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 18 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 522 498 531
Rank change year-on-year -24 +33 +164
Contract jobs citing Fat Client 22 11 46
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.073% 0.036% 0.12%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.20% 0.11% 0.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 4 27
10th Percentile £187 £364 £210
25th Percentile £316 £403 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £460 £413
Median % change year-on-year +22.28% +11.52% +17.86%
75th Percentile £600 £480 £547
90th Percentile £609 - £548
UK median daily rate £563 £460 £406
% change year-on-year +22.28% +13.23% +16.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £74.26 £23.80 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year +212.02% -68.27% +248.84%
75th Percentile £117.13 - -
90th Percentile £142.85 - -
UK median hourly rate £74.26 £23.80 £75.00
% change year-on-year +212.02% -68.27% +248.84%

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 10,976 9,685 12,868
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 36.44% 31.56% 32.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,878 5,782 8,753
10th Percentile £285 £300 £275
25th Percentile £408 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.45% - -2.22%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £511 £531 £550
% change year-on-year -3.63% -3.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 588 302 463
10th Percentile £13.50 £17.08 £17.00
25th Percentile £18.24 £24.18 £21.25
Median hourly rate £27.50 £46.18 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -40.45% +2.62% +52.54%
75th Percentile £52.66 £70.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.16 £77.90
UK median hourly rate £26.50 £37.50 £44.50
% change year-on-year -29.33% -15.73% +50.29%

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 18 November 2025.

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
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Fat Client in England over the 6 months to 18 November 2025.

Hourly rate histogram 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 18 November 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
South East - 10 £600 - 2
London +12 6 £563 +36.36% 3
North of England - 6 £223 - 2
Yorkshire - 3 £260 - 1
North West - 3 £185 - 1
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 (9.09%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (4.55%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 3 (13.64%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (9.09%) Entra ID
3 1 (4.55%) Amazon S3
3 1 (4.55%) AWS
3 1 (4.55%) Azure
3 1 (4.55%) GCP
3 1 (4.55%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 10 (45.45%) Firewall
2 3 (13.64%) DNS
3 2 (9.09%) WebEx
3 2 (9.09%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (4.55%) BGP
4 1 (4.55%) DMZ
4 1 (4.55%) Ethernet VPN
4 1 (4.55%) HTTP
4 1 (4.55%) Internet
4 1 (4.55%) LAN
4 1 (4.55%) Network Security
4 1 (4.55%) SMTP
4 1 (4.55%) Software-Defined Networking
4 1 (4.55%) TCP/IP
4 1 (4.55%) VSAN
4 1 (4.55%) VXLAN
4 1 (4.55%) WAN
4 1 (4.55%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.55%) Redis
1 1 (4.55%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (4.55%) GCC
1 1 (4.55%) GitLab
1 1 (4.55%) JIRA
1 1 (4.55%) MSI
General
1 3 (13.64%) Social Skills
2 2 (9.09%) Banking
2 2 (9.09%) Finance
2 2 (9.09%) Legal
3 1 (4.55%) Back Office
3 1 (4.55%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (4.55%) Investment Banking
3 1 (4.55%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (4.55%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 9 (40.91%) Architect
2 3 (13.64%) Administrator
3 2 (9.09%) Support Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) Banking Project Manager
4 1 (4.55%) Consultant
4 1 (4.55%) Desktop Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) Desktop Support
4 1 (4.55%) Desktop Support Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) IT Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) Linux Administrator
4 1 (4.55%) Linux Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) Project Manager
4 1 (4.55%) Rollout Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) Senior
4 1 (4.55%) Senior IT Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) Subject Matter Expert
4 1 (4.55%) Technical Architect
4 1 (4.55%) Technical Consultant
4 1 (4.55%) Windows Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) Windows Rollout Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (9.09%) XMPP
2 1 (4.55%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (4.55%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (4.55%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 22 (100.00%) Thin Client
2 9 (40.91%) PKI
3 2 (9.09%) Data Centre
3 2 (9.09%) Product Ownership
4 1 (4.55%) Cyber Defence
4 1 (4.55%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 19 (86.36%) Windows
2 8 (36.36%) Windows 7
3 4 (18.18%) Linux
4 2 (9.09%) Windows Server
5 1 (4.55%) Apple iOS
5 1 (4.55%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (36.36%) Agile
1 8 (36.36%) Collaborative Working
1 8 (36.36%) Open Source
1 8 (36.36%) Prototyping
2 4 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (9.09%) Acceptance Criteria
3 2 (9.09%) Digital Transformation Programme
3 2 (9.09%) Identity Access Management
3 2 (9.09%) Information Security
3 2 (9.09%) ITIL
3 2 (9.09%) Migration
3 2 (9.09%) Performance Optimisation
3 2 (9.09%) Platform Engineering
3 2 (9.09%) Product Requirements
3 2 (9.09%) Root Cause Analysis
3 2 (9.09%) Service Management
3 2 (9.09%) User Stories
4 1 (4.55%) Cybersecurity
4 1 (4.55%) Mentoring
4 1 (4.55%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 10 (45.45%) Python
2 3 (13.64%) PowerShell
3 1 (4.55%) Bash
3 1 (4.55%) SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 9 (40.91%) DV Cleared
3 2 (9.09%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (9.09%) Degree
3 2 (9.09%) SC Cleared
4 1 (4.55%) CCNP
4 1 (4.55%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (4.55%) CISSP
4 1 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (4.55%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.55%) NCSC
1 1 (4.55%) NIST
1 1 (4.55%) NIST 800
System Software
1 15 (68.18%) Active Directory
2 2 (9.09%) Microsoft App-V
2 2 (9.09%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (4.55%) Docker
3 1 (4.55%) Hyper-V
3 1 (4.55%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (4.55%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 8 (36.36%) WMI
2 2 (9.09%) SCCM
3 1 (4.55%) Ansible
3 1 (4.55%) FortiGate
3 1 (4.55%) Grafana
3 1 (4.55%) Kubernetes
3 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (4.55%) Prometheus
3 1 (4.55%) Terraform
3 1 (4.55%) VxRail
Vendors
1 14 (63.64%) Microsoft
2 11 (50.00%) VMware
3 7 (31.82%) Citrix
4 4 (18.18%) Cisco
5 2 (9.09%) Palo Alto
6 1 (4.55%) Dell
6 1 (4.55%) Infoblox
6 1 (4.55%) NVIDIA
6 1 (4.55%) Splunk
6 1 (4.55%) Veeam
6 1 (4.55%) Wyse
6 1 (4.55%) Zscaler