Client/Server Contracts 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 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 352 372 427
Rank change year-on-year +20 +55 +122
Contract jobs citing Client/Server 8 24 60
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.060% 0.14% 0.23%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.16% 0.41% 0.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 21 43
10th Percentile £339 £312 £500
25th Percentile £378 £330 £539
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £400 £725
Median % change year-on-year +16.25% -44.83% +20.83%
75th Percentile £530 £465 £750
90th Percentile - £550 -
England median daily rate £450 £501 £610
% change year-on-year -10.18% -17.87% +10.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £40.82 £55.32
Median hourly rate - £43.84 £60.21
Median % change year-on-year - -27.19% -
75th Percentile - £46.86 £65.11
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £21.25 £40.00 £73.75
% change year-on-year -46.88% -45.76% +27.66%

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 4,898 5,873 9,160
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 36.86% 33.38% 35.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,226 4,117 6,631
10th Percentile £331 £315 £363
25th Percentile £449 £450 £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -4.17% -
75th Percentile £738 £738 £741
90th Percentile £838 £850 £838
England median daily rate £525 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% +2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 104 140 100
10th Percentile £15.84 £15.49 £17.98
25th Percentile £22.50 £20.45 £22.50
Median hourly rate £30.00 £27.92 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.45% -20.23% -13.58%
75th Percentile £47.81 £50.38 £64.63
90th Percentile £65.03 £71.25 £85.33
England median hourly rate £32.77 £37.50 £26.00
% change year-on-year -12.61% +44.23% -1.46%

Client/Server
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Client/Server as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Client/Server in London

Client/Server
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Client/Server in London.

Daily rate trend for Client/Server in London

Client/Server
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for Client/Server in London

Client/Server
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Client/Server in London.

Hourly rate trend for Client/Server in London

Client/Server
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Client/Server within the London region over the 6 months to 6 July 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 London +2 2 - -
Client/Server
England

Client/Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 (25.00%) MQSeries
Cloud Services
1 2 (25.00%) AWS
1 2 (25.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 2 (25.00%) Kerberos
2 1 (12.50%) Firewall
2 1 (12.50%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (12.50%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (37.50%) Relational Database
2 2 (25.00%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Cucumber
1 2 (25.00%) Eclipse
1 2 (25.00%) Git
1 2 (25.00%) IntelliJ
1 2 (25.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (25.00%) Maven
2 1 (12.50%) GitLab
2 1 (12.50%) JIRA
General
1 4 (50.00%) Front Office
2 3 (37.50%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (25.00%) Finance
3 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
4 1 (12.50%) Banking
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Developer
2 3 (37.50%) Senior
2 3 (37.50%) Senior Developer
2 3 (37.50%) UI Developer
3 2 (25.00%) Analyst
3 2 (25.00%) Java Developer
3 2 (25.00%) Java Swing Developer
3 2 (25.00%) Operations Analyst
3 2 (25.00%) Security Analyst
3 2 (25.00%) Security Operations Analyst
3 2 (25.00%) Senior Java Developer
3 2 (25.00%) SOC Analyst
4 1 (12.50%) Implementation Specialist
4 1 (12.50%) Senior UI Developer
4 1 (12.50%) ServiceNow Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (50.00%) Swing
2 2 (25.00%) AWT
2 2 (25.00%) JavaFX
2 2 (25.00%) JPA
2 2 (25.00%) Middleware
2 2 (25.00%) Rendezvous
2 2 (25.00%) RESTful
2 2 (25.00%) Spring
2 2 (25.00%) Spring Boot
2 2 (25.00%) Web Services
2 2 (25.00%) XML
3 1 (12.50%) CSS
3 1 (12.50%) HTML
3 1 (12.50%) Node.js
3 1 (12.50%) React
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Cyber Threat
1 2 (25.00%) Distributed Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Distributed Architecture
1 2 (25.00%) Fixed Income
1 2 (25.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 2 (25.00%) Security Operations Centre
2 1 (12.50%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Operating Systems
1 2 (25.00%) Unix
2 1 (12.50%) Linux
2 1 (12.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (37.50%) Incident Response
1 3 (37.50%) Security Operations
2 2 (25.00%) Agile
2 2 (25.00%) BDD
2 2 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (25.00%) Design Patterns
2 2 (25.00%) High Availability
2 2 (25.00%) Low Latency
2 2 (25.00%) Performance Optimisation
2 2 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
2 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (25.00%) SIEM
2 2 (25.00%) SOAR
2 2 (25.00%) Software Architecture
2 2 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (12.50%) CAD
3 1 (12.50%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (12.50%) Threat Intelligence
3 1 (12.50%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (50.00%) Java
2 2 (25.00%) Bash
2 2 (25.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (25.00%) Python
2 2 (25.00%) Shell Script
2 2 (25.00%) SQL
3 1 (12.50%) PowerShell
System Software
1 2 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (25.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) IBM
1 2 (25.00%) Sybase
1 2 (25.00%) TIBCO
2 1 (12.50%) ServiceNow
2 1 (12.50%) Splunk
2 1 (12.50%) VMware