Fat Client Jobs

Fat Client
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Fat Client in permanent job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Fat Client over the 6 months leading up to 23 October 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 754 735 1081
Rank change year-on-year -19 +346 -81
Permanent jobs citing Fat Client 24 29 84
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.032% 0.049% 0.060%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.10% 0.13% 0.13%
Number of salaries quoted 20 28 76
10th Percentile £29,300 £33,025 £28,500
25th Percentile £31,750 £36,250 £30,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £51,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% +20.00% +34.92%
75th Percentile £57,854 £54,036 £53,664
90th Percentile £69,250 £70,000 £61,625
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,000 £40,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year +32.50% - +33.33%

All Generic Skills
UK

Fat Client 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 23,890 22,599 64,005
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 31.58% 38.01% 45.54%
Number of salaries quoted 11,124 16,431 31,543
10th Percentile £32,750 £34,113 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,383 £45,638 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% - +4.17%
75th Percentile £83,750 £83,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £106,250 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £54,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -1.82% - +10.00%

Fat Client
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Fat Client as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Fat Client in the UK

Fat Client
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Fat Client.

Salary trend for Fat Client in the UK

Fat Client
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Fat Client over the 6 months to 23 October 2024.

Salary histogram for Fat Client in the UK

Fat Client
Top 8 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Fat Client within the UK over the 6 months to 23 October 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 -37 24 £52,500 +2.94% 9
UK excluding London -51 15 £53,000 +32.50% 3
Work from Home +28 10 £52,500 +0.96% 5
London +10 7 £50,750 -27.50% 6
South West -8 6 £53,500 +2.88% 1
North of England -32 6 £32,750 -12.67%
Yorkshire - 6 £32,750 -
South East -18 3 £56,509 +63.79% 2

Fat Client
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 (20.83%) SharePoint
2 4 (16.67%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (8.33%) IBM Notes
Applications
1 7 (29.17%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (8.33%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 13 (54.17%) Microsoft 365
2 10 (41.67%) Azure
3 3 (12.50%) AWS
3 3 (12.50%) Cloud Computing
3 3 (12.50%) Entra ID
3 3 (12.50%) GCP
4 1 (4.17%) Akamai
4 1 (4.17%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 5 (20.83%) NAS
1 5 (20.83%) SAN
1 5 (20.83%) Skype
2 2 (8.33%) Internet
3 1 (4.17%) DHCP
3 1 (4.17%) Firewall
3 1 (4.17%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (8.33%) Cypress.io
1 2 (8.33%) Selenium
1 2 (8.33%) WebDriver
General
1 5 (20.83%) Military
1 5 (20.83%) Social Skills
2 2 (8.33%) Billing
2 2 (8.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 2 (8.33%) Law
3 1 (4.17%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (4.17%) Banking
3 1 (4.17%) Electronics
3 1 (4.17%) Finance
3 1 (4.17%) Manufacturing
3 1 (4.17%) Marketing
3 1 (4.17%) Public Sector
3 1 (4.17%) Retail
3 1 (4.17%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (20.83%) Analyst
1 5 (20.83%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 4 (16.67%) Senior
2 4 (16.67%) Senior Wintel Engineer
2 4 (16.67%) Wintel Engineer
3 3 (12.50%) Platform Manager
3 3 (12.50%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (12.50%) Support Analyst
3 3 (12.50%) Support Engineer
3 3 (12.50%) Wintel Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) 2nd Line Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) 2nd Line Support
4 2 (8.33%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
4 2 (8.33%) Service Analyst
4 2 (8.33%) Service Desk Analyst
4 2 (8.33%) Service Desk Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) Software Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) Technical Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) Technical Support
4 2 (8.33%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (12.50%) EDI
1 3 (12.50%) OpenMP
2 2 (8.33%) JSON
2 2 (8.33%) Node.js
2 2 (8.33%) React
2 2 (8.33%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 24 (100.00%) Thin Client
2 6 (25.00%) PKI
3 5 (20.83%) Clustering
4 3 (12.50%) Algorithms
4 3 (12.50%) CUDA
4 3 (12.50%) Video Conferencing
5 2 (8.33%) CMDB
5 2 (8.33%) Management Information System
5 2 (8.33%) N-Tier
6 1 (4.17%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 19 (79.17%) Windows
2 10 (41.67%) Windows Server
3 9 (37.50%) Linux
4 7 (29.17%) Windows Server 2016
5 6 (25.00%) Windows Server 2012
6 3 (12.50%) Unix
6 3 (12.50%) VMS
7 2 (8.33%) Windows 10
7 2 (8.33%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (29.17%) Customer Service
2 6 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
2 6 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 5 (20.83%) Artificial Intelligence
3 5 (20.83%) Database Mirroring
3 5 (20.83%) Incident Management
3 5 (20.83%) Key Management
3 5 (20.83%) Roadmaps
3 5 (20.83%) Service Delivery
4 4 (16.67%) ITIL
4 4 (16.67%) Service Management
4 4 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 3 (12.50%) Benchmarking
5 3 (12.50%) Computer Science
5 3 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
5 3 (12.50%) Platform Engineering
5 3 (12.50%) Quality Management
5 3 (12.50%) Technical Leadership
5 3 (12.50%) Technology Roadmap
5 3 (12.50%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 7 (29.17%) SQL
2 6 (25.00%) PowerShell
3 3 (12.50%) Bash
3 3 (12.50%) C
3 3 (12.50%) C++
3 3 (12.50%) C-shell
3 3 (12.50%) Fortran
3 3 (12.50%) Python
4 2 (8.33%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 5 (20.83%) Azure Certification
1 5 (20.83%) CCNA
1 5 (20.83%) Cisco Certification
2 4 (16.67%) Microsoft Certification
2 4 (16.67%) Security Cleared
3 3 (12.50%) AWS Certification
3 3 (12.50%) BPSS Clearance
3 3 (12.50%) CompTIA Security+
3 3 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (12.50%) Degree
3 3 (12.50%) Master's Degree
3 3 (12.50%) PhD
3 3 (12.50%) SC Cleared
4 2 (8.33%) CCNP
4 2 (8.33%) MCSA
5 1 (4.17%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (16.67%) SLA
2 2 (8.33%) QA
System Software
1 15 (62.50%) Active Directory
2 8 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (25.00%) vSphere
4 5 (20.83%) Hyper-V
4 5 (20.83%) VMware NSX
5 2 (8.33%) Terminal Services
6 1 (4.17%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 8 (33.33%) SCCM
2 5 (20.83%) Failover Clustering
2 5 (20.83%) Microsoft Clustering
2 5 (20.83%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
3 4 (16.67%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (4.17%) vRealize
Vendors
1 18 (75.00%) Microsoft
2 8 (33.33%) Citrix
2 8 (33.33%) VMware
3 5 (20.83%) Cisco
4 3 (12.50%) IBM
4 3 (12.50%) ServiceNow
5 2 (8.33%) Acronis
5 2 (8.33%) Apple
5 2 (8.33%) Dell
5 2 (8.33%) Fortinet
5 2 (8.33%) HP
5 2 (8.33%) Lotus
5 2 (8.33%) Ubiquiti
6 1 (4.17%) AlgoSec
6 1 (4.17%) Bloomberg
6 1 (4.17%) BT
6 1 (4.17%) ForeScout
6 1 (4.17%) SAP
6 1 (4.17%) Veeam
6 1 (4.17%) Wyse