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

6 months to
21 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 369 370 401
Rank change year-on-year +1 +31 +108
Contract jobs citing Client/Server 4 11 35
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.030% 0.069% 0.17%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.077% 0.20% 0.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 10 22
10th Percentile - £311 £375
25th Percentile - £317 £496
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £413 £638
Median % change year-on-year +28.48% -35.29% +6.25%
75th Percentile - £529 £738
90th Percentile - £575 £750
England median daily rate £530 £563 £500
% change year-on-year -5.78% +12.44% -9.05%
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 £21.25 £72.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year -70.69% +20.83% +5.52%

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 5,220 5,384 7,176
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 38.98% 34.00% 34.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,342 3,457 5,181
10th Percentile £350 £325 £350
25th Percentile £447 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £695 £725 £725
90th Percentile £825 £850 £825
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 128 68 93
10th Percentile £17.05 £17.43 £18.61
25th Percentile £22.50 £23.80 £20.00
Median hourly rate £26.30 £35.00 £29.72
Median % change year-on-year -24.86% +17.77% +10.16%
75th Percentile £46.81 £57.81 £50.75
90th Percentile £74.38 £79.35 £71.75
England median hourly rate £27.52 £52.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -47.59% +16.67% +75.03%

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
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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) AWS
1 2 (50.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) Kerberos
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) Git
2 2 (50.00%) Cucumber
2 2 (50.00%) Eclipse
2 2 (50.00%) IntelliJ
2 2 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (50.00%) Maven
3 1 (25.00%) Cypress.io
General
1 2 (50.00%) Front Office
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Developer
1 2 (50.00%) UI Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Implementation Specialist
2 1 (25.00%) Lead
2 1 (25.00%) ServiceNow Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) AWT
1 2 (50.00%) JavaFX
1 2 (50.00%) JPA
1 2 (50.00%) RESTful
1 2 (50.00%) Spring
1 2 (50.00%) Spring Boot
1 2 (50.00%) Swing
1 2 (50.00%) Web Services
2 1 (25.00%) .NET
2 1 (25.00%) .NET Core
2 1 (25.00%) Jest
2 1 (25.00%) Next.js
2 1 (25.00%) React
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Agile
1 2 (50.00%) BDD
1 2 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (50.00%) Software Architecture
1 2 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (25.00%) CAD
2 1 (25.00%) Case Management
2 1 (25.00%) Code Quality
2 1 (25.00%) End-to-End Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Incident Response
2 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (25.00%) Security Operations
2 1 (25.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) TDD
2 1 (25.00%) Threat Intelligence
2 1 (25.00%) Unit Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Java
2 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (25.00%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Accessibility
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) ServiceNow