For example :
Going freelance nowadays is a path many designers and developers take, not only because of job vacancies being on the low side, but also because there are some clear advantages to it.
So what is the meaning of being on the low side?
Learn English – the meaning of “being on the low side”
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Best Answer
It is idiomatic, alluding to reading a meter for the quantity being measured. Imagine there was a gauge like a fuel gauge in a car that measured the number of job vacancies, and the gauge included a shaded area where there were the "right" number of job vacancies. "On the low side" would suggest that the gauge is at, or slightly below, the shaded area. There is an acceptable range, which has two sides, and the quantity is at the low side. It implies that there are fewer that would be desirable, but not necessarily too few.
"On the high side" can be used similarly to mean that there are more of something than would be desirable, but not so much as to be dangerous or incorrect.