Client/Server Contract Job Trends in Dunstable

Client Server
Bedfordshire > Dunstable

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Client/Server in contract job vacancies in Dunstable. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Client/Server over the 6 months leading up to 7 November 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

	6 months to 7 Nov 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	5	-	-
Rank change year-on-year	-	-	-
Contract jobs citing Client/Server	4	0	0
As % of all contract jobs in Dunstable	18.18%	-	-
As % of the Miscellaneous category	44.44%	-	-
Number of daily rates quoted	2	0	0
10^th Percentile	-	-	-
25^th Percentile	£375	-	-
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£400	-	-
75^th Percentile	£425	-	-
90^th Percentile	-	-	-
Bedfordshire median daily rate	£400	-	-

All Generic Skills
Dunstable

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 citing generic IT skills in Dunstable.

	6 months to 7 Nov 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Contract vacancies citing generic IT skills	9	3	4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Dunstable	40.91%	42.86%	30.77%
Number of daily rates quoted	3	3	3
10^th Percentile	-	£458	£117
25^th Percentile	£375	£469	£223
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£400	£500	£400
Median % change year-on-year	-20.00%	+25.00%	+14.29%
75^th Percentile	£452	£516	£450
90^th Percentile	£467	£519	£480
Bedfordshire median daily rate	£400	£531	£500
% change year-on-year	-24.71%	+6.25%	-4.76%

Client/Server Job Vacancy Trend in Dunstable

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

Client/Server Top 23 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Dunstable

For the 6 months to 7 November 2026, contractor job vacancies citing Client/Server also mentioned the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Dunstable region citing Client/Server.

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Deployment Automation	100.0%	4
1	High Availability	100.0%	4
1	Linux	100.0%	4
1	Load Balancing	100.0%	4
1	Shell Script	100.0%	4
1	WebLogic	100.0%	4
1	WebLogic Scripting Tool	100.0%	4
1	WebSphere	100.0%	4
1	WebSphere Application Server	100.0%	4
1	Windows	100.0%	4
11	Ansible	50.0%	2
11	Bash	50.0%	2
11	Bitbucket	50.0%	2
11	Data Security	50.0%	2
11	Git	50.0%	2
11	ITIL	50.0%	2
11	Jakarta EE	50.0%	2
11	Jenkins	50.0%	2
11	Middleware	50.0%	2
11	Migration	50.0%	2
11	Performance Tuning	50.0%	2
11	SLA	50.0%	2
11	Tomcat	50.0%	2

Client/Server Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Dunstable by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Miscellaneous

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	SWIFT Messaging Network	50.0%	2