Client/Server Jobs

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 cited Client/Server over the 6 months leading up to 13 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 604 476 436
Rank change year-on-year -128 -40 +389
Permanent jobs citing Client/Server 108 496 692
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.20% 0.50% 0.68%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.54% 1.41% 1.57%
Number of salaries quoted 96 451 584
10th Percentile £25,500 £36,250 £36,400
25th Percentile £37,250 £52,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £72,500 £74,500
Median % change year-on-year -20.69% -2.68% +35.45%
75th Percentile £67,000 £91,250 £96,250
90th Percentile £88,750 £112,500 £112,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,250 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -12.92% -7.69% +30.00%

All Generic Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 20,086 35,211 44,044
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 36.29% 35.47% 43.47%
Number of salaries quoted 9,903 23,075 23,595
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,000 £35,314
25th Percentile £42,500 £38,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -15.38% +4.00%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £86,250
90th Percentile £110,000 £97,500 £108,348
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% +4.76%

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 13 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Client/Server in the UK

Client/Server
Top 13 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 13 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
England -172 103 £57,500 -23.33% 219
UK excluding London +19 80 £52,250 -12.92% 147
Work from Home -133 56 £60,000 -20.00% 177
South East +70 37 £47,500 -9.52% 49
London -89 22 £57,500 -32.35% 101
North of England -4 16 £59,000 -9.23% 40
East of England -18 15 £62,000 -11.43% 42
North East +8 7 £92,500 +29.37% 19
South West +104 6 £77,500 +63.16% 7
Midlands +58 6 £55,000 +6.80% 10
East Midlands +35 6 £55,000 +6.80% 7
North West +6 6 £52,500 -4.55% 19
Yorkshire +61 3 £37,500 +15.38% 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 18 (16.67%) IIS
2 5 (4.63%) Apache
3 4 (3.70%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (2.78%) SharePoint
5 2 (1.85%) CMS
5 2 (1.85%) Sitecore CMS
6 1 (0.93%) SharePoint Server
6 1 (0.93%) Tomcat
Applications
1 13 (12.04%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.85%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.93%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 40 (37.04%) Azure
2 32 (29.63%) Microsoft 365
3 26 (24.07%) SaaS
4 25 (23.15%) AWS
5 12 (11.11%) GitHub
6 11 (10.19%) Serverless
7 8 (7.41%) Entra ID
8 7 (6.48%) Azure DevOps
8 7 (6.48%) Azure Logic Apps
9 6 (5.56%) Amazon S3
9 6 (5.56%) AWS Lambda
9 6 (5.56%) Power Automate
10 5 (4.63%) Azure Data Factory
10 5 (4.63%) Azure Functions
10 5 (4.63%) Azure Service Bus
10 5 (4.63%) GitHub Actions
11 4 (3.70%) Azure Sentinel
11 4 (3.70%) Figma
11 4 (3.70%) PaaS
12 3 (2.78%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 21 (19.44%) LAN
1 21 (19.44%) WAN
2 19 (17.59%) Network Security
3 18 (16.67%) Firewall
4 15 (13.89%) TCP/IP
5 14 (12.96%) VoIP
6 13 (12.04%) DNS
7 11 (10.19%) Internet
8 10 (9.26%) HTTP
9 9 (8.33%) FTP
9 9 (8.33%) SMTP
9 9 (8.33%) VPN
10 5 (4.63%) Bluetooth
11 4 (3.70%) DHCP
12 3 (2.78%) SSL
13 2 (1.85%) SAN
14 1 (0.93%) BGP
14 1 (0.93%) EIGRP
14 1 (0.93%) Intranet
14 1 (0.93%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (31.48%) SQL Server
2 13 (12.04%) Relational Database
3 5 (4.63%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (1.85%) MySQL
4 2 (1.85%) Power BI
4 2 (1.85%) Redis
4 2 (1.85%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (0.93%) Cloudera CDH
5 1 (0.93%) Couchbase
5 1 (0.93%) DynamoDB
5 1 (0.93%) Metadata
5 1 (0.93%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.93%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 10 (9.26%) Git
1 10 (9.26%) Selenium
2 8 (7.41%) JIRA
2 8 (7.41%) Postman
3 4 (3.70%) Visual Studio
3 4 (3.70%) Visual Studio Code
4 2 (1.85%) Octopus Deploy
5 1 (0.93%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.93%) gulp
5 1 (0.93%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.93%) Subversion
5 1 (0.93%) TestComplete
5 1 (0.93%) webpack
5 1 (0.93%) WiX
General
1 54 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 8 (7.41%) Analytical Skills
2 8 (7.41%) Games
3 7 (6.48%) Finance
3 7 (6.48%) Local Government
4 6 (5.56%) Legal
4 6 (5.56%) Public Sector
5 5 (4.63%) Back Office
5 5 (4.63%) Retail
6 4 (3.70%) Billing
7 3 (2.78%) Aerospace
7 3 (2.78%) Law
8 2 (1.85%) Financial Institution
