Software Engineering Contracts in Glasgow

Software Engineering
Scotland > Glasgow

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Glasgow with a requirement for Software Engineering skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Software Engineering over the 6 months to 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 19 48 37
Rank change year-on-year +29 -11 +10
Contract jobs citing Software Engineering 78 41 51
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Glasgow 9.18% 4.65% 5.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.92% 4.93% 5.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 26 18
10th Percentile £400 £359 £378
25th Percentile £413 £413 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £498 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year -0.50% -2.44% +6.49%
75th Percentile £509 £647 £569
90th Percentile £750 £700 £638
Scotland median daily rate £498 £475 £513
% change year-on-year +4.74% -7.32% +7.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £52.50 £56.25 -
Median hourly rate £60.00 £57.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% - -
75th Percentile £62.50 £58.75 -
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median hourly rate £60.00 £57.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year +4.35% +9.52% +31.25%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Glasgow

Software Engineering is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Glasgow with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 786 832 899
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 92.47% 94.33% 92.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 501 602 684
10th Percentile £275 £350 £257
25th Percentile £385 £411 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +5.56% +9.09%
75th Percentile £575 £590 £538
90th Percentile £650 £700 £600
Scotland median daily rate £475 £475 £473
% change year-on-year - +0.48% +11.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 31 13
10th Percentile £12.11 - £21.00
25th Percentile £16.00 £10.63 £23.70
Median hourly rate £27.88 £14.25 £37.43
Median % change year-on-year +95.63% -61.93% +62.74%
75th Percentile £50.55 £29.38 £42.93
90th Percentile £66.25 £58.75 £47.10
Scotland median hourly rate £19.34 £16.25 £38.71
% change year-on-year +18.98% -58.02% -3.23%

Software Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

Job postings citing Software Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Glasgow.

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineering in Glasgow

Software Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

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

Daily rate trend for Software Engineering in Glasgow

Software Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in Glasgow

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Software Engineering in Glasgow over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Software Engineering in Glasgow

