Fat Client Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Fat Client
Central London > City of London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Fat Client in contract job vacancies in the City of London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Fat Client over the 6 months leading up to 23 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 126 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Fat Client 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.11% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.29% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £503 - -
25th Percentile £506 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 - -
75th Percentile £556 - -
90th Percentile £568 - -
Central London median daily rate £525 - -

All Generic Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 701 644 791
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 38.08% 31.32% 31.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 517 406 520
10th Percentile £347 £363 £300
25th Percentile £425 £474 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £595
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +0.84% -0.83%
75th Percentile £688 £706 £725
90th Percentile £788 £825 £825
Central London median daily rate £550 £590 £595
% change year-on-year -6.78% -0.84% -0.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 1 9
10th Percentile £18.97 - -
25th Percentile £20.56 £77.50 £17.00
Median hourly rate £27.75 £85.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -67.35% +240.00% -47.09%
75th Percentile £37.44 £92.50 £36.50
90th Percentile £41.81 - £52.15
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £55.40 £24.00
% change year-on-year -52.87% +130.81% -44.19%

Fat Client
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Fat Client job vacancy trend in the City of London

Fat Client
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

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

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

Fat Client
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

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

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

Fat Client
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (50.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
1 1 (50.00%) LAN
1 1 (50.00%) WAN
1 1 (50.00%) Wi-Fi
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Linux Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Subject Matter Expert
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Thin Client
2 1 (50.00%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
2 1 (50.00%) Windows
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Business Continuity
1 1 (50.00%) Business Strategy
1 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (50.00%) Data Centre Operations
1 1 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (50.00%) Information Security
1 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (50.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 1 (50.00%) Project Delivery
1 1 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (50.00%) Runbook
1 1 (50.00%) Tech Ops
1 1 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Bash
1 1 (50.00%) Python
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (50.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco
1 1 (50.00%) Citrix
1 1 (50.00%) Infoblox
1 1 (50.00%) Palo Alto
1 1 (50.00%) VMware