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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 470 443 840
Rank change year-on-year -27 +397 -164
Permanent jobs citing Client/Server 487 706 410
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.50% 0.67% 0.27%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.40% 1.57% 0.56%
Number of salaries quoted 444 595 189
10th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £51,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £74,500 £72,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.76% +31.82% +4.76%
75th Percentile £91,250 £96,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £112,500 £112,500 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +31.58% +18.75%

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 34,768 44,861 72,647
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.46% 42.86% 47.13%
Number of salaries quoted 22,918 24,128 34,106
10th Percentile £28,000 £35,107 £34,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £46,250 £45,607
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 £107,500 £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 27 April 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 27 April 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 +11 475 £75,000 - 160
Work from Home +4 371 £75,000 -6.25% 146
UK excluding London -25 255 £60,000 -4.00% 67
London +20 229 £85,000 +6.25% 94
East of England +38 73 £70,000 +24.44% 17
North of England +71 69 £65,000 -25.71% 13
South East -31 65 £52,500 -19.23% 30
North East +40 43 £71,500 +155.36% 7
Midlands -11 20 £51,500 -14.17% 4
South West +3 19 £45,000 -47.06% 2
West Midlands +11 15 £37,500 -36.71%
Yorkshire +103 14 £32,500 +4.84% 1
North West -20 12 £55,000 -40.54% 7
East Midlands -18 5 £51,500 -20.77% 4
Scotland -64 5 £63,750 +33.16%
Wales 0 4 £61,500 +37.69% 5

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 20 (4.11%) SharePoint
2 15 (3.08%) Apache Airflow
2 15 (3.08%) Microsoft Exchange
3 11 (2.26%) CMS
4 8 (1.64%) Apache Pig
4 8 (1.64%) Skype for Business
5 3 (0.62%) Drupal
6 2 (0.41%) nginx
7 1 (0.21%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.21%) EPiServer
7 1 (0.21%) Exchange Server 2013
7 1 (0.21%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 17 (3.49%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (0.82%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.41%) Dynamics NAV
2 2 (0.41%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 140 (28.75%) AWS
2 97 (19.92%) Azure
3 54 (11.09%) Serverless
4 46 (9.45%) SaaS
5 43 (8.83%) AWS Lambda
5 43 (8.83%) Microsoft 365
6 21 (4.31%) GitHub
7 18 (3.70%) Amazon S3
8 16 (3.29%) AWS CloudFormation
9 13 (2.67%) Amazon Kinesis
9 13 (2.67%) Azure Sentinel
9 13 (2.67%) dbt
10 12 (2.46%) Azure DevOps
11 10 (2.05%) Amazon ECS
11 10 (2.05%) Entra ID
12 9 (1.85%) Stripe
13 8 (1.64%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
14 7 (1.44%) Amazon EKS
14 7 (1.44%) Dynamics 365
14 7 (1.44%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 47 (9.65%) Firewall
2 37 (7.60%) DNS
3 31 (6.37%) WAN
4 29 (5.95%) LAN
5 24 (4.93%) TCP/IP
6 21 (4.31%) VPN
7 18 (3.70%) DHCP
7 18 (3.70%) Internet
8 13 (2.67%) Intrusion Detection
9 12 (2.46%) FTP
10 11 (2.26%) Wireless
11 10 (2.05%) BGP
11 10 (2.05%) OSPF
12 9 (1.85%) Extranet
12 9 (1.85%) Intranet
12 9 (1.85%) VoIP
