Client/Server Contracts

Client Server
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Client/Server in contract job vacancies. 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 533 559 678
Rank change year-on-year +26 +119 -73
Contract jobs citing Client/Server 65 160 172
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.15% 0.27% 0.19%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.49% 0.80% 0.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 96 111
10th Percentile £363 £409 £325
25th Percentile £389 £513 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £611 £600
Median % change year-on-year -9.98% +1.83% +29.03%
75th Percentile £595 £750 £650
90th Percentile £633 - £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £553 £592 £513
% change year-on-year -6.67% +15.51% +31.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 15 19
10th Percentile - £65.50 £37.60
25th Percentile - £71.25 £48.13
Median hourly rate £40.00 £75.00 £65.54
Median % change year-on-year -46.67% +14.43% +13.00%
75th Percentile £43.43 - £75.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £149.50 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £72.50 £75.00
% change year-on-year -44.83% -3.33% +29.31%

All Generic Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 13,143 19,914 29,327
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.35% 33.30% 33.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,422 13,704 20,462
10th Percentile £263 £308 £313
25th Percentile £413 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £656 £680 £653
90th Percentile £788 £800 £756
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 903 647 727
10th Percentile £12.25 £9.80 £14.11
25th Percentile £15.17 £10.63 £16.88
Median hourly rate £28.50 £22.49 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +26.75% -18.24% +3.19%
75th Percentile £60.00 £64.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £22.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +25.00% +10.00% -16.67%

Client/Server
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Client/Server in the UK

Client/Server
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Client/Server in the UK

Client/Server
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Client/Server in the UK

Client/Server
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Client/Server in the UK

Client/Server
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Client/Server over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Client/Server in the UK

Client/Server
Top 13 Contract Locations

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 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
England +56 55 £525 -15.05% 160
UK excluding London +28 46 £553 -6.67% 67
South East +17 21 £550 -10.17% 30
London +57 19 £400 -46.67% 94
Scotland +19 10 £675 +14.02%
Work from Home +57 8 £400 -46.31% 146
South West +28 8 - - 2
North of England +26 5 £278 -47.14% 13
Yorkshire +19 3 £375 -43.40% 1
West Midlands +28 2 £500 -37.50%
Midlands +21 2 £500 -37.50% 4
North West +9 1 - - 7
North East - 1 £180 - 7

