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 2 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 357 344 351
Rank change year-on-year -13 +7 +126
Contract jobs citing Client/Server 16 27 76
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.10% 0.15% 0.34%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.31% 0.50% 1.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 23 46
10th Percentile £400 £413 £313
25th Percentile £461 £507 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £580 £558
Median % change year-on-year -10.78% +4.04% +1.36%
75th Percentile £578 £595 £615
90th Percentile £625 £597 £638
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £575
% change year-on-year -0.95% -8.70% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 9
10th Percentile - - £67.25
25th Percentile - - £71.25
Median hourly rate £21.25 £80.00 £72.50
Median % change year-on-year -73.44% +10.34% +52.63%
75th Percentile - - £75.00
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £21.25 £80.00 £73.75
% change year-on-year -73.44% +8.47% +55.26%

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 5,175 5,388 6,935
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 33.84% 29.11% 31.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,043 3,227 4,641
10th Percentile £227 £220 £225
25th Percentile £363 £400 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £608 £600
90th Percentile £650 £700 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 410 522 308
10th Percentile £14.78 £12.15 £16.25
25th Percentile £17.85 £15.65 £20.38
Median hourly rate £29.67 £45.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -34.08% - +109.30%
75th Percentile £62.24 £68.85 £66.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £79.43
UK median hourly rate £29.42 £42.50 £36.13
% change year-on-year -30.79% +17.65% +36.32%

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 2 August 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 2 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Midlands -2 7 £600 +41.18% 12
West Midlands -1 6 £600 +41.18% 6
Scotland -6 4 £436 -20.73% 2
Wales - 3 £520 - 3
North of England -7 2 £492 +173.33% 18
North West - 1 £492 - 11
Yorkshire - 1 - - 3
East Midlands - 1 - - 6
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 (6.25%) CMS
1 1 (6.25%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (6.25%) InVision
1 1 (6.25%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 6 (37.50%) Azure
2 4 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (12.50%) IaaS
3 2 (12.50%) PaaS
3 2 (12.50%) Power Platform
3 2 (12.50%) PowerApps
3 2 (12.50%) SaaS
4 1 (6.25%) Adobe Creative Cloud
4 1 (6.25%) AWS
4 1 (6.25%) Entra ID
4 1 (6.25%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.25%) Cisco ASA
1 1 (6.25%) Cisco Firepower
1 1 (6.25%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
1 1 (6.25%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
1 1 (6.25%) Fibre Channel
1 1 (6.25%) Firewall
1 1 (6.25%) HTTP
1 1 (6.25%) iSCSI
1 1 (6.25%) Network Security
1 1 (6.25%) NX-OS
1 1 (6.25%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.25%) DB2
1 1 (6.25%) Metadata
1 1 (6.25%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (31.25%) Cypress.io
1 5 (31.25%) Git
2 2 (12.50%) Cucumber
2 2 (12.50%) Jenkins
2 2 (12.50%) JIRA
2 2 (12.50%) Postman
2 2 (12.50%) Selenium
2 2 (12.50%) Subversion
2 2 (12.50%) TeamCity
2 2 (12.50%) WebDriver
3 1 (6.25%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 5 (31.25%) Public Sector
2 3 (18.75%) Documentation Skills
2 3 (18.75%) Social Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Legal
3 1 (6.25%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 3 (18.75%) Application Integration Engineer
1 3 (18.75%) Applications Engineer
1 3 (18.75%) Integration Engineer
1 3 (18.75%) Lead
2 2 (12.50%) 2nd Line Engineer
2 2 (12.50%) 2nd Line Support
2 2 (12.50%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
2 2 (12.50%) Architect
2 2 (12.50%) QA Engineer
2 2 (12.50%) Solutions Architect
2 2 (12.50%) Support Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Analyst
3 1 (6.25%) Designer
3 1 (6.25%) Developer
3 1 (6.25%) Integration Architect
3 1 (6.25%) Network Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Quality Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Software Developer
3 1 (6.25%) Technical Leader
3 1 (6.25%) UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (31.25%) .NET
2 3 (18.75%) .NET Core
2 3 (18.75%) Jest
2 3 (18.75%) Next.js
2 3 (18.75%) React
3 2 (12.50%) .NET Framework
3 2 (12.50%) Entity Framework
3 2 (12.50%) REST
4 1 (6.25%) Flash
4 1 (6.25%) JSON
4 1 (6.25%) POSIX
4 1 (6.25%) RAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (12.50%) Mobile App
1 2 (12.50%) NHS
1 2 (12.50%) Onboarding
2 1 (6.25%) Data Centre
2 1 (6.25%) NVMe
2 1 (6.25%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 4 (25.00%) Linux
1 4 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 4 (25.00%) Windows
1 4 (25.00%) Windows Server
2 1 (6.25%) Android
2 1 (6.25%) Apple iOS
2 1 (6.25%) Data ONTAP
2 1 (6.25%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (50.00%) Agile
2 6 (37.50%) DevOps
3 4 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 4 (25.00%) Front End Development
3 4 (25.00%) Scrum
3 4 (25.00%) Test Automation
3 4 (25.00%) Unit Testing
4 3 (18.75%) Application Packaging
4 3 (18.75%) Case Management
4 3 (18.75%) Code Quality
4 3 (18.75%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (18.75%) End-to-End Testing
4 3 (18.75%) Mentoring
4 3 (18.75%) Migration
4 3 (18.75%) Performance Optimisation
4 3 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (18.75%) Reverse Engineering
4 3 (18.75%) Software Engineering
4 3 (18.75%) Stakeholder Management
4 3 (18.75%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 6 (37.50%) SQL
2 5 (31.25%) VBScript
3 4 (25.00%) JavaScript
3 4 (25.00%) PowerShell
3 4 (25.00%) Python
4 3 (18.75%) TypeScript
5 2 (12.50%) C#
5 2 (12.50%) C++
5 2 (12.50%) Java
5 2 (12.50%) Shell Script
5 2 (12.50%) VBA
6 1 (6.25%) Perl
6 1 (6.25%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (18.75%) DV Cleared
1 3 (18.75%) Security Cleared
2 2 (12.50%) Degree
2 2 (12.50%) ISEB
2 2 (12.50%) ISTQB
2 2 (12.50%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
3 1 (6.25%) CCNP
3 1 (6.25%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (25.00%) QA
2 3 (18.75%) Accessibility
3 2 (12.50%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (12.50%) Docker
2 1 (6.25%) Active Directory
2 1 (6.25%) GPFS
2 1 (6.25%) NFS
Systems Management
1 1 (6.25%) FortiGate
1 1 (6.25%) Kubernetes
1 1 (6.25%) Veritas Storage Foundation
Vendors
1 3 (18.75%) VMware
2 2 (12.50%) ArcSight
2 2 (12.50%) Microsoft
3 1 (6.25%) Adobe
3 1 (6.25%) Arista
3 1 (6.25%) Brocade
3 1 (6.25%) Cisco
3 1 (6.25%) EMC
3 1 (6.25%) F5
3 1 (6.25%) Fortinet
3 1 (6.25%) Genesys
3 1 (6.25%) Google
3 1 (6.25%) IBM
3 1 (6.25%) iManage
3 1 (6.25%) NetApp
3 1 (6.25%) Sybase
3 1 (6.25%) Veritas