Thin Client Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Thin Client
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Thin Client in contract job vacancies in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Thin Client over the 6 months leading up to 15 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 368 361 391
Rank change year-on-year -7 +30 +75
Contract jobs citing Thin Client 17 9 23
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.11% 0.052% 0.11%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.31% 0.18% 0.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 3 14
10th Percentile £158 £382 £190
25th Percentile £176 £411 £272
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £230 £470 £400
Median % change year-on-year -51.06% +17.50% +77.78%
75th Percentile £584 £480 £425
90th Percentile £600 - £535
UK median daily rate £525 £470 £400
% change year-on-year +11.70% +17.50% +11.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
Median hourly rate £160.00 - £75.00
UK median hourly rate £160.00 £23.80 £75.00
% change year-on-year +572.27% -68.27% +248.84%

All Generic Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 5,540 5,041 6,592
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 34.72% 29.12% 31.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,349 2,778 4,328
10th Percentile £220 £209 £213
25th Percentile £363 £360 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £493 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.65% -1.40% -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £663 £688 £700
UK median daily rate £515 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -2.83% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 457 316 362
10th Percentile £13.46 £15.36 £16.50
25th Percentile £17.30 £22.50 £21.25
Median hourly rate £26.50 £52.50 £51.24
Median % change year-on-year -49.52% +2.46% +127.72%
75th Percentile £55.00 £70.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £73.75 £75.08 £79.15
UK median hourly rate £27.33 £46.18 £45.00
% change year-on-year -40.82% +2.62% +73.08%

Thin Client
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Thin Client job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Thin Client
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

Thin Client
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Thin Client in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 15 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Thin Client in the UK excluding London

Thin Client
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

Thin 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 Thin Client within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 15 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
South East +20 9 £400 +6.67% 3
North of England - 7 £260 -
Yorkshire - 6 £393 -
North West - 1 £185 -
Northern Ireland - 1 £175 -
Thin Client
UK

Thin Client
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (11.76%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (11.76%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 3 (17.65%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (11.76%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 5 (29.41%) Firewall
2 2 (11.76%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (5.88%) Network Security
3 1 (5.88%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.76%) SQL Server
General
1 3 (17.65%) Social Skills
2 2 (11.76%) Back Office
2 2 (11.76%) Banking
2 2 (11.76%) Finance
2 2 (11.76%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (29.41%) Architect
2 3 (17.65%) Support Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) 1st Line Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Desktop Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Desktop Support
4 1 (5.88%) Desktop Support Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) IT Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Rollout Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Senior
4 1 (5.88%) Senior IT Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Windows Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Windows Rollout Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 17 (100.00%) Fat Client
2 5 (29.41%) PKI
3 2 (11.76%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 16 (94.12%) Windows
2 7 (41.18%) Windows 7
3 2 (11.76%) Apple iOS
3 2 (11.76%) Windows 10
4 1 (5.88%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (29.41%) Agile
1 5 (29.41%) Collaborative Working
1 5 (29.41%) Open Source
1 5 (29.41%) Prototyping
2 2 (11.76%) Customer Service
2 2 (11.76%) Incident Management
2 2 (11.76%) Inventory Management
2 2 (11.76%) ITIL
2 2 (11.76%) ITSM
2 2 (11.76%) PRINCE2
2 2 (11.76%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (11.76%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (5.88%) Asset Management
3 1 (5.88%) IT Asset Management
3 1 (5.88%) Migration
3 1 (5.88%) Network Architecture
3 1 (5.88%) Project Management
3 1 (5.88%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 5 (29.41%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (29.41%) DV Cleared
1 5 (29.41%) Security Cleared
2 3 (17.65%) Degree
3 2 (11.76%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
System Software
1 9 (52.94%) Active Directory
2 2 (11.76%) Hyper-V
2 2 (11.76%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (29.41%) WMI
2 2 (11.76%) SCVMM
3 1 (5.88%) SCCM
Vendors
1 11 (64.71%) Microsoft
2 8 (47.06%) VMware
3 4 (23.53%) Citrix
4 1 (5.88%) Zscaler