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

6 months to
7 Dec 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 31 27 19
Rank change year-on-year -4 -8 +2
Contract jobs citing Degree 53 60 85
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 7.02% 7.95% 9.62%
As % of the Qualifications category 27.04% 30.61% 31.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 41 41
10th Percentile £246 £356 £350
25th Percentile £370 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £467
Median % change year-on-year - -3.64% +3.78%
75th Percentile £538 £488 £575
90th Percentile £588 £550 £650
Scotland median daily rate £450 £430 £467
% change year-on-year +4.65% -7.97% +10.92%
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 196 196 273
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 25.96% 25.96% 30.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 142 116 167
10th Percentile £182 £301 £216
25th Percentile £357 £364 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £461 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -7.75% +5.26%
75th Percentile £539 £588 £644
90th Percentile £648 £676 £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 £17.86 £16.75 -
25th Percentile £19.38 £17.19 -
Median hourly rate £22.77 £22.75 -
Median % change year-on-year +0.08% - -
75th Percentile £26.38 £32.81 -
90th Percentile £28.04 £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 7 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 (5.66%) SharePoint
2 2 (3.77%) Confluence
3 1 (1.89%) nginx
Applications
1 5 (9.43%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (7.55%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (7.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (3.77%) MS Visio
4 1 (1.89%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (1.89%) Adobe Illustrator
4 1 (1.89%) Adobe XD
4 1 (1.89%) InDesign
4 1 (1.89%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (1.89%) Photoshop
4 1 (1.89%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 13 (24.53%) AWS
1 13 (24.53%) Azure
2 4 (7.55%) Entra ID
3 3 (5.66%) AWS CloudFormation
3 3 (5.66%) GitHub
3 3 (5.66%) OpenShift
3 3 (5.66%) Power Platform
4 2 (3.77%) Amazon Bedrock
4 2 (3.77%) Amazon SageMaker
4 2 (3.77%) Amazon SQS
4 2 (3.77%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (3.77%) Cloud Computing
4 2 (3.77%) Serverless
4 2 (3.77%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 1 (1.89%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (1.89%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (1.89%) Amazon EventBridge
5 1 (1.89%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (1.89%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (1.89%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 4 (7.55%) WAN
2 3 (5.66%) VPN
3 1 (1.89%) LAN
3 1 (1.89%) Network Security
3 1 (1.89%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (9.43%) Redis
2 3 (5.66%) Big Data
2 3 (5.66%) NoSQL
2 3 (5.66%) Power BI
2 3 (5.66%) Tableau
3 2 (3.77%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (3.77%) MongoDB
3 2 (3.77%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (3.77%) Power Query
3 2 (3.77%) QlikView
3 2 (3.77%) Relational Database
3 2 (3.77%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.89%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (1.89%) DynamoDB
4 1 (1.89%) Metadata
4 1 (1.89%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 4 (7.55%) Jenkins
2 3 (5.66%) Artifactory
2 3 (5.66%) GitLab
2 3 (5.66%) JIRA
3 1 (1.89%) Bitbucket
3 1 (1.89%) IntelliJ
3 1 (1.89%) PyCharm
3 1 (1.89%) Visual Studio
3 1 (1.89%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 31 (58.49%) Social Skills
2 16 (30.19%) Finance
3 14 (26.42%) Public Sector
4 10 (18.87%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (16.98%) Banking
6 4 (7.55%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (5.66%) Investment Banking
8 2 (3.77%) Corporate Banking
8 2 (3.77%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (3.77%) Financial Institution
8 2 (3.77%) Front Office
9 1 (1.89%) Digital Healthcare
9 1 (1.89%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.89%) Marketing
9 1 (1.89%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.89%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 10 (18.87%) Analyst
