Client/Server Contracts in the Thames Valley

Client Server
South East > Thames Valley

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Client/Server in contract job vacancies in the Thames Valley. 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 101 138 137
Rank change year-on-year +37 -1 +18
Contract jobs citing Client/Server 1 7 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.066% 0.26% 0.48%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.18% 0.87% 1.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 7 9
10th Percentile - - £523
25th Percentile - £501 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £550 £610
Median % change year-on-year - -9.84% +1.67%
75th Percentile - £575 £619
90th Percentile - - £619
South East median daily rate £550 £550 £612
% change year-on-year - -10.17% +2.04%

All Generic Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 545 801 934
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 36.07% 29.82% 31.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 322 473 613
10th Percentile £303 £205 £280
25th Percentile £423 £295 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £517 £500 £510
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -1.96% +2.00%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £620
90th Percentile £650 £675 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £513
% change year-on-year - -2.44% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 62 24
10th Percentile £14.16 £11.79 £18.08
25th Percentile £24.08 £22.50 £19.63
Median hourly rate £52.50 £30.00 £48.75
Median % change year-on-year +75.00% -38.46% +143.75%
75th Percentile £66.12 £59.97 £70.90
90th Percentile £88.60 £65.00 £77.93
South East median hourly rate £47.81 £47.19 £51.25
% change year-on-year +1.31% -7.93% +138.37%

Client/Server
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Client/Server in the Thames Valley

Client/Server
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Daily rate trend for Client/Server in the Thames Valley

Client/Server
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Hourly rate trend for Client/Server in the Thames Valley

Client/Server
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley 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
Berkshire +25 1 - - 7
Client/Server
South East

Client/Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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:

General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) 2nd Line Desktop Support
1 1 (100.00%) 2nd Line Desktop Support Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) 2nd Line Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) 2nd Line Support
1 1 (100.00%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Desktop Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Desktop Support
1 1 (100.00%) Desktop Support Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (100.00%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Customer Service
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (100.00%) Deployment Automation
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft