Client/Server Contracts in the UK excluding London

Client Server
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Client/Server in contract job vacancies in the UK excluding London. 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 318 353 378
Rank change year-on-year +35 +25 +65
Contract jobs citing Client/Server 18 46 84
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.14% 0.22% 0.35%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.42% 0.75% 1.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 28 49
10th Percentile £375 £398 £405
25th Percentile £400 £501 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £472 £553 £592
Median % change year-on-year -14.57% -6.67% +15.51%
75th Percentile £575 £595 £625
90th Percentile £583 £652 £750
UK median daily rate £450 £550 £612
% change year-on-year -18.18% -10.13% +2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 10 11
10th Percentile - - £62.50
25th Percentile - - £70.63
Median hourly rate - £40.00 £72.50
Median % change year-on-year - -44.83% -3.33%
75th Percentile - - £75.00
90th Percentile - £75.50 -
UK median hourly rate - £40.00 £75.00
% change year-on-year - -46.67% +14.43%

All Generic Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 4,241 6,126 7,826
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 33.22% 29.49% 32.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,608 3,665 5,276
10th Percentile £210 £210 £213
25th Percentile £363 £378 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £496 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.80% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £598 £618
90th Percentile £665 £688 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 301 723 439
10th Percentile £16.67 £12.15 £9.80
25th Percentile £20.00 £14.06 £10.63
Median hourly rate £31.08 £28.25 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.02% +28.41% +9.64%
75th Percentile £64.52 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £83.20 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £32.05 £30.00 £22.49
% change year-on-year +6.83% +33.42% -18.24%

Client/Server
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Client/Server as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Client/Server in the UK excluding London

Client/Server
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Client/Server in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Client/Server in the UK excluding London

Client/Server
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Client/Server in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Client/Server in the UK excluding London

Client/Server
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Client/Server in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Client/Server in the UK excluding London

Client/Server
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London 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
South East +32 7 £550 - 87
North of England +19 5 £400 +44.14% 74
Scotland +8 5 £400 -40.74% 10
North West +19 3 £425 - 33
Yorkshire +7 2 £400 +6.67% 19
Midlands +21 1 £450 -10.00% 47
West Midlands +13 1 £450 -10.00% 23
Client/Server
UK

Client/Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (5.56%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (11.11%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 12 (66.67%) Azure
2 9 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (27.78%) Power Platform
4 3 (16.67%) IaaS
4 3 (16.67%) PaaS
4 3 (16.67%) PowerApps
4 3 (16.67%) SaaS
5 1 (5.56%) AWS
5 1 (5.56%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 2 (11.11%) Cisco ASA
1 2 (11.11%) Cisco Firepower
1 2 (11.11%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
1 2 (11.11%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
1 2 (11.11%) HTTP
1 2 (11.11%) NX-OS
2 1 (5.56%) Fibre Channel
2 1 (5.56%) Firewall
2 1 (5.56%) iSCSI
2 1 (5.56%) Network Security
2 1 (5.56%) SAN
2 1 (5.56%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.11%) Power BI
2 1 (5.56%) DB2
2 1 (5.56%) Oracle Database
2 1 (5.56%) Oracle Database 10g
2 1 (5.56%) Oracle Database 11g
2 1 (5.56%) Oracle Database 12c
2 1 (5.56%) SQLPlus
Development Applications
1 3 (16.67%) Cucumber
1 3 (16.67%) Cypress.io
1 3 (16.67%) Git
1 3 (16.67%) Jenkins
1 3 (16.67%) JIRA
1 3 (16.67%) Postman
1 3 (16.67%) Selenium
1 3 (16.67%) Subversion
1 3 (16.67%) TeamCity
1 3 (16.67%) WebDriver
2 1 (5.56%) Toad
General
1 6 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 3 (16.67%) Public Sector
3 2 (11.11%) Retail
4 1 (5.56%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (33.33%) Applications Packager
1 6 (33.33%) DV Cleared Application Packager
2 3 (16.67%) QA Engineer
2 3 (16.67%) Senior
3 2 (11.11%) Architect
3 2 (11.11%) Data Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) Developer
3 2 (11.11%) Senior Data Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (5.56%) 2nd Line Support
4 1 (5.56%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Desktop Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Desktop Support
4 1 (5.56%) Desktop Support Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Integration Architect
4 1 (5.56%) Oracle Developer
4 1 (5.56%) Quality Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Senior QA Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Software Developer
4 1 (5.56%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (16.67%) .NET
2 1 (5.56%) Flash
2 1 (5.56%) JSON
2 1 (5.56%) POSIX
2 1 (5.56%) RAML
2 1 (5.56%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 3 (16.67%) Mobile App
2 2 (11.11%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (5.56%) Data Centre
3 1 (5.56%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (5.56%) NVMe
3 1 (5.56%) Product Ownership
3 1 (5.56%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 8 (44.44%) Windows
2 7 (38.89%) Linux
2 7 (38.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 7 (38.89%) Windows Server
3 2 (11.11%) Unix
4 1 (5.56%) Android
4 1 (5.56%) Apple iOS
4 1 (5.56%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (66.67%) Agile
2 9 (50.00%) DevOps
3 6 (33.33%) Application Packaging
3 6 (33.33%) Application Virtualisation
3 6 (33.33%) Scaled Agile Framework
4 4 (22.22%) Migration
4 4 (22.22%) Stakeholder Management
4 4 (22.22%) Waterfall
5 3 (16.67%) ATDD
5 3 (16.67%) BDD
5 3 (16.67%) CI/CD
5 3 (16.67%) Feature Driven Development
5 3 (16.67%) Kanban
5 3 (16.67%) Root Cause Analysis
5 3 (16.67%) SOA
5 3 (16.67%) Software Delivery
5 3 (16.67%) TDD
5 3 (16.67%) Test Automation
5 3 (16.67%) Validation
5 3 (16.67%) V-Model
Programming Languages
1 9 (50.00%) VBScript
2 7 (38.89%) Python
2 7 (38.89%) SQL
3 6 (33.33%) PowerShell
4 3 (16.67%) C#
4 3 (16.67%) C++
4 3 (16.67%) Java
4 3 (16.67%) JavaScript
4 3 (16.67%) Shell Script
4 3 (16.67%) VBA
5 1 (5.56%) Perl
5 1 (5.56%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (33.33%) DV Cleared
1 6 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 3 (16.67%) ISEB
2 3 (16.67%) ISTQB
2 3 (16.67%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
3 2 (11.11%) CCNP
3 2 (11.11%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (16.67%) QA
System Software
1 6 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (5.56%) Docker
2 1 (5.56%) GPFS
2 1 (5.56%) NFS
Systems Management
1 2 (11.11%) FortiGate
2 1 (5.56%) Kubernetes
2 1 (5.56%) Veritas Storage Foundation
Vendors
1 6 (33.33%) VMware
2 3 (16.67%) Cisco
3 2 (11.11%) Arista
3 2 (11.11%) Databricks
3 2 (11.11%) F5
3 2 (11.11%) Fortinet
4 1 (5.56%) Blue Coat
4 1 (5.56%) Brocade
4 1 (5.56%) EMC
4 1 (5.56%) Genesys
4 1 (5.56%) Google
4 1 (5.56%) IBM
4 1 (5.56%) Juniper
4 1 (5.56%) Microsoft
4 1 (5.56%) NetApp
4 1 (5.56%) Oracle
4 1 (5.56%) Sybase
4 1 (5.56%) Symantec
4 1 (5.56%) Veritas
4 1 (5.56%) Zscaler