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 12 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 646 539 533
Rank change year-on-year -107 -6 -31
Contract jobs citing Client/Server 25 23 34
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.046% 0.070% 0.088%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.14% 0.20% 0.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 16 32
10th Percentile £318 £379 £314
25th Percentile £343 £438 £393
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £409 £519 £480
Median % change year-on-year -21.11% +8.19% -12.82%
75th Percentile £488 £548 £581
90th Percentile £539 £625 £597
UK excluding London median daily rate £445 £505 £553
% change year-on-year -11.84% -8.64% +0.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £21.25 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £21.25 -

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 18,463 11,731 11,703
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 33.84% 35.54% 30.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,091 7,182 7,228
10th Percentile £320 £300 £300
25th Percentile £423 £406 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £515 £543
Median % change year-on-year +1.94% -5.07% -1.36%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £675
90th Percentile £745 £763 £813
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,146 584 496
10th Percentile £14.11 £15.13 £14.06
25th Percentile £18.00 £18.87 £21.25
Median hourly rate £37.50 £30.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -40.00% +13.84%
75th Percentile £67.50 £55.25 £70.00
90th Percentile £82.31 £74.63 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.72 £30.00 £57.35
% change year-on-year +29.07% -47.69% +25.00%

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 12 September 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 12 September 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 -120 24 £409 -22.78% 40
London -60 20 £375 -29.25% 24
Work from Home -69 5 £474 -8.63% 80
UK excluding London -118 5 £445 -11.84% 20
North West -44 3 £445 -9.55% 2
North of England -71 3 £445 -9.55% 2
Scotland -27 1 - - 2
South East -58 1 - - 7

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 6 (24.00%) Confluence
2 3 (12.00%) nginx
2 3 (12.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 8 (32.00%) Azure
2 6 (24.00%) AWS
3 5 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (12.00%) Amazon EC2
4 3 (12.00%) GitHub
4 3 (12.00%) GitHub Actions
4 3 (12.00%) Google Workspace
4 3 (12.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 6 (24.00%) TCP/IP
2 3 (12.00%) DMZ
2 3 (12.00%) Firewall
2 3 (12.00%) OpenVPN
2 3 (12.00%) SSH
2 3 (12.00%) VPN
3 1 (4.00%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (16.00%) PostgreSQL
1 4 (16.00%) Relational Database
2 3 (12.00%) SQL Server
3 2 (8.00%) Oracle Database
4 1 (4.00%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 10 (40.00%) Git
2 4 (16.00%) Gradle
2 4 (16.00%) Maven
2 4 (16.00%) PowerBuilder
3 3 (12.00%) JIRA
3 3 (12.00%) Moq
General
1 9 (36.00%) Finance
2 6 (24.00%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (20.00%) Social Skills
4 4 (16.00%) Banking
5 3 (12.00%) Front Office
5 3 (12.00%) Investment Banking
5 3 (12.00%) Retail
6 2 (8.00%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (4.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (24.00%) Developer
2 3 (12.00%) Analyst
2 3 (12.00%) AWS Engineer
2 3 (12.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
2 3 (12.00%) Delivery Manager
2 3 (12.00%) Help Desk Analyst
2 3 (12.00%) IT Analyst
2 3 (12.00%) Java Engineer
2 3 (12.00%) Platform Engineer
2 3 (12.00%) Technical Delivery Manager
2 3 (12.00%) Technical Manager
3 2 (8.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 2 (8.00%) SCCM Engineer
3 2 (8.00%) Support Engineer
4 1 (4.00%) C++ Developer
4 1 (4.00%) Java Developer
4 1 (4.00%) Java Software Engineer
4 1 (4.00%) PowerBuilder Developer
4 1 (4.00%) Senior Java Engineer
4 1 (4.00%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (24.00%) REST
2 5 (20.00%) CSS
2 5 (20.00%) HTML
3 4 (16.00%) Spring
3 4 (16.00%) Spring Boot
4 3 (12.00%) .NET
4 3 (12.00%) boto
4 3 (12.00%) Django
4 3 (12.00%) JSF
4 3 (12.00%) JSP
4 3 (12.00%) OpenTofu
4 3 (12.00%) Terraform
4 3 (12.00%) Web Services
5 1 (4.00%) AngularJS
5 1 (4.00%) jQuery
5 1 (4.00%) React
5 1 (4.00%) RESTful
5 1 (4.00%) SOAP
5 1 (4.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (28.00%) Distributed Systems
1 7 (28.00%) Product Ownership
2 3 (12.00%) Distributed Applications
2 3 (12.00%) Linux Command Line
2 3 (12.00%) Onboarding
3 2 (8.00%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (4.00%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (4.00%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (4.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 8 (32.00%) Linux
2 5 (20.00%) Unix
2 5 (20.00%) Windows
3 2 (8.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (4.00%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (48.00%) Agile
2 10 (40.00%) Performance Optimisation
3 9 (36.00%) CI/CD
4 8 (32.00%) DevOps
4 8 (32.00%) Problem-Solving
4 8 (32.00%) Software Engineering
5 7 (28.00%) User Stories
6 6 (24.00%) Front End Development
7 5 (20.00%) Acceptance Criteria
7 5 (20.00%) Root Cause Analysis
7 5 (20.00%) Service Delivery
7 5 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
7 5 (20.00%) Test Automation
8 4 (16.00%) Clean Code
8 4 (16.00%) Continuous Improvement
8 4 (16.00%) Design Patterns
8 4 (16.00%) ITIL
8 4 (16.00%) Memory Management
8 4 (16.00%) Project Management
8 4 (16.00%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (32.00%) SQL
2 7 (28.00%) Java
3 6 (24.00%) JavaScript
4 3 (12.00%) PL/SQL
4 3 (12.00%) PowerShell
4 3 (12.00%) Python
5 1 (4.00%) C
5 1 (4.00%) C++
Qualifications
1 4 (16.00%) Degree
2 3 (12.00%) SC Cleared
2 3 (12.00%) Security Cleared
3 2 (8.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (8.00%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 2 (8.00%) MCSA
3 2 (8.00%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (4.00%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (4.00%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (24.00%) QA
2 2 (8.00%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (4.00%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (4.00%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (24.00%) Docker
2 2 (8.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (20.00%) SCCM
2 3 (12.00%) Ansible
2 3 (12.00%) SELinux
2 3 (12.00%) Single Sign-On
2 3 (12.00%) WSUS
Vendors
1 6 (24.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (20.00%) ServiceNow
3 4 (16.00%) Oracle
4 3 (12.00%) Atlassian
4 3 (12.00%) Bloomberg
4 3 (12.00%) Citrix
4 3 (12.00%) ION Trading
4 3 (12.00%) Red Hat
4 3 (12.00%) Reuters
5 1 (4.00%) Workday