13 8 (1.64%) MPLS
13 8 (1.64%) Network Security
13 8 (1.64%) Reverse Proxy
13 8 (1.64%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (7.80%) MySQL
2 31 (6.37%) Redis
3 27 (5.54%) PostgreSQL
4 15 (3.08%) CouchDB
4 15 (3.08%) Elasticsearch
5 13 (2.67%) Amazon Redshift
6 12 (2.46%) Amazon RDS
6 12 (2.46%) NoSQL
7 8 (1.64%) Apache Hive
7 8 (1.64%) Big Data
7 8 (1.64%) Couchbase
7 8 (1.64%) DynamoDB
7 8 (1.64%) Hadoop
8 7 (1.44%) Data Warehouse
8 7 (1.44%) SQL Server
9 4 (0.82%) Data Mining
10 3 (0.62%) Event Store
10 3 (0.62%) Power BI
11 1 (0.21%) Delta Lake
11 1 (0.21%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 17 (3.49%) TeamCity
2 14 (2.87%) JUnit
3 10 (2.05%) Cypress.io
3 10 (2.05%) Jenkins
4 8 (1.64%) Checkstyle
4 8 (1.64%) Gradle
4 8 (1.64%) JIRA
4 8 (1.64%) SonarQube
5 7 (1.44%) Git
5 7 (1.44%) gulp
5 7 (1.44%) Selenium
5 7 (1.44%) webpack
6 6 (1.23%) Appium
6 6 (1.23%) Bugzilla
6 6 (1.23%) Mockito
6 6 (1.23%) Visual Studio
6 6 (1.23%) Zephyr
7 5 (1.03%) DTrace
7 5 (1.03%) GDB
7 5 (1.03%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 282 (57.91%) Social Skills
2 61 (12.53%) Games
3 53 (10.88%) Finance
4 33 (6.78%) Automotive
5 30 (6.16%) Analytical Skills
6 24 (4.93%) Law
7 20 (4.11%) Tech for Good
8 18 (3.70%) Presentation Skills
9 17 (3.49%) Marketing
10 14 (2.87%) Retail
11 13 (2.67%) Organisational Skills
11 13 (2.67%) Pharmaceutical
12 10 (2.05%) Aerospace
13 9 (1.85%) Front Office
14 7 (1.44%) Health Technology
15 4 (0.82%) Advertising
15 4 (0.82%) Agriculture
16 3 (0.62%) Banking
16 3 (0.62%) Financial Institution
16 3 (0.62%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 161 (33.06%) Developer
2 75 (15.40%) Senior
3 74 (15.20%) Lead
4 69 (14.17%) Software Engineer
5 43 (8.83%) Analyst
5 43 (8.83%) C# Developer
6 41 (8.42%) .NET Developer
7 40 (8.21%) AWS Engineer
8 35 (7.19%) C# .NET Developer
9 33 (6.78%) AWS Developer
10 31 (6.37%) C# Software Engineer
11 30 (6.16%) .NET Software Engineer
11 30 (6.16%) Lead Developer
11 30 (6.16%) Senior Developer
12 29 (5.95%) Software Developer
13 24 (4.93%) Consultant
14 23 (4.72%) Python Engineer
15 21 (4.31%) Data Engineer
15 21 (4.31%) Java Developer
15 21 (4.31%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 97 (19.92%) .NET
2 65 (13.35%) .NET Core
3 40 (8.21%) Node.js
4 37 (7.60%) React
5 32 (6.57%) Kafka
6 26 (5.34%) AngularJS
6 26 (5.34%) Spring Boot
7 20 (4.11%) Vue
8 18 (3.70%) REST
9 17 (3.49%) CSS
9 17 (3.49%) RESTful
10 15 (3.08%) Spring
11 14 (2.87%) ASP.NET
11 14 (2.87%) ASP.NET MVC
12 12 (2.46%) HTML
12 12 (2.46%) Web Services
13 11 (2.26%) Laravel
13 11 (2.26%) Redux
13 11 (2.26%) SAML
14 9 (1.85%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 77 (15.81%) Data Structures
2 47 (9.65%) Algorithms
3 35 (7.19%) Hedge funds
3 35 (7.19%) IoT
4 34 (6.98%) Online Games
4 34 (6.98%) PropTech
5 27 (5.54%) Management Information System
6 26 (5.34%) Product Ownership
7 19 (3.90%) Cyber Threat
7 19 (3.90%) Security Operations Centre
8 18 (3.70%) Blog
8 18 (3.70%) Raspberry Pi
9 17 (3.49%) Onboarding
10 14 (2.87%) Data Centre
11 13 (2.67%) Virtual Team
12 12 (2.46%) Greenfield Project
12 12 (2.46%) Self-Motivation
13 9 (1.85%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 8 (1.64%) Video Conferencing
15 7 (1.44%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 82 (16.84%) Windows
2 70 (14.37%) Linux
