The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Client/Server in IT jobs advertised for the Bedford region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Client/Server over the 3 months to 17 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all terms in our Miscellaneous category for the Bedford region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Client Server
Rank 43 32 22
Rank change year-on-year
-11 -10
Permanent jobs citing Client/Server 7 9 17
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bedford 2.778% 4.369% 10.00%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 8.046% 15.25% 31.48%
Number of salaries quoted 7 8 17
Average salary £52,500 £32,500 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+61.53% -7.14%
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £36,500
% change year-on-year
- +2.73%
All of the Miscellaneous Category
Bedford
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
87 59 54
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bedford 34.52% 28.64% 31.76%
Number of salaries quoted 83 54 52
Average salary £37,500 £32,500 £36,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+15.38% -10.95%
90% offered a salary of more than £24,700 £24,500 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £52,500 £55,000 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,815 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-2.96% +6.66%
Client/Server
Bedfordshire

Client/Server
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Client/Server across the Bedford region as a proportion of the total demand within the Miscellaneous category.

Bedford Client/Server Jobs Demand Trend

Client/Server
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Client/Server across the Bedford region.

Bedford Client/Server Salary Trend

Client/Server
Top 28 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Bedford region citing Client/Server also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited Client/Server.

1 7 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
2 4 (57.14%) Technical Architecture
2 4 (57.14%) .NET Framework
2 4 (57.14%) WCF
2 4 (57.14%) WPF
2 4 (57.14%) WF
2 4 (57.14%) Silverlight
2 4 (57.14%) ASP.NET MVC
2 4 (57.14%) C#
2 4 (57.14%) SQL
2 4 (57.14%) .NET
2 4 (57.14%) Oracle
2 4 (57.14%) SQL Server
2 4 (57.14%) ASP.NET
2 4 (57.14%) Windows
2 4 (57.14%) Microsoft
2 4 (57.14%) MVC
3 3 (42.86%) User Stories
3 3 (42.86%) Use Case
3 3 (42.86%) JIRA
3 3 (42.86%) Wiki
3 3 (42.86%) CRM
3 3 (42.86%) Business Analysis
4 2 (28.57%) NHS
5 1 (14.29%) Scrum
5 1 (14.29%) UML
5 1 (14.29%) DSDM
5 1 (14.29%) BPMN

Client/Server
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Bedford region citing Client/Server also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited Client/Server. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 4 (57.14%) .NET
1 4 (57.14%) ASP.NET
1 4 (57.14%) .NET Framework
1 4 (57.14%) WCF
1 4 (57.14%) WPF
1 4 (57.14%) WF
1 4 (57.14%) Silverlight
1 4 (57.14%) ASP.NET MVC
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (57.14%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (42.86%) JIRA
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Team Leader
1 4 (57.14%) Development Team Leader
2 3 (42.86%) Business Analyst
2 3 (42.86%) Analyst
3 2 (28.57%) Agile Business Analyst
4 1 (14.29%) .NET Team Leader
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Wiki
2 2 (28.57%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 4 (57.14%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
2 4 (57.14%) Technical Architecture
2 4 (57.14%) MVC
3 3 (42.86%) Use Case
3 3 (42.86%) Business Analysis
3 3 (42.86%) CRM
3 3 (42.86%) User Stories
4 1 (14.29%) BPMN
4 1 (14.29%) Scrum
4 1 (14.29%) UML
4 1 (14.29%) DSDM
Programming Languages
1 4 (57.14%) C#
1 4 (57.14%) SQL
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) Oracle
1 4 (57.14%) Microsoft