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

	6 months to 17 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	637	497	502
Rank change year-on-year	-140	+5	+30
Contract jobs citing Thin Client	13	23	21
As % of all contract jobs in England	0.028%	0.081%	0.066%
As % of the Miscellaneous category	0.080%	0.22%	0.21%
Number of daily rates quoted	4	13	9
10^th Percentile	£285	£162	£358
25^th Percentile	£359	£188	£425
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£480	£525	£470
Median % change year-on-year	-8.62%	+11.70%	+17.50%
75^th Percentile	£629	£600	£725
90^th Percentile	£747	-	£850
UK median daily rate	£525	£525	£470
% change year-on-year	-	+11.70%	+17.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted	2	1	3
10^th Percentile	£21.77	-	-
25^th Percentile	£22.43	-	-
Median hourly rate	£24.28	£160.00	£23.80
Median % change year-on-year	-84.83%	+572.27%	-68.27%
75^th Percentile	£25.38	-	-
90^th Percentile	£25.60	-	-
UK median hourly rate	£24.28	£160.00	£23.80
% change year-on-year	-84.83%	+572.27%	-68.27%

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.

	6 months to 17 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills	16,282	10,313	9,974
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England	34.80%	36.53%	31.21%
Number of daily rates quoted	9,772	6,440	5,996
10^th Percentile	£320	£300	£294
25^th Percentile	£425	£410	£413
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£525	£525	£546
Median % change year-on-year	-	-3.85%	-0.73%
75^th Percentile	£644	£644	£675
90^th Percentile	£750	£763	£816
UK median daily rate	£525	£515	£531
% change year-on-year	+1.94%	-2.92%	-3.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted	1,255	551	347
10^th Percentile	£13.69	£15.00	£17.25
25^th Percentile	£17.42	£18.51	£25.87
Median hourly rate	£33.60	£29.27	£54.00
Median % change year-on-year	+14.79%	-45.80%	+17.31%
75^th Percentile	£67.50	£55.00	£70.00
90^th Percentile	£85.00	£73.75	£75.16
UK median hourly rate	£35.11	£27.21	£47.50
% change year-on-year	+29.03%	-42.72%	+5.56%

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 Daily Rate Trend in England

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 October 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.

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 October 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	-95	6	£520	-7.56%	5
South West	-	3	£560	-	1
North of England	-79	2	£400	+53.85%	1
Yorkshire	-36	1	-	-
North West	-45	1	£400	+116.22%	1
South East	-69	1	-	-	1
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Thin Client Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 17 October 2026, contractor job vacancies citing Thin Client also mentioned the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the England region with a requirement for Thin Client.

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Microsoft	84.6%	11
2	Active Directory	69.2%	9
2	Windows	69.2%	9
4	Microsoft Intune	53.8%	7
5	Microsoft 365	46.2%	6
5	Microsoft Exchange	46.2%	6
5	Windows Server	46.2%	6
8	Apple	38.5%	5
8	Cisco	38.5%	5
8	DHCP	38.5%	5
8	DNS	38.5%	5
8	Hyper-V	38.5%	5
13	Citrix	30.8%	4
13	Failover Clustering	30.8%	4
13	Virtual Desktop	30.8%	4
16	Azure	23.1%	3
16	Customer Service	23.1%	3
16	Entra ID	23.1%	3
16	HP	23.1%	3
16	Infrastructure Engineering	23.1%	3
16	Linux	23.1%	3
16	McAfee	23.1%	3
16	Patch Management	23.1%	3
16	Problem-Solving	23.1%	3
16	Red Hat	23.1%	3
16	Red Hat Enterprise Linux	23.1%	3
16	SAN	23.1%	3
16	SCCM	23.1%	3
16	Security Cleared	23.1%	3
16	Server Management	23.1%	3

Thin Client Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Miscellaneous

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Fat Client	100.0%	13
2	Clustering	30.8%	4
2	iPad	30.8%	4
2	iPhone	30.8%	4
2	Video Conferencing	30.8%	4
6	PKI	23.1%	3
6	Smartcard	23.1%	3
8	Blackberry	15.4%	2
8	BYOD	15.4%	2
10	Enterprise Software	7.7%	1
10	Public Cloud	7.7%	1
10	Smartphone	7.7%	1
10	Virtual Team	7.7%	1