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 have cited Fat Client over the 6 months to 1 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 712 1000 1019
Rank change year-on-year +288 +19 -323
Permanent jobs citing Fat Client 32 85 77
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.060% 0.068% 0.059%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.16% 0.16% 0.13%
Number of salaries quoted 31 72 56
10th Percentile £33,250 £30,000 £24,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £30,938 £25,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,000 £42,500 £35,000
Median % change year-on-year +22.35% +21.43% -1.41%
75th Percentile £54,073 £52,500 £43,750
90th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,000 £40,000 £28,750
% change year-on-year +27.50% +39.13% -12.21%

All Generic Skills
UK

Fat Client 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 19,807 54,441 57,154
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 36.89% 43.46% 44.14%
Number of salaries quoted 14,539 30,144 33,842
10th Percentile £33,413 £34,990 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £63,956 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.28% +6.59% -
75th Percentile £84,056 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £106,289 £105,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +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 1 December 2023.

Salary histogram for Fat Client in the UK

Fat Client
Top 10 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 1 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 +252 32 £52,000 +24.55% 9
UK excluding London +231 27 £51,000 +27.50% 9
Work from Home +250 21 £54,000 +20.00% 1
South West +85 12 £54,000 +14.89% 2
South East +149 8 £34,500 -23.33% 2
North of England +127 6 £37,500 +25.00% 3
North West +113 6 £37,500 +3.45% 1
London +243 4 £70,000 +40.00% 1
West Midlands +127 1 £57,500 +43.75%
Midlands +122 1 £57,500 +43.75%

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 12 (37.50%) SharePoint
2 2 (6.25%) MS Exchange
Applications
1 4 (12.50%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (9.38%) Acrobat
3 2 (6.25%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (3.13%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 18 (56.25%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (6.25%) Mimecast
3 1 (3.13%) Azure
3 1 (3.13%) Entra ID
3 1 (3.13%) Google Workspace
3 1 (3.13%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 16 (50.00%) NAS
1 16 (50.00%) SAN
2 12 (37.50%) Skype
3 8 (25.00%) Remote Desktop
4 7 (21.88%) DHCP
4 7 (21.88%) DNS
5 2 (6.25%) VPN
5 2 (6.25%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (3.13%) 3G
6 1 (3.13%) 4G
6 1 (3.13%) Bluetooth
6 1 (3.13%) LAN
6 1 (3.13%) TCP/IP
6 1 (3.13%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (18.75%) MySQL
1 6 (18.75%) SQL Server
2 1 (3.13%) Power BI
General
1 16 (50.00%) Military
2 7 (21.88%) Social Skills
3 6 (18.75%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (18.75%) Pharmaceutical
3 6 (18.75%) Retail
4 3 (9.38%) Finance
4 3 (9.38%) French Language
4 3 (9.38%) Presentation Skills
4 3 (9.38%) Spanish Language
5 2 (6.25%) Legal
6 1 (3.13%) Banking
6 1 (3.13%) Investment Banking
6 1 (3.13%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 15 (46.88%) Senior
1 15 (46.88%) Wintel Engineer
2 14 (43.75%) Senior Wintel Engineer
3 9 (28.13%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 9 (28.13%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
3 9 (28.13%) Wintel Infrastructure Engineer
4 8 (25.00%) Support Engineer
5 5 (15.63%) 2nd/3rd Line Support
5 5 (15.63%) 2nd/3rd Line Support Engineer
5 5 (15.63%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 5 (15.63%) 3rd Line Support
5 5 (15.63%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
6 3 (9.38%) Consultant
6 3 (9.38%) Solutions Consultant
7 2 (6.25%) Help Desk Engineer
7 2 (6.25%) IT Engineer
7 2 (6.25%) IT Support
8 1 (3.13%) 2nd Line Desktop Support
8 1 (3.13%) Desktop Specialist
8 1 (3.13%) Subject Matter Expert
Miscellaneous
1 32 (100.00%) Thin Client
2 16 (50.00%) Clustering
2 16 (50.00%) PKI
3 5 (15.63%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (6.25%) IoT
4 2 (6.25%) Video Conferencing
5 1 (3.13%) Mobile App
5 1 (3.13%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (3.13%) Smartcard
5 1 (3.13%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 27 (84.38%) Windows
2 23 (71.88%) Windows Server
3 16 (50.00%) Windows Server 2012
3 16 (50.00%) Windows Server 2016
4 12 (37.50%) Linux
5 3 (9.38%) Android
5 3 (9.38%) Apple iOS
5 3 (9.38%) Windows 10
6 2 (6.25%) Mac OS
7 1 (3.13%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (50.00%) Incident Management
1 16 (50.00%) Key Management
1 16 (50.00%) Patch Management
2 14 (43.75%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 12 (37.50%) Database Mirroring
4 6 (18.75%) ITIL
5 3 (9.38%) Presales
6 2 (6.25%) Creative Thinking
6 2 (6.25%) Document Management
6 2 (6.25%) Mobile Device Management
6 2 (6.25%) Speech Recognition
7 1 (3.13%) Business Intelligence
7 1 (3.13%) Disaster Recovery
7 1 (3.13%) Identity Access Management
7 1 (3.13%) ITSM
7 1 (3.13%) Migration
7 1 (3.13%) Project Management
7 1 (3.13%) Security Operations
7 1 (3.13%) Service Management
7 1 (3.13%) Software Deployment
Programming Languages
1 22 (68.75%) PowerShell
2 13 (40.63%) SQL
Qualifications
1 14 (43.75%) DV Cleared
1 14 (43.75%) Security Cleared
2 12 (37.50%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (3.13%) SLA
System Software
1 27 (84.38%) Active Directory
2 20 (62.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 16 (50.00%) Hyper-V
3 16 (50.00%) VMware NSX
3 16 (50.00%) vSphere
4 2 (6.25%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 16 (50.00%) Failover Clustering
1 16 (50.00%) Microsoft Clustering
1 16 (50.00%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
1 16 (50.00%) SCCM
2 2 (6.25%) XenMobile
3 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 20 (62.50%) Microsoft
1 20 (62.50%) VMware
2 7 (21.88%) Citrix
3 3 (9.38%) Adobe
3 3 (9.38%) Dell
4 2 (6.25%) Apple
4 2 (6.25%) Ivanti
5 1 (3.13%) Cisco
5 1 (3.13%) Google
5 1 (3.13%) HP
5 1 (3.13%) Snow
5 1 (3.13%) Veeam