Client/Server Jobs

Client Server
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Client/Server in permanent job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Client/Server over the 6 months to 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 471 439 832
Rank change year-on-year -32 +393 -135
Permanent jobs citing Client/Server 510 674 463
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.48% 0.71% 0.27%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.42% 1.65% 0.56%
Number of salaries quoted 454 576 213
10th Percentile £36,250 £39,625 £32,100
25th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,250 £75,000 £57,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% +31.58% +3.64%
75th Percentile £91,250 £96,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £112,500 £112,500 £86,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +30.00% +25.00%

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 permanent job vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 35,876 40,905 81,966
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 34.09% 43.15% 48.47%
Number of salaries quoted 23,224 22,549 34,301
10th Percentile £28,000 £35,750 £34,500
25th Percentile £38,116 £46,350 £45,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £85,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £110,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%

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
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Client/Server in the UK

Client/Server
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Client/Server over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Client/Server in the UK

Client/Server
Top 16 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Client/Server within the UK over the 6 months to 2 June 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -1 492 £75,000 - 101
Work from Home -22 379 £75,000 -6.25% 91
UK excluding London -48 265 £60,000 -7.69% 36
London 0 236 £85,000 +6.25% 68
East of England +23 73 £70,000 +21.74% 7
South East -56 71 £52,500 -25.80% 12
North of England +52 69 £65,000 -29.73% 2
North East +32 44 £71,500 +155.36%
South West -17 22 £46,250 +28.47% 3
Midlands -26 21 £51,500 -14.17% 11
West Midlands -24 15 £35,000 -41.67% 4
Yorkshire +68 13 £30,000 -3.23%
North West -43 12 £55,000 -40.54% 2
East Midlands -16 6 £62,000 -4.62% 7
Scotland -66 5 £63,750 +50.89% 2
Wales -2 4 £61,500 +37.69%

