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 15 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 496 508 549
Rank change year-on-year +12 +41 +150
Contract jobs citing Thin Client 23 22 42
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.082% 0.069% 0.10%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.22% 0.22% 0.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 9 28
10th Percentile £162 £358 £211
25th Percentile £188 £425 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £470 £400
Median % change year-on-year +11.70% +17.50% +9.59%
75th Percentile £600 £725 £547
90th Percentile - £850 £548
UK median daily rate £525 £470 £400
% change year-on-year +11.70% +17.50% +11.89%
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 10,264 9,977 13,212
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 36.46% 31.07% 32.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,436 6,007 9,136
10th Percentile £300 £294 £300
25th Percentile £410 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £543 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% -1.36% -2.22%
75th Percentile £644 £675 £675
90th Percentile £763 £820 £788
UK median daily rate £515 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -2.83% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 538 352 434
10th Percentile £14.91 £16.87 £17.25
25th Percentile £18.51 £24.18 £22.00
Median hourly rate £29.50 £52.75 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year -44.08% +14.23% +78.92%
75th Percentile £55.00 £70.00 £67.23
90th Percentile £74.13 £75.16 £78.25
UK median hourly rate £27.33 £46.18 £45.00
% change year-on-year -40.82% +2.62% +73.08%

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 15 October 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 15 October 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
South East +20 9 £400 +6.67% 3
London +10 7 £563 -16.67% 1
North of England - 7 £260 -
Yorkshire - 6 £393 -
North West - 1 £185 -
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 (8.70%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (4.35%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 5 (21.74%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (13.04%) Azure
3 2 (8.70%) Entra ID
4 1 (4.35%) Amazon S3
4 1 (4.35%) AWS
4 1 (4.35%) GCP
4 1 (4.35%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 7 (30.43%) Firewall
2 2 (8.70%) Network Security
2 2 (8.70%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (4.35%) BGP
3 1 (4.35%) DMZ
3 1 (4.35%) DNS
3 1 (4.35%) Ethernet VPN
3 1 (4.35%) HTTP
3 1 (4.35%) Internet
3 1 (4.35%) LAN
3 1 (4.35%) SMTP
3 1 (4.35%) Software-Defined Networking
3 1 (4.35%) TCP/IP
3 1 (4.35%) VSAN
3 1 (4.35%) VXLAN
3 1 (4.35%) WAN
3 1 (4.35%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (13.04%) SQL Server
2 1 (4.35%) Redis
Development Applications
1 1 (4.35%) GCC
1 1 (4.35%) GitLab
1 1 (4.35%) JIRA
1 1 (4.35%) MSI
General
1 3 (13.04%) Social Skills
2 2 (8.70%) Banking
2 2 (8.70%) Finance
3 1 (4.35%) Back Office
3 1 (4.35%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (4.35%) Investment Banking
3 1 (4.35%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (4.35%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (26.09%) Architect
2 2 (8.70%) 1st Line Engineer
2 2 (8.70%) Administrator
2 2 (8.70%) Linux Administrator
2 2 (8.70%) Support Engineer
3 1 (4.35%) Banking Project Manager
3 1 (4.35%) Desktop Engineer
3 1 (4.35%) Desktop Support
3 1 (4.35%) Desktop Support Engineer
3 1 (4.35%) IT Engineer
3 1 (4.35%) Linux Engineer
3 1 (4.35%) Project Manager
3 1 (4.35%) Rollout Engineer
3 1 (4.35%) Senior
3 1 (4.35%) Senior IT Engineer
3 1 (4.35%) Subject Matter Expert
3 1 (4.35%) Technical Architect
3 1 (4.35%) Technical Consultant
3 1 (4.35%) Windows Engineer
3 1 (4.35%) Windows Rollout Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.35%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (4.35%) RabbitMQ
1 1 (4.35%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 23 (100.00%) Fat Client
2 6 (26.09%) PKI
3 2 (8.70%) Clustering
3 2 (8.70%) Data Centre
4 1 (4.35%) Cyber Defence
4 1 (4.35%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 21 (91.30%) Windows
2 7 (30.43%) Windows 7
3 6 (26.09%) Linux
4 2 (8.70%) Windows 10
4 2 (8.70%) Windows Server
5 1 (4.35%) Apple iOS
5 1 (4.35%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (21.74%) Agile
1 5 (21.74%) Collaborative Working
1 5 (21.74%) Open Source
1 5 (21.74%) Prototyping
2 2 (8.70%) Information Security
2 2 (8.70%) ITIL
2 2 (8.70%) Migration
2 2 (8.70%) Performance Optimisation
2 2 (8.70%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (8.70%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (4.35%) Change Management
3 1 (4.35%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (4.35%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (4.35%) IT Asset Management
3 1 (4.35%) ITSM
3 1 (4.35%) Mentoring
3 1 (4.35%) PRINCE2
3 1 (4.35%) Project Management
3 1 (4.35%) Service Delivery
3 1 (4.35%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 7 (30.43%) Python
2 1 (4.35%) Bash
2 1 (4.35%) PowerShell
2 1 (4.35%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (26.09%) DV Cleared
1 6 (26.09%) Security Cleared
2 2 (8.70%) Degree
3 1 (4.35%) CCNP
3 1 (4.35%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (4.35%) CISSP
3 1 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (4.35%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.35%) NCSC
1 1 (4.35%) NIST
1 1 (4.35%) NIST 800
System Software
1 12 (52.17%) Active Directory
2 4 (17.39%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (13.04%) Hyper-V
4 2 (8.70%) Microsoft App-V
5 1 (4.35%) Docker
5 1 (4.35%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (4.35%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 5 (21.74%) WMI
2 2 (8.70%) SCCM
2 2 (8.70%) SCVMM
3 1 (4.35%) Ansible
3 1 (4.35%) FortiGate
3 1 (4.35%) Grafana
3 1 (4.35%) Kubernetes
3 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (4.35%) Prometheus
3 1 (4.35%) Terraform
3 1 (4.35%) VxRail
Vendors
1 11 (47.83%) Microsoft
2 10 (43.48%) VMware
3 8 (34.78%) Citrix
4 2 (8.70%) Cisco
4 2 (8.70%) Palo Alto
4 2 (8.70%) Zscaler
5 1 (4.35%) Dell
5 1 (4.35%) Infoblox
5 1 (4.35%) NVIDIA
5 1 (4.35%) Splunk
5 1 (4.35%) Veeam
5 1 (4.35%) Wyse