Computer Science Contracts in Glasgow

Computer Science
Scotland > Glasgow

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Glasgow with a requirement for Computer Science skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Computer Science over the 6 months to 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 53 53 72
Rank change year-on-year 0 +19 -10
Contract jobs citing Computer Science 23 34 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Glasgow 2.75% 3.85% 1.93%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.98% 4.08% 2.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 19 6
10th Percentile £372 £397 £358
25th Percentile £420 £441 £372
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £453 £525 £431
Median % change year-on-year -13.71% +21.74% +4.55%
75th Percentile £460 £614 £450
90th Percentile £671 £636 £501
Scotland median daily rate £538 £525 £419
% change year-on-year +2.38% +25.37% -6.94%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Glasgow

Computer Science is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Glasgow with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 773 833 913
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 92.35% 94.23% 92.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 489 604 695
10th Percentile £274 £325 £258
25th Percentile £388 £410 £373
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +5.56% +9.09%
75th Percentile £580 £594 £538
90th Percentile £650 £701 £600
Scotland median daily rate £475 £475 £470
% change year-on-year - +1.06% +10.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 30 13
10th Percentile £12.11 - £21.00
25th Percentile £16.00 £10.63 £23.70
Median hourly rate £27.88 £14.38 £39.99
Median % change year-on-year +93.93% -64.05% +116.16%
75th Percentile £50.55 £32.19 £43.50
90th Percentile £66.25 £58.93 £49.23
Scotland median hourly rate £19.34 £16.86 £40.00
% change year-on-year +14.71% -57.86% -0.01%

Computer Science
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

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

Job vacancy trend for Computer Science in Glasgow

Computer Science
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Computer Science in Glasgow.

Daily rate trend for Computer Science in Glasgow

Computer Science
Daily Rate Histogram in Glasgow

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Computer Science in Glasgow over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Computer Science in Glasgow

Computer Science
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Glasgow

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Computer Science in Glasgow.

Hourly rate trend for Computer Science in Glasgow

Computer Science
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 10 (43.48%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (21.74%) SAS
3 1 (4.35%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (4.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 14 (60.87%) AWS
1 14 (60.87%) Azure
2 10 (43.48%) Snowflake
3 4 (17.39%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 5 (21.74%) Fibre Channel
1 5 (21.74%) iSCSI
2 4 (17.39%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (17.39%) DB2
Development Applications
1 3 (13.04%) JIRA
General
1 11 (47.83%) Social Skills
2 6 (26.09%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (21.74%) Banking
3 5 (21.74%) Finance
4 3 (13.04%) Investment Banking
4 3 (13.04%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (34.78%) AWS Engineer
1 8 (34.78%) Platform Engineer
1 8 (34.78%) Python Engineer
2 6 (26.09%) AWS Platform Engineer
2 6 (26.09%) Cloud Platform Engineer
2 6 (26.09%) Linux Engineer
3 5 (21.74%) DevOps Engineer
4 4 (17.39%) Data Engineer
4 4 (17.39%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 4 (17.39%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
4 4 (17.39%) Storage Engineer
5 3 (13.04%) AWS Data Engineer
5 3 (13.04%) Snowflake Data Engineer
6 2 (8.70%) AWS DevOps
6 2 (8.70%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 2 (8.70%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 2 (8.70%) Azure Platform Engineer
6 2 (8.70%) DevOps Platform Engineer
6 2 (8.70%) Lead
6 2 (8.70%) Linux DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (21.74%) Flash
1 5 (21.74%) POSIX
Miscellaneous
1 10 (43.48%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (21.74%) NVMe
3 4 (17.39%) Client/Server
4 3 (13.04%) Management Information System
5 1 (4.35%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (4.35%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (4.35%) Mainframe
5 1 (4.35%) Security Operations Centre
5 1 (4.35%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (30.43%) Linux
2 4 (17.39%) Data ONTAP
2 4 (17.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 4 (17.39%) Unix
2 4 (17.39%) Windows
2 4 (17.39%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (60.87%) DevOps
2 10 (43.48%) Data Engineering
2 10 (43.48%) Data Pipeline
2 10 (43.48%) DataOps
2 10 (43.48%) GitOps
2 10 (43.48%) MLOps
3 9 (39.13%) Platform Engineering
4 5 (21.74%) Capacity Management
4 5 (21.74%) High Availability
4 5 (21.74%) Infrastructure Automation
4 5 (21.74%) Observability
4 5 (21.74%) Preventative Maintenance
4 5 (21.74%) Problem Management
4 5 (21.74%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (21.74%) SDLC
4 5 (21.74%) Storage Management
5 4 (17.39%) Customer Requirements
5 4 (17.39%) OO
5 4 (17.39%) Storage Virtualisation
6 3 (13.04%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 19 (82.61%) Python
2 15 (65.22%) Java
3 10 (43.48%) Scala
4 9 (39.13%) Perl
5 5 (21.74%) SQL
6 1 (4.35%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (26.09%) Degree
2 3 (13.04%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (4.35%) CISSP
System Software
1 14 (60.87%) Docker
2 5 (21.74%) NFS
3 4 (17.39%) GPFS
Systems Management
1 14 (60.87%) Kubernetes
2 10 (43.48%) Terraform
3 4 (17.39%) Veritas Storage Foundation
Vendors
1 10 (43.48%) Databricks
2 4 (17.39%) Brocade
2 4 (17.39%) EMC
2 4 (17.39%) Google
2 4 (17.39%) IBM
2 4 (17.39%) NetApp
2 4 (17.39%) Sybase
2 4 (17.39%) Veritas
3 1 (4.35%) Avaloq