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 18 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 124 129 162
Rank change year-on-year +5 +33 +43
Contract jobs citing Fat Client 3 1 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.15% 0.043% 0.031%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.41% 0.14% 0.092%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £503 - -
25th Percentile £506 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £650 -
Median % change year-on-year -19.23% - -
75th Percentile £556 - -
90th Percentile £568 - -
London median daily rate £525 £675 £541
% change year-on-year -22.22% +24.71% +29.49%

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 728 719 1,083
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 37.31% 30.99% 33.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 518 457 722
10th Percentile £350 £353 £313
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £578 £588 £600
Median % change year-on-year -1.70% -2.08% +2.78%
75th Percentile £688 £713 £731
90th Percentile £800 £838 £840
London median daily rate £560 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -2.61% -4.17% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 7 10
10th Percentile £17.08 £19.60 £16.96
25th Percentile £20.89 £22.90 £19.25
Median hourly rate £26.45 £25.79 £31.25
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% -17.47% -36.22%
75th Percentile £50.79 £27.00 £40.87
90th Percentile £88.75 £53.20 £54.58
London median hourly rate £27.50 £31.62 £29.75
% change year-on-year -13.03% +6.29% -2.46%

Fat Client
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Fat Client 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 18 September 2025. 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 3 £525 -19.23%
Fat Client
London

Fat Client
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Entra ID
1 1 (33.33%) GCP
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (33.33%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) Firewall
1 1 (33.33%) LAN
1 1 (33.33%) WAN
1 1 (33.33%) Wi-Fi
General
1 1 (33.33%) Banking
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Banking Project Manager
1 1 (33.33%) Linux Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Project Manager
1 1 (33.33%) Subject Matter Expert
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Thin Client
2 1 (33.33%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Linux
1 2 (66.67%) Windows
2 1 (33.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Business Continuity
1 1 (33.33%) Business Strategy
1 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (33.33%) Data Centre Operations
1 1 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (33.33%) Information Security
1 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
1 1 (33.33%) Migration
1 1 (33.33%) Performance Optimisation
1 1 (33.33%) Project Delivery
1 1 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (33.33%) Runbook
1 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (33.33%) Tech Ops
1 1 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Bash
1 1 (33.33%) Python
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
1 1 (33.33%) Hyper-V
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft App-V
1 1 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Cisco
1 2 (66.67%) Citrix
2 1 (33.33%) Infoblox
2 1 (33.33%) Palo Alto
2 1 (33.33%) VMware
2 1 (33.33%) Wyse