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 22 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 571 469 523
Rank change year-on-year -102 +54 +89
Contract jobs citing Fat Client 16 3 22
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.040% 0.012% 0.059%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.12% 0.036% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 2 5
10th Percentile £275 £157 £235
25th Percentile £334 £161 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £173 £470
Median % change year-on-year +117.39% -63.30% +108.89%
75th Percentile £463 £186 £825
90th Percentile £581 £190 £900
UK median daily rate £375 £173 £470
% change year-on-year +117.39% -63.30% +108.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 0
Median hourly rate £74.26 - -
UK median hourly rate £74.26 - -

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 12,945 8,347 11,457
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 32.66% 34.02% 30.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,196 5,464 7,488
10th Percentile £303 £300 £263
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £548 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.44% -0.41% -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £800
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 666 314 816
10th Percentile £16.05 £16.67 £12.25
25th Percentile £21.25 £22.99 £15.13
Median hourly rate £45.46 £37.00 £28.25
Median % change year-on-year +22.86% +30.97% +23.77%
75th Percentile £70.00 £65.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £85.45 £85.00 £69.44
UK median hourly rate £45.46 £32.50 £28.00
% change year-on-year +39.88% +16.07% +24.44%

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 22 April 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 22 April 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
South East - 6 £475 - 3
North West -39 5 - -
North of England -66 5 - -
East of England - 3 £375 - 5
London - 2 £350 - 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 5 (31.25%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (6.25%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 2 (12.50%) Power Platform
2 1 (6.25%) Azure
2 1 (6.25%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 5 (31.25%) DNS
1 5 (31.25%) Firewall
1 5 (31.25%) WebEx
2 1 (6.25%) LAN
2 1 (6.25%) MPLS
2 1 (6.25%) SAN
2 1 (6.25%) WAN
2 1 (6.25%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (12.50%) Power BI
General
1 7 (43.75%) Legal
2 1 (6.25%) Finance
2 1 (6.25%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (31.25%) Administrator
1 5 (31.25%) Architect
2 2 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (12.50%) Junior
2 2 (12.50%) Junior Project Manager
2 2 (12.50%) Project Manager
3 1 (6.25%) Infrastructure Support
3 1 (6.25%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Junior Service Manager
3 1 (6.25%) Rollout Manager
3 1 (6.25%) Rollout Project Manager
3 1 (6.25%) Senior
3 1 (6.25%) Senior Wintel Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) ServiceNow Manager
3 1 (6.25%) ServiceNow Project Manager
3 1 (6.25%) Support Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Wintel Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (31.25%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 16 (100.00%) Thin Client
2 5 (31.25%) PKI
2 5 (31.25%) Product Ownership
3 1 (6.25%) CMDB
3 1 (6.25%) Cyber Defence
3 1 (6.25%) Data Centre
3 1 (6.25%) Data Structures
3 1 (6.25%) Onboarding
3 1 (6.25%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 8 (50.00%) Windows
2 5 (31.25%) Windows 7
3 2 (12.50%) Windows Server
3 2 (12.50%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (37.50%) Agile
1 6 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (31.25%) Acceptance Criteria
2 5 (31.25%) Collaborative Working
2 5 (31.25%) Digital Transformation Programme
2 5 (31.25%) Identity Access Management
2 5 (31.25%) Open Source
2 5 (31.25%) Platform Engineering
2 5 (31.25%) Product Requirements
2 5 (31.25%) Prototyping
2 5 (31.25%) Service Management
2 5 (31.25%) User Stories
3 3 (18.75%) Migration
3 3 (18.75%) Project Delivery
4 2 (12.50%) Asset Management
4 2 (12.50%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (12.50%) GAP Analysis
4 2 (12.50%) Project Management
4 2 (12.50%) Validation
4 2 (12.50%) Wireframes
Programming Languages
1 5 (31.25%) PowerShell
1 5 (31.25%) Python
Qualifications
1 11 (68.75%) Security Cleared
2 6 (37.50%) DV Cleared
3 5 (31.25%) BPSS Clearance
3 5 (31.25%) SC Cleared
4 1 (6.25%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.25%) SLA
System Software
1 12 (75.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (6.25%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (31.25%) WMI
2 1 (6.25%) SCCM
2 1 (6.25%) WSUS
Vendors
1 11 (68.75%) Microsoft
2 7 (43.75%) Cisco
2 7 (43.75%) VMware
3 5 (31.25%) Citrix
4 2 (12.50%) ServiceNow
5 1 (6.25%) HP