Fat Client Contracts

Fat Client
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Fat Client in contract job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Fat Client over the 6 months leading up to 20 September 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 543 605 771
Rank change year-on-year +62 +166 -3
Contract jobs citing Fat Client 23 41 82
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.060% 0.082% 0.095%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.20% 0.25% 0.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 29 53
10th Percentile £319 £200 £150
25th Percentile £378 £263 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £400 £375
Median % change year-on-year +17.50% +6.67% -6.25%
75th Percentile £706 £547 £445
90th Percentile £838 £548 £625
UK excluding London median daily rate £423 £400 £225
% change year-on-year +5.63% +77.78% -30.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £20.75
Median hourly rate £23.80 £75.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -68.27% +248.84% +2.70%
75th Percentile - - £22.25
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £75.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year - +248.84% -

All Generic Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 11,671 16,108 28,389
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.40% 32.31% 33.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,127 11,023 19,708
10th Percentile £294 £300 £325
25th Percentile £414 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £675
90th Percentile £807 £775 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 465 456 583
10th Percentile £14.44 £16.76 £14.71
25th Percentile £21.25 £20.97 £17.56
Median hourly rate £50.00 £44.50 £26.50
Median % change year-on-year +12.36% +67.92% +6.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £65.44 £57.97
90th Percentile £75.00 £78.00 £72.87
UK excluding London median hourly rate £57.35 £49.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year +17.04% +122.73% +3.77%

Fat Client
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Fat Client as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Fat Client in the UK

Fat Client
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Fat Client.

Daily rate trend for Fat Client in the UK

Fat Client
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Fat Client over the 6 months to 20 September 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Fat Client in the UK

Fat Client
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Fat Client.

Hourly rate trend for Fat Client in the UK

Fat Client
Top 8 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 20 September 2024. 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 +57 23 £470 +17.50% 5
London +62 12 £675 +24.71% 3
UK excluding London +35 10 £423 +5.63% 2
South West +22 8 £470 +31.93%
Work from Home +80 5 £585 +6.95% 2
South East +16 1 £375 -16.67% 2
Midlands +9 1 £150 -3.13%
East Midlands +2 1 £150 -3.13%

