Computer Science Degree Contract Job Trends in Glasgow

Computer Science Degree
Scotland > Glasgow

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Glasgow with a requirement for Computer Science Degree qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 1 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 59 72 73
Rank change year-on-year +13 +1 +8
Contract jobs citing Computer Science Degree 15 11 7
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 2.08% 1.34% 0.76%
As % of the Qualifications category 7.94% 6.59% 2.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 9 7
10th Percentile £358 £328 £288
25th Percentile £528 £391 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £440 £375
Median % change year-on-year +33.64% +17.33% -38.02%
75th Percentile £645 £625 £428
90th Percentile £650 £646 £443
Scotland median daily rate £592 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +18.30% -9.09% -9.09%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Glasgow

Computer Science Degree falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications in Glasgow.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 189 167 270
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 26.25% 20.34% 29.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 126 96 157
10th Percentile £287 £265 £200
25th Percentile £358 £370 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £465 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.82% -7.05% +5.71%
75th Percentile £560 £575 £600
90th Percentile £652 £650 £680
Scotland median daily rate £450 £463 £500
% change year-on-year -2.76% -7.45% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 6 12
10th Percentile £16.15 £16.75 -
25th Percentile £16.17 £18.88 -
Median hourly rate £16.25 £33.25 £40.94
Median % change year-on-year -51.13% -18.78% +37.75%
75th Percentile £61.84 £59.38 £75.00
90th Percentile - £74.10 -
Scotland median hourly rate £50.00 £23.00 £42.97
% change year-on-year +117.39% -46.47% +102.12%

Computer Science Degree
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Computer Science Degree relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow.

Computer Science Degree job vacancy trend in Glasgow

Computer Science Degree
Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing Computer Science Degree.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing Computer Science Degree

Computer Science Degree
Daily Rate Histogram in Glasgow

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Computer Science Degree in Glasgow over the 6 months to 1 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Computer Science Degree in Glasgow

Computer Science Degree
Hourly Rate Trend in Glasgow

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing Computer Science Degree.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing Computer Science Degree

Computer Science Degree
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Glasgow by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Applications
1 2 (13.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 6 (40.00%) AWS
2 2 (13.33%) Amazon Bedrock
2 2 (13.33%) Amazon SageMaker
2 2 (13.33%) AWS CloudFormation
2 2 (13.33%) Azure
2 2 (13.33%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 6 (40.00%) DNS
1 6 (40.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (26.67%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (13.33%) Redis
2 2 (13.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (13.33%) GitLab
General
1 5 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 4 (26.67%) Finance
3 1 (6.67%) Banking
3 1 (6.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (40.00%) Analyst
1 6 (40.00%) SOC Analyst
2 5 (33.33%) Lead
3 2 (13.33%) Architect
3 2 (13.33%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
3 2 (13.33%) Developer
3 2 (13.33%) Full-Stack Developer
3 2 (13.33%) Full-Stack Java Developer
3 2 (13.33%) Java Developer
3 2 (13.33%) Project Manager
3 2 (13.33%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Technical Manager
3 2 (13.33%) Technical Project Manager
4 1 (6.67%) Security Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Senior
4 1 (6.67%) Senior Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) ServiceNow Manager
4 1 (6.67%) ServiceNow Project Manager
4 1 (6.67%) Technical Services Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (13.33%) AngularJS
1 2 (13.33%) CrewAI
1 2 (13.33%) Elastic Stack
1 2 (13.33%) LangGraph
1 2 (13.33%) pgvector
1 2 (13.33%) React
1 2 (13.33%) Spring
1 2 (13.33%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 6 (40.00%) Cyberattack
1 6 (40.00%) Security Operations Centre
2 2 (13.33%) AI Agents
2 2 (13.33%) Cloud Native
2 2 (13.33%) PMI
3 1 (6.67%) Cyber Defence
3 1 (6.67%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (6.67%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 8 (53.33%) Linux
2 7 (46.67%) Windows
3 2 (13.33%) Unix
4 1 (6.67%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (100.00%) Computer Science
2 8 (53.33%) Incident Response
3 7 (46.67%) Cybersecurity
4 6 (40.00%) CI/CD
4 6 (40.00%) Security Operations
4 6 (40.00%) SIEM
5 4 (26.67%) Agile
5 4 (26.67%) Containerisation
5 4 (26.67%) Continuous Improvement
5 4 (26.67%) Data Migration
5 4 (26.67%) DevOps
5 4 (26.67%) High Availability
5 4 (26.67%) Migration
5 4 (26.67%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (20.00%) Regulatory Compliance
7 2 (13.33%) Data Science
7 2 (13.33%) Decision-Making
7 2 (13.33%) Proactive Monitoring
7 2 (13.33%) Scaled Agile Framework
7 2 (13.33%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 5 (33.33%) Python
2 3 (20.00%) PowerShell
3 2 (13.33%) Bash
3 2 (13.33%) Java
3 2 (13.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 15 (100.00%) Degree
2 6 (40.00%) CompTIA CySA+
2 6 (40.00%) CompTIA Security+
3 5 (33.33%) Security Cleared
4 4 (26.67%) DV Cleared
4 4 (26.67%) SC Cleared
5 2 (13.33%) Master's Degree
5 2 (13.33%) PMI Certification
6 1 (6.67%) CEH
6 1 (6.67%) CISM
6 1 (6.67%) CISSP
System Software
1 4 (26.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (40.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (13.33%) Ansible
2 2 (13.33%) Grafana
2 2 (13.33%) Progress Chef
2 2 (13.33%) Prometheus
2 2 (13.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (53.33%) Splunk
2 3 (20.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (13.33%) Oracle
3 2 (13.33%) ServiceNow
4 1 (6.67%) CrowdStrike