The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Client/Server in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Client/Server over the 3 months to 17 June 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all terms in our Miscellaneous category.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
17 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Client Server
Rank 368 307 311
Rank change year-on-year
-61 +4
Contract jobs citing Client/Server 198 310 330
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.406% 0.533% 0.539%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.509% 2.171% 1.934%
Number of daily rates quoted 109 135 199
Average daily rate £320 £375 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-14.66% -11.76%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £229 £250 £270
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £549 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £281 £340 £350
% change year-on-year
-17.27% -2.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 8 8
Average hourly rate £22.50 £19.25 £34.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+16.88% -43.38%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.83 £16.11 £19.85
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £38.00 £52.60 £44.45
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £28.50 £38.00
% change year-on-year
+5.26% -25.00%
All of the Miscellaneous Category
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
13125 14277 17066
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 26.95% 24.57% 27.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 7896 8279 10289
Average daily rate £425 £425 £515
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -17.47%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £250 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £600 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £342 £330
% change year-on-year
+2.41% +3.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 587 692 683
Average hourly rate £22.00 £22.50 £22.63
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-2.22% -0.55%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.42 £12.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.50 £45.00 £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £21.00 £22.50 £24.81
% change year-on-year
-6.66% -9.31%

Client/Server
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Client/Server within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Miscellaneous category.

Client/Server Jobs Demand Trend

Client/Server
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Client/Server within the UK.

Client/Server Daily Rate Trend

Client/Server
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Client/Server within the UK over the 3 months to 17 June 2013.

Client/Server Daily Rate Histogram

Client/Server
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Client/Server within the UK.

Client/Server Hourly Rate Trend

Client/Server
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Client/Server within the UK over the 3 months to 17 June 2013.

Client/Server Hourly Rate Histogram

Client/Server
Top 30 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Client/Server within the UK over the 3 months to 17 June 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Find
Job
Vacancies
England -51 169 £328 -10.27% 90
London -53 67 £419 +1.51% 31
Yorkshire +37 39 £250 - 9
West Yorkshire - 36 £250 - 6
Leeds - 34 £250 - 3
North West +18 16 £463 +45.21% 13
South East -24 15 £350 +5.26% 12
City of London -1 12 £450 -2.70% 14
South West +27 11 £525 +37.25% 4
Manchester +22 9 - - 4
West Midlands +3 9 £525 +84.21% 7
Croydon +6 8 £500 +17.64%
East Midlands +1 8 - - 3
Wales - 8 £298 - 2
Wiltshire +5 7 £600 - 1
Swindon +4 7 £600 -
East of England -3 7 £325 -4.41% 11
Birmingham +9 5 £563 -
Cambridgeshire +2 5 - - 3
Hampshire -22 5 £375 +5.63% 3
Scotland -43 5 - -
Berkshire +15 4 - - 3
Cheshire +4 4 £500 +53.37% 9
Southampton -4 4 £375 -
South Wales - 4 £295 - 2
Surrey +4 3 £320 +18.51% 1
Glasgow -17 3 - -
Gloucestershire +23 2 £387 +6.02% 2
West Sussex +11 2 - - 1
Crawley +5 2 - - 1

Client/Server
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 June 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Client/Server also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited Client/Server.

1 110 (29.89%) Windows
2 99 (26.90%) Oracle
3 90 (24.46%) Java
4 79 (21.47%) SQL
5 72 (19.57%) Microsoft
6 70 (19.02%) SQL Server
7 68 (18.48%) Linux
8 66 (17.93%) Web Services
9 57 (15.49%) .NET
10 56 (15.22%) Internet
11 52 (14.13%) JavaScript
11 52 (14.13%) C++
12 50 (13.59%) Security Cleared
13 48 (13.04%) MySQL
14 46 (12.50%) C#
14 46 (12.50%) Python
14 46 (12.50%) Active Directory
15 45 (12.23%) UNIX
15 45 (12.23%) OO
15 45 (12.23%) Finance
16 42 (11.41%) Telecoms
16 42 (11.41%) ITIL
17 41 (11.14%) CSS
18 40 (10.87%) Apache
19 39 (10.60%) Degree
20 38 (10.33%) Amazon AWS
21 37 (10.05%) Test Automation
21 37 (10.05%) Bash shell
21 37 (10.05%) jQuery
21 37 (10.05%) VB

