Fat Client Contracts in the UK excluding London

Fat Client
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Fat Client 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 Fat Client over the 6 months to 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 389 421 469
Rank change year-on-year +32 +48 -59
Contract jobs citing Fat Client 14 36 54
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.068% 0.15% 0.17%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.23% 0.46% 0.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 33 35
10th Percentile £192 £158 £120
25th Percentile £256 £161 £125
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £225 £275
Median % change year-on-year +66.67% -18.18% -13.39%
75th Percentile £434 £394 £445
90th Percentile £462 £623 £533
UK median daily rate £650 £225 £300
% change year-on-year +188.89% -25.00% -20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £20.93 -
UK median hourly rate £23.80 £20.93 -
% change year-on-year +13.71% - -

All Generic Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 6,067 7,770 9,826
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 29.36% 32.49% 31.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,643 5,260 6,780
10th Percentile £210 £213 £204
25th Percentile £375 £388 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £595 £616 £575
90th Percentile £688 £700 £669
UK median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 723 435 466
10th Percentile £12.15 £9.80 £12.13
25th Percentile £14.06 £10.63 £15.34
Median hourly rate £28.50 £22.00 £20.07
Median % change year-on-year +29.55% +9.64% -16.40%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £45.89
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £61.83
UK median hourly rate £30.16 £22.49 £27.50
% change year-on-year +34.13% -18.24% +4.05%

Fat Client
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Fat Client in the UK excluding London

Fat Client
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Fat Client in the UK excluding London

Fat Client
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Fat Client in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Fat Client in the UK excluding London

Fat Client
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Fat Client in the UK excluding London

Fat Client
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 Fat Client within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 3 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
Midlands +32 4 £150 -73.30% 1
South East -1 4 £375 +87.50% 4
West Midlands - 3 - - 1
North of England +26 2 - - 2
East of England +16 2 - - 1
South West +14 2 £470 +12.24% 3
East Midlands +21 1 £150 -73.30%
North West +13 1 - -
Yorkshire - 1 - - 2
Fat Client
UK

Fat Client
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 2 (14.29%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 6 (42.86%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (21.43%) Azure
2 3 (21.43%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 7 (50.00%) DNS
2 6 (42.86%) NAS
2 6 (42.86%) SAN
3 4 (28.57%) DHCP
4 3 (21.43%) NetScaler
5 2 (14.29%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (35.71%) MySQL
2 4 (28.57%) Elasticsearch
2 4 (28.57%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (28.57%) SQL Server
3 1 (7.14%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Jenkins
1 1 (7.14%) JIRA
General
1 1 (7.14%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (35.71%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 4 (28.57%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 4 (28.57%) Support Engineer
3 3 (21.43%) 3rd Line Support
3 3 (21.43%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
3 3 (21.43%) Architect
3 3 (21.43%) Solutions Architect
4 2 (14.29%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) Deployment Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) Infrastructure Deployment Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) IT Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) Wintel Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
5 1 (7.14%) Desktop Technician
5 1 (7.14%) Infrastructure Support
5 1 (7.14%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Wintel Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.14%) Apache NiFi
1 1 (7.14%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 14 (100.00%) Thin Client
2 6 (42.86%) PKI
3 2 (14.29%) Clustering
4 1 (7.14%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 14 (100.00%) Windows
2 10 (71.43%) Windows Server
3 7 (50.00%) Linux
4 4 (28.57%) Ubuntu
4 4 (28.57%) Windows Server 2019
5 3 (21.43%) Windows 10
6 2 (14.29%) Windows Server 2012
6 2 (14.29%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 4 (28.57%) Mentoring
2 4 (28.57%) Patch Management
3 3 (21.43%) Application Packaging
3 3 (21.43%) Change Management
4 2 (14.29%) Data Migration
4 2 (14.29%) Database Mirroring
4 2 (14.29%) Infrastructure Management
4 2 (14.29%) Key Management
4 2 (14.29%) Migration
5 1 (7.14%) Business Continuity
5 1 (7.14%) Customer Service
5 1 (7.14%) Disaster Recovery
5 1 (7.14%) Incident Management
5 1 (7.14%) ITIL
5 1 (7.14%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 9 (64.29%) PowerShell
2 2 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (42.86%) Security Cleared
2 4 (28.57%) SC Cleared
3 2 (14.29%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 12 (85.71%) Active Directory
2 4 (28.57%) VMware ESXi
2 4 (28.57%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (21.43%) Citrix Hypervisor
3 3 (21.43%) Virtual Desktop
3 3 (21.43%) XenApp
3 3 (21.43%) XenDesktop
4 2 (14.29%) Hyper-V
4 2 (14.29%) vSphere
5 1 (7.14%) Docker
5 1 (7.14%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 5 (35.71%) Ansible
2 4 (28.57%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 4 (28.57%) Nessus
2 4 (28.57%) Red Hat Satellite
2 4 (28.57%) vCenter Server
2 4 (28.57%) WSUS
2 4 (28.57%) ZABBIX
3 2 (14.29%) Failover Clustering
3 2 (14.29%) Microsoft Clustering
3 2 (14.29%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
3 2 (14.29%) SCCM
4 1 (7.14%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 12 (85.71%) Microsoft
2 7 (50.00%) VMware
3 4 (28.57%) Citrix
3 4 (28.57%) Oracle
3 4 (28.57%) Red Hat
3 4 (28.57%) Veeam
4 3 (21.43%) NetApp
5 2 (14.29%) CrowdStrike
6 1 (7.14%) ServiceNow