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 26 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 542 454 492
Rank change year-on-year -88 +38 +51
Contract jobs citing Client/Server 30 22 56
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.075% 0.090% 0.15%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.23% 0.26% 0.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 17 38
10th Percentile - £367 £349
25th Percentile £406 £385 £378
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £492 £538
Median % change year-on-year -3.46% -8.47% -12.64%
75th Percentile £618 £575 £592
90th Percentile £640 £580 £595
UK median daily rate £475 £461 £550
% change year-on-year +3.04% -16.18% -9.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 11
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £89.00 - £40.00
75th Percentile - - £43.43
90th Percentile - - £75.00
UK median hourly rate £89.00 - £40.00
% change year-on-year - - -46.67%

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 13,005 8,348 11,524
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 32.55% 34.12% 30.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,252 5,465 7,530
10th Percentile £305 £300 £263
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £512 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.93% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £800
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 664 325 825
10th Percentile £16.03 £16.49 £12.25
25th Percentile £21.25 £21.25 £15.17
Median hourly rate £45.46 £34.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +33.71% +13.33% +33.33%
75th Percentile £70.00 £65.00 £61.25
90th Percentile £86.00 £83.76 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £45.46 £32.50 £29.50
% change year-on-year +39.88% +10.17% +31.11%

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 26 April 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 26 April 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 -55 22 £450 +24.14% 19
South East -68 4 £690 +25.45% 10
Midlands -56 2 £502 +11.58% 1
West Midlands -56 2 £502 +11.58% 1
South West - 2 £475 - 1
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 (10.00%) Appian
1 3 (10.00%) IIS
1 3 (10.00%) JBoss
1 3 (10.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 3 (10.00%) Tomcat
1 3 (10.00%) WebLogic
2 1 (3.33%) Apache
2 1 (3.33%) CMS
2 1 (3.33%) Tuxedo
Applications
1 8 (26.67%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (16.67%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (3.33%) Magento
1 1 (3.33%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 14 (46.67%) Microsoft 365
2 7 (23.33%) Azure
3 4 (13.33%) Google Workspace
4 2 (6.67%) AWS
5 1 (3.33%) BigCommerce
5 1 (3.33%) GCP
5 1 (3.33%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (16.67%) NetScaler
2 4 (13.33%) Cisco IPT
2 4 (13.33%) DMZ
2 4 (13.33%) Firewall
2 4 (13.33%) TCP/IP
2 4 (13.33%) VPN
3 3 (10.00%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (16.67%) SQL Server
2 4 (13.33%) Relational Database
3 3 (10.00%) Oracle Database
4 1 (3.33%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (3.33%) IDMS
4 1 (3.33%) MySQL
4 1 (3.33%) Redis
4 1 (3.33%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 1 (3.33%) Artifactory
1 1 (3.33%) CA Gen
1 1 (3.33%) GitLab
General
1 12 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 7 (23.33%) Banking
2 7 (23.33%) Finance
3 6 (20.00%) Documentation Skills
4 5 (16.67%) Retail
5 4 (13.33%) Front Office
5 4 (13.33%) Investment Banking
5 4 (13.33%) Legal
6 3 (10.00%) Electronics
7 2 (6.67%) Public Sector
7 2 (6.67%) Telecoms
8 1 (3.33%) Advertising
8 1 (3.33%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 6 (20.00%) Architect
2 5 (16.67%) 3rd Line Support
2 5 (16.67%) Citrix Support
2 5 (16.67%) Consultant
2 5 (16.67%) Developer
3 3 (10.00%) Analyst
3 3 (10.00%) Help Desk Analyst
3 3 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (10.00%) IT Analyst
3 3 (10.00%) Lead
3 3 (10.00%) Technology Consultant
3 3 (10.00%) VMware Engineer
3 3 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (10.00%) Windows Engineer
3 3 (10.00%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (6.67%) Appian Architect
4 2 (6.67%) Lead Developer
4 2 (6.67%) SCCM Engineer
4 2 (6.67%) Solutions Architect
4 2 (6.67%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (26.67%) REST
2 7 (23.33%) SOAP
3 4 (13.33%) CSS
3 4 (13.33%) HTML
3 4 (13.33%) Web Services
4 3 (10.00%) AngularJS
5 2 (6.67%) jQuery
6 1 (3.33%) Apache NiFi
6 1 (3.33%) BAPI
6 1 (3.33%) RabbitMQ
6 1 (3.33%) SAP Smart Forms
6 1 (3.33%) VML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (13.33%) Enterprise Software
1 4 (13.33%) Onboarding
2 3 (10.00%) N-Tier
2 3 (10.00%) Product Ownership
2 3 (10.00%) Replication
3 1 (3.33%) Cloud Native
3 1 (3.33%) CMDB
3 1 (3.33%) Marketing Technology
3 1 (3.33%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 16 (53.33%) Windows
2 8 (26.67%) Windows Server 2016
3 5 (16.67%) Windows 10
3 5 (16.67%) Windows Server
3 5 (16.67%) Windows Server 2019
4 4 (13.33%) Linux
5 3 (10.00%) Ubuntu
6 1 (3.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (3.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (53.33%) Agile
2 7 (23.33%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (20.00%) Epics
3 6 (20.00%) ITIL
3 6 (20.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
4 5 (16.67%) Change Management
4 5 (16.67%) CI/CD
4 5 (16.67%) E-Commerce
4 5 (16.67%) Root Cause Analysis
4 5 (16.67%) SDLC
4 5 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
5 4 (13.33%) Acceptance Criteria
5 4 (13.33%) BDD
5 4 (13.33%) Continuous Improvement
5 4 (13.33%) Data Engineering
5 4 (13.33%) Data Pipeline
5 4 (13.33%) DevSecOps
5 4 (13.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 4 (13.33%) Privacy Engineering
5 4 (13.33%) Release Train
Programming Languages
1 9 (30.00%) SQL
2 8 (26.67%) PowerShell
3 4 (13.33%) JavaScript
4 1 (3.33%) ABAP
4 1 (3.33%) PHP
4 1 (3.33%) PL/SQL
4 1 (3.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 11 (36.67%) Degree
2 9 (30.00%) Security Cleared
3 6 (20.00%) SC Cleared
4 5 (16.67%) CCA
4 5 (16.67%) Citrix Certification
5 3 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (10.00%) DV Cleared
5 3 (10.00%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 3 (10.00%) MCSA
5 3 (10.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (13.33%) GDPR
1 4 (13.33%) PERC
System Software
1 5 (16.67%) Active Directory
1 5 (16.67%) Hyper-V
1 5 (16.67%) XenApp
1 5 (16.67%) XenDesktop
2 3 (10.00%) Docker
2 3 (10.00%) Virtual Desktop
2 3 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (3.33%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 14 (46.67%) SCCM
2 5 (16.67%) SCVMM
3 3 (10.00%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (10.00%) WSUS
4 1 (3.33%) Ansible
4 1 (3.33%) Kubernetes
4 1 (3.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (30.00%) Citrix
2 8 (26.67%) Microsoft
3 4 (13.33%) Bloomberg
3 4 (13.33%) ION Trading
3 4 (13.33%) Oracle
3 4 (13.33%) Reuters
3 4 (13.33%) ServiceNow
4 3 (10.00%) Veeam
4 3 (10.00%) VMware
5 2 (6.67%) Red Hat
5 2 (6.67%) SAP
5 2 (6.67%) Workday
6 1 (3.33%) Adobe
6 1 (3.33%) Salesforce
6 1 (3.33%) Sitecore