Computer Science Contracts in Glasgow

Computer Science
Scotland > Glasgow

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Glasgow requiring Computer Science skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Computer Science over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 50 58 50
Rank change year-on-year +8 -8 +12
Contract jobs citing Computer Science 30 24 34
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Glasgow 3.76% 2.74% 3.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.02% 2.98% 3.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 19 19
10th Percentile £361 £385 £397
25th Percentile £424 £424 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £453 £525
Median % change year-on-year +15.89% -13.71% +21.74%
75th Percentile £575 £461 £614
90th Percentile - £664 £636
Scotland median daily rate £525 £550 £520
% change year-on-year -4.55% +5.77% +26.06%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Glasgow

Computer Science falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Glasgow.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 747 806 862
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 93.61% 91.90% 94.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 478 515 629
10th Percentile £311 £280 £325
25th Percentile £393 £400 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% - +5.56%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £600
90th Percentile £603 £675 £701
Scotland median daily rate £463 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -2.63% - +2.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 40 27
10th Percentile £16.18 £13.75 -
25th Percentile £16.75 £16.00 £10.63
Median hourly rate £19.83 £21.13 £13.50
Median % change year-on-year -6.14% +56.50% -66.24%
75th Percentile £65.00 £44.14 £35.00
90th Percentile £76.83 £63.75 £59.47
Scotland median hourly rate £21.59 £19.34 £17.72
% change year-on-year +11.66% +9.11% -55.69%

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 1 May 2025.

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 11 (36.67%) Confluence
2 2 (6.67%) SharePoint
3 1 (3.33%) SAS
3 1 (3.33%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 2 (6.67%) MS Visio
2 1 (3.33%) Adobe XD
2 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (3.33%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 12 (40.00%) AWS
2 8 (26.67%) Serverless
3 5 (16.67%) Azure
4 3 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (10.00%) Power Platform
5 2 (6.67%) GCP
5 2 (6.67%) Power Automate
6 1 (3.33%) Asana
6 1 (3.33%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (3.33%) Entra ID
6 1 (3.33%) Figma
6 1 (3.33%) Fivetran
6 1 (3.33%) OneDrive
6 1 (3.33%) OpenShift
6 1 (3.33%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.33%) Fibre Channel
1 1 (3.33%) Intranet
1 1 (3.33%) iSCSI
1 1 (3.33%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (23.33%) Relational Database
2 4 (13.33%) DB2
3 2 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (6.67%) Power BI
4 1 (3.33%) MongoDB
4 1 (3.33%) NoSQL
4 1 (3.33%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 14 (46.67%) JIRA
2 8 (26.67%) Bitbucket
3 1 (3.33%) Artifactory
3 1 (3.33%) Git
General
1 11 (36.67%) Social Skills
2 5 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (10.00%) Finance
4 2 (6.67%) Public Sector
5 1 (3.33%) Banking
5 1 (3.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (3.33%) Investment Banking
5 1 (3.33%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 12 (40.00%) Developer
2 9 (30.00%) Java Developer
3 8 (26.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 7 (23.33%) Core Java Developer
5 3 (10.00%) Analyst
5 3 (10.00%) Linux Developer
6 2 (6.67%) Administrator
6 2 (6.67%) Business Analyst
7 1 (3.33%) Architect
7 1 (3.33%) C++ Software Engineer
7 1 (3.33%) Configuration Manager
7 1 (3.33%) Database Developer
7 1 (3.33%) DBA
7 1 (3.33%) IT Support Analyst
7 1 (3.33%) Project Manager
7 1 (3.33%) Software Developer
7 1 (3.33%) Software Engineer
7 1 (3.33%) Solutions Architect
7 1 (3.33%) Support Analyst
7 1 (3.33%) Sybase DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.67%) J2EE
1 2 (6.67%) Kafka
1 2 (6.67%) Middleware
1 2 (6.67%) REST
1 2 (6.67%) SOAP
1 2 (6.67%) Spring Boot
2 1 (3.33%) CSS
2 1 (3.33%) Flash
2 1 (3.33%) HTML
2 1 (3.33%) Node.js
2 1 (3.33%) POSIX
2 1 (3.33%) React
2 1 (3.33%) RESTful
2 1 (3.33%) SPFx
2 1 (3.33%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 9 (30.00%) Data Structures
2 2 (6.67%) Algorithms
2 2 (6.67%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (6.67%) Management Information System
2 2 (6.67%) Virtual Team
3 1 (3.33%) Client/Server
3 1 (3.33%) Clustering
3 1 (3.33%) CMDB
3 1 (3.33%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (3.33%) Mobile App
3 1 (3.33%) NVMe
3 1 (3.33%) PMI
3 1 (3.33%) Replication
3 1 (3.33%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 12 (40.00%) Linux
2 5 (16.67%) Unix
3 1 (3.33%) Data ONTAP
3 1 (3.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (3.33%) Windows
3 1 (3.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
2 10 (33.33%) Software Engineering
3 9 (30.00%) Agile
4 8 (26.67%) Containerisation
4 8 (26.67%) Continuous Delivery
4 8 (26.67%) Infrastructure as Code
4 8 (26.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 8 (26.67%) Mathematics
4 8 (26.67%) Operational Stability
5 4 (13.33%) Concurrent Programming
5 4 (13.33%) Multithreading
6 3 (10.00%) Data Protection
6 3 (10.00%) High Availability
6 3 (10.00%) Microservices
6 3 (10.00%) SDLC
6 3 (10.00%) Waterfall
7 2 (6.67%) Analytical Thinking
7 2 (6.67%) DevOps
7 2 (6.67%) Performance Metrics
7 2 (6.67%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 14 (46.67%) Python
2 11 (36.67%) SQL
3 9 (30.00%) Java
4 2 (6.67%) Perl
4 2 (6.67%) PL/SQL
4 2 (6.67%) Shell Script
5 1 (3.33%) C++
5 1 (3.33%) Groovy
5 1 (3.33%) JavaScript
5 1 (3.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 11 (36.67%) Degree
2 9 (30.00%) AWS Certification
2 9 (30.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 8 (26.67%) AWS Certified Developer
3 8 (26.67%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (6.67%) Master's Degree
4 2 (6.67%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (3.33%) Azure Certification
5 1 (3.33%) PMI Certification
5 1 (3.33%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.33%) Accessibility
1 1 (3.33%) Disclosure Scotland
1 1 (3.33%) QA
System Software
1 1 (3.33%) Active Directory
1 1 (3.33%) Docker
1 1 (3.33%) GPFS
1 1 (3.33%) NFS
Systems Management
1 8 (26.67%) Terraform
2 2 (6.67%) Kubernetes
3 1 (3.33%) Veritas Storage Foundation
Vendors
1 4 (13.33%) Microsoft
2 2 (6.67%) DocuSign
2 2 (6.67%) Sybase
3 1 (3.33%) Adobe
3 1 (3.33%) Brocade
3 1 (3.33%) EMC
3 1 (3.33%) F5
3 1 (3.33%) Google
3 1 (3.33%) IBM
3 1 (3.33%) NetApp
3 1 (3.33%) Oracle
3 1 (3.33%) SAP
3 1 (3.33%) ServiceNow
3 1 (3.33%) Sun
3 1 (3.33%) Veritas
3 1 (3.33%) Workday