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 19 (3.73%) SharePoint
2 15 (2.94%) Apache Airflow
3 13 (2.55%) Microsoft Exchange
4 11 (2.16%) CMS
5 8 (1.57%) Skype for Business
6 6 (1.18%) Apache Pig
7 3 (0.59%) Drupal
8 2 (0.39%) nginx
9 1 (0.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 1 (0.20%) EPiServer
9 1 (0.20%) Exchange Server 2013
9 1 (0.20%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 19 (3.73%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.39%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (0.39%) Dynamics NAV
1 2 (0.39%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 143 (28.04%) AWS
2 97 (19.02%) Azure
3 53 (10.39%) Serverless
4 45 (8.82%) SaaS
5 43 (8.43%) AWS Lambda
6 40 (7.84%) Microsoft 365
7 21 (4.12%) GitHub
8 18 (3.53%) Amazon S3
9 16 (3.14%) AWS CloudFormation
10 13 (2.55%) Amazon Kinesis
10 13 (2.55%) Azure Sentinel
10 13 (2.55%) dbt
11 10 (1.96%) Amazon ECS
11 10 (1.96%) Azure DevOps
11 10 (1.96%) Entra ID
12 9 (1.76%) Stripe
13 8 (1.57%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
14 7 (1.37%) Amazon EKS
14 7 (1.37%) GCP
14 7 (1.37%) Heroku
Communications & Networking
1 49 (9.61%) Firewall
2 40 (7.84%) DNS
3 31 (6.08%) WAN
4 29 (5.69%) LAN
4 29 (5.69%) TCP/IP
5 21 (4.12%) VPN
6 19 (3.73%) DHCP
7 18 (3.53%) Internet
8 13 (2.55%) Intrusion Detection
9 12 (2.35%) FTP
10 11 (2.16%) Wireless
11 10 (1.96%) BGP
11 10 (1.96%) OSPF
12 9 (1.76%) Extranet
12 9 (1.76%) Intranet
13 8 (1.57%) MPLS
13 8 (1.57%) Network Security
13 8 (1.57%) Reverse Proxy
13 8 (1.57%) SD-WAN
13 8 (1.57%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (7.45%) MySQL
2 31 (6.08%) Redis
3 27 (5.29%) PostgreSQL
4 15 (2.94%) CouchDB
4 15 (2.94%) Elasticsearch
5 13 (2.55%) Amazon Redshift
5 13 (2.55%) NoSQL
6 12 (2.35%) Amazon RDS
7 9 (1.76%) DynamoDB
8 8 (1.57%) Couchbase
9 7 (1.37%) Data Warehouse
9 7 (1.37%) SQL Server
10 6 (1.18%) Apache Hive
10 6 (1.18%) Big Data
10 6 (1.18%) Hadoop
11 4 (0.78%) Data Mining
12 3 (0.59%) Event Store
12 3 (0.59%) Power BI
13 2 (0.39%) Relational Database
14 1 (0.20%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 17 (3.33%) TeamCity
2 13 (2.55%) Jenkins
3 12 (2.35%) JUnit
4 10 (1.96%) Cypress.io
5 8 (1.57%) Git
5 8 (1.57%) Gradle
5 8 (1.57%) JIRA
6 7 (1.37%) gulp
6 7 (1.37%) webpack
7 6 (1.18%) Appium
7 6 (1.18%) Bugzilla
7 6 (1.18%) Checkstyle
7 6 (1.18%) Mockito
7 6 (1.18%) SonarQube
7 6 (1.18%) Zephyr
8 5 (0.98%) DTrace
8 5 (0.98%) GDB
8 5 (0.98%) MSBuild
8 5 (0.98%) Octopus Deploy
8 5 (0.98%) Selenium
General
1 289 (56.67%) Social Skills
2 61 (11.96%) Games
3 54 (10.59%) Finance
4 33 (6.47%) Analytical Skills
4 33 (6.47%) Automotive
5 23 (4.51%) Law
6 20 (3.92%) Tech for Good
7 18 (3.53%) Aerospace
7 18 (3.53%) Presentation Skills
8 15 (2.94%) Marketing
9 14 (2.75%) Retail
10 13 (2.55%) Organisational Skills
10 13 (2.55%) Pharmaceutical
11 9 (1.76%) Front Office
12 7 (1.37%) Health Technology
13 4 (0.78%) Advertising
13 4 (0.78%) Agriculture
13 4 (0.78%) Public Sector
14 3 (0.59%) Banking
14 3 (0.59%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 172 (33.73%) Developer
2 81 (15.88%) Senior
3 74 (14.51%) Lead
4 71 (13.92%) Software Engineer
5 46 (9.02%) C# Developer
6 45 (8.82%) .NET Developer
7 40 (7.84%) Analyst
7 40 (7.84%) AWS Engineer
8 38 (7.45%) C# .NET Developer
9 36 (7.06%) Senior Developer
10 33 (6.47%) AWS Developer
11 31 (6.08%) C# Software Engineer
12 30 (5.88%) .NET Software Engineer
12 30 (5.88%) Software Developer
13 28 (5.49%) Lead Developer
14 24 (4.71%) Consultant
15 23 (4.51%) Python Engineer
15 23 (4.51%) Team Leader
16 21 (4.12%) Data Engineer
16 21 (4.12%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 98 (19.22%) .NET
2 65 (12.75%) .NET Core
3 40 (7.84%) Node.js
4 38 (7.45%) React
5 34 (6.67%) Kafka
6 28 (5.49%) AngularJS
7 24 (4.71%) Spring Boot
8 21 (4.12%) Vue
9 18 (3.53%) CSS
9 18 (3.53%) REST
9 18 (3.53%) RESTful
10 15 (2.94%) ASP.NET
10 15 (2.94%) ASP.NET MVC
11 13 (2.55%) HTML
11 13 (2.55%) Spring
12 12 (2.35%) Web Services
13 11 (2.16%) Laravel
13 11 (2.16%) Redux
13 11 (2.16%) SAML
