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 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 469 442 836
Rank change year-on-year -27 +394 -152
Permanent jobs citing Client/Server 494 692 411
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.50% 0.68% 0.26%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.41% 1.60% 0.55%
Number of salaries quoted 449 585 187
10th Percentile £36,250 £36,450 £31,800
25th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +36.36% +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 £65,000 £48,750
% change year-on-year -7.69% +33.33% +21.88%

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 35,043 43,311 74,759
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.36% 42.74% 47.65%
Number of salaries quoted 23,056 23,480 33,820
10th Percentile £28,000 £35,250 £34,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £46,250 £45,750
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 £84,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £107,550 £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 9 May 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 9 May 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 +14 481 £75,000 - 146
Work from Home -6 375 £75,000 -6.25% 132
UK excluding London -32 258 £60,000 -7.69% 46
London +4 232 £85,000 +6.25% 100
East of England +45 73 £70,000 +21.74% 5
North of England +76 70 £65,000 -27.78% 13
South East -60 66 £52,500 -25.00% 17
North East +38 44 £71,500 +155.36% 6
South West -13 21 £47,500 -52.50% 1
Midlands -28 19 £51,500 -14.17% 10
Yorkshire +101 14 £32,500 +4.84% 1
West Midlands -4 14 £35,000 -41.67% 3
North West -18 12 £55,000 -40.54% 7
East Midlands -18 5 £51,500 -20.77% 7
Scotland -65 5 £63,750 +50.89% 1
Wales -8 4 £61,500 +37.69% 2

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 (4.05%) SharePoint
2 15 (3.04%) Apache Airflow
2 15 (3.04%) Microsoft Exchange
3 11 (2.23%) CMS
4 8 (1.62%) Apache Pig
4 8 (1.62%) Skype for Business
5 3 (0.61%) Drupal
6 2 (0.40%) nginx
7 1 (0.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.20%) EPiServer
7 1 (0.20%) Exchange Server 2013
7 1 (0.20%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 18 (3.64%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (0.61%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.40%) Dynamics NAV
2 2 (0.40%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 141 (28.54%) AWS
2 97 (19.64%) Azure
3 54 (10.93%) Serverless
4 45 (9.11%) SaaS
5 43 (8.70%) AWS Lambda
5 43 (8.70%) Microsoft 365
6 21 (4.25%) GitHub
7 18 (3.64%) Amazon S3
8 16 (3.24%) AWS CloudFormation
9 13 (2.63%) Amazon Kinesis
9 13 (2.63%) Azure Sentinel
9 13 (2.63%) dbt
10 10 (2.02%) Amazon ECS
10 10 (2.02%) Azure DevOps
10 10 (2.02%) Entra ID
11 9 (1.82%) Stripe
12 8 (1.62%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
13 7 (1.42%) Amazon EKS
13 7 (1.42%) Heroku
14 6 (1.21%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 48 (9.72%) Firewall
2 38 (7.69%) DNS
3 31 (6.28%) WAN
4 29 (5.87%) LAN
5 27 (5.47%) TCP/IP
6 21 (4.25%) VPN
7 18 (3.64%) DHCP
7 18 (3.64%) Internet
8 13 (2.63%) Intrusion Detection
9 12 (2.43%) FTP
10 11 (2.23%) Wireless
11 10 (2.02%) BGP
11 10 (2.02%) OSPF
12 9 (1.82%) Extranet
12 9 (1.82%) Intranet
12 9 (1.82%) VoIP
13 8 (1.62%) MPLS
