Client/Server Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH 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 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 356 281 283
Rank change year-on-year -75 +2 +414
Permanent jobs citing Client/Server 57 372 502
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.38% 1.10% 1.18%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.97% 3.09% 3.05%
Number of salaries quoted 51 366 464
10th Percentile £33,199 £37,250 £48,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £52,500 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £75,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% -6.25% +33.33%
75th Percentile £67,000 £93,250 £97,500
90th Percentile £96,250 £111,875 £115,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -23.33% +3.45% +31.82%

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 5,850 12,021 16,469
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 39.09% 35.52% 38.57%
Number of salaries quoted 3,841 9,245 11,863
10th Percentile £35,000 £32,500 £39,000
25th Percentile £47,231 £42,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,750 £59,300 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.19% -8.77% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £78,750 £86,250
90th Percentile £122,500 £101,250 £107,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -15.38% +4.00%

Client/Server
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Client/Server as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Client/Server trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Client/Server
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options 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 remote working options citing Client/Server over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

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 19 (33.33%) IIS
2 5 (8.77%) Apache
3 3 (5.26%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (3.51%) CMS
4 2 (3.51%) SharePoint
4 2 (3.51%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 14 (24.56%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (3.51%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 24 (42.11%) AWS
2 22 (38.60%) Azure
3 19 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
3 19 (33.33%) SaaS
4 7 (12.28%) Amazon S3
4 7 (12.28%) AWS Lambda
4 7 (12.28%) Serverless
5 6 (10.53%) GitHub
6 3 (5.26%) Entra ID
7 2 (3.51%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (3.51%) Azure Logic Apps
7 2 (3.51%) Azure Monitor
7 2 (3.51%) GCP
7 2 (3.51%) OneDrive
7 2 (3.51%) PaaS
7 2 (3.51%) Power Platform
7 2 (3.51%) PowerApps
8 1 (1.75%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (1.75%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
8 1 (1.75%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 8 (14.04%) DNS
2 7 (12.28%) Firewall
3 6 (10.53%) Bluetooth
3 6 (10.53%) TCP/IP
4 2 (3.51%) DHCP
4 2 (3.51%) VoIP
5 1 (1.75%) HTTP
5 1 (1.75%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (36.84%) SQL Server
2 6 (10.53%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (8.77%) Relational Database
4 2 (3.51%) MySQL
4 2 (3.51%) Power BI
4 2 (3.51%) Redis
4 2 (3.51%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (1.75%) Couchbase
5 1 (1.75%) DynamoDB
5 1 (1.75%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 6 (10.53%) Git
2 5 (8.77%) Selenium
3 3 (5.26%) JIRA
3 3 (5.26%) Postman
4 2 (3.51%) Octopus Deploy
5 1 (1.75%) gulp
5 1 (1.75%) Jenkins
5 1 (1.75%) Subversion
5 1 (1.75%) TestComplete
5 1 (1.75%) webpack
General
1 38 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 9 (15.79%) Games
3 7 (12.28%) Legal
4 6 (10.53%) Finance
4 6 (10.53%) Public Sector
5 5 (8.77%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (8.77%) Back Office
5 5 (8.77%) Local Government
6 4 (7.02%) Billing
7 2 (3.51%) Financial Institution
7 2 (3.51%) Law
7 2 (3.51%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.75%) Aerospace
