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 28 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 57 40 26
Rank change year-on-year -17 -14 +5
Contract jobs citing Degree 33 45 47
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 3.49% 5.81% 6.10%
As % of the Qualifications category 15.07% 29.03% 27.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 36 24
10th Percentile £313 £223 £288
25th Percentile £331 £368 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £379 £447 £434
Median % change year-on-year -15.27% +3.05% -2.47%
75th Percentile £516 £525 £550
90th Percentile £634 £575 £626
Scotland median daily rate £475 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +5.56% - +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 £20.00 £18.25
% change year-on-year -13.85% +9.59% +12.34%

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 219 155 173
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 23.15% 20.00% 22.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 132 111 109
10th Percentile £305 £205 £227
25th Percentile £320 £313 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £449 £425 £490
Median % change year-on-year +5.59% -13.27% +3.16%
75th Percentile £584 £532 £600
90th Percentile £775 £600 £725
Scotland median daily rate £450 £425 £450
% change year-on-year +5.88% -5.56% -1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 8 14
10th Percentile £16.17 £16.31 -
25th Percentile £17.92 £16.84 -
Median hourly rate £60.91 £17.45 £40.94
Median % change year-on-year +249.15% -57.39% -
75th Percentile - £19.83 £69.38
90th Percentile £61.65 £37.11 £75.00
Scotland median hourly rate £55.00 £20.00 £19.50
% change year-on-year +175.00% +2.56% -10.01%

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 28 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 (21.21%) Confluence
2 4 (12.12%) Apache Spark
2 4 (12.12%) SharePoint
3 1 (3.03%) Apache
Applications
1 5 (15.15%) Microsoft Project
2 3 (9.09%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (9.09%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (9.09%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (3.03%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 10 (30.30%) Azure
2 7 (21.21%) Azure DevOps
3 6 (18.18%) AWS
4 5 (15.15%) GCP
5 4 (12.12%) Collibra
5 4 (12.12%) GitHub
5 4 (12.12%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (6.06%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (3.03%) Akamai
7 1 (3.03%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (3.03%) Amazon MSK
7 1 (3.03%) AWS Direct Connect
7 1 (3.03%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (3.03%) Cloudflare
7 1 (3.03%) Entra ID
7 1 (3.03%) Kong
7 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Copilot
7 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Purview
7 1 (3.03%) Power Platform
7 1 (3.03%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (12.12%) DNS
2 3 (9.09%) TCP/IP
3 1 (3.03%) Firewall
3 1 (3.03%) HTTP
3 1 (3.03%) MPLS
3 1 (3.03%) SDH
3 1 (3.03%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (15.15%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (12.12%) Big Data
2 4 (12.12%) Hadoop
2 4 (12.12%) Metadata
3 1 (3.03%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (3.03%) Flink
3 1 (3.03%) MySQL
3 1 (3.03%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 8 (24.24%) Git
2 5 (15.15%) JIRA
3 4 (12.12%) Jenkins
4 3 (9.09%) Cypress.io
4 3 (9.09%) Postman
4 3 (9.09%) REST Assured
4 3 (9.09%) Selenium
5 2 (6.06%) Appium
5 2 (6.06%) Cucumber
5 2 (6.06%) SpecFlow
6 1 (3.03%) Babel
6 1 (3.03%) Bitbucket
6 1 (3.03%) JUnit
6 1 (3.03%) Mocha
6 1 (3.03%) TestNG
6 1 (3.03%) Vite
6 1 (3.03%) webpack
General
1 13 (39.39%) Social Skills
2 8 (24.24%) Finance
3 7 (21.21%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (15.15%) Banking
4 5 (15.15%) Public Sector
5 3 (9.09%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (6.06%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (3.03%) Digital Health
