Developer Contracts in Glasgow

Developer
Scotland > Glasgow

The median Developer daily rate in Glasgow is £450 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 2 8 5
Rank change year-on-year +6 -3 -3
Contract jobs requiring a Developer 171 146 174
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Glasgow 20.21% 16.70% 18.41%
As % of the Job Titles category 21.24% 17.53% 19.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 110 94 101
10th Percentile £325 £411 £350
25th Percentile £400 £461 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £550 £450
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +22.22% +9.76%
75th Percentile £506 £738 £513
90th Percentile £597 £750 £565
Scotland median daily rate £450 £475 £464
% change year-on-year -5.26% +2.37% +9.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 1
10th Percentile £26.13 - -
25th Percentile £30.32 - £46.00
Median hourly rate £38.38 £47.73 £47.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.59% +1.55% -19.95%
75th Percentile £46.61 - £48.00
90th Percentile £50.89 - -
Scotland median hourly rate £38.38 £59.03 £54.50
% change year-on-year -34.99% +8.31% +36.25%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Glasgow

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Glasgow. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Glasgow with a recognized job title 805 833 912
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.15% 95.31% 96.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 537 602 697
10th Percentile £255 £325 £212
25th Percentile £363 £410 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -3.16% +5.56% +9.76%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £538
90th Percentile £633 £700 £607
Scotland median daily rate £473 £475 £463
% change year-on-year -0.53% +2.70% +8.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 19 15
10th Percentile £11.94 £12.45 £21.60
25th Percentile £16.00 £13.71 £23.83
Median hourly rate £36.22 £18.50 £37.43
Median % change year-on-year +95.78% -50.57% +113.89%
75th Percentile £54.69 £53.24 £45.75
90th Percentile £68.75 £61.75 £56.00
Scotland median hourly rate £24.29 £21.71 £33.00
% change year-on-year +11.88% -34.21% -12.00%

Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

Job postings that featured Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Glasgow.

Job vacancy trend for Developer in Glasgow

Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Developer in Glasgow.

Daily rate trend for Developer in Glasgow

Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in Glasgow

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Developer in Glasgow over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Developer in Glasgow

Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Glasgow

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Developer in Glasgow.

Hourly rate trend for Developer in Glasgow

Developer
Hourly Rate Histogram in Glasgow

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Developer in Glasgow over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Developer in Glasgow

Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Glasgow

For the 6 months to 17 May 2024, Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Glasgow region featuring Developer in the job title.

1 76 (44.44%) Java
2 72 (42.11%) Agile
3 63 (36.84%) AWS
4 58 (33.92%) SQL
5 49 (28.65%) Software Engineering
6 47 (27.49%) Spring
7 45 (26.32%) Microservices
8 36 (21.05%) Python
9 35 (20.47%) Spring Boot
10 33 (19.30%) RESTful
11 32 (18.71%) SDLC
12 31 (18.13%) Finance
13 29 (16.96%) CI/CD
14 28 (16.37%) Artificial Intelligence
14 28 (16.37%) Scala
15 27 (15.79%) Test Automation
16 26 (15.20%) Degree
16 26 (15.20%) Code Quality
17 25 (14.62%) JIRA
17 25 (14.62%) Data Modelling
17 25 (14.62%) Kafka
18 24 (14.04%) Oracle
19 22 (12.87%) JavaScript
19 22 (12.87%) HTML
20 21 (12.28%) Azure
21 20 (11.70%) Unit Testing
21 20 (11.70%) PayPal
21 20 (11.70%) React
21 20 (11.70%) Chatbot
21 20 (11.70%) Conversational UI

Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Glasgow 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 10 (5.85%) Apache Spark
2 4 (2.34%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.17%) Cloud Foundry
3 2 (1.17%) Confluence
4 1 (0.58%) Apache
4 1 (0.58%) EPiServer
4 1 (0.58%) GeoServer
4 1 (0.58%) SharePoint
Applications
1 20 (11.70%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.58%) Maximo
1 1 (0.58%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 63 (36.84%) AWS
2 21 (12.28%) Azure
3 14 (8.19%) GCP
4 9 (5.26%) Amazon S3
5 8 (4.68%) AWS Lambda
5 8 (4.68%) Serverless
6 7 (4.09%) AWS CloudFormation
7 5 (2.92%) Power Platform
8 4 (2.34%) Amazon EC2
9 3 (1.75%) Amazon EKS
9 3 (1.75%) Amazon SageMaker
9 3 (1.75%) npm
9 3 (1.75%) SaaS
10 2 (1.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 2 (1.17%) Amazon EMR
10 2 (1.17%) Amazon SQS
10 2 (1.17%) Microsoft 365
10 2 (1.17%) OpenShift
10 2 (1.17%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 1 (0.58%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.51%) Kerberos
2 3 (1.75%) SSL
3 2 (1.17%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.58%) DHCP
4 1 (0.58%) DNS
4 1 (0.58%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 1 (0.58%) HTTP
4 1 (0.58%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (7.60%) Relational Database
2 8 (4.68%) Big Data
2 8 (4.68%) Oracle Database
3 7 (4.09%) Data Warehouse
4 6 (3.51%) Amazon Aurora
4 6 (3.51%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (2.92%) Power BI
6 4 (2.34%) GIS
6 4 (2.34%) MySQL
6 4 (2.34%) Oracle Reports
6 4 (2.34%) Parquet
7 3 (1.75%) MariaDB
8 2 (1.17%) Amazon Athena
8 2 (1.17%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.58%) Apache Hive
9 1 (0.58%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.58%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (0.58%) Impala
9 1 (0.58%) QGIS
9 1 (0.58%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 25 (14.62%) JIRA
2 18 (10.53%) Git
3 15 (8.77%) Jenkins
4 6 (3.51%) Bitbucket
5 5 (2.92%) JUnit
6 4 (2.34%) Cucumber
7 3 (1.75%) Cypress.io
7 3 (1.75%) Mockito
7 3 (1.75%) webpack
8 2 (1.17%) Selenium
8 2 (1.17%) Subversion
8 2 (1.17%) WebDriver
9 1 (0.58%) CircleCI
9 1 (0.58%) GitLab
9 1 (0.58%) Maven
General
1 31 (18.13%) Finance
2 16 (9.36%) Banking
3 12 (7.02%) Financial Institution
3 12 (7.02%) Public Sector
3 12 (7.02%) Social Skills
4 7 (4.09%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (2.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (1.75%) Investment Banking
7 1 (0.58%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (0.58%) Law
7 1 (0.58%) Local Government
7 1 (0.58%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (27.49%) Spring
2 35 (20.47%) Spring Boot
3 33 (19.30%) RESTful
4 25 (14.62%) Kafka
5 22 (12.87%) HTML
6 20 (11.70%) React
7 16 (9.36%) CSS
7 16 (9.36%) REST
8 12 (7.02%) PySpark
9 11 (6.43%) AngularJS
10 9 (5.26%) JSON
10 9 (5.26%) Web Services
11 8 (4.68%) Elastic Stack
11 8 (4.68%) OpenTracing
11 8 (4.68%) XML
12 6 (3.51%) LDAP
12 6 (3.51%) Node.js
12 6 (3.51%) OpenID
13 5 (2.92%) AWS CDK
14 4 (2.34%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 14 (8.19%) Data Structures
2 11 (6.43%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (4.09%) Cloud Native
4 6 (3.51%) Algorithms
4 6 (3.51%) Enterprise Cloud
5 5 (2.92%) Distributed Computing
5 5 (2.92%) Public Cloud
6 3 (1.75%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (1.75%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (1.75%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.17%) Private Cloud
8 1 (0.58%) CMDB
8 1 (0.58%) Distributed Applications
8 1 (0.58%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.58%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.58%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.58%) Taxonomies
8 1 (0.58%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 1 (0.58%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 18 (10.53%) Unix
2 17 (9.94%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (42.11%) Agile
2 49 (28.65%) Software Engineering
3 45 (26.32%) Microservices
4 32 (18.71%) SDLC
5 29 (16.96%) CI/CD
6 28 (16.37%) Artificial Intelligence
7 27 (15.79%) Test Automation
8 26 (15.20%) Code Quality
9 25 (14.62%) Data Modelling
10 20 (11.70%) Conversational UI
10 20 (11.70%) Unit Testing
11 14 (8.19%) Continuous Integration
11 14 (8.19%) End-to-End Testing
11 14 (8.19%) Full Stack Development
12 12 (7.02%) Scrum
13 11 (6.43%) OO
13 11 (6.43%) TDD
14 10 (5.85%) Design Patterns
14 10 (5.85%) Machine Learning
14 10 (5.85%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 76 (44.44%) Java
2 58 (33.92%) SQL
3 36 (21.05%) Python
4 28 (16.37%) Scala
5 22 (12.87%) JavaScript
6 15 (8.77%) PL/SQL
7 12 (7.02%) C#
7 12 (7.02%) Kotlin
8 11 (6.43%) Shell Script
9 10 (5.85%) TypeScript
10 6 (3.51%) C
10 6 (3.51%) Go
11 4 (2.34%) Bash
12 3 (1.75%) Perl
12 3 (1.75%) PHP
13 1 (0.58%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 1 (0.58%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 26 (15.20%) Degree
2 5 (2.92%) Security Cleared
3 2 (1.17%) SC Cleared
4 1 (0.58%) AWS Certification
4 1 (0.58%) Azure Certification
4 1 (0.58%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (0.58%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.51%) Accessibility
1 6 (3.51%) QA
2 4 (2.34%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.17%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (0.58%) GDPR
4 1 (0.58%) WCAG
System Software
1 15 (8.77%) Docker
2 7 (4.09%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.17%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.58%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 17 (9.94%) Kubernetes
2 8 (4.68%) Prometheus
2 8 (4.68%) Zipkin
3 7 (4.09%) Grafana
4 3 (1.75%) Terraform
5 2 (1.17%) Ansible
6 1 (0.58%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.58%) Puppet
Vendors
1 24 (14.04%) Oracle
2 20 (11.70%) PayPal
3 9 (5.26%) Avaloq
4 6 (3.51%) Cadence
5 4 (2.34%) CA Agile Central
5 4 (2.34%) Microsoft
6 3 (1.75%) ServiceNow
6 3 (1.75%) Splunk
7 2 (1.17%) Google
7 2 (1.17%) IBM
7 2 (1.17%) Sage
7 2 (1.17%) VMware
8 1 (0.58%) Adobe
8 1 (0.58%) F5
8 1 (0.58%) Greenplum
8 1 (0.58%) IFS
8 1 (0.58%) Optimizely
8 1 (0.58%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.58%) Sybase
8 1 (0.58%) Xamarin