2 6 (11.32%) Architect
3 5 (9.43%) Designer
3 5 (9.43%) Developer
4 4 (7.55%) Business Analyst
4 4 (7.55%) Lead
4 4 (7.55%) Project Manager
4 4 (7.55%) Python Engineer
5 3 (5.66%) Data Engineer
5 3 (5.66%) Python Data Engineer
5 3 (5.66%) Release Manager
5 3 (5.66%) Software Manager
5 3 (5.66%) Software Release Manager
5 3 (5.66%) UX Designer
6 2 (3.77%) Cloud Engineer
6 2 (3.77%) Data Business Analyst
6 2 (3.77%) Full-Stack Developer
6 2 (3.77%) Java Developer
6 2 (3.77%) Service Desk Manager
6 2 (3.77%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (11.32%) HTML
1 6 (11.32%) Kafka
1 6 (11.32%) RESTful
2 5 (9.43%) CSS
2 5 (9.43%) LangGraph
3 4 (7.55%) OAuth
3 4 (7.55%) OAuth2
4 3 (5.66%) AngularJS
4 3 (5.66%) FastAPI
4 3 (5.66%) Flask
4 3 (5.66%) Hugging Face
4 3 (5.66%) LangChain
4 3 (5.66%) Loki
4 3 (5.66%) OpenTelemetry
4 3 (5.66%) PyTorch
4 3 (5.66%) Spring
4 3 (5.66%) Spring Boot
4 3 (5.66%) TensorFlow
5 2 (3.77%) CrewAI
5 2 (3.77%) pgvector
Miscellaneous
1 5 (9.43%) AI Agents
2 4 (7.55%) Digital Media
2 4 (7.55%) Public Cloud
3 3 (5.66%) Management Information System
3 3 (5.66%) Private Cloud
3 3 (5.66%) Product Ownership
4 2 (3.77%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (3.77%) Cyber Threat
4 2 (3.77%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (3.77%) Distributed Applications
4 2 (3.77%) PMI
4 2 (3.77%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 1 (1.89%) CMDB
5 1 (1.89%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (1.89%) Freedom of Information
5 1 (1.89%) Graphic Design
5 1 (1.89%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.89%) IVR
5 1 (1.89%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.89%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 4 (7.55%) Linux
2 3 (5.66%) Windows
3 2 (3.77%) Unix
4 1 (1.89%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (45.28%) Agile
2 23 (43.40%) Computer Science
3 18 (33.96%) Problem-Solving
4 15 (28.30%) CI/CD
5 14 (26.42%) DevOps
6 10 (18.87%) Stakeholder Management
7 9 (16.98%) ITIL
8 8 (15.09%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 7 (13.21%) Generative AI
9 7 (13.21%) Microservices
9 7 (13.21%) Scrum
10 6 (11.32%) AI
10 6 (11.32%) Containerisation
10 6 (11.32%) Design Patterns
10 6 (11.32%) ITSM
10 6 (11.32%) Project Management
10 6 (11.32%) Prototyping
10 6 (11.32%) SDLC
10 6 (11.32%) Task Automation
10 6 (11.32%) User Research
Programming Languages
1 10 (18.87%) Python
1 10 (18.87%) SQL
2 5 (9.43%) Java
3 3 (5.66%) Bicep
3 3 (5.66%) PowerShell
4 2 (3.77%) Bash
4 2 (3.77%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (1.89%) C#
5 1 (1.89%) Kusto Query Language
5 1 (1.89%) TypeScript
5 1 (1.89%) VBA
Qualifications
1 21 (39.62%) Computer Science Degree
2 9 (16.98%) Master's Degree
3 4 (7.55%) AWS Certification
3 4 (7.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 4 (7.55%) Azure Certification
4 2 (3.77%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (3.77%) CISSP
4 2 (3.77%) CompTIA CySA+
4 2 (3.77%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 2 (3.77%) PMI Certification
4 2 (3.77%) Security Cleared
5 1 (1.89%) CASP
5 1 (1.89%) CCIE
5 1 (1.89%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (1.89%) CompTIA Security+
5 1 (1.89%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (1.89%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.89%) Postgraduate
5 1 (1.89%) SSCP
5 1 (1.89%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (13.21%) Accessibility
2 4 (7.55%) QA
3 3 (5.66%) Disclosure Scotland
4 2 (3.77%) MiFID
5 1 (1.89%) GDPR
5 1 (1.89%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (7.55%) Docker
2 3 (5.66%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (3.77%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 9 (16.98%) Kubernetes
2 4 (7.55%) Prometheus
2 4 (7.55%) Terraform
3 3 (5.66%) Ansible
3 3 (5.66%) Grafana
3 3 (5.66%) Kustomize
4 2 (3.77%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 13 (24.53%) Microsoft
2 3 (5.66%) ServiceNow
3 2 (3.77%) Adobe
3 2 (3.77%) Avaloq
3 2 (3.77%) Cisco
3 2 (3.77%) Pega
3 2 (3.77%) Splunk
4 1 (1.89%) ArcSight
4 1 (1.89%) Avaya
4 1 (1.89%) Salesforce
91 Degree jobs in Glasgow