Software Engineering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Glasgow

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

Hourly rate trend for Software Engineering in Glasgow

Software Engineering
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 6 (7.69%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (6.41%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 11 (14.10%) Chatbot
2 1 (1.28%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 25 (32.05%) AWS
2 7 (8.97%) Azure
3 5 (6.41%) GCP
3 5 (6.41%) npm
4 3 (3.85%) Amazon S3
4 3 (3.85%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (3.85%) CloudFront
4 3 (3.85%) Serverless
5 2 (2.56%) IaaS
5 2 (2.56%) SaaS
6 1 (1.28%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (1.28%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.28%) DNS
1 1 (1.28%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (8.97%) Relational Database
2 6 (7.69%) Big Data
3 4 (5.13%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (5.13%) Parquet
4 3 (3.85%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (3.85%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.28%) DB2
5 1 (1.28%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.28%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (6.41%) Cucumber
1 5 (6.41%) JUnit
1 5 (6.41%) Mockito
2 3 (3.85%) JIRA
2 3 (3.85%) webpack
3 2 (2.56%) Cypress.io
4 1 (1.28%) CircleCI
4 1 (1.28%) Git
4 1 (1.28%) GitLab
4 1 (1.28%) Jenkins
General
1 19 (24.36%) Finance
2 12 (15.38%) Financial Institution
3 11 (14.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (2.56%) Social Skills
5 1 (1.28%) Banking
5 1 (1.28%) Investment Banking
5 1 (1.28%) Law
Job Titles
1 48 (61.54%) Developer
2 26 (33.33%) Java Developer
3 12 (15.38%) Java Scala Developer
3 12 (15.38%) Linux Developer
3 12 (15.38%) Scala Developer
4 11 (14.10%) Full Stack Engineer
4 11 (14.10%) Software Developer
5 10 (12.82%) Java Engineer
5 10 (12.82%) Lead
5 10 (12.82%) Software Engineer
6 6 (7.69%) Backend Developer
6 6 (7.69%) Python Developer
7 5 (6.41%) AWS Engineer
7 5 (6.41%) C++ Software Engineer
7 5 (6.41%) Python Engineer
8 4 (5.13%) Linux Scripter
9 3 (3.85%) Embedded Engineer
9 3 (3.85%) Full Stack Developer
9 3 (3.85%) Full Stack Java Developer
9 3 (3.85%) Lead Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (29.49%) HTML
2 16 (20.51%) Spring
3 13 (16.67%) PySpark
3 13 (16.67%) Spring Boot
4 12 (15.38%) CSS
4 12 (15.38%) REST
5 11 (14.10%) AngularJS
6 10 (12.82%) RESTful
7 9 (11.54%) JPA
8 6 (7.69%) React
9 5 (6.41%) Kafka
10 4 (5.13%) Apache Avro
10 4 (5.13%) Elastic Stack
10 4 (5.13%) OpenTracing
11 3 (3.85%) GraphQL
11 3 (3.85%) Node.js
11 3 (3.85%) OAuth
12 2 (2.56%) OpenCV
13 1 (1.28%) .NET
13 1 (1.28%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 9 (11.54%) Public Cloud
2 8 (10.26%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (8.97%) Data Structures
4 4 (5.13%) Algorithms
4 4 (5.13%) Distributed Computing
5 3 (3.85%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (2.56%) Cloud Native
6 2 (2.56%) CUDA
6 2 (2.56%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (2.56%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.28%) Data Centre
7 1 (1.28%) Distributed Applications
7 1 (1.28%) Embedded Systems
7 1 (1.28%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 21 (26.92%) Linux
2 5 (6.41%) Unix
3 3 (3.85%) Embedded Linux
4 1 (1.28%) Android
4 1 (1.28%) Apple iOS
4 1 (1.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (47.44%) Agile
2 28 (35.90%) CI/CD
3 26 (33.33%) SDLC
4 22 (28.21%) Artificial Intelligence
5 20 (25.64%) Full Stack Development
6 17 (21.79%) Microservices
6 17 (21.79%) Operational Stability
7 12 (15.38%) Code Quality
8 11 (14.10%) Community of Practice
8 11 (14.10%) Conversational UI
8 11 (14.10%) Decision-Making
8 11 (14.10%) Machine Learning
9 9 (11.54%) Test Automation
10 7 (8.97%) End-to-End Testing
10 7 (8.97%) Scrum
11 6 (7.69%) Unit Testing
12 5 (6.41%) Data Modelling
13 4 (5.13%) Continuous Integration
13 4 (5.13%) ETL
13 4 (5.13%) OO
Programming Languages
1 38 (48.72%) Java
2 30 (38.46%) Python
3 26 (33.33%) SQL
4 23 (29.49%) Scala
5 14 (17.95%) JavaScript
6 12 (15.38%) C#
6 12 (15.38%) TypeScript
7 8 (10.26%) Kotlin
8 5 (6.41%) C++
9 3 (3.85%) Embedded C++
10 1 (1.28%) Perl
10 1 (1.28%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 11 (14.10%) Degree
2 1 (1.28%) DV Cleared
2 1 (1.28%) SC Cleared
2 1 (1.28%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.13%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.28%) Accessibility
System Software
1 5 (6.41%) Docker
2 2 (2.56%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (8.97%) Prometheus
2 5 (6.41%) Kubernetes
3 4 (5.13%) Zipkin
4 3 (3.85%) Ansible
4 3 (3.85%) Grafana
Vendors
1 11 (14.10%) PayPal
2 2 (2.56%) NVIDIA
2 2 (2.56%) VMware
3 1 (1.28%) Adobe
3 1 (1.28%) Greenplum
3 1 (1.28%) Microsoft
3 1 (1.28%) Red Hat
3 1 (1.28%) Xamarin