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 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 464 439 810
Rank change year-on-year -25 +371 -131
Permanent jobs citing Client/Server 507 676 458
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.49% 0.69% 0.27%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.43% 1.62% 0.57%
Number of salaries quoted 453 572 210
10th Percentile £37,100 £39,525 £32,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £57,000
Median % change year-on-year - +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 35,381 41,658 80,546
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 34.48% 42.79% 48.24%
Number of salaries quoted 23,078 22,714 34,326
10th Percentile £28,000 £35,738 £34,500
25th Percentile £38,070 £46,350 £45,625
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 £86,250 £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 28 May 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 28 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -5 490 £75,000 - 126
Work from Home -7 378 £75,000 -6.25% 111
UK excluding London -25 264 £60,000 -7.69% 52
London +20 235 £85,000 +6.25% 77
East of England +24 73 £70,000 +14.29% 9
South East -44 71 £52,500 -25.00% 14
North of England +68 69 £65,000 -29.73% 10
North East +37 44 £71,500 +155.36% 5
South West -18 21 £47,500 -44.12% 3
Midlands -21 21 £51,500 -14.17% 16
West Midlands -5 15 £35,000 -41.67% 5
Yorkshire +87 13 £30,000 -3.23%
North West -25 12 £55,000 -40.54% 7
East Midlands -16 6 £62,000 -4.62% 11
Scotland -55 5 £63,750 +50.89% 1
Wales -6 4 £61,500 +37.69% 3

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 (3.75%) SharePoint
2 15 (2.96%) Apache Airflow
3 13 (2.56%) Microsoft Exchange
4 11 (2.17%) CMS
5 8 (1.58%) 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 (3.75%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (0.59%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.39%) Dynamics NAV
2 2 (0.39%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 143 (28.21%) AWS
2 97 (19.13%) Azure
3 53 (10.45%) Serverless
4 45 (8.88%) SaaS
5 43 (8.48%) AWS Lambda
6 41 (8.09%) Microsoft 365
7 21 (4.14%) GitHub
8 18 (3.55%) Amazon S3
9 16 (3.16%) AWS CloudFormation
10 13 (2.56%) Amazon Kinesis
10 13 (2.56%) Azure Sentinel
10 13 (2.56%) dbt
11 10 (1.97%) Amazon ECS
11 10 (1.97%) Azure DevOps
11 10 (1.97%) Entra ID
12 9 (1.78%) Stripe
13 8 (1.58%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
14 7 (1.38%) Amazon EKS
14 7 (1.38%) GCP
14 7 (1.38%) Heroku
Communications & Networking
1 48 (9.47%) Firewall
2 40 (7.89%) DNS
3 31 (6.11%) WAN
4 29 (5.72%) LAN
4 29 (5.72%) TCP/IP
5 21 (4.14%) VPN
6 19 (3.75%) DHCP
7 18 (3.55%) Internet
8 13 (2.56%) Intrusion Detection
9 12 (2.37%) FTP
10 11 (2.17%) Wireless
11 10 (1.97%) BGP
11 10 (1.97%) OSPF
12 9 (1.78%) Extranet
12 9 (1.78%) Intranet
13 8 (1.58%) MPLS
13 8 (1.58%) Network Security
13 8 (1.58%) Reverse Proxy
13 8 (1.58%) SSL
13 8 (1.58%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (7.50%) MySQL
