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 29 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 40 37 19
Rank change year-on-year -3 -18 +20
Contract jobs citing Degree 36 45 81
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 5.08% 5.47% 8.68%
As % of the Qualifications category 18.95% 27.95% 30.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 35 35
10th Percentile £342 £285 £288
25th Percentile £358 £375 £338
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year +2.78% - +17.49%
75th Percentile £603 £488 £488
90th Percentile £651 £575 £610
Scotland median daily rate £500 £438 £475
% change year-on-year +14.29% -7.89% +18.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £27.03 £16.75 -
Median hourly rate £28.09 £17.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +60.51% - -
75th Percentile £29.16 £23.00 -
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 190 161 269
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 26.84% 19.56% 28.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 119 95 155
10th Percentile £290 £261 £208
25th Percentile £328 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% -10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £568 £575 £594
90th Percentile £651 £623 £665
Scotland median daily rate £450 £450 £500
% change year-on-year - -10.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 5 12
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £16.17 £16.75 -
Median hourly rate £16.25 £26.50 £40.94
Median % change year-on-year -38.68% -35.27% -
75th Percentile £61.38 £65.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £61.84 £75.92 -
Scotland median hourly rate £50.00 £23.00 £40.94
% change year-on-year +117.39% -43.82% +90.73%

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 29 March 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 (25.00%) Confluence
2 4 (11.11%) Apache Spark
3 3 (8.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (13.89%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 4 (11.11%) Microsoft Project
3 3 (8.33%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (8.33%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (2.78%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (2.78%) Adobe Illustrator
4 1 (2.78%) InDesign
4 1 (2.78%) Photoshop
Cloud Services
1 9 (25.00%) Azure
2 7 (19.44%) AWS
3 4 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (11.11%) Collibra
4 2 (5.56%) Amazon Bedrock
4 2 (5.56%) Amazon SageMaker
4 2 (5.56%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (5.56%) GCP
5 1 (2.78%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (2.78%) Entra ID
5 1 (2.78%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (2.78%) Microsoft Copilot
5 1 (2.78%) Microsoft Purview
5 1 (2.78%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 6 (16.67%) DNS
1 6 (16.67%) TCP/IP
2 1 (2.78%) LAN
2 1 (2.78%) Network Security
2 1 (2.78%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (11.11%) Big Data
1 4 (11.11%) Hadoop
1 4 (11.11%) Metadata
1 4 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (5.56%) Redis
2 2 (5.56%) SQL Server
3 1 (2.78%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 6 (16.67%) JIRA
2 4 (11.11%) Git
3 2 (5.56%) GitLab
General
1 15 (41.67%) Social Skills
2 11 (30.56%) Finance
3 8 (22.22%) Banking
4 7 (19.44%) Public Sector
5 5 (13.89%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (5.56%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (5.56%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (5.56%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (2.78%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (2.78%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 12 (33.33%) Analyst
2 6 (16.67%) Lead
2 6 (16.67%) SOC Analyst
3 4 (11.11%) Architect
3 4 (11.11%) Business Analyst
3 4 (11.11%) Scrum Master
4 3 (8.33%) Designer
4 3 (8.33%) Project Manager
5 2 (5.56%) Developer
5 2 (5.56%) Executive Assistant
5 2 (5.56%) Finance Business Analyst
5 2 (5.56%) Financial Analyst
5 2 (5.56%) Financial Business Analyst
5 2 (5.56%) Full-Stack Developer
5 2 (5.56%) Java Developer
5 2 (5.56%) Senior Analyst
5 2 (5.56%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 2 (5.56%) Technical Manager
5 2 (5.56%) Technical Project Manager
5 2 (5.56%) UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.56%) AngularJS
1 2 (5.56%) CrewAI
1 2 (5.56%) CSS
1 2 (5.56%) Elastic Stack
1 2 (5.56%) HTML
1 2 (5.56%) LangGraph
1 2 (5.56%) pgvector
1 2 (5.56%) React
1 2 (5.56%) Spring
1 2 (5.56%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 6 (16.67%) Cloud Native
1 6 (16.67%) Cyberattack
1 6 (16.67%) Product Ownership
1 6 (16.67%) Security Operations Centre
2 4 (11.11%) Onboarding
2 4 (11.11%) Reference Data
2 4 (11.11%) Virtual Team
3 2 (5.56%) AI Agents
3 2 (5.56%) Cyber Threat
3 2 (5.56%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (5.56%) Digital Media
3 2 (5.56%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (5.56%) PMI
4 1 (2.78%) Cyber Defence
4 1 (2.78%) Data Structures
4 1 (2.78%) Educational Technology
4 1 (2.78%) Freedom of Information
4 1 (2.78%) Graphic Design
4 1 (2.78%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 8 (22.22%) Linux
2 7 (19.44%) Windows
3 2 (5.56%) Unix
4 1 (2.78%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (44.44%) Agile
2 15 (41.67%) Computer Science
2 15 (41.67%) Problem-Solving
3 13 (36.11%) Stakeholder Management
4 11 (30.56%) CI/CD
4 11 (30.56%) Continuous Improvement
4 11 (30.56%) Decision-Making
4 11 (30.56%) Migration
5 10 (27.78%) DevOps
6 8 (22.22%) Cybersecurity
6 8 (22.22%) Incident Response
6 8 (22.22%) Kanban
6 8 (22.22%) Scaled Agile Framework
6 8 (22.22%) Scrum
7 7 (19.44%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 6 (16.67%) Backlog Prioritisation
8 6 (16.67%) Change Management
8 6 (16.67%) Data Migration
8 6 (16.67%) Data Science
8 6 (16.67%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 5 (13.89%) Python
2 3 (8.33%) PowerShell
2 3 (8.33%) SQL
3 2 (5.56%) Bash
3 2 (5.56%) Java
Qualifications
1 15 (41.67%) Computer Science Degree
2 7 (19.44%) CompTIA CySA+
2 7 (19.44%) CompTIA Security+
3 5 (13.89%) Security Cleared
4 4 (11.11%) DV Cleared
4 4 (11.11%) SC Cleared
5 2 (5.56%) CCAB
5 2 (5.56%) CISSP
5 2 (5.56%) Master's Degree
5 2 (5.56%) PMI Certification
6 1 (2.78%) AWS Certification
6 1 (2.78%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (2.78%) CCIE
6 1 (2.78%) CIMA
6 1 (2.78%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (2.78%) CISM
6 1 (2.78%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (2.78%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (2.78%) SSCP
6 1 (2.78%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (11.11%) Data Quality
1 4 (11.11%) GDPR
2 3 (8.33%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.78%) P3O
3 1 (2.78%) PMO
3 1 (2.78%) QA
System Software
1 4 (11.11%) Docker
2 1 (2.78%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (16.67%) Kubernetes
2 2 (5.56%) Ansible
2 2 (5.56%) Grafana
2 2 (5.56%) Progress Chef
2 2 (5.56%) Prometheus
2 2 (5.56%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 8 (22.22%) Splunk
3 2 (5.56%) Oracle
3 2 (5.56%) ServiceNow
4 1 (2.78%) Adobe
4 1 (2.78%) Cisco
4 1 (2.78%) CrowdStrike