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

6 months to
2 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 60 32 36
Rank change year-on-year -28 +4 -9
Contract jobs citing Degree 30 58 30
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 2.86% 7.26% 4.32%
As % of the Qualifications category 13.51% 32.77% 18.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 46 22
10th Percentile £313 £205 £363
25th Percentile £337 £364 £391
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% - +4.11%
75th Percentile £506 £525 £501
90th Percentile £582 £575 £584
Scotland median daily rate £475 £450 £438
% change year-on-year +5.56% +2.74% -2.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £19.47
25th Percentile - - £20.92
Median hourly rate - - £24.26
75th Percentile - - £38.84
90th Percentile - - £47.03
Scotland median hourly rate £15.99 £20.00 £17.00
% change year-on-year -20.05% +17.65% -60.00%

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 222 177 164
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 21.16% 22.15% 23.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 136 134 110
10th Percentile £304 £205 £229
25th Percentile £320 £313 £377
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% -10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £584 £547 £600
90th Percentile £775 £604 £753
Scotland median daily rate £450 £449 £438
% change year-on-year +0.33% +2.40% -7.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 7 11
10th Percentile £16.27 £16.14 £23.34
25th Percentile £43.96 £16.84 -
Median hourly rate £52.44 £17.45 £40.94
Median % change year-on-year +200.57% -57.39% -
75th Percentile £60.91 £18.05 -
90th Percentile - £20.89 -
Scotland median hourly rate £50.00 £20.00 £17.50
% change year-on-year +150.00% +14.29% -64.10%

