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 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 473 443 808
Rank change year-on-year -30 +365 -117
Permanent jobs citing Client/Server 496 693 417
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.50% 0.69% 0.27%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.41% 1.61% 0.56%
Number of salaries quoted 451 586 192
10th Percentile £36,250 £36,500 £32,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £74,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.68% +35.45% +4.76%
75th Percentile £91,250 £96,250 £71,250
90th Percentile £112,500 £112,500 £80,000
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 35,065 43,146 75,002
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.34% 42.71% 47.68%
Number of salaries quoted 23,057 23,446 33,908
10th Percentile £28,000 £35,014 £34,513
25th Percentile £38,000 £46,250 £45,750
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 £108,000 £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 10 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 10 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 +3 483 £75,000 - 148
Work from Home -12 376 £75,000 -6.25% 142
UK excluding London -40 258 £60,000 -7.69% 49
London +17 234 £85,000 +6.25% 99
East of England +43 73 £70,000 +21.74% 5
North of England +70 70 £65,000 -27.78% 14
South East -50 66 £52,500 -25.00% 18
North East +37 44 £71,500 +155.36% 8
South West -12 21 £47,500 -52.50% 2
Midlands -33 19 £51,500 -14.17% 11
Yorkshire +99 14 £32,500 +4.84% 1
West Midlands -16 14 £35,000 -41.67% 3
North West -29 12 £55,000 -40.54% 6
East Midlands -17 5 £51,500 -20.77% 8
Scotland -58 5 £63,750 +50.89% 1
Wales -5 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 20 (4.03%) SharePoint
2 15 (3.02%) Apache Airflow
2 15 (3.02%) Microsoft Exchange
3 11 (2.22%) CMS
4 8 (1.61%) Apache Pig
4 8 (1.61%) Skype for Business
5 3 (0.60%) Drupal
6 2 (0.40%) nginx
7 1 (0.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.20%) EPiServer
7 1 (0.20%) Exchange Server 2013
7 1 (0.20%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 19 (3.83%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (0.60%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.40%) Dynamics NAV
2 2 (0.40%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 142 (28.63%) AWS
2 98 (19.76%) Azure
3 54 (10.89%) Serverless
4 45 (9.07%) SaaS
5 44 (8.87%) Microsoft 365
6 43 (8.67%) AWS Lambda
7 21 (4.23%) GitHub
8 18 (3.63%) Amazon S3
9 16 (3.23%) AWS CloudFormation
10 13 (2.62%) Amazon Kinesis
10 13 (2.62%) Azure Sentinel
10 13 (2.62%) dbt
11 10 (2.02%) Amazon ECS
11 10 (2.02%) Azure DevOps
11 10 (2.02%) Entra ID
12 9 (1.81%) Stripe
13 8 (1.61%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
14 7 (1.41%) Amazon EKS
14 7 (1.41%) GCP
14 7 (1.41%) Heroku
Communications & Networking
1 49 (9.88%) Firewall
2 39 (7.86%) DNS
3 31 (6.25%) WAN
4 29 (5.85%) LAN
5 28 (5.65%) TCP/IP
6 21 (4.23%) VPN
7 18 (3.63%) DHCP
7 18 (3.63%) Internet
8 13 (2.62%) Intrusion Detection
9 12 (2.42%) FTP
10 11 (2.22%) Wireless
11 10 (2.02%) BGP
11 10 (2.02%) OSPF