Client/Server
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 June 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Client/Server also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited Client/Server. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 66 (17.93%) Web Services
2 57 (15.49%) .NET
3 41 (11.14%) CSS
4 37 (10.05%) jQuery
5 33 (8.967%) HTML
6 28 (7.609%) Node.js
7 27 (7.337%) XML
8 24 (6.522%) ASP.NET
8 24 (6.522%) Spring
9 23 (6.250%) HTML5
10 21 (5.707%) Hibernate
10 21 (5.707%) REST
11 20 (5.435%) Ajax
12 19 (5.163%) SOAP
13 18 (4.891%) J2EE
14 17 (4.620%) WCF
15 15 (4.076%) Silverlight
15 15 (4.076%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
16 14 (3.804%) .NET Framework
17 13 (3.533%) CSS3
Application Platforms
1 40 (10.87%) Apache
2 38 (10.33%) Amazon AWS
3 31 (8.424%) Amazon EC2
3 31 (8.424%) Amazon S3
3 31 (8.424%) Route 53
4 26 (7.065%) IIS
5 25 (6.793%) nginx
6 16 (4.348%) Tomcat
7 13 (3.533%) Adobe CQ
8 10 (2.717%) SharePoint
8 10 (2.717%) WebLogic
8 10 (2.717%) ArcGIS
9 9 (2.446%) NetWeaver
10 8 (2.174%) CMS
11 7 (1.902%) Apache Solr
12 5 (1.359%) TeamSite
12 5 (1.359%) MS Exchange
13 3 (0.815%) IBM Notes
13 3 (0.815%) SAP Portal
14 2 (0.543%) ESB
Applications
1 33 (8.967%) MS Excel
2 19 (5.163%) MS Office
3 14 (3.804%) MS Visio
4 11 (2.989%) MS PowerPoint
4 11 (2.989%) MS Project
5 3 (0.815%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.543%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 22 (5.978%) Oracle EBS
2 4 (1.087%) Summit
3 3 (0.815%) Front Arena
3 3 (0.815%) Oracle EBS R12
4 2 (0.543%) Capstone
4 2 (0.543%) Tesseract
4 2 (0.543%) Minerva
4 2 (0.543%) Sentinel
5 1 (0.272%) Adaptiv
5 1 (0.272%) LatentZero
5 1 (0.272%) Oracle Applications
5 1 (0.272%) SAP Oil and Gas
Communications & Networking
1 56 (15.22%) Internet
2 33 (8.967%) DNS
3 32 (8.696%) TCP/IP
4 28 (7.609%) SSL
5 22 (5.978%) LAN
6 21 (5.707%) WAN
6 21 (5.707%) DHCP
7 20 (5.435%) HTTP
7 20 (5.435%) SAN
7 20 (5.435%) Intrusion Detection
8 18 (4.891%) Firewall
9 13 (3.533%) VPN
10 10 (2.717%) Intranet
11 7 (1.902%) SNMP
11 7 (1.902%) Wireless
11 7 (1.902%) VoIP
11 7 (1.902%) LDAP
11 7 (1.902%) Network Security
11 7 (1.902%) NAS
12 6 (1.630%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 70 (19.02%) SQL Server
2 48 (13.04%) MySQL
3 32 (8.696%) MongoDB
3 32 (8.696%) Redis
4 31 (8.424%) Amazon RDS
5 26 (7.065%) RDBMS
6 19 (5.163%) SQL Server 2005
7 18 (4.891%) SQL Server 2008
8 9 (2.446%) Oracle 8/8i
9 8 (2.174%) MS Access
9 8 (2.174%) InterBase
9 8 (2.174%) Firebird
10 7 (1.902%) Oracle 11g
11 6 (1.630%) Data Warehouse
11 6 (1.630%) Oracle 9i
12 5 (1.359%) Oracle 10g
13 4 (1.087%) SQL Server 2000
13 4 (1.087%) Informix
13 4 (1.087%) Oracle Reports
13 4 (1.087%) DB2
Development Applications
1 28 (7.609%) Visual Studio
2 23 (6.250%) Maven
3 19 (5.163%) Jenkins
4 18 (4.891%) Git (software)
5 16 (4.348%) JIRA
6 15 (4.076%) Team Foundation Server
6 15 (4.076%) Subversion
7 12 (3.261%) MSTest
7 12 (3.261%) Moq
8 10 (2.717%) Selenium
9 9 (2.446%) MSI
9 9 (2.446%) VSS/SourceSafe
10 7 (1.902%) Eclipse
10 7 (1.902%) JSUnit
11 6 (1.630%) Bugzilla
11 6 (1.630%) NUnit
11 6 (1.630%) FogBugz
12 5 (1.359%) JUnit
13 4 (1.087%) Ant
13 4 (1.087%) TestDirector
General
1 45 (12.23%) Finance
