Fat Client Contract Job Trends in the East of England

Fat Client
England > East of England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Fat Client in contract job vacancies in the East of England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Fat Client over the 6 months leading up to 8 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 109 - 110
Rank change year-on-year - - +19
Contract jobs citing Fat Client 2 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.11% - 0.10%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.36% - 0.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £240 - -
25th Percentile £263 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £300 - -
75th Percentile £338 - -
90th Percentile £360 - -
England median daily rate £425 £173 £385
% change year-on-year +146.38% -55.19% +67.39%

All Generic Skills
East of England

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 East of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 560 447 602
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 30.12% 42.94% 31.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 290 249 323
10th Percentile £195 £250 £186
25th Percentile £313 £396 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +2.56% +8.33%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £560
90th Percentile £713 £700 £671
England median daily rate £513 £549 £545
% change year-on-year -6.57% +0.65% -5.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 105 68 135
10th Percentile £13.50 £16.95 £13.77
25th Percentile £15.79 £33.95 £18.00
Median hourly rate £22.50 £67.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -66.67% +22.73% -16.03%
75th Percentile £67.25 £85.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £89.35 £70.00
England median hourly rate £34.00 £34.00 £29.72
% change year-on-year - +14.40% +32.09%

Fat Client
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Fat Client job vacancy trend in the East of England

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Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Fat Client.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Fat Client

Fat Client
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Fat Client in the East of England over the 6 months to 8 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Fat Client in the East of England

Fat Client
Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Fat Client.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Fat Client

Fat Client
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Fat Client within the East of England region over the 6 months to 8 March 2026. 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
Hertfordshire - 2 £300 -
Fat Client
England

Fat Client
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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:

General
1 2 (100.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Support
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Wintel Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Support Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Wintel Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Project Delivery
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (50.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) SCCM
1 1 (50.00%) WSUS
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco
1 2 (100.00%) VMware
2 1 (50.00%) HP