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 2 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 613 499 502
Rank change year-on-year -114 +3 +59
Contract jobs citing Fat Client 13 16 26
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.029% 0.058% 0.079%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.085% 0.16% 0.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 8 10
10th Percentile £230 £158 £319
25th Percentile £270 £173 £378
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £467 £380 £470
Median % change year-on-year +22.96% -19.15% +17.50%
75th Percentile £647 £547 £706
90th Percentile £750 £583 £838
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £470
% change year-on-year +5.00% +6.38% +17.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 3
Median hourly rate - £160.00 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year - +572.27% -
UK median hourly rate - £160.00 £23.80
% change year-on-year - +572.27% -

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 15,362 9,824 10,156
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 33.69% 35.87% 30.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,373 6,216 6,421
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £688
90th Percentile £750 £775 £825
UK median daily rate £525 £518 £550
% change year-on-year +1.45% -5.91% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 974 487 486
10th Percentile £14.62 £15.49 £13.50
25th Percentile £19.01 £18.87 £20.81
Median hourly rate £38.25 £32.05 £51.25
Median % change year-on-year +19.34% -37.46% +11.85%
75th Percentile £68.75 £60.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £82.33 £77.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £38.72 £29.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year +31.25% -34.44% +4.65%

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 2 September 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 2 September 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
London -72 4 £520 -0.95% 7
South West - 3 £560 -
East of England - 3 £375 -
Yorkshire -44 1 - -
South East -69 1 - - 3
North of England -83 1 - - 4
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 3 (23.08%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 3 (23.08%) Entra ID
1 3 (23.08%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (15.38%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 5 (38.46%) DHCP
1 5 (38.46%) DNS
2 3 (23.08%) SAN
2 3 (23.08%) VoIP
3 2 (15.38%) VPN
4 1 (7.69%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (23.08%) SQL Server
General
1 4 (30.77%) Social Skills
2 3 (23.08%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (15.38%) Finance
3 2 (15.38%) Legal
4 1 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (7.69%) Military
Job Titles
1 4 (30.77%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (23.08%) IT Engineer
2 3 (23.08%) Senior
2 3 (23.08%) Support Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Architect
3 2 (15.38%) IT Support
3 2 (15.38%) IT Support Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Platform Architect
3 2 (15.38%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Build Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Desktop Technician
4 1 (7.69%) Infrastructure Support
4 1 (7.69%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Senior Wintel Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Wintel Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 13 (100.00%) Thin Client
2 3 (23.08%) Clustering
2 3 (23.08%) PKI
2 3 (23.08%) Smartcard
2 3 (23.08%) Video Conferencing
3 2 (15.38%) BYOD
3 2 (15.38%) iPad
3 2 (15.38%) iPhone
4 1 (7.69%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (7.69%) PMI
4 1 (7.69%) Public Cloud
4 1 (7.69%) Smartphone
4 1 (7.69%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 9 (69.23%) Windows
2 7 (53.85%) Windows Server
3 3 (23.08%) Linux
3 3 (23.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (23.08%) Windows 10
4 2 (15.38%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (7.69%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (30.77%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 3 (23.08%) Patch Management
2 3 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (23.08%) Server Management
3 2 (15.38%) Architecture Governance
3 2 (15.38%) Change Control
3 2 (15.38%) Line Management
3 2 (15.38%) Technical Leadership
4 1 (7.69%) Asset Management
4 1 (7.69%) Capacity Planning
4 1 (7.69%) Cost Optimisation
4 1 (7.69%) Enterprise Architecture
4 1 (7.69%) Incident Management
4 1 (7.69%) Inventory Management
4 1 (7.69%) Mentoring
4 1 (7.69%) PRINCE
4 1 (7.69%) Project Delivery
4 1 (7.69%) Project Management
4 1 (7.69%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (7.69%) Validation
Qualifications
1 3 (23.08%) Security Cleared
2 2 (15.38%) Degree
2 2 (15.38%) DV Cleared
3 1 (7.69%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (15.38%) SLA
System Software
1 10 (76.92%) Active Directory
2 5 (38.46%) Hyper-V
3 4 (30.77%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (15.38%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (7.69%) Firmware
5 1 (7.69%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (30.77%) Microsoft Intune
1 4 (30.77%) WSUS
2 3 (23.08%) Failover Clustering
2 3 (23.08%) SCCM
Vendors
1 8 (61.54%) Microsoft
2 7 (53.85%) Cisco
3 4 (30.77%) VMware
4 3 (23.08%) Apple
4 3 (23.08%) HP
4 3 (23.08%) McAfee
4 3 (23.08%) Red Hat
5 2 (15.38%) Citrix
6 1 (7.69%) Google