2 42 (11.41%) Telecoms
3 27 (7.337%) Banking
4 13 (3.533%) Investment Banking
5 11 (2.989%) Front Office
5 11 (2.989%) Back Office
6 7 (1.902%) French Language
7 6 (1.630%) Games
8 5 (1.359%) Retail
9 4 (1.087%) Marketing
9 4 (1.087%) Dutch Language
10 3 (0.815%) Local Government
10 3 (0.815%) Automotive
10 3 (0.815%) Law
10 3 (0.815%) Legal
11 2 (0.543%) Electronics
11 2 (0.543%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (0.543%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.543%) Billing
11 2 (0.543%) German Language
Job Titles
1 111 (30.16%) Developer
2 65 (17.66%) Analyst
3 27 (7.337%) Software Engineer
4 26 (7.065%) Software Developer
4 26 (7.065%) Administrator
4 26 (7.065%) Java Developer
5 23 (6.250%) .NET Developer
5 23 (6.250%) Test Analyst
6 17 (4.620%) Project Manager
6 17 (4.620%) Senior Developer
7 15 (4.076%) C# Developer
8 14 (3.804%) Systems Administrator
9 13 (3.533%) Support Engineer
10 12 (3.261%) Programmer
10 12 (3.261%) Business Analyst
10 12 (3.261%) Architect
10 12 (3.261%) Operations Engineer
11 11 (2.989%) C# .NET Developer
11 11 (2.989%) Consultant
12 10 (2.717%) Software Programmer
Miscellaneous
1 37 (10.05%) Management Information System
2 23 (6.250%) N-Tier
3 15 (4.076%) Mainframe
3 15 (4.076%) Mobile App
4 11 (2.989%) Open Source
5 10 (2.717%) RIA
6 9 (2.446%) Computer Science
7 8 (2.174%) NHS
8 7 (1.902%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 7 (1.902%) Data Extraction
8 7 (1.902%) Enterprise Software
9 6 (1.630%) Embedded Systems
9 6 (1.630%) SecurID
10 5 (1.359%) Derivative
10 5 (1.359%) Blackberry
10 5 (1.359%) Streaming Video
10 5 (1.359%) iPhone
11 4 (1.087%) Social Network
11 4 (1.087%) Field-Programmable Gate Array
11 4 (1.087%) Cryptography
Operating Systems
1 110 (29.89%) Windows
2 68 (18.48%) Linux
3 45 (12.23%) UNIX
4 27 (7.337%) Windows 7
5 19 (5.163%) Windows Server 2008
5 19 (5.163%) Windows XP
6 15 (4.076%) Windows Server 2003
6 15 (4.076%) Android
7 14 (3.804%) Solaris
8 11 (2.989%) Apple iOS
9 9 (2.446%) Windows Vista
10 6 (1.630%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 3 (0.815%) CentOS
11 3 (0.815%) Windows NT
12 1 (0.272%) Mac OS X
12 1 (0.272%) AIX
12 1 (0.272%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (12.23%) OO
2 42 (11.41%) ITIL
3 37 (10.05%) Test Automation
4 34 (9.239%) Security Testing
4 34 (9.239%) TDD
5 27 (7.337%) Incident Management
5 27 (7.337%) Configuration Management
6 26 (7.065%) Unit Testing
6 26 (7.065%) Kanban
7 25 (6.793%) Load Balancing
8 24 (6.522%) UML
9 22 (5.978%) SOA
9 22 (5.978%) Agile Software Development
10 21 (5.707%) Project Management
11 19 (5.163%) Scrum
12 18 (4.891%) Change Management
12 18 (4.891%) User Acceptance Testing
13 17 (4.620%) SIEM
14 16 (4.348%) Capacity Management
14 16 (4.348%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 90 (24.46%) Java
2 79 (21.47%) SQL
3 52 (14.13%) JavaScript
3 52 (14.13%) C++
4 46 (12.50%) C#
4 46 (12.50%) Python
5 37 (10.05%) Bash shell
5 37 (10.05%) VB
6 36 (9.783%) Perl
7 32 (8.696%) Ruby
8 30 (8.152%) PHP
9 20 (5.435%) T-SQL
10 18 (4.891%) C
10 18 (4.891%) PowerShell
11 15 (4.076%) VB.NET
12 10 (2.717%) PL/SQL
13 9 (2.446%) ABAP
13 9 (2.446%) Delphi
14 8 (2.174%) VBScript
15 7 (1.902%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 50 (13.59%) Security Cleared
