Client/Server Contract Job Trends

Client Server
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Client/Server in contract job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Client/Server over the 6 months leading up to 6 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 606 499 520
Rank change year-on-year -107 +21 -16
Contract jobs citing Client/Server 27 19 65
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.055% 0.065% 0.15%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.17% 0.19% 0.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 12 46
10th Percentile £377 £360 £312
25th Percentile £400 £400 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £482 £501
Median % change year-on-year -14.42% -3.79% -15.37%
75th Percentile £419 £541 £583
90th Percentile £451 £575 £595
UK excluding London median daily rate £399 £482 £550
% change year-on-year -17.17% -12.36% -1.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 11
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate - - £40.00
75th Percentile - - £43.43
90th Percentile - - £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £40.00
% change year-on-year - - -44.83%

All Generic Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 15,984 9,914 12,986
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.36% 34.14% 30.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,842 6,246 8,301
10th Percentile £313 £300 £272
25th Percentile £413 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £663
90th Percentile £750 £775 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +3.58% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 789 415 928
10th Percentile £16.00 £15.84 £12.25
25th Percentile £20.82 £20.21 £15.24
Median hourly rate £42.50 £33.05 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year +28.59% -6.90% +61.36%
75th Percentile £70.00 £63.00 £61.30
90th Percentile £85.60 £82.25 £71.44
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.96 £32.81 £35.00
% change year-on-year +33.98% -6.26% +59.09%

Client/Server
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Client/Server relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Client/Server job vacancy trend in the UK

Client/Server
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Client/Server.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Client/Server

Client/Server
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Client/Server over the 6 months to 6 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Client/Server in the UK

Client/Server
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Client/Server.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Client/Server

Client/Server
Top 8 Contract Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 6 June 2026. 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
England -99 20 £413 -19.28% 24
London -63 17 £413 -11.29% 14
UK excluding London -105 6 £399 -17.17% 12
Scotland -10 3 - -
Work from Home -49 3 £500 +11.11% 17
South East -63 2 - - 3
Midlands -55 1 £399 -11.28%
West Midlands -57 1 £399 -11.28%

