Software Developer Contracts in Glasgow

Software Developer
Scotland > Glasgow

The median Software Developer daily rate in Glasgow is £559 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 7 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
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 49 58 82
Rank change year-on-year +9 +24 -4
Contract jobs requiring a Software Developer 27 29 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Glasgow 3.23% 3.28% 0.91%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.40% 3.44% 0.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 17 6
10th Percentile £497 £406 £331
25th Percentile £499 £415 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £559 £475 £463
Median % change year-on-year +17.63% +2.70% +22.11%
75th Percentile £629 £538 £548
90th Percentile £634 £611 £603
Scotland median daily rate £463 £475 £460
% change year-on-year -2.63% +3.26% +8.24%

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 795 842 953
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.98% 95.25% 96.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 519 621 728
10th Percentile £250 £313 £210
25th Percentile £363 £406 £362
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +5.56% +9.76%
75th Percentile £583 £588 £538
90th Percentile £650 £700 £600
Scotland median daily rate £475 £475 £463
% change year-on-year - +2.70% +8.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 18 11
10th Percentile £12.03 £12.30 £21.00
25th Percentile £16.00 £14.25 £23.10
Median hourly rate £31.50 £20.50 £37.43
Median % change year-on-year +53.66% -45.23% +113.89%
75th Percentile £53.75 £56.00 £43.21
90th Percentile £67.50 £62.35 £48.00
Scotland median hourly rate £27.90 £22.13 £26.85
% change year-on-year +26.08% -17.60% -28.40%

Software Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Developer in Glasgow

Software Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

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

Daily rate trend for Software Developer in Glasgow

Software Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in Glasgow

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Software Developer in Glasgow over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Software Developer in Glasgow

Software Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Glasgow

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

Hourly rate trend for Software Developer in Glasgow

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

For the 6 months to 7 May 2024, Software 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 Software Developer in the job title.

1 23 (85.19%) Artificial Intelligence
1 23 (85.19%) Degree
1 23 (85.19%) PayPal
1 23 (85.19%) Chatbot
1 23 (85.19%) Conversational UI
1 23 (85.19%) Code Quality
2 13 (48.15%) JavaScript
2 13 (48.15%) Python
3 12 (44.44%) SQL
4 11 (40.74%) C#
4 11 (40.74%) HTML
4 11 (40.74%) Software Engineering
5 4 (14.81%) Java
6 3 (11.11%) Linux
7 2 (7.41%) MySQL
7 2 (7.41%) Oracle
7 2 (7.41%) Software Testing
7 2 (7.41%) Service Management
7 2 (7.41%) Selenium
7 2 (7.41%) Test Automation
7 2 (7.41%) Banking
7 2 (7.41%) CI/CD
7 2 (7.41%) SDET
7 2 (7.41%) AWS
7 2 (7.41%) WebDriver
7 2 (7.41%) Cucumber
7 2 (7.41%) BDD
7 2 (7.41%) Gherkin
7 2 (7.41%) MariaDB
7 2 (7.41%) Microservices

Software 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 1 (3.70%) SAS
Applications
1 23 (85.19%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 2 (7.41%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.70%) Fibre Channel
1 1 (3.70%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (7.41%) MariaDB
1 2 (7.41%) MySQL
2 1 (3.70%) DB2
Development Applications
1 2 (7.41%) Cucumber
1 2 (7.41%) Selenium
1 2 (7.41%) WebDriver
General
1 2 (7.41%) Banking
2 1 (3.70%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (40.74%) HTML
2 2 (7.41%) Gherkin
3 1 (3.70%) Flash
3 1 (3.70%) Hibernate
3 1 (3.70%) JSON
3 1 (3.70%) POSIX
3 1 (3.70%) RESTful
3 1 (3.70%) Web Services
3 1 (3.70%) XML
Operating Systems
1 3 (11.11%) Linux
2 1 (3.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (3.70%) Unix
2 1 (3.70%) Windows
2 1 (3.70%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (85.19%) Artificial Intelligence
1 23 (85.19%) Code Quality
1 23 (85.19%) Conversational UI
2 11 (40.74%) Software Engineering
3 2 (7.41%) BDD
3 2 (7.41%) CI/CD
3 2 (7.41%) Microservices
3 2 (7.41%) SDET
3 2 (7.41%) Service Management
3 2 (7.41%) Software Testing
3 2 (7.41%) Test Automation
4 1 (3.70%) Agile
4 1 (3.70%) Operational Acceptance Testing
4 1 (3.70%) Regression Testing
4 1 (3.70%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 13 (48.15%) JavaScript
1 13 (48.15%) Python
2 12 (44.44%) SQL
3 11 (40.74%) C#
4 4 (14.81%) Java
Qualifications
1 23 (85.19%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.70%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 1 (3.70%) NFS
Systems Management
1 1 (3.70%) Kubernetes
1 1 (3.70%) Terraform
Vendors
1 23 (85.19%) PayPal
2 2 (7.41%) Oracle