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 1 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 61 60 73
Rank change year-on-year -1 +13 +3
Contract jobs citing Computer Science Degree 17 12 6
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 2.26% 1.70% 0.72%
As % of the Qualifications category 8.99% 6.12% 2.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 6 5
10th Percentile £414 £377 £325
25th Percentile £425 £403 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £533 £375
Median % change year-on-year -15.49% +42.00% -17.13%
75th Percentile £525 £625 £430
90th Percentile - £678 £495
Scotland median daily rate £450 £533 £500
% change year-on-year -15.49% +6.50% +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 189 196 245
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 25.10% 27.76% 29.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 130 117 147
10th Percentile £181 £301 £250
25th Percentile £358 £363 £395
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £458 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.75% -8.40% +3.09%
75th Percentile £538 £588 £619
90th Percentile £639 £700 £700
Scotland median daily rate £450 £425 £488
% change year-on-year +5.88% -12.82% +4.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 4 0
10th Percentile £16.14 £22.40 -
25th Percentile £16.84 £28.25 -
Median hourly rate £17.45 £36.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -52.21% - -
75th Percentile £18.05 £45.00 -
90th Percentile £20.89 £49.50 -
Scotland median hourly rate £19.69 £19.64 £57.72
% change year-on-year +0.24% -65.97% +94.20%

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 1 November 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 (5.88%) Apache
1 1 (5.88%) Apache Spark
1 1 (5.88%) nginx
Applications
1 2 (11.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (5.88%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 5 (29.41%) AWS
1 5 (29.41%) Azure
2 4 (23.53%) OpenShift
3 2 (11.76%) GitHub
3 2 (11.76%) Power Platform
4 1 (5.88%) Amazon EventBridge
4 1 (5.88%) Amazon SQS
4 1 (5.88%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (5.88%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (23.53%) Big Data
1 4 (23.53%) NoSQL
1 4 (23.53%) Redis
2 2 (11.76%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (11.76%) MongoDB
2 2 (11.76%) Power BI
2 2 (11.76%) Power Query
2 2 (11.76%) QlikView
2 2 (11.76%) Tableau
3 1 (5.88%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (23.53%) Artifactory
1 4 (23.53%) Jenkins
2 2 (11.76%) JIRA
3 1 (5.88%) Bitbucket
3 1 (5.88%) IntelliJ
3 1 (5.88%) PyCharm
3 1 (5.88%) Visual Studio
3 1 (5.88%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 11 (64.71%) Social Skills
2 3 (17.65%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (17.65%) Finance
2 3 (17.65%) Public Sector
3 2 (11.76%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (5.88%) Digital Healthcare
Job Titles
1 6 (35.29%) Developer
2 4 (23.53%) Python Engineer
3 3 (17.65%) Data Engineer
3 3 (17.65%) Java Developer
3 3 (17.65%) Python Data Engineer
3 3 (17.65%) Release Manager
3 3 (17.65%) Software Manager
3 3 (17.65%) Software Release Manager
4 2 (11.76%) Business Intelligence Developer
4 2 (11.76%) Full-Stack Developer
4 2 (11.76%) Full-Stack Java Developer
4 2 (11.76%) Power BI Developer
5 1 (5.88%) Analyst
5 1 (5.88%) IT Manager
5 1 (5.88%) IT Project Manager
5 1 (5.88%) Project Manager
5 1 (5.88%) Support Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Technical Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Technical Support
5 1 (5.88%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (35.29%) Kafka
1 6 (35.29%) RESTful
2 5 (29.41%) OAuth
2 5 (29.41%) OAuth2
3 4 (23.53%) FastAPI
3 4 (23.53%) Flask
3 4 (23.53%) Hugging Face
3 4 (23.53%) LangChain
3 4 (23.53%) LangGraph
3 4 (23.53%) Loki
3 4 (23.53%) OpenTelemetry
3 4 (23.53%) PyTorch
3 4 (23.53%) TensorFlow
4 3 (17.65%) AngularJS
4 3 (17.65%) Spring
5 2 (11.76%) Middleware
5 2 (11.76%) REST
5 2 (11.76%) Spring Boot
6 1 (5.88%) HTML
6 1 (5.88%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 4 (23.53%) AI Agents
1 4 (23.53%) Private Cloud
2 3 (17.65%) Management Information System
2 3 (17.65%) Public Cloud
3 2 (11.76%) Cloud Native
3 2 (11.76%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (11.76%) Distributed Applications
3 2 (11.76%) Product Ownership
4 1 (5.88%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (5.88%) IVR
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.88%) Linux
1 1 (5.88%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (100.00%) Computer Science
2 13 (76.47%) Agile
3 11 (64.71%) CI/CD
3 11 (64.71%) DevOps
4 7 (41.18%) Microservices
4 7 (41.18%) Software Engineering
5 6 (35.29%) SDLC
6 5 (29.41%) BDD
6 5 (29.41%) Containerisation
6 5 (29.41%) Task Automation
6 5 (29.41%) Use Case
7 4 (23.53%) Blue-Green Deployment
7 4 (23.53%) Distributed Cache
7 4 (23.53%) Generative AI
7 4 (23.53%) GitOps
7 4 (23.53%) LLM
7 4 (23.53%) ModelOps
7 4 (23.53%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (23.53%) Secure Coding
7 4 (23.53%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 7 (41.18%) Python
1 7 (41.18%) SQL
2 5 (29.41%) Java
3 2 (11.76%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (5.88%) C#
4 1 (5.88%) PowerShell
4 1 (5.88%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 17 (100.00%) Degree
2 6 (35.29%) Master's Degree
3 1 (5.88%) AWS Certification
3 1 (5.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (23.53%) QA
2 1 (5.88%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 1 (5.88%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (29.41%) Kubernetes
2 4 (23.53%) Grafana
2 4 (23.53%) Kustomize
2 4 (23.53%) Prometheus
3 1 (5.88%) Ansible
3 1 (5.88%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (11.76%) Microsoft
1 2 (11.76%) Pega