Client/Server Contracts in the UK excluding London

Client Server
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Client/Server in contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Client/Server over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 353 365 442
Rank change year-on-year +12 +77 -38
Contract jobs citing Client/Server 43 82 70
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.21% 0.35% 0.23%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.72% 1.08% 0.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 47 39
10th Percentile £388 £398 £296
25th Percentile £501 £506 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £592 £495
Median % change year-on-year -7.09% +19.60% +33.33%
75th Percentile £595 £623 £597
90th Percentile £641 £763 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £613 £600
% change year-on-year -14.29% +2.08% +26.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 11 15
10th Percentile - £62.50 £40.95
25th Percentile - £70.63 £48.13
Median hourly rate £40.00 £72.50 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year -44.83% -3.33% +21.46%
75th Percentile - £75.00 -
90th Percentile £75.50 - -
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £75.00 £65.54
% change year-on-year -46.67% +14.43% +13.00%

All Generic Skills
UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 5,968 7,613 9,647
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 29.14% 32.45% 31.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,580 5,131 6,667
10th Percentile £210 £220 £205
25th Percentile £375 £394 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £595 £613 £575
90th Percentile £688 £700 £669
UK median daily rate £540 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -1.82% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 720 433 451
10th Percentile £12.15 £9.80 £12.21
25th Percentile £14.06 £10.63 £15.50
Median hourly rate £28.50 £22.00 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +29.55% +4.76% -12.50%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £46.30
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £31.13 £22.49 £27.50
% change year-on-year +38.43% -18.24% +4.05%

Client/Server
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Client/Server in the UK excluding London

Client/Server
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Client/Server in the UK excluding London

Client/Server
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Client/Server in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Client/Server in the UK excluding London

Client/Server
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Client/Server in the UK excluding London

Client/Server
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Client/Server in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Client/Server in the UK excluding London

Client/Server
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 9 May 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 East +15 21 £550 -10.13% 17
Scotland +26 9 £684 +15.54% 1
South West +21 8 - - 1
North of England +23 4 £278 -47.14% 13
Yorkshire +17 2 £375 -43.40% 1
Midlands +32 1 £425 -46.88% 10
West Midlands +19 1 £425 -46.88% 3
North West +10 1 - - 7
North East - 1 £180 - 6
Client/Server
UK

