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 5 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 30 17
Rank change year-on-year +1 -13 +8
Contract jobs citing Degree 49 52 94
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 7.10% 6.77% 10.30%
As % of the Qualifications category 26.92% 33.12% 35.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 34 43
10th Percentile £289 £321 £288
25th Percentile £358 £367 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £443 £467
Median % change year-on-year +10.17% -5.25% +6.26%
75th Percentile £588 £488 £544
90th Percentile £650 £584 £648
Scotland median daily rate £500 £425 £475
% change year-on-year +17.65% -10.53% +18.75%
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 £23.72 £22.26
% change year-on-year +126.60% +6.58% +39.09%

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 182 157 264
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 26.38% 20.44% 28.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 120 85 160
10th Percentile £241 £263 £203
25th Percentile £358 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £455 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.15% -9.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £564 £575 £600
90th Percentile £655 £645 £688
Scotland median daily rate £463 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +2.78% -10.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 7 4
10th Percentile - £16.75 -
25th Percentile £16.17 £21.00 -
Median hourly rate £22.17 £33.00 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year -32.82% -56.00% +152.36%
75th Percentile £53.67 £53.75 -
90th Percentile £61.84 £72.28 -
Scotland median hourly rate £25.27 £23.00 £56.40
% change year-on-year +9.86% -59.22% +165.29%

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 5 February 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 8 (16.33%) Confluence
2 5 (10.20%) SharePoint
3 3 (6.12%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 5 (10.20%) Microsoft Excel
1 5 (10.20%) Microsoft Office
1 5 (10.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 4 (8.16%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (2.04%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 1 (2.04%) Adobe Illustrator
3 1 (2.04%) Adobe XD
3 1 (2.04%) InDesign
3 1 (2.04%) MS Visio
3 1 (2.04%) Photoshop
3 1 (2.04%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 12 (24.49%) Azure
2 8 (16.33%) AWS
3 4 (8.16%) Entra ID
4 3 (6.12%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (6.12%) Collibra
5 2 (4.08%) Amazon Bedrock
5 2 (4.08%) Amazon SageMaker
5 2 (4.08%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (4.08%) Cloud Computing
5 2 (4.08%) GCP
5 2 (4.08%) Power Platform
6 1 (2.04%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (2.04%) Figma
6 1 (2.04%) IaaS
6 1 (2.04%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (2.04%) OpenShift
6 1 (2.04%) PaaS
6 1 (2.04%) SaaS
6 1 (2.04%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 6 (12.24%) DNS
1 6 (12.24%) TCP/IP
2 4 (8.16%) WAN
3 3 (6.12%) VPN
4 1 (2.04%) LAN
4 1 (2.04%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (8.16%) Big Data
1 4 (8.16%) Metadata
1 4 (8.16%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (6.12%) Hadoop
2 3 (6.12%) Redis
3 2 (4.08%) Power BI
3 2 (4.08%) SQL Server
3 2 (4.08%) Tableau
4 1 (2.04%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (2.04%) NoSQL
4 1 (2.04%) Power Query
4 1 (2.04%) QlikView
4 1 (2.04%) RDBMS
4 1 (2.04%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (10.20%) JIRA
2 3 (6.12%) Git
3 2 (4.08%) GitLab
4 1 (2.04%) Artifactory
4 1 (2.04%) Jenkins
General
1 28 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 18 (36.73%) Finance
3 13 (26.53%) Banking
4 10 (20.41%) Public Sector
5 8 (16.33%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (6.12%) Investment Banking
7 2 (4.08%) Corporate Banking
7 2 (4.08%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (4.08%) Financial Institution
7 2 (4.08%) Front Office
7 2 (4.08%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (2.04%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (2.04%) Marketing
