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

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 486 531 593
Rank change year-on-year +45 +62 +124
Contract jobs citing Fat Client 12 25 46
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.046% 0.067% 0.097%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.13% 0.22% 0.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 6 35
10th Percentile - £256 £161
25th Percentile £158 £434 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £175 £675 £350
Median % change year-on-year -74.07% +92.86% +7.69%
75th Percentile £279 £800 £546
90th Percentile £434 £888 £549
UK median daily rate £175 £675 £350
% change year-on-year -74.07% +92.86% +16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £23.80 -
UK median hourly rate - £23.80 -

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 9,076 11,447 15,742
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.76% 30.63% 33.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,792 7,375 10,973
10th Percentile £305 £281 £313
25th Percentile £408 £414 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% +2.27%
75th Percentile £660 £675 £695
90th Percentile £788 £825 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 437 832 523
10th Percentile £15.50 £12.25 £9.80
25th Percentile £18.87 £15.39 £11.87
Median hourly rate £32.77 £37.50 £23.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.61% +59.57% -11.32%
75th Percentile £60.00 £63.75 £62.98
90th Percentile £80.40 £72.50 £77.25
UK median hourly rate £30.50 £36.05 £22.50
% change year-on-year -15.38% +60.20% -16.60%

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

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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 3 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Fat Client in England

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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

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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 July 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
North of England +13 7 £355 - 5
Yorkshire +10 6 £525 - 4
London +38 3 - - 1
South East +39 2 £165 -56.00%
North West - 1 £185 - 1
Fat Client
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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 2 (16.67%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 4 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (16.67%) Azure
3 1 (8.33%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 1 (8.33%) Internet
1 1 (8.33%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (16.67%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (8.33%) Banking
1 1 (8.33%) Finance
1 1 (8.33%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 2 (16.67%) 1st Line Engineer
1 2 (16.67%) Administrator
1 2 (16.67%) Linux Administrator
2 1 (8.33%) Analyst
2 1 (8.33%) Banking Project Manager
2 1 (8.33%) Digital Analyst
2 1 (8.33%) IT Engineer
2 1 (8.33%) IT Support
2 1 (8.33%) IT Support Engineer
2 1 (8.33%) Project Manager
2 1 (8.33%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 12 (100.00%) Thin Client
2 2 (16.67%) Clustering
3 1 (8.33%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 11 (91.67%) Windows
2 3 (25.00%) Linux
3 2 (16.67%) Windows 10
3 2 (16.67%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (8.33%) Asset Management
2 1 (8.33%) Customer Experience
2 1 (8.33%) IT Asset Management
2 1 (8.33%) Migration
2 1 (8.33%) Service Delivery
2 1 (8.33%) Stakeholder Management
System Software
1 3 (25.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (16.67%) Hyper-V
2 2 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (8.33%) Microsoft App-V
3 1 (8.33%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 2 (16.67%) SCVMM
2 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (8.33%) SCCM
Vendors
1 8 (66.67%) Citrix
2 4 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 2 (16.67%) VMware
4 1 (8.33%) Cisco
4 1 (8.33%) Wyse
4 1 (8.33%) Zscaler