Fat Client Jobs in the UK excluding London

Fat Client
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Fat Client in permanent job vacancies in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Fat Client over the 6 months leading up to 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 577 716 731
Rank change year-on-year +139 +15 +89
Permanent jobs citing Fat Client 3 59 24
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.008% 0.080% 0.041%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.023% 0.24% 0.098%
Number of salaries quoted 3 24 17
10th Percentile - £29,900 £23,000
25th Percentile - £32,750 £28,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £25,000 £38,000 £37,500
Median % change year-on-year -34.21% +1.33% +25.00%
75th Percentile £27,500 £45,938 £38,750
90th Percentile £29,000 £53,550 £42,750
UK median annual salary £31,500 £39,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -20.25% -28.18% +22.22%

All Generic Skills
UK excluding London

Fat Client 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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 13,329 24,370 24,539
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 34.18% 32.93% 42.24%
Number of salaries quoted 5,816 15,263 10,953
10th Percentile £28,500 £26,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,925 £35,000 £41,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,793 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.59% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £85,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -15.38% +4.00%

Fat Client
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Fat Client as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Fat Client in the UK excluding London

Fat Client
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Fat Client in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Fat Client in the UK excluding London

Fat Client
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Fat Client within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 29 May 2025. 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
Yorkshire +43 3 £25,000 -50.00% 1
North of England +16 3 £25,000 -26.47% 3
Fat Client
UK

Fat Client
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) VoIP
2 1 (33.33%) DHCP
2 1 (33.33%) DNS
2 1 (33.33%) Firewall
2 1 (33.33%) LAN
2 1 (33.33%) VPN
2 1 (33.33%) WAN
2 1 (33.33%) Wi-Fi
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) 1st Line Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) 2nd Line Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Service Desk Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
2 1 (33.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) ITIL
2 2 (66.67%) Customer Service
3 1 (33.33%) Migration
3 1 (33.33%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 3 (100.00%) Hyper-V
1 3 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (33.33%) Terminal Services
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) VMware
2 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
3 1 (33.33%) ServiceNow
3 1 (33.33%) Wyse