Client Server
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Client/Server in permanent job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Client/Server over the 6 months to 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 467 443 829
Rank change year-on-year -24 +386 -150
Permanent jobs citing Client/Server 500 690 437
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.50% 0.70% 0.27%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.42% 1.63% 0.57%
Number of salaries quoted 452 579 203
10th Percentile £36,325 £36,250 £32,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,250 £75,000 £57,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% +31.58% +8.57%
75th Percentile £91,250 £96,250 £71,875
90th Percentile £112,500 £112,500 £84,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +30.00% +25.00%

All Generic Skills
UK

Client/Server 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 35,145 42,330 76,975
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.18% 42.69% 47.89%
Number of salaries quoted 23,044 23,098 33,984
10th Percentile £28,000 £35,427 £34,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £46,250 £45,719
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £86,250 £83,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £109,865 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%

Client/Server
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Client/Server in the UK

Client/Server
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Client/Server in the UK

Client/Server
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Client/Server over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Client/Server in the UK

Client/Server
Top 16 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Client/Server within the UK over the 6 months to 18 May 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 +3 486 £75,000 - 191
Work from Home -10 377 £75,000 -6.25% 174
UK excluding London -52 261 £60,000 -7.69% 101
London +12 234 £85,000 +6.25% 134
East of England +29 73 £70,000 +21.74% 9
North of England +72 70 £65,000 -29.73% 13
South East -50 68 £52,500 -25.00% 62
North East +37 45 £71,500 +155.36% 7
South West -19 21 £47,500 -52.50% 3
Midlands -26 20 £51,500 -14.17% 15
West Midlands -4 14 £35,000 -41.67% 5
Yorkshire +92 13 £30,000 -3.23% 2
North West -28 12 £55,000 -40.54% 5
East Midlands -9 6 £62,000 -4.62% 10
Scotland -61 5 £63,750 +50.89% 1
Wales -4 4 £61,500 +37.69% 2

