Client/Server Contract Job Trends in London

Client Server
England > London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Client/Server in contract job vacancies in London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Client/Server over the 6 months leading up to 7 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 371 370 381
Rank change year-on-year -1 +11 +129
Contract jobs citing Client/Server 10 7 28
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.070% 0.045% 0.14%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.18% 0.13% 0.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 4 14
10th Percentile £472 £401 £358
25th Percentile £541 £408 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £610 £490 £631
Median % change year-on-year +24.43% -22.34% +3.06%
75th Percentile £640 £613 £681
90th Percentile - £725 £885
England median daily rate £600 £550 £501
% change year-on-year +9.09% +9.84% -8.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 6
10th Percentile - - £40.82
25th Percentile - - £43.09
Median hourly rate - - £54.94
75th Percentile - - £65.08
90th Percentile - - £68.80
England median hourly rate £55.13 £72.50 £54.94
% change year-on-year -23.97% +31.96% -3.38%

All Generic Skills
London

Client/Server 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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 5,610 5,325 6,565
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 39.24% 34.13% 33.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,591 3,406 4,672
10th Percentile £334 £325 £325
25th Percentile £427 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £590
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -2.54% -1.67%
75th Percentile £675 £713 £725
90th Percentile £800 £850 £825
England median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.68% - -3.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 136 64 105
10th Percentile £17.50 £17.25 £18.84
25th Percentile £19.95 £25.17 £19.99
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.25 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.65% +17.50% -10.21%
75th Percentile £45.05 £56.69 £49.08
90th Percentile £67.00 £80.75 £64.81
England median hourly rate £27.21 £38.54 £43.92
% change year-on-year -29.39% -12.26% +25.49%

Client/Server
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Client/Server relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

Client/Server job vacancy trend in London

Client/Server
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Client/Server.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Client/Server

Client/Server
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Client/Server in London over the 6 months to 7 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Client/Server in London

Client/Server
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Client/Server.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Client/Server

Client/Server
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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:

Applications
1 4 (40.00%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (10.00%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Magento
1 1 (10.00%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 4 (40.00%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (30.00%) Azure
3 1 (10.00%) BigCommerce
3 1 (10.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (40.00%) Cisco IPT
2 3 (30.00%) LAN
3 1 (10.00%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (10.00%) MySQL
1 1 (10.00%) Redis
1 1 (10.00%) Relational Database
1 1 (10.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Cypress.io
1 1 (10.00%) Git
General
1 4 (40.00%) Legal
1 4 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (30.00%) Banking
2 3 (30.00%) Electronics
2 3 (30.00%) Finance
3 1 (10.00%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (10.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Consultant
2 3 (30.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) Technology Consultant
2 3 (30.00%) VMware Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) Windows Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Lead
4 1 (10.00%) 3rd Line Support
4 1 (10.00%) Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Citrix Support
4 1 (10.00%) Lead Consultant
4 1 (10.00%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) .NET
1 1 (10.00%) .NET Core
1 1 (10.00%) Jest
1 1 (10.00%) Next.js
1 1 (10.00%) RabbitMQ
1 1 (10.00%) React
1 1 (10.00%) VML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Product Ownership
1 3 (30.00%) Replication
2 1 (10.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (10.00%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 4 (40.00%) Windows
1 4 (40.00%) Windows Server 2016
2 3 (30.00%) Linux
2 3 (30.00%) Ubuntu
2 3 (30.00%) Windows Server
3 1 (10.00%) Windows 10
3 1 (10.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) E-Commerce
2 4 (40.00%) Acceptance Criteria
2 4 (40.00%) Agile
2 4 (40.00%) BDD
2 4 (40.00%) CI/CD
2 4 (40.00%) Data Engineering
2 4 (40.00%) Data Pipeline
2 4 (40.00%) Data Protection
2 4 (40.00%) DevSecOps
2 4 (40.00%) Epics
2 4 (40.00%) Event-Driven
2 4 (40.00%) Identity Management
2 4 (40.00%) Privacy Engineering
2 4 (40.00%) Release Train
2 4 (40.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
2 4 (40.00%) SDLC
2 4 (40.00%) Test Automation
3 3 (30.00%) Architecture Governance
3 3 (30.00%) Incident Response
3 3 (30.00%) Inventory Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (30.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (10.00%) PHP
2 1 (10.00%) SQL
2 1 (10.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (40.00%) Degree
2 1 (10.00%) CCA
2 1 (10.00%) Citrix Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (40.00%) GDPR
1 4 (40.00%) PERC
2 1 (10.00%) Accessibility
System Software
1 3 (30.00%) Active Directory
1 3 (30.00%) Docker
1 3 (30.00%) Virtual Desktop
1 3 (30.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (10.00%) Hyper-V
2 1 (10.00%) Varnish
2 1 (10.00%) XenApp
2 1 (10.00%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 4 (40.00%) SCCM
2 3 (30.00%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (10.00%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 3 (30.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (30.00%) Veeam
1 3 (30.00%) VMware
2 1 (10.00%) Adobe
2 1 (10.00%) Citrix
2 1 (10.00%) Salesforce
2 1 (10.00%) SAP
2 1 (10.00%) Sitecore