Client/Server Contracts 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 2 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 478 495 510
Rank change year-on-year +17 +15 +161
Contract jobs citing Client/Server 16 58 124
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.062% 0.16% 0.26%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.18% 0.51% 0.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 45 82
10th Percentile £298 £312 £378
25th Percentile £367 £375 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £501 £610
Median % change year-on-year -10.18% -17.87% +10.91%
75th Percentile £521 £583 £750
90th Percentile £535 £595 -
UK median daily rate £450 £501 £588
% change year-on-year -10.18% -14.72% +6.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 11 11
10th Percentile - - £70.00
25th Percentile - - £71.25
Median hourly rate £21.25 £40.00 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year -46.88% -46.67% +29.83%
75th Percentile - £43.43 -
90th Percentile - £75.00 £180.00
UK median hourly rate £21.25 £40.00 £75.00
% change year-on-year -46.88% -46.67% +14.43%

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 8,978 11,424 15,741
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.75% 30.60% 33.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,742 7,357 10,973
10th Percentile £305 £281 £313
25th Percentile £408 £414 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% +2.27%
75th Percentile £660 £675 £695
90th Percentile £788 £825 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 434 839 523
10th Percentile £15.50 £12.25 £9.80
25th Percentile £18.87 £15.39 £11.87
Median hourly rate £32.85 £36.50 £23.50
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +55.32% -11.32%
75th Percentile £60.00 £63.75 £62.98
90th Percentile £80.70 £72.50 £77.25
UK median hourly rate £30.81 £35.65 £22.50
% change year-on-year -13.59% +58.44% -16.60%

Client/Server
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Client/Server as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Client/Server in England

Client/Server
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Client/Server in England.

Daily rate trend for Client/Server in England

Client/Server
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Client/Server in England over the 6 months to 2 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Client/Server in England

Client/Server
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Client/Server in England.

Hourly rate trend for Client/Server in England

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 2 July 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 +22 8 £465 +16.25% 272
Midlands +9 4 £450 +5.88% 23
West Midlands +12 3 £450 +5.88% 6
South East +32 2 £550 -5.17% 112
North of England +10 2 £424 +135.56% 53
North West - 2 £424 - 26
East Midlands - 1 - - 17
Client/Server
UK

Client/Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 2 (12.50%) MQSeries
Cloud Services
1 2 (12.50%) AWS
1 2 (12.50%) OpenShift
2 1 (6.25%) Azure
2 1 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (12.50%) Cisco ASA
1 2 (12.50%) Cisco Firepower
1 2 (12.50%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
1 2 (12.50%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
1 2 (12.50%) HTTP
1 2 (12.50%) Kerberos
1 2 (12.50%) Network Security
1 2 (12.50%) NX-OS
2 1 (6.25%) Firewall
2 1 (6.25%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (6.25%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (18.75%) Relational Database
2 2 (12.50%) RDBMS
3 1 (6.25%) Oracle Database
3 1 (6.25%) Oracle Database 10g
3 1 (6.25%) Oracle Database 11g
3 1 (6.25%) Oracle Database 12c
3 1 (6.25%) SQLPlus
Development Applications
1 2 (12.50%) Cucumber
1 2 (12.50%) Eclipse
1 2 (12.50%) Git
1 2 (12.50%) IntelliJ
1 2 (12.50%) Jenkins
1 2 (12.50%) Maven
2 1 (6.25%) GitLab
2 1 (6.25%) JIRA
2 1 (6.25%) Toad
General
1 4 (25.00%) Front Office
1 4 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (18.75%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (12.50%) Finance
4 1 (6.25%) Banking
4 1 (6.25%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (37.50%) Developer
2 3 (18.75%) 2nd Line Engineer
2 3 (18.75%) 2nd Line Support
2 3 (18.75%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
2 3 (18.75%) Senior
2 3 (18.75%) Senior Developer
2 3 (18.75%) Support Engineer
2 3 (18.75%) UI Developer
3 2 (12.50%) Analyst
3 2 (12.50%) Java Developer
3 2 (12.50%) Java Swing Developer
3 2 (12.50%) Operations Analyst
3 2 (12.50%) Security Analyst
3 2 (12.50%) Security Operations Analyst
3 2 (12.50%) Senior Java Developer
3 2 (12.50%) SOC Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) Desktop Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Desktop Support Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Implementation Specialist
4 1 (6.25%) Oracle Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (25.00%) Swing
2 2 (12.50%) AWT
2 2 (12.50%) JavaFX
2 2 (12.50%) JPA
2 2 (12.50%) Middleware
2 2 (12.50%) Rendezvous
2 2 (12.50%) RESTful
2 2 (12.50%) Spring
2 2 (12.50%) Spring Boot
2 2 (12.50%) Web Services
2 2 (12.50%) XML
3 1 (6.25%) CSS
3 1 (6.25%) HTML
3 1 (6.25%) JSON
3 1 (6.25%) Node.js
3 1 (6.25%) RAML
3 1 (6.25%) React
3 1 (6.25%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (12.50%) Cyber Threat
1 2 (12.50%) Distributed Applications
1 2 (12.50%) Distributed Architecture
1 2 (12.50%) Fixed Income
1 2 (12.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 2 (12.50%) NHS
1 2 (12.50%) Security Operations Centre
2 1 (6.25%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (6.25%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 1 (6.25%) Product Ownership
2 1 (6.25%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 3 (18.75%) Unix
1 3 (18.75%) Windows
2 2 (12.50%) Linux
3 1 (6.25%) Android
3 1 (6.25%) Apple iOS
3 1 (6.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (6.25%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (31.25%) Agile
1 5 (31.25%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (18.75%) Customer Service
2 3 (18.75%) Incident Response
2 3 (18.75%) Performance Tuning
2 3 (18.75%) Security Operations
2 3 (18.75%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (12.50%) BDD
3 2 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (12.50%) Design Patterns
3 2 (12.50%) High Availability
3 2 (12.50%) ITIL
3 2 (12.50%) Low Latency
3 2 (12.50%) Performance Optimisation
3 2 (12.50%) Scrum
3 2 (12.50%) SIEM
3 2 (12.50%) SOAR
3 2 (12.50%) Software Architecture
4 1 (6.25%) Deployment Automation
4 1 (6.25%) Impact Assessments
Programming Languages
1 4 (25.00%) Java
2 3 (18.75%) Python
2 3 (18.75%) SQL
3 2 (12.50%) Bash
3 2 (12.50%) JavaScript
3 2 (12.50%) PowerShell
3 2 (12.50%) Shell Script
4 1 (6.25%) PL/SQL
4 1 (6.25%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 2 (12.50%) CCNP
1 2 (12.50%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (12.50%) Degree
2 1 (6.25%) DV Cleared
2 1 (6.25%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (12.50%) Docker
2 1 (6.25%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (12.50%) Ansible
1 2 (12.50%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 3 (18.75%) Cisco
2 2 (12.50%) Arista
2 2 (12.50%) F5
2 2 (12.50%) Fortinet
2 2 (12.50%) IBM
2 2 (12.50%) Sybase
2 2 (12.50%) TIBCO
2 2 (12.50%) VMware
3 1 (6.25%) Microsoft
3 1 (6.25%) Oracle
3 1 (6.25%) ServiceNow
3 1 (6.25%) Splunk