Thin Client Contract Job Trends in England

Thin Client
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Thin Client in contract job vacancies in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Thin Client over the 6 months leading up to 18 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 518 484 523
Rank change year-on-year -34 +39 +117
Contract jobs citing Thin Client 21 4 28
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.066% 0.015% 0.076%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.19% 0.046% 0.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 2 10
10th Percentile £188 £186 £212
25th Percentile £359 £231 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £315 £400
Median % change year-on-year +74.60% -21.25% +70.15%
75th Percentile £600 £401 £425
90th Percentile - £449 £487
UK median daily rate £550 £315 £400
% change year-on-year +74.60% -21.25% +70.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
Median hourly rate £74.26 - £75.00
UK median hourly rate £74.26 - £75.00
% change year-on-year - - +253.52%

All Generic Skills
England

Thin 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 11,119 8,765 11,499
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.96% 32.62% 31.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,080 5,266 7,694
10th Percentile £281 £275 £259
25th Percentile £406 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.27% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £738 £780 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £533 £545
% change year-on-year -6.27% -2.12% -2.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 544 253 571
10th Percentile £15.00 £18.13 £14.54
25th Percentile £18.50 £24.18 £18.50
Median hourly rate £29.50 £38.07 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.51% +8.77% +46.38%
75th Percentile £61.50 £67.02 £62.50
90th Percentile £74.26 £83.01 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -21.43% - +46.38%

Thin Client
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Thin Client relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Thin Client job vacancy trend in England

Thin Client
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Thin Client.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Thin Client

Thin Client
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Thin Client in England over the 6 months to 18 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Thin Client in England

Thin Client
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Thin Client.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Thin Client

Thin 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 Thin Client within the England region over the 6 months to 18 January 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 - 13 £600 - 1
North of England -48 4 £223 +39.06%
London - 4 £563 - 1
North West -25 3 £185 +15.63%
Yorkshire - 1 £260 -
Thin Client
UK

Thin 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 2 (9.52%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (4.76%) Confluence
2 1 (4.76%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 3 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (9.52%) Azure
2 2 (9.52%) Entra ID
3 1 (4.76%) Amazon S3
3 1 (4.76%) AWS
3 1 (4.76%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 13 (61.90%) Firewall
2 3 (14.29%) DNS
3 2 (9.52%) LAN
3 2 (9.52%) WAN
3 2 (9.52%) WebEx
3 2 (9.52%) Wi-Fi
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%) 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%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.76%) Redis
1 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 2 (9.52%) Legal
1 2 (9.52%) Social Skills
2 1 (4.76%) Back Office
2 1 (4.76%) Banking
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%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 12 (57.14%) Architect
2 2 (9.52%) Administrator
2 2 (9.52%) Support Engineer
3 1 (4.76%) Consultant
3 1 (4.76%) Desktop Engineer
3 1 (4.76%) Desktop Support
3 1 (4.76%) Desktop Support Engineer
3 1 (4.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (4.76%) Linux Engineer
3 1 (4.76%) Rollout Engineer
3 1 (4.76%) Subject Matter Expert
3 1 (4.76%) Technical Architect
3 1 (4.76%) Technical Consultant
3 1 (4.76%) Windows Engineer
3 1 (4.76%) Windows Rollout Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (9.52%) XMPP
2 1 (4.76%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (4.76%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (4.76%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 21 (100.00%) Fat Client
2 12 (57.14%) PKI
3 3 (14.29%) Data Centre
4 2 (9.52%) Cyber Defence
4 2 (9.52%) Product Ownership
5 1 (4.76%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 17 (80.95%) Windows
2 11 (52.38%) Windows 7
3 3 (14.29%) Linux
4 2 (9.52%) Windows Server
5 1 (4.76%) Apple iOS
5 1 (4.76%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (52.38%) Agile
1 11 (52.38%) Collaborative Working
1 11 (52.38%) Open Source
1 11 (52.38%) Prototyping
2 4 (19.05%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (9.52%) Acceptance Criteria
3 2 (9.52%) Digital Transformation Programme
3 2 (9.52%) Identity Access Management
3 2 (9.52%) Information Security
3 2 (9.52%) ITIL
3 2 (9.52%) Performance Optimisation
3 2 (9.52%) Platform Engineering
3 2 (9.52%) Product Requirements
3 2 (9.52%) Root Cause Analysis
3 2 (9.52%) Service Management
3 2 (9.52%) User Stories
4 1 (4.76%) Cybersecurity
4 1 (4.76%) IT Asset Management
4 1 (4.76%) Mentoring
4 1 (4.76%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 13 (61.90%) Python
2 3 (14.29%) PowerShell
3 1 (4.76%) Bash
3 1 (4.76%) SQL
Qualifications
1 14 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 12 (57.14%) DV Cleared
3 2 (9.52%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (9.52%) SC Cleared
4 1 (4.76%) CCNP
4 1 (4.76%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (4.76%) CISSP
4 1 (4.76%) Degree
4 1 (4.76%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.76%) NCSC
1 1 (4.76%) NIST
1 1 (4.76%) NIST 800
System Software
1 17 (80.95%) Active Directory
2 2 (9.52%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (4.76%) Docker
3 1 (4.76%) Hyper-V
3 1 (4.76%) Microsoft App-V
3 1 (4.76%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (4.76%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 11 (52.38%) 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
Vendors
1 17 (80.95%) Microsoft
2 13 (61.90%) VMware
3 3 (14.29%) Cisco
3 3 (14.29%) Citrix
4 2 (9.52%) Palo Alto
5 1 (4.76%) Dell
5 1 (4.76%) Infoblox
5 1 (4.76%) NVIDIA
5 1 (4.76%) Splunk
5 1 (4.76%) Veeam
5 1 (4.76%) Zscaler