Fat Client Contract Job Trends in England

Fat Client
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Fat Client in contract job vacancies in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Fat Client over the 6 months leading up to 3 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 530 474 530
Rank change year-on-year -56 +56 +99
Contract jobs citing Fat Client 20 4 29
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.060% 0.015% 0.076%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.18% 0.047% 0.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 2 8
10th Percentile £187 £157 £211
25th Percentile £307 £161 £278
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £173 £350
Median % change year-on-year +226.09% -50.71% +52.17%
75th Percentile £600 £186 £439
90th Percentile £609 £190 £501
UK median daily rate £563 £173 £350
% change year-on-year +226.09% -50.71% +52.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
Median hourly rate £74.26 - £75.00
UK median hourly rate £74.26 - £75.00
% change year-on-year - - +253.52%

All Generic Skills
England

Fat Client 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 11,412 8,597 11,920
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.51% 32.98% 31.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,302 5,156 7,897
10th Percentile £275 £268 £253
25th Percentile £406 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.27% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £630 £675 £663
90th Percentile £738 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 558 246 739
10th Percentile £15.31 £18.51 £13.40
25th Percentile £18.50 £24.20 £17.00
Median hourly rate £31.51 £37.50 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -15.99% +15.38% +44.54%
75th Percentile £63.75 £66.38 £58.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £83.20 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £35.00 £32.22
% change year-on-year -14.29% +8.64% +43.28%

Fat Client
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Fat Client relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Fat Client job vacancy trend in England

Fat Client
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Fat Client.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Fat Client

Fat Client
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Fat Client in England over the 6 months to 3 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Fat Client in England

Fat Client
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Fat Client.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Fat Client

Fat Client
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 Fat Client within the England region over the 6 months to 3 February 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
South East - 13 £600 - 1
North of England -56 4 £223 +28.99% 1
North West -31 3 £185 +7.25% 1
London - 3 £575 - 2
Yorkshire - 1 £260 -
Fat Client
UK

Fat Client
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 (10.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (5.00%) Confluence
2 1 (5.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 3 (15.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (5.00%) Amazon S3
2 1 (5.00%) Azure
2 1 (5.00%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 12 (60.00%) Firewall
2 3 (15.00%) DNS
3 2 (10.00%) WebEx
4 1 (5.00%) BGP
4 1 (5.00%) DMZ
4 1 (5.00%) Ethernet VPN
4 1 (5.00%) HTTP
4 1 (5.00%) Internet
4 1 (5.00%) LAN
4 1 (5.00%) MPLS
4 1 (5.00%) Network Security
4 1 (5.00%) SAN
4 1 (5.00%) SMTP
4 1 (5.00%) Software-Defined Networking
4 1 (5.00%) TCP/IP
4 1 (5.00%) VSAN
4 1 (5.00%) VXLAN
4 1 (5.00%) WAN
4 1 (5.00%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (5.00%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.00%) Redis
1 1 (5.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (5.00%) GCC
1 1 (5.00%) GitLab
1 1 (5.00%) JIRA
1 1 (5.00%) MSI
General
1 2 (10.00%) Legal
1 2 (10.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (5.00%) Back Office
2 1 (5.00%) Banking
2 1 (5.00%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (5.00%) Finance
2 1 (5.00%) Presentation Skills
2 1 (5.00%) Retail
2 1 (5.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 12 (60.00%) Architect
2 2 (10.00%) Administrator
2 2 (10.00%) Support Engineer
3 1 (5.00%) Consultant
3 1 (5.00%) Desktop Engineer
3 1 (5.00%) Desktop Support
3 1 (5.00%) Desktop Support Engineer
3 1 (5.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (5.00%) Linux Engineer
3 1 (5.00%) Rollout Engineer
3 1 (5.00%) Technical Architect
3 1 (5.00%) Technical Consultant
3 1 (5.00%) Windows Engineer
3 1 (5.00%) Windows Rollout Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (10.00%) XMPP
2 1 (5.00%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (5.00%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (5.00%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 20 (100.00%) Thin Client
2 12 (60.00%) PKI
3 2 (10.00%) Cyber Defence
3 2 (10.00%) Data Centre
3 2 (10.00%) Product Ownership
4 1 (5.00%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 16 (80.00%) Windows
2 11 (55.00%) Windows 7
3 2 (10.00%) Linux
4 1 (5.00%) Apple iOS
4 1 (5.00%) Ubuntu
4 1 (5.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (55.00%) Agile
1 11 (55.00%) Collaborative Working
1 11 (55.00%) Open Source
1 11 (55.00%) Prototyping
2 4 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (10.00%) Acceptance Criteria
3 2 (10.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
3 2 (10.00%) Identity Access Management
3 2 (10.00%) ITIL
3 2 (10.00%) Performance Optimisation
3 2 (10.00%) Platform Engineering
3 2 (10.00%) Product Requirements
3 2 (10.00%) Service Management
3 2 (10.00%) User Stories
4 1 (5.00%) Change Management
4 1 (5.00%) Information Security
4 1 (5.00%) ITSM
4 1 (5.00%) Migration
4 1 (5.00%) PRINCE2
4 1 (5.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 13 (65.00%) Python
2 3 (15.00%) PowerShell
3 1 (5.00%) Bash
3 1 (5.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 14 (70.00%) Security Cleared
2 12 (60.00%) DV Cleared
3 2 (10.00%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (10.00%) SC Cleared
4 1 (5.00%) CCNP
4 1 (5.00%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (5.00%) CISSP
4 1 (5.00%) Degree
4 1 (5.00%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.00%) NCSC
1 1 (5.00%) NIST
1 1 (5.00%) NIST 800
System Software
1 16 (80.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (5.00%) Docker
2 1 (5.00%) Microsoft App-V
2 1 (5.00%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (5.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (5.00%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 11 (55.00%) WMI
2 2 (10.00%) SCCM
3 1 (5.00%) Ansible
3 1 (5.00%) FortiGate
3 1 (5.00%) Grafana
3 1 (5.00%) Kubernetes
3 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (5.00%) Prometheus
3 1 (5.00%) Terraform
3 1 (5.00%) VxRail
Vendors
1 17 (85.00%) Microsoft
2 12 (60.00%) VMware
3 2 (10.00%) Cisco
3 2 (10.00%) Citrix
4 1 (5.00%) Dell
4 1 (5.00%) NVIDIA
4 1 (5.00%) Palo Alto
4 1 (5.00%) Splunk
4 1 (5.00%) Veeam
4 1 (5.00%) Zscaler