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 23 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 50 52 48
Rank change year-on-year +2 -4 +22
Contract jobs citing Computer Science 33 15 36
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Glasgow 4.31% 1.95% 4.04%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.67% 2.16% 4.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 13 22
10th Percentile £335 £312 £414
25th Percentile £445 £415 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £440 £538
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% -18.14% +24.64%
75th Percentile £575 £453 £613
90th Percentile - £459 £632
Scotland median daily rate £500 £460 £550
% change year-on-year +8.70% -16.36% +29.41%

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 707 695 834
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 92.42% 90.14% 93.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 448 466 571
10th Percentile £300 £269 £356
25th Percentile £370 £371 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.22% -10.00% +8.40%
75th Percentile £550 £557 £585
90th Percentile £600 £619 £676
Scotland median daily rate £463 £455 £475
% change year-on-year +1.59% -4.16% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 32 37
10th Percentile £16.31 £11.59 -
25th Percentile £16.84 £15.92 £10.63
Median hourly rate £19.90 £40.94 £14.25
Median % change year-on-year -51.39% +187.30% -61.93%
75th Percentile £26.21 £57.50 £18.93
90th Percentile £68.07 £73.75 £58.75
Scotland median hourly rate £20.00 £20.57 £16.25
% change year-on-year -2.77% +26.62% -56.60%

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 23 June 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 9 (27.27%) Confluence
2 1 (3.03%) Apache
2 1 (3.03%) Apache Spark
2 1 (3.03%) SAS
2 1 (3.03%) SharePoint
2 1 (3.03%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 3 (9.09%) MS Visio
2 2 (6.06%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (3.03%) Adobe XD
3 1 (3.03%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 9 (27.27%) AWS
2 5 (15.15%) Azure
2 5 (15.15%) Serverless
3 3 (9.09%) OpenShift
3 3 (9.09%) Power Platform
4 2 (6.06%) GCP
4 2 (6.06%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (3.03%) Asana
5 1 (3.03%) Entra ID
5 1 (3.03%) Figma
5 1 (3.03%) Fivetran
5 1 (3.03%) OneDrive
5 1 (3.03%) Power Automate
5 1 (3.03%) PowerApps
5 1 (3.03%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.03%) Fibre Channel
1 1 (3.03%) iSCSI
1 1 (3.03%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (33.33%) Relational Database
2 3 (9.09%) Big Data
2 3 (9.09%) NoSQL
3 2 (6.06%) DB2
3 2 (6.06%) Power BI
3 2 (6.06%) Redis
4 1 (3.03%) MongoDB
4 1 (3.03%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 10 (30.30%) JIRA
2 5 (15.15%) Bitbucket
3 3 (9.09%) Artifactory
4 2 (6.06%) Jenkins
5 1 (3.03%) Git
General
1 15 (45.45%) Social Skills
2 7 (21.21%) Finance
3 4 (12.12%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (9.09%) Public Sector
5 2 (6.06%) Banking
5 2 (6.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (3.03%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (3.03%) Investment Banking
6 1 (3.03%) Legal
6 1 (3.03%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (42.42%) Developer
2 12 (36.36%) Java Developer
3 11 (33.33%) Core Java Developer
4 5 (15.15%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (9.09%) Analyst
5 3 (9.09%) Linux Developer
6 2 (6.06%) Administrator
6 2 (6.06%) Architect
6 2 (6.06%) Business Analyst
6 2 (6.06%) Project Manager
7 1 (3.03%) Data Architect
7 1 (3.03%) DBA
7 1 (3.03%) IT Manager
7 1 (3.03%) IT Project Manager
7 1 (3.03%) IT Support Analyst
7 1 (3.03%) SharePoint Administrator
7 1 (3.03%) Software Developer
7 1 (3.03%) Solutions Architect
7 1 (3.03%) Support Analyst
7 1 (3.03%) Sybase DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (12.12%) RESTful
2 2 (6.06%) FastAPI
2 2 (6.06%) Flask
2 2 (6.06%) Hugging Face
2 2 (6.06%) Kafka
2 2 (6.06%) LangChain
2 2 (6.06%) Loki
2 2 (6.06%) OAuth
2 2 (6.06%) OAuth2
2 2 (6.06%) OpenTelemetry
2 2 (6.06%) PyTorch
2 2 (6.06%) TensorFlow
3 1 (3.03%) AngularJS
3 1 (3.03%) Flash
3 1 (3.03%) Node.js
3 1 (3.03%) React
3 1 (3.03%) REST
3 1 (3.03%) SPFx
3 1 (3.03%) Spring
3 1 (3.03%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 11 (33.33%) Data Structures
2 6 (18.18%) Management Information System
3 2 (6.06%) AI Agents
3 2 (6.06%) Private Cloud
4 1 (3.03%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (3.03%) Client/Server
4 1 (3.03%) Cloud Native
4 1 (3.03%) Clustering
4 1 (3.03%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (3.03%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (3.03%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (3.03%) Mobile App
4 1 (3.03%) NVMe
4 1 (3.03%) PMI
4 1 (3.03%) Replication
4 1 (3.03%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 13 (39.39%) Linux
2 2 (6.06%) Unix
3 1 (3.03%) Data ONTAP
3 1 (3.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (3.03%) Windows
3 1 (3.03%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (54.55%) Problem-Solving
2 15 (45.45%) Software Engineering
3 13 (39.39%) Agile
4 7 (21.21%) Containerisation
5 6 (18.18%) Mathematics
5 6 (18.18%) Multithreading
6 5 (15.15%) Continuous Delivery
6 5 (15.15%) DevOps
6 5 (15.15%) Infrastructure as Code
6 5 (15.15%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 5 (15.15%) Operational Stability
7 4 (12.12%) CI/CD
7 4 (12.12%) Concurrent Programming
7 4 (12.12%) IT Strategy
7 4 (12.12%) Project Management
7 4 (12.12%) Use Case
8 3 (9.09%) Migration
8 3 (9.09%) Risk Management
8 3 (9.09%) Scrum
8 3 (9.09%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 16 (48.48%) SQL
2 12 (36.36%) Java
2 12 (36.36%) Python
3 2 (6.06%) Perl
4 1 (3.03%) Groovy
4 1 (3.03%) JavaScript
4 1 (3.03%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 15 (45.45%) Degree
2 10 (30.30%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (18.18%) AWS Certification
3 6 (18.18%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 5 (15.15%) AWS Certified Developer
5 4 (12.12%) Master's Degree
6 2 (6.06%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (3.03%) Azure Certification
7 1 (3.03%) PMI Certification
7 1 (3.03%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.03%) Accessibility
1 1 (3.03%) QA
System Software
1 1 (3.03%) Active Directory
1 1 (3.03%) Docker
1 1 (3.03%) GPFS
1 1 (3.03%) NFS
Systems Management
1 5 (15.15%) Terraform
2 4 (12.12%) Kubernetes
3 2 (6.06%) Grafana
3 2 (6.06%) Kustomize
3 2 (6.06%) Prometheus
4 1 (3.03%) Veritas Storage Foundation
Vendors
1 4 (12.12%) Microsoft
2 2 (6.06%) Sybase
3 1 (3.03%) Adobe
3 1 (3.03%) Brocade
3 1 (3.03%) EMC
3 1 (3.03%) Google
3 1 (3.03%) IBM
3 1 (3.03%) NetApp
3 1 (3.03%) Oracle
3 1 (3.03%) SAP
3 1 (3.03%) Sun
3 1 (3.03%) Teradata
3 1 (3.03%) Veritas
3 1 (3.03%) Workday