Client/Server
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 19 (3.80%) SharePoint
2 15 (3.00%) Apache Airflow
3 14 (2.80%) Microsoft Exchange
4 11 (2.20%) CMS
5 8 (1.60%) Apache Pig
5 8 (1.60%) Skype for Business
6 3 (0.60%) Drupal
7 2 (0.40%) nginx
8 1 (0.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 1 (0.20%) EPiServer
8 1 (0.20%) Exchange Server 2013
8 1 (0.20%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 19 (3.80%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (0.60%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.40%) Dynamics NAV
2 2 (0.40%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 143 (28.60%) AWS
2 98 (19.60%) Azure
3 54 (10.80%) Serverless
4 45 (9.00%) SaaS
5 43 (8.60%) AWS Lambda
6 42 (8.40%) Microsoft 365
7 21 (4.20%) GitHub
8 18 (3.60%) Amazon S3
9 16 (3.20%) AWS CloudFormation
10 13 (2.60%) Amazon Kinesis
10 13 (2.60%) Azure Sentinel
10 13 (2.60%) dbt
11 10 (2.00%) Amazon ECS
11 10 (2.00%) Azure DevOps
11 10 (2.00%) Entra ID
12 9 (1.80%) Stripe
13 8 (1.60%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
14 7 (1.40%) Amazon EKS
14 7 (1.40%) GCP
14 7 (1.40%) Heroku
Communications & Networking
1 49 (9.80%) Firewall
2 40 (8.00%) DNS
3 31 (6.20%) WAN
4 29 (5.80%) LAN
4 29 (5.80%) TCP/IP
5 21 (4.20%) VPN
6 19 (3.80%) DHCP
7 18 (3.60%) Internet
8 13 (2.60%) Intrusion Detection
9 12 (2.40%) FTP
10 11 (2.20%) Wireless
11 10 (2.00%) BGP
11 10 (2.00%) OSPF
12 9 (1.80%) Extranet
12 9 (1.80%) Intranet
13 8 (1.60%) MPLS
13 8 (1.60%) Network Security
13 8 (1.60%) Reverse Proxy
13 8 (1.60%) SSL
13 8 (1.60%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (7.60%) MySQL
2 31 (6.20%) Redis
3 27 (5.40%) PostgreSQL
4 15 (3.00%) CouchDB
4 15 (3.00%) Elasticsearch
5 13 (2.60%) Amazon Redshift
6 12 (2.40%) Amazon RDS
6 12 (2.40%) NoSQL
7 8 (1.60%) Apache Hive
7 8 (1.60%) Big Data
7 8 (1.60%) Couchbase
7 8 (1.60%) DynamoDB
7 8 (1.60%) Hadoop
8 7 (1.40%) Data Warehouse
8 7 (1.40%) SQL Server
9 4 (0.80%) Data Mining
10 3 (0.60%) Event Store
10 3 (0.60%) Power BI
11 1 (0.20%) Delta Lake
11 1 (0.20%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 17 (3.40%) TeamCity
2 14 (2.80%) JUnit
3 12 (2.40%) Jenkins
4 10 (2.00%) Cypress.io
5 8 (1.60%) Checkstyle
5 8 (1.60%) Gradle
5 8 (1.60%) JIRA
5 8 (1.60%) SonarQube
6 7 (1.40%) Git
6 7 (1.40%) gulp
6 7 (1.40%) webpack
7 6 (1.20%) Appium
7 6 (1.20%) Bugzilla
7 6 (1.20%) Mockito
7 6 (1.20%) Zephyr
8 5 (1.00%) DTrace
8 5 (1.00%) GDB
8 5 (1.00%) MSBuild
8 5 (1.00%) Selenium
8 5 (1.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 287 (57.40%) Social Skills
2 61 (12.20%) Games
3 54 (10.80%) Finance
4 33 (6.60%) Automotive
5 30 (6.00%) Analytical Skills
6 23 (4.60%) Law
7 20 (4.00%) Tech for Good
8 18 (3.60%) Presentation Skills
9 16 (3.20%) Marketing
10 15 (3.00%) Aerospace
11 14 (2.80%) Retail
12 13 (2.60%) Organisational Skills
12 13 (2.60%) Pharmaceutical
13 9 (1.80%) Front Office
14 7 (1.40%) Health Technology
15 4 (0.80%) Advertising
15 4 (0.80%) Agriculture
15 4 (0.80%) Public Sector
16 3 (0.60%) Banking
16 3 (0.60%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 167 (33.40%) Developer
2 77 (15.40%) Senior
3 75 (15.00%) Lead
4 71 (14.20%) Software Engineer
5 45 (9.00%) C# Developer
6 43 (8.60%) .NET Developer
7 40 (8.00%) Analyst
7 40 (8.00%) AWS Engineer
8 37 (7.40%) C# .NET Developer
9 33 (6.60%) AWS Developer
10 32 (6.40%) Senior Developer
11 31 (6.20%) C# Software Engineer
12 30 (6.00%) .NET Software Engineer
12 30 (6.00%) Lead Developer
12 30 (6.00%) Software Developer
13 24 (4.80%) Consultant
14 23 (4.60%) Python Engineer
15 22 (4.40%) Team Leader
16 21 (4.20%) Data Engineer
16 21 (4.20%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 97 (19.40%) .NET
2 65 (13.00%) .NET Core
3 40 (8.00%) Node.js
4 37 (7.40%) React
5 34 (6.80%) Kafka
6 27 (5.40%) AngularJS
7 26 (5.20%) Spring Boot
8 20 (4.00%) Vue
9 18 (3.60%) REST
10 17 (3.40%) CSS
10 17 (3.40%) RESTful
11 15 (3.00%) Spring
12 14 (2.80%) ASP.NET
12 14 (2.80%) ASP.NET MVC
13 13 (2.60%) Web Services
14 12 (2.40%) HTML
15 11 (2.20%) Laravel
15 11 (2.20%) Redux
15 11 (2.20%) SAML
