Client/Server Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Client Server
UK > Work from Home

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Client/Server in remote or hybrid contract work. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Client/Server over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 294 337 395
Rank change year-on-year +43 +58 +143
Contract jobs citing Client/Server 10 8 82
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.10% 0.052% 0.32%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.31% 0.18% 1.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 8 53
10th Percentile £363 £358 £456
25th Percentile £396 £375 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £400 £745
Median % change year-on-year - -46.31% +24.17%
75th Percentile £461 £438 £750
90th Percentile £511 £513 -
UK median daily rate £450 £550 £612
% change year-on-year -18.18% -10.13% +2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 11
10th Percentile - - £70.00
25th Percentile - - £71.25
Median hourly rate - - £75.00
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - £40.00 £75.00
% change year-on-year - -46.67% +14.43%

All Generic Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 3,272 4,408 8,138
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 33.03% 28.73% 31.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,222 2,974 5,725
10th Percentile £350 £325 £363
25th Percentile £425 £431 £454
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.91% - +2.33%
75th Percentile £680 £675 £688
90th Percentile £825 £800 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 76 199 151
10th Percentile £18.75 £15.48 £19.00
25th Percentile £26.25 £25.50 £31.38
Median hourly rate £41.75 £51.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.14% -11.30% +29.21%
75th Percentile £64.57 £65.02 £70.00
90th Percentile £78.13 £72.50 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £32.05 £30.00 £22.49
% change year-on-year +6.83% +33.42% -18.24%

Client/Server
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Client/Server as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Client/Server trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

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

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options 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 remote working options citing Client/Server over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

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 remote working options 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (20.00%) Azure
1 2 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (20.00%) IaaS
1 2 (20.00%) PaaS
1 2 (20.00%) Power Platform
1 2 (20.00%) PowerApps
1 2 (20.00%) SaaS
2 1 (10.00%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (10.00%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (30.00%) Firewall
2 2 (20.00%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
2 2 (20.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
2 2 (20.00%) NX-OS
3 1 (10.00%) Cisco ASA
3 1 (10.00%) Cisco Firepower
3 1 (10.00%) Ethernet VPN
3 1 (10.00%) HTTP
3 1 (10.00%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (10.00%) Network Security
3 1 (10.00%) VPN
3 1 (10.00%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (30.00%) JIRA
1 3 (30.00%) Selenium
2 2 (20.00%) Cucumber
2 2 (20.00%) Cypress.io
2 2 (20.00%) Git
2 2 (20.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (20.00%) Postman
2 2 (20.00%) Subversion
2 2 (20.00%) TeamCity
2 2 (20.00%) WebDriver
3 1 (10.00%) GitLab
General
1 3 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Banking
2 2 (20.00%) Finance
2 2 (20.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (20.00%) Architect
1 2 (20.00%) QA Engineer
1 2 (20.00%) Senior
1 2 (20.00%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (10.00%) 2nd Line Support
2 1 (10.00%) Analyst
2 1 (10.00%) Desktop Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Desktop Support
2 1 (10.00%) Desktop Support Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Developer
2 1 (10.00%) Integration Architect
2 1 (10.00%) Network Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Operations Analyst
2 1 (10.00%) Security Analyst
2 1 (10.00%) Senior Developer
2 1 (10.00%) Senior QA Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Senior UI Developer
2 1 (10.00%) Support Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Tester
2 1 (10.00%) UI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (20.00%) .NET
2 1 (10.00%) CSS
2 1 (10.00%) HTML
2 1 (10.00%) JSON
2 1 (10.00%) Node.js
2 1 (10.00%) RAML
2 1 (10.00%) React
2 1 (10.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Mobile App
2 1 (10.00%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (10.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (10.00%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (10.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 1 (10.00%) Mainframe
2 1 (10.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (10.00%) Security Operations Centre
2 1 (10.00%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 2 (20.00%) Windows
2 1 (10.00%) Android
2 1 (10.00%) Apple iOS
2 1 (10.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (40.00%) Agile
2 3 (30.00%) BDD
2 3 (30.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (30.00%) Feature Driven Development
2 3 (30.00%) Migration
2 3 (30.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 3 (30.00%) TDD
2 3 (30.00%) Test Automation
2 3 (30.00%) Waterfall
3 2 (20.00%) ATDD
3 2 (20.00%) DevOps
3 2 (20.00%) Incident Response
3 2 (20.00%) Kanban
3 2 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (20.00%) Root Cause Analysis
3 2 (20.00%) SOA
3 2 (20.00%) Software Delivery
3 2 (20.00%) Validation
3 2 (20.00%) V-Model
4 1 (10.00%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (40.00%) JavaScript
2 3 (30.00%) C#
3 2 (20.00%) C++
3 2 (20.00%) Java
3 2 (20.00%) Shell Script
3 2 (20.00%) SQL
3 2 (20.00%) VBA
3 2 (20.00%) VBScript
4 1 (10.00%) Bash
4 1 (10.00%) PowerShell
4 1 (10.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (30.00%) ISTQB
2 2 (20.00%) CCNP
2 2 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (20.00%) ISEB
2 2 (20.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
3 1 (10.00%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (20.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 3 (30.00%) Cisco
2 2 (20.00%) Arista
2 2 (20.00%) F5
3 1 (10.00%) Fortinet
3 1 (10.00%) Genesys
3 1 (10.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (10.00%) Splunk
3 1 (10.00%) VMware