8 1 (1.75%) Automotive
8 1 (1.75%) Banking
8 1 (1.75%) Retail
Job Titles
1 15 (26.32%) Software Engineer
2 14 (24.56%) Senior
3 12 (21.05%) Lead
4 8 (14.04%) Service Desk Manager
4 8 (14.04%) Service Manager
5 7 (12.28%) Senior Software Engineer
6 6 (10.53%) Analyst
6 6 (10.53%) Developer
6 6 (10.53%) QA Engineer
7 5 (8.77%) QA Leader
8 4 (7.02%) Senior Developer
8 4 (7.02%) Test Engineer
9 3 (5.26%) QA Test Engineer
10 2 (3.51%) .NET Software Engineer
10 2 (3.51%) Automation Tester
10 2 (3.51%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
10 2 (3.51%) Graduate Software Engineer
10 2 (3.51%) Product Owner
10 2 (3.51%) QA Test Manager
10 2 (3.51%) Senior JavaScript Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (42.11%) .NET
2 12 (21.05%) CSS
3 11 (19.30%) HTML
4 6 (10.53%) Django
4 6 (10.53%) WebSockets
5 5 (8.77%) AngularJS
6 3 (5.26%) React
6 3 (5.26%) RESTful
6 3 (5.26%) Vue
7 2 (3.51%) JSON
8 1 (1.75%) GraphQL
8 1 (1.75%) HTML5
8 1 (1.75%) Kafka
8 1 (1.75%) LDAP
8 1 (1.75%) Node.js
8 1 (1.75%) REST
8 1 (1.75%) Software Packaging
8 1 (1.75%) Spring
8 1 (1.75%) Web Services
8 1 (1.75%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 19 (33.33%) Management Information System
2 14 (24.56%) Private Cloud
3 11 (19.30%) Algorithms
4 9 (15.79%) Onboarding
5 6 (10.53%) Data Centre
5 6 (10.53%) Embedded Systems
5 6 (10.53%) IoT
5 6 (10.53%) Mobile App
6 5 (8.77%) Data Structures
7 4 (7.02%) Hedge funds
8 3 (5.26%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (5.26%) Product Ownership
9 2 (3.51%) Educational Technology
9 2 (3.51%) Online Games
10 1 (1.75%) Distributed Systems
10 1 (1.75%) N-Tier
10 1 (1.75%) PKI
10 1 (1.75%) Public Cloud
10 1 (1.75%) Smartcard
Operating Systems
1 11 (19.30%) Linux
1 11 (19.30%) Windows
2 7 (12.28%) Windows Server
3 6 (10.53%) Ubuntu
4 2 (3.51%) SUSE
5 1 (1.75%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (40.35%) Software Engineering
2 22 (38.60%) ITIL
3 21 (36.84%) Change Management
4 20 (35.09%) Agile
5 19 (33.33%) Computer Science
5 19 (33.33%) Information Security
5 19 (33.33%) ITSM
5 19 (33.33%) Service Management
6 17 (29.82%) Problem-Solving
6 17 (29.82%) Test Automation
7 15 (26.32%) People Management
7 15 (26.32%) Process Improvement
8 14 (24.56%) Asset Management
8 14 (24.56%) Configuration Management
8 14 (24.56%) Customer-Centricity
8 14 (24.56%) Information Security Management
8 14 (24.56%) ISMS
8 14 (24.56%) Problem Management
8 14 (24.56%) Security Management
9 11 (19.30%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 21 (36.84%) SQL
2 15 (26.32%) Python
3 13 (22.81%) C#
3 13 (22.81%) JavaScript
4 12 (21.05%) TypeScript
5 9 (15.79%) Java
6 8 (14.04%) C++
7 7 (12.28%) C
8 6 (10.53%) Ladder Logic
9 5 (8.77%) PowerShell
10 3 (5.26%) PHP
11 2 (3.51%) Perl
12 1 (1.75%) Bash
12 1 (1.75%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 17 (29.82%) Degree
2 14 (24.56%) ITIL Certification
3 11 (19.30%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.75%) Master's Degree
4 1 (1.75%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.75%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (26.32%) SLA
2 8 (14.04%) QA
3 2 (3.51%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.75%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 8 (14.04%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (8.77%) Active Directory
3 2 (3.51%) Hyper-V
3 2 (3.51%) vSphere
4 1 (1.75%) Docker
4 1 (1.75%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 5 (8.77%) ZABBIX
2 3 (5.26%) SCCM
3 2 (3.51%) Kubernetes
3 2 (3.51%) SCOM
4 1 (1.75%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (1.75%) Terraform
Vendors
1 28 (49.12%) Microsoft
2 19 (33.33%) Oracle
3 8 (14.04%) VMware
4 6 (10.53%) Siemens
5 4 (7.02%) Cisco
6 2 (3.51%) Ab Initio
6 2 (3.51%) arcserve
6 2 (3.51%) Aruba
6 2 (3.51%) Avaya
6 2 (3.51%) Citrix
6 2 (3.51%) Linksys
6 2 (3.51%) Sitecore
7 1 (1.75%) Google
7 1 (1.75%) Zscaler