Client/Server Contracts with Work from Home Options

Client Server
UK > Work from Home

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Client/Server in contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH). Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Client/Server over the 6 months to 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 340 395 530
Rank change year-on-year +55 +135 -77
Contract jobs citing Client/Server 8 81 92
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.053% 0.32% 0.21%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.19% 1.01% 0.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 52 55
10th Percentile £358 £456 £413
25th Percentile £375 £513 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £748 £600
Median % change year-on-year -46.49% +24.58% +41.18%
75th Percentile £438 £750 £613
90th Percentile £513 - £788
UK median daily rate £538 £613 £600
% change year-on-year -12.24% +2.08% +27.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 11 9
10th Percentile - £70.00 £43.00
25th Percentile - £71.25 £46.25
Median hourly rate - £75.00 £65.50
Median % change year-on-year - +14.50% -0.03%
75th Percentile - - £65.54
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £75.00 £65.54
% change year-on-year -46.67% +14.43% +13.00%

All Generic Skills
Work from Home

Client/Server is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 4,322 8,030 13,983
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 28.52% 31.44% 31.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,947 5,647 9,980
10th Percentile £325 £363 £360
25th Percentile £431 £451 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year - +1.85% +9.09%
75th Percentile £675 £684 £650
90th Percentile £800 £792 £750
UK median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.18% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 193 154 225
10th Percentile £15.44 £19.00 £12.42
25th Percentile £25.50 £25.75 £20.75
Median hourly rate £50.00 £55.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +23.60% +29.93%
75th Percentile £65.03 £70.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £85.00 £66.15
UK median hourly rate £30.14 £22.49 £27.25
% change year-on-year +34.04% -17.49% +3.52%

Client/Server
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Client/Server as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Client/Server trend for jobs with a WFH option

Client/Server
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Client/Server.

Client/Server daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Client/Server
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Client/Server over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Client/Server daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Client/Server
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Client/Server.

Client/Server hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Client/Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 1 (12.50%) OpenEdge
Business Applications
1 1 (12.50%) MFGPRO
1 1 (12.50%) Sage 50
Cloud Services
1 2 (25.00%) Azure
1 2 (25.00%) IaaS
1 2 (25.00%) PaaS
2 1 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (12.50%) iPaaS
2 1 (12.50%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) LAN
1 1 (12.50%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (62.50%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (62.50%) MSI
1 5 (62.50%) Visual Studio
1 5 (62.50%) WiX
2 1 (12.50%) Cucumber
2 1 (12.50%) Cypress.io
2 1 (12.50%) Git
2 1 (12.50%) Jenkins
2 1 (12.50%) JIRA
2 1 (12.50%) Selenium
2 1 (12.50%) Subversion
2 1 (12.50%) TeamCity
2 1 (12.50%) WebDriver
General
1 7 (87.50%) Social Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Senior
1 5 (62.50%) Software Engineer
2 3 (37.50%) Senior Software Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Administrator
3 1 (12.50%) Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Functional Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Functional Test Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Technical Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Test Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Technical Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (87.50%) .NET
2 5 (62.50%) ASP.NET
2 5 (62.50%) ASP.NET Web API
2 5 (62.50%) Entity Framework
2 5 (62.50%) JSON
2 5 (62.50%) LINQ
2 5 (62.50%) NHibernate
2 5 (62.50%) REST
2 5 (62.50%) XML
2 5 (62.50%) XSLT
3 1 (12.50%) J2EE
3 1 (12.50%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 5 (62.50%) Web 2.0
2 1 (12.50%) Mobile App
2 1 (12.50%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 6 (75.00%) Windows
2 1 (12.50%) HPUX
2 1 (12.50%) Linux
2 1 (12.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (12.50%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) Configuration Management
1 5 (62.50%) Design Patterns
1 5 (62.50%) OO
1 5 (62.50%) Performance Tuning
1 5 (62.50%) Problem-Solving
1 5 (62.50%) Software Engineering
2 2 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (25.00%) Roadmaps
2 2 (25.00%) SOA
3 1 (12.50%) Agile
3 1 (12.50%) BCP
3 1 (12.50%) Business Continuity
3 1 (12.50%) Enterprise Architecture
3 1 (12.50%) ERP
3 1 (12.50%) Migration
3 1 (12.50%) Software Testing
3 1 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (12.50%) Systems Analysis
3 1 (12.50%) TDD
3 1 (12.50%) V-Model
Programming Languages
1 6 (75.00%) C#
1 6 (75.00%) SQL
2 5 (62.50%) T-SQL
3 1 (12.50%) C++
3 1 (12.50%) Java
3 1 (12.50%) JavaScript
3 1 (12.50%) Shell Script
3 1 (12.50%) VBA
3 1 (12.50%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 5 (62.50%) Degree
2 1 (12.50%) ISEB
2 1 (12.50%) ISTQB
2 1 (12.50%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Hyper-V
1 1 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) HP
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft
1 1 (12.50%) Progress
1 1 (12.50%) QAD
1 1 (12.50%) Red Hat
1 1 (12.50%) VMware