Fat Client Contract Job Trends in Hertfordshire

Fat Client
East of England > Hertfordshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Fat Client in contract job vacancies in Hertfordshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Fat Client over the 6 months leading up to 7 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 69 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Fat Client 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Hertfordshire 0.26% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.97% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £240 - -
25th Percentile £263 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £300 - -
75th Percentile £338 - -
90th Percentile £360 - -
East of England median daily rate £300 - -

All Generic Skills
Hertfordshire

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 Hertfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 206 196 252
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 27.18% 52.27% 31.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 104 105 111
10th Percentile £320 £382 £285
25th Percentile £394 £463 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £538 £475
Median % change year-on-year -11.63% +13.16% -5.00%
75th Percentile £650 £625 £650
90th Percentile £800 £683 £813
East of England median daily rate £450 £500 £495
% change year-on-year -10.00% +1.01% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 48 66
10th Percentile £16.35 £31.90 £42.25
25th Percentile £17.91 £61.50 £55.31
Median hourly rate £60.25 £73.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.47% +12.31% -1.52%
75th Percentile £76.25 £85.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £82.40 £95.00 £70.00
East of England median hourly rate £22.50 £67.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year -66.67% +22.73% -16.03%

Fat Client
Job Vacancy Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Fat Client job vacancy trend in Hertfordshire

Fat Client
Daily Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hertfordshire citing Fat Client.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hertfordshire citing Fat Client

Fat Client
Daily Rate Histogram in Hertfordshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Fat Client in Hertfordshire over the 6 months to 7 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Fat Client in Hertfordshire

Fat Client
Hourly Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Hertfordshire citing Fat Client.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Hertfordshire citing Fat Client

Fat Client
Contract Job Locations in Hertfordshire

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 Hertfordshire region over the 6 months to 7 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
Watford - 2 £300 -
Fat Client
East of England

Fat Client
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hertfordshire 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:

General
1 2 (100.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Support
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Wintel Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Support Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Wintel Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Project Delivery
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (50.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) SCCM
1 1 (50.00%) WSUS
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco
1 2 (100.00%) VMware
2 1 (50.00%) HP