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 6 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 588 739 691
Rank change year-on-year +151 -48 -106
Permanent jobs citing Client/Server 142 346 432
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.26% 0.28% 0.34%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.72% 0.65% 0.77%
Number of salaries quoted 77 242 258
10th Percentile £31,300 £29,750 £32,982
25th Percentile £45,000 £43,063 £42,517
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% -8.33% +20.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £74,688
90th Percentile £90,000 £90,000 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% - -

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 19,755 53,550 56,307
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 36.85% 43.13% 44.02%
Number of salaries quoted 14,466 30,042 33,625
10th Percentile £33,205 £35,000 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £64,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.34% +6.67% -
75th Percentile £84,056 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £105,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +10.00% -

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 6 December 2023.

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 6 December 2023. 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 +156 133 £60,000 +14.29% 221
UK excluding London +123 77 £52,000 +4.00% 117
Work from Home +182 60 £70,000 +12.00% 174
London +202 55 £75,000 +11.11% 126
South East +145 39 £55,000 +4.76% 43
North of England +112 16 £36,250 -27.50% 35
West Midlands +141 12 £62,500 +78.57% 2
Midlands +119 12 £62,500 +78.57% 8
East of England +90 8 £22,000 -33.50% 24
Yorkshire +70 8 £33,000 -37.14% 4
North West +105 7 £72,500 +45.00% 18
South West +63 2 £52,250 +29.01% 9
North East +39 1 £30,000 -20.00% 13

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 5 (3.52%) SharePoint
2 3 (2.11%) Apache Pig
2 3 (2.11%) CMS
3 2 (1.41%) Apache
3 2 (1.41%) IIS
4 1 (0.70%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (2.82%) MadCap Flare
2 3 (2.11%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (1.41%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.70%) IBM Planning Analytics
2 1 (0.70%) JDE EnterpriseOne
Cloud Services
1 50 (35.21%) Azure
2 30 (21.13%) Azure DevOps
3 17 (11.97%) AWS
3 17 (11.97%) SaaS
4 15 (10.56%) Microsoft 365
5 10 (7.04%) Serverless
6 6 (4.23%) Power Platform
7 4 (2.82%) IaaS
7 4 (2.82%) PaaS
8 3 (2.11%) Azure Service Bus
9 2 (1.41%) Dynamics 365
9 2 (1.41%) PowerApps
10 1 (0.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 1 (0.70%) AWS CloudFormation
10 1 (0.70%) AWS Lambda
10 1 (0.70%) Cloudflare
10 1 (0.70%) Datadog
10 1 (0.70%) GCP
10 1 (0.70%) GitHub
10 1 (0.70%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 13 (9.15%) SAN
2 7 (4.93%) Firewall
3 3 (2.11%) Internet
3 3 (2.11%) Wireless
4 2 (1.41%) HTTP
4 2 (1.41%) LAN
4 2 (1.41%) Network Security
4 2 (1.41%) VPN
4 2 (1.41%) WAN
5 1 (0.70%) DMZ
5 1 (0.70%) DNS
5 1 (0.70%) Intranet
5 1 (0.70%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (0.70%) OSPF
5 1 (0.70%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.70%) VoIP
5 1 (0.70%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (7.75%) SQL Server
2 4 (2.82%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (2.82%) MySQL