12 9 (1.81%) Extranet
12 9 (1.81%) Intranet
12 9 (1.81%) VoIP
13 8 (1.61%) MPLS
13 8 (1.61%) Network Security
13 8 (1.61%) Reverse Proxy
13 8 (1.61%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (7.66%) MySQL
2 31 (6.25%) Redis
3 27 (5.44%) PostgreSQL
4 15 (3.02%) CouchDB
4 15 (3.02%) Elasticsearch
5 13 (2.62%) Amazon Redshift
6 12 (2.42%) Amazon RDS
6 12 (2.42%) NoSQL
7 8 (1.61%) Apache Hive
7 8 (1.61%) Big Data
7 8 (1.61%) Couchbase
7 8 (1.61%) DynamoDB
7 8 (1.61%) Hadoop
7 8 (1.61%) SQL Server
8 7 (1.41%) Data Warehouse
9 4 (0.81%) 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 (3.43%) TeamCity
2 14 (2.82%) JUnit
3 12 (2.42%) Jenkins
4 10 (2.02%) Cypress.io
5 8 (1.61%) Checkstyle
5 8 (1.61%) Gradle
5 8 (1.61%) JIRA
5 8 (1.61%) SonarQube
6 7 (1.41%) Git
6 7 (1.41%) gulp
6 7 (1.41%) webpack
7 6 (1.21%) Appium
7 6 (1.21%) Bugzilla
7 6 (1.21%) Mockito
7 6 (1.21%) Selenium
7 6 (1.21%) Zephyr
8 5 (1.01%) DTrace
8 5 (1.01%) GDB
8 5 (1.01%) Octopus Deploy
8 5 (1.01%) Visual Studio
General
1 288 (58.06%) Social Skills
2 61 (12.30%) Games
3 54 (10.89%) Finance
4 33 (6.65%) Automotive
5 30 (6.05%) Analytical Skills
6 23 (4.64%) Law
7 20 (4.03%) Tech for Good
8 18 (3.63%) Presentation Skills
9 16 (3.23%) Marketing
10 14 (2.82%) Retail
11 13 (2.62%) Organisational Skills
11 13 (2.62%) Pharmaceutical
12 12 (2.42%) Aerospace
13 9 (1.81%) Front Office
14 7 (1.41%) Health Technology
15 4 (0.81%) Advertising
15 4 (0.81%) Agriculture
15 4 (0.81%) Public Sector
16 3 (0.60%) Banking
16 3 (0.60%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 166 (33.47%) Developer
2 76 (15.32%) Senior
3 73 (14.72%) Lead
4 71 (14.31%) Software Engineer
5 45 (9.07%) C# Developer
6 43 (8.67%) .NET Developer
7 42 (8.47%) Analyst
8 40 (8.06%) AWS Engineer
9 37 (7.46%) C# .NET Developer
10 33 (6.65%) AWS Developer
11 31 (6.25%) C# Software Engineer
11 31 (6.25%) Senior Developer
12 30 (6.05%) .NET Software Engineer
12 30 (6.05%) Lead Developer
12 30 (6.05%) Software Developer
13 24 (4.84%) Consultant
14 23 (4.64%) Python Engineer
15 21 (4.23%) Data Engineer
15 21 (4.23%) Java Developer
15 21 (4.23%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 97 (19.56%) .NET
2 65 (13.10%) .NET Core
3 40 (8.06%) Node.js
4 37 (7.46%) React
5 34 (6.85%) Kafka
6 26 (5.24%) AngularJS
6 26 (5.24%) Spring Boot
7 20 (4.03%) Vue
8 18 (3.63%) REST
9 17 (3.43%) CSS
9 17 (3.43%) RESTful
10 15 (3.02%) Spring
11 14 (2.82%) ASP.NET
11 14 (2.82%) ASP.NET MVC
12 13 (2.62%) Web Services
13 12 (2.42%) HTML
14 11 (2.22%) Laravel
14 11 (2.22%) Redux
14 11 (2.22%) SAML
15 9 (1.81%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 79 (15.93%) Data Structures
2 47 (9.48%) Algorithms
3 35 (7.06%) Hedge funds
3 35 (7.06%) IoT
3 35 (7.06%) PropTech
4 34 (6.85%) Online Games
5 30 (6.05%) Management Information System
6 27 (5.44%) Product Ownership
7 19 (3.83%) Cyber Threat
7 19 (3.83%) Security Operations Centre
8 18 (3.63%) Blog
8 18 (3.63%) Raspberry Pi
9 17 (3.43%) Onboarding
10 13 (2.62%) Data Centre
10 13 (2.62%) Virtual Team
11 12 (2.42%) Greenfield Project
11 12 (2.42%) Self-Motivation
