The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Client/Server in IT contracts advertised for the City of London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Client/Server over the 3 months to 20 June 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all terms in our Miscellaneous category for the City of London region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
20 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Client Server
Rank 201 190 183
Rank change year-on-year
-11 -7
Contract jobs citing Client/Server 14 24 55
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.203% 0.315% 0.549%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.636% 0.976% 1.391%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 17 36
Average daily rate £450 £475 £575
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-5.21% -17.39%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £353 £325 £228
10% offered a daily rate of more than £546 £575 £700
UK excluding London average daily rate £288 £345 £350
% change year-on-year
-16.66% -1.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Average hourly rate - £21.00 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +5.00%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.50 £28.50 £38.00
% change year-on-year
+14.03% -25.00%
All of the Miscellaneous Category
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
2200 2459 3954
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 31.93% 32.32% 39.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 1638 1913 3097
Average daily rate £500 £500 £550
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -9.09%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £313 £300 £350
10% offered a daily rate of more than £638 £650 £675
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £345 £330
% change year-on-year
+1.44% +4.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 49 50 59
Average hourly rate £22.50 £21.00 £21.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% -1.17%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.35 £12.65 £13.40
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £135.00 £38.85 £50.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 £22.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year
-2.22% -10.00%
Client/Server
London

Client/Server
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Client/Server across the City of London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Miscellaneous category.

City of London Client/Server Jobs Demand Trend

Client/Server
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Client/Server across the City of London region.

City of London Client/Server Daily Rate Trend

Client/Server
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Client/Server across the City of London region over the 3 months to 20 June 2013.

City of London Client/Server Daily Rate Histogram

Client/Server
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Client/Server across the City of London region.

City of London Client/Server Hourly Rate Trend

Client/Server
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing Client/Server also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited Client/Server.

1 17 (41.46%) Windows
2 14 (34.15%) Oracle
3 13 (31.71%) SQL Server
3 13 (31.71%) SQL
4 12 (29.27%) Microsoft
4 12 (29.27%) Java
4 12 (29.27%) Finance
5 11 (26.83%) .NET
6 10 (24.39%) C#
7 8 (19.51%) OO
7 8 (19.51%) Mainframe
8 7 (17.07%) C++
8 7 (17.07%) Banking
9 6 (14.63%) TDD
9 6 (14.63%) JavaScript
10 5 (12.20%) HTML
10 5 (12.20%) ASP.NET
10 5 (12.20%) CSS
10 5 (12.20%) Linux
10 5 (12.20%) UNIX
10 5 (12.20%) MS Excel
10 5 (12.20%) User Acceptance Testing
11 4 (9.756%) jQuery
11 4 (9.756%) PowerShell
11 4 (9.756%) SQL Server 2008
11 4 (9.756%) SQL Server 2005
11 4 (9.756%) Back Office
11 4 (9.756%) ITIL
11 4 (9.756%) XML
11 4 (9.756%) VB

Client/Server
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing Client/Server also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited Client/Server. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 11 (26.83%) .NET
2 5 (12.20%) HTML
2 5 (12.20%) ASP.NET
2 5 (12.20%) CSS
3 4 (9.756%) jQuery
3 4 (9.756%) XML
4 2 (4.878%) .NET Framework
4 2 (4.878%) Ajax
4 2 (4.878%) Spring
4 2 (4.878%) SAP Basis
4 2 (4.878%) LAMP
4 2 (4.878%) ASP
4 2 (4.878%) XSLT
4 2 (4.878%) Web Services
4 2 (4.878%) Rendezvous
4 2 (4.878%) Middleware
5 1 (2.439%) Bing Maps
5 1 (2.439%) JAX-RS
5 1 (2.439%) RESTEasy
5 1 (2.439%) Sinatra
Application Platforms
1 2 (4.878%) MS Exchange
1 2 (4.878%) IIS
1 2 (4.878%) NetWeaver
1 2 (4.878%) SAP Portal
2 1 (2.439%) Exchange Server 2010
2 1 (2.439%) Amazon AWS
2 1 (2.439%) WebSphere Application Server
2 1 (2.439%) Apache
2 1 (2.439%) Tomcat
2 1 (2.439%) CMS
2 1 (2.439%) Drupal
Applications
1 5 (12.20%) MS Excel
2 3 (7.317%) MS Office
3 2 (4.878%) MS PowerPoint
3 2 (4.878%) MS Visio
4 1 (2.439%) MS Project
4 1 (2.439%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (7.317%) Summit
2 2 (4.878%) Front Arena
3 1 (2.439%) LatentZero
3 1 (2.439%) Capstone
3 1 (2.439%) Tesseract
3 1 (2.439%) Minerva
3 1 (2.439%) Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 3 (7.317%) HTTP
1 3 (7.317%) Internet
1 3 (7.317%) Network Security
2 2 (4.878%) VoIP
2 2 (4.878%) CTI
2 2 (4.878%) Firewall
3 1 (2.439%) Wireless
3 1 (2.439%) VPN
3 1 (2.439%) SAN
3 1 (2.439%) Intranet
3 1 (2.439%) Extranet
3 1 (2.439%) Cisco PIX
3 1 (2.439%) NAS
3 1 (2.439%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (31.71%) SQL Server
2 4 (9.756%) SQL Server 2008
2 4 (9.756%) SQL Server 2005
3 3 (7.317%) RDBMS
3 3 (7.317%) MySQL
4 2 (4.878%) Oracle 11g
4 2 (4.878%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 2 (4.878%) Oracle 8/8i
4 2 (4.878%) DB2
4 2 (4.878%) SAP BW
4 2 (4.878%) SQL Server 2000
5 1 (2.439%) Redis
5 1 (2.439%) Couchbase
5 1 (2.439%) MongoDB
5 1 (2.439%) NoSQL
5 1 (2.439%) SimpleDB
5 1 (2.439%) OLTP
5 1 (2.439%) BusinessObjects
5 1 (2.439%) OLAP
5 1 (2.439%) Crystal Reports
Development Applications
1 3 (7.317%) ClearCase
1 3 (7.317%) Subversion
1 3 (7.317%) JIRA
2 2 (4.878%) Selenium
2 2 (4.878%) VSS/SourceSafe
3 1 (2.439%) Mockito
3 1 (2.439%) JUnit
3 1 (2.439%) Eclipse
3 1 (2.439%) Maven
3 1 (2.439%) CruiseControl
3 1 (2.439%) SilkTest
3 1 (2.439%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 12 (29.27%) Finance
2 7 (17.07%) Banking
3 4 (9.756%) Back Office
4 2 (4.878%) Retail
4 2 (4.878%) Front Office
4 2 (4.878%) Law
4 2 (4.878%) Financial Institution
5 1 (2.439%) Games
5 1 (2.439%) Telecoms
5 1 (2.439%) Investment Banking
5 1 (2.439%) Billing
Job Titles
1 15 (36.59%) Developer
2 13 (31.71%) Analyst
3 4 (9.756%) Technical Analyst
3 4 (9.756%) Business Analyst
3 4 (9.756%) Test Analyst
4 3 (7.317%) Consultant
4 3 (7.317%) Systems Administrator
4 3 (7.317%) Applications Support
4 3 (7.317%) Administrator
4 3 (7.317%) C# Developer
5 2 (4.878%) Linux Systems Administrator
5 2 (4.878%) SQL Developer
5 2 (4.878%) Linux Administrator
5 2 (4.878%) Technical Business Analyst
5 2 (4.878%) Business Intelligence Developer
5 2 (4.878%) Java Developer
5 2 (4.878%) .NET Developer
5 2 (4.878%) C++ Developer
5 2 (4.878%) Applications Support Analyst
