Fat Client Contracts in England

Fat Client
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Fat Client in contract job vacancies advertised in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Fat Client over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 511 617 709
Rank change year-on-year +106 +92 -106
Contract jobs citing Fat Client 24 46 70
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.065% 0.091% 0.098%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.21% 0.27% 0.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 39 43
10th Percentile £235 £158 £120
25th Percentile £363 £161 £138
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £225 £325
Median % change year-on-year +108.89% -30.77% -24.42%
75th Percentile £825 £384 £525
90th Percentile £900 £638 £538
UK median daily rate £470 £225 £300
% change year-on-year +108.89% -25.00% -20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
Median hourly rate £23.80 £20.93 -
Median % change year-on-year +13.71% - -
UK median hourly rate £23.80 £20.93 -
% change year-on-year +13.71% - -

All Generic Skills
England

Fat Client is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 11,373 17,010 24,101
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 30.77% 33.65% 33.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,425 11,824 17,120
10th Percentile £263 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £450 £437
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £675 £695 £675
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 818 598 643
10th Percentile £12.25 £9.80 £14.25
25th Percentile £15.16 £10.63 £16.50
Median hourly rate £30.00 £22.50 £26.98
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -16.60% +1.24%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.15 £65.77
UK median hourly rate £28.50 £22.49 £27.50
% change year-on-year +26.75% -18.24% +3.19%

Fat Client
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Fat Client as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Fat Client in England

Fat Client
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Fat Client in England.

Daily rate trend for Fat Client in England

Fat Client
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Fat Client in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Fat Client in England

Fat Client
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Fat Client in England.

Hourly rate trend for Fat Client in England

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 27 April 2024. 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 +101 9 £825 +153.85% 5
Midlands +26 4 £150 -73.30% 1
South East +8 4 £375 +87.50% 3
West Midlands - 3 - - 1
North of England +30 2 - - 3
East of England +17 2 - -
South West +17 2 £470 +12.24% 1
East Midlands +18 1 £150 -73.30%
North West +12 1 - - 1
Yorkshire - 1 - - 2
Fat Client
UK

Fat Client
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 4 (16.67%) SharePoint
2 2 (8.33%) IIS
2 2 (8.33%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 8 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
2 5 (20.83%) Azure
3 4 (16.67%) Akamai
4 3 (12.50%) Azure Monitor
5 2 (8.33%) AWS
5 2 (8.33%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 2 (8.33%) Entra ID
5 2 (8.33%) Mimecast
5 2 (8.33%) Nutanix
5 2 (8.33%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 9 (37.50%) DNS
2 8 (33.33%) NAS
2 8 (33.33%) SAN
3 6 (25.00%) Firewall
4 4 (16.67%) DHCP
5 3 (12.50%) NetScaler
6 2 (8.33%) DKIM
6 2 (8.33%) DMARC
6 2 (8.33%) Extranet
6 2 (8.33%) Internet
6 2 (8.33%) LAN
6 2 (8.33%) Skype
6 2 (8.33%) VPN
6 2 (8.33%) Wi-Fi
6 2 (8.33%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (25.00%) MySQL
2 4 (16.67%) Elasticsearch
2 4 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (16.67%) SQL Server
3 2 (8.33%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 3 (12.50%) Jenkins
2 2 (8.33%) JIRA
General
1 2 (8.33%) Public Sector
2 1 (4.17%) Finance
Job Titles
1 5 (20.83%) Architect
1 5 (20.83%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 5 (20.83%) Support Engineer
2 4 (16.67%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 4 (16.67%) Consultant
3 3 (12.50%) 3rd Line Support
3 3 (12.50%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
3 3 (12.50%) Solutions Architect
4 2 (8.33%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) Deployment Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) Infrastructure Deployment Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) IT Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) IT Support
4 2 (8.33%) Security Architect
4 2 (8.33%) Support Officer
4 2 (8.33%) Wintel Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Infrastructure Support
5 1 (4.17%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (8.33%) Apache NiFi
1 2 (8.33%) Elastic Stack
1 2 (8.33%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 24 (100.00%) Thin Client
2 8 (33.33%) PKI
3 4 (16.67%) Onboarding
4 2 (8.33%) Client/Server
4 2 (8.33%) Clustering
4 2 (8.33%) Data Centre
4 2 (8.33%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 19 (79.17%) Windows
2 10 (41.67%) Windows Server
3 8 (33.33%) Linux
4 4 (16.67%) Ubuntu
4 4 (16.67%) Windows Server 2019
5 3 (12.50%) Windows 10
6 2 (8.33%) Unix
6 2 (8.33%) Windows Server 2012
6 2 (8.33%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (29.17%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 6 (25.00%) Patch Management
3 5 (20.83%) Application Packaging
4 4 (16.67%) Infrastructure Management
4 4 (16.67%) ITIL
4 4 (16.67%) Mentoring
5 3 (12.50%) Change Management
5 3 (12.50%) Disaster Recovery
6 2 (8.33%) Capacity Management
6 2 (8.33%) Converged Infrastructure
6 2 (8.33%) Data Migration
6 2 (8.33%) Database Mirroring
6 2 (8.33%) High Availability
6 2 (8.33%) Kalman Filter
6 2 (8.33%) Migration
6 2 (8.33%) Mobile Device Management
6 2 (8.33%) Network Monitoring
6 2 (8.33%) Security Hardening
6 2 (8.33%) Server Management
6 2 (8.33%) Software Deployment
Programming Languages
1 11 (45.83%) PowerShell
2 2 (8.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 4 (16.67%) SC Cleared
3 3 (12.50%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.33%) SLA
System Software
1 14 (58.33%) Active Directory
2 6 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (16.67%) Hyper-V
3 4 (16.67%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (12.50%) Citrix Hypervisor
4 3 (12.50%) Virtual Desktop
4 3 (12.50%) XenApp
4 3 (12.50%) XenDesktop
5 2 (8.33%) BitLocker
5 2 (8.33%) Docker
5 2 (8.33%) Microsoft App-V
5 2 (8.33%) vSphere
6 1 (4.17%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 7 (29.17%) Ansible
2 6 (25.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 4 (16.67%) Nessus
3 4 (16.67%) Red Hat Satellite
3 4 (16.67%) SCCM
3 4 (16.67%) vCenter Server
3 4 (16.67%) WSUS
3 4 (16.67%) ZABBIX
4 3 (12.50%) Jamf Pro
5 2 (8.33%) Failover Clustering
5 2 (8.33%) Microsoft Clustering
5 2 (8.33%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
5 2 (8.33%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (8.33%) NetBackup
5 2 (8.33%) SCOM
5 2 (8.33%) SCVMM
5 2 (8.33%) VxRail
Vendors
1 14 (58.33%) Microsoft
2 10 (41.67%) VMware
3 7 (29.17%) Citrix
4 5 (20.83%) ServiceNow
5 4 (16.67%) AlgoSec
5 4 (16.67%) BT
5 4 (16.67%) ForeScout
5 4 (16.67%) Oracle
5 4 (16.67%) Red Hat
5 4 (16.67%) Veeam
6 3 (12.50%) HP
6 3 (12.50%) NetApp
7 2 (8.33%) Avaya
7 2 (8.33%) Cisco
7 2 (8.33%) Commvault
7 2 (8.33%) Dell
7 2 (8.33%) EMC
7 2 (8.33%) Forcepoint
7 2 (8.33%) Juniper
7 2 (8.33%) Mitel