Client/Server Contracts in the South East

Client Server
England > South East

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Client/Server in contract job vacancies in the South East. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Client/Server over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 152 184 192
Rank change year-on-year +32 +8 +46
Contract jobs citing Client/Server 7 21 30
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.23% 0.38% 0.52%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.69% 1.33% 1.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 19 16
10th Percentile - £501 £519
25th Percentile £525 £525 £551
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £612
Median % change year-on-year - -10.17% +2.04%
75th Percentile £584 £595 £619
90th Percentile £588 - £678
England median daily rate £471 £525 £618
% change year-on-year -10.29% -15.05% +3.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 8
10th Percentile - £66.50 £67.75
25th Percentile - £68.75 £70.94
Median hourly rate - £75.00 £75.00
75th Percentile - £78.75 -
90th Percentile - £79.50 -
England median hourly rate - £40.00 £75.00
% change year-on-year - -46.67% -

All Generic Skills
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 1,009 1,583 1,962
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 33.52% 28.48% 33.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 633 936 1,323
10th Percentile £211 £205 £213
25th Percentile £360 £363 £373
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year - -2.44% +2.50%
75th Percentile £600 £608 £638
90th Percentile £661 £688 £725
England median daily rate £548 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -0.36% -4.35% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 63 154 90
10th Percentile £16.95 £11.74 £18.23
25th Percentile £23.50 £18.35 £20.48
Median hourly rate £47.81 £47.19 £51.25
Median % change year-on-year +1.31% -7.93% +138.37%
75th Percentile £64.13 £61.30 £67.50
90th Percentile £85.50 £65.00 £75.00
England median hourly rate £33.00 £30.16 £22.50
% change year-on-year +9.42% +34.04% -16.67%

Client/Server
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Client/Server in the South East

Client/Server
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Daily rate trend for Client/Server in the South East

Client/Server
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

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

Hourly rate trend for Client/Server in the South East

Client/Server
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Hampshire +19 6 £550 -5.17%
Thames Valley +37 1 - - 3
Berkshire +25 1 - - 3
Client/Server
England

Client/Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 6 (85.71%) Azure
1 6 (85.71%) Azure DevOps
General
1 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
1 1 (14.29%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (85.71%) Applications Packager
1 6 (85.71%) DV Cleared Application Packager
2 1 (14.29%) 2nd Line Desktop Support
2 1 (14.29%) 2nd Line Desktop Support Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) 2nd Line Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) 2nd Line Support
2 1 (14.29%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Desktop Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Desktop Support
2 1 (14.29%) Desktop Support Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (14.29%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 7 (100.00%) Windows
2 6 (85.71%) Linux
2 6 (85.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 6 (85.71%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) Agile
1 6 (85.71%) Application Packaging
1 6 (85.71%) Application Virtualisation
1 6 (85.71%) DevOps
1 6 (85.71%) Scaled Agile Framework
2 1 (14.29%) Customer Service
2 1 (14.29%) Data Protection
2 1 (14.29%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 6 (85.71%) PowerShell
1 6 (85.71%) Python
1 6 (85.71%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 6 (85.71%) DV Cleared
1 6 (85.71%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 6 (85.71%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 6 (85.71%) VMware
2 1 (14.29%) Cisco
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft