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 27 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 516 449 498
Rank change year-on-year -67 +49 +61
Contract jobs citing Client/Server 27 28 72
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.083% 0.11% 0.19%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.24% 0.32% 0.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 25 40
10th Percentile £406 £379 £374
25th Percentile £416 £519 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £504
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +9.18% -16.04%
75th Percentile £633 £588 £578
90th Percentile £682 £645 £681
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +9.95% -16.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 14
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £71.25 £40.00
Median hourly rate £89.00 £72.50 £41.92
Median % change year-on-year +22.76% +72.96% -31.20%
75th Percentile - £73.75 £49.13
90th Percentile - - £70.25
UK median hourly rate £89.00 £72.50 £41.92
% change year-on-year +22.76% +72.96% -35.51%

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 11,314 8,625 11,748
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.75% 32.81% 31.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,221 5,178 7,823
10th Percentile £281 £268 £255
25th Percentile £406 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £668
90th Percentile £738 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £527 £538
% change year-on-year -5.08% -2.00% -3.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 552 242 676
10th Percentile £15.25 £18.51 £14.00
25th Percentile £18.50 £24.18 £17.70
Median hourly rate £30.30 £37.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.19% +7.14% +55.66%
75th Percentile £63.43 £67.76 £60.00
90th Percentile £74.64 £83.20 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £28.13 £35.00 £34.61
% change year-on-year -19.64% +1.14% +53.90%

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 27 January 2026.

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 27 January 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
London -9 15 £475 -13.64% 31
South East -35 7 £595 +5.78% 29
South West -15 2 £475 -51.28% 1
West Midlands -32 2 £603 +33.89% 2
Midlands -52 2 £603 +33.89% 3
Yorkshire -46 1 - - 1
North of England -56 1 - - 13
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 3 (11.11%) Appian
1 3 (11.11%) IIS
1 3 (11.11%) JBoss
1 3 (11.11%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 3 (11.11%) Tomcat
1 3 (11.11%) WebLogic
2 1 (3.70%) Apache
2 1 (3.70%) CMS
2 1 (3.70%) Confluence
Applications
1 7 (25.93%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (14.81%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (3.70%) Magento
1 1 (3.70%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 9 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
2 7 (25.93%) Azure
3 4 (14.81%) AWS
4 2 (7.41%) Google Workspace
5 1 (3.70%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (3.70%) BigCommerce
5 1 (3.70%) GCP
5 1 (3.70%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (14.81%) Cisco IPT
1 4 (14.81%) NetScaler
2 3 (11.11%) LAN
3 2 (7.41%) DMZ
3 2 (7.41%) Firewall
3 2 (7.41%) TCP/IP
3 2 (7.41%) VPN
4 1 (3.70%) Asterisk PBX
4 1 (3.70%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (18.52%) Relational Database
2 4 (14.81%) SQL Server
3 3 (11.11%) Oracle Database
4 2 (7.41%) Redis
4 2 (7.41%) SAP HANA
5 1 (3.70%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (3.70%) MySQL
5 1 (3.70%) NoSQL
5 1 (3.70%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 1 (3.70%) Artifactory
1 1 (3.70%) Bitbucket
1 1 (3.70%) Cucumber
1 1 (3.70%) GitLab
1 1 (3.70%) Jenkins
1 1 (3.70%) JIRA
1 1 (3.70%) Mocha
1 1 (3.70%) REST Assured
1 1 (3.70%) Selenium
General
1 7 (25.93%) Social Skills
2 6 (22.22%) Documentation Skills
2 6 (22.22%) Finance
3 5 (18.52%) Banking
4 4 (14.81%) Legal
5 3 (11.11%) Electronics
6 2 (7.41%) Front Office
6 2 (7.41%) Investment Banking
6 2 (7.41%) Public Sector
6 2 (7.41%) Telecoms
7 1 (3.70%) Automotive
7 1 (3.70%) Retail
7 1 (3.70%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 7 (25.93%) Developer
2 6 (22.22%) Architect
3 5 (18.52%) Consultant
4 4 (14.81%) 3rd Line Support
4 4 (14.81%) Citrix Support
5 3 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (11.11%) Lead
5 3 (11.11%) Technology Consultant
5 3 (11.11%) VMware Engineer
5 3 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (11.11%) Windows Engineer
5 3 (11.11%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (7.41%) ABAP Developer
6 2 (7.41%) Appian Architect
6 2 (7.41%) Lead Architect
6 2 (7.41%) Lead Developer
6 2 (7.41%) SAP Developer
6 2 (7.41%) Senior
6 2 (7.41%) Senior Developer
6 2 (7.41%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (29.63%) REST
2 6 (22.22%) SOAP
3 5 (18.52%) Web Services
4 3 (11.11%) CSS
4 3 (11.11%) HTML
5 2 (7.41%) BAPI
5 2 (7.41%) Node.js
5 2 (7.41%) SAP Smart Forms
6 1 (3.70%) .NET
6 1 (3.70%) AngularJS
6 1 (3.70%) Apache NiFi
6 1 (3.70%) Express.js
6 1 (3.70%) FreeSWITCH
6 1 (3.70%) Jest
6 1 (3.70%) RabbitMQ
6 1 (3.70%) React
6 1 (3.70%) RESTful
6 1 (3.70%) VML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (11.11%) Enterprise Software
1 3 (11.11%) N-Tier
1 3 (11.11%) Product Ownership
1 3 (11.11%) Replication
2 2 (7.41%) Onboarding
3 1 (3.70%) Cloud Native
3 1 (3.70%) CMDB
3 1 (3.70%) Marketing Technology
3 1 (3.70%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 13 (48.15%) Windows
2 7 (25.93%) Windows Server 2016
3 6 (22.22%) Linux
3 6 (22.22%) Windows Server
4 4 (14.81%) Windows 10
4 4 (14.81%) Windows Server 2019
5 3 (11.11%) Ubuntu
6 2 (7.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (3.70%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (55.56%) Agile
2 7 (25.93%) CI/CD
2 7 (25.93%) Scaled Agile Framework
3 6 (22.22%) Epics
4 5 (18.52%) Acceptance Criteria
4 5 (18.52%) BDD
4 5 (18.52%) E-Commerce
4 5 (18.52%) SDLC
4 5 (18.52%) Test Automation
5 4 (14.81%) Change Management
5 4 (14.81%) Continuous Improvement
5 4 (14.81%) Data Engineering
5 4 (14.81%) Data Protection
5 4 (14.81%) DevSecOps
5 4 (14.81%) Identity Management
5 4 (14.81%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 4 (14.81%) ITIL
5 4 (14.81%) Privacy Engineering
5 4 (14.81%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (14.81%) Release Train
Programming Languages
1 9 (33.33%) SQL
2 7 (25.93%) PowerShell
3 3 (11.11%) JavaScript
3 3 (11.11%) Python
4 2 (7.41%) ABAP
5 1 (3.70%) C#
5 1 (3.70%) PHP
5 1 (3.70%) TypeScript
5 1 (3.70%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 9 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 8 (29.63%) Degree
3 5 (18.52%) DV Cleared
4 4 (14.81%) CCA
4 4 (14.81%) Citrix Certification
4 4 (14.81%) SC Cleared
5 1 (3.70%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (3.70%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 1 (3.70%) MCSA
5 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (14.81%) GDPR
1 4 (14.81%) PERC
2 1 (3.70%) Accessibility
2 1 (3.70%) WCAG
System Software
1 4 (14.81%) Docker
1 4 (14.81%) Hyper-V
1 4 (14.81%) XenApp
1 4 (14.81%) XenDesktop
2 3 (11.11%) Active Directory
2 3 (11.11%) Virtual Desktop
2 3 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (3.70%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 9 (33.33%) SCCM
2 4 (14.81%) SCVMM
3 3 (11.11%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (3.70%) Ansible
4 1 (3.70%) Kubernetes
4 1 (3.70%) Terraform
4 1 (3.70%) WSUS
Vendors
1 6 (22.22%) Citrix
1 6 (22.22%) Microsoft
2 4 (14.81%) Oracle
2 4 (14.81%) VMware
3 3 (11.11%) SAP
3 3 (11.11%) Veeam
4 2 (7.41%) Bloomberg
4 2 (7.41%) ION Trading
4 2 (7.41%) Red Hat
4 2 (7.41%) Reuters
4 2 (7.41%) ServiceNow
5 1 (3.70%) Adobe
5 1 (3.70%) ArcSight
5 1 (3.70%) Salesforce
5 1 (3.70%) Sitecore