Client/Server Contracts

Client Server
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Client/Server in contract job vacancies. 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 536 553 692
Rank change year-on-year +17 +139 -74
Contract jobs citing Client/Server 64 163 171
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.15% 0.28% 0.19%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.49% 0.83% 0.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 99 110
10th Percentile £363 £411 £370
25th Percentile £389 £513 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £613 £600
Median % change year-on-year -12.24% +2.08% +27.66%
75th Percentile £595 £750 £650
90th Percentile £633 - £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £592 £498
% change year-on-year -7.09% +18.99% +30.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 15 19
10th Percentile - £65.50 £37.60
25th Percentile - £71.25 £48.13
Median hourly rate £40.00 £75.00 £65.54
Median % change year-on-year -46.67% +14.43% +13.00%
75th Percentile £43.43 - £75.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £149.50 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £72.50 £75.00
% change year-on-year -44.83% -3.33% +21.46%

All Generic Skills
UK

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 requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 13,086 19,646 29,347
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.32% 33.26% 33.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,417 13,497 20,479
10th Percentile £263 £309 £313
25th Percentile £413 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.18% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £656 £676 £657
90th Percentile £798 £800 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 902 642 722
10th Percentile £12.25 £9.80 £14.25
25th Percentile £15.17 £10.63 £17.00
Median hourly rate £30.14 £22.49 £27.25
Median % change year-on-year +34.04% -17.49% +3.52%
75th Percentile £61.30 £64.44 £50.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.25 £22.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +28.41% +10.00% -16.67%

Client/Server
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Client/Server in the UK

Client/Server
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Client/Server in the UK

Client/Server
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Client/Server over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Client/Server in the UK

Client/Server
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Client/Server in the UK

Client/Server
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Client/Server over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Client/Server in the UK

Client/Server
Top 13 Contract Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 5 May 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 +43 54 £507 -18.55% 171
UK excluding London +19 44 £550 -7.09% 59
South East +12 21 £550 -10.17% 26
London +66 20 £400 -46.67% 112
Scotland +27 10 £675 +14.02%
Work from Home +55 8 £400 -46.49% 157
South West +29 8 - - 2
North of England +25 4 £278 -45.85% 15
Yorkshire +18 2 £375 -43.40% 1
Midlands +26 1 £425 -46.88% 9
North West +21 1 - - 8
West Midlands +20 1 £425 -46.88% 1
North East - 1 £180 - 7

