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

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 483 510 561
Rank change year-on-year +27 +51 +146
Contract jobs citing Thin Client 18 23 39
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.065% 0.070% 0.092%
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

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 9,942 10,062 13,795
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.81% 30.78% 32.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,245 6,218 9,564
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% - -2.05%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £825 £792
UK median daily rate £515 £542 £550
% change year-on-year -5.02% -1.41% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 499 416 412
10th Percentile £15.50 £14.75 £17.00
25th Percentile £18.87 £23.73 £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%

Thin Client
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Thin Client as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Thin Client 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 17 September 2025.

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 17 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 +28 6 £200 -46.67%
Yorkshire - 6 £393 -
London +19 5 £525 -22.22%
North West - 1 £185 -
Thin Client
UK

Thin 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%) Fat 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%) Network Architecture
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