8 2 (1.85%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.85%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.93%) Automotive
9 1 (0.93%) Banking
9 1 (0.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.93%) Military
Job Titles
1 28 (25.93%) Lead
2 20 (18.52%) Senior
3 19 (17.59%) Software Engineer
4 15 (13.89%) Developer
5 12 (11.11%) IT Support
6 11 (10.19%) Analyst
7 9 (8.33%) Senior Software Engineer
8 8 (7.41%) Senior Developer
8 8 (7.41%) Service Desk Manager
8 8 (7.41%) Service Manager
9 7 (6.48%) Systems Support
10 6 (5.56%) QA Engineer
11 5 (4.63%) C# Developer
11 5 (4.63%) QA Leader
11 5 (4.63%) Senior C# Developer
11 5 (4.63%) SOC Analyst
12 4 (3.70%) C# .NET Developer
12 4 (3.70%) Senior .NET Developer
12 4 (3.70%) Senior C# .NET Developer
12 4 (3.70%) Senior C# Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (29.63%) .NET
2 19 (17.59%) HTML
3 17 (15.74%) CSS
4 10 (9.26%) AngularJS
4 10 (9.26%) XML
5 9 (8.33%) LDAP
6 7 (6.48%) JSON
7 5 (4.63%) .NET Framework
7 5 (4.63%) ASP.NET Web API
7 5 (4.63%) Bootstrap
7 5 (4.63%) Django
7 5 (4.63%) RxJS
7 5 (4.63%) Tailwind CSS
7 5 (4.63%) WebSockets
8 4 (3.70%) .NET Core
8 4 (3.70%) NgRx
8 4 (3.70%) React
8 4 (3.70%) RESTful
9 3 (2.78%) Vue
10 2 (1.85%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 20 (18.52%) Management Information System
2 13 (12.04%) Algorithms
2 13 (12.04%) Private Cloud
3 12 (11.11%) Driving Licence
4 9 (8.33%) Onboarding
4 9 (8.33%) Security Operations Centre
5 8 (7.41%) Data Structures
6 7 (6.48%) Data Centre
6 7 (6.48%) Hedge funds
7 5 (4.63%) Embedded Systems
7 5 (4.63%) IoT
7 5 (4.63%) Mobile App
8 4 (3.70%) Cyber Threat
8 4 (3.70%) Distributed Systems
8 4 (3.70%) Product Ownership
9 3 (2.78%) Clustering
9 3 (2.78%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (1.85%) Cyber Defence
10 2 (1.85%) N-Tier
10 2 (1.85%) Online Games
Operating Systems
1 23 (21.30%) Windows
2 16 (14.81%) Linux
3 9 (8.33%) Windows Server
4 5 (4.63%) Ubuntu
5 3 (2.78%) Mac OS
5 3 (2.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (1.85%) SUSE
7 1 (0.93%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.93%) Windows 7
7 1 (0.93%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (30.56%) Software Engineering
2 28 (25.93%) Agile
2 28 (25.93%) ITIL
3 23 (21.30%) Problem-Solving
4 22 (20.37%) Computer Science
4 22 (20.37%) People Management
4 22 (20.37%) Test Automation
5 21 (19.44%) ITSM
5 21 (19.44%) Service Management
6 20 (18.52%) Change Management
7 18 (16.67%) Information Security
8 17 (15.74%) Process Improvement
8 17 (15.74%) SDLC
9 15 (13.89%) E-Commerce
10 14 (12.96%) Analytics
10 14 (12.96%) Configuration Management
10 14 (12.96%) DevOps
11 13 (12.04%) Cybersecurity
11 13 (12.04%) Security Operations
11 13 (12.04%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 36 (33.33%) SQL
2 28 (25.93%) Python
3 25 (23.15%) C#
4 18 (16.67%) JavaScript
5 17 (15.74%) PowerShell
6 15 (13.89%) TypeScript
7 13 (12.04%) C++
7 13 (12.04%) Java
8 8 (7.41%) Bash
8 8 (7.41%) Perl
9 6 (5.56%) C
10 5 (4.63%) Ladder Logic
11 3 (2.78%) Go
11 3 (2.78%) PHP
12 1 (0.93%) R
12 1 (0.93%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 25 (23.15%) Degree
2 15 (13.89%) Security Cleared
3 13 (12.04%) ITIL Certification
4 11 (10.19%) Computer Science Degree
4 11 (10.19%) SC Cleared
5 9 (8.33%) DV Cleared
6 5 (4.63%) CompTIA Security+
7 1 (0.93%) CCNA
7 1 (0.93%) CCNP
7 1 (0.93%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.93%) CREST Certified
7 1 (0.93%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.93%) GCIA
7 1 (0.93%) GCIH
7 1 (0.93%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (12.96%) SLA
2 8 (7.41%) QA
3 2 (1.85%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.93%) GDPR
4 1 (0.93%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 13 (12.04%) Active Directory
2 11 (10.19%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (3.70%) Hyper-V
4 3 (2.78%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (1.85%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (1.85%) vSphere
6 1 (0.93%) Docker
6 1 (0.93%) Veritas Cluster Server
6 1 (0.93%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 8 (7.41%) QRadar
2 7 (6.48%) SCCM
3 5 (4.63%) Microsoft Intune
3 5 (4.63%) ZABBIX
4 4 (3.70%) Graylog
4 4 (3.70%) SCOM
5 2 (1.85%) Kubernetes
5 2 (1.85%) Microsoft Clustering
6 1 (0.93%) NetBackup
6 1 (0.93%) Puppet
6 1 (0.93%) Terraform
Vendors
1 70 (64.81%) Microsoft
2 21 (19.44%) Oracle
3 12 (11.11%) VMware
4 9 (8.33%) Splunk
5 8 (7.41%) Cisco
6 5 (4.63%) Siemens
7 4 (3.70%) Aruba
8 3 (2.78%) Apple
8 3 (2.78%) Red Hat
8 3 (2.78%) Zscaler
9 2 (1.85%) Ab Initio
9 2 (1.85%) arcserve
9 2 (1.85%) Avaya
9 2 (1.85%) Citrix
9 2 (1.85%) Linksys
9 2 (1.85%) Sitecore
10 1 (0.93%) Commvault
10 1 (0.93%) Google
10 1 (0.93%) Pega
10 1 (0.93%) Veritas