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 3 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 44 38 26
Rank change year-on-year -6 -12 +7
Contract jobs citing Degree 37 47 64
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 4.93% 5.93% 7.41%
As % of the Qualifications category 20.56% 35.61% 28.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 37 28
10th Percentile £344 £227 £254
25th Percentile £358 £370 £316
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £447 £435
Median % change year-on-year +6.26% +2.76% +16.00%
75th Percentile £588 £500 £500
90th Percentile £650 £575 £626
Scotland median daily rate £500 £447 £475
% change year-on-year +11.86% -5.89% +18.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £27.03 £16.75 £23.34
Median hourly rate £28.09 £17.50 £24.26
Median % change year-on-year +60.51% -27.85% -
75th Percentile £29.16 £23.00 £25.17
90th Percentile - £25.85 -
Scotland median hourly rate £52.50 £23.72 £19.50
% change year-on-year +121.33% +21.64% +21.88%

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 180 132 224
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 23.97% 16.67% 25.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 119 98 130
10th Percentile £290 £229 £200
25th Percentile £320 £350 £389
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -10.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £578 £575 £600
90th Percentile £769 £600 £675
Scotland median daily rate £450 £450 £500
% change year-on-year - -10.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 6 13
10th Percentile - £16.75 -
25th Percentile £16.17 £18.85 -
Median hourly rate £60.91 £25.83 £40.94
Median % change year-on-year +135.86% -36.92% -
75th Percentile - £55.69 £75.00
90th Percentile £61.84 £74.10 -
Scotland median hourly rate £53.75 £22.94 £26.00
% change year-on-year +134.33% -11.78% +22.30%

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 3 May 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 (24.32%) Confluence
2 4 (10.81%) Apache Spark
2 4 (10.81%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (13.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 5 (13.51%) Microsoft Project
2 3 (8.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (8.11%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (2.70%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 1 (2.70%) Adobe Illustrator
3 1 (2.70%) InDesign
3 1 (2.70%) MS Visio
3 1 (2.70%) Photoshop
Cloud Services
1 8 (21.62%) Azure
2 7 (18.92%) AWS
3 4 (10.81%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (10.81%) Collibra
4 2 (5.41%) Amazon Bedrock
4 2 (5.41%) Amazon SageMaker
4 2 (5.41%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (5.41%) GCP
4 2 (5.41%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (2.70%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (2.70%) Entra ID
5 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Copilot
5 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Purview
5 1 (2.70%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 6 (16.22%) DNS
1 6 (16.22%) TCP/IP
2 1 (2.70%) MPLS
2 1 (2.70%) SDH
2 1 (2.70%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (10.81%) Big Data
1 4 (10.81%) Hadoop
1 4 (10.81%) Metadata
1 4 (10.81%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (5.41%) Redis
2 2 (5.41%) SQL Server
3 1 (2.70%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 6 (16.22%) JIRA
2 4 (10.81%) Git
3 2 (5.41%) GitLab
General
1 16 (43.24%) Social Skills
2 12 (32.43%) Finance
3 8 (21.62%) Banking
4 6 (16.22%) Public Sector
5 5 (13.51%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (8.11%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (5.41%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (5.41%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (2.70%) Investment Banking
