Client/Server Job Trends

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 15 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 626 523 448
Rank change year-on-year -103 -75 +67
Permanent jobs citing Client/Server 70 122 451
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.094% 0.28% 0.53%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.31% 0.71% 1.47%
Number of salaries quoted 61 102 415
10th Percentile £26,250 £32,650 £36,250
25th Percentile £29,750 £46,438 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £57,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -34.78% -23.33% +11.11%
75th Percentile £77,500 £64,688 £92,875
90th Percentile £96,250 £82,500 £112,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £35,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -41.67% - +4.35%

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 22,950 17,094 30,602
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 30.85% 38.98% 36.25%
Number of salaries quoted 11,692 8,922 21,676
10th Percentile £28,760 £32,500 £28,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.83% +9.09% -15.38%
75th Percentile £78,750 £82,500 £76,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -9.09%

Client/Server
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Client/Server job vacancy trend in the UK

Client/Server
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Client/Server.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Client/Server

Client/Server
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Client/Server over the 6 months to 15 March 2026.

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 15 March 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
England -83 62 £47,500 -17.39% 56
UK excluding London -41 59 £35,000 -41.67% 38
Work from Home +17 33 £32,000 -46.67% 37
South East -10 27 £32,500 -37.50% 15
North of England -40 17 £47,500 -19.49% 7
North East -6 11 £31,500 -53.33% 3
London -19 8 £107,500 +86.96% 24
North West -5 6 £57,500 +9.52% 4
Scotland - 5 £27,500 - 1
East of England -14 4 £92,500 +49.19% 8
Midlands -19 3 £80,000 +45.45% 4
South West -28 3 £31,500 -59.35% 4
East Midlands -41 3 £80,000 +45.45% 1

