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 25 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 509 519 684
Rank change year-on-year +10 +165 -66
Contract jobs citing Client/Server 67 169 171
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.16% 0.30% 0.20%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.52% 0.90% 0.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 105 110
10th Percentile £312 £409 £374
25th Percentile £375 £513 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £504 £610 £600
Median % change year-on-year -17.38% +1.67% +20.85%
75th Percentile £592 £750 £650
90th Percentile £595 - £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £585 £525
% change year-on-year -5.98% +11.43% +30.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 15 16
10th Percentile - £65.50 £36.63
25th Percentile - £71.25 £45.94
Median hourly rate £40.00 £75.00 £65.54
Median % change year-on-year -46.67% +14.43% +0.06%
75th Percentile £43.43 - £75.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £149.50 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £72.50 £70.27
% change year-on-year -44.83% +3.17% +7.28%

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 12,913 18,804 29,027
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.28% 33.34% 33.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,322 12,945 20,363
10th Percentile £270 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.18% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £663 £680 £663
90th Percentile £800 £800 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £480
% change year-on-year - +4.17% +9.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 908 609 708
10th Percentile £12.25 £9.80 £14.25
25th Percentile £15.17 £10.63 £17.00
Median hourly rate £34.21 £22.00 £26.98
Median % change year-on-year +55.50% -18.46% +4.78%
75th Percentile £61.30 £60.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £74.20 £65.84
UK excluding London median hourly rate £31.50 £21.24 £21.00
% change year-on-year +48.31% +1.14% -9.11%

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 25 May 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 25 May 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 25 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
England +19 58 £501 -18.57% 175
UK excluding London +14 45 £550 -5.98% 96
South East +7 23 £550 -10.13% 56
London +41 22 £392 -47.80% 124
Work from Home +46 9 £400 -46.31% 155
Scotland +13 9 £684 +15.54% 2
South West +18 8 - - 3
North of England +26 4 £278 -47.14% 12
Yorkshire +9 2 £375 -43.40%
Midlands +29 1 £425 -46.88% 16
North West +18 1 - - 8
West Midlands +8 1 £425 -46.88% 5
North East - 1 £180 - 6