8 1 (2.70%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (2.70%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 12 (32.43%) Analyst
2 7 (18.92%) Lead
3 6 (16.22%) SOC Analyst
4 4 (10.81%) Business Analyst
4 4 (10.81%) Project Manager
4 4 (10.81%) Scrum Master
5 3 (8.11%) Architect
6 2 (5.41%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
6 2 (5.41%) Developer
6 2 (5.41%) Executive Assistant
6 2 (5.41%) Finance Business Analyst
6 2 (5.41%) Financial Analyst
6 2 (5.41%) Financial Business Analyst
6 2 (5.41%) Full-Stack Developer
6 2 (5.41%) Java Developer
6 2 (5.41%) Risk Manager
6 2 (5.41%) Senior Analyst
6 2 (5.41%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 2 (5.41%) Technical Manager
6 2 (5.41%) Technical Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.41%) AngularJS
1 2 (5.41%) CrewAI
1 2 (5.41%) Elastic Stack
1 2 (5.41%) LangGraph
1 2 (5.41%) pgvector
1 2 (5.41%) React
1 2 (5.41%) Spring
1 2 (5.41%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 6 (16.22%) Cloud Native
1 6 (16.22%) Cyberattack
1 6 (16.22%) Product Ownership
1 6 (16.22%) Security Operations Centre
2 4 (10.81%) Onboarding
2 4 (10.81%) Reference Data
2 4 (10.81%) Virtual Team
3 3 (8.11%) Management Information System
4 2 (5.41%) AI Agents
4 2 (5.41%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (5.41%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (5.41%) Operational Technology
4 2 (5.41%) PMI
5 1 (2.70%) Cyber Defence
5 1 (2.70%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (2.70%) Data Structures
5 1 (2.70%) Educational Technology
5 1 (2.70%) Graphic Design
5 1 (2.70%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 8 (21.62%) Linux
1 8 (21.62%) Windows
2 2 (5.41%) Unix
3 1 (2.70%) Mac OS
3 1 (2.70%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (43.24%) Computer Science
2 15 (40.54%) Problem-Solving
3 14 (37.84%) Agile
4 13 (35.14%) Continuous Improvement
4 13 (35.14%) Stakeholder Management
5 11 (29.73%) CI/CD
5 11 (29.73%) Migration
6 10 (27.03%) Decision-Making
7 9 (24.32%) DevOps
8 8 (21.62%) Incident Response
8 8 (21.62%) Kanban
8 8 (21.62%) Scaled Agile Framework
8 8 (21.62%) Scrum
8 8 (21.62%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 7 (18.92%) Change Management
9 7 (18.92%) Cybersecurity
9 7 (18.92%) Information Security
9 7 (18.92%) Matrix Organization
10 6 (16.22%) Analytics
10 6 (16.22%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 5 (13.51%) Python
2 3 (8.11%) PowerShell
2 3 (8.11%) SQL
3 2 (5.41%) Bash
3 2 (5.41%) Java
Qualifications
1 15 (40.54%) Computer Science Degree
2 7 (18.92%) Security Cleared
3 6 (16.22%) CompTIA CySA+
3 6 (16.22%) CompTIA Security+
4 5 (13.51%) SC Cleared
5 4 (10.81%) DV Cleared
6 3 (8.11%) PMI Certification
7 2 (5.41%) CCAB
7 2 (5.41%) Master's Degree
8 1 (2.70%) AWS Certification
8 1 (2.70%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (2.70%) CBAP
8 1 (2.70%) CCNA
8 1 (2.70%) CCNP
8 1 (2.70%) CIMA
8 1 (2.70%) CISM
8 1 (2.70%) CISSP
8 1 (2.70%) IIBA
8 1 (2.70%) PMP
8 1 (2.70%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (10.81%) Data Quality
1 4 (10.81%) GDPR
2 2 (5.41%) COBIT
2 2 (5.41%) GRC
2 2 (5.41%) ISO 31000
2 2 (5.41%) ISO/IEC 27005
3 1 (2.70%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.70%) P3O
3 1 (2.70%) PMO
3 1 (2.70%) QA
System Software
1 4 (10.81%) Docker
2 1 (2.70%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (16.22%) Kubernetes
2 2 (5.41%) Ansible
2 2 (5.41%) Grafana
2 2 (5.41%) Progress Chef
2 2 (5.41%) Prometheus
2 2 (5.41%) Terraform
3 1 (2.70%) Cisco Prime
3 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (2.70%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 10 (27.03%) Microsoft
2 8 (21.62%) Splunk
3 2 (5.41%) Oracle
3 2 (5.41%) ServiceNow
4 1 (2.70%) Adobe
4 1 (2.70%) Cisco
4 1 (2.70%) CrowdStrike
4 1 (2.70%) Nokia