14 10 (1.96%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 80 (15.69%) Data Structures
2 47 (9.22%) Algorithms
3 35 (6.86%) Hedge funds
3 35 (6.86%) IoT
3 35 (6.86%) PropTech
4 34 (6.67%) Online Games
5 32 (6.27%) Management Information System
6 25 (4.90%) Product Ownership
7 19 (3.73%) Cyber Threat
7 19 (3.73%) Security Operations Centre
8 18 (3.53%) Blog
8 18 (3.53%) Onboarding
8 18 (3.53%) Raspberry Pi
9 14 (2.75%) Data Centre
10 13 (2.55%) Virtual Team
11 12 (2.35%) Greenfield Project
12 10 (1.96%) Self-Motivation
13 9 (1.76%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 8 (1.57%) Video Conferencing
15 7 (1.37%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 91 (17.84%) Windows
2 77 (15.10%) Linux
3 45 (8.82%) Apple iOS
4 44 (8.63%) Android
5 39 (7.65%) Windows Server
6 10 (1.96%) Unix
7 8 (1.57%) Windows 10
8 4 (0.78%) Mac OS
9 2 (0.39%) Embedded Linux
9 2 (0.39%) Mac OS X
10 1 (0.20%) HPUX
10 1 (0.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.20%) SUSE
10 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 191 (37.45%) Problem-Solving
2 185 (36.27%) Agile
3 176 (34.51%) Software Engineering
4 150 (29.41%) Computer Science
5 90 (17.65%) Mentoring
6 89 (17.45%) Design Patterns
7 86 (16.86%) OOP
8 71 (13.92%) Microservices
9 58 (11.37%) Cybersecurity
10 46 (9.02%) CI/CD
11 42 (8.24%) Full Stack Development
12 38 (7.45%) TDD
13 36 (7.06%) Decision-Making
13 36 (7.06%) DevOps
14 34 (6.67%) Scrum
15 33 (6.47%) Low Latency
16 32 (6.27%) Multithreading
17 30 (5.88%) SDLC
18 29 (5.69%) E-Commerce
19 26 (5.10%) Business Development
Programming Languages
1 120 (23.53%) SQL
2 108 (21.18%) C#
3 88 (17.25%) Python
4 85 (16.67%) JavaScript
5 74 (14.51%) Java
6 68 (13.33%) TypeScript
7 28 (5.49%) C
8 25 (4.90%) PowerShell
9 19 (3.73%) Kotlin
10 16 (3.14%) Rust
11 14 (2.75%) PHP
12 11 (2.16%) C++
13 8 (1.57%) Swift
13 8 (1.57%) T-SQL
14 6 (1.18%) Bash
15 5 (0.98%) OCaml
15 5 (0.98%) Shell Script
15 5 (0.98%) SystemTap
16 2 (0.39%) Objective-C
16 2 (0.39%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 123 (24.12%) Degree
2 32 (6.27%) Security Cleared
3 27 (5.29%) Computer Science Degree
4 26 (5.10%) SC Cleared
5 23 (4.51%) DV Cleared
6 16 (3.14%) CISSP
6 16 (3.14%) PhD
7 13 (2.55%) CompTIA Security+
7 13 (2.55%) Master's Degree
8 5 (0.98%) PMI Certification
8 5 (0.98%) PMP
8 5 (0.98%) RHCE
8 5 (0.98%) RHCSA
9 3 (0.59%) CCIE
9 3 (0.59%) Cisco Certification
9 3 (0.59%) CISM
9 3 (0.59%) CRISC
10 2 (0.39%) CREST Certified
10 2 (0.39%) OSCE
10 2 (0.39%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (8.24%) QA
2 13 (2.55%) Data Quality
3 9 (1.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (1.18%) GDPR
5 2 (0.39%) COBIT
5 2 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (0.39%) GRC
5 2 (0.39%) NCSC
6 1 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 1 (0.20%) NIST
6 1 (0.20%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.20%) SLA
6 1 (0.20%) SOC 1
System Software
1 51 (10.00%) Docker
2 42 (8.24%) Active Directory
3 22 (4.31%) Hyper-V
4 14 (2.75%) VMware Infrastructure
5 6 (1.18%) HDFS
6 3 (0.59%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.20%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 51 (10.00%) Kubernetes
2 31 (6.08%) Terraform
3 14 (2.75%) Microsoft Intune
4 11 (2.16%) Ansible
4 11 (2.16%) Grafana
4 11 (2.16%) Prometheus
5 9 (1.76%) Rancher
6 8 (1.57%) Single Sign-On
7 6 (1.18%) QRadar
8 5 (0.98%) Failover Clustering
8 5 (0.98%) HP Quality Center
9 2 (0.39%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 2 (0.39%) Jamf Pro
9 2 (0.39%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.39%) Puppet
10 1 (0.20%) SCCM
10 1 (0.20%) SCOM
10 1 (0.20%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 88 (17.25%) Microsoft
2 37 (7.25%) VMware
3 15 (2.94%) Sage
4 12 (2.35%) Splunk
5 11 (2.16%) Cisco
6 9 (1.76%) GoCardless
6 9 (1.76%) PayPal
7 8 (1.57%) CheckPoint
7 8 (1.57%) Ribbon
7 8 (1.57%) Xamarin
8 7 (1.37%) Google
8 7 (1.37%) Meraki
9 6 (1.18%) HP
9 6 (1.18%) IBM
9 6 (1.18%) Workday
10 5 (0.98%) Dell
10 5 (0.98%) EqualLogic
10 5 (0.98%) NetApp
10 5 (0.98%) Nimble Storage
11 3 (0.59%) HubSpot