Client/Server Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Client Server
England > West Midlands

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Client/Server in contract job vacancies in the West Midlands. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Client/Server over the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 135 - 103
Rank change year-on-year - - +70
Contract jobs citing Client/Server 6 0 13
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.27% - 0.70%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.76% - 1.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 8
10th Percentile £500 - £409
25th Percentile £575 - £426
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - £460
Median % change year-on-year - - -29.23%
75th Percentile £625 - £575
90th Percentile £648 - -
England median daily rate £600 £563 £500
% change year-on-year +6.67% +12.44% -11.07%

All Generic Skills
West Midlands

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 the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 792 490 674
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 35.63% 29.13% 36.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 477 302 425
10th Percentile £250 £213 £275
25th Percentile £390 £396 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -11.36% +10.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £588 £635 £625
90th Percentile £650 £725 £720
England median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - -3.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 18 39
10th Percentile £18.50 £18.77 £17.01
25th Percentile £18.87 £20.88 £17.86
Median hourly rate £23.05 £30.23 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.74% +31.41% +23.11%
75th Percentile £40.46 £44.95 £67.50
90th Percentile £50.00 £55.85 £67.75
England median hourly rate £29.00 £37.50 £43.63
% change year-on-year -22.67% -14.04% +24.64%

Client/Server
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Client/Server job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

Client/Server
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

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

Client/Server
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Client/Server in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 14 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Client/Server in the West Midlands

Client/Server
Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

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

Client/Server
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 14 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
Worcestershire - 4 £603 -
Birmingham - 1 £450 -
Client/Server
England

Client/Server
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) Azure
2 2 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (16.67%) AWS
3 1 (16.67%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) Cisco ASA
1 1 (16.67%) Cisco Firepower
1 1 (16.67%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
1 1 (16.67%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
1 1 (16.67%) HTTP
1 1 (16.67%) Network Security
1 1 (16.67%) NX-OS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Metadata
1 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 4 (66.67%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Application Integration Engineer
1 3 (50.00%) Applications Engineer
1 3 (50.00%) Integration Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Network Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) REST
Operating Systems
1 4 (66.67%) Linux
1 4 (66.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 4 (66.67%) Windows
1 4 (66.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Agile
1 3 (50.00%) Application Packaging
1 3 (50.00%) DevOps
1 3 (50.00%) Reverse Engineering
1 3 (50.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
1 3 (50.00%) Scrum
2 2 (33.33%) SIEM
3 1 (16.67%) ArchiMate
3 1 (16.67%) Collaborative Working
3 1 (16.67%) Database Security
3 1 (16.67%) Document Management
3 1 (16.67%) Epics
3 1 (16.67%) High Availability
3 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (16.67%) Roadmaps
3 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (16.67%) Task Automation
3 1 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (16.67%) TOGAF
3 1 (16.67%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) PowerShell
2 3 (50.00%) Python
2 3 (50.00%) VBScript
3 1 (16.67%) SQL
3 1 (16.67%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (66.67%) DV Cleared
1 4 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (16.67%) CCNP
2 1 (16.67%) Cisco Certification
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) VMware
2 2 (33.33%) ArcSight
3 1 (16.67%) Arista
3 1 (16.67%) Cisco
3 1 (16.67%) F5
3 1 (16.67%) Fortinet
3 1 (16.67%) iManage
3 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
3 1 (16.67%) Red Hat