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

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 514 472 476
Rank change year-on-year -42 +4 +135
Contract jobs citing Client/Server 28 29 64
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.088% 0.10% 0.18%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.25% 0.32% 0.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 25 41
10th Percentile £406 £379 £363
25th Percentile £463 £519 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £550 £501
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +9.78% -16.50%
75th Percentile £640 £600 £615
90th Percentile £682 £645 £681
UK median daily rate £553 £550 £500
% change year-on-year +0.45% +9.95% -16.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 6
10th Percentile - - £40.82
25th Percentile - £71.25 £43.09
Median hourly rate £89.00 £72.50 £54.94
Median % change year-on-year +22.76% +31.96% -3.38%
75th Percentile - £73.75 £65.08
90th Percentile - - £68.80
UK median hourly rate £89.00 £72.50 £54.94
% change year-on-year +22.76% +31.96% -3.38%

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 11,201 9,115 11,499
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.33% 32.43% 31.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,089 5,491 7,761
10th Percentile £287 £275 £263
25th Percentile £409 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% - -3.51%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £784 £775
UK median daily rate £501 £526 £550
% change year-on-year -4.75% -4.36% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 546 262 479
10th Percentile £14.25 £17.25 £16.25
25th Percentile £18.50 £23.90 £20.50
Median hourly rate £29.00 £36.25 £43.75
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% -17.14% +32.58%
75th Percentile £63.26 £66.38 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £82.25 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £27.36 £33.54 £42.40
% change year-on-year -18.44% -20.90% +34.61%