13 8 (1.62%) Network Security
13 8 (1.62%) Reverse Proxy
13 8 (1.62%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (7.69%) MySQL
2 31 (6.28%) Redis
3 27 (5.47%) PostgreSQL
4 15 (3.04%) CouchDB
4 15 (3.04%) Elasticsearch
5 13 (2.63%) Amazon Redshift
6 12 (2.43%) Amazon RDS
6 12 (2.43%) NoSQL
7 8 (1.62%) Apache Hive
7 8 (1.62%) Big Data
7 8 (1.62%) Couchbase
7 8 (1.62%) DynamoDB
7 8 (1.62%) Hadoop
7 8 (1.62%) SQL Server
8 7 (1.42%) Data Warehouse
9 4 (0.81%) Data Mining
10 3 (0.61%) Event Store
10 3 (0.61%) Power BI
11 1 (0.20%) Delta Lake
11 1 (0.20%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 17 (3.44%) TeamCity
2 14 (2.83%) JUnit
3 11 (2.23%) Jenkins
4 10 (2.02%) Cypress.io
5 8 (1.62%) Checkstyle
5 8 (1.62%) Gradle
5 8 (1.62%) JIRA
5 8 (1.62%) SonarQube
6 7 (1.42%) Git
6 7 (1.42%) gulp
6 7 (1.42%) webpack
7 6 (1.21%) Appium
7 6 (1.21%) Bugzilla
7 6 (1.21%) Mockito
7 6 (1.21%) Selenium
7 6 (1.21%) Zephyr
8 5 (1.01%) DTrace
8 5 (1.01%) GDB
8 5 (1.01%) Octopus Deploy
8 5 (1.01%) Visual Studio
General
1 287 (58.10%) Social Skills
2 61 (12.35%) Games
3 53 (10.73%) Finance
4 33 (6.68%) Automotive
5 30 (6.07%) Analytical Skills
6 23 (4.66%) Law
7 20 (4.05%) Tech for Good
8 18 (3.64%) Presentation Skills
9 16 (3.24%) Marketing
10 14 (2.83%) Retail
11 13 (2.63%) Organisational Skills
11 13 (2.63%) Pharmaceutical
12 12 (2.43%) Aerospace
13 9 (1.82%) Front Office
14 7 (1.42%) Health Technology
15 4 (0.81%) Advertising
15 4 (0.81%) Agriculture
15 4 (0.81%) Public Sector
16 3 (0.61%) Banking
16 3 (0.61%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 166 (33.60%) Developer
2 76 (15.38%) Senior
3 73 (14.78%) Lead
4 70 (14.17%) Software Engineer
5 45 (9.11%) C# Developer
6 43 (8.70%) .NET Developer
7 42 (8.50%) Analyst
8 40 (8.10%) AWS Engineer
9 37 (7.49%) C# .NET Developer
10 33 (6.68%) AWS Developer
11 31 (6.28%) C# Software Engineer
11 31 (6.28%) Senior Developer
12 30 (6.07%) .NET Software Engineer
12 30 (6.07%) Lead Developer
12 30 (6.07%) Software Developer
13 24 (4.86%) Consultant
14 23 (4.66%) Python Engineer
15 21 (4.25%) Data Engineer
15 21 (4.25%) Java Developer
15 21 (4.25%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 97 (19.64%) .NET
2 65 (13.16%) .NET Core
3 40 (8.10%) Node.js
4 37 (7.49%) React
5 34 (6.88%) Kafka
6 26 (5.26%) AngularJS
6 26 (5.26%) Spring Boot
7 20 (4.05%) Vue
8 18 (3.64%) REST
9 17 (3.44%) CSS
9 17 (3.44%) RESTful
10 15 (3.04%) Spring
11 14 (2.83%) ASP.NET
11 14 (2.83%) ASP.NET MVC
12 12 (2.43%) HTML
12 12 (2.43%) Web Services
13 11 (2.23%) Laravel
13 11 (2.23%) Redux
13 11 (2.23%) SAML
14 9 (1.82%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 78 (15.79%) Data Structures
2 47 (9.51%) Algorithms
3 35 (7.09%) Hedge funds
3 35 (7.09%) IoT
3 35 (7.09%) PropTech
4 34 (6.88%) Online Games
5 29 (5.87%) Management Information System
6 27 (5.47%) Product Ownership
7 19 (3.85%) Cyber Threat
7 19 (3.85%) Security Operations Centre
8 18 (3.64%) Blog
8 18 (3.64%) Raspberry Pi
9 17 (3.44%) Onboarding
10 13 (2.63%) Data Centre
10 13 (2.63%) Virtual Team
11 12 (2.43%) Greenfield Project
11 12 (2.43%) Self-Motivation
12 9 (1.82%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 8 (1.62%) Video Conferencing
14 7 (1.42%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 84 (17.00%) Windows
2 71 (14.37%) Linux