2 4 (2.82%) Oracle Database
2 4 (2.82%) Power BI
3 3 (2.11%) Apache Hive
3 3 (2.11%) Big Data
3 3 (2.11%) Hadoop
3 3 (2.11%) Relational Database
3 3 (2.11%) SQLite
4 2 (1.41%) Apache Cassandra
4 2 (1.41%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (1.41%) MongoDB
4 2 (1.41%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (1.41%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 2 (1.41%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 2 (1.41%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 2 (1.41%) Tableau
5 1 (0.70%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.70%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 27 (19.01%) Selenium
2 23 (16.20%) Robot Framework
3 7 (4.93%) Git
4 6 (4.23%) SonarQube
5 4 (2.82%) Cucumber
5 4 (2.82%) SpecFlow
5 4 (2.82%) Team Foundation Server
6 3 (2.11%) Checkstyle
6 3 (2.11%) Jenkins
6 3 (2.11%) JUnit
6 3 (2.11%) Subversion
7 2 (1.41%) Bugzilla
7 2 (1.41%) CruiseControl
7 2 (1.41%) Hudson
7 2 (1.41%) JIRA
7 2 (1.41%) JMeter
7 2 (1.41%) Octopus Deploy
7 2 (1.41%) SoapUI
7 2 (1.41%) Visual Studio
7 2 (1.41%) VSS/SourceSafe
General
1 52 (36.62%) Social Skills
2 26 (18.31%) Analytical Skills
3 17 (11.97%) Finance
4 8 (5.63%) Front Office
5 6 (4.23%) Games
6 5 (3.52%) Tech for Good
7 4 (2.82%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (2.11%) Advertising
8 3 (2.11%) Automotive
8 3 (2.11%) Banking
8 3 (2.11%) Law
8 3 (2.11%) Retail
9 2 (1.41%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.41%) Marketing
10 1 (0.70%) Aviation
10 1 (0.70%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.70%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.70%) German Language
Job Titles
1 31 (21.83%) Analyst
1 31 (21.83%) Developer
2 25 (17.61%) Applications Engineer
3 23 (16.20%) Solutions Analyst
4 14 (9.86%) Architect
5 12 (8.45%) Software Engineer
6 11 (7.75%) Senior
7 10 (7.04%) Lead
8 8 (5.63%) Technical Architect
9 7 (4.93%) C# Developer
9 7 (4.93%) IT Support
9 7 (4.93%) Lead Developer
9 7 (4.93%) Support Engineer
10 6 (4.23%) IT Engineer
11 5 (3.52%) IT Support Engineer
11 5 (3.52%) Senior Developer
11 5 (3.52%) Service Desk Support
11 5 (3.52%) Support Analyst
12 4 (2.82%) DBA
12 4 (2.82%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (14.08%) .NET
2 9 (6.34%) AngularJS
2 9 (6.34%) REST
3 8 (5.63%) React
3 8 (5.63%) Web Services
4 7 (4.93%) .NET Framework
5 6 (4.23%) .NET Core
5 6 (4.23%) ASP.NET Web API
5 6 (4.23%) RabbitMQ
5 6 (4.23%) RESTful
6 5 (3.52%) Node.js
6 5 (3.52%) SOAP
7 4 (2.82%) GraphQL
7 4 (2.82%) HTML
7 4 (2.82%) Jest
7 4 (2.82%) Kafka
7 4 (2.82%) WCF
7 4 (2.82%) WPF
8 3 (2.11%) gRPC
8 3 (2.11%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 13 (9.15%) Management Information System
2 10 (7.04%) Algorithms
3 8 (5.63%) Mobile App
3 8 (5.63%) Product Ownership
4 7 (4.93%) Data Structures
5 5 (3.52%) Hedge funds
6 4 (2.82%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (2.82%) N-Tier
6 4 (2.82%) PKI
6 4 (2.82%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (2.11%) Data Centre
7 3 (2.11%) Public Cloud
8 2 (1.41%) Educational Technology
8 2 (1.41%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.41%) IoT
8 2 (1.41%) Life Science
8 2 (1.41%) Mobile Games
8 2 (1.41%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.41%) Replication