Client/Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (12.31%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (6.15%) OpenStack
2 4 (6.15%) SAS
3 2 (3.08%) Confluence
3 2 (3.08%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (1.54%) OpenEdge
4 1 (1.54%) Site Server
Applications
1 2 (3.08%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.54%) Acrobat
Business Applications
1 1 (1.54%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (1.54%) Dynamics NAV
1 1 (1.54%) MFGPRO
1 1 (1.54%) Sage 50
Cloud Services
1 31 (47.69%) Azure
2 17 (26.15%) Azure DevOps
3 12 (18.46%) PaaS
4 11 (16.92%) AWS
5 9 (13.85%) IaaS
5 9 (13.85%) SaaS
6 5 (7.69%) Microsoft 365
7 4 (6.15%) Cloud Computing
7 4 (6.15%) Entra ID
7 4 (6.15%) OpenShift
8 3 (4.62%) Azure Storage
8 3 (4.62%) iPaaS
9 1 (1.54%) Dynamics 365
9 1 (1.54%) OCI
9 1 (1.54%) Power Platform
9 1 (1.54%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 14 (21.54%) DHCP
1 14 (21.54%) DNS
1 14 (21.54%) LAN
1 14 (21.54%) SAN
1 14 (21.54%) WAN
2 13 (20.00%) Wi-Fi
3 8 (12.31%) MPLS
4 7 (10.77%) Firewall
5 5 (7.69%) Fibre Channel
5 5 (7.69%) iSCSI
6 2 (3.08%) NAS
7 1 (1.54%) Kerberos
7 1 (1.54%) NetScaler
7 1 (1.54%) TCP/IP
7 1 (1.54%) VoIP
7 1 (1.54%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (35.38%) SQL Server
2 4 (6.15%) DB2
2 4 (6.15%) MongoDB
2 4 (6.15%) MySQL
2 4 (6.15%) NoSQL
3 2 (3.08%) CouchDB
3 2 (3.08%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (3.08%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 8 (12.31%) JIRA
1 8 (12.31%) Selenium
2 6 (9.23%) Robot Framework
2 6 (9.23%) Visual Studio
3 5 (7.69%) MSI
3 5 (7.69%) WiX
4 4 (6.15%) Git
4 4 (6.15%) Subversion
5 2 (3.08%) Bitbucket
5 2 (3.08%) Cucumber
5 2 (3.08%) Cypress.io
5 2 (3.08%) GitLab
5 2 (3.08%) Jenkins
5 2 (3.08%) TeamCity
5 2 (3.08%) WebDriver
General
1 25 (38.46%) Social Skills
2 22 (33.85%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (12.31%) Aerospace
4 7 (10.77%) Public Sector
5 5 (7.69%) Banking
6 4 (6.15%) Finance
6 4 (6.15%) Investment Banking
6 4 (6.15%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.54%) Back Office
7 1 (1.54%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.54%) Legal
7 1 (1.54%) Marketing
7 1 (1.54%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.54%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.54%) Russian Language
Job Titles
1 17 (26.15%) Analyst
2 10 (15.38%) Infrastructure Analyst
3 9 (13.85%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 8 (12.31%) IT Analyst
4 8 (12.31%) IT Infrastructure Analyst
4 8 (12.31%) Senior
4 8 (12.31%) Software Engineer
5 5 (7.69%) Applications Engineer
5 5 (7.69%) Solutions Analyst
6 4 (6.15%) Architect
6 4 (6.15%) IT Engineer
6 4 (6.15%) Linux Engineer
6 4 (6.15%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
6 4 (6.15%) Python Engineer
6 4 (6.15%) Storage Engineer
6 4 (6.15%) Support Engineer
7 3 (4.62%) Application Integration Engineer
7 3 (4.62%) Applications Packager
7 3 (4.62%) Senior Analyst
7 3 (4.62%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (20.00%) .NET
2 7 (10.77%) REST
3 6 (9.23%) JSON
3 6 (9.23%) LDAP
3 6 (9.23%) Node.js
3 6 (9.23%) XML
4 5 (7.69%) ASP.NET
4 5 (7.69%) ASP.NET Web API
4 5 (7.69%) Entity Framework
4 5 (7.69%) LINQ
4 5 (7.69%) NHibernate
4 5 (7.69%) Web Services
4 5 (7.69%) XSLT
5 4 (6.15%) Flash
5 4 (6.15%) POSIX
6 3 (4.62%) AngularJS
6 3 (4.62%) CSS
6 3 (4.62%) HTML
6 3 (4.62%) J2EE
7 2 (3.08%) React
Miscellaneous
1 12 (18.46%) Data Centre
2 11 (16.92%) Clustering
3 5 (7.69%) Algorithms
3 5 (7.69%) Data Structures
3 5 (7.69%) Web 2.0
4 4 (6.15%) NVMe
5 3 (4.62%) N-Tier
6 2 (3.08%) Fat Client
6 2 (3.08%) Mobile App
6 2 (3.08%) Product Ownership
6 2 (3.08%) Thin Client
7 1 (1.54%) CMDB
7 1 (1.54%) Embedded Systems
7 1 (1.54%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.54%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.54%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.54%) LIMS
7 1 (1.54%) Operational Technology
7 1 (1.54%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 49 (75.38%) Windows
2 32 (49.23%) Linux
3 29 (44.62%) Windows Server
4 23 (35.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 16 (24.62%) Unix
6 4 (6.15%) Data ONTAP
6 4 (6.15%) Windows Server 2012
7 2 (3.08%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (3.08%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (1.54%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (40.00%) Application Packaging
1 26 (40.00%) DevOps
2 23 (35.38%) Agile
3 18 (27.69%) Application Virtualisation
4 15 (23.08%) Capacity Management
4 15 (23.08%) Scaled Agile Framework
5 14 (21.54%) Migration
6 13 (20.00%) Software Engineering
6 13 (20.00%) Test Automation
7 12 (18.46%) Release Management
8 10 (15.38%) Decision-Making
8 10 (15.38%) SDLC
9 9 (13.85%) Data Protection
9 9 (13.85%) OO
9 9 (13.85%) Server Management
10 8 (12.31%) Asset Management
10 8 (12.31%) Data Migration
10 8 (12.31%) Network Management
10 8 (12.31%) Scrum
10 8 (12.31%) SOA
Programming Languages
1 28 (43.08%) PowerShell
2 27 (41.54%) Python
3 23 (35.38%) SQL
4 21 (32.31%) VBScript
5 13 (20.00%) C#
6 11 (16.92%) Java
7 6 (9.23%) JavaScript
8 5 (7.69%) C
8 5 (7.69%) C++
8 5 (7.69%) Perl
8 5 (7.69%) T-SQL
9 4 (6.15%) Go
9 4 (6.15%) Shell Script
10 2 (3.08%) Bash
10 2 (3.08%) TypeScript
10 2 (3.08%) VBA
11 1 (1.54%) Ada
11 1 (1.54%) VB
Qualifications
1 23 (35.38%) Security Cleared
2 20 (30.77%) DV Cleared
3 19 (29.23%) Degree
4 2 (3.08%) ISEB
4 2 (3.08%) ISTQB
4 2 (3.08%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 2 (3.08%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.62%) SLA
2 2 (3.08%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (1.54%) QA
System Software
1 34 (52.31%) VMware Infrastructure
2 12 (18.46%) Active Directory
3 10 (15.38%) Docker
4 8 (12.31%) Virtual Servers
4 8 (12.31%) VMware Workstation
5 6 (9.23%) Hyper-V
6 4 (6.15%) GPFS
6 4 (6.15%) NFS
7 2 (3.08%) VirtualBox
7 2 (3.08%) vSphere
8 1 (1.54%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (1.54%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 9 (13.85%) Kubernetes
2 8 (12.31%) Microsoft Clustering
2 8 (12.31%) Nagios
2 8 (12.31%) NetBackup
2 8 (12.31%) SCCM
3 4 (6.15%) Veritas Storage Foundation
4 3 (4.62%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (3.08%) WSUS
6 1 (1.54%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (1.54%) FortiGate
6 1 (1.54%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (1.54%) WMI
Vendors
1 36 (55.38%) VMware
2 13 (20.00%) NetApp
3 12 (18.46%) Microsoft
4 8 (12.31%) Hitachi
5 5 (7.69%) Google
6 4 (6.15%) Brocade
6 4 (6.15%) EMC
6 4 (6.15%) IBM
6 4 (6.15%) Sybase
6 4 (6.15%) Veritas
7 3 (4.62%) ArcSight
7 3 (4.62%) CA
7 3 (4.62%) Oracle
8 2 (3.08%) HP
9 1 (1.54%) Adobe
9 1 (1.54%) Cisco
9 1 (1.54%) Citrix
9 1 (1.54%) Compaq
9 1 (1.54%) Progress
9 1 (1.54%) Red Hat