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 28 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 67 74 71
Rank change year-on-year +7 -3 +8
Contract jobs citing Computer Science Degree 12 7 3
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 1.50% 0.92% 0.37%
As % of the Qualifications category 6.59% 4.96% 1.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 6 3
10th Percentile £358 £251 -
25th Percentile £513 £322 £288
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £592 £398 £325
Median % change year-on-year +48.81% +22.31% -38.10%
75th Percentile £650 £505 £394
90th Percentile £651 £550 £414
Scotland median daily rate £610 £488 £555
% change year-on-year +25.13% -12.16% +5.71%

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 182 141 193
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 22.81% 18.53% 23.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 114 102 117
10th Percentile £303 £218 £215
25th Percentile £320 £313 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £443 £446 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.78% -10.80% +6.95%
75th Percentile £582 £575 £600
90th Percentile £775 £599 £675
Scotland median daily rate £450 £449 £475
% change year-on-year +0.33% -5.58% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 7 14
10th Percentile - £16.14 -
25th Percentile £16.17 £16.84 -
Median hourly rate £60.91 £17.45 £40.94
Median % change year-on-year +249.15% -57.39% -
75th Percentile - £45.08 £69.38
90th Percentile £61.84 £72.28 £75.00
Scotland median hourly rate £55.00 £22.00 £19.50
% change year-on-year +150.00% +12.82% +3.28%

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 28 May 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (8.33%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 5 (41.67%) AWS
2 3 (25.00%) GCP
3 2 (16.67%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (16.67%) Azure
4 1 (8.33%) GitHub
4 1 (8.33%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 6 (50.00%) DNS
1 6 (50.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (41.67%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (16.67%) SQL Server
3 1 (8.33%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (8.33%) Flink
Development Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (16.67%) Finance
3 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (50.00%) Analyst
1 6 (50.00%) SOC Analyst
2 5 (41.67%) Lead
3 2 (16.67%) Developer
3 2 (16.67%) Full-Stack Developer
3 2 (16.67%) Full-Stack Java Developer
3 2 (16.67%) Java Developer
3 2 (16.67%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Java Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Java Software Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Security Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Senior
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (25.00%) AngularJS
1 3 (25.00%) Spring
1 3 (25.00%) Spring Boot
2 2 (16.67%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (16.67%) React
3 1 (8.33%) Kafka
3 1 (8.33%) OAuth
3 1 (8.33%) OAuth2
3 1 (8.33%) RxJS
3 1 (8.33%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 6 (50.00%) Cyberattack
1 6 (50.00%) Security Operations Centre
2 3 (25.00%) Cloud Native
3 1 (8.33%) Cyber Defence
3 1 (8.33%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (8.33%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (8.33%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 8 (66.67%) Linux
2 7 (58.33%) Windows
3 2 (16.67%) Unix
4 1 (8.33%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (100.00%) Computer Science
2 8 (66.67%) Incident Response
3 7 (58.33%) Cybersecurity
4 6 (50.00%) Security Operations
4 6 (50.00%) SIEM
5 5 (41.67%) CI/CD
5 5 (41.67%) DevOps
6 4 (33.33%) Containerisation
6 4 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
6 4 (33.33%) High Availability
6 4 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (25.00%) Agile
7 3 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
7 3 (25.00%) Microservices
7 3 (25.00%) Migration
7 3 (25.00%) Software Engineering
8 2 (16.67%) Data Analysis
8 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
8 2 (16.67%) Observability
8 2 (16.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 3 (25.00%) Java
1 3 (25.00%) PowerShell
1 3 (25.00%) Python
2 2 (16.67%) Bash
2 2 (16.67%) SQL
3 1 (8.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 12 (100.00%) Degree
2 6 (50.00%) CompTIA CySA+
2 6 (50.00%) CompTIA Security+
3 5 (41.67%) Security Cleared
4 4 (33.33%) DV Cleared
4 4 (33.33%) SC Cleared
5 1 (8.33%) CEH
5 1 (8.33%) CISM
5 1 (8.33%) CISSP
System Software
1 5 (41.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (41.67%) Kubernetes
2 3 (25.00%) Terraform
3 2 (16.67%) Ansible
3 2 (16.67%) Grafana
3 2 (16.67%) Progress Chef
3 2 (16.67%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 8 (66.67%) Splunk
2 3 (25.00%) Oracle
3 1 (8.33%) CrowdStrike
3 1 (8.33%) Microsoft