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 5 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 55 63 73
Rank change year-on-year +8 +10 +6
Contract jobs citing Computer Science Degree 17 14 6
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 2.46% 1.82% 0.66%
As % of the Qualifications category 9.34% 8.92% 2.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 9 6
10th Percentile £381 £328 £288
25th Percentile £500 £391 £306
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £581 £440 £375
Median % change year-on-year +32.05% +17.33% -35.06%
75th Percentile £640 £625 £419
90th Percentile £650 £646 £446
Scotland median daily rate £588 £488 £525
% change year-on-year +20.62% -7.14% -4.55%

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 182 157 264
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 26.38% 20.44% 28.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 120 85 160
10th Percentile £241 £263 £203
25th Percentile £358 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £455 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.15% -9.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £564 £575 £600
90th Percentile £655 £645 £688
Scotland median daily rate £463 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +2.78% -10.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 7 4
10th Percentile - £16.75 -
25th Percentile £16.17 £21.00 -
Median hourly rate £22.17 £33.00 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year -32.82% -56.00% +152.36%
75th Percentile £53.67 £53.75 -
90th Percentile £61.84 £72.28 -
Scotland median hourly rate £25.27 £23.00 £56.40
% change year-on-year +9.86% -59.22% +165.29%

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 5 February 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 (11.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (5.88%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 6 (35.29%) AWS
2 2 (11.76%) Amazon Bedrock
2 2 (11.76%) Amazon SageMaker
2 2 (11.76%) AWS CloudFormation
2 2 (11.76%) Azure
2 2 (11.76%) GCP
3 1 (5.88%) OpenShift
3 1 (5.88%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 6 (35.29%) DNS
1 6 (35.29%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (23.53%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (17.65%) Redis
3 2 (11.76%) SQL Server
4 1 (5.88%) Big Data
4 1 (5.88%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (5.88%) NoSQL
4 1 (5.88%) Power BI
4 1 (5.88%) Power Query
4 1 (5.88%) QlikView
4 1 (5.88%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (11.76%) GitLab
2 1 (5.88%) Artifactory
2 1 (5.88%) Jenkins
General
1 8 (47.06%) Social Skills
2 5 (29.41%) Finance
3 1 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (5.88%) Banking
3 1 (5.88%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (41.18%) Analyst
2 6 (35.29%) SOC Analyst
3 5 (29.41%) Lead
4 3 (17.65%) Developer
5 2 (11.76%) Architect
5 2 (11.76%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
5 2 (11.76%) Full-Stack Developer
5 2 (11.76%) Full-Stack Java Developer
5 2 (11.76%) Java Developer
5 2 (11.76%) Project Manager
5 2 (11.76%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 2 (11.76%) Technical Manager
5 2 (11.76%) Technical Project Manager
6 1 (5.88%) Data Engineer
6 1 (5.88%) Power BI Developer
6 1 (5.88%) Python Data Engineer
6 1 (5.88%) Python Engineer
6 1 (5.88%) Senior
6 1 (5.88%) ServiceNow Manager
6 1 (5.88%) ServiceNow Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (17.65%) LangGraph
2 2 (11.76%) AngularJS
2 2 (11.76%) CrewAI
2 2 (11.76%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (11.76%) pgvector
2 2 (11.76%) React
2 2 (11.76%) Spring
2 2 (11.76%) Spring Boot
3 1 (5.88%) FastAPI
3 1 (5.88%) Flask
3 1 (5.88%) Hugging Face
3 1 (5.88%) Kafka
3 1 (5.88%) LangChain
3 1 (5.88%) Loki
3 1 (5.88%) OAuth
3 1 (5.88%) OAuth2
3 1 (5.88%) OpenTelemetry
3 1 (5.88%) PyTorch
3 1 (5.88%) RESTful
3 1 (5.88%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 6 (35.29%) Cyberattack
1 6 (35.29%) Security Operations Centre
2 3 (17.65%) AI Agents
3 2 (11.76%) Cloud Native
3 2 (11.76%) PMI
4 1 (5.88%) Cyber Defence
4 1 (5.88%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (5.88%) Management Information System
4 1 (5.88%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 8 (47.06%) Linux
2 6 (35.29%) Windows
3 2 (11.76%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (100.00%) Computer Science
2 8 (47.06%) Incident Response
3 7 (41.18%) CI/CD
4 6 (35.29%) Agile
4 6 (35.29%) Cybersecurity
4 6 (35.29%) Security Operations
4 6 (35.29%) SIEM
5 5 (29.41%) Containerisation
5 5 (29.41%) DevOps
5 5 (29.41%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (23.53%) Analytics
6 4 (23.53%) Continuous Improvement
6 4 (23.53%) Data Migration
6 4 (23.53%) High Availability
6 4 (23.53%) Migration
7 3 (17.65%) AI
7 3 (17.65%) Configuration Management
7 3 (17.65%) Scrum
7 3 (17.65%) Software Engineering
7 3 (17.65%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (29.41%) Python
2 4 (23.53%) SQL
3 2 (11.76%) Bash
3 2 (11.76%) Java
3 2 (11.76%) PowerShell
4 1 (5.88%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 17 (100.00%) Degree
2 6 (35.29%) CompTIA CySA+
2 6 (35.29%) CompTIA Security+
3 5 (29.41%) Security Cleared
4 4 (23.53%) DV Cleared
4 4 (23.53%) SC Cleared
5 3 (17.65%) Master's Degree
6 2 (11.76%) PMI Certification
System Software
1 4 (23.53%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (41.18%) Kubernetes
2 3 (17.65%) Grafana
2 3 (17.65%) Prometheus
3 2 (11.76%) Ansible
3 2 (11.76%) Progress Chef
3 2 (11.76%) Terraform
4 1 (5.88%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 8 (47.06%) Splunk
2 2 (11.76%) Microsoft
2 2 (11.76%) Oracle
2 2 (11.76%) ServiceNow