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

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 494 505 551
Rank change year-on-year +11 +46 +157
Contract jobs citing Fat Client 18 23 39
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.065% 0.070% 0.093%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.18% 0.23% 0.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 10 28
10th Percentile £158 £319 £211
25th Percentile £180 £378 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £380 £470 £400
Median % change year-on-year -19.15% +17.50% +6.67%
75th Percentile £566 £706 £547
90th Percentile £600 £838 £548
UK median daily rate £500 £470 £400
% change year-on-year +6.38% +17.50% +6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 1
Median hourly rate £160.00 £23.80 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year +572.27% -68.27% +248.84%
UK median hourly rate £160.00 £23.80 £75.00
% change year-on-year +572.27% -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 9,971 10,152 13,696
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.88% 30.82% 32.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,272 6,271 9,491
10th Percentile £300 £300 £300
25th Percentile £408 £425 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -2.22%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £825 £792
UK median daily rate £515 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -4.63% -1.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 500 414 412
10th Percentile £15.50 £14.61 £17.00
25th Percentile £18.87 £23.80 £21.25
Median hourly rate £33.05 £57.35 £45.88
Median % change year-on-year -42.37% +25.00% +76.46%
75th Percentile £58.75 £70.00 £67.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.16 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £50.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -40.00% +11.11% +69.81%

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
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 September 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
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 September 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 - 7 £260 -
South East +25 6 £200 -46.67%
Yorkshire - 6 £393 -
London +15 5 £525 -22.22% 1
North West - 1 £185 -
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 2 (11.11%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 4 (22.22%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (16.67%) Azure
3 1 (5.56%) AWS
3 1 (5.56%) Entra ID
3 1 (5.56%) GCP
3 1 (5.56%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 3 (16.67%) Firewall
2 2 (11.11%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (5.56%) LAN
3 1 (5.56%) Network Security
3 1 (5.56%) WAN
3 1 (5.56%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.11%) SQL Server
General
1 2 (11.11%) Banking
1 2 (11.11%) Finance
1 2 (11.11%) Social Skills
2 1 (5.56%) Back Office
2 1 (5.56%) Investment Banking
2 1 (5.56%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (11.11%) 1st Line Engineer
1 2 (11.11%) Administrator
1 2 (11.11%) Architect
1 2 (11.11%) Linux Administrator
1 2 (11.11%) Support Engineer
2 1 (5.56%) Banking Project Manager
2 1 (5.56%) Desktop Engineer
2 1 (5.56%) Desktop Support
2 1 (5.56%) Desktop Support Engineer
2 1 (5.56%) IT Engineer
2 1 (5.56%) Linux Engineer
2 1 (5.56%) Project Manager
2 1 (5.56%) Rollout Engineer
2 1 (5.56%) Senior
2 1 (5.56%) Senior IT Engineer
2 1 (5.56%) Subject Matter Expert
2 1 (5.56%) Windows Engineer
2 1 (5.56%) Windows Rollout Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 18 (100.00%) Thin Client
2 2 (11.11%) Clustering
2 2 (11.11%) PKI
3 1 (5.56%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 16 (88.89%) Windows
2 5 (27.78%) Linux
3 4 (22.22%) Windows 7
4 2 (11.11%) Windows 10
5 1 (5.56%) Apple iOS
5 1 (5.56%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (11.11%) Agile
1 2 (11.11%) Collaborative Working
1 2 (11.11%) Migration
1 2 (11.11%) Open Source
1 2 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (11.11%) Prototyping
1 2 (11.11%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (5.56%) Asset Management
2 1 (5.56%) Business Strategy
2 1 (5.56%) Customer Service
2 1 (5.56%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (5.56%) Data Centre Operations
2 1 (5.56%) Incident Management
2 1 (5.56%) Inventory Management
2 1 (5.56%) Mentoring
2 1 (5.56%) Performance Optimisation
2 1 (5.56%) Project Delivery
2 1 (5.56%) Runbook
2 1 (5.56%) Tech Ops
2 1 (5.56%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 3 (16.67%) Python
2 1 (5.56%) Bash
Qualifications
1 2 (11.11%) Degree
1 2 (11.11%) DV Cleared
1 2 (11.11%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 7 (38.89%) Active Directory
2 3 (16.67%) Hyper-V
2 3 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (5.56%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 2 (11.11%) SCVMM
1 2 (11.11%) WMI
2 1 (5.56%) SCCM
Vendors
1 8 (44.44%) Citrix
2 7 (38.89%) Microsoft
3 6 (33.33%) VMware
4 2 (11.11%) Cisco
5 1 (5.56%) Infoblox
5 1 (5.56%) Palo Alto
5 1 (5.56%) Wyse
5 1 (5.56%) Zscaler