Degree Contract Job Trends in Glasgow

Academic Degree
Scotland > Glasgow

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Glasgow with a requirement for Degree qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 14 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 53 39 29
Rank change year-on-year -14 -10 +8
Contract jobs citing Degree 32 45 51
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 3.63% 5.96% 6.39%
As % of the Qualifications category 16.33% 30.82% 27.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 36 26
10th Percentile £327 £223 £231
25th Percentile £358 £368 £297
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £447 £434
Median % change year-on-year +3.47% +3.05% +2.06%
75th Percentile £574 £525 £528
90th Percentile £649 £575 £626
Scotland median daily rate £500 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +11.11% - +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £25.75
25th Percentile - - £29.38
Median hourly rate - - £37.13
75th Percentile - - £45.67
90th Percentile - - £49.77
Scotland median hourly rate £17.23 £23.68 £19.50
% change year-on-year -27.22% +21.41% +20.04%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Glasgow

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 196 146 185
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 22.22% 19.34% 23.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 118 101 115
10th Percentile £306 £216 £244
25th Percentile £320 £313 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £444 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.35% -11.20% +6.38%
75th Percentile £582 £575 £594
90th Percentile £775 £600 £705
Scotland median daily rate £450 £441 £463
% change year-on-year +2.10% -4.70% +2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 9 14
10th Percentile £16.17 £16.49 -
25th Percentile £16.96 £16.84 -
Median hourly rate £60.91 £17.45 £40.94
Median % change year-on-year +249.15% -57.39% -
75th Percentile - £25.15 £69.38
90th Percentile £61.75 £68.64 £75.00
Scotland median hourly rate £55.00 £22.00 £19.50
% change year-on-year +150.00% +12.82% -9.15%

Degree
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Degree relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow.

Degree job vacancy trend in Glasgow

Degree
Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing Degree.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing Degree

Degree
Daily Rate Histogram in Glasgow

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Degree in Glasgow over the 6 months to 14 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Degree in Glasgow

Degree
Hourly Rate Trend in Glasgow

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing Degree.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing Degree

