England Client/Server Jobs

This section looks at the demand for Client Server skills within the England region with a comparison to our Miscellaneous category. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Client/Server over the 3 months to 21 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Client Server
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Aldershot Altrincham Andover Basingstoke Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentwood Brighton Bristol Buckingham Buckinghamshire Burgess Hill Burnley Burton-upon-Trent Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheltenham Cheshire Chichester Chippenham Cirencester City of London Coventry Crawley Croydon Daresbury Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dorset East Grinstead East Kilbride East Midlands East of England East Sussex Eastleigh Edinburgh England Essex Fareham Farnborough Farnham Fife Folkestone Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Greenford Guildford Gwent Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harrogate Harrow Havant Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hove Ipswich Kent Kingston Upon Thames Knaresborough Knutsford Lancashire Leamington Spa Leeds Leicestershire Lichfield Liverpool Livingston London Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Mayfield Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Moreton-in-Marsh Nantwich Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Portsmouth Potters Bar Preston Reading Redditch Redhill Reigate Rugby Ruislip Salford Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans Staffordshire Staines Stockport Suffolk Surbiton Surrey Swindon Telford Torquay Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Walsall Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Welwyn Garden City Wembley West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Wimbledon Windsor Witham Woking Wolverhampton Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 21 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	201	197
Rank change on same period last year	-4
Matching permanent IT job ads	1752	2331
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.943 %	0.972 %
As % of the category below	4.615 %	4.400 %
Salaries quoted	1511	1910
Average minimum salary	£38,369	£42,261
Average salary	£42,042	£45,769
% change on same period last year	-8.14 %
Average maximum salary	£45,715	£49,277
UK excluding London average salary	£35,770	£41,326
% change on same period last year	-13.44 %
Miscellaneous England
Matching permanent IT job ads	37967	52972
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	20.43 %	22.08 %
Salaries quoted	31291	40304
Average minimum salary	£44,370	£48,238
Average salary	£49,219	£53,252
% change on same period last year	-7.57 %
Average maximum salary	£54,069	£58,266
UK excluding London average salary	£37,872	£39,233
% change on same period last year	-3.46 %
Client/Server UK

Client/Server
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing Client/Server across the England region as a proportion of the total demand within the Miscellaneous category.

Client/Server
Salary Trend

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

Client/Server
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Client/Server across the England region over the 3 months to 21 August 2008.

Client/Server
Job Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Client/Server within the England region over the 3 months to 21 August 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Permanent IT Job Ads	Average Salary Last 3 Months	Average Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year
London	-27	665	£52,925	+0.84 %
South East	+47	514	£37,233	-3.84 %
South West	-35	165	£33,084	-6.92 %
East of England	+14	106	£33,252	-10.75 %
North West	-4	102	£35,891	-26.63 %
West Midlands	-32	100	£35,447	-25.25 %
Yorkshire	+6	76	£37,452	-12.33 %
East Midlands	-48	32	£34,086	-10.99 %
North East	-12	5	£34,125	+6.64 %
Midlands	0	2	£41,250	-29.92 %

Client/Server UK

Client/Server
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT jobs across the England 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 1280 (34.04 %) SQL 2 1240 (32.98 %) Windows 3 1049 (27.90 %) SQL Server 4 989 (26.30 %) .NET 5 836 (22.23 %) Microsoft 6 823 (21.89 %) Finance 7 775 (20.61 %) Oracle 8 687 (18.27 %) C# 9 645 (17.15 %) Java 10 574 (15.27 %) XML 11 569 (15.13 %) C++ 12 525 (13.96 %) UNIX 13 463 (12.31 %) ASP.NET 14 423 (11.25 %) Degree 15 400 (10.64 %) VB

15 400 (10.64 %) MS Excel 16 388 (10.32 %) Windows Server 2003 17 376 (10.00 %) OO 17 376 (10.00 %) VB.NET 18 356 (9.468 %) JavaScript 19 355 (9.441 %) Internet 20 307 (8.165 %) Microsoft Certification 21 302 (8.032 %) HTML 22 297 (7.899 %) Linux 23 290 (7.713 %) Banking 23 290 (7.713 %) SQL Server 2005 24 284 (7.553 %) WebServices 25 272 (7.234 %) Project Management 26 245 (6.516 %) TCP/IP 27 242 (6.436 %) SQL Server 2000

