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 25 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 26 30 19
Rank change year-on-year +4 -11 +3
Contract jobs citing Degree 54 58 85
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 7.52% 7.57% 9.71%
As % of the Qualifications category 28.13% 30.85% 32.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 40 40
10th Percentile £248 £351 £346
25th Percentile £393 £376 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year - - +12.50%
75th Percentile £550 £491 £500
90th Percentile £609 £555 £650
Scotland median daily rate £463 £430 £471
% change year-on-year +7.56% -8.67% +17.70%
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 £51.55 £20.94 £38.57
% change year-on-year +146.16% -45.71% +141.06%

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 192 188 259
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 26.74% 24.54% 29.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 136 112 157
10th Percentile £190 £307 £203
25th Percentile £358 £372 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £465 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.12% -7.10% +5.26%
75th Percentile £556 £575 £638
90th Percentile £697 £652 £700
Scotland median daily rate £450 £450 £500
% change year-on-year - -10.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 6 0
10th Percentile £17.26 £16.75 -
25th Percentile £18.88 £17.19 -
Median hourly rate £22.17 £22.75 -
Median % change year-on-year -2.55% - -
75th Percentile £25.95 £32.81 -
90th Percentile £27.87 £38.50 -
Scotland median hourly rate £22.27 £23.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -3.20% -61.67% +141.50%

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 25 December 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 (5.56%) SharePoint
2 2 (3.70%) Confluence
3 1 (1.85%) nginx
Applications
1 5 (9.26%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (7.41%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (7.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (3.70%) MS Visio
4 1 (1.85%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (1.85%) Adobe Illustrator
4 1 (1.85%) Adobe XD
4 1 (1.85%) InDesign
4 1 (1.85%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (1.85%) Photoshop
4 1 (1.85%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 13 (24.07%) AWS
1 13 (24.07%) Azure
2 4 (7.41%) Entra ID
3 3 (5.56%) AWS CloudFormation
3 3 (5.56%) GitHub
3 3 (5.56%) Power Platform
4 2 (3.70%) Amazon Bedrock
4 2 (3.70%) Amazon SageMaker
4 2 (3.70%) Amazon SQS
4 2 (3.70%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (3.70%) Cloud Computing
4 2 (3.70%) OpenShift
4 2 (3.70%) Serverless
4 2 (3.70%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 1 (1.85%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (1.85%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (1.85%) Amazon EventBridge
5 1 (1.85%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (1.85%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (1.85%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 4 (7.41%) WAN
2 3 (5.56%) DNS
2 3 (5.56%) TCP/IP
2 3 (5.56%) VPN
3 1 (1.85%) LAN
3 1 (1.85%) Network Security
3 1 (1.85%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (7.41%) Redis
2 3 (5.56%) Power BI
2 3 (5.56%) Tableau
3 2 (3.70%) Big Data
3 2 (3.70%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (3.70%) MongoDB
3 2 (3.70%) NoSQL
3 2 (3.70%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (3.70%) Power Query
3 2 (3.70%) QlikView
3 2 (3.70%) Relational Database
3 2 (3.70%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.85%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (1.85%) DynamoDB
4 1 (1.85%) Metadata
4 1 (1.85%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 3 (5.56%) GitLab
1 3 (5.56%) Jenkins
1 3 (5.56%) JIRA
2 2 (3.70%) Artifactory
3 1 (1.85%) Bitbucket
3 1 (1.85%) IntelliJ
3 1 (1.85%) PyCharm
3 1 (1.85%) Visual Studio
3 1 (1.85%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 30 (55.56%) Social Skills
2 16 (29.63%) Finance
3 13 (24.07%) Public Sector
4 10 (18.52%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (16.67%) Banking
6 4 (7.41%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (5.56%) Investment Banking
8 2 (3.70%) Corporate Banking
8 2 (3.70%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (3.70%) Financial Institution
8 2 (3.70%) Front Office
9 1 (1.85%) Digital Healthcare
9 1 (1.85%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.85%) Marketing
9 1 (1.85%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.85%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 13 (24.07%) Analyst
2 6 (11.11%) Architect
2 6 (11.11%) Lead
3 5 (9.26%) Designer
3 5 (9.26%) Developer
4 4 (7.41%) Business Analyst
5 3 (5.56%) Project Manager
5 3 (5.56%) Python Engineer
5 3 (5.56%) Release Manager
5 3 (5.56%) Senior
5 3 (5.56%) SOC Analyst
5 3 (5.56%) Software Manager
5 3 (5.56%) Software Release Manager
5 3 (5.56%) UX Designer
6 2 (3.70%) Azure Engineer
6 2 (3.70%) Business Engagement Manager
6 2 (3.70%) Community Manager
6 2 (3.70%) Data Engineer
6 2 (3.70%) Finance Business Analyst
6 2 (3.70%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (11.11%) HTML
2 5 (9.26%) CSS
2 5 (9.26%) Kafka
2 5 (9.26%) RESTful
3 4 (7.41%) LangGraph
4 3 (5.56%) AngularJS
4 3 (5.56%) OAuth
4 3 (5.56%) OAuth2
4 3 (5.56%) Spring
4 3 (5.56%) Spring Boot
5 2 (3.70%) CrewAI
5 2 (3.70%) Flask
5 2 (3.70%) Hugging Face
5 2 (3.70%) JSON
5 2 (3.70%) LangChain
5 2 (3.70%) Loki
5 2 (3.70%) Middleware
5 2 (3.70%) pgvector
5 2 (3.70%) PyTorch
5 2 (3.70%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 4 (7.41%) AI Agents
1 4 (7.41%) Digital Media
1 4 (7.41%) Public Cloud
2 3 (5.56%) Cyber Threat
2 3 (5.56%) Cyberattack
2 3 (5.56%) Management Information System
2 3 (5.56%) Product Ownership
2 3 (5.56%) Security Operations Centre
3 2 (3.70%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (3.70%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (3.70%) Distributed Applications
3 2 (3.70%) PMI
3 2 (3.70%) Private Cloud
3 2 (3.70%) SWIFT Messaging Network
4 1 (1.85%) CMDB
4 1 (1.85%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (1.85%) Freedom of Information
4 1 (1.85%) Graphic Design
4 1 (1.85%) IVR
4 1 (1.85%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 7 (12.96%) Linux
2 6 (11.11%) Windows
3 2 (3.70%) Unix
4 1 (1.85%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (44.44%) Computer Science
2 22 (40.74%) Agile
3 20 (37.04%) Problem-Solving
4 14 (25.93%) CI/CD
5 13 (24.07%) DevOps
6 9 (16.67%) ITIL
6 9 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
7 7 (12.96%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 6 (11.11%) Analytics
8 6 (11.11%) Cybersecurity
8 6 (11.11%) Design Patterns
8 6 (11.11%) Generative AI
8 6 (11.11%) Incident Response
8 6 (11.11%) ITSM
8 6 (11.11%) Microservices
8 6 (11.11%) Scrum
8 6 (11.11%) SDLC
8 6 (11.11%) User Experience
8 6 (11.11%) User Research
8 6 (11.11%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 9 (16.67%) Python
1 9 (16.67%) SQL
2 5 (9.26%) Java
3 3 (5.56%) Bicep
3 3 (5.56%) PowerShell
4 2 (3.70%) Bash
4 2 (3.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (1.85%) C#
5 1 (1.85%) Kusto Query Language
5 1 (1.85%) TypeScript
5 1 (1.85%) VBA
Qualifications
1 22 (40.74%) Computer Science Degree
2 8 (14.81%) Master's Degree
3 5 (9.26%) CompTIA CySA+
4 4 (7.41%) AWS Certification
4 4 (7.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 4 (7.41%) Azure Certification
4 4 (7.41%) CompTIA Security+
5 3 (5.56%) Security Cleared
6 2 (3.70%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (3.70%) CISSP
6 2 (3.70%) DV Cleared
6 2 (3.70%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 2 (3.70%) PMI Certification
6 2 (3.70%) SC Cleared
7 1 (1.85%) CASP
7 1 (1.85%) CCIE
7 1 (1.85%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (1.85%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (1.85%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (1.85%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (12.96%) Accessibility
2 3 (5.56%) Disclosure Scotland
2 3 (5.56%) QA
3 2 (3.70%) MiFID
4 1 (1.85%) GDPR
4 1 (1.85%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (7.41%) Docker
2 3 (5.56%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (3.70%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 8 (14.81%) Kubernetes
2 4 (7.41%) Terraform
3 3 (5.56%) Ansible
3 3 (5.56%) Prometheus
4 2 (3.70%) Grafana
4 2 (3.70%) Kustomize
4 2 (3.70%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 13 (24.07%) Microsoft
2 5 (9.26%) Splunk
3 3 (5.56%) ServiceNow
4 2 (3.70%) Adobe
4 2 (3.70%) Avaloq
4 2 (3.70%) Cisco
4 2 (3.70%) Pega
5 1 (1.85%) ArcSight
5 1 (1.85%) Avaya
5 1 (1.85%) Salesforce