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 7 (21.88%) Confluence
2 4 (12.50%) Apache Spark
2 4 (12.50%) SharePoint
3 1 (3.13%) Apache
Applications
1 5 (15.63%) Microsoft Project
2 3 (9.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (9.38%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (9.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (3.13%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 9 (28.13%) Azure
2 6 (18.75%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (15.63%) AWS
3 5 (15.63%) GCP
4 4 (12.50%) Collibra
5 3 (9.38%) GitHub
5 3 (9.38%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (6.25%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (3.13%) Entra ID
7 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Copilot
7 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Purview
7 1 (3.13%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 6 (18.75%) DNS
1 6 (18.75%) TCP/IP
2 1 (3.13%) MPLS
2 1 (3.13%) SDH
2 1 (3.13%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (12.50%) Big Data
1 4 (12.50%) Hadoop
1 4 (12.50%) Metadata
2 3 (9.38%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (3.13%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (3.13%) Flink
3 1 (3.13%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 5 (15.63%) Git
1 5 (15.63%) JIRA
2 3 (9.38%) Jenkins
3 2 (6.25%) Cucumber
3 2 (6.25%) Cypress.io
3 2 (6.25%) Postman
3 2 (6.25%) REST Assured
3 2 (6.25%) Selenium
3 2 (6.25%) SpecFlow
4 1 (3.13%) Appium
General
1 14 (43.75%) Social Skills
2 8 (25.00%) Finance
3 6 (18.75%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (15.63%) Banking
4 5 (15.63%) Public Sector
5 3 (9.38%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (6.25%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (3.13%) Digital Health
7 1 (3.13%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (3.13%) Health Technology
7 1 (3.13%) Military
7 1 (3.13%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 10 (31.25%) Analyst
2 6 (18.75%) Lead
2 6 (18.75%) SOC Analyst
3 4 (12.50%) Scrum Master
3 4 (12.50%) Senior
4 2 (6.25%) Automation Tester
4 2 (6.25%) Business Analyst
4 2 (6.25%) Developer
4 2 (6.25%) Executive Assistant
4 2 (6.25%) Full-Stack Developer
4 2 (6.25%) Full-Stack Java Developer
4 2 (6.25%) Java Developer
4 2 (6.25%) Project Manager
4 2 (6.25%) Risk Manager
4 2 (6.25%) Senior Analyst
4 2 (6.25%) Senior Automation Tester
4 2 (6.25%) Senior Tester
4 2 (6.25%) Tester
5 1 (3.13%) Learning Technologist
5 1 (3.13%) Personal Assistant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (9.38%) AngularJS
1 3 (9.38%) Spring
1 3 (9.38%) Spring Boot
2 2 (6.25%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (6.25%) Playwright
2 2 (6.25%) React
3 1 (3.13%) Kafka
3 1 (3.13%) OAuth
3 1 (3.13%) OAuth2
3 1 (3.13%) RxJS
3 1 (3.13%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 7 (21.88%) Cloud Native
2 6 (18.75%) Cyberattack
2 6 (18.75%) Security Operations Centre
3 5 (15.63%) Product Ownership
4 4 (12.50%) Onboarding
4 4 (12.50%) Reference Data
4 4 (12.50%) Virtual Team
5 3 (9.38%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (9.38%) Management Information System
6 2 (6.25%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (6.25%) Operational Technology
7 1 (3.13%) Cyber Defence
7 1 (3.13%) Cyber Threat
7 1 (3.13%) Data Structures
7 1 (3.13%) NHS
7 1 (3.13%) VLE
Operating Systems
1 8 (25.00%) Windows
2 6 (18.75%) Linux
3 1 (3.13%) Mac OS
3 1 (3.13%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 13 (40.63%) Computer Science
3 12 (37.50%) Agile
3 12 (37.50%) Continuous Improvement
4 11 (34.38%) Stakeholder Management
5 10 (31.25%) CI/CD
5 10 (31.25%) DevOps
5 10 (31.25%) Migration
6 9 (28.13%) Decision-Making
7 7 (21.88%) Cybersecurity
7 7 (21.88%) Information Security
7 7 (21.88%) Matrix Organization
8 6 (18.75%) Backlog Prioritisation
8 6 (18.75%) Change Management
8 6 (18.75%) Kanban
8 6 (18.75%) Scrum
8 6 (18.75%) Security Operations
8 6 (18.75%) SIEM
8 6 (18.75%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 6 (18.75%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 5 (15.63%) Java
2 3 (9.38%) Python
2 3 (9.38%) TypeScript
3 2 (6.25%) C#
3 2 (6.25%) JavaScript
4 1 (3.13%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 12 (37.50%) Computer Science Degree
2 8 (25.00%) Security Cleared
3 7 (21.88%) SC Cleared
4 6 (18.75%) CompTIA CySA+
4 6 (18.75%) CompTIA Security+
4 6 (18.75%) DV Cleared
5 2 (6.25%) CCAB
5 2 (6.25%) ISTQB
6 1 (3.13%) CCNA
6 1 (3.13%) CCNP
6 1 (3.13%) CEH
6 1 (3.13%) CIMA
6 1 (3.13%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (3.13%) CISM
6 1 (3.13%) CISSP
6 1 (3.13%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (3.13%) PhD
6 1 (3.13%) PMI Certification
6 1 (3.13%) PMP
6 1 (3.13%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (12.50%) Data Quality
1 4 (12.50%) GDPR
2 2 (6.25%) COBIT
2 2 (6.25%) GRC
2 2 (6.25%) ISO 31000
2 2 (6.25%) ISO/IEC 27005
3 1 (3.13%) Accessibility
3 1 (3.13%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (3.13%) P3O
3 1 (3.13%) PMO
3 1 (3.13%) QA
System Software
1 5 (15.63%) Docker
2 1 (3.13%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (15.63%) Kubernetes
2 2 (6.25%) Grafana
2 2 (6.25%) Prometheus
3 1 (3.13%) Cisco Prime
3 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (3.13%) SolarWinds Orion
3 1 (3.13%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (21.88%) Microsoft
2 6 (18.75%) Splunk
3 3 (9.38%) Oracle
4 1 (3.13%) Cisco
4 1 (3.13%) CrowdStrike
4 1 (3.13%) Nokia