Client/Server
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 8 (12.50%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (6.25%) OpenStack
2 4 (6.25%) SAS
3 2 (3.13%) Confluence
4 1 (1.56%) OpenEdge
4 1 (1.56%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (1.56%) Site Server
Applications
1 1 (1.56%) Acrobat
1 1 (1.56%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.56%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (1.56%) Dynamics NAV
1 1 (1.56%) MFGPRO
1 1 (1.56%) Sage 50
Cloud Services
1 30 (46.88%) Azure
2 17 (26.56%) Azure DevOps
3 12 (18.75%) AWS
3 12 (18.75%) PaaS
4 9 (14.06%) IaaS
4 9 (14.06%) SaaS
5 5 (7.81%) Microsoft 365
6 4 (6.25%) Cloud Computing
6 4 (6.25%) Entra ID
6 4 (6.25%) OpenShift
7 3 (4.69%) Azure Storage
7 3 (4.69%) iPaaS
8 1 (1.56%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (1.56%) OCI
8 1 (1.56%) Power Platform
8 1 (1.56%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 14 (21.88%) DHCP
1 14 (21.88%) DNS
1 14 (21.88%) LAN
1 14 (21.88%) SAN
1 14 (21.88%) WAN
2 13 (20.31%) Wi-Fi
3 8 (12.50%) MPLS
4 7 (10.94%) Firewall
5 5 (7.81%) Fibre Channel
5 5 (7.81%) iSCSI
6 2 (3.13%) NAS
7 1 (1.56%) Kerberos
7 1 (1.56%) NetScaler
7 1 (1.56%) TCP/IP
7 1 (1.56%) VoIP
7 1 (1.56%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (32.81%) SQL Server
2 4 (6.25%) DB2
2 4 (6.25%) MongoDB
2 4 (6.25%) MySQL
2 4 (6.25%) NoSQL
3 2 (3.13%) CouchDB
3 2 (3.13%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (3.13%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 8 (12.50%) JIRA
1 8 (12.50%) Selenium
2 6 (9.38%) Robot Framework
2 6 (9.38%) Visual Studio
3 5 (7.81%) MSI
3 5 (7.81%) WiX
4 4 (6.25%) Git
5 3 (4.69%) Subversion
6 2 (3.13%) Bitbucket
6 2 (3.13%) Cucumber
6 2 (3.13%) Cypress.io
6 2 (3.13%) Jenkins
6 2 (3.13%) TeamCity
6 2 (3.13%) WebDriver
7 1 (1.56%) GitLab
General
1 25 (39.06%) Social Skills
2 22 (34.38%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (12.50%) Aerospace
4 7 (10.94%) Public Sector
5 5 (7.81%) Banking
6 4 (6.25%) Finance
6 4 (6.25%) Investment Banking
6 4 (6.25%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.56%) Back Office
7 1 (1.56%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.56%) Marketing
7 1 (1.56%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.56%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.56%) Russian Language
Job Titles
1 16 (25.00%) Analyst
2 10 (15.63%) Infrastructure Analyst
3 9 (14.06%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 8 (12.50%) IT Analyst
4 8 (12.50%) IT Infrastructure Analyst
4 8 (12.50%) Software Engineer
5 7 (10.94%) Senior
6 5 (7.81%) Applications Engineer
6 5 (7.81%) Solutions Analyst
7 4 (6.25%) Architect
7 4 (6.25%) IT Engineer
7 4 (6.25%) Linux Engineer
7 4 (6.25%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
7 4 (6.25%) Python Engineer
7 4 (6.25%) Storage Engineer
7 4 (6.25%) Support Engineer
8 3 (4.69%) Application Integration Engineer
8 3 (4.69%) Applications Packager
8 3 (4.69%) Senior Software Engineer
8 3 (4.69%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (20.31%) .NET
2 6 (9.38%) JSON
2 6 (9.38%) LDAP
2 6 (9.38%) Node.js
2 6 (9.38%) REST
2 6 (9.38%) XML
3 5 (7.81%) ASP.NET
3 5 (7.81%) ASP.NET Web API
3 5 (7.81%) Entity Framework
3 5 (7.81%) LINQ
3 5 (7.81%) NHibernate
3 5 (7.81%) Web Services
3 5 (7.81%) XSLT
4 4 (6.25%) Flash
4 4 (6.25%) POSIX
5 3 (4.69%) AngularJS
5 3 (4.69%) CSS
5 3 (4.69%) HTML
5 3 (4.69%) J2EE
6 2 (3.13%) React
Miscellaneous
1 12 (18.75%) Data Centre
2 11 (17.19%) Clustering
3 5 (7.81%) Algorithms
3 5 (7.81%) Data Structures
3 5 (7.81%) Web 2.0
4 4 (6.25%) NVMe
5 3 (4.69%) N-Tier
6 2 (3.13%) Fat Client
6 2 (3.13%) Mobile App
6 2 (3.13%) Product Ownership
6 2 (3.13%) Thin Client
7 1 (1.56%) CMDB
7 1 (1.56%) Embedded Systems
7 1 (1.56%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.56%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.56%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.56%) LIMS
7 1 (1.56%) Operational Technology
7 1 (1.56%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 49 (76.56%) Windows
2 32 (50.00%) Linux
3 29 (45.31%) Windows Server
4 23 (35.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 15 (23.44%) Unix
6 4 (6.25%) Data ONTAP
6 4 (6.25%) Windows Server 2012
7 2 (3.13%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (3.13%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (1.56%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (40.63%) Application Packaging
1 26 (40.63%) DevOps
2 22 (34.38%) Agile
3 18 (28.13%) Application Virtualisation
4 15 (23.44%) Scaled Agile Framework
5 14 (21.88%) Capacity Management
5 14 (21.88%) Migration
6 13 (20.31%) Software Engineering
6 13 (20.31%) Test Automation
7 12 (18.75%) Release Management
8 10 (15.63%) Decision-Making
8 10 (15.63%) SDLC
9 9 (14.06%) Data Protection
9 9 (14.06%) OO
9 9 (14.06%) Server Management
10 8 (12.50%) Asset Management
10 8 (12.50%) Capacity Planning
10 8 (12.50%) Data Migration
10 8 (12.50%) Network Management
10 8 (12.50%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 27 (42.19%) PowerShell
1 27 (42.19%) Python
2 22 (34.38%) SQL
3 21 (32.81%) VBScript
4 13 (20.31%) C#
5 10 (15.63%) Java
6 6 (9.38%) JavaScript
7 5 (7.81%) C
7 5 (7.81%) C++
7 5 (7.81%) Perl
7 5 (7.81%) T-SQL
8 4 (6.25%) Go
8 4 (6.25%) Shell Script
9 2 (3.13%) Bash
9 2 (3.13%) TypeScript
9 2 (3.13%) VBA
10 1 (1.56%) Ada
10 1 (1.56%) VB
Qualifications
1 23 (35.94%) Security Cleared
2 20 (31.25%) DV Cleared
3 19 (29.69%) Degree
4 2 (3.13%) ISEB
4 2 (3.13%) ISTQB
4 2 (3.13%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 2 (3.13%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.69%) SLA
2 2 (3.13%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (1.56%) QA
System Software
1 34 (53.13%) VMware Infrastructure
2 12 (18.75%) Active Directory
3 11 (17.19%) Docker
4 8 (12.50%) Virtual Servers
4 8 (12.50%) VMware Workstation
5 6 (9.38%) Hyper-V
6 4 (6.25%) GPFS
6 4 (6.25%) NFS
7 2 (3.13%) VirtualBox
7 2 (3.13%) vSphere
8 1 (1.56%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (1.56%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 10 (15.63%) Kubernetes
2 8 (12.50%) Microsoft Clustering
2 8 (12.50%) Nagios
2 8 (12.50%) NetBackup
2 8 (12.50%) SCCM
3 4 (6.25%) Veritas Storage Foundation
4 3 (4.69%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (3.13%) WSUS
6 1 (1.56%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (1.56%) FortiGate
6 1 (1.56%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (1.56%) WMI
Vendors
1 36 (56.25%) VMware
2 13 (20.31%) NetApp
3 11 (17.19%) Microsoft
4 8 (12.50%) Hitachi
5 5 (7.81%) Google
6 4 (6.25%) Brocade
6 4 (6.25%) EMC
6 4 (6.25%) IBM
6 4 (6.25%) Sybase
6 4 (6.25%) Veritas
7 3 (4.69%) ArcSight
7 3 (4.69%) CA
8 2 (3.13%) HP
8 2 (3.13%) Oracle
9 1 (1.56%) Adobe
9 1 (1.56%) Cisco
9 1 (1.56%) Citrix
9 1 (1.56%) Compaq
9 1 (1.56%) Progress
9 1 (1.56%) Red Hat