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 August 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 2 (6.67%) Apache
1 2 (6.67%) SharePoint
2 1 (3.33%) Apache Spark
2 1 (3.33%) Confluence
2 1 (3.33%) WebSphere
Applications
1 3 (10.00%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (3.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (3.33%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 8 (26.67%) AWS
2 6 (20.00%) Azure
3 5 (16.67%) GCP
3 5 (16.67%) GitHub
3 5 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
4 4 (13.33%) Amazon EKS
4 4 (13.33%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (10.00%) Akamai
5 3 (10.00%) Amazon MSK
5 3 (10.00%) AWS Direct Connect
5 3 (10.00%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (10.00%) Cloudflare
5 3 (10.00%) Kong
5 3 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (10.00%) Serverless
6 1 (3.33%) Collibra
6 1 (3.33%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Copilot
6 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Purview
6 1 (3.33%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 3 (10.00%) DNS
1 3 (10.00%) Firewall
1 3 (10.00%) HTTP
2 1 (3.33%) LAN
2 1 (3.33%) MPLS
2 1 (3.33%) SDH
2 1 (3.33%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (23.33%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (6.67%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (6.67%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (6.67%) Flink
2 2 (6.67%) Relational Database
2 2 (6.67%) SQL Server
3 1 (3.33%) Big Data
3 1 (3.33%) Hadoop
3 1 (3.33%) Metadata
3 1 (3.33%) MongoDB
3 1 (3.33%) MySQL
3 1 (3.33%) Power BI
3 1 (3.33%) Redis
Development Applications
1 6 (20.00%) Git
2 5 (16.67%) Jenkins
3 3 (10.00%) Bitbucket
3 3 (10.00%) Cypress.io
3 3 (10.00%) Postman
3 3 (10.00%) REST Assured
3 3 (10.00%) Selenium
4 2 (6.67%) Appium
4 2 (6.67%) Cucumber
4 2 (6.67%) SpecFlow
5 1 (3.33%) Babel
5 1 (3.33%) GitLab
5 1 (3.33%) JIRA
5 1 (3.33%) JUnit
5 1 (3.33%) Mocha
5 1 (3.33%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (3.33%) TestNG
5 1 (3.33%) Vite
5 1 (3.33%) webpack
General
1 12 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 7 (23.33%) Finance
3 6 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (16.67%) Public Sector
5 3 (10.00%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (6.67%) Banking
6 2 (6.67%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (3.33%) Digital Health
7 1 (3.33%) Financial Institution
7 1 (3.33%) Health Technology
7 1 (3.33%) International Banking
7 1 (3.33%) Military
7 1 (3.33%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (3.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (13.33%) Lead
2 3 (10.00%) Automation Tester
2 3 (10.00%) Developer
2 3 (10.00%) Platform Engineer
2 3 (10.00%) Senior
2 3 (10.00%) Tester
3 2 (6.67%) Analyst
3 2 (6.67%) Java Developer
3 2 (6.67%) Java Engineer
3 2 (6.67%) Java Software Engineer
3 2 (6.67%) Project Manager
3 2 (6.67%) Risk Manager
3 2 (6.67%) Senior Automation Tester
3 2 (6.67%) Senior Tester
3 2 (6.67%) Software Engineer
4 1 (3.33%) Accountant
4 1 (3.33%) Desktop Technician
4 1 (3.33%) Financial Accountant
4 1 (3.33%) Operations Team Leader
4 1 (3.33%) Technologist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (16.67%) Kafka
1 5 (16.67%) OAuth
1 5 (16.67%) OAuth2
1 5 (16.67%) React
2 4 (13.33%) Spring
2 4 (13.33%) Spring Boot
3 3 (10.00%) AngularJS
3 3 (10.00%) CSS
3 3 (10.00%) gRPC
3 3 (10.00%) HTML
3 3 (10.00%) OpenID
3 3 (10.00%) OpenTelemetry
3 3 (10.00%) Playwright
3 3 (10.00%) RESTful
3 3 (10.00%) SAML
3 3 (10.00%) WebSockets
4 2 (6.67%) CSS3
4 2 (6.67%) HTML5
5 1 (3.33%) REST
5 1 (3.33%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 4 (13.33%) Legacy Systems
2 3 (10.00%) Algorithms
2 3 (10.00%) Cloud Native
2 3 (10.00%) Data Structures
2 3 (10.00%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (10.00%) Management Information System
2 3 (10.00%) Product Ownership
3 2 (6.67%) Operational Technology
3 2 (6.67%) Virtual Team
4 1 (3.33%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (3.33%) Fat Client
4 1 (3.33%) NHS
4 1 (3.33%) Onboarding
4 1 (3.33%) Reference Data
4 1 (3.33%) Smartphone
4 1 (3.33%) Thin Client
4 1 (3.33%) Video Conferencing
4 1 (3.33%) VLE
Operating Systems
1 3 (10.00%) Windows
2 1 (3.33%) Linux
2 1 (3.33%) Mac OS
2 1 (3.33%) Windows 10
2 1 (3.33%) Windows 7
2 1 (3.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (46.67%) Computer Science
2 11 (36.67%) CI/CD
3 10 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
4 9 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
5 8 (26.67%) Stakeholder Management
6 7 (23.33%) DevOps
6 7 (23.33%) Migration
7 6 (20.00%) Agile
7 6 (20.00%) Software Engineering
7 6 (20.00%) Test Automation
8 4 (13.33%) Information Security
8 4 (13.33%) ITIL
8 4 (13.33%) Mentoring
8 4 (13.33%) Platform Engineering
8 4 (13.33%) Risk Management
8 4 (13.33%) Root Cause Analysis
8 4 (13.33%) Scrum
8 4 (13.33%) SDLC
8 4 (13.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 4 (13.33%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 8 (26.67%) Java
2 7 (23.33%) TypeScript
3 5 (16.67%) JavaScript
3 5 (16.67%) Python
4 3 (10.00%) C#
5 2 (6.67%) PowerShell
5 2 (6.67%) SQL
5 2 (6.67%) T-SQL
6 1 (3.33%) Go
6 1 (3.33%) Scala
6 1 (3.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 11 (36.67%) Computer Science Degree
2 4 (13.33%) Security Cleared
3 3 (10.00%) SC Cleared
4 2 (6.67%) CCAB
4 2 (6.67%) DV Cleared
4 2 (6.67%) ISTQB
4 2 (6.67%) Master's Degree
5 1 (3.33%) CCNA
5 1 (3.33%) CCNP
5 1 (3.33%) CEH
5 1 (3.33%) CIMA
5 1 (3.33%) CIPD
5 1 (3.33%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (3.33%) CISM
5 1 (3.33%) CISSP
5 1 (3.33%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (3.33%) Numerate Degree
5 1 (3.33%) PMI Certification
5 1 (3.33%) PMP
5 1 (3.33%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.00%) Data Quality
2 2 (6.67%) COBIT
2 2 (6.67%) GRC
2 2 (6.67%) ISO 31000
2 2 (6.67%) ISO/IEC 27005
3 1 (3.33%) Accessibility
3 1 (3.33%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (3.33%) GDPR
3 1 (3.33%) P3O
3 1 (3.33%) PMO
3 1 (3.33%) QA
3 1 (3.33%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (16.67%) Docker
2 2 (6.67%) Active Directory
3 1 (3.33%) Firmware
3 1 (3.33%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 8 (26.67%) Kubernetes
2 3 (10.00%) Argo
3 2 (6.67%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (6.67%) Terraform
4 1 (3.33%) Cisco Prime
4 1 (3.33%) Grafana
4 1 (3.33%) Prometheus
4 1 (3.33%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 6 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (10.00%) Dynatrace
2 3 (10.00%) ForgeRock
2 3 (10.00%) Oracle
2 3 (10.00%) Splunk
3 1 (3.33%) Checkmarx
3 1 (3.33%) Cisco
3 1 (3.33%) CrowdStrike
3 1 (3.33%) Google
3 1 (3.33%) Nokia
3 1 (3.33%) Okta