3 42 (8.62%) Apple iOS
4 41 (8.42%) Android
5 35 (7.19%) Windows Server
6 10 (2.05%) Unix
7 9 (1.85%) Windows 10
8 5 (1.03%) Mac OS
9 2 (0.41%) Embedded Linux
9 2 (0.41%) Mac OS X
9 2 (0.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.21%) HPUX
10 1 (0.21%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.21%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 183 (37.58%) Problem-Solving
2 173 (35.52%) Agile
3 168 (34.50%) Software Engineering
4 145 (29.77%) Computer Science
5 90 (18.48%) Design Patterns
6 89 (18.28%) Mentoring
7 83 (17.04%) OOP
8 71 (14.58%) Microservices
9 53 (10.88%) Cybersecurity
10 48 (9.86%) CI/CD
11 42 (8.62%) Full Stack Development
12 40 (8.21%) DevOps
13 36 (7.39%) TDD
14 35 (7.19%) Decision-Making
15 30 (6.16%) Low Latency
16 29 (5.95%) E-Commerce
16 29 (5.95%) SDLC
17 28 (5.75%) Multithreading
18 27 (5.54%) Scrum
19 26 (5.34%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 123 (25.26%) SQL
2 103 (21.15%) C#
3 87 (17.86%) Python
4 85 (17.45%) JavaScript
5 76 (15.61%) Java
6 69 (14.17%) TypeScript
7 28 (5.75%) PowerShell
8 26 (5.34%) C
9 19 (3.90%) Kotlin
10 16 (3.29%) Rust
11 14 (2.87%) PHP
12 9 (1.85%) C++
13 8 (1.64%) T-SQL
14 7 (1.44%) Swift
15 6 (1.23%) Bash
16 5 (1.03%) OCaml
16 5 (1.03%) Shell Script
16 5 (1.03%) SystemTap
17 2 (0.41%) Embedded C
17 2 (0.41%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 119 (24.44%) Degree
2 25 (5.13%) Security Cleared
3 23 (4.72%) Computer Science Degree
4 17 (3.49%) SC Cleared
5 16 (3.29%) PhD
6 15 (3.08%) DV Cleared
7 13 (2.67%) CISSP
7 13 (2.67%) CompTIA Security+
7 13 (2.67%) Master's Degree
8 5 (1.03%) PMI Certification
8 5 (1.03%) PMP
8 5 (1.03%) RHCE
8 5 (1.03%) RHCSA
9 3 (0.62%) CCIE
9 3 (0.62%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (0.41%) CREST Certified
10 2 (0.41%) OSCE
10 2 (0.41%) OSCP
10 2 (0.41%) Postgraduate
11 1 (0.21%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (9.45%) QA
2 13 (2.67%) Data Quality
3 7 (1.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (1.23%) GDPR
5 2 (0.41%) GRC
6 1 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 1 (0.21%) NIST
6 1 (0.21%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.21%) SLA
6 1 (0.21%) SOC 1
System Software
1 51 (10.47%) Docker
2 44 (9.03%) Active Directory
3 24 (4.93%) Hyper-V
4 19 (3.90%) VMware Infrastructure
5 8 (1.64%) HDFS
6 2 (0.41%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.21%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.21%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 51 (10.47%) Kubernetes
2 32 (6.57%) Terraform
3 15 (3.08%) Microsoft Intune
4 9 (1.85%) Grafana
4 9 (1.85%) Prometheus
4 9 (1.85%) Rancher
5 8 (1.64%) Ansible
5 8 (1.64%) Single Sign-On
6 6 (1.23%) QRadar
7 5 (1.03%) Failover Clustering
7 5 (1.03%) HP Quality Center
8 4 (0.82%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 2 (0.41%) Jamf Pro
9 2 (0.41%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.41%) Puppet
Vendors
1 91 (18.69%) Microsoft
2 34 (6.98%) VMware
3 15 (3.08%) Sage
4 11 (2.26%) Cisco
5 10 (2.05%) Splunk
6 9 (1.85%) GoCardless
6 9 (1.85%) PayPal
7 8 (1.64%) CheckPoint
7 8 (1.64%) Ribbon
7 8 (1.64%) Xamarin
8 7 (1.44%) Meraki
9 6 (1.23%) HP
9 6 (1.23%) IBM
9 6 (1.23%) Workday
10 5 (1.03%) Dell
10 5 (1.03%) EqualLogic
10 5 (1.03%) Google
10 5 (1.03%) NetApp
10 5 (1.03%) Nimble Storage
11 4 (0.82%) Facebook