) Banking
3 1 (9.09%) Games
3 1 (9.09%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 6 (54.55%) Software Engineer
2 5 (45.45%) Senior
3 3 (27.27%) Senior Software Engineer
4 2 (18.18%) IT Engineer
4 2 (18.18%) Operations Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) Administrator
5 1 (9.09%) Analyst
5 1 (9.09%) Architect
5 1 (9.09%) Functional Analyst
5 1 (9.09%) Functional Test Analyst
5 1 (9.09%) Senior Analyst
5 1 (9.09%) Senior Architect
5 1 (9.09%) Senior Technical Architect
5 1 (9.09%) Senior Test Analyst
5 1 (9.09%) Technical Architect
5 1 (9.09%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (63.64%) .NET
2 5 (45.45%) ASP.NET
2 5 (45.45%) ASP.NET Web API
2 5 (45.45%) Entity Framework
2 5 (45.45%) JSON
2 5 (45.45%) LINQ
2 5 (45.45%) NHibernate
2 5 (45.45%) REST
2 5 (45.45%) XML
2 5 (45.45%) XSLT
3 1 (9.09%) Flask
3 1 (9.09%) J2EE
3 1 (9.09%) Unity (Game Engine)
3 1 (9.09%) Web Services
3 1 (9.09%) WebGL
Miscellaneous
1 5 (45.45%) Web 2.0
2 1 (9.09%) Mobile App
2 1 (9.09%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 8 (72.73%) Windows
2 1 (9.09%) HPUX
2 1 (9.09%) Linux
2 1 (9.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (9.09%) Unix
2 1 (9.09%) Windows Server
2 1 (9.09%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (54.55%) Problem-Solving
1 6 (54.55%) Software Engineering
2 5 (45.45%) Configuration Management
2 5 (45.45%) Design Patterns
2 5 (45.45%) OO
2 5 (45.45%) Performance Tuning
3 2 (18.18%) Computer Science
3 2 (18.18%) Customer Service
3 2 (18.18%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (18.18%) Mentoring
3 2 (18.18%) Roadmaps
3 2 (18.18%) SOA
3 2 (18.18%) Systems Analysis
4 1 (9.09%) Coaching
4 1 (9.09%) Enterprise Architecture
4 1 (9.09%) Innovative Thinking
4 1 (9.09%) SDLC
4 1 (9.09%) Software Delivery
4 1 (9.09%) Software Testing
4 1 (9.09%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 8 (72.73%) SQL
2 7 (63.64%) C#
3 5 (45.45%) T-SQL
4 1 (9.09%) C++
4 1 (9.09%) Java
4 1 (9.09%) JavaScript
4 1 (9.09%) Python
4 1 (9.09%) Rust
4 1 (9.09%) Shell Script
4 1 (9.09%) VBA
4 1 (9.09%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 7 (63.64%) Degree
2 1 (9.09%) Azure Certification
2 1 (9.09%) ISEB
2 1 (9.09%) ISTQB
2 1 (9.09%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
System Software
1 1 (9.09%) Active Directory
1 1 (9.09%) Hyper-V
1 1 (9.09%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (18.18%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 3 (27.27%) Microsoft
2 2 (18.18%) CA
3 1 (9.09%) HP
3 1 (9.09%) Progress
3 1 (9.09%) QAD
3 1 (9.09%) Red Hat
3 1 (9.09%) VMware