8 2 (1.41%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 62 (43.66%) Windows
2 35 (24.65%) Linux
3 34 (23.94%) Windows Server
4 23 (16.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (3.52%) Apple iOS
6 4 (2.82%) Windows 10
7 3 (2.11%) Android
8 2 (1.41%) Mac OS
8 2 (1.41%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.70%) Debian
9 1 (0.70%) Unix
9 1 (0.70%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (28.17%) Agile
2 37 (26.06%) Test Automation
3 35 (24.65%) DevOps
4 30 (21.13%) Scrum
5 27 (19.01%) Release Management
6 24 (16.90%) Scaled Agile Framework
7 23 (16.20%) Actionable Insight
7 23 (16.20%) Application Packaging
7 23 (16.20%) Application Virtualisation
8 21 (14.79%) Problem-Solving
9 20 (14.08%) Software Engineering
10 19 (13.38%) Computer Science
11 14 (9.86%) Roadmaps
12 13 (9.15%) Architecture Roadmap
12 13 (9.15%) Design Patterns
12 13 (9.15%) Enterprise Architecture
12 13 (9.15%) Fintech
12 13 (9.15%) Mentoring
12 13 (9.15%) Microservices
12 13 (9.15%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 42 (29.58%) Python
2 34 (23.94%) PowerShell
3 27 (19.01%) SQL
4 24 (16.90%) VBScript
5 19 (13.38%) C#
6 17 (11.97%) Java
7 15 (10.56%) JavaScript
8 8 (5.63%) C++
8 8 (5.63%) TypeScript
9 6 (4.23%) Bash
10 4 (2.82%) C
10 4 (2.82%) Delphi
11 3 (2.11%) PL/SQL
11 3 (2.11%) T-SQL
12 2 (1.41%) Groovy
12 2 (1.41%) Rust
12 2 (1.41%) Scala
12 2 (1.41%) Swift
12 2 (1.41%) VB
12 2 (1.41%) XAML
Qualifications
1 41 (28.87%) Security Cleared
2 31 (21.83%) Degree
3 14 (9.86%) MCSE
3 14 (9.86%) Microsoft Certification
4 13 (9.15%) SC Cleared
5 12 (8.45%) TOGAF Certification
6 7 (4.93%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (3.52%) Master's Degree
8 4 (2.82%) DV Cleared
9 3 (2.11%) PhD
10 1 (0.70%) CCA
10 1 (0.70%) CCNA
10 1 (0.70%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.70%) CISM
10 1 (0.70%) CISSP
10 1 (0.70%) Citrix Certification
10 1 (0.70%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (13.38%) QA
2 2 (1.41%) Accessibility
2 2 (1.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (1.41%) Software Quality Assurance
3 1 (0.70%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (0.70%) GDPR
3 1 (0.70%) NCSC
3 1 (0.70%) NIST
3 1 (0.70%) PSD2
3 1 (0.70%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (0.70%) SOC 2
System Software
1 43 (30.28%) VMware Infrastructure
2 13 (9.15%) Docker
3 8 (5.63%) Active Directory
3 8 (5.63%) Hyper-V
4 3 (2.11%) HDFS
5 2 (1.41%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 2 (1.41%) Firmware
6 1 (0.70%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 7 (4.93%) Kubernetes
2 4 (2.82%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (2.11%) Terraform
4 2 (1.41%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 2 (1.41%) Ansible
4 2 (1.41%) Grafana
4 2 (1.41%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.70%) Microsoft Clustering
5 1 (0.70%) Nagios
5 1 (0.70%) Rancher
5 1 (0.70%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 48 (33.80%) VMware
2 31 (21.83%) Microsoft
3 6 (4.23%) Oracle
4 5 (3.52%) Cisco
5 2 (1.41%) Facebook
5 2 (1.41%) Intel
5 2 (1.41%) Juniper
5 2 (1.41%) ServiceNow
5 2 (1.41%) Twitter
6 1 (0.70%) AppDynamics
6 1 (0.70%) Apple
6 1 (0.70%) Bloomberg
6 1 (0.70%) Citrix
6 1 (0.70%) Cognos
6 1 (0.70%) IBM
6 1 (0.70%) JD Edwards
6 1 (0.70%) Meraki
6 1 (0.70%) Palo Alto
6 1 (0.70%) Splunk
6 1 (0.70%) Veeam