Client/Server
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT jobs across the England 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 1 989 (26.30 %) .NET 2 574 (15.27 %) XML 3 463 (12.31 %) ASP.NET 4 302 (8.032 %) HTML 5 284 (7.553 %) WebServices 6 217 (5.771 %) J2EE 7 139 (3.697 %) MFC 8 136 (3.617 %) ASP 9 127 (3.378 %) AJAX 10 101 (2.686 %) .NET Framework 11 98 (2.606 %) XSLT 12 95 (2.527 %) STL 13 93 (2.473 %) CSS 13 93 (2.473 %) Spring 14 78 (2.074 %) WebSphere 15 68 (1.809 %) Swing 16 67 (1.782 %) Hibernate 17 66 (1.755 %) JSP 18 62 (1.649 %) ODBC 19 56 (1.489 %) Middleware	Application Platforms 1 226 (6.011 %) IIS 2 126 (3.351 %) MS Exchange 3 114 (3.032 %) SharePoint 4 96 (2.553 %) JBoss 5 63 (1.676 %) WebLogic 6 60 (1.596 %) Exchange Server 2003 7 56 (1.489 %) Tomcat 8 53 (1.410 %) Lotus Notes 9 47 (1.250 %) Apache 10 38 (1.011 %) BizTalk Server 11 37 (0.984 %) Exchange Server 2000 12 35 (0.931 %) CMS 13 33 (0.878 %) Oracle Workflow 14 29 (0.771 %) WebSphere Application Server 14 29 (0.771 %) MQSeries 15 21 (0.559 %) Lotus Domino 15 21 (0.559 %) SharePoint Server 2007 15 21 (0.559 %) Exchange Server 2007 16 20 (0.532 %) ESB 17 19 (0.505 %) SAS
Applications 1 400 (10.64 %) MS Excel 2 202 (5.372 %) MS Office 3 33 (0.878 %) MS Project 4 32 (0.851 %) MS Visio 5 4 (0.106 %) MS PowerPoint 6 3 (0.080 %) Photoshop 6 3 (0.080 %) Spreadsheet 7 2 (0.053 %) InfoPath 8 1 (0.027 %) Acrobat 8 1 (0.027 %) RoboHelp 8 1 (0.027 %) AutoCAD 8 1 (0.027 %) FrameMaker 8 1 (0.027 %) CATIA	Business Applications 1 16 (0.426 %) SimCorp Dimension 2 13 (0.346 %) Summit 3 9 (0.239 %) Thomson PORTIA 4 8 (0.213 %) SoftGrid 5 7 (0.186 %) Microsoft CRM 6 6 (0.160 %) HiPortfolio 6 6 (0.160 %) BPCS 6 6 (0.160 %) Dynamics CRM 6 6 (0.160 %) Pivotal CRM 7 5 (0.133 %) JDE EnterpriseOne 7 5 (0.133 %) Oracle Financials 7 5 (0.133 %) Oracle BRM 8 4 (0.106 %) Oracle 11i 8 4 (0.106 %) SAP SEM 8 4 (0.106 %) Oracle Applications 9 3 (0.080 %) BASE24 9 3 (0.080 %) ZaiNet 10 2 (0.053 %) Cognos Business Intelligence 10 2 (0.053 %) Staffware 11 1 (0.027 %) Global One
Communications & Networking 1 355 (9.441 %) Internet 2 245 (6.516 %) TCP/IP 3 135 (3.590 %) LAN 4 124 (3.298 %) WAN 5 115 (3.059 %) Firewall 6 113 (3.005 %) Intranet 7 91 (2.420 %) HTTP 8 73 (1.941 %) DNS 9 65 (1.729 %) SMTP 10 59 (1.569 %) Wireless 11 51 (1.356 %) VPN 12 49 (1.303 %) SAN 13 38 (1.011 %) FTP 14 35 (0.931 %) LDAP 15 28 (0.745 %) VoIP 15 28 (0.745 %) Network Security 16 19 (0.505 %) Extranet 17 18 (0.479 %) TETRA 18 15 (0.399 %) CTI 18 15 (0.399 %) DHCP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 1049 (27.90 %) SQL Server 2 290 (7.713 %) SQL Server 2005 3 242 (6.436 %) SQL Server 2000 4 176 (4.681 %) RDBMS 5 118 (3.138 %) MySQL 6 97 (2.580 %) Datawarehouse 7 90 (2.394 %) DB2 7 90 (2.394 %) Oracle 10g 8 79 (2.101 %) MS Access 9 68 (1.809 %) Oracle 9i 10 57 (1.516 %) DTS 11 52 (1.383 %) Crystal Reports 12 50 (1.330 %) Oracle 8/8i 13 38 (1.011 %) SQL Server Integration Services 14 35 (0.931 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 15 26 (0.691 %) SQL Server Analysis Services 16 25 (0.665 %) Microsoft Analysis Services 17 24 (0.638 %) Informix 17 24 (0.638 %) ETL 18 23 (0.612 %) BusinessObjects
Development Applications 1 156 (4.149 %) Visual Studio 2 95 (2.527 %) TestDirector 3 79 (2.101 %) VSS/SourceSafe 4 65 (1.729 %) Ant 5 60 (1.596 %) QuickTest Pro 6 53 (1.410 %) NUnit 7 49 (1.303 %) Flash 8 46 (1.223 %) Eclipse 8 46 (1.223 %) WinRunner 9 36 (0.957 %) JUnit 10 31 (0.824 %) Oracle Forms 11 26 (0.691 %) Subversion 12 21 (0.559 %) LoadRunner 13 16 (0.426 %) CruiseControl 14 13 (0.346 %) JDeveloper 14 13 (0.346 %) QARun 15 12 (0.319 %) JBuilder 16 11 (0.293 %) JIRA 17 8 (0.213 %) Rational Robot 18 7 (0.186 %) ChangeMan	General 1 823 (21.89 %) Finance 2 290 (7.713 %) Banking 3 234 (6.223 %) Pensions 4 185 (4.920 %) Insurance 5 178 (4.734 %) Health 6 151 (4.016 %) Back Office 7 111 (2.952 %) Investment Banking 8 105 (2.793 %) Telecoms 9 100 (2.660 %) Games 10 93 (2.473 %) Retail 11 85 (2.261 %) Marketing 12 77 (2.048 %) Front Office 13 67 (1.782 %) Education 14 39 (1.037 %) Multimedia 15 33 (0.878 %) Government 16 31 (0.824 %) Billing 17 29 (0.771 %) Legal 17 29 (0.771 %) Publishing 18 28 (0.745 %) Pharmaceutical 19 27 (0.718 %) Financial Institution
Job Titles 1 1292 (34.36 %) Developer 2 729 (19.39 %) Analyst 3 354 (9.415 %) .NET Developer 4 309 (8.218 %) Consultant 5 244 (6.489 %) Test Analyst 6 197 (5.239 %) Architect 7 190 (5.053 %) Senior Developer 8 188 (5.000 %) Java Developer 9 187 (4.973 %) Software Engineer 10 176 (4.681 %) C# Developer 11 174 (4.628 %) Support Analyst 12 164 (4.362 %) Software Developer 13 151 (4.016 %) Programmer 14 142 (3.777 %) C++ Developer 15 140 (3.723 %) Tester 16 123 (3.271 %) VB.NET Developer 17 116 (3.085 %) Technical Support 17 116 (3.085 %) Development Manager 18 104 (2.766 %) Technical Consultant 19 102 (2.713 %) Support Engineer	Miscellaneous 1 211 (5.612 %) N-Tier 2 155 (4.122 %) Derivative 3 110 (2.926 %) Mainframe 4 99 (2.633 %) Multithreading 5 92 (2.447 %) Computer Science 6 52 (1.383 %) Management Information System 7 51 (1.356 %) Clustering 8 45 (1.197 %) Mathematics 9 40 (1.064 %) Fixed Income 10 38 (1.011 %) Replication 11 37 (0.984 %) Foreign Exchange (FX) 12 33 (0.878 %) Handset 13 31 (0.824 %) Equity Derivative 14 30 (0.798 %) Device Driver 15 28 (0.745 %) Equities 16 22 (0.585 %) Thin Client 16 22 (0.585 %) Fat Client 17 20 (0.532 %) IBM Mainframe 17 20 (0.532 %) Statistics 18 16 (0.426 %) Physics
Operating Systems 1 1240 (32.98 %) Windows 2 525 (13.96 %) UNIX 3 388 (10.32 %) Windows Server 2003 4 297 (7.899 %) Linux 5 228 (6.064 %) Windows 2000 6 171 (4.548 %) Windows XP 7 142 (3.777 %) Solaris 8 83 (2.207 %) Windows 2000 Server 9 57 (1.516 %) Windows NT 10 34 (0.904 %) AIX 11 31 (0.824 %) HPUX 12 24 (0.638 %) Windows Vista 13 23 (0.612 %) Windows Mobile 13 23 (0.612 %) VMS 14 17 (0.452 %) Red Hat Linux 15 14 (0.372 %) Mac OS X Server 16 7 (0.186 %) Windows XP Embedded 17 6 (0.160 %) Windows Server 2008 17 6 (0.160 %) Mac OS X 17 6 (0.160 %) Windows CE	Processes & Methodologies 1 376 (10.00 %) OO 2 272 (7.234 %) Project Management 3 187 (4.973 %) UML 4 141 (3.750 %) Software Testing 5 136 (3.617 %) ITIL 6 125 (3.324 %) Disaster Recovery 7 114 (3.032 %) E-Commerce 7 114 (3.032 %) Automated Testing 8 112 (2.979 %) Software Engineering 8 112 (2.979 %) Test Scripting 9 104 (2.766 %) Web Development 10 102 (2.713 %) Business Continuity 11 101 (2.686 %) Data Modelling 12 97 (2.580 %) CRM 13 95 (2.527 %) Web Testing 14 94 (2.500 %) Workflow 15 93 (2.473 %) OOP 16 92 (2.447 %) PRINCE2 16 92 (2.447 %) OOD 17 87 (2.314 %) Document Management
Programming Languages 1 1280 (34.04 %) SQL 2 687 (18.27 %) C# 3 645 (17.15 %) Java 4 569 (15.13 %) C++ 5 400 (10.64 %) VB 6 376 (10.00 %) VB.NET 7 356 (9.468 %) JavaScript 8 215 (5.718 %) VB6 9 205 (5.452 %) C 10 158 (4.202 %) PHP 11 114 (3.032 %) VC++ 12 113 (3.005 %) VBA 13 109 (2.899 %) Perl 14 102 (2.713 %) Delphi 15 95 (2.527 %) Transact-SQL 16 76 (2.021 %) PL/SQL 17 64 (1.702 %) Shell Script 18 57 (1.516 %) VBScript 19 54 (1.436 %) Python 20 43 (1.144 %) Ruby	Qualifications 1 423 (11.25 %) Degree 2 307 (8.165 %) Microsoft Certification 3 184 (4.894 %) MCSE 4 165 (4.388 %) ISEB 5 70 (1.862 %) Cisco Certification 6 53 (1.410 %) CCNA 7 51 (1.356 %) MCP 8 37 (0.984 %) MCSD 9 33 (0.878 %) CCNP 10 28 (0.745 %) MCSA 11 24 (0.638 %) Citrix Certification 12 18 (0.479 %) ITIL Certification 12 18 (0.479 %) ISTQB 13 16 (0.426 %) CISSP 14 13 (0.346 %) HND 14 13 (0.346 %) ISEB Practitioner 15 12 (0.319 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner 15 12 (0.319 %) MCDBA 16 11 (0.293 %) CCDP 16 11 (0.293 %) Sun Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 163 (4.335 %) QA 2 58 (1.543 %) SLA 3 15 (0.399 %) DICOM 4 14 (0.372 %) ISO9001 5 4 (0.106 %) PCI DSS 5 4 (0.106 %) COBIT 6 3 (0.080 %) Sarbanes-Oxley 6 3 (0.080 %) ISO8583 6 3 (0.080 %) ISO27001 7 2 (0.053 %) HL7 7 2 (0.053 %) ISO9000 7 2 (0.053 %) BS7799	System Software 1 190 (5.053 %) Active Directory 2 41 (1.090 %) Terminal Server 3 36 (0.957 %) VMware Infrastructure 4 32 (0.851 %) Backup Exec 5 30 (0.798 %) Terminal Services 6 13 (0.346 %) MetaFrame 7 12 (0.319 %) Citrix Presentation Server 8 10 (0.266 %) ISA Server 9 7 (0.186 %) RACF 9 7 (0.186 %) VMware ESX 9 7 (0.186 %) Oracle RAC 10 6 (0.160 %) Intellisync 11 4 (0.106 %) ClearTrust 11 4 (0.106 %) MSMQ 12 3 (0.080 %) NFS 12 3 (0.080 %) Oracle RMAN 12 3 (0.080 %) NetBackup 13 2 (0.053 %) AquaLogic 14 1 (0.027 %) VMware Workstation
Systems Management 1 35 (0.931 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 2 19 (0.505 %) Norton AntiVirus 3 18 (0.479 %) MOM 4 11 (0.293 %) Tivoli 4 11 (0.293 %) Unicenter 5 9 (0.239 %) OpenView Configuration Management 6 8 (0.213 %) OpenView 7 7 (0.186 %) AllFusion Endevor 8 6 (0.160 %) AutoSys 9 5 (0.133 %) DameWare 10 4 (0.106 %) Netcool 11 3 (0.080 %) OVSD 11 3 (0.080 %) Nagios 12 2 (0.053 %) ARCserve 12 2 (0.053 %) CONTROL-M 12 2 (0.053 %) WSUS 12 2 (0.053 %) Legato 12 2 (0.053 %) ServiceCenter 13 1 (0.027 %) CiscoWorks 13 1 (0.027 %) MAILsweeper	Vendors 1 836 (22.23 %) Microsoft 2 775 (20.61 %) Oracle 3 178 (4.734 %) Citrix 4 109 (2.899 %) Cisco 5 98 (2.606 %) IBM 6 97 (2.580 %) VMware 7 88 (2.340 %) HP 8 78 (2.074 %) Sun 9 76 (2.021 %) Sybase 10 66 (1.755 %) SAP 11 57 (1.516 %) Lotus 12 38 (1.011 %) PeopleSoft 13 32 (0.851 %) Altiris 14 28 (0.745 %) Borland 15 26 (0.691 %) BEA 16 25 (0.665 %) CA 17 24 (0.638 %) SimCorp 18 23 (0.612 %) Business Objects 18 23 (0.612 %) Siebel 19 22 (0.585 %) Symantec