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

6 months to
7 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 378 375 389
Rank change year-on-year -3 +14 +129
Contract jobs citing Client/Server 7 11 31
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.050% 0.070% 0.15%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.13% 0.21% 0.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 9 17
10th Percentile - £311 £365
25th Percentile - £312 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £400 £575
Median % change year-on-year +32.50% -30.43% -4.17%
75th Percentile £555 £465 £681
90th Percentile £570 £600 £708
England median daily rate £555 £550 £500
% change year-on-year +0.91% +10.00% -9.09%
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 5,427 5,297 6,945
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 39.02% 33.73% 34.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,469 3,386 4,975
10th Percentile £335 £325 £340
25th Percentile £442 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £688 £725 £725
90th Percentile £825 £850 £825
England median daily rate £525 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 138 63 101
10th Percentile £17.05 £17.30 £18.57
25th Percentile £21.24 £23.80 £19.99
Median hourly rate £26.30 £34.50 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.77% +15.00% +14.29%
75th Percentile £45.06 £57.38 £49.08
90th Percentile £72.50 £80.75 £68.00
England median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £44.75
% change year-on-year -41.05% +6.15% +65.86%

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:

Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) AWS
1 2 (28.57%) OpenShift
2 1 (14.29%) Azure
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (28.57%) Cisco IPT
1 2 (28.57%) Kerberos
2 1 (14.29%) LAN
Development Applications
1 3 (42.86%) Git
2 2 (28.57%) Cucumber
2 2 (28.57%) Eclipse
2 2 (28.57%) IntelliJ
2 2 (28.57%) Jenkins
2 2 (28.57%) Maven
3 1 (14.29%) Cypress.io
General
1 4 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Electronics
2 2 (28.57%) Front Office
2 2 (28.57%) Legal
3 1 (14.29%) Banking
3 1 (14.29%) Finance
3 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Consultant
1 2 (28.57%) Developer
1 2 (28.57%) Lead
1 2 (28.57%) UI Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Implementation Specialist
2 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Lead Consultant
2 1 (14.29%) ServiceNow Specialist
2 1 (14.29%) Technology Consultant
2 1 (14.29%) VMware Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Windows Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) AWT
1 2 (28.57%) JavaFX
1 2 (28.57%) JPA
1 2 (28.57%) RESTful
1 2 (28.57%) Spring
1 2 (28.57%) Spring Boot
1 2 (28.57%) Swing
1 2 (28.57%) Web Services
2 1 (14.29%) .NET
2 1 (14.29%) .NET Core
2 1 (14.29%) Jest
2 1 (14.29%) Next.js
2 1 (14.29%) React
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Product Ownership
2 1 (14.29%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Linux
1 1 (14.29%) Ubuntu
1 1 (14.29%) Windows
1 1 (14.29%) Windows Server
1 1 (14.29%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Agile
1 4 (57.14%) BDD
1 4 (57.14%) Continuous Improvement
1 4 (57.14%) Stakeholder Management
2 3 (42.86%) Incident Response
3 2 (28.57%) Acceptance Criteria
3 2 (28.57%) Architecture Governance
3 2 (28.57%) CI/CD
3 2 (28.57%) Coaching
3 2 (28.57%) Data Engineering
3 2 (28.57%) Data Pipeline
3 2 (28.57%) DevSecOps
3 2 (28.57%) Epics
3 2 (28.57%) Event-Driven
3 2 (28.57%) Privacy Engineering
3 2 (28.57%) Release Train
3 2 (28.57%) Remediation Plan
3 2 (28.57%) Scaled Agile Framework
3 2 (28.57%) SDLC
3 2 (28.57%) Systems Thinking
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) Java
2 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
2 1 (14.29%) PowerShell
2 1 (14.29%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) GDPR
1 2 (28.57%) PERC
2 1 (14.29%) Accessibility
System Software
1 3 (42.86%) Docker
2 1 (14.29%) Active Directory
2 1 (14.29%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Ansible
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (14.29%) SCCM
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
1 1 (14.29%) ServiceNow
1 1 (14.29%) Veeam
1 1 (14.29%) VMware