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 26 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 83 60 61
Rank change year-on-year -23 +1 +8
Contract jobs citing Computer Science Degree 10 21 5
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 0.92% 2.87% 0.72%
As % of the Qualifications category 4.33% 12.96% 3.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 15 1
10th Percentile £305 £375 -
25th Percentile - £425 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £313 £450 £375
Median % change year-on-year -30.44% +20.00% -25.00%
75th Percentile - £525 £388
90th Percentile £448 £540 -
Scotland median daily rate £313 £450 £550
% change year-on-year -30.44% -18.18% +10.00%

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 231 162 158
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 21.27% 22.13% 22.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 143 122 107
10th Percentile £300 £201 £247
25th Percentile £320 £313 £378
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £446 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.01% -10.90% +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £525 £600
90th Percentile £775 £580 £725
Scotland median daily rate £460 £445 £438
% change year-on-year +3.37% +1.71% -6.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 7 4
10th Percentile £24.26 £16.14 £19.95
25th Percentile - £16.84 £22.13
Median hourly rate £43.96 £17.45 £28.63
Median % change year-on-year +151.99% -39.06% -
75th Percentile £60.91 £18.05 £39.00
90th Percentile - £20.89 £47.10
Scotland median hourly rate £50.00 £19.69 £17.00
% change year-on-year +153.94% +15.82% -68.34%

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 26 August 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 (10.00%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 7 (70.00%) AWS
2 4 (40.00%) Akamai
2 4 (40.00%) Amazon EKS
2 4 (40.00%) Amazon MSK
2 4 (40.00%) AWS Direct Connect
2 4 (40.00%) AWS Lambda
2 4 (40.00%) Cloudflare
2 4 (40.00%) GitHub
2 4 (40.00%) GitHub Actions
2 4 (40.00%) Kong
2 4 (40.00%) Serverless
3 3 (30.00%) Azure
3 3 (30.00%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (30.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 4 (40.00%) DNS
1 4 (40.00%) Firewall
1 4 (40.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (60.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (10.00%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (10.00%) Flink
2 1 (10.00%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 4 (40.00%) Bitbucket
1 4 (40.00%) Git
1 4 (40.00%) Jenkins
2 3 (30.00%) Cypress.io
2 3 (30.00%) Postman
2 3 (30.00%) REST Assured
2 3 (30.00%) Selenium
3 2 (20.00%) Appium
3 2 (20.00%) Cucumber
3 2 (20.00%) SpecFlow
4 1 (10.00%) Babel
4 1 (10.00%) JUnit
4 1 (10.00%) Mocha
4 1 (10.00%) TestNG
4 1 (10.00%) Vite
4 1 (10.00%) webpack
General
1 2 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Military
2 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Platform Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) Automation Tester
2 3 (30.00%) Tester
3 2 (20.00%) Developer
3 2 (20.00%) Senior
3 2 (20.00%) Senior Automation Tester
3 2 (20.00%) Senior Tester
4 1 (10.00%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
4 1 (10.00%) Java Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Java Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Java Software Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (50.00%) Kafka
1 5 (50.00%) OAuth
1 5 (50.00%) OAuth2
1 5 (50.00%) React
2 4 (40.00%) gRPC
2 4 (40.00%) OpenID
2 4 (40.00%) OpenTelemetry
2 4 (40.00%) SAML
2 4 (40.00%) WebSockets
3 3 (30.00%) Playwright
4 2 (20.00%) CSS
4 2 (20.00%) HTML
4 2 (20.00%) RESTful
4 2 (20.00%) Spring
4 2 (20.00%) Spring Boot
5 1 (10.00%) CSS3
5 1 (10.00%) Hibernate
5 1 (10.00%) HTML5
5 1 (10.00%) REST
5 1 (10.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 4 (40.00%) Algorithms
1 4 (40.00%) Data Structures
1 4 (40.00%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (10.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (10.00%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (10.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (100.00%) Computer Science
2 8 (80.00%) CI/CD
3 5 (50.00%) Software Engineering
4 4 (40.00%) Dashboard Development
4 4 (40.00%) DevOps
4 4 (40.00%) GitOps
4 4 (40.00%) Incident Response
4 4 (40.00%) Low Latency
4 4 (40.00%) Observability
4 4 (40.00%) Platform Engineering
4 4 (40.00%) Runbook
4 4 (40.00%) SIEM
5 3 (30.00%) API Testing
5 3 (30.00%) SDLC
5 3 (30.00%) TDD
5 3 (30.00%) Test Automation
6 2 (20.00%) Agile
6 2 (20.00%) Regression Testing
6 2 (20.00%) Test Scripting
6 2 (20.00%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 7 (70.00%) TypeScript
2 5 (50.00%) Java
2 5 (50.00%) JavaScript
3 3 (30.00%) C#
3 3 (30.00%) Python
4 1 (10.00%) Go
Qualifications
1 10 (100.00%) Degree
2 2 (20.00%) DV Cleared
2 2 (20.00%) ISTQB
2 2 (20.00%) SC Cleared
2 2 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) QA
System Software
1 3 (30.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (70.00%) Kubernetes
2 4 (40.00%) Argo
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) Dynatrace
1 4 (40.00%) ForgeRock
1 4 (40.00%) Splunk
2 1 (10.00%) Oracle