8 1 (2.04%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 16 (32.65%) Analyst
2 9 (18.37%) Lead
3 6 (12.24%) SOC Analyst
4 5 (10.20%) Business Analyst
4 5 (10.20%) Designer
5 4 (8.16%) Architect
5 4 (8.16%) Project Manager
6 3 (6.12%) Developer
6 3 (6.12%) Scrum Master
6 3 (6.12%) Senior
6 3 (6.12%) UX Designer
7 2 (4.08%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
7 2 (4.08%) Azure Engineer
7 2 (4.08%) Business Engagement Manager
7 2 (4.08%) Cloud Engineer
7 2 (4.08%) Community Manager
7 2 (4.08%) Executive Assistant
7 2 (4.08%) Finance Business Analyst
7 2 (4.08%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 2 (4.08%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (10.20%) CSS
1 5 (10.20%) HTML
2 3 (6.12%) AngularJS
2 3 (6.12%) LangGraph
2 3 (6.12%) React
3 2 (4.08%) CrewAI
3 2 (4.08%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (4.08%) pgvector
3 2 (4.08%) RESTful
3 2 (4.08%) Spring
3 2 (4.08%) Spring Boot
4 1 (2.04%) FastAPI
4 1 (2.04%) Flask
4 1 (2.04%) Hugging Face
4 1 (2.04%) Kafka
4 1 (2.04%) LangChain
4 1 (2.04%) Loki
4 1 (2.04%) OAuth
4 1 (2.04%) OAuth2
4 1 (2.04%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 6 (12.24%) Cyberattack
1 6 (12.24%) Security Operations Centre
2 5 (10.20%) Cloud Native
2 5 (10.20%) Product Ownership
3 4 (8.16%) Digital Media
3 4 (8.16%) Virtual Team
4 3 (6.12%) AI Agents
4 3 (6.12%) Onboarding
4 3 (6.12%) Reference Data
5 2 (4.08%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (4.08%) Cyber Threat
5 2 (4.08%) PMI
5 2 (4.08%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 1 (2.04%) Data Centre
6 1 (2.04%) Data Structures
6 1 (2.04%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (2.04%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (2.04%) Management Information System
6 1 (2.04%) Private Cloud
6 1 (2.04%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 8 (16.33%) Linux
2 7 (14.29%) Windows
3 2 (4.08%) Unix
4 1 (2.04%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (44.90%) Problem-Solving
2 20 (40.82%) Agile
3 17 (34.69%) Computer Science
4 13 (26.53%) Stakeholder Management
5 11 (22.45%) CI/CD
6 10 (20.41%) Decision-Making
6 10 (20.41%) DevOps
7 9 (18.37%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 8 (16.33%) Analytics
8 8 (16.33%) Continuous Improvement
8 8 (16.33%) Incident Response
8 8 (16.33%) Scrum
9 7 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
9 7 (14.29%) Kanban
9 7 (14.29%) Migration
9 7 (14.29%) Scaled Agile Framework
9 7 (14.29%) User Experience
10 6 (12.24%) Data Governance
10 6 (12.24%) Security Operations
10 6 (12.24%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 6 (12.24%) SQL
2 5 (10.20%) Python
3 3 (6.12%) Bicep
4 2 (4.08%) Bash
4 2 (4.08%) Java
4 2 (4.08%) PowerShell
5 1 (2.04%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 17 (34.69%) Computer Science Degree
2 7 (14.29%) CompTIA CySA+
2 7 (14.29%) CompTIA Security+
3 5 (10.20%) Security Cleared
4 4 (8.16%) Azure Certification
4 4 (8.16%) DV Cleared
4 4 (8.16%) SC Cleared
5 3 (6.12%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (6.12%) Master's Degree
6 2 (4.08%) PMI Certification
7 1 (2.04%) AWS Certification
7 1 (2.04%) CBAP
7 1 (2.04%) CCIE
7 1 (2.04%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (2.04%) CISSP
7 1 (2.04%) IIBA
7 1 (2.04%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 1 (2.04%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (2.04%) SSCP
7 1 (2.04%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (14.29%) Accessibility
2 3 (6.12%) Data Quality
2 3 (6.12%) GDPR
3 2 (4.08%) MiFID
4 1 (2.04%) QA
4 1 (2.04%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (8.16%) Docker
2 3 (6.12%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (4.08%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 7 (14.29%) Kubernetes
2 3 (6.12%) Grafana
2 3 (6.12%) Prometheus
3 2 (4.08%) Ansible
3 2 (4.08%) Progress Chef
3 2 (4.08%) Terraform
4 1 (2.04%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 13 (26.53%) Microsoft
2 8 (16.33%) Splunk
3 3 (6.12%) ServiceNow
4 2 (4.08%) Adobe
4 2 (4.08%) Avaloq
4 2 (4.08%) Oracle
5 1 (2.04%) Cisco
5 1 (2.04%) Salesforce