Client/Server Contracts in Scotland

Client Server
UK > Scotland

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Client/Server in contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Client/Server over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 121 140 160
Rank change year-on-year +19 +20 -3
Contract jobs citing Client/Server 10 24 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.45% 0.84% 0.20%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.39% 2.32% 0.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 11 5
10th Percentile £502 £456 £228
25th Percentile £636 £512 £256
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £592 £313
Median % change year-on-year +14.02% +89.44% -24.24%
75th Percentile £722 £620 £438
90th Percentile - £634 -
UK median daily rate £550 £611 £600
% change year-on-year -9.98% +1.83% +29.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £57.50 -
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £75.00 £65.54
% change year-on-year -46.67% +14.43% +13.00%

All Generic Skills
Scotland

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 contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 721 1,036 1,177
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 32.67% 36.30% 33.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 419 711 819
10th Percentile £204 £250 £240
25th Percentile £400 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% +2.63% +11.76%
75th Percentile £588 £557 £550
90th Percentile £675 £675 £625
UK median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 23 23
10th Percentile £13.75 - £15.53
25th Percentile £16.25 £10.63 £18.90
Median hourly rate £18.14 £12.30 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +47.44% -71.40% -5.49%
75th Percentile £38.25 £28.81 £53.75
90th Percentile £60.38 £52.55 £55.75
UK median hourly rate £28.50 £22.49 £27.50
% change year-on-year +26.75% -18.24% +3.19%

Client/Server
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Client/Server in Scotland

Client/Server
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Client/Server in Scotland.

Daily rate trend for Client/Server in Scotland

Client/Server
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Client/Server in Scotland over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Client/Server in Scotland

Client/Server
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Client/Server in Scotland.

Hourly rate trend for Client/Server in Scotland

Client/Server
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Client/Server within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 27 April 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Glasgow -14 5 £693 +17.06%
Edinburgh - 5 £550 -
Client/Server
UK

Client/Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 4 (40.00%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 10 (100.00%) Azure
2 5 (50.00%) AWS
2 5 (50.00%) IaaS
2 5 (50.00%) PaaS
3 4 (40.00%) OpenShift
4 3 (30.00%) iPaaS
5 2 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (20.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (50.00%) Fibre Channel
1 5 (50.00%) iSCSI
2 4 (40.00%) SAN
3 3 (30.00%) LAN
3 3 (30.00%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (40.00%) DB2
Development Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Cucumber
1 2 (20.00%) Cypress.io
1 2 (20.00%) Git
1 2 (20.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (20.00%) JIRA
1 2 (20.00%) Selenium
1 2 (20.00%) Subversion
1 2 (20.00%) TeamCity
1 2 (20.00%) WebDriver
General
1 8 (80.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (50.00%) Public Sector
3 4 (40.00%) Banking
3 4 (40.00%) Investment Banking
4 3 (30.00%) Finance
5 1 (10.00%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 4 (40.00%) Linux Engineer
1 4 (40.00%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
1 4 (40.00%) Python Engineer
1 4 (40.00%) Senior
1 4 (40.00%) Storage Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) Architect
2 3 (30.00%) Technical Architect
3 2 (20.00%) Analyst
3 2 (20.00%) Functional Analyst
3 2 (20.00%) Functional Test Analyst
3 2 (20.00%) Senior Analyst
3 2 (20.00%) Senior Architect
3 2 (20.00%) Senior Technical Architect
3 2 (20.00%) Senior Test Analyst
3 2 (20.00%) Test Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Automation Test Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Python Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Automation Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (50.00%) .NET
2 4 (40.00%) Flash
2 4 (40.00%) POSIX
3 3 (30.00%) J2EE
3 3 (30.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 4 (40.00%) NVMe
2 3 (30.00%) N-Tier
3 2 (20.00%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 5 (50.00%) Linux
1 5 (50.00%) Unix
1 5 (50.00%) Windows
1 5 (50.00%) Windows Server
2 4 (40.00%) Data ONTAP
2 4 (40.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (70.00%) High Availability
2 5 (50.00%) SOA
3 4 (40.00%) Capacity Management
3 4 (40.00%) Computer Science
3 4 (40.00%) Customer Requirements
3 4 (40.00%) Infrastructure Automation
3 4 (40.00%) Observability
3 4 (40.00%) OO
3 4 (40.00%) Preventative Maintenance
3 4 (40.00%) Problem Management
3 4 (40.00%) Roadmaps
3 4 (40.00%) SDLC
3 4 (40.00%) Storage Management
4 3 (30.00%) Architecture Governance
4 3 (30.00%) Innovative Thinking
4 3 (30.00%) Integration Patterns
4 3 (30.00%) Project Delivery
4 3 (30.00%) Storage Virtualisation
4 3 (30.00%) Strategic Thinking
4 3 (30.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 6 (60.00%) Java
1 6 (60.00%) SQL
2 5 (50.00%) Python
3 4 (40.00%) Perl
4 2 (20.00%) C#
4 2 (20.00%) C++
4 2 (20.00%) JavaScript
4 2 (20.00%) Shell Script
4 2 (20.00%) VBA
4 2 (20.00%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) ISEB
1 2 (20.00%) ISTQB
1 2 (20.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (20.00%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 4 (40.00%) Docker
1 4 (40.00%) GPFS
1 4 (40.00%) NFS
2 3 (30.00%) Hyper-V
2 3 (30.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 4 (40.00%) Veritas Storage Foundation
Vendors
1 5 (50.00%) Google
2 4 (40.00%) Brocade
2 4 (40.00%) EMC
2 4 (40.00%) IBM
2 4 (40.00%) NetApp
2 4 (40.00%) Sybase
2 4 (40.00%) Veritas
3 3 (30.00%) Microsoft
3 3 (30.00%) VMware