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 17 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 55 60 72
Rank change year-on-year +5 +12 +6
Contract jobs citing Computer Science Degree 19 14 5
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 2.59% 1.87% 0.57%
As % of the Qualifications category 9.69% 7.33% 1.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 8 4
10th Percentile £380 £363 -
25th Percentile £425 £384 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £438 £403
Median % change year-on-year +2.86% +8.70% -11.05%
75th Percentile £531 £625 £438
90th Percentile £569 £657 £453
Scotland median daily rate £450 £438 £500
% change year-on-year +2.86% -12.50% +1.78%

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 196 191 258
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 26.70% 25.50% 29.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 142 114 159
10th Percentile £182 £301 £206
25th Percentile £355 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £457 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.42% -8.70% +5.26%
75th Percentile £539 £575 £638
90th Percentile £648 £652 £700
Scotland median daily rate £450 £450 £500
% change year-on-year - -10.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 6 0
10th Percentile £17.26 £16.75 -
25th Percentile £18.88 £17.19 -
Median hourly rate £22.17 £22.75 -
Median % change year-on-year -2.55% - -
75th Percentile £25.95 £32.81 -
90th Percentile £27.87 £38.50 -
Scotland median hourly rate £22.58 £22.55 £60.00
% change year-on-year +0.13% -62.43% +141.50%

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 17 December 2025.

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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (5.26%) nginx
Applications
1 2 (10.53%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (10.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (5.26%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 9 (47.37%) AWS
2 5 (26.32%) Azure
3 2 (10.53%) Amazon Bedrock
3 2 (10.53%) Amazon SageMaker
3 2 (10.53%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (10.53%) GitHub
3 2 (10.53%) OpenShift
3 2 (10.53%) Power Platform
4 1 (5.26%) Amazon EventBridge
4 1 (5.26%) Amazon SQS
4 1 (5.26%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (5.26%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (5.26%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (21.05%) Redis
2 2 (10.53%) Big Data
2 2 (10.53%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (10.53%) MongoDB
2 2 (10.53%) NoSQL
2 2 (10.53%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (10.53%) Power BI
2 2 (10.53%) Power Query
2 2 (10.53%) QlikView
2 2 (10.53%) SQL Server
2 2 (10.53%) Tableau
3 1 (5.26%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (10.53%) Artifactory
1 2 (10.53%) GitLab
1 2 (10.53%) Jenkins
1 2 (10.53%) JIRA
2 1 (5.26%) Bitbucket
2 1 (5.26%) IntelliJ
2 1 (5.26%) PyCharm
2 1 (5.26%) Visual Studio
2 1 (5.26%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 10 (52.63%) Social Skills
2 4 (21.05%) Finance
3 3 (15.79%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (15.79%) Public Sector
4 2 (10.53%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (5.26%) Banking
5 1 (5.26%) Digital Healthcare
Job Titles
1 5 (26.32%) Developer
2 3 (15.79%) Python Engineer
2 3 (15.79%) Release Manager
2 3 (15.79%) Software Manager
2 3 (15.79%) Software Release Manager
3 2 (10.53%) Architect
3 2 (10.53%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
3 2 (10.53%) Business Intelligence Developer
3 2 (10.53%) Data Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) Full-Stack Developer
3 2 (10.53%) Full-Stack Java Developer
3 2 (10.53%) Java Developer
3 2 (10.53%) Power BI Developer
3 2 (10.53%) Project Manager
3 2 (10.53%) Python Data Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) Technical Manager
3 2 (10.53%) Technical Project Manager
4 1 (5.26%) Business Analyst
4 1 (5.26%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (21.05%) Kafka
1 4 (21.05%) LangGraph
2 3 (15.79%) OAuth
2 3 (15.79%) OAuth2
2 3 (15.79%) RESTful
3 2 (10.53%) AngularJS
3 2 (10.53%) CrewAI
3 2 (10.53%) FastAPI
3 2 (10.53%) Flask
3 2 (10.53%) Hugging Face
3 2 (10.53%) LangChain
3 2 (10.53%) Loki
3 2 (10.53%) Middleware
3 2 (10.53%) OpenTelemetry
3 2 (10.53%) pgvector
3 2 (10.53%) PyTorch
3 2 (10.53%) Spring
3 2 (10.53%) Spring Boot
3 2 (10.53%) TensorFlow
4 1 (5.26%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (21.05%) AI Agents
2 3 (15.79%) Management Information System
2 3 (15.79%) Public Cloud
3 2 (10.53%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (10.53%) Distributed Applications
3 2 (10.53%) PMI
3 2 (10.53%) Private Cloud
3 2 (10.53%) Product Ownership
4 1 (5.26%) Cloud Native
4 1 (5.26%) IVR
Operating Systems
1 3 (15.79%) Linux
2 2 (10.53%) Unix
3 1 (5.26%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (100.00%) Computer Science
2 12 (63.16%) CI/CD
3 11 (57.89%) Agile
4 10 (52.63%) DevOps
5 5 (26.32%) Analytics
5 5 (26.32%) Containerisation
5 5 (26.32%) Microservices
5 5 (26.32%) SDLC
5 5 (26.32%) Task Automation
6 4 (21.05%) Continuous Integration
6 4 (21.05%) Dashboard Development
6 4 (21.05%) Decision-Making
6 4 (21.05%) Design Patterns
6 4 (21.05%) Generative AI
6 4 (21.05%) Machine Learning
6 4 (21.05%) MLOps
6 4 (21.05%) ModelOps
6 4 (21.05%) Observability
6 4 (21.05%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (21.05%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 9 (47.37%) Python
2 6 (31.58%) SQL
3 4 (21.05%) Java
4 3 (15.79%) PowerShell
5 2 (10.53%) Bash
5 2 (10.53%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (5.26%) C#
6 1 (5.26%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 19 (100.00%) Degree
2 6 (31.58%) Master's Degree
3 2 (10.53%) PMI Certification
4 1 (5.26%) AWS Certification
4 1 (5.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (5.26%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (15.79%) QA
2 1 (5.26%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 3 (15.79%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (36.84%) Kubernetes
2 3 (15.79%) Ansible
2 3 (15.79%) Terraform
3 2 (10.53%) Grafana
3 2 (10.53%) Kustomize
3 2 (10.53%) Progress Chef
3 2 (10.53%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (21.05%) Microsoft
2 2 (10.53%) Pega
2 2 (10.53%) ServiceNow
2 2 (10.53%) Splunk