Fat Client Contracts in the Thames Valley

Fat Client
South East > Thames Valley

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Fat Client in contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Fat Client over the 6 months to 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 136 - 168
Rank change year-on-year - - -35
Contract jobs citing Fat Client 4 0 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.15% - 0.086%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.50% - 0.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £363 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 - £120
Median % change year-on-year - - -78.43%
75th Percentile £388 - £310
90th Percentile - - £424
South East median daily rate £375 £200 £168
% change year-on-year +87.50% +19.40% -69.55%

All Generic Skills
Thames Valley

Fat Client 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 the Thames Valley with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 797 938 1,083
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 29.71% 31.94% 31.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 464 617 692
10th Percentile £205 £280 £200
25th Percentile £281 £406 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% +2.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £600 £619 £588
90th Percentile £675 £700 £662
South East median daily rate £500 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 62 24 30
10th Percentile £11.79 £18.08 £17.42
25th Percentile £22.50 £19.63 £17.50
Median hourly rate £30.00 £48.75 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -38.46% +143.75% -21.57%
75th Percentile £59.97 £70.90 £26.88
90th Percentile £65.00 £77.93 £67.57
South East median hourly rate £47.19 £51.25 £21.50
% change year-on-year -7.93% +138.37% -33.85%

Fat Client
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing Fat Client as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Fat Client in the Thames Valley

Fat Client
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Fat Client in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Fat Client in the Thames Valley

Fat Client
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Fat Client in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Fat Client in the Thames Valley

Fat Client
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Fat Client within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 29 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
Berkshire - 4 £375 - 2
Fat Client
South East

Fat Client
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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:

Communications & Networking
1 4 (100.00%) DHCP
1 4 (100.00%) DNS
1 4 (100.00%) NAS
1 4 (100.00%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (100.00%) Elasticsearch
1 4 (100.00%) MySQL
1 4 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 4 (100.00%) SQL Server
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 3 (75.00%) 3rd Line Support
2 3 (75.00%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
2 3 (75.00%) Support Engineer
3 2 (50.00%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (25.00%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
4 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Support
4 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (100.00%) PKI
1 4 (100.00%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Linux
1 4 (100.00%) Ubuntu
1 4 (100.00%) Windows
1 4 (100.00%) Windows Server
1 4 (100.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 4 (100.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (25.00%) Business Continuity
2 1 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (25.00%) Incident Management
2 1 (25.00%) Patch Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (75.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 4 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 4 (100.00%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 4 (100.00%) Ansible
1 4 (100.00%) Nessus
1 4 (100.00%) Red Hat Satellite
1 4 (100.00%) vCenter Server
1 4 (100.00%) WSUS
1 4 (100.00%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 4 (100.00%) Oracle
1 4 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 4 (100.00%) Veeam
1 4 (100.00%) VMware