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 18 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 63 57 64
Rank change year-on-year -6 +7 +9
Contract jobs citing Computer Science Degree 18 8 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Glasgow 2.48% 1.18% 1.10%
As % of the Qualifications category 11.04% 5.00% 4.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 2 7
10th Percentile £414 £389 £338
25th Percentile £425 £428 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £525 £566 £538
90th Percentile - £601 £569
Scotland median daily rate £450 £555 £500
% change year-on-year -18.92% +11.00% +15.61%

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 163 160 212
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 22.42% 23.53% 25.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 121 115 130
10th Percentile £185 £301 £295
25th Percentile £313 £387 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -10.60% +5.26% -
75th Percentile £525 £600 £587
90th Percentile £606 £725 £700
Scotland median daily rate £450 £450 £475
% change year-on-year - -5.26% +2.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 4 0
10th Percentile £16.14 £19.95 -
25th Percentile £16.84 £22.13 -
Median hourly rate £17.45 £28.63 -
Median % change year-on-year -39.06% - -
75th Percentile £18.05 £39.00 -
90th Percentile £20.89 £47.10 -
Scotland median hourly rate £20.00 £18.00 £59.03
% change year-on-year +11.11% -69.51% +24.27%

Computer Science Degree
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

Job postings citing Computer Science Degree as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Glasgow.

Job vacancy trend for Computer Science Degree 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 18 September 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 and Capabilities in Glasgow by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (5.56%) Apache
1 1 (5.56%) Apache Spark
1 1 (5.56%) nginx
Applications
1 2 (11.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (5.56%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 6 (33.33%) AWS
1 6 (33.33%) Azure
2 4 (22.22%) OpenShift
3 2 (11.11%) GitHub
3 2 (11.11%) Power Platform
4 1 (5.56%) Amazon EventBridge
4 1 (5.56%) Amazon SQS
4 1 (5.56%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (5.56%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (22.22%) Big Data
1 4 (22.22%) NoSQL
1 4 (22.22%) Redis
2 2 (11.11%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (11.11%) MongoDB
2 2 (11.11%) Power BI
2 2 (11.11%) Power Query
2 2 (11.11%) QlikView
2 2 (11.11%) Tableau
3 1 (5.56%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (22.22%) Artifactory
1 4 (22.22%) Jenkins
2 2 (11.11%) JIRA
3 1 (5.56%) Bitbucket
3 1 (5.56%) IntelliJ
3 1 (5.56%) PyCharm
3 1 (5.56%) Visual Studio
3 1 (5.56%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 12 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 4 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (22.22%) Public Sector
3 3 (16.67%) Finance
4 2 (11.11%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (5.56%) Digital Healthcare
Job Titles
1 6 (33.33%) Developer
2 4 (22.22%) Python Engineer
3 3 (16.67%) Data Engineer
3 3 (16.67%) Java Developer
3 3 (16.67%) Python Data Engineer
3 3 (16.67%) Release Manager
3 3 (16.67%) Software Manager
3 3 (16.67%) Software Release Manager
4 2 (11.11%) Business Intelligence Developer
4 2 (11.11%) Full-Stack Developer
4 2 (11.11%) Full-Stack Java Developer
4 2 (11.11%) Power BI Developer
5 1 (5.56%) Analyst
5 1 (5.56%) IT Manager
5 1 (5.56%) IT Project Manager
5 1 (5.56%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (5.56%) Support Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Technical Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Technical Support
5 1 (5.56%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (33.33%) Kafka
1 6 (33.33%) RESTful
2 5 (27.78%) OAuth
2 5 (27.78%) OAuth2
3 4 (22.22%) FastAPI
3 4 (22.22%) Flask
3 4 (22.22%) Hugging Face
3 4 (22.22%) LangChain
3 4 (22.22%) LangGraph
3 4 (22.22%) Loki
3 4 (22.22%) OpenTelemetry
3 4 (22.22%) PyTorch
3 4 (22.22%) TensorFlow
4 3 (16.67%) AngularJS
4 3 (16.67%) Spring
5 2 (11.11%) Middleware
5 2 (11.11%) REST
5 2 (11.11%) Spring Boot
6 1 (5.56%) HTML
6 1 (5.56%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 4 (22.22%) AI Agents
1 4 (22.22%) Management Information System
1 4 (22.22%) Private Cloud
2 3 (16.67%) Public Cloud
3 2 (11.11%) Cloud Native
3 2 (11.11%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (11.11%) Distributed Applications
3 2 (11.11%) Product Ownership
4 1 (5.56%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (5.56%) IVR
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.56%) Linux
1 1 (5.56%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (100.00%) Computer Science
2 13 (72.22%) Agile
3 11 (61.11%) CI/CD
3 11 (61.11%) DevOps
4 7 (38.89%) Microservices
4 7 (38.89%) Software Engineering
5 6 (33.33%) SDLC
6 5 (27.78%) BDD
6 5 (27.78%) Containerisation
6 5 (27.78%) Problem-Solving
6 5 (27.78%) Task Automation
6 5 (27.78%) Use Case
7 4 (22.22%) Blue-Green Deployment
7 4 (22.22%) Distributed Cache
7 4 (22.22%) Generative AI
7 4 (22.22%) GitOps
7 4 (22.22%) LLM
7 4 (22.22%) ModelOps
7 4 (22.22%) Secure Coding
7 4 (22.22%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 7 (38.89%) Python
1 7 (38.89%) SQL
2 5 (27.78%) Java
3 2 (11.11%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (5.56%) C#
4 1 (5.56%) PowerShell
4 1 (5.56%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 18 (100.00%) Degree
2 7 (38.89%) Master's Degree
3 2 (11.11%) AWS Certification
3 2 (11.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (5.56%) Azure Certification
4 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (22.22%) QA
2 1 (5.56%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 1 (5.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (27.78%) Kubernetes
2 4 (22.22%) Grafana
2 4 (22.22%) Kustomize
2 4 (22.22%) Prometheus
3 1 (5.56%) Ansible
3 1 (5.56%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 2 (11.11%) Pega