Client/Server Jobs with Work from Home Options

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 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 372 250 723
Rank change year-on-year -122 +473 -203
Permanent jobs citing Client/Server 168 426 189
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.60% 1.30% 0.24%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.75% 3.35% 0.52%
Number of salaries quoted 160 384 109
10th Percentile £36,925 £48,750 £37,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £61,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £74,500 £78,750 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.40% +26.00% -
75th Percentile £91,563 £97,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £123,250 £116,250 £92,750
UK median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £57,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% +31.58% +3.64%

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 9,605 12,729 36,632
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 34.38% 38.79% 46.65%
Number of salaries quoted 6,855 9,924 18,426
10th Percentile £33,500 £40,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% - +8.33%
75th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £117,500 £107,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £64,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -14.06% +2.40% +4.17%

Client/Server
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Client/Server as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Client/Server trend for jobs with a WFH option

Client/Server
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Client/Server.

Client/Server salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Client/Server
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Client/Server over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

Client/Server salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Client/Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 9 (5.36%) SharePoint
2 7 (4.17%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (2.38%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (1.79%) CMS
5 2 (1.19%) Drupal
5 2 (1.19%) nginx
6 1 (0.60%) EPiServer
6 1 (0.60%) Exchange Server 2013
Applications
1 5 (2.98%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 41 (24.40%) AWS
2 38 (22.62%) Azure
3 15 (8.93%) SaaS
4 13 (7.74%) Serverless
5 12 (7.14%) AWS Lambda
6 11 (6.55%) GitHub
7 10 (5.95%) Microsoft 365
8 7 (4.17%) Amazon S3
8 7 (4.17%) AWS CloudFormation
8 7 (4.17%) Azure DevOps
8 7 (4.17%) Entra ID
9 6 (3.57%) Azure Pipelines
10 5 (2.98%) Amazon ECS
11 4 (2.38%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
12 3 (1.79%) Amazon EKS
12 3 (1.79%) Amazon Kinesis
12 3 (1.79%) Dynamics 365
12 3 (1.79%) IaaS
12 3 (1.79%) OneDrive
12 3 (1.79%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 15 (8.93%) DNS
1 15 (8.93%) Firewall
1 15 (8.93%) TCP/IP
2 9 (5.36%) DHCP
3 7 (4.17%) VPN
3 7 (4.17%) WAN
3 7 (4.17%) Wi-Fi
4 6 (3.57%) FTP
4 6 (3.57%) HTTP
4 6 (3.57%) LAN
5 4 (2.38%) Wireshark
6 3 (1.79%) Internet
6 3 (1.79%) Multicast
6 3 (1.79%) SAN
6 3 (1.79%) VLAN
6 3 (1.79%) Wireless
7 2 (1.19%) Extranet
7 2 (1.19%) Intranet
8 1 (0.60%) OSPF
8 1 (0.60%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (7.74%) MySQL
2 11 (6.55%) Redis
3 6 (3.57%) NoSQL
3 6 (3.57%) SQL Server
4 5 (2.98%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (2.38%) Couchbase
5 4 (2.38%) CouchDB
5 4 (2.38%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (2.38%) DynamoDB
5 4 (2.38%) Elasticsearch
5 4 (2.38%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (1.79%) Amazon Redshift
6 3 (1.79%) Power BI
7 2 (1.19%) Event Store
8 1 (0.60%) Delta Lake
8 1 (0.60%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (3.57%) Git
1 6 (3.57%) JIRA
2 5 (2.98%) Bugzilla
2 5 (2.98%) Cypress.io
2 5 (2.98%) TeamCity
2 5 (2.98%) Zephyr
3 4 (2.38%) Charles Proxy
3 4 (2.38%) Jenkins
4 3 (1.79%) JUnit
4 3 (1.79%) Mockito
5 2 (1.19%) DTrace
5 2 (1.19%) GDB
5 2 (1.19%) Gradle
5 2 (1.19%) gulp
5 2 (1.19%) webpack
6 1 (0.60%) Appium
6 1 (0.60%) GitLab
6 1 (0.60%) NeoLoad
6 1 (0.60%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (0.60%) UI Automator
General
1 105 (62.50%) Social Skills
2 24 (14.29%) Finance
3 15 (8.93%) Automotive
3 15 (8.93%) Games
4 11 (6.55%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (4.17%) Law
6 6 (3.57%) Retail
7 5 (2.98%) Pharmaceutical
8 4 (2.38%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (1.79%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (1.79%) Legal
9 3 (1.79%) Public Sector