7 1 (3.03%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (3.03%) Health Technology
7 1 (3.03%) Military
7 1 (3.03%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 7 (21.21%) Analyst
2 4 (12.12%) Lead
2 4 (12.12%) Scrum Master
3 3 (9.09%) Automation Tester
3 3 (9.09%) Developer
3 3 (9.09%) Java Developer
3 3 (9.09%) Senior
3 3 (9.09%) SOC Analyst
3 3 (9.09%) Tester
4 2 (6.06%) Business Analyst
4 2 (6.06%) Executive Assistant
4 2 (6.06%) Full-Stack Developer
4 2 (6.06%) Full-Stack Java Developer
4 2 (6.06%) Project Manager
4 2 (6.06%) Risk Manager
4 2 (6.06%) Senior Automation Tester
4 2 (6.06%) Senior Tester
5 1 (3.03%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
5 1 (3.03%) Learning Technologist
5 1 (3.03%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (12.12%) React
1 4 (12.12%) Spring
1 4 (12.12%) Spring Boot
2 3 (9.09%) AngularJS
2 3 (9.09%) Playwright
3 2 (6.06%) CSS
3 2 (6.06%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (6.06%) HTML
3 2 (6.06%) Kafka
3 2 (6.06%) OAuth
3 2 (6.06%) OAuth2
3 2 (6.06%) RESTful
4 1 (3.03%) gRPC
4 1 (3.03%) Hibernate
4 1 (3.03%) Jest
4 1 (3.03%) pytest
4 1 (3.03%) Redux
4 1 (3.03%) RxJS
4 1 (3.03%) SAML
4 1 (3.03%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 7 (21.21%) Cloud Native
2 6 (18.18%) Product Ownership
3 4 (12.12%) Onboarding
3 4 (12.12%) Reference Data
3 4 (12.12%) Virtual Team
4 3 (9.09%) Cyberattack
4 3 (9.09%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (9.09%) Management Information System
4 3 (9.09%) Security Operations Centre
5 2 (6.06%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (6.06%) Data Structures
5 2 (6.06%) Operational Technology
6 1 (3.03%) Algorithms
6 1 (3.03%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (3.03%) NHS
6 1 (3.03%) VLE
Operating Systems
1 5 (15.15%) Windows
2 3 (9.09%) Linux
3 1 (3.03%) Mac OS
3 1 (3.03%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (45.45%) Problem-Solving
2 14 (42.42%) Computer Science
3 13 (39.39%) Continuous Improvement
4 12 (36.36%) Agile
4 12 (36.36%) CI/CD
5 11 (33.33%) DevOps
5 11 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
6 10 (30.30%) Migration
7 9 (27.27%) Decision-Making
8 7 (21.21%) Information Security
8 7 (21.21%) Matrix Organization
8 7 (21.21%) Test Automation
9 6 (18.18%) Backlog Prioritisation
9 6 (18.18%) Change Management
9 6 (18.18%) Kanban
9 6 (18.18%) Scrum
9 6 (18.18%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 5 (15.15%) Data Science
10 5 (15.15%) Scaled Agile Framework
10 5 (15.15%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 7 (21.21%) Java
2 5 (15.15%) JavaScript
3 4 (12.12%) Python
3 4 (12.12%) TypeScript
4 3 (9.09%) C#
5 1 (3.03%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 13 (39.39%) Computer Science Degree
2 7 (21.21%) Security Cleared
3 6 (18.18%) SC Cleared
4 5 (15.15%) DV Cleared
5 3 (9.09%) CompTIA CySA+
5 3 (9.09%) CompTIA Security+
6 2 (6.06%) CCAB
6 2 (6.06%) ISTQB
7 1 (3.03%) CCNA
7 1 (3.03%) CCNP
7 1 (3.03%) CIMA
7 1 (3.03%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (3.03%) CISM
7 1 (3.03%) CISSP
7 1 (3.03%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (3.03%) PhD
7 1 (3.03%) PMI Certification
7 1 (3.03%) PMP
7 1 (3.03%) Postgraduate
7 1 (3.03%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (12.12%) Data Quality
1 4 (12.12%) GDPR
2 2 (6.06%) COBIT
2 2 (6.06%) GRC
2 2 (6.06%) ISO 31000
2 2 (6.06%) ISO/IEC 27005
2 2 (6.06%) QA
3 1 (3.03%) Accessibility
3 1 (3.03%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (3.03%) P3O
3 1 (3.03%) PMO
System Software
1 5 (15.15%) Docker
2 1 (3.03%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (18.18%) Kubernetes
2 2 (6.06%) Grafana
2 2 (6.06%) Prometheus
3 1 (3.03%) Argo
3 1 (3.03%) Cisco Prime
3 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (3.03%) SolarWinds Orion
3 1 (3.03%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (21.21%) Microsoft
2 4 (12.12%) Splunk
3 3 (9.09%) Oracle
4 1 (3.03%) Cisco
4 1 (3.03%) CrowdStrike
4 1 (3.03%) Dynatrace
4 1 (3.03%) ForgeRock
4 1 (3.03%) Nokia