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 2 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 30 36 21
Rank change year-on-year +6 -15 +12
Contract jobs citing Degree 45 51 90
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 6.29% 6.26% 9.81%
As % of the Qualifications category 23.81% 30.72% 33.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 38 41
10th Percentile £349 £356 £288
25th Percentile £358 £373 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £443 £450
Median % change year-on-year +12.99% -1.67% +24.14%
75th Percentile £591 £488 £498
90th Percentile £652 £608 £626
Scotland median daily rate £525 £436 £475
% change year-on-year +20.34% -8.16% +24.02%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £27.03 £16.75 -
Median hourly rate £28.09 £22.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +27.68% - -
75th Percentile £29.16 £31.44 -
90th Percentile - £38.08 -
Scotland median hourly rate £53.75 £26.50 £20.57
% change year-on-year +102.83% +28.83% +28.56%

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 189 166 271
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 26.43% 20.37% 29.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 127 96 159
10th Percentile £287 £265 £200
25th Percentile £354 £370 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £465 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.82% -7.05% +5.49%
75th Percentile £560 £575 £600
90th Percentile £651 £650 £678
Scotland median daily rate £450 £463 £500
% change year-on-year -2.81% -7.40% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 6 12
10th Percentile £16.15 £16.75 -
25th Percentile £16.17 £18.88 -
Median hourly rate £16.25 £33.25 £40.94
Median % change year-on-year -51.13% -18.78% +37.75%
75th Percentile £61.84 £59.38 £75.00
90th Percentile - £74.10 -
Scotland median hourly rate £50.00 £23.00 £42.97
% change year-on-year +117.39% -46.47% +102.12%

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 2 March 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 9 (20.00%) Confluence
2 4 (8.89%) Apache Spark
3 3 (6.67%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (11.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 5 (11.11%) Microsoft Project
2 3 (6.67%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (4.44%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (2.22%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (2.22%) Adobe Illustrator
4 1 (2.22%) Adobe XD
4 1 (2.22%) InDesign
4 1 (2.22%) Photoshop
4 1 (2.22%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 13 (28.89%) Azure
2 8 (17.78%) AWS
3 4 (8.89%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (8.89%) Collibra
3 4 (8.89%) Entra ID
4 2 (4.44%) Amazon Bedrock
4 2 (4.44%) Amazon SageMaker
4 2 (4.44%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (4.44%) Cloud Computing
4 2 (4.44%) GCP
5 1 (2.22%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (2.22%) Figma
5 1 (2.22%) IaaS
5 1 (2.22%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (2.22%) PaaS
5 1 (2.22%) SaaS
5 1 (2.22%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 6 (13.33%) DNS
1 6 (13.33%) TCP/IP
2 4 (8.89%) WAN
3 3 (6.67%) VPN
4 1 (2.22%) LAN
4 1 (2.22%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (11.11%) Metadata
2 4 (8.89%) Big Data
2 4 (8.89%) Hadoop
2 4 (8.89%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (4.44%) Redis
3 2 (4.44%) SQL Server
4 1 (2.22%) RDBMS
4 1 (2.22%) Relational Database
4 1 (2.22%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 6 (13.33%) JIRA
2 4 (8.89%) Git
3 2 (4.44%) GitLab
General
1 22 (48.89%) Social Skills
2 15 (33.33%) Finance
3 11 (24.44%) Public Sector
4 10 (22.22%) Banking
5 5 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (4.44%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (4.44%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (2.22%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (2.22%) Investment Banking