Client/Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 8 (18.60%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (9.30%) SAS
3 2 (4.65%) Confluence
4 1 (2.33%) OpenEdge
4 1 (2.33%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (2.33%) Site Server
Applications
1 1 (2.33%) Acrobat
1 1 (2.33%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (2.33%) Dynamics NAV
1 1 (2.33%) MFGPRO
1 1 (2.33%) Sage 50
Cloud Services
1 25 (58.14%) Azure
2 17 (39.53%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (11.63%) AWS
3 5 (11.63%) IaaS
3 5 (11.63%) PaaS
4 4 (9.30%) OpenShift
5 3 (6.98%) iPaaS
6 2 (4.65%) SaaS
7 1 (2.33%) Entra ID
7 1 (2.33%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (2.33%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 13 (30.23%) LAN
1 13 (30.23%) SAN
1 13 (30.23%) WAN
2 9 (20.93%) DHCP
2 9 (20.93%) DNS
2 9 (20.93%) Wi-Fi
3 8 (18.60%) MPLS
4 4 (9.30%) Fibre Channel
4 4 (9.30%) iSCSI
5 1 (2.33%) Firewall
5 1 (2.33%) NAS
5 1 (2.33%) NetScaler
5 1 (2.33%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (27.91%) SQL Server
2 4 (9.30%) DB2
3 3 (6.98%) MongoDB
3 3 (6.98%) MySQL
4 2 (4.65%) CouchDB
4 2 (4.65%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 8 (18.60%) Selenium
2 6 (13.95%) Robot Framework
3 5 (11.63%) JIRA
4 4 (9.30%) Git
5 3 (6.98%) Subversion
6 2 (4.65%) Bitbucket
6 2 (4.65%) Cucumber
6 2 (4.65%) Cypress.io
6 2 (4.65%) Jenkins
6 2 (4.65%) TeamCity
6 2 (4.65%) WebDriver
7 1 (2.33%) GitLab
General
1 22 (51.16%) Analytical Skills
2 16 (37.21%) Social Skills
3 8 (18.60%) Aerospace
4 5 (11.63%) Public Sector
5 3 (6.98%) Banking
5 3 (6.98%) Finance
5 3 (6.98%) Investment Banking
6 1 (2.33%) Back Office
6 1 (2.33%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (2.33%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 15 (34.88%) Analyst
2 10 (23.26%) Infrastructure Analyst
3 9 (20.93%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 8 (18.60%) IT Analyst
4 8 (18.60%) IT Infrastructure Analyst
5 5 (11.63%) Solutions Analyst
6 4 (9.30%) Applications Engineer
6 4 (9.30%) Linux Engineer
6 4 (9.30%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
6 4 (9.30%) Python Engineer
6 4 (9.30%) Senior
6 4 (9.30%) Storage Engineer
7 3 (6.98%) Application Integration Engineer
7 3 (6.98%) Applications Packager
7 3 (6.98%) Architect
7 3 (6.98%) Integration Engineer
7 3 (6.98%) Support Engineer
7 3 (6.98%) Technical Architect
8 2 (4.65%) Functional Test Analyst
8 2 (4.65%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (13.95%) .NET
2 4 (9.30%) Flash
2 4 (9.30%) POSIX
3 3 (6.98%) J2EE
3 3 (6.98%) Web Services
4 2 (4.65%) AngularJS
4 2 (4.65%) CSS
4 2 (4.65%) HTML
4 2 (4.65%) Node.js
4 2 (4.65%) React
4 2 (4.65%) Vue
5 1 (2.33%) Apache NiFi
5 1 (2.33%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 8 (18.60%) Clustering
1 8 (18.60%) Data Centre
2 4 (9.30%) NVMe
3 3 (6.98%) N-Tier
4 2 (4.65%) Mobile App
5 1 (2.33%) Fat Client
5 1 (2.33%) LIMS
5 1 (2.33%) Operational Technology
5 1 (2.33%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 37 (86.05%) Windows
2 26 (60.47%) Linux
3 24 (55.81%) Windows Server
4 23 (53.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 14 (32.56%) Unix
6 4 (9.30%) Data ONTAP
7 1 (2.33%) HPUX
7 1 (2.33%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (2.33%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (2.33%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (60.47%) Application Packaging
2 20 (46.51%) Agile
3 19 (44.19%) DevOps
4 18 (41.86%) Application Virtualisation
5 15 (34.88%) Scaled Agile Framework
6 13 (30.23%) Capacity Management
7 11 (25.58%) Migration
8 9 (20.93%) Data Protection
9 8 (18.60%) Asset Management
9 8 (18.60%) Business Transformation
9 8 (18.60%) Capacity Planning
9 8 (18.60%) Data Migration
9 8 (18.60%) Decision-Making
9 8 (18.60%) Network Management
9 8 (18.60%) Release Management
9 8 (18.60%) Server Management
9 8 (18.60%) Test Automation
10 7 (16.28%) High Availability
11 6 (13.95%) Scrum
11 6 (13.95%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 26 (60.47%) PowerShell
2 22 (51.16%) Python
3 20 (46.51%) VBScript
4 10 (23.26%) Java
5 8 (18.60%) SQL
6 5 (11.63%) C#
7 4 (9.30%) JavaScript
7 4 (9.30%) Perl
7 4 (9.30%) Shell Script
8 3 (6.98%) C++
9 2 (4.65%) Bash
9 2 (4.65%) VBA
10 1 (2.33%) VB
Qualifications
1 21 (48.84%) Security Cleared
2 19 (44.19%) DV Cleared
3 9 (20.93%) Degree
4 2 (4.65%) ISEB
4 2 (4.65%) ISTQB
4 2 (4.65%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 1 (2.33%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.65%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 33 (76.74%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (18.60%) Active Directory
2 8 (18.60%) Virtual Servers
2 8 (18.60%) VMware Workstation
3 5 (11.63%) Docker
3 5 (11.63%) Hyper-V
4 4 (9.30%) GPFS
4 4 (9.30%) NFS
5 2 (4.65%) VirtualBox
5 2 (4.65%) vSphere
6 1 (2.33%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (2.33%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 8 (18.60%) Microsoft Clustering
1 8 (18.60%) Nagios
1 8 (18.60%) NetBackup
1 8 (18.60%) SCCM
2 4 (9.30%) Kubernetes
2 4 (9.30%) Veritas Storage Foundation
3 1 (2.33%) FortiGate
3 1 (2.33%) WSUS
Vendors
1 34 (79.07%) VMware
2 13 (30.23%) NetApp
3 8 (18.60%) Hitachi
4 6 (13.95%) Microsoft
5 4 (9.30%) Brocade
5 4 (9.30%) EMC
5 4 (9.30%) Google
5 4 (9.30%) IBM
5 4 (9.30%) Sybase
5 4 (9.30%) Veritas
6 3 (6.98%) ArcSight
7 2 (4.65%) HP
7 2 (4.65%) Oracle
8 1 (2.33%) Adobe
8 1 (2.33%) Cisco
8 1 (2.33%) Citrix
8 1 (2.33%) Compaq
8 1 (2.33%) Progress
8 1 (2.33%) Red Hat
8 1 (2.33%) Sophos