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 30 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 31 27 20
Rank change year-on-year -4 -7 +6
Contract jobs citing Degree 52 60 86
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 6.88% 8.08% 9.66%
As % of the Qualifications category 26.67% 29.85% 31.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 40 42
10th Percentile £240 £351 £351
25th Percentile £409 £376 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £445 £467
Median % change year-on-year +1.12% -4.71% +3.78%
75th Percentile £538 £491 £556
90th Percentile £589 £555 £649
Scotland median daily rate £450 £430 £467
% change year-on-year +4.65% -7.92% +9.88%
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 £24.05 £20.94 £42.50
% change year-on-year +14.83% -50.73% +165.63%

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 195 201 273
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 25.79% 27.05% 30.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 138 120 166
10th Percentile £181 £301 £236
25th Percentile £357 £372 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £468 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.74% -6.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £548 £600 £638
90th Percentile £657 £700 £700
Scotland median daily rate £450 £450 £500
% change year-on-year - -10.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 6 0
10th Percentile - £16.75 -
25th Percentile £16.84 £17.19 -
Median hourly rate £17.45 £22.75 -
Median % change year-on-year -23.32% - -
75th Percentile £23.60 £32.81 -
90th Percentile £26.93 £38.50 -
Scotland median hourly rate £20.00 £22.09 £60.00
% change year-on-year -9.46% -63.18% +111.55%

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 30 November 2025.