12 9 (1.81%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 8 (1.61%) Video Conferencing
14 7 (1.41%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 86 (17.34%) Windows
2 71 (14.31%) Linux
3 43 (8.67%) Apple iOS
4 42 (8.47%) Android
5 36 (7.26%) Windows Server
6 10 (2.02%) Unix
7 9 (1.81%) Windows 10
8 5 (1.01%) 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%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 187 (37.70%) Problem-Solving
2 179 (36.09%) Agile
3 173 (34.88%) Software Engineering
4 149 (30.04%) Computer Science
5 91 (18.35%) Design Patterns
6 90 (18.15%) Mentoring
7 85 (17.14%) OOP
8 71 (14.31%) Microservices
9 55 (11.09%) Cybersecurity
10 47 (9.48%) CI/CD
11 42 (8.47%) Full Stack Development
12 37 (7.46%) DevOps
12 37 (7.46%) TDD
13 35 (7.06%) Decision-Making
14 32 (6.45%) Low Latency
14 32 (6.45%) Multithreading
15 31 (6.25%) SDLC
16 29 (5.85%) E-Commerce
17 28 (5.65%) Scrum
18 26 (5.24%) Business Development
Programming Languages
1 121 (24.40%) SQL
2 106 (21.37%) C#
3 88 (17.74%) Python
4 84 (16.94%) JavaScript
5 76 (15.32%) Java
6 68 (13.71%) TypeScript
7 28 (5.65%) C
8 26 (5.24%) PowerShell
9 19 (3.83%) Kotlin
10 16 (3.23%) Rust
11 14 (2.82%) PHP
12 11 (2.22%) C++
13 8 (1.61%) Swift
13 8 (1.61%) T-SQL
14 6 (1.21%) Bash
15 5 (1.01%) OCaml
15 5 (1.01%) Shell Script
15 5 (1.01%) SystemTap
16 2 (0.40%) Embedded C
16 2 (0.40%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 121 (24.40%) Degree
2 26 (5.24%) Security Cleared
3 25 (5.04%) Computer Science Degree
4 19 (3.83%) SC Cleared
5 17 (3.43%) DV Cleared
6 16 (3.23%) PhD
7 15 (3.02%) CISSP
8 13 (2.62%) CompTIA Security+
8 13 (2.62%) Master's Degree
9 5 (1.01%) PMI Certification
9 5 (1.01%) PMP
9 5 (1.01%) RHCE
9 5 (1.01%) 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%) GIAC
11 2 (0.40%) ISSMP
11 2 (0.40%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (9.07%) QA
2 13 (2.62%) Data Quality
3 7 (1.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (1.21%) GDPR
5 2 (0.40%) COBIT
5 2 (0.40%) GRC
6 1 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
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 (10.28%) Docker
2 44 (8.87%) Active Directory
3 24 (4.84%) Hyper-V
4 17 (3.43%) VMware Infrastructure
5 8 (1.61%) HDFS
6 2 (0.40%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.20%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.20%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 51 (10.28%) Kubernetes
2 32 (6.45%) Terraform
3 15 (3.02%) Microsoft Intune
4 11 (2.22%) Grafana
4 11 (2.22%) Prometheus
5 10 (2.02%) Ansible
6 9 (1.81%) Rancher
7 8 (1.61%) Single Sign-On
8 6 (1.21%) QRadar
9 5 (1.01%) Failover Clustering
9 5 (1.01%) 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
Vendors
1 91 (18.35%) Microsoft
2 34 (6.85%) VMware
3 15 (3.02%) Sage
4 12 (2.42%) Splunk
5 11 (2.22%) Cisco
6 9 (1.81%) GoCardless
6 9 (1.81%) PayPal
7 8 (1.61%) CheckPoint
7 8 (1.61%) Ribbon
7 8 (1.61%) Xamarin
8 7 (1.41%) Google
8 7 (1.41%) Meraki
9 6 (1.21%) HP
9 6 (1.21%) IBM
9 6 (1.21%) Workday
10 5 (1.01%) Dell
10 5 (1.01%) EqualLogic
10 5 (1.01%) NetApp
10 5 (1.01%) Nimble Storage
11 3 (0.60%) HubSpot