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 advertised in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Client/Server over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 483 528 661
Rank change year-on-year +45 +133 -102
Contract jobs citing Client/Server 55 127 123
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.15% 0.25% 0.17%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.48% 0.75% 0.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 81 86
10th Percentile £345 £403 £400
25th Percentile £375 £513 £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £618 £600
Median % change year-on-year -15.05% +3.00% +29.03%
75th Percentile £583 £750 £725
90th Percentile £595 - £788
UK median daily rate £550 £612 £600
% change year-on-year -10.13% +2.00% +29.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 13 15
10th Percentile - £70.25 £40.95
25th Percentile - £71.25 £48.13
Median hourly rate £40.00 £75.00 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year -46.67% - +29.31%
75th Percentile £43.43 - -
90th Percentile £75.00 £164.75 -
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £75.00 £65.54
% change year-on-year -46.67% +14.43% +13.00%

All Generic Skills
England

Client/Server is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 11,373 16,983 24,061
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 30.76% 33.65% 33.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,428 11,801 17,096
10th Percentile £263 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £675 £695 £675
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 820 591 641
10th Percentile £12.25 £9.80 £14.25
25th Percentile £15.16 £10.63 £16.50
Median hourly rate £30.00 £22.50 £26.98
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -16.60% +2.08%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £65.77
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £22.49 £27.50
% change year-on-year +28.97% -18.24% +3.19%

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 28 April 2024.