2 31 (6.11%) Redis
3 27 (5.33%) PostgreSQL
4 15 (2.96%) CouchDB
4 15 (2.96%) Elasticsearch
5 13 (2.56%) Amazon Redshift
5 13 (2.56%) NoSQL
6 12 (2.37%) Amazon RDS
7 9 (1.78%) DynamoDB
8 8 (1.58%) Couchbase
9 7 (1.38%) Data Warehouse
9 7 (1.38%) SQL Server
10 6 (1.18%) Apache Hive
10 6 (1.18%) Big Data
10 6 (1.18%) Hadoop
11 4 (0.79%) 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 (3.35%) TeamCity
2 13 (2.56%) Jenkins
3 12 (2.37%) JUnit
4 10 (1.97%) Cypress.io
5 8 (1.58%) Git
5 8 (1.58%) Gradle
5 8 (1.58%) JIRA
6 7 (1.38%) gulp
6 7 (1.38%) 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 (0.99%) GDB
8 5 (0.99%) MSBuild
8 5 (0.99%) Octopus Deploy
8 5 (0.99%) Selenium
8 5 (0.99%) Visual Studio
General
1 287 (56.61%) Social Skills
2 61 (12.03%) Games
3 54 (10.65%) Finance
4 33 (6.51%) Automotive
5 30 (5.92%) Analytical Skills
6 23 (4.54%) Law
7 20 (3.94%) Tech for Good
8 18 (3.55%) Aerospace
8 18 (3.55%) Presentation Skills
9 16 (3.16%) Marketing
10 14 (2.76%) Retail
11 13 (2.56%) Organisational Skills
11 13 (2.56%) Pharmaceutical
12 9 (1.78%) Front Office
13 7 (1.38%) Health Technology
14 4 (0.79%) Advertising
14 4 (0.79%) Agriculture
14 4 (0.79%) Public Sector
15 3 (0.59%) Banking
15 3 (0.59%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 171 (33.73%) Developer
2 80 (15.78%) Senior
3 73 (14.40%) Lead
4 71 (14.00%) Software Engineer
5 46 (9.07%) C# Developer
6 45 (8.88%) .NET Developer
7 40 (7.89%) Analyst
7 40 (7.89%) AWS Engineer
8 38 (7.50%) C# .NET Developer
9 35 (6.90%) Senior Developer
10 33 (6.51%) AWS Developer
11 31 (6.11%) C# Software Engineer
12 30 (5.92%) .NET Software Engineer
12 30 (5.92%) Software Developer
13 28 (5.52%) Lead Developer
14 24 (4.73%) Consultant
15 23 (4.54%) Python Engineer
16 22 (4.34%) Team Leader
17 21 (4.14%) Data Engineer
17 21 (4.14%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 99 (19.53%) .NET
2 65 (12.82%) .NET Core
3 40 (7.89%) Node.js
4 38 (7.50%) React
5 34 (6.71%) Kafka
6 28 (5.52%) AngularJS
7 24 (4.73%) Spring Boot
8 21 (4.14%) Vue
9 18 (3.55%) CSS
9 18 (3.55%) REST
9 18 (3.55%) RESTful
10 15 (2.96%) ASP.NET
10 15 (2.96%) ASP.NET MVC
11 13 (2.56%) HTML
11 13 (2.56%) Spring
11 13 (2.56%) Web Services
12 11 (2.17%) Laravel
12 11 (2.17%) Redux
12 11 (2.17%) SAML
13 10 (1.97%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 80 (15.78%) Data Structures
2 47 (9.27%) Algorithms
3 35 (6.90%) Hedge funds
3 35 (6.90%) IoT
3 35 (6.90%) PropTech
4 34 (6.71%) Online Games
5 30 (5.92%) Management Information System
6 25 (4.93%) Product Ownership
7 19 (3.75%) Cyber Threat
7 19 (3.75%) Security Operations Centre
8 18 (3.55%) Blog
8 18 (3.55%) Onboarding
8 18 (3.55%) Raspberry Pi
9 14 (2.76%) Data Centre
10 13 (2.56%) Virtual Team
11 12 (2.37%) Greenfield Project
12 10 (1.97%) Self-Motivation
13 9 (1.78%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 8 (1.58%) Video Conferencing
15 7 (1.38%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 90 (17.75%) Windows
2 76 (14.99%) Linux
3 44 (8.68%) Apple iOS