Client/Server
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 3 (11.11%) Appian
1 3 (11.11%) IIS
1 3 (11.11%) JBoss
1 3 (11.11%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 3 (11.11%) Tomcat
1 3 (11.11%) WebLogic
2 1 (3.70%) Tuxedo
Applications
1 4 (14.81%) Microsoft Office
1 4 (14.81%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (14.81%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 11 (40.74%) Microsoft 365
2 7 (25.93%) Azure
3 5 (18.52%) Google Workspace
4 1 (3.70%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (3.70%) IaaS
4 1 (3.70%) PaaS
4 1 (3.70%) Power Platform
4 1 (3.70%) PowerApps
4 1 (3.70%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (18.52%) DMZ
1 5 (18.52%) Firewall
1 5 (18.52%) TCP/IP
1 5 (18.52%) VPN
2 4 (14.81%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (25.93%) Relational Database
2 5 (18.52%) SQL Server
3 4 (14.81%) Elasticsearch
3 4 (14.81%) MySQL
3 4 (14.81%) Oracle Database
3 4 (14.81%) Redis
4 1 (3.70%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (3.70%) IDMS
4 1 (3.70%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 4 (14.81%) Git
2 3 (11.11%) Moq
3 1 (3.70%) CA Gen
3 1 (3.70%) Cucumber
3 1 (3.70%) Cypress.io
3 1 (3.70%) Jenkins
3 1 (3.70%) JIRA
3 1 (3.70%) Selenium
3 1 (3.70%) Subversion
3 1 (3.70%) TeamCity
3 1 (3.70%) WebDriver
General
1 12 (44.44%) Social Skills
2 5 (18.52%) Banking
2 5 (18.52%) Finance
2 5 (18.52%) Front Office
2 5 (18.52%) Investment Banking
3 4 (14.81%) Documentation Skills
3 4 (14.81%) Retail
4 2 (7.41%) Telecoms
5 1 (3.70%) Advertising
5 1 (3.70%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (3.70%) Public Sector
5 1 (3.70%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 8 (29.63%) Architect
2 6 (22.22%) Developer
3 5 (18.52%) Analyst
4 4 (14.81%) 3rd Line Support
4 4 (14.81%) Citrix Support
4 4 (14.81%) Help Desk Analyst
4 4 (14.81%) IT Analyst
4 4 (14.81%) Technical Architect
5 2 (7.41%) Appian Architect
5 2 (7.41%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 2 (7.41%) Lead
5 2 (7.41%) Lead Architect
5 2 (7.41%) Lead Developer
5 2 (7.41%) SCCM Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) Support Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) Banking Analyst
6 1 (3.70%) Financial Analyst
6 1 (3.70%) Help Desk Support
6 1 (3.70%) QA Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) Quality Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (22.22%) Web Services
2 5 (18.52%) .NET
2 5 (18.52%) CSS
2 5 (18.52%) HTML
2 5 (18.52%) REST
2 5 (18.52%) SOAP
3 4 (14.81%) RabbitMQ
3 4 (14.81%) VML
4 3 (11.11%) Django
5 2 (7.41%) AngularJS
5 2 (7.41%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 5 (18.52%) Onboarding
2 4 (14.81%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (11.11%) Distributed Applications
3 3 (11.11%) N-Tier
4 1 (3.70%) Data Centre
4 1 (3.70%) Mobile App
4 1 (3.70%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 11 (40.74%) Windows
2 4 (14.81%) Windows 10
2 4 (14.81%) Windows Server 2016
2 4 (14.81%) Windows Server 2019
3 2 (7.41%) Unix
4 1 (3.70%) Linux
4 1 (3.70%) Solaris
4 1 (3.70%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (40.74%) Agile
2 7 (25.93%) Code Quality
2 7 (25.93%) Design Patterns
3 6 (22.22%) ITIL
3 6 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (22.22%) Service Delivery
4 5 (18.52%) Change Management
4 5 (18.52%) Migration
4 5 (18.52%) Service Management
5 4 (14.81%) CI/CD
5 4 (14.81%) Data Architecture
5 4 (14.81%) Deployment Automation
5 4 (14.81%) E-Commerce
5 4 (14.81%) Microservices
5 4 (14.81%) Root Cause Analysis
5 4 (14.81%) SOA
5 4 (14.81%) Software Deployment
5 4 (14.81%) Stakeholder Identification
5 4 (14.81%) Technical Leadership
6 3 (11.11%) Application Security
Programming Languages
1 13 (48.15%) SQL
2 6 (22.22%) JavaScript
2 6 (22.22%) PowerShell
3 5 (18.52%) PL/SQL
4 4 (14.81%) PHP
5 3 (11.11%) Python
6 1 (3.70%) C#
6 1 (3.70%) C++
6 1 (3.70%) Java
6 1 (3.70%) Shell Script
6 1 (3.70%) T-SQL
6 1 (3.70%) VBA
6 1 (3.70%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 7 (25.93%) Degree
2 5 (18.52%) SC Cleared
2 5 (18.52%) Security Cleared
3 4 (14.81%) CCA
3 4 (14.81%) Citrix Certification
4 3 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (11.11%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 3 (11.11%) MCSA
4 3 (11.11%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (11.11%) QA
2 1 (3.70%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (3.70%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (14.81%) Hyper-V
1 4 (14.81%) Varnish
1 4 (14.81%) XenApp
1 4 (14.81%) XenDesktop
2 3 (11.11%) Docker
3 2 (7.41%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 11 (40.74%) SCCM
2 4 (14.81%) SCVMM
2 4 (14.81%) WSUS
Vendors
1 9 (33.33%) Citrix
2 6 (22.22%) Oracle
3 5 (18.52%) Bloomberg
3 5 (18.52%) ION Trading
3 5 (18.52%) Microsoft
3 5 (18.52%) Reuters
4 4 (14.81%) Adobe
5 2 (7.41%) ServiceNow
5 2 (7.41%) Workday