Thin Client Contract Job Trends in the North West

Thin Client
England > North West

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Thin Client in contract job vacancies in the North West. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Thin Client over the 6 months leading up to 29 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 137 - 141
Rank change year-on-year - - +35
Contract jobs citing Thin Client 1 0 5
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.042% - 0.18%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.12% - 0.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £178 - £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £185 - £400
Median % change year-on-year - - +6.67%
75th Percentile £193 - £425
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £525 £470 £400
% change year-on-year +11.70% +17.50% +6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £75.00
England median hourly rate £160.00 £23.80 £75.00
% change year-on-year +572.27% -68.27% +248.84%

All Generic Skills
North West

Thin Client 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 North West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 826 673 804
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 34.85% 28.86% 28.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 568 352 561
10th Percentile £261 £291 £256
25th Percentile £363 £364 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +2.04%
75th Percentile £575 £555 £595
90th Percentile £650 £675 £663
England median daily rate £525 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 56 25 41
10th Percentile £15.62 £18.90 £16.25
25th Percentile £19.64 £21.25 £21.36
Median hourly rate £35.00 £32.50 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% -23.53% +95.13%
75th Percentile £67.25 £47.50 £50.00
90th Percentile £74.26 £90.80 £73.75
England median hourly rate £28.06 £50.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -43.88% +12.36% +67.92%

Thin Client
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Thin Client relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Thin Client job vacancy trend in the North West

Thin Client
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Thin Client.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Thin Client

Thin Client
Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Thin Client.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Thin Client

Thin Client
Contract Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Thin Client within the North West region over the 6 months to 29 October 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
Manchester - 1 £185 -
Thin Client
England

Thin Client
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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:

Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Rollout Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Rollout Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Fat Client
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Asset Management
1 1 (100.00%) IT Asset Management
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft