Client/Server Job Trends in the North of England

Client Server
England > North of England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Client/Server in permanent job vacancies in the North of England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Client/Server over the 6 months leading up to 11 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 339 300 326
Rank change year-on-year -39 +26 +15
Permanent jobs citing Client/Server 7 13 59
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.034% 0.14% 0.32%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.16% 0.34% 1.09%
Number of salaries quoted 7 13 57
10th Percentile £30,450 £36,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £41,875 £37,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -25.00% -24.32%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £77,000
90th Percentile £84,000 £122,500 £86,250
England median annual salary £60,000 £37,500 £71,500
% change year-on-year +60.00% -47.55% -4.67%

All Generic Skills
North of England

Client/Server falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in the North of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 4,475 3,805 5,397
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 21.57% 40.54% 29.48%
Number of salaries quoted 3,243 1,529 3,586
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,480 £27,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £33,125 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £70,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £93,634 £85,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -15.38%

Client/Server
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Client/Server relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Client/Server job vacancy trend in the North of England

Client/Server
Salary Trend in the North of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Client/Server.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Client/Server

Client/Server
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Client/Server in the North of England over the 6 months to 11 July 2026.

Salary histogram for Client/Server in the North of England

Client/Server
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Client/Server within the North of England region over the 6 months to 11 July 2026. 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
North East -47 5 £60,000 -47.83% 4
North West -9 2 £57,500 +9.52% 2
Client/Server
England

Client/Server
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (14.29%) Apache
1 1 (14.29%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 3 (42.86%) Azure
2 2 (28.57%) AWS
2 2 (28.57%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) Firewall
1 1 (14.29%) HTTP
1 1 (14.29%) LAN
1 1 (14.29%) TCP/IP
1 1 (14.29%) WAN
1 1 (14.29%) Wi-Fi
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) JIRA
1 1 (14.29%) Visual Studio
General
1 2 (28.57%) Finance
2 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Back Office
2 1 (14.29%) Front Office
2 1 (14.29%) Games
2 1 (14.29%) Retail
2 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Graduate
2 2 (28.57%) Graduate Software Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Software Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Software Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) C++ Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Computer Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Computer Science Graduate
3 1 (14.29%) Data Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Network Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Senior
3 1 (14.29%) Senior C++ Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (57.14%) .NET
2 1 (14.29%) .NET Core
2 1 (14.29%) Pandas
2 1 (14.29%) PySpark
2 1 (14.29%) QML
2 1 (14.29%) Qt
2 1 (14.29%) STL
Miscellaneous
1 5 (71.43%) Hedge funds
2 4 (57.14%) Algorithms
2 4 (57.14%) Data Structures
3 2 (28.57%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (28.57%) Public Cloud
4 1 (14.29%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (14.29%) EPoS
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Computer Science
2 4 (57.14%) Design Patterns
2 4 (57.14%) Fintech
2 4 (57.14%) OOP
2 4 (57.14%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (57.14%) SDLC
2 4 (57.14%) Software Engineering
3 2 (28.57%) Full-Stack Development
3 2 (28.57%) Investment Management
4 1 (14.29%) Availability Management
4 1 (14.29%) Cost Optimisation
4 1 (14.29%) Data Engineering
4 1 (14.29%) Data Modelling
4 1 (14.29%) Data Pipeline
4 1 (14.29%) Mathematics
4 1 (14.29%) Multithreading
4 1 (14.29%) Physics
Programming Languages
1 5 (71.43%) C#
1 5 (71.43%) Python
2 4 (57.14%) Java
3 3 (42.86%) C++
4 1 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (71.43%) Degree
2 1 (14.29%) CCIE
2 1 (14.29%) CCNA
2 1 (14.29%) CCNP
2 1 (14.29%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) Microsoft
2 1 (14.29%) Cisco
2 1 (14.29%) Databricks
2 1 (14.29%) Juniper
2 1 (14.29%) Palo Alto