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 (5.77%) SharePoint
2 2 (3.85%) Confluence
3 1 (1.92%) nginx
Applications
1 5 (9.62%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (7.69%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (7.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (3.85%) MS Visio
4 1 (1.92%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (1.92%) Adobe Illustrator
4 1 (1.92%) Adobe XD
4 1 (1.92%) InDesign
4 1 (1.92%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (1.92%) Photoshop
4 1 (1.92%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 13 (25.00%) Azure
2 11 (21.15%) AWS
3 4 (7.69%) Entra ID
3 4 (7.69%) OpenShift
4 3 (5.77%) GitHub
4 3 (5.77%) Power Platform
5 2 (3.85%) Amazon Bedrock
5 2 (3.85%) Amazon SageMaker
5 2 (3.85%) Amazon SQS
5 2 (3.85%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (3.85%) Cloud Computing
5 2 (3.85%) Serverless
5 2 (3.85%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 1 (1.92%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (1.92%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (1.92%) Amazon S3
6 1 (1.92%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (1.92%) Datadog
6 1 (1.92%) PaaS
6 1 (1.92%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (7.69%) WAN
2 3 (5.77%) VPN
3 1 (1.92%) LAN
3 1 (1.92%) Network Security
3 1 (1.92%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (11.54%) Redis
2 4 (7.69%) Big Data
2 4 (7.69%) NoSQL
3 3 (5.77%) Power BI
3 3 (5.77%) Tableau
4 2 (3.85%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (3.85%) MongoDB
4 2 (3.85%) Power Query
4 2 (3.85%) QlikView
4 2 (3.85%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.92%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (1.92%) DynamoDB
5 1 (1.92%) Metadata
5 1 (1.92%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 5 (9.62%) Jenkins
2 4 (7.69%) Artifactory
3 3 (5.77%) GitLab
3 3 (5.77%) JIRA
4 1 (1.92%) Bitbucket
4 1 (1.92%) IntelliJ
4 1 (1.92%) PyCharm
4 1 (1.92%) Visual Studio
4 1 (1.92%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 32 (61.54%) Social Skills
2 16 (30.77%) Finance
3 13 (25.00%) Public Sector
4 10 (19.23%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (17.31%) Banking
6 4 (7.69%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (5.77%) Investment Banking
8 2 (3.85%) Corporate Banking
8 2 (3.85%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (3.85%) Financial Institution
8 2 (3.85%) Front Office
9 1 (1.92%) Digital Healthcare
9 1 (1.92%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.92%) Marketing
9 1 (1.92%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.92%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 10 (19.23%) Analyst
2 6 (11.54%) Architect
3 5 (9.62%) Designer
3 5 (9.62%) Developer
4 4 (7.69%) Business Analyst
4 4 (7.69%) Lead
4 4 (7.69%) Project Manager
4 4 (7.69%) Python Engineer
5 3 (5.77%) Data Engineer
5 3 (5.77%) Python Data Engineer
5 3 (5.77%) Release Manager
5 3 (5.77%) Software Manager
5 3 (5.77%) Software Release Manager
5 3 (5.77%) UX Designer
6 2 (3.85%) Business Manager
6 2 (3.85%) Cloud Engineer
6 2 (3.85%) Data Business Analyst
6 2 (3.85%) Engagement Manager
6 2 (3.85%) Financial Analyst
6 2 (3.85%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (13.46%) Kafka
1 7 (13.46%) RESTful
2 6 (11.54%) HTML
2 6 (11.54%) LangGraph
3 5 (9.62%) CSS
3 5 (9.62%) OAuth
3 5 (9.62%) OAuth2
4 4 (7.69%) FastAPI
4 4 (7.69%) Flask
4 4 (7.69%) Hugging Face
4 4 (7.69%) LangChain
4 4 (7.69%) Loki
4 4 (7.69%) OpenTelemetry
4 4 (7.69%) PyTorch
4 4 (7.69%) TensorFlow
5 3 (5.77%) AngularJS
5 3 (5.77%) Spring
5 3 (5.77%) Spring Boot
6 2 (3.85%) JSON
6 2 (3.85%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 6 (11.54%) AI Agents
2 4 (7.69%) Digital Media
2 4 (7.69%) Private Cloud
2 4 (7.69%) Public Cloud
3 3 (5.77%) Management Information System
3 3 (5.77%) Product Ownership
4 2 (3.85%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (3.85%) Cyber Threat
4 2 (3.85%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (3.85%) Distributed Applications
4 2 (3.85%) PMI
4 2 (3.85%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 1 (1.92%) CMDB
5 1 (1.92%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (1.92%) Freedom of Information
5 1 (1.92%) Graphic Design
5 1 (1.92%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.92%) IVR
5 1 (1.92%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.92%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 3 (5.77%) Windows
2 2 (3.85%) Linux
3 1 (1.92%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (48.08%) Agile
2 22 (42.31%) Computer Science
3 18 (34.62%) Problem-Solving
4 14 (26.92%) CI/CD
5 13 (25.00%) DevOps
6 10 (19.23%) Stakeholder Management
7 9 (17.31%) ITIL
8 8 (15.38%) Generative AI
8 8 (15.38%) Microservices
8 8 (15.38%) Scrum
8 8 (15.38%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 7 (13.46%) AI
9 7 (13.46%) Machine Learning
10 6 (11.54%) Analytics
10 6 (11.54%) Data Governance
10 6 (11.54%) ITSM
10 6 (11.54%) Project Management
10 6 (11.54%) Software Engineering
10 6 (11.54%) Use Case
10 6 (11.54%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 9 (17.31%) Python
1 9 (17.31%) SQL
2 5 (9.62%) Java
3 3 (5.77%) Bicep
4 2 (3.85%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (1.92%) C#
5 1 (1.92%) Kusto Query Language
5 1 (1.92%) PowerShell
5 1 (1.92%) TypeScript
5 1 (1.92%) VBA
Qualifications
1 20 (38.46%) Computer Science Degree
2 10 (19.23%) Master's Degree
3 4 (7.69%) AWS Certification
3 4 (7.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 4 (7.69%) Azure Certification
4 2 (3.85%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (3.85%) CISSP
4 2 (3.85%) CompTIA CySA+
4 2 (3.85%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 2 (3.85%) PMI Certification
5 1 (1.92%) CASP
5 1 (1.92%) CCIE
5 1 (1.92%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (1.92%) CompTIA Security+
5 1 (1.92%) GCIA
5 1 (1.92%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (1.92%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.92%) Postgraduate
5 1 (1.92%) SSCP
5 1 (1.92%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (13.46%) Accessibility
2 4 (7.69%) QA
3 3 (5.77%) Disclosure Scotland
4 2 (3.85%) MiFID
5 1 (1.92%) GDPR
5 1 (1.92%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (5.77%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (3.85%) Active Directory
2 2 (3.85%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (15.38%) Kubernetes
2 5 (9.62%) Prometheus
3 4 (7.69%) Grafana
3 4 (7.69%) Kustomize
4 2 (3.85%) Terraform
5 1 (1.92%) Ansible
Vendors
1 13 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (5.77%) ServiceNow
3 2 (3.85%) Adobe
3 2 (3.85%) Avaloq
3 2 (3.85%) Cisco
3 2 (3.85%) Pega
4 1 (1.92%) ArcSight
4 1 (1.92%) Avaya
4 1 (1.92%) Salesforce