3 43 (8.70%) Apple iOS
4 42 (8.50%) Android
5 36 (7.29%) Windows Server
6 10 (2.02%) Unix
7 9 (1.82%) Windows 10
8 5 (1.01%) Mac OS
9 2 (0.40%) Embedded Linux
9 2 (0.40%) Mac OS X
10 1 (0.20%) HPUX
10 1 (0.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.20%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 187 (37.85%) Problem-Solving
2 178 (36.03%) Agile
3 172 (34.82%) Software Engineering
4 148 (29.96%) Computer Science
5 90 (18.22%) Design Patterns
5 90 (18.22%) Mentoring
6 84 (17.00%) OOP
7 71 (14.37%) Microservices
8 54 (10.93%) Cybersecurity
9 47 (9.51%) CI/CD
10 42 (8.50%) Full Stack Development
11 37 (7.49%) DevOps
11 37 (7.49%) TDD
12 35 (7.09%) Decision-Making
13 31 (6.28%) Low Latency
13 31 (6.28%) Multithreading
14 30 (6.07%) SDLC
15 29 (5.87%) E-Commerce
16 28 (5.67%) Scrum
17 26 (5.26%) Business Development
Programming Languages
1 121 (24.49%) SQL
2 105 (21.26%) C#
3 87 (17.61%) Python
4 84 (17.00%) JavaScript
5 76 (15.38%) Java
6 68 (13.77%) TypeScript
7 27 (5.47%) C
8 26 (5.26%) PowerShell
9 19 (3.85%) Kotlin
10 16 (3.24%) Rust
11 14 (2.83%) PHP
12 10 (2.02%) C++
13 8 (1.62%) Swift
13 8 (1.62%) T-SQL
14 6 (1.21%) Bash
15 5 (1.01%) OCaml
15 5 (1.01%) Shell Script
15 5 (1.01%) SystemTap
16 2 (0.40%) Embedded C
16 2 (0.40%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 121 (24.49%) Degree
2 26 (5.26%) Security Cleared
3 25 (5.06%) Computer Science Degree
4 19 (3.85%) SC Cleared
5 17 (3.44%) DV Cleared
6 16 (3.24%) PhD
7 14 (2.83%) CISSP
8 13 (2.63%) CompTIA Security+
8 13 (2.63%) Master's Degree
9 5 (1.01%) PMI Certification
9 5 (1.01%) PMP
9 5 (1.01%) RHCE
9 5 (1.01%) RHCSA
10 3 (0.61%) CCIE
10 3 (0.61%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (0.40%) CREST Certified
11 2 (0.40%) OSCE
11 2 (0.40%) OSCP
11 2 (0.40%) Postgraduate
12 1 (0.20%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (9.11%) QA
2 13 (2.63%) Data Quality
3 7 (1.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (1.21%) GDPR
5 2 (0.40%) GRC
6 1 (0.20%) COBIT
6 1 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 1 (0.20%) NIST
6 1 (0.20%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.20%) SLA
6 1 (0.20%) SOC 1
System Software
1 51 (10.32%) Docker
2 44 (8.91%) Active Directory
3 24 (4.86%) Hyper-V
4 17 (3.44%) VMware Infrastructure
5 8 (1.62%) HDFS
6 2 (0.40%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.20%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.20%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 51 (10.32%) Kubernetes
2 32 (6.48%) Terraform
3 15 (3.04%) Microsoft Intune
4 11 (2.23%) Grafana
4 11 (2.23%) Prometheus
5 9 (1.82%) Ansible
5 9 (1.82%) Rancher
6 8 (1.62%) Single Sign-On
7 6 (1.21%) QRadar
8 5 (1.01%) Failover Clustering
8 5 (1.01%) HP Quality Center
9 3 (0.61%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 2 (0.40%) Jamf Pro
10 2 (0.40%) Progress Chef
10 2 (0.40%) Puppet
Vendors
1 90 (18.22%) Microsoft
2 34 (6.88%) VMware
3 15 (3.04%) Sage
4 12 (2.43%) Splunk
5 11 (2.23%) Cisco
6 9 (1.82%) GoCardless
6 9 (1.82%) PayPal
7 8 (1.62%) CheckPoint
7 8 (1.62%) Ribbon
7 8 (1.62%) Xamarin
8 7 (1.42%) Meraki
9 6 (1.21%) Google
9 6 (1.21%) HP
9 6 (1.21%) IBM
9 6 (1.21%) Workday
10 5 (1.01%) Dell
10 5 (1.01%) EqualLogic
10 5 (1.01%) NetApp
10 5 (1.01%) Nimble Storage
11 3 (0.61%) HubSpot