Client/Server Contract Job Trends 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 18 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 161 171 179
Rank change year-on-year +10 +8 +69
Contract jobs citing Client/Server 1 11 30
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.029% 0.24% 0.54%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.090% 0.81% 1.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 11 19
10th Percentile - £513 £408
25th Percentile £358 £544 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £365 £580 £550
Median % change year-on-year -37.07% +5.45% -
75th Percentile £373 £595 £612
90th Percentile - £598 £619
England median daily rate £530 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -3.64% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 5
10th Percentile - - £70.50
25th Percentile - - £71.25
Median hourly rate - - £75.00
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £21.25 - £72.50
% change year-on-year - - +27.51%

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 1,105 1,357 1,766
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 31.68% 29.35% 31.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 699 778 1,205
10th Percentile £204 £224 £205
25th Percentile £350 £376 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% - -2.44%
75th Percentile £588 £612 £619
90th Percentile £665 £690 £700
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 94 109 101
10th Percentile £15.13 £13.02 £16.25
25th Percentile £16.95 £31.25 £21.25
Median hourly rate £33.05 £57.35 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -42.37% +4.27% +132.12%
75th Percentile £58.00 £70.00 £67.75
90th Percentile £70.16 £75.16 £77.50
England median hourly rate £33.05 £57.35 £45.88
% change year-on-year -42.37% +25.00% +76.46%

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
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Client/Server.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Client/Server

Client/Server
Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Client/Server.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Client/Server

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 18 September 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 +9 1 £365 -37.07%
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) Confluence
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Bitbucket
1 1 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
1 1 (100.00%) REST Assured
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
General
1 1 (100.00%) Automotive
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Automation Tester
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium Automation Tester
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium Tester
1 1 (100.00%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) REST
1 1 (100.00%) RESTful
1 1 (100.00%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Acceptance Criteria
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Contract Management
1 1 (100.00%) Integration Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Regression Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Scenario Testing
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle