Client/Server Contract Job Trends in England

Client Server
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Client/Server in contract job vacancies in England. 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 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 515 478 504
Rank change year-on-year -37 +26 +128
Contract jobs citing Client/Server 20 35 75
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.067% 0.11% 0.19%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.18% 0.36% 0.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 32 48
10th Percentile £367 £333 £359
25th Percentile £488 £409 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £555 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year +0.91% +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £625 £599 £616
90th Percentile £659 £668 £681
UK median daily rate £530 £550 £495
% change year-on-year -3.64% +11.11% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 7
10th Percentile - - £40.82
25th Percentile - £71.25 £45.35
Median hourly rate £21.25 £72.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -70.69% +20.83% +5.52%
75th Percentile - £73.75 £67.55
90th Percentile - - £71.00
UK median hourly rate £21.25 £72.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year -70.69% +20.83% +5.52%

All Generic Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 10,821 9,766 12,904
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 36.38% 31.24% 32.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,767 5,850 8,809
10th Percentile £286 £294 £281
25th Percentile £408 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% -2.22%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 591 296 464
10th Percentile £14.34 £16.49 £17.15
25th Percentile £18.50 £23.75 £21.31
Median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £44.75
Median % change year-on-year -41.05% +6.15% +65.86%
75th Percentile £50.88 £70.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £73.00 £75.16 £77.85
UK median hourly rate £27.00 £40.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -32.50% -10.11% +64.94%

Client/Server
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Client/Server job vacancy trend in England

Client/Server
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Client/Server.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Client/Server

Client/Server
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Client/Server in England over the 6 months to 7 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Client/Server in England

Client/Server
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Client/Server.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Client/Server

Client/Server
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Client/Server within the England region over the 6 months to 7 November 2025. 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
London -3 7 £530 +32.50% 91
Midlands - 7 £600 - 4
West Midlands - 6 £600 - 2
South East -7 3 £500 -13.79% 96
Yorkshire - 2 - -
North of England - 2 - - 59
East Midlands - 1 - - 2
Client/Server
UK

Client/Server
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (5.00%) CMS
1 1 (5.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (5.00%) InVision
1 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (5.00%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 4 (20.00%) AWS
1 4 (20.00%) Azure
2 2 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (10.00%) OpenShift
3 1 (5.00%) Adobe Creative Cloud
3 1 (5.00%) Entra ID
3 1 (5.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (10.00%) Cisco IPT
1 2 (10.00%) Kerberos
2 1 (5.00%) Asterisk PBX
2 1 (5.00%) Cisco ASA
2 1 (5.00%) Cisco Firepower
2 1 (5.00%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
2 1 (5.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
2 1 (5.00%) HTTP
2 1 (5.00%) LAN
2 1 (5.00%) NAS
2 1 (5.00%) Network Security
2 1 (5.00%) NX-OS
2 1 (5.00%) SAN
2 1 (5.00%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.00%) Metadata
1 1 (5.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (5.00%) RDBMS
1 1 (5.00%) Redis
1 1 (5.00%) Relational Database
1 1 (5.00%) SAP HANA
1 1 (5.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (15.00%) Cucumber
1 3 (15.00%) Git
1 3 (15.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (10.00%) Eclipse
2 2 (10.00%) IntelliJ
2 2 (10.00%) Maven
3 1 (5.00%) Bitbucket
3 1 (5.00%) Cypress.io
3 1 (5.00%) JIRA
3 1 (5.00%) Mocha
3 1 (5.00%) REST Assured
3 1 (5.00%) Selenium
3 1 (5.00%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 4 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (15.00%) Documentation Skills
2 3 (15.00%) Legal
3 2 (10.00%) Electronics
3 2 (10.00%) Finance
3 2 (10.00%) Front Office
4 1 (5.00%) Automotive
4 1 (5.00%) Banking
4 1 (5.00%) Marketing
4 1 (5.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (25.00%) Developer
2 3 (15.00%) Application Integration Engineer
2 3 (15.00%) Applications Engineer
2 3 (15.00%) Consultant
2 3 (15.00%) Integration Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) 2nd Line Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) 2nd Line Support
3 2 (10.00%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) Lead
3 2 (10.00%) Support Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) UI Developer
4 1 (5.00%) ABAP Developer
4 1 (5.00%) Analyst
4 1 (5.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 1 (5.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Network Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Senior Developer
4 1 (5.00%) Senior Front-End Developer
4 1 (5.00%) Technical Consultant
4 1 (5.00%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (15.00%) .NET
1 3 (15.00%) REST
1 3 (15.00%) RESTful
1 3 (15.00%) Web Services
2 2 (10.00%) AWT
2 2 (10.00%) JavaFX
2 2 (10.00%) Jest
2 2 (10.00%) JPA
2 2 (10.00%) Node.js
2 2 (10.00%) React
2 2 (10.00%) Spring
2 2 (10.00%) Spring Boot
2 2 (10.00%) Swing
3 1 (5.00%) .NET Core
3 1 (5.00%) BAPI
3 1 (5.00%) CSS
3 1 (5.00%) FreeSWITCH
3 1 (5.00%) HTML
3 1 (5.00%) SAP Smart Forms
3 1 (5.00%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.00%) NHS
1 2 (10.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (5.00%) PACS
2 1 (5.00%) Replication
2 1 (5.00%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 5 (25.00%) Linux
1 5 (25.00%) Windows
2 4 (20.00%) Windows Server
3 3 (15.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (5.00%) CentOS
4 1 (5.00%) Ubuntu
4 1 (5.00%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (40.00%) Agile
2 5 (25.00%) BDD
2 5 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 4 (20.00%) CI/CD
3 4 (20.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
3 4 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 3 (15.00%) Acceptance Criteria
4 3 (15.00%) Application Packaging
4 3 (15.00%) Incident Response
4 3 (15.00%) Reverse Engineering
4 3 (15.00%) Scrum
4 3 (15.00%) TDD
4 3 (15.00%) Test Automation
5 2 (10.00%) Architecture Governance
5 2 (10.00%) DevSecOps
5 2 (10.00%) Epics
5 2 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (10.00%) Release Train
5 2 (10.00%) SAFe Practitioner
5 2 (10.00%) Systems Thinking
Programming Languages
1 5 (25.00%) PowerShell
2 4 (20.00%) Python
2 4 (20.00%) SQL
3 3 (15.00%) Java
3 3 (15.00%) JavaScript
3 3 (15.00%) VBScript
4 2 (10.00%) TypeScript
5 1 (5.00%) ABAP
5 1 (5.00%) C#
5 1 (5.00%) C++
5 1 (5.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (20.00%) Degree
1 4 (20.00%) DV Cleared
1 4 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.00%) CCNP
2 1 (5.00%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (5.00%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.00%) Accessibility
1 2 (10.00%) GDPR
1 2 (10.00%) PERC
2 1 (5.00%) WCAG
System Software
1 4 (20.00%) Docker
2 2 (10.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (5.00%) Hyper-V
3 1 (5.00%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 2 (10.00%) Ansible
2 1 (5.00%) FortiGate
2 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (5.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 5 (25.00%) VMware
2 3 (15.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (10.00%) ArcSight
3 2 (10.00%) Oracle
4 1 (5.00%) Adobe
4 1 (5.00%) Arista
4 1 (5.00%) Cisco
4 1 (5.00%) F5
4 1 (5.00%) Fortinet
4 1 (5.00%) iManage
4 1 (5.00%) SAP
4 1 (5.00%) ServiceNow
4 1 (5.00%) Veeam
4 1 (5.00%) Veritas