Client/Server Contracts in the Midlands

Client Server
England > Midlands

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Client/Server in contract job vacancies in the Midlands. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Client/Server over the 6 months leading up to 22 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 125 136 157
Rank change year-on-year +11 +21 +40
Contract jobs citing Client/Server 2 1 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.092% 0.034% 0.062%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.27% 0.11% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 1
10th Percentile £192 - -
25th Percentile £235 £413 £713
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £307 £425 £725
Median % change year-on-year -27.80% -41.38% +46.46%
75th Percentile £378 £438 £738
90th Percentile £421 - -
England median daily rate £471 £501 £610
% change year-on-year -5.99% -17.87% +8.44%

All Generic Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 745 888 1,052
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 34.13% 29.85% 32.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 474 561 700
10th Percentile £220 £213 £263
25th Percentile £363 £358 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £613 £600
90th Percentile £647 £725 £700
England median daily rate £525 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -4.55% -2.31% +2.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 55 62 38
10th Percentile £13.81 £10.47 £18.21
25th Percentile £17.59 £13.93 £20.29
Median hourly rate £25.08 £19.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +31.97% -30.91% +48.65%
75th Percentile £38.96 £32.67 £54.69
90th Percentile £50.00 £58.75 £65.00
England median hourly rate £33.05 £36.50 £22.49
% change year-on-year -9.45% +62.33% -15.15%

Client/Server
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Client/Server in the Midlands

Client/Server
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Client/Server in the Midlands

Client/Server
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Client/Server in the Midlands over the 6 months to 22 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Client/Server in the Midlands

Client/Server
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Client/Server in the Midlands

Client/Server
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 22 June 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
West Midlands +11 2 £307 -27.80% 8
Client/Server
England

Client/Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco ASA
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco Firepower
1 1 (50.00%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
1 1 (50.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
1 1 (50.00%) HTTP
1 1 (50.00%) Network Security
1 1 (50.00%) NX-OS
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) 2nd Line Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) 2nd Line Support
1 1 (50.00%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Customer Service
1 1 (50.00%) ITIL
1 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) CCNP
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Arista
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco
1 1 (50.00%) F5
1 1 (50.00%) Fortinet