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 2 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 28 17
Rank change year-on-year -1 -11 +9
Contract jobs citing Degree 48 53 96
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 7.06% 6.96% 10.43%
As % of the Qualifications category 26.67% 33.33% 36.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 34 44
10th Percentile £289 £321 £288
25th Percentile £358 £367 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £443 £459
Median % change year-on-year +10.17% -3.49% +12.84%
75th Percentile £588 £488 £522
90th Percentile £650 £584 £646
Scotland median daily rate £488 £430 £475
% change year-on-year +13.37% -9.47% +18.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £27.03 £16.75 -
Median hourly rate £28.09 £22.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +27.68% - -
75th Percentile £29.16 £31.44 -
90th Percentile - £38.08 -
Scotland median hourly rate £52.50 £23.72 £22.26
% change year-on-year +121.33% +6.58% +39.09%

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 180 159 262
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 26.47% 20.87% 28.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 120 85 157
10th Percentile £241 £263 £202
25th Percentile £358 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £455 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.15% -9.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £564 £575 £600
90th Percentile £655 £645 £675
Scotland median daily rate £463 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +2.78% -10.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 7 4
10th Percentile - £16.75 -
25th Percentile £16.17 £21.00 -
Median hourly rate £16.25 £33.00 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year -50.76% -56.00% +152.36%
75th Percentile £29.16 £53.75 -
90th Percentile £48.77 £72.28 -
Scotland median hourly rate £25.15 £23.00 £56.40
% change year-on-year +9.35% -59.22% +165.29%

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 2 February 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 8 (16.67%) Confluence
2 5 (10.42%) SharePoint
3 3 (6.25%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 5 (10.42%) Microsoft Excel
1 5 (10.42%) Microsoft Office
1 5 (10.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 4 (8.33%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (2.08%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 1 (2.08%) Adobe Illustrator
3 1 (2.08%) Adobe XD
3 1 (2.08%) InDesign
3 1 (2.08%) MS Visio
3 1 (2.08%) Photoshop
3 1 (2.08%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 11 (22.92%) Azure
2 7 (14.58%) AWS
3 4 (8.33%) Entra ID
4 3 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (6.25%) Collibra
5 2 (4.17%) Amazon Bedrock
5 2 (4.17%) Amazon SageMaker
5 2 (4.17%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (4.17%) Cloud Computing
5 2 (4.17%) Power Platform
6 1 (2.08%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (2.08%) Figma
6 1 (2.08%) GCP
6 1 (2.08%) IaaS
6 1 (2.08%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (2.08%) OpenShift
6 1 (2.08%) PaaS
6 1 (2.08%) SaaS
6 1 (2.08%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 6 (12.50%) DNS
1 6 (12.50%) TCP/IP
2 4 (8.33%) WAN
3 3 (6.25%) VPN
4 1 (2.08%) LAN
4 1 (2.08%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (8.33%) Big Data
1 4 (8.33%) Metadata
2 3 (6.25%) Hadoop
2 3 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (6.25%) Redis
3 2 (4.17%) Power BI
3 2 (4.17%) SQL Server
3 2 (4.17%) Tableau
4 1 (2.08%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (2.08%) NoSQL
4 1 (2.08%) Power Query
4 1 (2.08%) QlikView
4 1 (2.08%) RDBMS
4 1 (2.08%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (10.42%) JIRA
2 3 (6.25%) Git
3 2 (4.17%) GitLab
4 1 (2.08%) Artifactory
4 1 (2.08%) Jenkins
General
1 27 (56.25%) Social Skills
2 17 (35.42%) Finance
3 13 (27.08%) Banking
4 10 (20.83%) Public Sector
5 8 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (6.25%) Investment Banking
7 2 (4.17%) Corporate Banking
7 2 (4.17%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (4.17%) Financial Institution
7 2 (4.17%) Front Office
