Thin Client Contract Job Trends in the South East

Thin Client
England > South East

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Thin Client in contract job vacancies in the South East. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Thin Client over the 6 months leading up to 28 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 166 - 201
Rank change year-on-year - - +54
Contract jobs citing Thin Client 10 0 10
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.27% - 0.18%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.87% - 0.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 6
10th Percentile £158 - £325
25th Percentile £165 - £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 - £450
Median % change year-on-year - - +23.29%
75th Percentile £600 - £538
90th Percentile - - £600
England median daily rate £525 £470 £400
% change year-on-year +11.70% +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 £75.00
% change year-on-year +572.27% -68.27% +248.84%

All Generic Skills
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 1,144 1,281 1,751
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 30.90% 30.52% 31.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 732 728 1,153
10th Percentile £204 £250 £205
25th Percentile £358 £375 £358
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% - -2.44%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £613
90th Percentile £675 £688 £700
England median daily rate £525 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 96 75 107
10th Percentile £12.88 £14.04 £16.40
25th Percentile £16.31 £26.63 £22.25
Median hourly rate £25.00 £52.50 £51.42
Median % change year-on-year -52.38% +2.10% +94.40%
75th Percentile £52.00 £74.93 £62.75
90th Percentile £69.65 £75.16 £77.70
England median hourly rate £27.53 £50.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -44.94% +12.36% +67.92%

Thin Client
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Thin Client job vacancy trend in the South East

Thin Client
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

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

Thin Client
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Thin Client in the South East over the 6 months to 28 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Thin Client in the South East

Thin Client
Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

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

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

Thin Client
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 Thin Client within the South East region over the 6 months to 28 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
Hampshire - 7 £600 -
Thames Valley - 2 £165 -
Berkshire - 2 £165 -
Thin Client
England

Thin Client
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (20.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 2 (20.00%) Azure
1 2 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 6 (60.00%) Firewall
2 1 (10.00%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (10.00%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) SQL Server
General
1 2 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Back Office
2 1 (10.00%) Banking
2 1 (10.00%) Finance
2 1 (10.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (60.00%) Architect
2 2 (20.00%) 1st Line Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) IT Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Senior
3 1 (10.00%) Senior IT Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 10 (100.00%) Fat Client
2 6 (60.00%) PKI
3 2 (20.00%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 10 (100.00%) Windows
2 8 (80.00%) Windows 7
3 2 (20.00%) Windows 10
4 1 (10.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) Agile
1 6 (60.00%) Collaborative Working
1 6 (60.00%) Open Source
1 6 (60.00%) Prototyping
2 1 (10.00%) Customer Service
2 1 (10.00%) Incident Management
2 1 (10.00%) Inventory Management
2 1 (10.00%) ITIL
2 1 (10.00%) ITSM
2 1 (10.00%) Migration
2 1 (10.00%) Network Architecture
2 1 (10.00%) PRINCE2
2 1 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (10.00%) Project Management
2 1 (10.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (10.00%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 6 (60.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (60.00%) DV Cleared
1 6 (60.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (20.00%) Degree
3 1 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 9 (90.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (20.00%) Hyper-V
2 2 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (60.00%) WMI
2 2 (20.00%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 10 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 9 (90.00%) VMware