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 21 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 556 468 523
Rank change year-on-year -88 +55 +114
Contract jobs citing Fat Client 21 3 25
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.056% 0.012% 0.066%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.17% 0.036% 0.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 2 3
10th Percentile £295 £157 -
25th Percentile £353 £161 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £173 £300
Median % change year-on-year +146.38% -42.50% +30.43%
75th Percentile £591 £186 £390
90th Percentile £626 £190 £444
UK median daily rate £375 £173 £300
% change year-on-year +117.39% -42.50% +30.43%
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 12,602 8,303 11,640
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 33.66% 33.90% 30.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,006 5,384 7,608
10th Percentile £300 £298 £257
25th Percentile £412 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £540 £545
Median % change year-on-year -5.09% -0.92% -5.22%
75th Percentile £625 £669 £663
90th Percentile £742 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £503 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.29% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 627 307 789
10th Percentile £15.62 £16.87 £12.50
25th Percentile £19.00 £22.72 £15.39
Median hourly rate £37.50 £34.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +10.29% +23.64% +18.79%
75th Percentile £68.75 £66.25 £57.50
90th Percentile £85.16 £84.40 £67.50
UK median hourly rate £37.10 £32.50 £27.50
% change year-on-year +14.15% +18.18% +22.22%

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 21 March 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 21 March 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 - 10 £538 -
North West -25 5 - -
North of England -66 5 - -
London - 4 £475 - 2
East of England - 2 £300 -
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 (23.81%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (4.76%) Confluence
2 1 (4.76%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 2 (9.52%) Microsoft 365
1 2 (9.52%) Power Platform
2 1 (4.76%) Amazon S3
2 1 (4.76%) Azure
2 1 (4.76%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 10 (47.62%) Firewall
2 6 (28.57%) DNS
3 5 (23.81%) WebEx
4 1 (4.76%) BGP
4 1 (4.76%) DMZ
4 1 (4.76%) Ethernet VPN
4 1 (4.76%) HTTP
4 1 (4.76%) Internet
4 1 (4.76%) LAN
4 1 (4.76%) MPLS
4 1 (4.76%) Network Security
4 1 (4.76%) SAN
4 1 (4.76%) SMTP
4 1 (4.76%) Software-Defined Networking
4 1 (4.76%) TCP/IP
4 1 (4.76%) VSAN
4 1 (4.76%) VXLAN
4 1 (4.76%) WAN
4 1 (4.76%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (9.52%) Power BI
2 1 (4.76%) Redis
2 1 (4.76%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (4.76%) GCC
1 1 (4.76%) GitLab
1 1 (4.76%) JIRA
1 1 (4.76%) MSI
General
1 7 (33.33%) Legal
2 1 (4.76%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (4.76%) Finance
2 1 (4.76%) Presentation Skills
2 1 (4.76%) Retail
2 1 (4.76%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (47.62%) Architect
2 5 (23.81%) Administrator
3 2 (9.52%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (9.52%) Junior
3 2 (9.52%) Junior Project Manager
3 2 (9.52%) Project Manager
4 1 (4.76%) Consultant
4 1 (4.76%) Infrastructure Support
4 1 (4.76%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
4 1 (4.76%) Junior Service Manager
4 1 (4.76%) Rollout Manager
4 1 (4.76%) Rollout Project Manager
4 1 (4.76%) Senior
4 1 (4.76%) Senior Wintel Engineer
4 1 (4.76%) ServiceNow Manager
4 1 (4.76%) ServiceNow Project Manager
4 1 (4.76%) Support Engineer
4 1 (4.76%) Technical Architect
4 1 (4.76%) Technical Consultant
4 1 (4.76%) Wintel Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (23.81%) XMPP
2 1 (4.76%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (4.76%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (4.76%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 21 (100.00%) Thin Client
2 10 (47.62%) PKI
3 5 (23.81%) Product Ownership
4 2 (9.52%) Cyber Defence
4 2 (9.52%) Data Centre
5 1 (4.76%) CMDB
5 1 (4.76%) Data Structures
5 1 (4.76%) Onboarding
5 1 (4.76%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 13 (61.90%) Windows
2 9 (42.86%) Windows 7
3 3 (14.29%) Windows Server
4 2 (9.52%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (4.76%) Linux
5 1 (4.76%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (47.62%) Agile
2 9 (42.86%) Collaborative Working
2 9 (42.86%) Open Source
2 9 (42.86%) Prototyping
3 6 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (23.81%) Acceptance Criteria
4 5 (23.81%) Digital Transformation Programme
4 5 (23.81%) Identity Access Management
4 5 (23.81%) Platform Engineering
4 5 (23.81%) Product Requirements
4 5 (23.81%) Service Management
4 5 (23.81%) User Stories
5 3 (14.29%) Migration
5 3 (14.29%) Project Delivery
6 2 (9.52%) Asset Management
6 2 (9.52%) Business Intelligence
6 2 (9.52%) GAP Analysis
6 2 (9.52%) IT Asset Management
6 2 (9.52%) ITIL
6 2 (9.52%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 10 (47.62%) Python
2 6 (28.57%) PowerShell
3 1 (4.76%) SQL
Qualifications
1 15 (71.43%) Security Cleared
2 10 (47.62%) DV Cleared
3 5 (23.81%) BPSS Clearance
3 5 (23.81%) SC Cleared
4 1 (4.76%) CCNP
4 1 (4.76%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (4.76%) CISSP
4 1 (4.76%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.76%) NCSC
1 1 (4.76%) NIST
1 1 (4.76%) NIST 800
System Software
1 18 (85.71%) Active Directory
2 3 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (4.76%) Docker
3 1 (4.76%) Microsoft App-V
3 1 (4.76%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (4.76%) VMware NSX
3 1 (4.76%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 9 (42.86%) WMI
2 2 (9.52%) SCCM
3 1 (4.76%) Ansible
3 1 (4.76%) FortiGate
3 1 (4.76%) Grafana
3 1 (4.76%) Kubernetes
3 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (4.76%) Prometheus
3 1 (4.76%) Terraform
3 1 (4.76%) VxRail
3 1 (4.76%) WSUS
Vendors
1 16 (76.19%) Microsoft
2 12 (57.14%) VMware
3 7 (33.33%) Cisco
4 5 (23.81%) Citrix
5 2 (9.52%) ServiceNow
6 1 (4.76%) Dell
6 1 (4.76%) HP
6 1 (4.76%) NVIDIA
6 1 (4.76%) Palo Alto
6 1 (4.76%) Splunk
6 1 (4.76%) Veeam
6 1 (4.76%) Zscaler