Fat Client
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 12 (52.17%) SharePoint
2 3 (13.04%) IIS
2 3 (13.04%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 11 (47.83%) Microsoft 365
2 5 (21.74%) Azure
3 4 (17.39%) Akamai
3 4 (17.39%) Entra ID
4 3 (13.04%) AWS
4 3 (13.04%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 3 (13.04%) Mimecast
4 3 (13.04%) Nutanix
4 3 (13.04%) Rubrik
5 1 (4.35%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 1 (4.35%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (4.35%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (4.35%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 13 (56.52%) NAS
1 13 (56.52%) SAN
2 9 (39.13%) Skype
3 7 (30.43%) Firewall
4 4 (17.39%) DNS
5 3 (13.04%) DKIM
5 3 (13.04%) DMARC
5 3 (13.04%) Extranet
5 3 (13.04%) Internet
5 3 (13.04%) LAN
5 3 (13.04%) VPN
5 3 (13.04%) Wi-Fi
5 3 (13.04%) Wireless
6 1 (4.35%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (13.04%) SQL Server
2 1 (4.35%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (4.35%) MySQL
2 1 (4.35%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (4.35%) Git
1 1 (4.35%) Log4Net
1 1 (4.35%) NUnit
1 1 (4.35%) Selenium
1 1 (4.35%) SpecFlow
General
1 6 (26.09%) Public Sector
2 5 (21.74%) Finance
3 4 (17.39%) Electronics
3 4 (17.39%) Manufacturing
3 4 (17.39%) Marketing
3 4 (17.39%) Military
3 4 (17.39%) Telecoms
4 2 (8.70%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (8.70%) Legal
5 1 (4.35%) Banking
5 1 (4.35%) Front Office
5 1 (4.35%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 7 (30.43%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 6 (26.09%) Wintel Engineer
3 4 (17.39%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 4 (17.39%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
3 4 (17.39%) Architect
3 4 (17.39%) Support Engineer
4 3 (13.04%) IT Support
4 3 (13.04%) Support Officer
4 3 (13.04%) Wintel Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (13.04%) Wintel Support
4 3 (13.04%) Wintel Support Engineer
5 2 (8.70%) Consultant
5 2 (8.70%) Infrastructure Support
5 2 (8.70%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
5 2 (8.70%) Security Architect
5 2 (8.70%) Senior
5 2 (8.70%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (8.70%) Senior Wintel Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
6 1 (4.35%) Desktop Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (13.04%) Software Packaging
2 1 (4.35%) .NET
2 1 (4.35%) Web Services
2 1 (4.35%) WebRTC
Miscellaneous
1 23 (100.00%) Thin Client
2 15 (65.22%) PKI
3 9 (39.13%) Clustering
4 4 (17.39%) Onboarding
5 3 (13.04%) Data Centre
5 3 (13.04%) Virtual Team
6 1 (4.35%) Derivative
6 1 (4.35%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 16 (69.57%) Windows
2 9 (39.13%) Windows Server
3 8 (34.78%) Linux
4 7 (30.43%) Windows Server 2012
5 5 (21.74%) Windows Server 2016
6 3 (13.04%) Unix
7 1 (4.35%) Ubuntu
7 1 (4.35%) Windows 10
7 1 (4.35%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (39.13%) Database Mirroring
1 9 (39.13%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 9 (39.13%) Key Management
1 9 (39.13%) Patch Management
2 7 (30.43%) Incident Management
3 4 (17.39%) Application Packaging
3 4 (17.39%) Business Intelligence
3 4 (17.39%) Digital Marketing
3 4 (17.39%) Disaster Recovery
3 4 (17.39%) Identity Access Management
3 4 (17.39%) Programme Management
4 3 (13.04%) Converged Infrastructure
4 3 (13.04%) Deployment Automation
4 3 (13.04%) Kalman Filter
4 3 (13.04%) Network Monitoring
4 3 (13.04%) Network Virtualisation
4 3 (13.04%) Security Hardening
4 3 (13.04%) Server Management
4 3 (13.04%) Task Automation
4 3 (13.04%) Web Filtering
Programming Languages
1 13 (56.52%) PowerShell
2 10 (43.48%) SQL
3 1 (4.35%) C#
Qualifications
1 11 (47.83%) Security Cleared
2 5 (21.74%) DV Cleared
2 5 (21.74%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (13.04%) SLA
2 1 (4.35%) QA
System Software
1 15 (65.22%) Active Directory
1 15 (65.22%) VMware Infrastructure
2 12 (52.17%) Hyper-V
3 9 (39.13%) VMware NSX
3 9 (39.13%) vSphere
4 3 (13.04%) BitLocker
4 3 (13.04%) Microsoft App-V
4 3 (13.04%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (4.35%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 12 (52.17%) SCCM
2 9 (39.13%) Failover Clustering
2 9 (39.13%) Microsoft Clustering
2 9 (39.13%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
3 4 (17.39%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 4 (17.39%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (13.04%) NetBackup
4 3 (13.04%) SCOM
4 3 (13.04%) SCVMM
4 3 (13.04%) VxRail
5 1 (4.35%) Ansible
5 1 (4.35%) Nessus
5 1 (4.35%) Red Hat Satellite
5 1 (4.35%) vCenter Server
5 1 (4.35%) WSUS
5 1 (4.35%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 15 (65.22%) Microsoft
1 15 (65.22%) VMware
2 6 (26.09%) HP
3 5 (21.74%) ServiceNow
4 4 (17.39%) AlgoSec
4 4 (17.39%) BT
4 4 (17.39%) ForeScout
4 4 (17.39%) SAP
5 3 (13.04%) Avaya
5 3 (13.04%) Brocade
5 3 (13.04%) Cisco
5 3 (13.04%) Commvault
5 3 (13.04%) Dell
5 3 (13.04%) EMC
5 3 (13.04%) Forcepoint
5 3 (13.04%) Juniper
5 3 (13.04%) Mitel
5 3 (13.04%) Proofpoint
5 3 (13.04%) SolarWinds
5 3 (13.04%) Wyse