Client/Server Contracts in London

Client Server
England > London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Client/Server in contract job vacancies advertised in London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Client/Server over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 375 432 541
Rank change year-on-year +57 +109 -110
Contract jobs citing Client/Server 19 63 63
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.11% 0.23% 0.16%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.32% 0.65% 0.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 43 50
10th Percentile £334 £503 £392
25th Percentile £375 £554 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £750 £600
Median % change year-on-year -46.67% +25.00% +18.52%
75th Percentile £493 - £788
90th Percentile £580 - -
England median daily rate £525 £618 £600
% change year-on-year -15.05% +3.00% +29.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £40.82 £91.25 -
Median hourly rate £43.84 £97.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -55.04% - -
75th Percentile £46.86 £103.75 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £40.00 £75.00 £75.00
% change year-on-year -46.67% - +29.31%

All Generic Skills
London

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 advertised in London with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 5,852 9,722 14,221
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 33.04% 35.90% 36.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,137 6,983 10,364
10th Percentile £300 £375 £400
25th Percentile £450 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - +10.34%
75th Percentile £725 £745 £700
90th Percentile £850 £838 £800
England median daily rate £550 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 161 113 196
10th Percentile £15.50 £18.93 £18.50
25th Percentile £18.93 £21.24 £23.91
Median hourly rate £26.00 £35.00 £44.15
Median % change year-on-year -25.71% -20.72% +35.85%
75th Percentile £46.86 £64.50 £53.16
90th Percentile £67.00 £83.60 £71.55
England median hourly rate £30.00 £22.50 £26.98
% change year-on-year +33.33% -16.60% +1.24%

Client/Server
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Client/Server as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Client/Server in London

Client/Server
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Client/Server in London.

Daily rate trend for Client/Server in London

Client/Server
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Client/Server in London over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Client/Server in London

Client/Server
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Client/Server in London.

Hourly rate trend for Client/Server in London

Client/Server
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 27 April 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
South London +13 1 - - 1
Client/Server
England

Client/Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 4 (21.05%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 7 (36.84%) PaaS
1 7 (36.84%) SaaS
2 5 (26.32%) AWS
3 4 (21.05%) Azure
3 4 (21.05%) Cloud Computing
3 4 (21.05%) IaaS
3 4 (21.05%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (15.79%) Azure Storage
4 3 (15.79%) Entra ID
5 1 (5.26%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (5.26%) Power Platform
5 1 (5.26%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 6 (31.58%) Firewall
2 5 (26.32%) DHCP
2 5 (26.32%) DNS
3 4 (21.05%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (5.26%) Kerberos
4 1 (5.26%) LAN
4 1 (5.26%) NAS
4 1 (5.26%) SAN
4 1 (5.26%) TCP/IP
4 1 (5.26%) WAN
4 1 (5.26%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (47.37%) SQL Server
2 4 (21.05%) NoSQL
3 2 (10.53%) Relational Database
4 1 (5.26%) MongoDB
4 1 (5.26%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 6 (31.58%) Visual Studio
2 5 (26.32%) MSI
2 5 (26.32%) WiX
3 3 (15.79%) JIRA
General
1 9 (47.37%) Social Skills
2 4 (21.05%) Telecoms
3 2 (10.53%) Public Sector
4 1 (5.26%) Banking
4 1 (5.26%) Finance
4 1 (5.26%) Marketing
4 1 (5.26%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (5.26%) Russian Language
Job Titles
1 7 (36.84%) Software Engineer
2 3 (15.79%) IT Engineer
2 3 (15.79%) Senior
2 3 (15.79%) Senior Software Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) Microsoft Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) Operations Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) Product Owner
3 2 (10.53%) Technical Product Owner
4 1 (5.26%) .NET Software Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Analyst
4 1 (5.26%) Applications Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) C# Software Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Consultant
4 1 (5.26%) CRM Architect
4 1 (5.26%) Data Analyst
4 1 (5.26%) Infrastructure Specialist
4 1 (5.26%) Server Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Telecoms Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Windows Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Windows Server Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (36.84%) .NET
2 6 (31.58%) JSON
2 6 (31.58%) LDAP
2 6 (31.58%) REST
2 6 (31.58%) XML
3 5 (26.32%) ASP.NET
3 5 (26.32%) ASP.NET Web API
3 5 (26.32%) Entity Framework
3 5 (26.32%) LINQ
3 5 (26.32%) NHibernate
3 5 (26.32%) XSLT
4 4 (21.05%) Node.js
5 2 (10.53%) Web Services
6 1 (5.26%) CSS
6 1 (5.26%) DHTML
6 1 (5.26%) HTML
6 1 (5.26%) SAML
6 1 (5.26%) SOAP
6 1 (5.26%) WSDL
6 1 (5.26%) XHTML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (26.32%) Algorithms
1 5 (26.32%) Data Structures
1 5 (26.32%) Web 2.0
2 4 (21.05%) Data Centre
3 3 (15.79%) Clustering
4 2 (10.53%) Product Ownership
5 1 (5.26%) CMDB
5 1 (5.26%) Embedded Systems
5 1 (5.26%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (5.26%) Fat Client
5 1 (5.26%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (5.26%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (5.26%) Social Media
5 1 (5.26%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 11 (57.89%) Windows
2 5 (26.32%) Linux
3 4 (21.05%) Windows Server
4 3 (15.79%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (5.26%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (5.26%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (57.89%) Software Engineering
2 7 (36.84%) Configuration Management
2 7 (36.84%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (31.58%) Design Patterns
3 6 (31.58%) DevOps
4 5 (26.32%) OO
4 5 (26.32%) Performance Tuning
4 5 (26.32%) Software Testing
4 5 (26.32%) Test Automation
5 4 (21.05%) CI/CD
5 4 (21.05%) Data Centre Operations
5 4 (21.05%) Microservices
5 4 (21.05%) Release Management
5 4 (21.05%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 4 (21.05%) User Stories
6 3 (15.79%) ITIL
6 3 (15.79%) Load Balancing
6 3 (15.79%) Migration
6 3 (15.79%) SDLC
6 3 (15.79%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 14 (73.68%) SQL
2 8 (42.11%) C#
3 5 (26.32%) C
3 5 (26.32%) T-SQL
4 4 (21.05%) Go
4 4 (21.05%) Python
5 2 (10.53%) C++
5 2 (10.53%) JavaScript
5 2 (10.53%) TypeScript
6 1 (5.26%) Ada
6 1 (5.26%) Perl
6 1 (5.26%) PowerShell
6 1 (5.26%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 10 (52.63%) Degree
2 2 (10.53%) Security Cleared
3 1 (5.26%) DV Cleared
3 1 (5.26%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (15.79%) SLA
2 1 (5.26%) QA
System Software
1 5 (26.32%) Docker
2 4 (21.05%) Active Directory
3 1 (5.26%) Hyper-V
3 1 (5.26%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (21.05%) Kubernetes
2 3 (15.79%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (5.26%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (5.26%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (5.26%) WMI
3 1 (5.26%) WSUS
Vendors
1 5 (26.32%) Microsoft
2 3 (15.79%) CA
3 2 (10.53%) VMware
4 1 (5.26%) Facebook
4 1 (5.26%) ServiceNow
4 1 (5.26%) Twitter