Client/Server
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 12 (17.14%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (8.57%) SharePoint
3 3 (4.29%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (1.43%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 28 (40.00%) Azure
2 23 (32.86%) AWS
3 16 (22.86%) Microsoft 365
4 14 (20.00%) GCP
5 11 (15.71%) Entra ID
6 10 (14.29%) SaaS
7 4 (5.71%) OneDrive
8 3 (4.29%) Dagster
8 3 (4.29%) Prefect
9 2 (2.86%) AWS Step Functions
9 2 (2.86%) PaaS
9 2 (2.86%) Power Platform
10 1 (1.43%) Amazon EKS
10 1 (1.43%) Amazon Kinesis
10 1 (1.43%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 13 (18.57%) Firewall
2 10 (14.29%) VPN
3 8 (11.43%) DNS
4 6 (8.57%) DHCP
4 6 (8.57%) TCP/IP
5 5 (7.14%) LAN
5 5 (7.14%) Network Security
5 5 (7.14%) VoIP
5 5 (7.14%) WAN
6 4 (5.71%) HTTP
7 2 (2.86%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (21.43%) SQL Server
2 5 (7.14%) Azure SQL Database
3 3 (4.29%) Amazon Redshift
3 3 (4.29%) NoSQL
3 3 (4.29%) Redis
4 2 (2.86%) Oracle Database
4 2 (2.86%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.43%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (1.43%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.43%) MySQL
5 1 (1.43%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.43%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 4 (5.71%) Visual Studio
2 3 (4.29%) TeamCity
3 2 (2.86%) Git
3 2 (2.86%) Ranorex
3 2 (2.86%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 37 (52.86%) Social Skills
2 4 (5.71%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (5.71%) Finance
2 4 (5.71%) German Language
3 3 (4.29%) Documentation Skills
3 3 (4.29%) Games
3 3 (4.29%) Presentation Skills
4 2 (2.86%) Legal
4 2 (2.86%) Local Government
4 2 (2.86%) Organisational Skills
4 2 (2.86%) Telecoms
5 1 (1.43%) Banking
5 1 (1.43%) Public Sector
5 1 (1.43%) Retail
Job Titles
1 18 (25.71%) Software Engineer
2 15 (21.43%) IT Support
3 12 (17.14%) Analyst
4 11 (15.71%) Developer
4 11 (15.71%) Senior
5 9 (12.86%) Support Analyst
6 8 (11.43%) Support Engineer
7 6 (8.57%) IT Analyst
7 6 (8.57%) IT Support Analyst
7 6 (8.57%) Python Engineer
8 5 (7.14%) Applications Engineer
8 5 (7.14%) Applications Support
8 5 (7.14%) Applications Support Engineer
8 5 (7.14%) C# Developer
8 5 (7.14%) Lead
8 5 (7.14%) Technical Leader
9 4 (5.71%) 2nd Line Support
9 4 (5.71%) Senior Developer
9 4 (5.71%) Senior Software Engineer
9 4 (5.71%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (17.14%) .NET
2 7 (10.00%) React
3 4 (5.71%) ASP.NET
3 4 (5.71%) Qt
3 4 (5.71%) STL
4 3 (4.29%) AngularJS
4 3 (4.29%) QML
4 3 (4.29%) REST
4 3 (4.29%) Vue
5 2 (2.86%) Kafka
5 2 (2.86%) XML
5 2 (2.86%) XSL
6 1 (1.43%) .NET Core
6 1 (1.43%) Ember.js
6 1 (1.43%) Phoenix
6 1 (1.43%) Phoenix Framework
6 1 (1.43%) Spring
6 1 (1.43%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 12 (17.14%) Distributed Systems
2 9 (12.86%) Driving Licence
3 7 (10.00%) Onboarding
4 6 (8.57%) Greenfield Project
5 4 (5.71%) Algorithms
5 4 (5.71%) Data Structures
6 2 (2.86%) Clustering
7 1 (1.43%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (1.43%) Cloud Native
7 1 (1.43%) Derivative
7 1 (1.43%) Hedge funds
7 1 (1.43%) IoT
7 1 (1.43%) MISP
7 1 (1.43%) Security Operations Centre
7 1 (1.43%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 25 (35.71%) Windows
2 14 (20.00%) Windows Server
3 11 (15.71%) Linux
4 4 (5.71%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (35.71%) Software Engineering
2 19 (27.14%) Computer Science
2 19 (27.14%) Problem-Solving
3 18 (25.71%) Continuous Improvement
4 17 (24.29%) Test Automation
5 13 (18.57%) ITIL
6 12 (17.14%) Code Quality
6 12 (17.14%) Collaborative Culture
7 11 (15.71%) Agile
7 11 (15.71%) System Testing
8 8 (11.43%) DevOps
9 7 (10.00%) OOP
10 6 (8.57%) Change Management
10 6 (8.57%) Collaborative Working
10 6 (8.57%) Service Delivery
10 6 (8.57%) Software Testing
11 5 (7.14%) E-Commerce
11 5 (7.14%) Multithreading
12 4 (5.71%) Migration
12 4 (5.71%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 29 (41.43%) SQL
2 19 (27.14%) Python
3 18 (25.71%) C#
4 17 (24.29%) C++
5 12 (17.14%) Rust
6 11 (15.71%) C
7 7 (10.00%) JavaScript
8 5 (7.14%) TypeScript
9 3 (4.29%) Java
9 3 (4.29%) PowerShell
10 2 (2.86%) Uniface
11 1 (1.43%) Bash
11 1 (1.43%) Elm
Qualifications
1 18 (25.71%) Degree
2 11 (15.71%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (2.86%) ISTQB
3 2 (2.86%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (2.86%) Microsoft Certified Professional
4 1 (1.43%) CEH
4 1 (1.43%) CompTIA Security+
4 1 (1.43%) CREST Certified
4 1 (1.43%) DV Cleared
4 1 (1.43%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.43%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (21.43%) QA
2 1 (1.43%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.43%) SLA
System Software
1 21 (30.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 20 (28.57%) Active Directory
3 19 (27.14%) Hyper-V
4 11 (15.71%) KVM
5 6 (8.57%) Docker
6 2 (2.86%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 3 (4.29%) Terraform
2 2 (2.86%) Microsoft Clustering
2 2 (2.86%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (2.86%) SCCM
2 2 (2.86%) SCOM
3 1 (1.43%) QRadar
3 1 (1.43%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 27 (38.57%) Microsoft
2 21 (30.00%) VMware
3 7 (10.00%) Oracle
4 2 (2.86%) Aruba
5 1 (1.43%) Citrix
5 1 (1.43%) Splunk