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 24 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 554 515 492
Rank change year-on-year -39 -23 +137
Contract jobs citing Client/Server 32 38 98
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.087% 0.11% 0.23%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.25% 0.35% 0.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 33 64
10th Percentile £421 £388 £350
25th Percentile £481 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £580 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.45% +9.95% -16.63%
75th Percentile £633 £588 £619
90th Percentile £672 £660 £681
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £550 £501
% change year-on-year -4.55% +9.78% -8.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 6
10th Percentile £28.03 - £40.82
25th Percentile £38.19 £71.25 £43.09
Median hourly rate £55.13 £72.50 £54.94
Median % change year-on-year -23.97% +31.96% -3.38%
75th Percentile £72.06 £73.75 £65.08
90th Percentile £82.23 - £68.80
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.13 £72.50 -
% change year-on-year -23.97% - -

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 12,900 10,871 13,631
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 34.87% 32.02% 31.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,070 6,494 9,056
10th Percentile £275 £269 £263
25th Percentile £406 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £533 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.25% -3.09% -
75th Percentile £626 £660 £666
90th Percentile £738 £775 £768
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 641 337 501
10th Percentile £13.93 £17.40 £16.25
25th Percentile £18.05 £22.72 £20.00
Median hourly rate £27.00 £33.54 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.50% -21.08% +21.43%
75th Percentile £60.61 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.75 £76.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.21 £32.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -16.28% -27.78% +51.41%

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 24 December 2025.

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
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Client/Server over the 6 months to 24 December 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Client/Server in the UK

Client/Server
Top 13 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 24 December 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
England -28 28 £600 +9.09% 92
UK excluding London -47 20 £525 -4.55% 50
Work from Home +8 13 £520 +14.41% 67
London -5 11 £580 +18.97% 44
Midlands - 7 £600 - 4
West Midlands - 6 £600 - 3
South East -16 5 £595 +3.48% 16
Wales - 3 £520 - 1
South West -3 2 £475 -51.28% 1
Yorkshire -36 2 - - 1
North of England -50 2 - - 20
Scotland -1 1 - -
East Midlands - 1 - - 1