16 9 (1.80%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 79 (15.80%) Data Structures
2 47 (9.40%) Algorithms
3 35 (7.00%) Hedge funds
3 35 (7.00%) IoT
3 35 (7.00%) PropTech
4 34 (6.80%) Online Games
5 30 (6.00%) Management Information System
6 27 (5.40%) Product Ownership
7 19 (3.80%) Cyber Threat
7 19 (3.80%) Security Operations Centre
8 18 (3.60%) Blog
8 18 (3.60%) Onboarding
8 18 (3.60%) Raspberry Pi
9 14 (2.80%) Data Centre
10 13 (2.60%) Virtual Team
11 12 (2.40%) Greenfield Project
11 12 (2.40%) Self-Motivation
12 9 (1.80%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 8 (1.60%) Video Conferencing
14 7 (1.40%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 88 (17.60%) Windows
2 73 (14.60%) Linux
3 44 (8.80%) Apple iOS
4 43 (8.60%) Android
5 37 (7.40%) Windows Server
6 10 (2.00%) Unix
7 8 (1.60%) Windows 10
8 4 (0.80%) Mac OS
9 2 (0.40%) Embedded Linux
9 2 (0.40%) Mac OS X
10 1 (0.20%) HPUX
10 1 (0.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.20%) SUSE
10 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 187 (37.40%) Problem-Solving
2 182 (36.40%) Agile
3 174 (34.80%) Software Engineering
4 149 (29.80%) Computer Science
5 92 (18.40%) Mentoring
6 91 (18.20%) Design Patterns
7 85 (17.00%) OOP
8 72 (14.40%) Microservices
9 56 (11.20%) Cybersecurity
10 47 (9.40%) CI/CD
11 43 (8.60%) Full Stack Development
12 37 (7.40%) DevOps
12 37 (7.40%) TDD
13 35 (7.00%) Decision-Making
14 32 (6.40%) Low Latency
14 32 (6.40%) Multithreading
15 31 (6.20%) SDLC
16 30 (6.00%) Scrum
17 29 (5.80%) E-Commerce
18 26 (5.20%) Business Development
Programming Languages
1 122 (24.40%) SQL
2 107 (21.40%) C#
3 86 (17.20%) Python
4 85 (17.00%) JavaScript
5 76 (15.20%) Java
6 69 (13.80%) TypeScript
7 28 (5.60%) C
8 25 (5.00%) PowerShell
9 19 (3.80%) Kotlin
10 16 (3.20%) Rust
11 14 (2.80%) PHP
12 11 (2.20%) C++
13 8 (1.60%) Swift
13 8 (1.60%) T-SQL
14 6 (1.20%) Bash
15 5 (1.00%) OCaml
15 5 (1.00%) Shell Script
15 5 (1.00%) SystemTap
16 2 (0.40%) Objective-C
16 2 (0.40%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 121 (24.20%) Degree
2 29 (5.80%) Security Cleared
3 25 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 23 (4.60%) SC Cleared
5 20 (4.00%) DV Cleared
6 16 (3.20%) PhD
7 15 (3.00%) CISSP
8 13 (2.60%) CompTIA Security+
8 13 (2.60%) Master's Degree
9 5 (1.00%) PMI Certification
9 5 (1.00%) PMP
9 5 (1.00%) RHCE
9 5 (1.00%) RHCSA
10 3 (0.60%) CCIE
10 3 (0.60%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (0.40%) CISM
11 2 (0.40%) CRISC
11 2 (0.40%) OSCE
11 2 (0.40%) OSCP
11 2 (0.40%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (9.00%) QA
2 13 (2.60%) Data Quality
3 8 (1.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (1.20%) GDPR
5 2 (0.40%) COBIT
5 2 (0.40%) GRC
6 1 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 1 (0.20%) NCSC
6 1 (0.20%) NIST
6 1 (0.20%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.20%) SLA
6 1 (0.20%) SOC 1
System Software
1 51 (10.20%) Docker
2 43 (8.60%) Active Directory
3 23 (4.60%) Hyper-V
4 15 (3.00%) VMware Infrastructure
5 8 (1.60%) HDFS
6 3 (0.60%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.20%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 51 (10.20%) Kubernetes
2 31 (6.20%) Terraform
3 14 (2.80%) Microsoft Intune
4 11 (2.20%) Grafana
4 11 (2.20%) Prometheus
5 10 (2.00%) Ansible
6 9 (1.80%) Rancher
7 8 (1.60%) Single Sign-On
8 6 (1.20%) QRadar
9 5 (1.00%) Failover Clustering
9 5 (1.00%) HP Quality Center
10 3 (0.60%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 2 (0.40%) Jamf Pro
11 2 (0.40%) Progress Chef
11 2 (0.40%) Puppet
12 1 (0.20%) SCCM
12 1 (0.20%) SCOM
12 1 (0.20%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 90 (18.00%) Microsoft
2 35 (7.00%) VMware
3 15 (3.00%) Sage
4 12 (2.40%) Splunk
5 11 (2.20%) Cisco
6 9 (1.80%) GoCardless
6 9 (1.80%) PayPal
7 8 (1.60%) CheckPoint
7 8 (1.60%) Ribbon
7 8 (1.60%) Xamarin
8 7 (1.40%) Google
8 7 (1.40%) Meraki
9 6 (1.20%) HP
9 6 (1.20%) IBM
9 6 (1.20%) Workday
10 5 (1.00%) Dell
10 5 (1.00%) EqualLogic
10 5 (1.00%) NetApp
10 5 (1.00%) Nimble Storage
11 3 (0.60%) HubSpot