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 22 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 29 15
Rank change year-on-year 0 -14 +9
Contract jobs citing Degree 45 53 99
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 6.78% 7.23% 11.48%
As % of the Qualifications category 26.16% 32.92% 38.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 35 44
10th Percentile £287 £356 £288
25th Percentile £406 £371 £344
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £445 £450
Median % change year-on-year +9.55% -1.11% +12.50%
75th Percentile £574 £488 £498
90th Percentile £651 £577 £646
Scotland median daily rate £475 £438 £475
% change year-on-year +8.57% -7.89% +20.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £27.03 £16.75 -
Median hourly rate £28.09 £19.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +47.84% - -
75th Percentile £29.16 £27.75 -
90th Percentile - £36.60 -
Scotland median hourly rate £28.09 £20.94 £22.87
% change year-on-year +34.15% -8.44% +42.94%

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 172 161 254
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 25.90% 21.96% 29.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 116 88 148
10th Percentile £204 £311 £200
25th Percentile £358 £377 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £461 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -7.75% +5.26%
75th Percentile £551 £575 £600
90th Percentile £638 £700 £679
Scotland median daily rate £453 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +0.56% -10.00% +10.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 8 3
10th Percentile - £16.75 -
25th Percentile £16.17 £18.06 -
Median hourly rate £16.25 £29.75 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year -45.38% -60.33% +152.36%
75th Percentile £22.74 £48.13 -
90th Percentile £26.59 £70.46 -
Scotland median hourly rate £19.38 £23.00 £57.72
% change year-on-year -15.74% -60.15% +190.76%

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 22 January 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 3 (6.67%) SharePoint
2 2 (4.44%) Confluence
3 1 (2.22%) nginx
Applications
1 5 (11.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (8.89%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (8.89%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (4.44%) MS Visio
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%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (2.22%) Photoshop
4 1 (2.22%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 9 (20.00%) AWS
1 9 (20.00%) Azure
2 4 (8.89%) Entra ID
3 3 (6.67%) Power Platform
4 2 (4.44%) Amazon Bedrock
4 2 (4.44%) Amazon SageMaker
4 2 (4.44%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (4.44%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (2.22%) Amazon EventBridge
5 1 (2.22%) Amazon SQS
5 1 (2.22%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (2.22%) GCP
5 1 (2.22%) GitHub
5 1 (2.22%) IaaS
5 1 (2.22%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (2.22%) OpenShift
5 1 (2.22%) PaaS
5 1 (2.22%) SaaS
5 1 (2.22%) Serverless
5 1 (2.22%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (8.89%) DNS
1 4 (8.89%) TCP/IP
1 4 (8.89%) WAN
2 3 (6.67%) VPN
3 1 (2.22%) LAN
3 1 (2.22%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
1 3 (6.67%) Power BI
1 3 (6.67%) Redis
1 3 (6.67%) Tableau
2 2 (4.44%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (4.44%) Power Query
2 2 (4.44%) QlikView
2 2 (4.44%) Relational Database
2 2 (4.44%) SQL Server
3 1 (2.22%) Big Data
3 1 (2.22%) Metadata
3 1 (2.22%) MongoDB
3 1 (2.22%) NoSQL
3 1 (2.22%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 2 (4.44%) GitLab
1 2 (4.44%) JIRA
2 1 (2.22%) Artifactory
2 1 (2.22%) Jenkins
General
1 28 (62.22%) Social Skills
2 17 (37.78%) Finance
3 11 (24.44%) Public Sector
4 10 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (20.00%) Banking
6 3 (6.67%) Investment Banking
7 2 (4.44%) Corporate Banking
7 2 (4.44%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (4.44%) Financial Institution
7 2 (4.44%) Front Office
7 2 (4.44%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (2.22%) Digital Healthcare
8 1 (2.22%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (2.22%) Marketing
8 1 (2.22%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (31.11%) Analyst
2 7 (15.56%) Lead
3 5 (11.11%) Business Analyst
3 5 (11.11%) Designer
3 5 (11.11%) Developer
4 4 (8.89%) Architect
4 4 (8.89%) SOC Analyst
5 3 (6.67%) Project Manager
5 3 (6.67%) Senior
5 3 (6.67%) UX Designer
6 2 (4.44%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
6 2 (4.44%) Azure Engineer
6 2 (4.44%) Business Engagement Manager
6 2 (4.44%) Cloud Engineer
6 2 (4.44%) Community Manager
6 2 (4.44%) Data Business Analyst
6 2 (4.44%) Finance Business Analyst
6 2 (4.44%) Full-Stack Java Developer
6 2 (4.44%) Power BI Developer
6 2 (4.44%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (13.33%) HTML
2 5 (11.11%) CSS
3 3 (6.67%) AngularJS
3 3 (6.67%) LangGraph
3 3 (6.67%) RESTful
4 2 (4.44%) CrewAI
4 2 (4.44%) Kafka
4 2 (4.44%) OAuth
4 2 (4.44%) OAuth2
4 2 (4.44%) pgvector
4 2 (4.44%) React
4 2 (4.44%) Spring
4 2 (4.44%) Spring Boot
5 1 (2.22%) Flask
5 1 (2.22%) JSON
5 1 (2.22%) Loki
5 1 (2.22%) Middleware
5 1 (2.22%) SOAP
5 1 (2.22%) TensorFlow
5 1 (2.22%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (8.89%) Cyberattack
1 4 (8.89%) Digital Media
1 4 (8.89%) Security Operations Centre
2 3 (6.67%) AI Agents
3 2 (4.44%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (4.44%) Cloud Native
3 2 (4.44%) Cyber Threat
3 2 (4.44%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (4.44%) PMI
3 2 (4.44%) Product Ownership
3 2 (4.44%) Public Cloud
3 2 (4.44%) SWIFT Messaging Network
4 1 (2.22%) CMDB
4 1 (2.22%) Data Centre
4 1 (2.22%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (2.22%) Freedom of Information
4 1 (2.22%) Graphic Design
4 1 (2.22%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.22%) Private Cloud
4 1 (2.22%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 6 (13.33%) Linux
2 5 (11.11%) Windows
3 2 (4.44%) Unix
4 1 (2.22%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (40.00%) Agile
1 18 (40.00%) Computer Science
1 18 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
2 9 (20.00%) CI/CD
2 9 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 8 (17.78%) DevOps
3 8 (17.78%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 6 (13.33%) Analytics
4 6 (13.33%) Decision-Making
4 6 (13.33%) Incident Response
4 6 (13.33%) Prototyping
4 6 (13.33%) User Experience
4 6 (13.33%) User Research
4 6 (13.33%) UX Design
5 5 (11.11%) Containerisation
5 5 (11.11%) Cybersecurity
5 5 (11.11%) Front End Development
5 5 (11.11%) Generative AI
5 5 (11.11%) High Availability
5 5 (11.11%) Interaction Design
Programming Languages
1 8 (17.78%) SQL
2 6 (13.33%) Python
3 3 (6.67%) Bicep
3 3 (6.67%) Java
4 2 (4.44%) Bash
4 2 (4.44%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 2 (4.44%) PowerShell
5 1 (2.22%) VBA
Qualifications
1 17 (37.78%) Computer Science Degree
2 5 (11.11%) CompTIA CySA+
2 5 (11.11%) CompTIA Security+
3 4 (8.89%) Azure Certification
3 4 (8.89%) Master's Degree
4 3 (6.67%) Security Cleared
5 2 (4.44%) AWS Certification
5 2 (4.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (4.44%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (4.44%) DV Cleared
5 2 (4.44%) PMI Certification
5 2 (4.44%) SC Cleared
6 1 (2.22%) CCIE
6 1 (2.22%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (2.22%) CISSP
6 1 (2.22%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (2.22%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (2.22%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (2.22%) SSCP
6 1 (2.22%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (15.56%) Accessibility
2 2 (4.44%) MiFID
3 1 (2.22%) Disclosure Scotland
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
3 1 (2.22%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 12 (26.67%) Microsoft
2 6 (13.33%) Splunk
3 3 (6.67%) ServiceNow
4 2 (4.44%) Adobe
4 2 (4.44%) Avaloq
4 2 (4.44%) Cisco
5 1 (2.22%) Avaya
5 1 (2.22%) Oracle
5 1 (2.22%) Pega
5 1 (2.22%) Salesforce