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 17 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 455 485 519
Rank change year-on-year +30 +34 +129
Contract jobs citing Client/Server 20 52 132
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.082% 0.14% 0.27%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.24% 0.47% 0.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 36 87
10th Percentile £364 £341 £402
25th Percentile £388 £375 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £504 £613
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -17.71% +2.08%
75th Percentile £575 £583 £750
90th Percentile £583 £595 -
UK median daily rate £461 £516 £610
% change year-on-year -10.66% -15.41% +1.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 11 13
10th Percentile - - £70.25
25th Percentile - - £71.25
Median hourly rate - £40.00 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year - -46.67% -
75th Percentile - £43.43 -
90th Percentile - £75.00 £164.75
UK median hourly rate - £40.00 £75.00
% change year-on-year - -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 8,336 11,140 16,241
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.06% 30.62% 33.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,449 7,304 11,283
10th Percentile £300 £268 £313
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £572
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% -3.76% +3.91%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £695
90th Percentile £788 £800 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 337 813 575
10th Percentile £15.84 £12.25 £9.80
25th Percentile £20.45 £15.17 £10.63
Median hourly rate £33.91 £34.00 £22.49
Median % change year-on-year -0.26% +51.21% -17.49%
75th Percentile £64.50 £61.30 £64.50
90th Percentile £84.20 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £31.76 £31.50 £22.49
% change year-on-year +0.83% +40.09% -19.70%

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 17 May 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 17 May 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 +25 7 £400 - 110
South East +30 6 £550 - 57
North of England +20 5 £400 +44.14% 50
North West +19 3 £425 - 25
Yorkshire +14 2 £400 +6.67% 5
Midlands +18 1 £450 +5.88% 12
West Midlands +7 1 £450 +5.88% 6
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 (10.00%) MQSeries
Applications
1 2 (10.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 7 (35.00%) Azure
2 5 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (10.00%) Power Platform
4 1 (5.00%) AWS
4 1 (5.00%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (5.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 3 (15.00%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
1 3 (15.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
1 3 (15.00%) NX-OS
2 2 (10.00%) Cisco ASA
2 2 (10.00%) Cisco Firepower
2 2 (10.00%) Firewall
2 2 (10.00%) HTTP
3 1 (5.00%) Ethernet VPN
3 1 (5.00%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (5.00%) Kerberos
3 1 (5.00%) Network Security
3 1 (5.00%) VPN
3 1 (5.00%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (5.00%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (15.00%) Relational Database
2 2 (10.00%) Power BI
2 2 (10.00%) RDBMS
3 1 (5.00%) Oracle Database
3 1 (5.00%) Oracle Database 10g
3 1 (5.00%) Oracle Database 11g
3 1 (5.00%) Oracle Database 12c
3 1 (5.00%) SQLPlus
Development Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (5.00%) Eclipse
1 1 (5.00%) Git
1 1 (5.00%) GitLab
1 1 (5.00%) IntelliJ
1 1 (5.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (5.00%) JIRA
1 1 (5.00%) Maven
1 1 (5.00%) Toad
General
1 4 (20.00%) Finance
2 3 (15.00%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (15.00%) Front Office
2 3 (15.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (10.00%) Banking
3 2 (10.00%) Retail
3 2 (10.00%) Telecoms
4 1 (5.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 6 (30.00%) Senior
2 5 (25.00%) Applications Packager
2 5 (25.00%) Developer
2 5 (25.00%) DV Cleared Application Packager
3 3 (15.00%) Senior Developer
4 2 (10.00%) Analyst
4 2 (10.00%) Data Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Java Developer
4 2 (10.00%) Java Swing Developer
4 2 (10.00%) Operations Analyst
4 2 (10.00%) Security Analyst
4 2 (10.00%) Security Operations Analyst
4 2 (10.00%) Senior Data Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Senior Java Developer
4 2 (10.00%) SOC Analyst
4 2 (10.00%) UI Developer
5 1 (5.00%) 2nd Line Support
5 1 (5.00%) Network Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (5.00%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (15.00%) Swing
2 2 (10.00%) Middleware
2 2 (10.00%) Rendezvous
2 2 (10.00%) XML
3 1 (5.00%) AWT
3 1 (5.00%) CSS
3 1 (5.00%) HTML
3 1 (5.00%) JavaFX
3 1 (5.00%) JPA
3 1 (5.00%) JSON
3 1 (5.00%) Node.js
3 1 (5.00%) RAML
3 1 (5.00%) React
3 1 (5.00%) REST
3 1 (5.00%) RESTful
3 1 (5.00%) Spring
3 1 (5.00%) Spring Boot
3 1 (5.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.00%) Cyber Threat
1 2 (10.00%) Distributed Applications
1 2 (10.00%) Distributed Architecture
1 2 (10.00%) Fixed Income
1 2 (10.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 2 (10.00%) Security Operations Centre
1 2 (10.00%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (5.00%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (5.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 1 (5.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (5.00%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 7 (35.00%) Windows
2 6 (30.00%) Linux
3 5 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (25.00%) Windows Server
4 3 (15.00%) Unix
5 1 (5.00%) Android
5 1 (5.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (40.00%) Agile
2 5 (25.00%) Application Packaging
2 5 (25.00%) Application Virtualisation
2 5 (25.00%) DevOps
2 5 (25.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
3 3 (15.00%) Incident Response
3 3 (15.00%) Performance Tuning
3 3 (15.00%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (10.00%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (10.00%) Design Patterns
4 2 (10.00%) High Availability
4 2 (10.00%) Low Latency
4 2 (10.00%) Performance Optimisation
4 2 (10.00%) Scrum
4 2 (10.00%) Security Operations
4 2 (10.00%) SIEM
4 2 (10.00%) SOAR
4 2 (10.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (5.00%) Change Management
5 1 (5.00%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (35.00%) Python
2 6 (30.00%) PowerShell
3 5 (25.00%) SQL
3 5 (25.00%) VBScript
4 3 (15.00%) Java
5 2 (10.00%) Bash
5 2 (10.00%) Shell Script
6 1 (5.00%) JavaScript
6 1 (5.00%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (25.00%) DV Cleared
1 5 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (15.00%) CCNP
2 3 (15.00%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (5.00%) CCIE
3 1 (5.00%) Degree
System Software
1 5 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (5.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (10.00%) FortiGate
2 1 (5.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 6 (30.00%) VMware
2 4 (20.00%) Cisco
3 3 (15.00%) Arista
3 3 (15.00%) F5
4 2 (10.00%) Databricks
4 2 (10.00%) Fortinet
4 2 (10.00%) IBM
4 2 (10.00%) Sybase
4 2 (10.00%) TIBCO
5 1 (5.00%) Blue Coat
5 1 (5.00%) Juniper
5 1 (5.00%) Microsoft
5 1 (5.00%) Oracle
5 1 (5.00%) Splunk
5 1 (5.00%) Symantec
5 1 (5.00%) Zscaler