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 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 110 133 170
Rank change year-on-year +23 +37 -4
Contract jobs citing Client/Server 5 31 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.23% 1.16% 0.18%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.74% 3.22% 0.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 16 3
10th Percentile £438 £413 £266
25th Percentile £475 £448 £281
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £313
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +84.00% -23.08%
75th Percentile £625 £615 £372
90th Percentile £663 £630 £404
UK median daily rate £501 £591 £600
% change year-on-year -15.23% -1.50% +18.52%
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% +0.03%

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 679 964 1,232
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 31.68% 36.08% 36.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 418 650 856
10th Percentile £205 £209 £300
25th Percentile £363 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £453 £488 £488
Median % change year-on-year -7.08% - +14.71%
75th Percentile £561 £550 £564
90th Percentile £662 £638 £650
UK median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 29 26
10th Percentile £12.68 - £16.56
25th Percentile £15.74 £10.63 £20.25
Median hourly rate £18.13 £14.50 £42.48
Median % change year-on-year +25.03% -65.86% +1.13%
75th Percentile £29.59 £21.67 £54.38
90th Percentile £59.45 £48.93 £57.50
UK median hourly rate £35.65 £22.26 £27.00
% change year-on-year +60.15% -17.56% +8.00%

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 12 June 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 12 June 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
Edinburgh +31 5 £550 +29.41%
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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) Azure
1 5 (100.00%) IaaS
1 5 (100.00%) PaaS
2 3 (60.00%) iPaaS
3 2 (40.00%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (40.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (60.00%) LAN
1 3 (60.00%) WAN
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Cucumber
1 2 (40.00%) Cypress.io
1 2 (40.00%) Git
1 2 (40.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (40.00%) JIRA
1 2 (40.00%) Selenium
1 2 (40.00%) Subversion
1 2 (40.00%) TeamCity
1 2 (40.00%) WebDriver
General
1 5 (100.00%) Public Sector
2 4 (80.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Senior
2 3 (60.00%) Architect
2 3 (60.00%) Technical Architect
3 2 (40.00%) Analyst
3 2 (40.00%) Functional Analyst
3 2 (40.00%) Functional Test Analyst
3 2 (40.00%) Senior Analyst
3 2 (40.00%) Senior Architect
3 2 (40.00%) Senior Technical Architect
3 2 (40.00%) Senior Test Analyst
3 2 (40.00%) Test Analyst
4 1 (20.00%) Automation Test Analyst
4 1 (20.00%) Senior Automation Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (100.00%) .NET
2 3 (60.00%) J2EE
2 3 (60.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) N-Tier
2 2 (40.00%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) SOA
2 4 (80.00%) Roadmaps
3 3 (60.00%) Architecture Governance
3 3 (60.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 3 (60.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 3 (60.00%) Enterprise Architecture
3 3 (60.00%) High Availability
3 3 (60.00%) Innovative Thinking
3 3 (60.00%) Integration Patterns
3 3 (60.00%) Project Delivery
3 3 (60.00%) Strategic Thinking
3 3 (60.00%) Technical Leadership
4 2 (40.00%) Agile
4 2 (40.00%) ATDD
4 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
4 2 (40.00%) DevOps
4 2 (40.00%) Root Cause Analysis
4 2 (40.00%) Software Testing
4 2 (40.00%) TDD
4 2 (40.00%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) C#
1 2 (40.00%) C++
1 2 (40.00%) Java
1 2 (40.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (40.00%) Shell Script
1 2 (40.00%) SQL
1 2 (40.00%) VBA
1 2 (40.00%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) ISEB
1 2 (40.00%) ISTQB
1 2 (40.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 3 (60.00%) Hyper-V
1 3 (60.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (60.00%) VMware