10 2 (1.19%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (1.19%) Financial Institution
10 2 (1.19%) Front Office
10 2 (1.19%) Marketing
10 2 (1.19%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.19%) Tech for Good
11 1 (0.60%) Back Office
11 1 (0.60%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 57 (33.93%) Developer
2 29 (17.26%) Software Engineer
3 25 (14.88%) Senior
4 22 (13.10%) .NET Developer
5 21 (12.50%) Lead
6 19 (11.31%) C# Developer
7 18 (10.71%) C# .NET Developer
8 15 (8.93%) Software Developer
9 12 (7.14%) .NET Software Engineer
10 11 (6.55%) AWS Engineer
10 11 (6.55%) JavaScript Developer
10 11 (6.55%) Senior Developer
11 10 (5.95%) Consultant
12 9 (5.36%) C# Software Engineer
12 9 (5.36%) Team Leader
13 8 (4.76%) AWS Developer
13 8 (4.76%) Support Engineer
14 7 (4.17%) .NET Software Developer
14 7 (4.17%) C# Software Developer
14 7 (4.17%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (23.81%) .NET
2 20 (11.90%) .NET Core
3 16 (9.52%) Kafka
4 13 (7.74%) AngularJS
5 12 (7.14%) React
6 10 (5.95%) Node.js
7 9 (5.36%) REST
8 7 (4.17%) PyTorch
9 6 (3.57%) Playwright
9 6 (3.57%) RabbitMQ
9 6 (3.57%) Spring Boot
9 6 (3.57%) Web Services
9 6 (3.57%) WebSockets
10 5 (2.98%) ASP.NET
10 5 (2.98%) ASP.NET MVC
10 5 (2.98%) CSS
10 5 (2.98%) RESTful
10 5 (2.98%) Vue
11 4 (2.38%) HTML5
11 4 (2.38%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 26 (15.48%) Data Structures
2 14 (8.33%) PropTech
3 12 (7.14%) IoT
4 11 (6.55%) Algorithms
5 10 (5.95%) Hedge funds
6 8 (4.76%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 8 (4.76%) Online Games
7 7 (4.17%) Product Ownership
8 6 (3.57%) Onboarding
9 5 (2.98%) Enterprise Software
9 5 (2.98%) Greenfield Project
9 5 (2.98%) Linux Command Line
10 4 (2.38%) Blog
10 4 (2.38%) Data Centre
10 4 (2.38%) Raspberry Pi
10 4 (2.38%) Sports Betting
10 4 (2.38%) Virtual Team
11 3 (1.79%) Self-Motivation
12 2 (1.19%) Legacy Systems
12 2 (1.19%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 26 (15.48%) Windows
2 18 (10.71%) Apple iOS
2 18 (10.71%) Linux
3 17 (10.12%) Android
4 14 (8.33%) Windows Server
5 4 (2.38%) Unix
5 4 (2.38%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.60%) HPUX
6 1 (0.60%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.60%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (41.07%) Software Engineering
2 65 (38.69%) Problem-Solving
3 58 (34.52%) Agile
4 43 (25.60%) Computer Science
5 27 (16.07%) Mentoring
6 26 (15.48%) OOP
7 25 (14.88%) Design Patterns
8 19 (11.31%) Microservices
9 17 (10.12%) Multithreading
10 15 (8.93%) Cybersecurity
10 15 (8.93%) Machine Learning
11 14 (8.33%) Low Latency
12 13 (7.74%) Artificial Intelligence
12 13 (7.74%) Fintech
12 13 (7.74%) SDLC
12 13 (7.74%) TDD
13 12 (7.14%) Decision-Making
14 11 (6.55%) DevOps
15 10 (5.95%) E-Commerce
15 10 (5.95%) Front End Development
Programming Languages
1 41 (24.40%) C#
2 32 (19.05%) Python
3 31 (18.45%) SQL
4 29 (17.26%) JavaScript
5 24 (14.29%) TypeScript
6 13 (7.74%) Java
7 9 (5.36%) C
7 9 (5.36%) C++
8 8 (4.76%) PowerShell
9 5 (2.98%) Kotlin
10 4 (2.38%) PHP
10 4 (2.38%) Swift
10 4 (2.38%) T-SQL
11 3 (1.79%) F#
12 2 (1.19%) Bash
12 2 (1.19%) OCaml
12 2 (1.19%) Rust
12 2 (1.19%) Scala
12 2 (1.19%) Shell Script
12 2 (1.19%) SystemTap
Qualifications
1 48 (28.57%) Degree
2 10 (5.95%) PhD
3 7 (4.17%) Master's Degree
4 2 (1.19%) CREST Certified
4 2 (1.19%) OSCE
4 2 (1.19%) OSCP
4 2 (1.19%) Postgraduate
5 1 (0.60%) CCIE
5 1 (0.60%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (0.60%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.60%) SC Cleared
5 1 (0.60%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (8.33%) QA
2 5 (2.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (1.79%) Cyber Essentials
3 3 (1.79%) Data Quality
3 3 (1.79%) NCSC
4 1 (0.60%) GRC
4 1 (0.60%) SLA
4 1 (0.60%) SOC 1
System Software
1 17 (10.12%) Docker
2 16 (9.52%) Active Directory
3 9 (5.36%) Hyper-V
4 4 (2.38%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 16 (9.52%) Kubernetes
2 9 (5.36%) Terraform
3 6 (3.57%) Grafana
3 6 (3.57%) Microsoft Intune
3 6 (3.57%) Prometheus
4 4 (2.38%) HP Quality Center
5 3 (1.79%) Ansible
6 2 (1.19%) Progress Chef
6 2 (1.19%) Puppet
6 2 (1.19%) QRadar
Vendors
1 23 (13.69%) Microsoft
2 8 (4.76%) Splunk
3 7 (4.17%) Cisco
4 5 (2.98%) HP
4 5 (2.98%) Meraki
5 4 (2.38%) Sage
5 4 (2.38%) VMware
6 3 (1.79%) GoCardless
6 3 (1.79%) Google
6 3 (1.79%) PayPal
7 2 (1.19%) F5
7 2 (1.19%) IBM
8 1 (0.60%) Databricks
8 1 (0.60%) iManage
8 1 (0.60%) Juniper
8 1 (0.60%) Optimizely
8 1 (0.60%) Palo Alto
8 1 (0.60%) QAD
8 1 (0.60%) QNX
8 1 (0.60%) Workday