5 2 (4.878%) Support Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 8 (19.51%) Mainframe
2 4 (9.756%) Open Source
3 3 (7.317%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 2 (4.878%) Derivative
4 2 (4.878%) Credit Derivative
4 2 (4.878%) Fixed Income
4 2 (4.878%) SWIFT
4 2 (4.878%) SaaS
5 1 (2.439%) Digital Media
5 1 (2.439%) Mobile App
5 1 (2.439%) Social Media
5 1 (2.439%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.439%) N-Tier
5 1 (2.439%) Streaming Video
5 1 (2.439%) Mathematics
5 1 (2.439%) Physics
5 1 (2.439%) Computer Science
5 1 (2.439%) Social Network
5 1 (2.439%) IBM Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 17 (41.46%) Windows
2 5 (12.20%) Linux
2 5 (12.20%) UNIX
3 3 (7.317%) Windows 7
3 3 (7.317%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (4.878%) Windows Server 2008
5 1 (2.439%) Windows Server 2003
5 1 (2.439%) AIX
5 1 (2.439%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (19.51%) OO
2 6 (14.63%) TDD
3 5 (12.20%) User Acceptance Testing
4 4 (9.756%) ITIL
5 3 (7.317%) Project Management
5 3 (7.317%) Software Testing
5 3 (7.317%) Web Development
6 2 (4.878%) Time Management
6 2 (4.878%) Technical Architecture
6 2 (4.878%) System Testing
6 2 (4.878%) Continuous Integration
6 2 (4.878%) Business Analysis
6 2 (4.878%) Network Design
6 2 (4.878%) Data Analysis
6 2 (4.878%) Stakeholder Management
6 2 (4.878%) OOP
6 2 (4.878%) Business Intelligence
6 2 (4.878%) ITSM
6 2 (4.878%) Test Automation
6 2 (4.878%) Product Management
Programming Languages
1 13 (31.71%) SQL
2 12 (29.27%) Java
3 10 (24.39%) C#
4 7 (17.07%) C++
5 6 (14.63%) JavaScript
6 4 (9.756%) PowerShell
6 4 (9.756%) VB
7 3 (7.317%) Bash shell
7 3 (7.317%) T-SQL
7 3 (7.317%) C
7 3 (7.317%) Perl
7 3 (7.317%) VBA
7 3 (7.317%) Ruby
8 2 (4.878%) Korn
8 2 (4.878%) COBOL
8 2 (4.878%) ABAP
8 2 (4.878%) Bourne shell
9 1 (2.439%) PHP
9 1 (2.439%) PL/SQL
9 1 (2.439%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (4.878%) SC Cleared
1 2 (4.878%) Security Cleared
1 2 (4.878%) ISTQB
1 2 (4.878%) ISEB
2 1 (2.439%) CISA
2 1 (2.439%) CISM
2 1 (2.439%) CCSP
2 1 (2.439%) CISSP
2 1 (2.439%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (2.439%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (2.439%) MCSE
2 1 (2.439%) CCSA
2 1 (2.439%) CEH
2 1 (2.439%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (7.317%) QA
System Software
1 3 (7.317%) Active Directory
2 2 (4.878%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (2.439%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 2 (4.878%) Nagios
1 2 (4.878%) Red Hat Satellite
1 2 (4.878%) Splunk
2 1 (2.439%) SolarWinds Orion
2 1 (2.439%) McAfee ePO
2 1 (2.439%) WSUS
Vendors
1 14 (34.15%) Oracle
2 12 (29.27%) Microsoft
3 3 (7.317%) Reuters
3 3 (7.317%) Cisco
3 3 (7.317%) Business Objects
3 3 (7.317%) SAP
3 3 (7.317%) Sybase
3 3 (7.317%) VMware
4 2 (4.878%) Google
4 2 (4.878%) Perforce
4 2 (4.878%) Murex
4 2 (4.878%) TIBCO
4 2 (4.878%) Red Hat
4 2 (4.878%) Calypso
4 2 (4.878%) IXOS
4 2 (4.878%) DevExpress
5 1 (2.439%) Lumension
5 1 (2.439%) Facebook
5 1 (2.439%) Micro Focus
5 1 (2.439%) Bloomberg
City, London
Excellent knowledge of Active Directory Service design, implementation (W2K3/W2K8) Good knowledge of SAN / Storage Architecture and Design (Preferably HP / Compaq products) Good knowledge of Client/Server architectures.(...
DGH Recruitment Ltd
Rate: £401 - £450 per day
Posted: 17 June 2013