4 43 (8.48%) Android
5 39 (7.69%) Windows Server
6 10 (1.97%) Unix
7 8 (1.58%) Windows 10
8 4 (0.79%) 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
1 189 (37.28%) Problem-Solving
2 185 (36.49%) Agile
3 176 (34.71%) Software Engineering
4 148 (29.19%) Computer Science
5 90 (17.75%) Design Patterns
5 90 (17.75%) Mentoring
6 86 (16.96%) OOP
7 71 (14.00%) Microservices
8 57 (11.24%) Cybersecurity
9 46 (9.07%) CI/CD
10 42 (8.28%) Full Stack Development
11 38 (7.50%) TDD
12 37 (7.30%) DevOps
13 36 (7.10%) Decision-Making
14 34 (6.71%) Scrum
15 33 (6.51%) Low Latency
16 32 (6.31%) Multithreading
17 30 (5.92%) SDLC
18 29 (5.72%) E-Commerce
19 26 (5.13%) Business Development
Programming Languages
1 121 (23.87%) SQL
2 109 (21.50%) C#
3 88 (17.36%) Python
4 86 (16.96%) JavaScript
5 74 (14.60%) Java
6 69 (13.61%) TypeScript
7 28 (5.52%) C
8 25 (4.93%) PowerShell
9 19 (3.75%) Kotlin
10 16 (3.16%) Rust
11 14 (2.76%) PHP
12 11 (2.17%) C++
13 8 (1.58%) Swift
13 8 (1.58%) T-SQL
14 6 (1.18%) Bash
15 5 (0.99%) OCaml
15 5 (0.99%) Shell Script
15 5 (0.99%) SystemTap
16 2 (0.39%) Embedded C
16 2 (0.39%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 122 (24.06%) Degree
2 32 (6.31%) Security Cleared
3 26 (5.13%) SC Cleared
4 25 (4.93%) Computer Science Degree
5 23 (4.54%) DV Cleared
6 16 (3.16%) CISSP
6 16 (3.16%) PhD
7 13 (2.56%) CompTIA Security+
7 13 (2.56%) Master's Degree
8 5 (0.99%) PMI Certification
8 5 (0.99%) PMP
8 5 (0.99%) RHCE
8 5 (0.99%) 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%) OSCE
10 2 (0.39%) OSCP
10 2 (0.39%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (8.48%) QA
2 13 (2.56%) Data Quality
3 8 (1.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (1.18%) GDPR
5 2 (0.39%) COBIT
5 2 (0.39%) GRC
6 1 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 1 (0.20%) NCSC
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 (10.06%) Docker
2 42 (8.28%) Active Directory
3 22 (4.34%) Hyper-V
4 14 (2.76%) VMware Infrastructure
5 6 (1.18%) HDFS
6 3 (0.59%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.20%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 51 (10.06%) Kubernetes
2 31 (6.11%) Terraform
3 14 (2.76%) Microsoft Intune
4 11 (2.17%) Ansible
4 11 (2.17%) Grafana
4 11 (2.17%) Prometheus
5 9 (1.78%) Rancher
6 8 (1.58%) Single Sign-On
7 6 (1.18%) QRadar
8 5 (0.99%) Failover Clustering
8 5 (0.99%) HP Quality Center
9 3 (0.59%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 2 (0.39%) Jamf Pro
10 2 (0.39%) Progress Chef
10 2 (0.39%) Puppet
11 1 (0.20%) SCCM
11 1 (0.20%) SCOM
11 1 (0.20%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 89 (17.55%) Microsoft
2 37 (7.30%) VMware
3 15 (2.96%) Sage
4 12 (2.37%) Splunk
5 11 (2.17%) Cisco
6 9 (1.78%) GoCardless
6 9 (1.78%) PayPal
7 8 (1.58%) CheckPoint
7 8 (1.58%) Ribbon
7 8 (1.58%) Xamarin
8 7 (1.38%) Google
8 7 (1.38%) Meraki
9 6 (1.18%) HP
9 6 (1.18%) IBM
9 6 (1.18%) Workday
10 5 (0.99%) Dell
10 5 (0.99%) EqualLogic
10 5 (0.99%) NetApp
10 5 (0.99%) Nimble Storage
11 3 (0.59%) HubSpot