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

6 months to
5 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 375 365 423
Rank change year-on-year -10 +58 +130
Contract jobs citing Client/Server 5 17 48
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.037% 0.10% 0.20%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.099% 0.31% 0.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 15 36
10th Percentile £426 £312 £473
25th Percentile £465 £350 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £400 £686
Median % change year-on-year +32.50% -41.71% +24.77%
75th Percentile - £451 £750
90th Percentile - £579 -
England median daily rate £530 £525 £600
% change year-on-year +0.95% -12.50% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £56.53
25th Percentile - - £58.36
Median hourly rate - - £65.11
75th Percentile - - £70.65
90th Percentile - - £71.76
England median hourly rate £21.25 £80.00 £73.75
% change year-on-year -73.44% +8.47% +55.26%

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 5,073 5,482 8,557
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 37.24% 33.67% 35.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,344 3,838 6,213
10th Percentile £335 £325 £358
25th Percentile £438 £456 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -4.17% -
75th Percentile £725 £750 £738
90th Percentile £825 £863 £838
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 117 80 82
10th Percentile £15.84 £16.25 £18.06
25th Percentile £22.50 £22.00 £24.44
Median hourly rate £27.50 £30.11 £34.81
Median % change year-on-year -8.65% -13.52% +1.96%
75th Percentile £45.75 £54.06 £53.56
90th Percentile £63.75 £71.25 £77.38
England median hourly rate £30.90 £47.50 £42.00
% change year-on-year -34.94% +13.10% +61.54%

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
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
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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) AWS
1 2 (40.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) Kerberos
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) Git
2 2 (40.00%) Cucumber
2 2 (40.00%) Eclipse
2 2 (40.00%) IntelliJ
2 2 (40.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (40.00%) Maven
3 1 (20.00%) Cypress.io
3 1 (20.00%) GitLab
3 1 (20.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (40.00%) Front Office
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Banking
2 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Developer
1 3 (60.00%) UI Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Implementation Specialist
2 1 (20.00%) Lead
2 1 (20.00%) Senior
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior UI Developer
2 1 (20.00%) ServiceNow Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) AWT
1 2 (40.00%) JavaFX
1 2 (40.00%) JPA
1 2 (40.00%) React
1 2 (40.00%) RESTful
1 2 (40.00%) Spring
1 2 (40.00%) Spring Boot
1 2 (40.00%) Swing
1 2 (40.00%) Web Services
2 1 (20.00%) .NET
2 1 (20.00%) .NET Core
2 1 (20.00%) CSS
2 1 (20.00%) HTML
2 1 (20.00%) Jest
2 1 (20.00%) Next.js
2 1 (20.00%) Node.js
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Agile
1 2 (40.00%) BDD
1 2 (40.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (40.00%) Software Architecture
1 2 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (20.00%) CAD
2 1 (20.00%) Case Management
2 1 (20.00%) Code Quality
2 1 (20.00%) End-to-End Testing
2 1 (20.00%) Incident Response
2 1 (20.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (20.00%) Security Operations
2 1 (20.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (20.00%) TDD
2 1 (20.00%) Threat Intelligence
2 1 (20.00%) Unit Testing
2 1 (20.00%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) Java
1 2 (40.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (20.00%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) Accessibility
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) ServiceNow