Fat Client Contracts 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 advertised in the City of London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Fat Client over the 6 months to 13 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 126 172 187
Rank change year-on-year +46 +15 -34
Contract jobs citing Fat Client 1 1 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.046% 0.028% 0.070%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.15% 0.079% 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £313 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £325 £525
Median % change year-on-year +100.00% -38.10% +5.00%
75th Percentile - £338 £538
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median daily rate £650 £325 £525
% change year-on-year +100.00% -38.10% +5.00%

All Generic Skills
City of London

Fat Client is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 673 1,260 1,501
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 31.16% 35.28% 35.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 461 856 1,088
10th Percentile £263 £350 £410
25th Percentile £425 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £625 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +8.65% +4.59%
75th Percentile £700 £750 £700
90th Percentile £838 £857 £808
Central London median daily rate £575 £613 £575
% change year-on-year -6.12% +6.52% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 13 27
10th Percentile £12.75 £17.33 £18.50
25th Percentile £14.38 - £36.75
Median hourly rate £23.00 £35.00 £45.50
Median % change year-on-year -34.29% -23.08% +183.93%
75th Percentile £27.25 £88.30 £60.25
90th Percentile £36.60 - £63.80
Central London median hourly rate £23.00 £35.00 £45.50
% change year-on-year -34.29% -23.08% +153.13%

Fat Client
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Fat Client in the City of London

Fat Client
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Fat Client in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Fat Client in the City of London

Fat Client
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Fat Client in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for Fat Client in the City of London

Fat Client
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) NAS
1 1 (100.00%) SAN
1 1 (100.00%) Skype
General
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Wintel Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Clustering
1 1 (100.00%) PKI
1 1 (100.00%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server 2012
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Database Mirroring
1 1 (100.00%) Key Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (100.00%) VMware NSX
1 1 (100.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Failover Clustering
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Clustering
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
1 1 (100.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) VMware