2 39 (10.60%) Degree
3 29 (7.880%) DV Cleared
4 27 (7.337%) SC Cleared
5 10 (2.717%) ISEB
6 9 (2.446%) ISTQB
7 8 (2.174%) CISSP
7 8 (2.174%) Microsoft Certification
7 8 (2.174%) HNC
8 6 (1.630%) Security+ Certification
9 5 (1.359%) MCSE
10 4 (1.087%) RHCE
10 4 (1.087%) SCSA
11 3 (0.815%) MCITP
11 3 (0.815%) PRINCE2 Certification
11 3 (0.815%) Cisco Certification
12 2 (0.543%) MCDBA
12 2 (0.543%) CCSP
12 2 (0.543%) CCNA
12 2 (0.543%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (6.522%) QA
2 9 (2.446%) PCI DSS
3 6 (1.630%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (0.272%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.272%) DICOM
4 1 (0.272%) JSP 440
4 1 (0.272%) SLA
System Software
1 46 (12.50%) Active Directory
2 23 (6.250%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (3.804%) XenApp
4 13 (3.533%) VMware ESX
5 9 (2.446%) Oracle RMAN
6 5 (1.359%) Oracle RAC
7 4 (1.087%) NFS
8 2 (0.543%) VMware Workstation
9 1 (0.272%) MetaFrame
9 1 (0.272%) Microsoft App-V
9 1 (0.272%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 20 (5.435%) Puppet
2 11 (2.989%) SCCM
3 8 (2.174%) McAfee ePO
4 7 (1.902%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
5 5 (1.359%) HP Quality Center
6 4 (1.087%) Nagios
6 4 (1.087%) NetBackup
6 4 (1.087%) OpenView
7 3 (0.815%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 3 (0.815%) Data Guard
7 3 (0.815%) SolarWinds Orion
8 2 (0.543%) Splunk
8 2 (0.543%) Red Hat Satellite
8 2 (0.543%) WSUS
9 1 (0.272%) SCOM
9 1 (0.272%) Oracle Statspack
Vendors
1 99 (26.90%) Oracle
2 72 (19.57%) Microsoft
3 33 (8.967%) VMware
4 24 (6.522%) Citrix
5 23 (6.250%) Percona
6 18 (4.891%) Adobe
7 15 (4.076%) SAP
8 13 (3.533%) hybris
9 10 (2.717%) ESRI
9 10 (2.717%) Cisco
9 10 (2.717%) HP
9 10 (2.717%) Red Hat
10 8 (2.174%) IBM
10 8 (2.174%) EMC
10 8 (2.174%) McAfee
11 7 (1.902%) Telerik
11 7 (1.902%) Qualys
11 7 (1.902%) NetApp
12 6 (1.630%) Aquila
12 6 (1.630%) Perforce
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EasyWebRecruitment.com
Rate: £300 - £325 per day
Posted: 13 June 2013
Gloucestershire
Commutable From : Worcester, Cheltenham, Hereford, Oxford, Swindon, Bristol, Kidderminster, Redditch, Banbury Are you an experienced RPG developer looking to take the next step in your career? My client...
Big Red Recruitment
Rate: Unspecified
Posted: 14 June 2013
London
Amoria Bond are looking for a Java Web Developer to join our client in London on a 6 month contract that is highly likely to extend well beyond...
Amoria Bond
Posted: 11 June 2013
Cambridge, East Anglia
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clearedgeconsulting
Posted: 17 June 2013
Slough, Berkshire
Good understanding & knowledge of IT infrastructure, including Windows Client & server technologies, Citrix and thin client technologies. Understanding of LAN/WAN technologies. An understanding of Lotus Notes Messaging... Microsoft,...
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Rate: Excellent rates will be paid to the right candidate.
Posted: 14 June 2013
Chester, North West
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Rate: £30 - £35 per hour
Posted: 31 May 2013
Maidenhead, Berkshire
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