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 (11.94%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (5.97%) OpenStack
2 4 (5.97%) SAS
3 2 (2.99%) Confluence
4 1 (1.49%) OpenEdge
4 1 (1.49%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (1.49%) Site Server
Applications
1 1 (1.49%) Acrobat
1 1 (1.49%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.49%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (1.49%) Dynamics NAV
1 1 (1.49%) MFGPRO
1 1 (1.49%) Sage 50
Cloud Services
1 34 (50.75%) Azure
2 18 (26.87%) Azure DevOps
3 12 (17.91%) PaaS
4 10 (14.93%) AWS
5 9 (13.43%) SaaS
6 8 (11.94%) IaaS
7 7 (10.45%) Cloud Computing
8 5 (7.46%) Microsoft 365
9 4 (5.97%) Entra ID
9 4 (5.97%) OpenShift
10 3 (4.48%) Azure Storage
10 3 (4.48%) iPaaS
11 1 (1.49%) Dynamics 365
11 1 (1.49%) OCI
11 1 (1.49%) Power Platform
11 1 (1.49%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 13 (19.40%) DHCP
1 13 (19.40%) DNS
1 13 (19.40%) LAN
1 13 (19.40%) SAN
1 13 (19.40%) WAN
1 13 (19.40%) Wi-Fi
2 8 (11.94%) MPLS
3 5 (7.46%) Firewall
4 4 (5.97%) Fibre Channel
4 4 (5.97%) iSCSI
5 1 (1.49%) NAS
5 1 (1.49%) NetScaler
5 1 (1.49%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (37.31%) SQL Server
2 4 (5.97%) DB2
2 4 (5.97%) MongoDB
2 4 (5.97%) MySQL
2 4 (5.97%) NoSQL
3 2 (2.99%) CouchDB
3 2 (2.99%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (2.99%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 8 (11.94%) JIRA
1 8 (11.94%) Selenium
2 6 (8.96%) Robot Framework
2 6 (8.96%) Visual Studio
3 5 (7.46%) MSI
3 5 (7.46%) WiX
4 4 (5.97%) Git
5 3 (4.48%) Subversion
6 2 (2.99%) Bitbucket
6 2 (2.99%) Cucumber
6 2 (2.99%) Cypress.io
6 2 (2.99%) Jenkins
6 2 (2.99%) TeamCity
6 2 (2.99%) WebDriver
7 1 (1.49%) GitLab
General
1 24 (35.82%) Social Skills
2 22 (32.84%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (11.94%) Aerospace
4 7 (10.45%) Public Sector
5 4 (5.97%) Banking
5 4 (5.97%) Finance
5 4 (5.97%) Telecoms
6 3 (4.48%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.49%) Back Office
7 1 (1.49%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.49%) Marketing
7 1 (1.49%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 16 (23.88%) Analyst
2 10 (14.93%) Infrastructure Analyst
3 9 (13.43%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 8 (11.94%) IT Analyst
4 8 (11.94%) IT Engineer
4 8 (11.94%) IT Infrastructure Analyst
4 8 (11.94%) Software Engineer
5 7 (10.45%) Senior
6 6 (8.96%) Operations Engineer
7 5 (7.46%) Applications Engineer
7 5 (7.46%) Applications Packager
7 5 (7.46%) Solutions Analyst
8 4 (5.97%) Architect
8 4 (5.97%) Linux Engineer
8 4 (5.97%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
8 4 (5.97%) Python Engineer
8 4 (5.97%) Storage Engineer
8 4 (5.97%) Support Engineer
9 3 (4.48%) Application Integration Engineer
9 3 (4.48%) DV Cleared Application Packager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (19.40%) .NET
2 6 (8.96%) JSON
2 6 (8.96%) Node.js
2 6 (8.96%) REST
2 6 (8.96%) XML
3 5 (7.46%) ASP.NET
3 5 (7.46%) ASP.NET Web API
3 5 (7.46%) Entity Framework
3 5 (7.46%) LDAP
3 5 (7.46%) LINQ
3 5 (7.46%) NHibernate
3 5 (7.46%) Web Services
3 5 (7.46%) XSLT
4 4 (5.97%) Flash
4 4 (5.97%) POSIX
5 3 (4.48%) AngularJS
5 3 (4.48%) CSS
5 3 (4.48%) HTML
5 3 (4.48%) J2EE
6 2 (2.99%) React
Miscellaneous
1 12 (17.91%) Data Centre
2 11 (16.42%) Clustering
3 5 (7.46%) Algorithms
3 5 (7.46%) Data Structures
3 5 (7.46%) Web 2.0
4 4 (5.97%) NVMe
5 3 (4.48%) N-Tier
6 2 (2.99%) Fat Client
6 2 (2.99%) Mobile App
6 2 (2.99%) Product Ownership
6 2 (2.99%) Thin Client
7 1 (1.49%) CMDB
7 1 (1.49%) Embedded Systems
7 1 (1.49%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.49%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.49%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.49%) LIMS
7 1 (1.49%) Operational Technology
7 1 (1.49%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 53 (79.10%) Windows
2 33 (49.25%) Linux
3 29 (43.28%) Windows Server
4 25 (37.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 14 (20.90%) Unix
6 4 (5.97%) Data ONTAP
6 4 (5.97%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (1.49%) HPUX
7 1 (1.49%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (1.49%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (41.79%) Application Packaging
2 27 (40.30%) DevOps
3 23 (34.33%) Agile
4 20 (29.85%) Application Virtualisation
5 16 (23.88%) Scaled Agile Framework
6 14 (20.90%) Release Management
7 13 (19.40%) Capacity Management
7 13 (19.40%) Migration
7 13 (19.40%) Software Engineering
7 13 (19.40%) Test Automation
8 10 (14.93%) Decision-Making
8 10 (14.93%) SDLC
9 9 (13.43%) Data Protection
9 9 (13.43%) OO
9 9 (13.43%) Scrum
10 8 (11.94%) Asset Management
10 8 (11.94%) Capacity Planning
10 8 (11.94%) Computer Science
10 8 (11.94%) Data Migration
10 8 (11.94%) Network Management
Programming Languages
1 29 (43.28%) PowerShell
2 28 (41.79%) Python
3 26 (38.81%) SQL
4 23 (34.33%) VBScript
5 13 (19.40%) C#
6 10 (14.93%) Java
7 6 (8.96%) JavaScript
8 5 (7.46%) C
8 5 (7.46%) C++
8 5 (7.46%) Perl
8 5 (7.46%) T-SQL
9 4 (5.97%) Go
9 4 (5.97%) Shell Script
10 2 (2.99%) Bash
10 2 (2.99%) TypeScript
10 2 (2.99%) VBA
11 1 (1.49%) Ada
11 1 (1.49%) VB
Qualifications
1 24 (35.82%) Security Cleared
2 22 (32.84%) Degree
2 22 (32.84%) DV Cleared
3 4 (5.97%) Azure Certification
4 2 (2.99%) ISEB
4 2 (2.99%) ISTQB
4 2 (2.99%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 1 (1.49%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.48%) SLA
2 2 (2.99%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (1.49%) QA
System Software
1 36 (53.73%) VMware Infrastructure
2 11 (16.42%) Active Directory
2 11 (16.42%) Docker
3 8 (11.94%) Virtual Servers
3 8 (11.94%) VMware Workstation
4 5 (7.46%) Hyper-V
5 4 (5.97%) GPFS
5 4 (5.97%) NFS
6 2 (2.99%) VirtualBox
6 2 (2.99%) vSphere
7 1 (1.49%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (1.49%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 9 (13.43%) Kubernetes
2 8 (11.94%) Microsoft Clustering
2 8 (11.94%) Nagios
2 8 (11.94%) NetBackup
2 8 (11.94%) SCCM
3 7 (10.45%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (5.97%) Veritas Storage Foundation
5 1 (1.49%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (1.49%) FortiGate
5 1 (1.49%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (1.49%) WSUS
Vendors
1 38 (56.72%) VMware
2 14 (20.90%) Microsoft
3 13 (19.40%) NetApp
4 8 (11.94%) Hitachi
5 7 (10.45%) CA
6 4 (5.97%) ArcSight
6 4 (5.97%) Brocade
6 4 (5.97%) EMC
6 4 (5.97%) Google
6 4 (5.97%) IBM
6 4 (5.97%) Sybase
6 4 (5.97%) Veritas
7 2 (2.99%) HP
7 2 (2.99%) Oracle
8 1 (1.49%) Adobe
8 1 (1.49%) Cisco
8 1 (1.49%) Compaq
8 1 (1.49%) Progress
8 1 (1.49%) Red Hat
8 1 (1.49%) Sophos