Client/Server Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Client Server
Central London > City of London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Client/Server in contract job vacancies in the City of London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Client/Server over the 6 months leading up to 25 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 122 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Client/Server 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.10% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.29% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £406 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 - -
75th Percentile £419 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median daily rate £413 - -

All Generic Skills
City of London

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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 689 593 722
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 34.78% 32.49% 30.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 499 375 490
10th Percentile £350 £368 £275
25th Percentile £425 £463 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -2.91%
75th Percentile £675 £696 £713
90th Percentile £788 £800 £830
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 1 10
10th Percentile £19.03 - £12.75
25th Percentile £22.24 - £17.00
Median hourly rate £34.25 £31.00 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.48% +63.16% -53.09%
75th Percentile £41.89 - £41.94
90th Percentile £50.83 - £52.60
Central London median hourly rate £27.06 £31.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year -12.73% +63.16% -45.71%

Client/Server
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Client/Server job vacancy trend in the City of London

Client/Server
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Client/Server.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Client/Server

Client/Server
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Client/Server.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Client/Server

Client/Server
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of 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:

Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (50.00%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (50.00%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) 3rd Line Support
1 1 (50.00%) Citrix Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) AngularJS
1 1 (50.00%) CSS
1 1 (50.00%) HTML
1 1 (50.00%) jQuery
1 1 (50.00%) REST
1 1 (50.00%) SOAP
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
1 1 (50.00%) Windows 10
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2016
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) Backlog Refinement
1 1 (50.00%) Case Management
1 1 (50.00%) Change Management
1 1 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (50.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) CCA
1 1 (50.00%) Citrix Certification
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (50.00%) XenApp
1 1 (50.00%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) SCCM
1 1 (50.00%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Citrix
1 1 (50.00%) ServiceNow
1 1 (50.00%) Workday