Fat Client Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Fat Client
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Fat Client in contract job vacancies in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Fat Client over the 6 months leading up to 1 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 362 362 393
Rank change year-on-year 0 +31 +84
Contract jobs citing Fat Client 11 13 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.072% 0.072% 0.079%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.21% 0.25% 0.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 4 13
10th Percentile £158 £213 £170
25th Percentile £163 £309 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £223 £423 £388
Median % change year-on-year -47.34% +9.03% +29.17%
75th Percentile £469 £480 £425
90th Percentile £569 - £485
UK median daily rate £500 £470 £400
% change year-on-year +6.38% +17.50% +6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £160.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £160.00 £23.80 -
% change year-on-year +572.27% - -

All Generic Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 5,265 5,163 6,699
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 34.34% 28.66% 31.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,143 3,004 4,465
10th Percentile £220 £213 £220
25th Percentile £363 £390 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £608 £600
90th Percentile £656 £700 £700
UK median daily rate £519 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -5.73% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 412 441 326
10th Percentile £14.80 £12.25 £16.25
25th Percentile £18.22 £18.27 £20.50
Median hourly rate £30.00 £52.50 £45.41
Median % change year-on-year -42.86% +15.61% +108.49%
75th Percentile £60.00 £70.00 £66.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £29.50 £45.00 £42.75
% change year-on-year -34.44% +5.26% +64.42%

Fat Client
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Fat Client in the UK excluding London

Fat Client
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Fat Client.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Fat Client

Fat Client
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Fat Client in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Fat Client in the UK excluding London

Fat Client
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Fat Client.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Fat Client

Fat Client
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 Fat Client within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 1 September 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
North of England - 7 £260 - 2
Yorkshire - 6 £393 - 1
South East +20 4 £165 -56.00% 2
North West - 1 £185 - 1
Fat Client
UK

Fat Client
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 2 (18.18%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 3 (27.27%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (18.18%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (9.09%) Firewall
1 1 (9.09%) Network Security
1 1 (9.09%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (18.18%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (9.09%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (18.18%) 1st Line Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) Architect
2 1 (9.09%) Desktop Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) Desktop Support
2 1 (9.09%) Desktop Support Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) IT Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) Rollout Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) Senior
2 1 (9.09%) Senior IT Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) Support Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) Windows Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) Windows Rollout Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 11 (100.00%) Thin Client
2 2 (18.18%) Clustering
3 1 (9.09%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 10 (90.91%) Windows
2 3 (27.27%) Windows 7
3 2 (18.18%) Windows 10
4 1 (9.09%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (9.09%) Agile
2 1 (9.09%) Asset Management
2 1 (9.09%) Collaborative Working
2 1 (9.09%) IT Asset Management
2 1 (9.09%) Migration
2 1 (9.09%) Network Architecture
2 1 (9.09%) Open Source
2 1 (9.09%) Project Management
2 1 (9.09%) Prototyping
2 1 (9.09%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 1 (9.09%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (9.09%) Degree
1 1 (9.09%) DV Cleared
1 1 (9.09%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 5 (45.45%) Active Directory
2 2 (18.18%) Hyper-V
2 2 (18.18%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (18.18%) SCVMM
2 1 (9.09%) SCCM
2 1 (9.09%) WMI
Vendors
1 5 (45.45%) Microsoft
2 4 (36.36%) Citrix
2 4 (36.36%) VMware
3 1 (9.09%) Zscaler