7 2 (4.17%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (2.08%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (2.08%) Marketing
8 1 (2.08%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 16 (33.33%) Analyst
2 9 (18.75%) Lead
3 6 (12.50%) SOC Analyst
4 5 (10.42%) Business Analyst
4 5 (10.42%) Designer
5 4 (8.33%) Architect
5 4 (8.33%) Project Manager
6 3 (6.25%) Scrum Master
6 3 (6.25%) Senior
6 3 (6.25%) UX Designer
7 2 (4.17%) Business Manager
7 2 (4.17%) Cloud Engineer
7 2 (4.17%) Community Manager
7 2 (4.17%) Data Business Analyst
7 2 (4.17%) Engagement Manager
7 2 (4.17%) Executive Assistant
7 2 (4.17%) Finance Business Analyst
7 2 (4.17%) Financial Analyst
7 2 (4.17%) Financial Business Analyst
7 2 (4.17%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (10.42%) CSS
1 5 (10.42%) HTML
2 3 (6.25%) LangGraph
3 2 (4.17%) AngularJS
3 2 (4.17%) CrewAI
3 2 (4.17%) pgvector
3 2 (4.17%) React
3 2 (4.17%) RESTful
4 1 (2.08%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (2.08%) FastAPI
4 1 (2.08%) Hugging Face
4 1 (2.08%) Kafka
4 1 (2.08%) LangChain
4 1 (2.08%) Loki
4 1 (2.08%) OAuth
4 1 (2.08%) OpenTelemetry
4 1 (2.08%) PyTorch
4 1 (2.08%) Spring
4 1 (2.08%) Spring Boot
4 1 (2.08%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 6 (12.50%) Cyberattack
1 6 (12.50%) Security Operations Centre
2 5 (10.42%) Product Ownership
3 4 (8.33%) Cloud Native
3 4 (8.33%) Digital Media
3 4 (8.33%) Virtual Team
4 3 (6.25%) AI Agents
4 3 (6.25%) Onboarding
4 3 (6.25%) Reference Data
5 2 (4.17%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (4.17%) Cyber Threat
5 2 (4.17%) PMI
5 2 (4.17%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 1 (2.08%) CMDB
6 1 (2.08%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (2.08%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (2.08%) Freedom of Information
6 1 (2.08%) Graphic Design
6 1 (2.08%) Management Information System
6 1 (2.08%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 8 (16.67%) Linux
2 7 (14.58%) Windows
3 2 (4.17%) Unix
4 1 (2.08%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (43.75%) Problem-Solving
2 19 (39.58%) Agile
3 16 (33.33%) Computer Science
4 13 (27.08%) Stakeholder Management
5 10 (20.83%) CI/CD
5 10 (20.83%) Decision-Making
6 9 (18.75%) DevOps
6 9 (18.75%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 8 (16.67%) Analytics
7 8 (16.67%) Incident Response
7 8 (16.67%) Scrum
8 7 (14.58%) Continuous Improvement
8 7 (14.58%) Cybersecurity
8 7 (14.58%) Kanban
8 7 (14.58%) Scaled Agile Framework
8 7 (14.58%) User Experience
9 6 (12.50%) Data Governance
9 6 (12.50%) Prototyping
9 6 (12.50%) Security Operations
9 6 (12.50%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 6 (12.50%) SQL
2 5 (10.42%) Python
3 3 (6.25%) Bicep
4 2 (4.17%) Bash
4 2 (4.17%) PowerShell
5 1 (2.08%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (2.08%) Java
Qualifications
1 16 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
2 7 (14.58%) CompTIA CySA+
2 7 (14.58%) CompTIA Security+
3 5 (10.42%) Security Cleared
4 4 (8.33%) Azure Certification
4 4 (8.33%) DV Cleared
4 4 (8.33%) SC Cleared
5 3 (6.25%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (6.25%) Master's Degree
6 2 (4.17%) PMI Certification
7 1 (2.08%) AWS Certification
7 1 (2.08%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (2.08%) CBAP
7 1 (2.08%) CCIE
7 1 (2.08%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (2.08%) CISSP
7 1 (2.08%) IIBA
7 1 (2.08%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 1 (2.08%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (2.08%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (14.58%) Accessibility
2 3 (6.25%) Data Quality
2 3 (6.25%) GDPR
3 2 (4.17%) MiFID
4 1 (2.08%) QA
4 1 (2.08%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (6.25%) Docker
1 3 (6.25%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (4.17%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (12.50%) Kubernetes
2 2 (4.17%) Ansible
2 2 (4.17%) Grafana
2 2 (4.17%) Progress Chef
2 2 (4.17%) Prometheus
2 2 (4.17%) Terraform
3 1 (2.08%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 13 (27.08%) Microsoft
2 8 (16.67%) Splunk
3 3 (6.25%) ServiceNow
4 2 (4.17%) Adobe
4 2 (4.17%) Avaloq
5 1 (2.08%) Cisco
5 1 (2.08%) Oracle
5 1 (2.08%) Salesforce