Hybrid/Remote Client/Server Job Trends

Client Server
UK > Work from Home

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Client/Server in remote or hybrid work. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Client/Server over the 6 months leading up to 12 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 382 410 414
Rank change year-on-year +28 +4 -152
Permanent jobs citing Client/Server 68 20 103
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.30% 0.12% 0.41%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.79% 0.28% 1.21%
Number of salaries quoted 63 19 98
10th Percentile £27,025 £37,050 £36,775
25th Percentile £32,750 £37,250 £49,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £70,750
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -25.80% -10.16%
75th Percentile £86,250 £67,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £76,500 £117,250
UK median annual salary £50,000 £37,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year +33.33% -46.43% -3.45%

All Generic Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring generic IT skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 8,580 7,096 8,493
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 37.82% 43.19% 34.06%
Number of salaries quoted 5,238 3,640 6,054
10th Percentile £34,000 £30,750 £34,121
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -7.69%
75th Percentile £80,810 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £120,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% -11.54%

Client/Server
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Client/Server and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Client/Server job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Client/Server
Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Client/Server.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Client/Server

Client/Server
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Client/Server over the 6 months to 12 August 2026.

Client/Server salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Client/Server
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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 5 (7.35%) IIS
2 2 (2.94%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (2.94%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.47%) Apache
3 1 (1.47%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.47%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 2 (2.94%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.47%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 24 (35.29%) Azure
2 17 (25.00%) SaaS
3 16 (23.53%) AWS
4 11 (16.18%) Entra ID
5 7 (10.29%) GCP
6 5 (7.35%) Power Platform
7 2 (2.94%) Amazon S3
7 2 (2.94%) Dagster
7 2 (2.94%) GitHub
7 2 (2.94%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (2.94%) Power Automate
7 2 (2.94%) PowerApps
8 1 (1.47%) Amazon Kinesis
8 1 (1.47%) Amazon SQS
8 1 (1.47%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (1.47%) PaaS
8 1 (1.47%) Prefect
8 1 (1.47%) Serverless
8 1 (1.47%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 6 (8.82%) VPN
2 4 (5.88%) TCP/IP
3 2 (2.94%) Firewall
3 2 (2.94%) LAN
3 2 (2.94%) WAN
4 1 (1.47%) Internet
4 1 (1.47%) VoIP
4 1 (1.47%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (16.18%) Azure SQL Database
1 11 (16.18%) SQL Server
2 6 (8.82%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (7.35%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 3 (4.41%) Power BI
5 2 (2.94%) Data Lake
5 2 (2.94%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (1.47%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (1.47%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (1.47%) Big Data
6 1 (1.47%) MySQL
6 1 (1.47%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.47%) Oracle Database
6 1 (1.47%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.47%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 1 (1.47%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 1 (1.47%) Git
General
1 24 (35.29%) Social Skills
2 21 (30.88%) Finance
3 15 (22.06%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (7.35%) Telecoms
5 4 (5.88%) Electronics
5 4 (5.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (5.88%) Legal
6 2 (2.94%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (2.94%) Law
6 2 (2.94%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.47%) Front Office
7 1 (1.47%) General Ledger
7 1 (1.47%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.47%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 16 (23.53%) Analyst
2 14 (20.59%) Support Analyst
3 12 (17.65%) Applications Support
3 12 (17.65%) Senior
4 11 (16.18%) Applications Engineer
4 11 (16.18%) Applications Support Engineer
4 11 (16.18%) Developer
4 11 (16.18%) Support Engineer
5 10 (14.71%) Software Engineer
6 8 (11.76%) Software Analyst
6 8 (11.76%) Software Support Analyst
7 6 (8.82%) Lead
7 6 (8.82%) Python Engineer
7 6 (8.82%) Senior Analyst
8 5 (7.35%) Python Software Engineer
8 5 (7.35%) Senior Software Engineer
8 5 (7.35%) Senior Support Analyst
9 4 (5.88%) Data Engineer
9 4 (5.88%) Lead Test Engineer
9 4 (5.88%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (11.76%) .NET
2 5 (7.35%) XML
3 3 (4.41%) AngularJS
3 3 (4.41%) FastAPI
3 3 (4.41%) React
4 2 (2.94%) ASP.NET
4 2 (2.94%) Bootstrap
4 2 (2.94%) jQuery
4 2 (2.94%) Kafka
4 2 (2.94%) REST
4 2 (2.94%) Spring
4 2 (2.94%) Spring Boot
5 1 (1.47%) ActiveMQ
5 1 (1.47%) Django
5 1 (1.47%) Ember.js
5 1 (1.47%) Flask
5 1 (1.47%) Pandas
5 1 (1.47%) Pyramid
5 1 (1.47%) Vue
5 1 (1.47%) XSL
Miscellaneous
1 6 (8.82%) Data Structures
2 4 (5.88%) Algorithms
2 4 (5.88%) Public Cloud
2 4 (5.88%) SCADA
3 3 (4.41%) Cyber Threat
3 3 (4.41%) Hedge funds
4 2 (2.94%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (2.94%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (2.94%) Driving Licence
4 2 (2.94%) Fixed Income
4 2 (2.94%) Low-Code
5 1 (1.47%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.47%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.47%) IoT
5 1 (1.47%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.47%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.47%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.47%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.47%) Video\Live Streaming
5 1 (1.47%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 17 (25.00%) Windows
2 2 (2.94%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 16 (23.53%) Software Engineering
3 14 (20.59%) Computer Science
4 13 (19.12%) DevOps
5 11 (16.18%) Change Management
5 11 (16.18%) ITIL
6 10 (14.71%) Software Testing
7 9 (13.24%) Process Improvement
8 8 (11.76%) AI
8 8 (11.76%) OOP
9 7 (10.29%) Analytical Thinking
9 7 (10.29%) Full-Stack Development
9 7 (10.29%) Stakeholder Management
10 6 (8.82%) Cybersecurity
10 6 (8.82%) Fintech
10 6 (8.82%) SDLC
11 5 (7.35%) Analytics
11 5 (7.35%) Code Quality
11 5 (7.35%) Decision-Making
11 5 (7.35%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 36 (52.94%) SQL
2 14 (20.59%) Python
3 7 (10.29%) C#
4 6 (8.82%) Java
5 4 (5.88%) C++
5 4 (5.88%) Rust
5 4 (5.88%) TypeScript
6 1 (1.47%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (1.47%) Elm
6 1 (1.47%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.47%) R
Qualifications
1 20 (29.41%) Degree
2 2 (2.94%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.47%) CCIE
3 1 (1.47%) CCNA
3 1 (1.47%) CCNP
3 1 (1.47%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (17.65%) SLA
2 2 (2.94%) Data Quality
System Software
1 16 (23.53%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.94%) Docker
3 1 (1.47%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 2 (2.94%) Terraform
2 1 (1.47%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 14 (20.59%) Microsoft
2 6 (8.82%) Citrix
3 3 (4.41%) Databricks
3 3 (4.41%) Oracle
4 2 (2.94%) Ariba
4 2 (2.94%) SAP
5 1 (1.47%) Cisco
5 1 (1.47%) Google
5 1 (1.47%) Juniper
5 1 (1.47%) Palo Alto