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 18 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 496 502 490
Rank change year-on-year +6 -12 +160
Contract jobs citing Client/Server 16 26 100
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.058% 0.079% 0.24%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.16% 0.26% 0.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 25 62
10th Percentile £358 £312 £351
25th Percentile £425 £396 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% - -
75th Percentile £613 £588 £681
90th Percentile £625 £598 £750
UK median daily rate £519 £513 £532
% change year-on-year +1.22% -3.57% -3.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 13
10th Percentile - - £43.66
25th Percentile - - £55.32
Median hourly rate £21.25 - £72.50
75th Percentile - - £75.00
90th Percentile - - £159.00
UK median hourly rate £21.25 - £71.25
% change year-on-year - - +25.31%

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 9,971 10,152 13,696
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.88% 30.82% 32.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,272 6,271 9,491
10th Percentile £300 £300 £300
25th Percentile £408 £425 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -2.22%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £825 £792
UK median daily rate £515 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -4.63% -1.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 500 414 412
10th Percentile £15.50 £14.61 £17.00
25th Percentile £18.87 £23.80 £21.25
Median hourly rate £33.05 £57.35 £45.88
Median % change year-on-year -42.37% +25.00% +76.46%
75th Percentile £58.75 £70.00 £67.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.16 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £50.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -40.00% +11.11% +69.81%

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
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 18 September 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 18 September 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
Midlands - 7 £600 - 7
West Midlands - 6 £600 - 3
London +15 5 £530 +24.71% 50
North of England - 2 £492 - 27
South East +10 1 £365 -37.07% 44
Yorkshire - 1 - - 3
East Midlands - 1 - - 4
North West - 1 £492 - 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 1 (6.25%) CMS
1 1 (6.25%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (6.25%) InVision
1 1 (6.25%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 2 (12.50%) AWS
1 2 (12.50%) Azure
1 2 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (12.50%) OpenShift
2 1 (6.25%) Adobe Creative Cloud
2 1 (6.25%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 2 (12.50%) Kerberos
2 1 (6.25%) Cisco ASA
2 1 (6.25%) Cisco Firepower
2 1 (6.25%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
2 1 (6.25%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
2 1 (6.25%) HTTP
2 1 (6.25%) NAS
2 1 (6.25%) Network Security
2 1 (6.25%) NX-OS
2 1 (6.25%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.25%) Metadata
1 1 (6.25%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (18.75%) Cucumber
1 3 (18.75%) Git
1 3 (18.75%) Jenkins
2 2 (12.50%) Eclipse
2 2 (12.50%) IntelliJ
2 2 (12.50%) JIRA
2 2 (12.50%) Maven
3 1 (6.25%) Bitbucket
3 1 (6.25%) Cypress.io
3 1 (6.25%) GitLab
3 1 (6.25%) REST Assured
3 1 (6.25%) Selenium
3 1 (6.25%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 3 (18.75%) Documentation Skills
2 2 (12.50%) Front Office
2 2 (12.50%) Social Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Automotive
3 1 (6.25%) Banking
3 1 (6.25%) Finance
3 1 (6.25%) Legal
3 1 (6.25%) Marketing
3 1 (6.25%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (18.75%) Application Integration Engineer
1 3 (18.75%) Applications Engineer
1 3 (18.75%) Developer
1 3 (18.75%) Integration Engineer
1 3 (18.75%) UI Developer
2 2 (12.50%) 2nd Line Engineer
2 2 (12.50%) 2nd Line Support
2 2 (12.50%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
2 2 (12.50%) Support Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Analyst
3 1 (6.25%) Architect
3 1 (6.25%) Consultant
3 1 (6.25%) Designer
3 1 (6.25%) Implementation Specialist
3 1 (6.25%) Network Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Senior Developer
3 1 (6.25%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (6.25%) Technical Consultant
3 1 (6.25%) Tester
3 1 (6.25%) UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (18.75%) .NET
1 3 (18.75%) REST
1 3 (18.75%) RESTful
2 2 (12.50%) AWT
2 2 (12.50%) JavaFX
2 2 (12.50%) JPA
2 2 (12.50%) React
2 2 (12.50%) Spring
2 2 (12.50%) Spring Boot
2 2 (12.50%) Swing
2 2 (12.50%) Web Services
3 1 (6.25%) .NET Core
3 1 (6.25%) CSS
3 1 (6.25%) HTML
3 1 (6.25%) Jest
3 1 (6.25%) JSON
3 1 (6.25%) Next.js
3 1 (6.25%) Node.js
3 1 (6.25%) RAML
3 1 (6.25%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 2 (12.50%) NHS
2 1 (6.25%) PACS
2 1 (6.25%) Product Ownership
2 1 (6.25%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 4 (25.00%) Windows
2 3 (18.75%) Linux
2 3 (18.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (18.75%) Windows Server
3 1 (6.25%) Android
3 1 (6.25%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (37.50%) Agile
2 4 (25.00%) Scrum
3 3 (18.75%) Application Packaging
3 3 (18.75%) Continuous Improvement
3 3 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (18.75%) Reverse Engineering
3 3 (18.75%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (12.50%) BDD
4 2 (12.50%) Customer Service
4 2 (12.50%) DevOps
4 2 (12.50%) ITIL
4 2 (12.50%) Scaled Agile Framework
4 2 (12.50%) SIEM
4 2 (12.50%) Software Architecture
4 2 (12.50%) TDD
4 2 (12.50%) Unit Testing
5 1 (6.25%) Computer Science
5 1 (6.25%) Data Migration
5 1 (6.25%) Integration Testing
5 1 (6.25%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 4 (25.00%) PowerShell
1 4 (25.00%) Python
2 3 (18.75%) Java
2 3 (18.75%) JavaScript
2 3 (18.75%) SQL
2 3 (18.75%) VBScript
3 1 (6.25%) C#
3 1 (6.25%) C++
3 1 (6.25%) T-SQL
3 1 (6.25%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (18.75%) Degree
1 3 (18.75%) DV Cleared
1 3 (18.75%) Security Cleared
2 1 (6.25%) CCNP
2 1 (6.25%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (6.25%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.25%) Accessibility
System Software
1 2 (12.50%) Docker
2 1 (6.25%) Active Directory
2 1 (6.25%) Hyper-V
2 1 (6.25%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (12.50%) Ansible
2 1 (6.25%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 4 (25.00%) VMware
2 2 (12.50%) ArcSight
2 2 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 2 (12.50%) Oracle
3 1 (6.25%) Adobe
3 1 (6.25%) Arista
3 1 (6.25%) Cisco
3 1 (6.25%) F5
3 1 (6.25%) Fortinet
3 1 (6.25%) iManage
3 1 (6.25%) ServiceNow
3 1 (6.25%) Veritas