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
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Client/Server in England over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram 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 28 April 2024. 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
South East +11 21 £550 -10.17% 30
London +63 19 £400 -46.67% 93
South West +21 8 - - 2
North of England +25 5 £278 -47.14% 14
Yorkshire +22 3 £375 -43.40% 1
West Midlands +29 2 £500 -37.50%
Midlands +25 2 £500 -37.50% 4
North West +16 1 - - 8
North East - 1 £180 - 7
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 8 (14.55%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (7.27%) OpenStack
3 2 (3.64%) Confluence
3 2 (3.64%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (1.82%) OpenEdge
4 1 (1.82%) Site Server
Applications
1 2 (3.64%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.82%) Acrobat
Business Applications
1 1 (1.82%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (1.82%) Dynamics NAV
1 1 (1.82%) MFGPRO
1 1 (1.82%) Sage 50
Cloud Services
1 21 (38.18%) Azure
2 15 (27.27%) Azure DevOps
3 7 (12.73%) PaaS
3 7 (12.73%) SaaS
4 6 (10.91%) AWS
5 5 (9.09%) Microsoft 365
6 4 (7.27%) Cloud Computing
6 4 (7.27%) Entra ID
6 4 (7.27%) IaaS
7 3 (5.45%) Azure Storage
8 1 (1.82%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (1.82%) OCI
8 1 (1.82%) Power Platform
8 1 (1.82%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 14 (25.45%) DHCP
1 14 (25.45%) DNS
2 13 (23.64%) Wi-Fi
3 11 (20.00%) LAN
3 11 (20.00%) WAN
4 10 (18.18%) SAN
5 8 (14.55%) MPLS
6 7 (12.73%) Firewall
7 2 (3.64%) NAS
8 1 (1.82%) Kerberos
8 1 (1.82%) NetScaler
8 1 (1.82%) TCP/IP
8 1 (1.82%) VoIP
8 1 (1.82%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (41.82%) SQL Server
2 4 (7.27%) MongoDB
2 4 (7.27%) MySQL
2 4 (7.27%) NoSQL
3 2 (3.64%) CouchDB
3 2 (3.64%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (3.64%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (10.91%) JIRA
1 6 (10.91%) Robot Framework
1 6 (10.91%) Selenium
1 6 (10.91%) Visual Studio
2 5 (9.09%) MSI
2 5 (9.09%) WiX
3 2 (3.64%) Bitbucket
3 2 (3.64%) Git
3 2 (3.64%) GitLab
3 2 (3.64%) Subversion
General
1 22 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
2 17 (30.91%) Social Skills
3 8 (14.55%) Aerospace
4 4 (7.27%) Telecoms
5 2 (3.64%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.82%) Back Office
6 1 (1.82%) Banking
6 1 (1.82%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.82%) Finance
6 1 (1.82%) Legal
6 1 (1.82%) Marketing
6 1 (1.82%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.82%) Russian Language
Job Titles
1 15 (27.27%) Analyst
2 10 (18.18%) Infrastructure Analyst
3 8 (14.55%) IT Analyst
3 8 (14.55%) IT Infrastructure Analyst
3 8 (14.55%) Software Engineer
4 5 (9.09%) Applications Engineer
4 5 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 5 (9.09%) Solutions Analyst
5 4 (7.27%) IT Engineer
5 4 (7.27%) Senior
5 4 (7.27%) Support Engineer
6 3 (5.45%) Application Integration Engineer
6 3 (5.45%) Applications Packager
6 3 (5.45%) Integration Engineer
6 3 (5.45%) Senior Software Engineer
7 2 (3.64%) DV Cleared Application Packager
7 2 (3.64%) Environment Manager
7 2 (3.64%) Microsoft Engineer
7 2 (3.64%) Product Owner
7 2 (3.64%) Technical Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (14.55%) .NET
2 7 (12.73%) REST
3 6 (10.91%) JSON
3 6 (10.91%) LDAP
3 6 (10.91%) Node.js
3 6 (10.91%) XML
4 5 (9.09%) ASP.NET
4 5 (9.09%) ASP.NET Web API
4 5 (9.09%) Entity Framework
4 5 (9.09%) LINQ
4 5 (9.09%) NHibernate
4 5 (9.09%) XSLT
5 3 (5.45%) AngularJS
5 3 (5.45%) CSS
5 3 (5.45%) HTML
6 2 (3.64%) Apache NiFi
6 2 (3.64%) Elastic Stack
6 2 (3.64%) React
6 2 (3.64%) Vue
6 2 (3.64%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 12 (21.82%) Data Centre
2 11 (20.00%) Clustering
3 5 (9.09%) Algorithms
3 5 (9.09%) Data Structures
3 5 (9.09%) Web 2.0
4 2 (3.64%) Fat Client
4 2 (3.64%) Product Ownership
4 2 (3.64%) Thin Client
5 1 (1.82%) CMDB
5 1 (1.82%) Embedded Systems
5 1 (1.82%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.82%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.82%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.82%) LIMS
5 1 (1.82%) Operational Technology
5 1 (1.82%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 44 (80.00%) Windows
2 27 (49.09%) Linux
3 24 (43.64%) Windows Server
4 19 (34.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 11 (20.00%) Unix
6 4 (7.27%) Windows Server 2012
7 2 (3.64%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (3.64%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (1.82%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (47.27%) Application Packaging
2 23 (41.82%) DevOps
3 21 (38.18%) Agile
4 18 (32.73%) Application Virtualisation
5 15 (27.27%) Scaled Agile Framework
6 13 (23.64%) Software Engineering
7 12 (21.82%) Migration
7 12 (21.82%) Release Management
8 11 (20.00%) Capacity Management
8 11 (20.00%) Test Automation
9 10 (18.18%) Decision-Making
10 9 (16.36%) Data Protection
10 9 (16.36%) Server Management
11 8 (14.55%) Asset Management
11 8 (14.55%) Business Transformation
11 8 (14.55%) Capacity Planning
11 8 (14.55%) Data Migration
11 8 (14.55%) Network Management
11 8 (14.55%) Problem-Solving
11 8 (14.55%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 28 (50.91%) PowerShell
2 22 (40.00%) Python
3 19 (34.55%) VBScript
4 17 (30.91%) SQL
5 11 (20.00%) C#
6 5 (9.09%) C
6 5 (9.09%) Java
6 5 (9.09%) T-SQL
7 4 (7.27%) Go
7 4 (7.27%) JavaScript
8 3 (5.45%) C++
9 2 (3.64%) Bash
9 2 (3.64%) Shell Script
9 2 (3.64%) TypeScript
10 1 (1.82%) Ada
10 1 (1.82%) Perl
10 1 (1.82%) VB
Qualifications
1 23 (41.82%) Security Cleared
2 20 (36.36%) DV Cleared
3 19 (34.55%) Degree
4 2 (3.64%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.45%) SLA
2 1 (1.82%) QA
System Software
1 31 (56.36%) VMware Infrastructure
2 12 (21.82%) Active Directory
3 8 (14.55%) Virtual Servers
3 8 (14.55%) VMware Workstation
4 6 (10.91%) Docker
5 3 (5.45%) Hyper-V
6 2 (3.64%) VirtualBox
6 2 (3.64%) vSphere
7 1 (1.82%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (1.82%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 8 (14.55%) Microsoft Clustering
1 8 (14.55%) Nagios
1 8 (14.55%) NetBackup
1 8 (14.55%) SCCM
2 4 (7.27%) Kubernetes
3 3 (5.45%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (3.64%) WSUS
5 1 (1.82%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (1.82%) FortiGate
5 1 (1.82%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (1.82%) WMI
Vendors
1 33 (60.00%) VMware
2 9 (16.36%) Microsoft
2 9 (16.36%) NetApp
3 8 (14.55%) Hitachi
4 3 (5.45%) ArcSight
4 3 (5.45%) CA
4 3 (5.45%) Oracle
5 2 (3.64%) HP
6 1 (1.82%) Adobe
6 1 (1.82%) Aruba
6 1 (1.82%) Cisco
6 1 (1.82%) Citrix
6 1 (1.82%) Compaq
6 1 (1.82%) Facebook
6 1 (1.82%) Fortinet
6 1 (1.82%) Progress
6 1 (1.82%) QAD
6 1 (1.82%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.82%) Sophos
6 1 (1.82%) Twitter