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 in Scotland. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Client/Server over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 111 119 138
Rank change year-on-year +8 +19 +26
Contract jobs citing Client/Server 5 10 25
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.31% 0.45% 0.87%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.81% 1.37% 2.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 5 12
10th Percentile - £502 £456
25th Percentile - £636 £540
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £675 £596
Median % change year-on-year -40.74% +13.26% +90.72%
75th Percentile £436 £722 £625
90th Percentile £458 - £633
UK median daily rate £450 £550 £612
% change year-on-year -18.18% -10.13% +2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £56.25
Median hourly rate - - £57.50
75th Percentile - - £58.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - £40.00 £75.00
% change year-on-year - -46.67% +14.43%

All Generic Skills
Scotland

Client/Server falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 618 732 1,037
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 38.03% 33.02% 36.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 316 426 712
10th Percentile £221 £203 £250
25th Percentile £400 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £467 £475 £488
Median % change year-on-year -1.68% -2.56% +2.63%
75th Percentile £538 £588 £560
90th Percentile £600 £675 £675
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 36 23
10th Percentile - £13.75 -
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.25 £10.63
Median hourly rate £22.00 £18.14 £12.30
Median % change year-on-year +21.31% +47.44% -71.40%
75th Percentile £24.66 £38.25 £28.81
90th Percentile £42.00 £60.38 £52.55
UK median hourly rate £32.05 £30.00 £22.49
% change year-on-year +6.83% +33.42% -18.24%

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
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 1 May 2025. 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
Edinburgh +4 4 £400 -27.27%
Glasgow -1 1 £472 -31.89% 2
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 1 (20.00%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) Azure
2 3 (60.00%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (60.00%) IaaS
2 3 (60.00%) PaaS
2 3 (60.00%) Power Platform
2 3 (60.00%) PowerApps
2 3 (60.00%) SaaS
3 1 (20.00%) AWS
3 1 (20.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) Fibre Channel
1 1 (20.00%) Firewall
1 1 (20.00%) iSCSI
1 1 (20.00%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) DB2
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) Cucumber
1 3 (60.00%) Cypress.io
1 3 (60.00%) Git
1 3 (60.00%) Jenkins
1 3 (60.00%) JIRA
1 3 (60.00%) Postman
1 3 (60.00%) Selenium
1 3 (60.00%) Subversion
1 3 (60.00%) TeamCity
1 3 (60.00%) WebDriver
General
1 4 (80.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (60.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) QA Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Integration Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Quality Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior
2 1 (20.00%) Senior QA Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Software Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Telephony Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) .NET
2 1 (20.00%) Flash
2 1 (20.00%) POSIX
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Mobile App
2 1 (20.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (20.00%) NVMe
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Data ONTAP
1 1 (20.00%) Linux
1 1 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (20.00%) Unix
1 1 (20.00%) Windows
1 1 (20.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Agile
1 4 (80.00%) Migration
2 3 (60.00%) ATDD
2 3 (60.00%) BDD
2 3 (60.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (60.00%) DevOps
2 3 (60.00%) Feature Driven Development
2 3 (60.00%) Kanban
2 3 (60.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 3 (60.00%) SOA
2 3 (60.00%) Software Delivery
2 3 (60.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 3 (60.00%) TDD
2 3 (60.00%) Test Automation
2 3 (60.00%) Validation
2 3 (60.00%) V-Model
2 3 (60.00%) Waterfall
3 1 (20.00%) High Availability
3 1 (20.00%) Roadmaps
3 1 (20.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) SQL
2 3 (60.00%) C#
2 3 (60.00%) C++
2 3 (60.00%) Java
2 3 (60.00%) JavaScript
2 3 (60.00%) Shell Script
2 3 (60.00%) VBA
2 3 (60.00%) VBScript
3 1 (20.00%) Perl
3 1 (20.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) ISEB
1 3 (60.00%) ISTQB
1 3 (60.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (60.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
1 1 (20.00%) GPFS
1 1 (20.00%) NFS
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (20.00%) Veritas Storage Foundation
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Brocade
1 1 (20.00%) EMC
1 1 (20.00%) Genesys
1 1 (20.00%) Google
1 1 (20.00%) IBM
1 1 (20.00%) NetApp
1 1 (20.00%) Sybase
1 1 (20.00%) Veritas