Client/Server Contracts in Wales

Client Server
UK > Wales

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Client/Server in contract job vacancies in Wales. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Client/Server over the 6 months leading up to 24 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 36 - 55
Rank change year-on-year - - +19
Contract jobs citing Client/Server 3 0 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wales 0.83% - 0.19%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.33% - 0.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £509 - -
25th Percentile £509 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 - -
75th Percentile £528 - -
90th Percentile £529 - -
UK median daily rate £482 £501 £570
% change year-on-year -3.79% -12.11% +3.64%

All Generic Skills
Wales

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 in Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 129 172 220
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 35.83% 39.45% 41.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 114 151
10th Percentile £176 £138 £160
25th Percentile £266 £274 £211
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £493 £475
Median % change year-on-year -23.86% +3.68% -
75th Percentile £467 £550 £578
90th Percentile £525 £585 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 15 13
10th Percentile £13.08 £11.75 £13.15
25th Percentile £15.80 £15.32 £15.25
Median hourly rate £20.50 £23.66 £18.06
Median % change year-on-year -13.36% +31.01% +9.45%
75th Percentile £21.01 £25.60 £22.00
90th Percentile £26.69 £43.25 £26.20
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £40.00 £35.50
% change year-on-year -25.00% +12.68% +31.58%

Client/Server
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

Job postings citing Client/Server as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Wales.

Job vacancy trend for Client/Server in Wales

Client/Server
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Wales

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Client/Server in Wales.

Daily rate trend for Client/Server in Wales

Client/Server
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Wales

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Client/Server in Wales.

Hourly rate trend for Client/Server in Wales

Client/Server
Contract Job Locations in Wales

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 Wales region over the 6 months to 24 July 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 Wales - 3 £520 - 4
Client/Server
UK

Client/Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wales 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) Cypress.io
1 3 (100.00%) Git
General
1 3 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Lead
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) .NET
1 3 (100.00%) .NET Core
1 3 (100.00%) Jest
1 3 (100.00%) Next.js
1 3 (100.00%) React
2 2 (66.67%) .NET Framework
2 2 (66.67%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Case Management
1 3 (100.00%) Code Quality
1 3 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 3 (100.00%) End-to-End Testing
1 3 (100.00%) Front End Development
1 3 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 3 (100.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 3 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 3 (100.00%) Unit Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Test Automation
2 2 (66.67%) Test Strategy
3 1 (33.33%) CRM
3 1 (33.33%) Service Delivery
3 1 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (33.33%) Web Accessibility
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) TypeScript
2 2 (66.67%) SQL
3 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (100.00%) Accessibility
2 2 (66.67%) QA
2 2 (66.67%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft