Thin Client Contracts

Thin Client
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Thin Client in contract job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Thin Client over the 6 months to 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 565 673 772
Rank change year-on-year +108 +99 -113
Contract jobs citing Thin Client 26 45 82
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.060% 0.076% 0.092%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.20% 0.23% 0.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 38 48
10th Percentile £277 £158 £120
25th Percentile £411 £161 £149
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £225 £300
Median % change year-on-year +188.89% -25.00% -20.00%
75th Percentile £775 £355 £490
90th Percentile £875 £587 £538
UK excluding London median daily rate £375 £225 £250
% change year-on-year +66.67% -10.00% -21.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
Median hourly rate £23.80 £20.93 -
Median % change year-on-year +13.71% - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £20.93 -

All Generic Skills
UK

Thin Client 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 13,085 19,696 29,368
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.32% 33.30% 33.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,418 13,533 20,480
10th Percentile £263 £308 £313
25th Percentile £413 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.23% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £656 £678 £656
90th Percentile £798 £800 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 902 642 725
10th Percentile £12.25 £9.80 £14.25
25th Percentile £15.17 £10.63 £17.00
Median hourly rate £30.14 £22.49 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +34.04% -18.24% +4.05%
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 £20.07
% change year-on-year +28.41% +9.64% -16.40%

Thin Client
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Thin Client in the UK

Thin Client
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Thin Client in the UK

Thin Client
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Thin Client over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Thin Client in the UK

Thin Client
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Thin Client in the UK

Thin Client
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 Thin Client within the UK over the 6 months to 4 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 +91 26 £650 +188.89% 18
UK excluding London +44 14 £375 +66.67% 12
London +103 11 £725 +202.08% 7
Midlands +32 4 £150 -73.30% 1
South East +5 4 £375 +87.50% 4
West Midlands - 3 - - 1
North of England +23 2 - - 2
South West +18 2 £470 +12.24% 4
East of England +10 2 - - 1
Work from Home +119 1 £700 +107.41% 5
East Midlands +23 1 £150 -73.30%
North West +15 1 - -
Yorkshire - 1 - - 2

