Fat Client Contracts in the South East

Fat Client
England > South East

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Fat Client in contract job vacancies in the South East. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Fat Client over the 6 months leading up to 25 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 157 184 199
Rank change year-on-year +27 +15 +64
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Fat Client 4 4 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.11% 0.084% 0.13%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.36% 0.29% 0.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 4
10th Percentile - - £300
25th Percentile £158 £363 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £165 £375 £450
Median % change year-on-year -56.00% -16.67% +167.06%
75th Percentile £386 £388 £538
90th Percentile £515 - £605
England median daily rate £380 £470 £400
% change year-on-year -19.15% +17.50% +6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £160.00 - -
England median hourly rate £160.00 £23.80 -
% change year-on-year +572.27% - -

All Generic Skills
South East

Fat 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 South East.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 1,108 1,400 1,798
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 31.41% 29.34% 32.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 687 818 1,249
10th Percentile £204 £217 £205
25th Percentile £358 £388 £359
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
75th Percentile £600 £625 £615
90th Percentile £675 £703 £708
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 102 139 97
10th Percentile £15.16 £11.92 £16.25
25th Percentile £16.95 £21.58 £19.00
Median hourly rate £33.89 £57.35 £51.42
Median % change year-on-year -40.92% +11.53% +126.82%
75th Percentile £63.37 £65.00 £65.25
90th Percentile £79.30 £75.16 £74.55
England median hourly rate £32.05 £50.00 £45.82
% change year-on-year -35.90% +9.12% +76.23%

Fat Client
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Fat Client in the South East

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Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

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

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Fat Client in the South East over the 6 months to 25 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Fat Client in the South East

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Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

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

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

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DemandTrendContract 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 Fat Client within the South East region over the 6 months to 25 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Berkshire +16 2 £165 -56.00%
Thames Valley +1 2 £165 -56.00% 1
Hampshire - 1 £600 - 1
Fat Client
England

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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 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) Firewall
1 1 (25.00%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) 1st Line Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Architect
2 1 (25.00%) IT Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Senior IT Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (100.00%) Thin Client
2 2 (50.00%) Clustering
3 1 (25.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Windows
2 3 (75.00%) Windows 7
3 2 (50.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (25.00%) Agile
1 1 (25.00%) Collaborative Working
1 1 (25.00%) Migration
1 1 (25.00%) Network Architecture
1 1 (25.00%) Open Source
1 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (25.00%) Project Management
1 1 (25.00%) Prototyping
1 1 (25.00%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
1 1 (25.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 4 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (50.00%) Hyper-V
2 2 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) SCVMM
2 1 (25.00%) WMI
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 4 (100.00%) VMware