Fat Client Contract Job Trends in Central London

Fat Client
London > Central London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Fat Client in contract job vacancies in Central London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Fat Client over the 6 months leading up to 15 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 142 126 129
Rank change year-on-year -16 +3 +44
Contract jobs citing Fat Client 1 1 1
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.039% 0.052% 0.041%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.12% 0.16% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £235 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £240 - £650
75th Percentile £245 - -
90th Percentile - - -
London median daily rate £325 - £725
% change year-on-year - - +32.78%

All Generic Skills
Central London

Fat Client falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 842 643 743
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 32.42% 33.61% 30.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 575 418 503
10th Percentile £350 £357 £303
25th Percentile £463 £463 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £575 £565
Median % change year-on-year -2.17% +1.77% -9.60%
75th Percentile £681 £700 £700
90th Percentile £788 £811 £838
London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 8 7
10th Percentile £19.30 £20.35 £12.75
25th Percentile £23.16 £24.28 £14.38
Median hourly rate £37.50 £27.76 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year +35.09% +20.70% -38.53%
75th Percentile £59.72 £45.44 £25.50
90th Percentile £69.70 £92.13 £36.30
London median hourly rate £35.25 £32.89 £27.84
% change year-on-year +7.18% +18.14% -20.46%

Fat Client
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Fat Client relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Fat Client job vacancy trend in Central London

Fat Client
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Fat Client.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Fat Client

Fat Client
Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Fat Client.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Fat Client

Fat Client
Contract Job Locations in Central 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 Central London region over the 6 months to 15 June 2026. 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
City of London -13 1 £240 - 1
Fat Client
London

Fat Client
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DHCP
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) IT Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) IT Support
1 1 (100.00%) IT Support Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) BYOD
1 1 (100.00%) Thin Client
1 1 (100.00%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows 10
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Line Management
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) Citrix
1 1 (100.00%) VMware