Client/Server Contract Job Trends 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 11 October 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 139 113 110
Rank change year-on-year -26 -3 +8
Contract jobs citing Client/Server 1 3 5
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 0.042% 0.19% 0.27%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.10% 0.47% 0.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 5
10th Percentile - £407 £405
25th Percentile £459 £418 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £468 £436 £425
Median % change year-on-year +7.22% +2.59% -21.41%
75th Percentile £476 £454 £484
90th Percentile - £465 £501
UK median daily rate £409 £520 £550
% change year-on-year -21.30% -5.45% +10.00%

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 993 634 648
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 41.95% 39.72% 34.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 521 341 371
10th Percentile £234 £181 £199
25th Percentile £375 £358 £353
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year - - -10.00%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £569
90th Percentile £650 £588 £675
UK median daily rate £525 £519 £527
% change year-on-year +1.25% -1.57% -4.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 20 26
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.95 £12.30
25th Percentile £18.52 £17.30 £14.68
Median hourly rate £38.15 £21.86 £19.30
Median % change year-on-year +74.51% +13.29% +8.89%
75th Percentile £43.96 £57.50 £24.08
90th Percentile £77.50 £64.40 £34.11
UK median hourly rate £35.91 £27.50 £47.50
% change year-on-year +30.58% -42.11% +5.56%

Client/Server
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Client/Server relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Client/Server job vacancy trend in Scotland

Client/Server
Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Client/Server.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Client/Server

Client/Server
Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Client/Server.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Client/Server

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 11 October 2026. 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 -17 1 £468 -0.95% 3
Client/Server
UK

Client/Server
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Fibre Channel
1 1 (100.00%) iSCSI
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) POSIX
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Capacity Management
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (100.00%) OO
1 1 (100.00%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Perl
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) NFS