Thin Client
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 5 (19.23%) SharePoint
2 2 (7.69%) IIS
2 2 (7.69%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 9 (34.62%) Microsoft 365
2 6 (23.08%) Azure
3 4 (15.38%) Akamai
4 3 (11.54%) Azure Monitor
5 2 (7.69%) AWS
5 2 (7.69%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 2 (7.69%) Entra ID
5 2 (7.69%) Mimecast
5 2 (7.69%) Nutanix
5 2 (7.69%) Rubrik
6 1 (3.85%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 1 (3.85%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 9 (34.62%) DNS
1 9 (34.62%) NAS
1 9 (34.62%) SAN
2 6 (23.08%) Firewall
3 4 (15.38%) DHCP
4 3 (11.54%) NetScaler
4 3 (11.54%) Skype
5 2 (7.69%) DKIM
5 2 (7.69%) DMARC
5 2 (7.69%) Extranet
5 2 (7.69%) Internet
5 2 (7.69%) LAN
5 2 (7.69%) VPN
5 2 (7.69%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (7.69%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (23.08%) MySQL
2 4 (15.38%) Elasticsearch
2 4 (15.38%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (15.38%) SQL Server
3 2 (7.69%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 3 (11.54%) Jenkins
2 2 (7.69%) JIRA
3 1 (3.85%) Git
3 1 (3.85%) Log4Net
3 1 (3.85%) NUnit
3 1 (3.85%) Selenium
3 1 (3.85%) SpecFlow
General
1 3 (11.54%) Public Sector
2 1 (3.85%) Banking
2 1 (3.85%) Finance
2 1 (3.85%) Front Office
2 1 (3.85%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 5 (19.23%) Architect
1 5 (19.23%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 5 (19.23%) Support Engineer
2 4 (15.38%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 4 (15.38%) Consultant
3 3 (11.54%) 3rd Line Support
3 3 (11.54%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
3 3 (11.54%) Solutions Architect
3 3 (11.54%) Wintel Engineer
4 2 (7.69%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (7.69%) Deployment Engineer
4 2 (7.69%) Infrastructure Deployment Engineer
4 2 (7.69%) IT Engineer
4 2 (7.69%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (7.69%) IT Support
4 2 (7.69%) Security Architect
4 2 (7.69%) Support Officer
5 1 (3.85%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
5 1 (3.85%) Infrastructure Support
5 1 (3.85%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (7.69%) Apache NiFi
1 2 (7.69%) Elastic Stack
1 2 (7.69%) Software Packaging
2 1 (3.85%) .NET
2 1 (3.85%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 26 (100.00%) Fat Client
2 9 (34.62%) PKI
3 4 (15.38%) Onboarding
4 3 (11.54%) Clustering
5 2 (7.69%) Client/Server
5 2 (7.69%) Data Centre
5 2 (7.69%) Virtual Team
6 1 (3.85%) Derivative
6 1 (3.85%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 21 (80.77%) Windows
2 11 (42.31%) Windows Server
3 9 (34.62%) Linux
4 4 (15.38%) Ubuntu
4 4 (15.38%) Windows Server 2019
5 3 (11.54%) Windows 10
5 3 (11.54%) Windows Server 2012
5 3 (11.54%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (7.69%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (26.92%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 6 (23.08%) Patch Management
3 5 (19.23%) Application Packaging
4 4 (15.38%) Infrastructure Management
4 4 (15.38%) ITIL
4 4 (15.38%) Mentoring
5 3 (11.54%) Change Management
5 3 (11.54%) Database Mirroring
5 3 (11.54%) Disaster Recovery
5 3 (11.54%) Key Management
6 2 (7.69%) Capacity Management
6 2 (7.69%) Data Migration
6 2 (7.69%) Deployment Automation
6 2 (7.69%) High Availability
6 2 (7.69%) Migration
6 2 (7.69%) Mobile Device Management
6 2 (7.69%) Network Monitoring
6 2 (7.69%) Network Virtualisation
6 2 (7.69%) Server Management
6 2 (7.69%) Software Deployment
Programming Languages
1 12 (46.15%) PowerShell
2 4 (15.38%) SQL
3 1 (3.85%) C#
Qualifications
1 9 (34.62%) Security Cleared
2 4 (15.38%) DV Cleared
2 4 (15.38%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.69%) SLA
2 1 (3.85%) QA
System Software
1 15 (57.69%) Active Directory
2 7 (26.92%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (19.23%) Hyper-V
4 4 (15.38%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (11.54%) Citrix Hypervisor
5 3 (11.54%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (11.54%) vSphere
5 3 (11.54%) XenApp
5 3 (11.54%) XenDesktop
6 2 (7.69%) BitLocker
6 2 (7.69%) Docker
6 2 (7.69%) Microsoft App-V
6 2 (7.69%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 7 (26.92%) Ansible
2 6 (23.08%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 5 (19.23%) SCCM
4 4 (15.38%) Nessus
4 4 (15.38%) Red Hat Satellite
4 4 (15.38%) vCenter Server
4 4 (15.38%) WSUS
4 4 (15.38%) ZABBIX
5 3 (11.54%) Failover Clustering
5 3 (11.54%) Jamf Pro
5 3 (11.54%) Microsoft Clustering
5 3 (11.54%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
6 2 (7.69%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (7.69%) NetBackup
6 2 (7.69%) SCOM
6 2 (7.69%) SCVMM
6 2 (7.69%) VxRail
Vendors
1 15 (57.69%) Microsoft
2 11 (42.31%) VMware
3 7 (26.92%) Citrix
4 5 (19.23%) ServiceNow
5 4 (15.38%) AlgoSec
5 4 (15.38%) BT
5 4 (15.38%) ForeScout
5 4 (15.38%) Oracle
5 4 (15.38%) Red Hat
5 4 (15.38%) Veeam
6 3 (11.54%) HP
6 3 (11.54%) NetApp
7 2 (7.69%) Avaya
7 2 (7.69%) Cisco
7 2 (7.69%) Commvault
7 2 (7.69%) Dell
7 2 (7.69%) EMC
7 2 (7.69%) Forcepoint
7 2 (7.69%) Juniper
7 2 (7.69%) Wyse