7 1 (2.22%) Marketing
7 1 (2.22%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 13 (28.89%) Analyst
2 8 (17.78%) Lead
3 6 (13.33%) SOC Analyst
4 5 (11.11%) Designer
5 4 (8.89%) Architect
5 4 (8.89%) Business Analyst
5 4 (8.89%) Project Manager
5 4 (8.89%) Scrum Master
6 3 (6.67%) Senior
6 3 (6.67%) UX Designer
7 2 (4.44%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
7 2 (4.44%) Azure Engineer
7 2 (4.44%) Developer
7 2 (4.44%) Finance Business Analyst
7 2 (4.44%) Financial Analyst
7 2 (4.44%) Financial Business Analyst
7 2 (4.44%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 2 (4.44%) Java Developer
7 2 (4.44%) Technical Manager
7 2 (4.44%) Technical Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (11.11%) CSS
1 5 (11.11%) HTML
2 3 (6.67%) AngularJS
2 3 (6.67%) React
3 2 (4.44%) CrewAI
3 2 (4.44%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (4.44%) LangGraph
3 2 (4.44%) pgvector
3 2 (4.44%) Spring
3 2 (4.44%) Spring Boot
4 1 (2.22%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 6 (13.33%) Cloud Native
1 6 (13.33%) Cyberattack
1 6 (13.33%) Product Ownership
1 6 (13.33%) Security Operations Centre
2 5 (11.11%) Virtual Team
3 4 (8.89%) Digital Media
3 4 (8.89%) Onboarding
3 4 (8.89%) Reference Data
4 2 (4.44%) AI Agents
4 2 (4.44%) Cyber Threat
4 2 (4.44%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (4.44%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (4.44%) PMI
5 1 (2.22%) Cyber Defence
5 1 (2.22%) Data Centre
5 1 (2.22%) Data Structures
5 1 (2.22%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (2.22%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (2.22%) Public Cloud
5 1 (2.22%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 8 (17.78%) Linux
1 8 (17.78%) Windows
2 2 (4.44%) Unix
3 1 (2.22%) Mac OS
3 1 (2.22%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (48.89%) Problem-Solving
2 19 (42.22%) Agile
3 15 (33.33%) Computer Science
4 13 (28.89%) Stakeholder Management
5 11 (24.44%) CI/CD
6 10 (22.22%) Continuous Improvement
6 10 (22.22%) Decision-Making
6 10 (22.22%) DevOps
6 10 (22.22%) Migration
7 8 (17.78%) Cybersecurity
7 8 (17.78%) Incident Response
7 8 (17.78%) Kanban
7 8 (17.78%) Scaled Agile Framework
7 8 (17.78%) Scrum
8 7 (15.56%) Analytics
8 7 (15.56%) Data Science
8 7 (15.56%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 7 (15.56%) User Experience
9 6 (13.33%) Data Governance
9 6 (13.33%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 5 (11.11%) Python
2 4 (8.89%) SQL
3 3 (6.67%) Bicep
3 3 (6.67%) PowerShell
4 2 (4.44%) Bash
4 2 (4.44%) Java
Qualifications
1 15 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
2 7 (15.56%) CompTIA CySA+
2 7 (15.56%) CompTIA Security+
3 5 (11.11%) Security Cleared
4 4 (8.89%) Azure Certification
4 4 (8.89%) DV Cleared
4 4 (8.89%) SC Cleared
5 3 (6.67%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (4.44%) CCAB
6 2 (4.44%) CISSP
6 2 (4.44%) Master's Degree
6 2 (4.44%) PMI Certification
7 1 (2.22%) CCIE
7 1 (2.22%) CEH
7 1 (2.22%) CIMA
7 1 (2.22%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (2.22%) CISM
7 1 (2.22%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (2.22%) SSCP
7 1 (2.22%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (15.56%) Accessibility
2 4 (8.89%) Data Quality
2 4 (8.89%) GDPR
3 1 (2.22%) QA
3 1 (2.22%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (8.89%) Docker
2 3 (6.67%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (4.44%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (13.33%) Kubernetes
2 2 (4.44%) Ansible
2 2 (4.44%) Grafana
2 2 (4.44%) Progress Chef
2 2 (4.44%) Prometheus
2 2 (4.44%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (26.67%) Microsoft
2 8 (17.78%) Splunk
3 3 (6.67%) ServiceNow
4 2 (4.44%) Adobe
4 2 (4.44%) Oracle
5 1 (2.22%) Cisco
5 1 (2.22%) CrowdStrike
5 1 (2.22%) Salesforce