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 5 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 368 341 369
Rank change year-on-year -27 +28 +100
Contract jobs citing Client/Server 16 7 27
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.11% 0.051% 0.15%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.28% 0.15% 0.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 2 16
10th Percentile - £336 £309
25th Percentile £406 £372 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £438 £479
Median % change year-on-year +8.57% -8.57% -31.64%
75th Percentile £595 £497 £677
90th Percentile £640 £529 £845
England median daily rate £500 £550 £504
% change year-on-year -9.09% +9.13% -16.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 5
10th Percentile - - £40.82
25th Percentile - - £40.82
Median hourly rate - - £43.84
75th Percentile - - £49.88
90th Percentile - - £58.95
England median hourly rate £89.00 £72.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year +22.76% +81.25% -34.35%

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 5,645 4,699 6,056
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 37.85% 34.28% 32.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,669 2,953 4,284
10th Percentile £343 £325 £300
25th Percentile £430 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -5.35%
75th Percentile £675 £713 £700
90th Percentile £800 £838 £810
England median daily rate £510 £550 £545
% change year-on-year -7.27% +0.92% -5.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 110 59 176
10th Percentile £17.50 £22.06 £16.00
25th Percentile £20.82 £25.57 £19.34
Median hourly rate £27.86 £39.00 £28.88
Median % change year-on-year -28.58% +35.06% -14.62%
75th Percentile £52.66 £62.25 £47.50
90th Percentile £72.75 £81.24 £65.88
England median hourly rate £31.36 £37.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year -16.37% +15.38% +44.54%

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 5 February 2026.

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
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 5 February 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
Central London - 1 - - 11
Client/Server
England

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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (6.25%) Appian
1 1 (6.25%) IIS
1 1 (6.25%) JBoss
1 1 (6.25%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 1 (6.25%) Tomcat
1 1 (6.25%) WebLogic
Applications
1 7 (43.75%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (25.00%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Magento
1 1 (6.25%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 9 (56.25%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (18.75%) Azure
3 2 (12.50%) Google Workspace
4 1 (6.25%) BigCommerce
4 1 (6.25%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (25.00%) Cisco IPT
1 4 (25.00%) NetScaler
2 3 (18.75%) LAN
3 2 (12.50%) DMZ
3 2 (12.50%) Firewall
3 2 (12.50%) TCP/IP
3 2 (12.50%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (25.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (12.50%) Relational Database
3 1 (6.25%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (6.25%) MySQL
3 1 (6.25%) Oracle Database
3 1 (6.25%) Redis
General
1 6 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 5 (31.25%) Banking
2 5 (31.25%) Finance
3 4 (25.00%) Documentation Skills
3 4 (25.00%) Legal
4 3 (18.75%) Electronics
5 2 (12.50%) Front Office
5 2 (12.50%) Investment Banking
5 2 (12.50%) Retail
6 1 (6.25%) Spanish Language
6 1 (6.25%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (25.00%) 3rd Line Support
1 4 (25.00%) Citrix Support
1 4 (25.00%) Consultant
2 3 (18.75%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (18.75%) Technology Consultant
2 3 (18.75%) VMware Engineer
2 3 (18.75%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (18.75%) Windows Engineer
2 3 (18.75%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Architect
3 2 (12.50%) Lead
4 1 (6.25%) Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) Developer
4 1 (6.25%) Financial Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) Help Desk Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) Help Desk Support
4 1 (6.25%) IT Support
4 1 (6.25%) Lead Architect
4 1 (6.25%) Lead Developer
4 1 (6.25%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (12.50%) REST
1 2 (12.50%) SOAP
2 1 (6.25%) AngularJS
2 1 (6.25%) CSS
2 1 (6.25%) HTML
2 1 (6.25%) jQuery
2 1 (6.25%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (6.25%) VML
2 1 (6.25%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (18.75%) Product Ownership
1 3 (18.75%) Replication
2 2 (12.50%) Onboarding
3 1 (6.25%) Cloud Native
3 1 (6.25%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (6.25%) Marketing Technology
3 1 (6.25%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 9 (56.25%) Windows
2 7 (43.75%) Windows Server 2016
3 4 (25.00%) Windows 10
3 4 (25.00%) Windows Server 2019
4 3 (18.75%) Linux
4 3 (18.75%) Ubuntu
4 3 (18.75%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (50.00%) Agile
2 5 (31.25%) E-Commerce
3 4 (25.00%) Acceptance Criteria
3 4 (25.00%) BDD
3 4 (25.00%) Change Management
3 4 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 4 (25.00%) Data Engineering
3 4 (25.00%) Data Pipeline
3 4 (25.00%) Data Protection
3 4 (25.00%) DevSecOps
3 4 (25.00%) Epics
3 4 (25.00%) Event-Driven
3 4 (25.00%) Identity Management
3 4 (25.00%) Privacy Engineering
3 4 (25.00%) Release Train
3 4 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
3 4 (25.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
3 4 (25.00%) SDLC
3 4 (25.00%) Test Automation
4 3 (18.75%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 5 (31.25%) PowerShell
1 5 (31.25%) SQL
2 1 (6.25%) JavaScript
2 1 (6.25%) PHP
Qualifications
1 8 (50.00%) Degree
2 4 (25.00%) CCA
2 4 (25.00%) Citrix Certification
3 3 (18.75%) SC Cleared
3 3 (18.75%) Security Cleared
4 1 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (6.25%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 1 (6.25%) MCSA
4 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (25.00%) GDPR
1 4 (25.00%) PERC
System Software
1 4 (25.00%) Hyper-V
1 4 (25.00%) XenApp
1 4 (25.00%) XenDesktop
2 3 (18.75%) Active Directory
2 3 (18.75%) Docker
2 3 (18.75%) Virtual Desktop
2 3 (18.75%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (6.25%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 9 (56.25%) SCCM
2 4 (25.00%) SCVMM
3 3 (18.75%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (6.25%) WSUS
Vendors
1 6 (37.50%) Citrix
2 5 (31.25%) Microsoft
3 3 (18.75%) Veeam
3 3 (18.75%) VMware
4 2 (12.50%) Bloomberg
4 2 (12.50%) ION Trading
4 2 (12.50%) Reuters
5 1 (6.25%) Adobe
5 1 (6.25%) Oracle
5 1 (6.25%) Salesforce
5 1 (6.25%) SAP
5 1 (6.25%) ServiceNow
5 1 (6.25%) Sitecore
5 1 (6.25%) Workday