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 1 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 1 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 -7 13 £500 +2.56% 28
South East -15 5 £595 +3.48% 15
West Midlands - 5 £603 - 2
Midlands - 5 £603 - 4
South West -7 2 £475 -51.28% 1
Yorkshire -52 2 - - 1
North of England -55 2 - - 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 2 (7.14%) CMS
2 1 (3.57%) Apache
2 1 (3.57%) Confluence
Applications
1 6 (21.43%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (10.71%) MS Visio
3 1 (3.57%) InVision
3 1 (3.57%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 1 (3.57%) Magento
1 1 (3.57%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 8 (28.57%) Azure
2 7 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (14.29%) AWS
4 2 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (3.57%) Adobe Creative Cloud
5 1 (3.57%) BigCommerce
5 1 (3.57%) Entra ID
5 1 (3.57%) GCP
5 1 (3.57%) Google Workspace
5 1 (3.57%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (14.29%) Cisco IPT
2 3 (10.71%) LAN
2 3 (10.71%) NetScaler
3 1 (3.57%) Asterisk PBX
3 1 (3.57%) DMZ
3 1 (3.57%) Firewall
3 1 (3.57%) NAS
3 1 (3.57%) SAN
3 1 (3.57%) TCP/IP
3 1 (3.57%) VoIP
3 1 (3.57%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (14.29%) SQL Server
2 2 (7.14%) Redis
2 2 (7.14%) Relational Database
2 2 (7.14%) SAP HANA
3 1 (3.57%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (3.57%) Metadata
3 1 (3.57%) MySQL
3 1 (3.57%) NoSQL
3 1 (3.57%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 1 (3.57%) Artifactory
1 1 (3.57%) Bitbucket
1 1 (3.57%) Cucumber
1 1 (3.57%) Cypress.io
1 1 (3.57%) Git
1 1 (3.57%) GitLab
1 1 (3.57%) Jenkins
1 1 (3.57%) JIRA
1 1 (3.57%) Mocha
1 1 (3.57%) REST Assured
1 1 (3.57%) Selenium
1 1 (3.57%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 7 (25.00%) Documentation Skills
2 6 (21.43%) Social Skills
3 5 (17.86%) Finance
3 5 (17.86%) Legal
4 4 (14.29%) Banking
5 3 (10.71%) Electronics
5 3 (10.71%) Public Sector
6 1 (3.57%) Automotive
6 1 (3.57%) Front Office
6 1 (3.57%) Investment Banking
6 1 (3.57%) Marketing
6 1 (3.57%) Retail
6 1 (3.57%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 6 (21.43%) Consultant
2 5 (17.86%) Developer
3 3 (10.71%) 3rd Line Support
3 3 (10.71%) Application Integration Engineer
3 3 (10.71%) Applications Engineer
3 3 (10.71%) Architect
3 3 (10.71%) Citrix Support
3 3 (10.71%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (10.71%) Integration Engineer
3 3 (10.71%) Technology Consultant
3 3 (10.71%) VMware Engineer
3 3 (10.71%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (10.71%) Windows Engineer
3 3 (10.71%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (7.14%) ABAP Developer
4 2 (7.14%) Analyst
4 2 (7.14%) Lead
4 2 (7.14%) SAP Developer
4 2 (7.14%) Solutions Architect
4 2 (7.14%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (21.43%) REST
2 3 (10.71%) .NET
2 3 (10.71%) CSS
2 3 (10.71%) HTML
2 3 (10.71%) SOAP
3 2 (7.14%) BAPI
3 2 (7.14%) Jest
3 2 (7.14%) Node.js
3 2 (7.14%) React
3 2 (7.14%) SAP Smart Forms
3 2 (7.14%) Web Services
4 1 (3.57%) .NET Core
4 1 (3.57%) AngularJS
4 1 (3.57%) Apache NiFi
4 1 (3.57%) Express.js
4 1 (3.57%) FreeSWITCH
4 1 (3.57%) Next.js
4 1 (3.57%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (3.57%) RESTful
4 1 (3.57%) VML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (10.71%) Product Ownership
1 3 (10.71%) Replication
2 1 (3.57%) Cloud Native
2 1 (3.57%) CMDB
2 1 (3.57%) Marketing Technology
2 1 (3.57%) Onboarding
2 1 (3.57%) PACS
2 1 (3.57%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 13 (46.43%) Windows
2 8 (28.57%) Linux
2 8 (28.57%) Windows Server
3 6 (21.43%) Windows Server 2016
4 4 (14.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (10.71%) Ubuntu
5 3 (10.71%) Windows 10
5 3 (10.71%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (3.57%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (42.86%) Agile
2 8 (28.57%) Scaled Agile Framework
3 7 (25.00%) CI/CD
4 6 (21.43%) Epics
5 5 (17.86%) Acceptance Criteria
5 5 (17.86%) BDD
5 5 (17.86%) E-Commerce
5 5 (17.86%) SDLC
5 5 (17.86%) Test Automation
6 4 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
6 4 (14.29%) Data Engineering
6 4 (14.29%) Data Pipeline
6 4 (14.29%) Data Protection
6 4 (14.29%) DevOps
6 4 (14.29%) DevSecOps
6 4 (14.29%) Event-Driven
6 4 (14.29%) Identity Management
6 4 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 4 (14.29%) Privacy Engineering
6 4 (14.29%) Release Train
Programming Languages
1 9 (32.14%) PowerShell
2 7 (25.00%) SQL
3 5 (17.86%) Python
4 4 (14.29%) JavaScript
5 3 (10.71%) VBScript
6 2 (7.14%) ABAP
6 2 (7.14%) TypeScript
7 1 (3.57%) C#
7 1 (3.57%) C++
7 1 (3.57%) Java
7 1 (3.57%) PHP
7 1 (3.57%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (35.71%) Security Cleared
2 8 (28.57%) Degree
3 7 (25.00%) DV Cleared
4 3 (10.71%) CCA
4 3 (10.71%) Citrix Certification
4 3 (10.71%) SC Cleared
5 2 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (3.57%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (3.57%) Master's Degree
6 1 (3.57%) MCSA
6 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (14.29%) GDPR
1 4 (14.29%) PERC
2 2 (7.14%) Accessibility
3 1 (3.57%) WCAG
System Software
1 4 (14.29%) Active Directory
1 4 (14.29%) Docker
1 4 (14.29%) Hyper-V
1 4 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (10.71%) Virtual Desktop
2 3 (10.71%) XenApp
2 3 (10.71%) XenDesktop
3 1 (3.57%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 7 (25.00%) SCCM
2 3 (10.71%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (10.71%) SCVMM
3 1 (3.57%) Ansible
3 1 (3.57%) Kubernetes
3 1 (3.57%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (25.00%) Microsoft
1 7 (25.00%) VMware
2 4 (14.29%) Citrix
3 3 (10.71%) SAP
3 3 (10.71%) Veeam
4 2 (7.14%) Adobe
4 2 (7.14%) ArcSight
4 2 (7.14%) Oracle
4 2 (7.14%) Red Hat
4 2 (7.14%) ServiceNow
5 1 (3.57%) Bloomberg
5 1 (3.57%) iManage
5 1 (3.57%) ION Trading
5 1 (3.57%) Reuters
5 1 (3.57%) Salesforce
5 1 (3.57%) Sitecore
5 1 (3.57%) Veritas