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 2 (6.25%) CMS
2 1 (3.13%) Apache
2 1 (3.13%) Confluence
Applications
1 5 (15.63%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (6.25%) MS Visio
3 1 (3.13%) InVision
3 1 (3.13%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 1 (3.13%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (3.13%) Magento
1 1 (3.13%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 10 (31.25%) Azure
2 5 (15.63%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (12.50%) AWS
4 2 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (3.13%) Adobe Creative Cloud
5 1 (3.13%) BigCommerce
5 1 (3.13%) Entra ID
5 1 (3.13%) GCP
5 1 (3.13%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (12.50%) Cisco IPT
2 3 (9.38%) LAN
3 2 (6.25%) NetScaler
4 1 (3.13%) Asterisk PBX
4 1 (3.13%) Cisco ASA
4 1 (3.13%) Cisco Firepower
4 1 (3.13%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
4 1 (3.13%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 1 (3.13%) HTTP
4 1 (3.13%) NAS
4 1 (3.13%) Network Security
4 1 (3.13%) NX-OS
4 1 (3.13%) SAN
4 1 (3.13%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (12.50%) SQL Server
2 2 (6.25%) Redis
2 2 (6.25%) Relational Database
2 2 (6.25%) SAP HANA
3 1 (3.13%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (3.13%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (3.13%) Metadata
3 1 (3.13%) MySQL
3 1 (3.13%) NoSQL
3 1 (3.13%) Oracle Database
3 1 (3.13%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 4 (12.50%) Cypress.io
1 4 (12.50%) Git
2 1 (3.13%) Artifactory
2 1 (3.13%) Bitbucket
2 1 (3.13%) Cucumber
2 1 (3.13%) GitLab
2 1 (3.13%) Jenkins
2 1 (3.13%) JIRA
2 1 (3.13%) Mocha
2 1 (3.13%) REST Assured
2 1 (3.13%) Selenium
2 1 (3.13%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 6 (18.75%) Documentation Skills
1 6 (18.75%) Public Sector
2 5 (15.63%) Legal
2 5 (15.63%) Social Skills
3 4 (12.50%) Finance
4 3 (9.38%) Banking
4 3 (9.38%) Electronics
5 1 (3.13%) Automotive
5 1 (3.13%) Marketing
5 1 (3.13%) Retail
Job Titles
1 6 (18.75%) Consultant
2 5 (15.63%) Developer
2 5 (15.63%) Lead
3 4 (12.50%) Architect
4 3 (9.38%) Application Integration Engineer
4 3 (9.38%) Applications Engineer
4 3 (9.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (9.38%) Integration Engineer
4 3 (9.38%) Technology Consultant
4 3 (9.38%) VMware Engineer
4 3 (9.38%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (9.38%) Windows Engineer
4 3 (9.38%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (6.25%) 3rd Line Support
5 2 (6.25%) ABAP Developer
5 2 (6.25%) Analyst
5 2 (6.25%) Citrix Support
5 2 (6.25%) SAP Developer
5 2 (6.25%) Solutions Architect
5 2 (6.25%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (21.88%) .NET
2 6 (18.75%) REST
3 5 (15.63%) Jest
3 5 (15.63%) React
4 4 (12.50%) .NET Core
4 4 (12.50%) Next.js
5 3 (9.38%) CSS
5 3 (9.38%) HTML
5 3 (9.38%) SOAP
6 2 (6.25%) .NET Framework
6 2 (6.25%) BAPI
6 2 (6.25%) Entity Framework
6 2 (6.25%) Node.js
6 2 (6.25%) SAP Smart Forms
6 2 (6.25%) Web Services
7 1 (3.13%) AngularJS
7 1 (3.13%) Express.js
7 1 (3.13%) FreeSWITCH
7 1 (3.13%) RabbitMQ
7 1 (3.13%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 3 (9.38%) Product Ownership
1 3 (9.38%) Replication
2 2 (6.25%) Onboarding
3 1 (3.13%) Cloud Native
3 1 (3.13%) CMDB
3 1 (3.13%) Data Centre
3 1 (3.13%) Marketing Technology
3 1 (3.13%) NHS
3 1 (3.13%) PACS
3 1 (3.13%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 11 (34.38%) Windows
2 8 (25.00%) Linux
2 8 (25.00%) Windows Server
3 5 (15.63%) Windows Server 2016
4 4 (12.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (9.38%) Ubuntu
6 2 (6.25%) Windows 10
6 2 (6.25%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (3.13%) CentOS
7 1 (3.13%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (40.63%) Agile
2 9 (28.13%) CI/CD
3 8 (25.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
4 7 (21.88%) Continuous Improvement
4 7 (21.88%) Test Automation
5 6 (18.75%) DevOps
5 6 (18.75%) Epics
6 5 (15.63%) Acceptance Criteria
6 5 (15.63%) BDD
6 5 (15.63%) Case Management
6 5 (15.63%) Code Quality
6 5 (15.63%) E-Commerce
6 5 (15.63%) End-to-End Testing
6 5 (15.63%) Front End Development
6 5 (15.63%) SDLC
6 5 (15.63%) Unit Testing
7 4 (12.50%) Data Protection
7 4 (12.50%) Identity Management
7 4 (12.50%) Migration
7 4 (12.50%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 9 (28.13%) PowerShell
1 9 (28.13%) SQL
2 5 (15.63%) JavaScript
2 5 (15.63%) Python
2 5 (15.63%) TypeScript
3 3 (9.38%) VBScript
4 2 (6.25%) ABAP
4 2 (6.25%) T-SQL
5 1 (3.13%) C#
5 1 (3.13%) C++
5 1 (3.13%) Java
5 1 (3.13%) PHP
5 1 (3.13%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (28.13%) Security Cleared
2 7 (21.88%) Degree
2 7 (21.88%) DV Cleared
3 2 (6.25%) CCA
3 2 (6.25%) Citrix Certification
3 2 (6.25%) SC Cleared
4 1 (3.13%) CCNP
4 1 (3.13%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (3.13%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (15.63%) Accessibility
2 4 (12.50%) GDPR
2 4 (12.50%) PERC
3 3 (9.38%) WCAG
4 2 (6.25%) QA
System Software
1 5 (15.63%) Docker
2 4 (12.50%) Active Directory
2 4 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (9.38%) Hyper-V
3 3 (9.38%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (6.25%) XenApp
4 2 (6.25%) XenDesktop
5 1 (3.13%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 5 (15.63%) SCCM
2 3 (9.38%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (6.25%) SCVMM
4 1 (3.13%) Ansible
4 1 (3.13%) FortiGate
4 1 (3.13%) Kubernetes
4 1 (3.13%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (21.88%) Microsoft
1 7 (21.88%) VMware
2 3 (9.38%) Oracle
2 3 (9.38%) SAP
2 3 (9.38%) Veeam
3 2 (6.25%) Adobe
3 2 (6.25%) ArcSight
3 2 (6.25%) Citrix
3 2 (6.25%) Red Hat
3 2 (6.25%) ServiceNow
4 1 (3.13%) Arista
4 1 (3.13%) Cisco
4 1 (3.13%) F5
4 1 (3.13%) Fortinet
4 1 (3.13%) iManage
4 1 (3.13%) Salesforce
4 1 (3.13%) Sitecore
4 1 (3.13%) Veritas