Client/Server Contracts in Cheshire

Client Server
North West > Cheshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Client/Server in contract job vacancies in Cheshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Client/Server over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 55 - 62
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Client/Server 3 0 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 0.67% - 0.19%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.90% - 0.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile £367 - -
25th Percentile £384 - £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 - £600
75th Percentile £465 - £625
90th Percentile £481 - -
North West median daily rate £425 - £463

All Generic Skills
Cheshire

Client/Server 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 Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 158 156 244
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 35.19% 30.95% 46.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 112 101 143
10th Percentile £314 £297 £263
25th Percentile £358 £425 £326
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £467 £513 £450
Median % change year-on-year -8.88% +13.89% +2.27%
75th Percentile £553 £567 £580
90th Percentile £636 £606 £648
North West median daily rate £473 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.50% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 17 7
10th Percentile £29.46 £14.15 £21.89
25th Percentile £29.80 £17.72 £23.15
Median hourly rate £32.50 £36.50 £27.98
Median % change year-on-year -10.96% +30.45% +47.26%
75th Percentile £33.75 £43.75 £52.88
90th Percentile £55.50 - £66.25
North West median hourly rate £29.52 £25.25 £27.98
% change year-on-year +16.89% -9.76% +51.24%

Client/Server
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Client/Server in Cheshire

Client/Server
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Daily rate trend for Client/Server in Cheshire

Client/Server
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Client/Server in Cheshire

Client/Server
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

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 Cheshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Knutsford - 3 £425 -
Client/Server
North West

Client/Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco ASA
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco Firepower
1 1 (33.33%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
1 1 (33.33%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
1 1 (33.33%) HTTP
1 1 (33.33%) NX-OS
1 1 (33.33%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle Database
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle Database 10g
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle Database 11g
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle Database 12c
1 1 (33.33%) SQLPlus
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Toad
General
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) JSON
1 1 (33.33%) RAML
1 1 (33.33%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Android
1 1 (33.33%) Apple iOS
1 1 (33.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Agile
1 2 (66.67%) Scrum
2 1 (33.33%) Impact Assessments
2 1 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Risk Management
2 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (33.33%) Time Management
2 1 (33.33%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) PL/SQL
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) CCNP
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Arista
1 1 (33.33%) Blue Coat
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco
1 1 (33.33%) F5
1 1 (33.33%) Fortinet
1 1 (33.33%) Juniper
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle
1 1 (33.33%) Symantec
1 1 (33.33%) Zscaler