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 20 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 28 27 19
Rank change year-on-year -1 -8 +7
Contract jobs citing Degree 54 58 84
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 7.03% 7.98% 9.69%
As % of the Qualifications category 27.55% 29.00% 33.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 39 41
10th Percentile £246 £346 £350
25th Percentile £411 £371 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £440 £467
Median % change year-on-year +2.27% -5.78% +3.78%
75th Percentile £538 £494 £550
90th Percentile £588 £561 £650
Scotland median daily rate £456 £425 £467
% change year-on-year +7.35% -8.99% +9.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 0
10th Percentile - £20.53 -
25th Percentile £27.03 £23.56 -
Median hourly rate £28.09 £33.25 -
Median % change year-on-year -15.52% - -
75th Percentile £29.16 £45.00 -
90th Percentile - £49.50 -
Scotland median hourly rate £24.05 £22.75 £42.50
% change year-on-year +5.69% -46.47% +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 196 200 254
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 25.52% 27.51% 29.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 140 119 150
10th Percentile £185 £301 £250
25th Percentile £358 £364 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £458 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.75% -8.40% +2.04%
75th Percentile £550 £594 £628
90th Percentile £651 £700 £700
Scotland median daily rate £450 £445 £500
% change year-on-year +1.12% -11.00% +7.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 5 0
10th Percentile - £21.20 -
25th Percentile £16.84 £25.25 -
Median hourly rate £17.45 £33.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -47.14% - -
75th Percentile £20.83 £42.50 -
90th Percentile £25.82 £48.50 -
Scotland median hourly rate £20.00 £22.09 £59.03
% change year-on-year -9.46% -62.58% +177.56%

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 20 November 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 14 (25.93%) Azure
2 11 (20.37%) AWS
3 4 (7.41%) Entra ID
3 4 (7.41%) OpenShift
4 3 (5.56%) GitHub
4 3 (5.56%) Power Platform
5 2 (3.70%) Amazon Bedrock
5 2 (3.70%) Amazon SageMaker
5 2 (3.70%) Amazon SQS
5 2 (3.70%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (3.70%) Azure Sentinel
5 2 (3.70%) Cloud Computing
5 2 (3.70%) Serverless
5 2 (3.70%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 1 (1.85%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (1.85%) Amazon EventBridge
6 1 (1.85%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (1.85%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (1.85%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (1.85%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 4 (7.41%) WAN
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 6 (11.11%) Redis
2 5 (9.26%) Big Data
3 4 (7.41%) NoSQL
4 3 (5.56%) Power BI
4 3 (5.56%) Tableau
5 2 (3.70%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (3.70%) MongoDB
5 2 (3.70%) Power Query
5 2 (3.70%) QlikView
5 2 (3.70%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.85%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (1.85%) DynamoDB
6 1 (1.85%) Metadata
6 1 (1.85%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 5 (9.26%) Jenkins
2 4 (7.41%) Artifactory
3 3 (5.56%) GitLab
3 3 (5.56%) JIRA
4 1 (1.85%) Bitbucket
4 1 (1.85%) IntelliJ
4 1 (1.85%) PyCharm
4 1 (1.85%) Visual Studio
4 1 (1.85%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 33 (61.11%) Social Skills
2 17 (31.48%) Finance
3 14 (25.93%) 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
8 2 (3.70%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.85%) Digital Healthcare
9 1 (1.85%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.85%) Marketing
9 1 (1.85%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 11 (20.37%) Analyst
2 6 (11.11%) Architect
3 5 (9.26%) Designer
3 5 (9.26%) Developer
3 5 (9.26%) Lead
4 4 (7.41%) Business Analyst
4 4 (7.41%) Project Manager
4 4 (7.41%) Python Engineer
5 3 (5.56%) Data Engineer
5 3 (5.56%) Python Data Engineer
5 3 (5.56%) Release Manager
5 3 (5.56%) Software Manager
5 3 (5.56%) Software Release Manager
5 3 (5.56%) UX Designer
6 2 (3.70%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
6 2 (3.70%) Azure Engineer
6 2 (3.70%) Business Engagement Manager
6 2 (3.70%) Finance Business Analyst
6 2 (3.70%) Full-Stack Java Developer
6 2 (3.70%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (12.96%) Kafka
1 7 (12.96%) RESTful
2 6 (11.11%) HTML
2 6 (11.11%) LangGraph
3 5 (9.26%) CSS
3 5 (9.26%) OAuth
3 5 (9.26%) OAuth2
4 4 (7.41%) FastAPI
4 4 (7.41%) Flask
4 4 (7.41%) Hugging Face
4 4 (7.41%) LangChain
4 4 (7.41%) Loki
4 4 (7.41%) OpenTelemetry
4 4 (7.41%) PyTorch
4 4 (7.41%) TensorFlow
5 3 (5.56%) AngularJS
5 3 (5.56%) Spring
5 3 (5.56%) Spring Boot
6 2 (3.70%) JSON
6 2 (3.70%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 6 (11.11%) AI Agents
2 4 (7.41%) Digital Media
2 4 (7.41%) Private Cloud
2 4 (7.41%) Public Cloud
3 3 (5.56%) Management Information System
3 3 (5.56%) Product Ownership
4 2 (3.70%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (3.70%) Cyber Threat
4 2 (3.70%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (3.70%) Distributed Applications
4 2 (3.70%) PMI
4 2 (3.70%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 1 (1.85%) CMDB
5 1 (1.85%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.85%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (1.85%) Freedom of Information
5 1 (1.85%) Graphic Design
5 1 (1.85%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.85%) IVR
5 1 (1.85%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 4 (7.41%) Windows
2 3 (5.56%) Linux
3 1 (1.85%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (48.15%) Agile
2 23 (42.59%) Computer Science
3 18 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
4 14 (25.93%) CI/CD
5 13 (24.07%) DevOps
6 11 (20.37%) Stakeholder Management
7 9 (16.67%) ITIL
8 8 (14.81%) Generative AI
8 8 (14.81%) Microservices
8 8 (14.81%) Scrum
8 8 (14.81%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 7 (12.96%) AI
9 7 (12.96%) Analytics
9 7 (12.96%) Machine Learning
10 6 (11.11%) Data Governance
10 6 (11.11%) ITSM
10 6 (11.11%) Project Management
10 6 (11.11%) Software Engineering
10 6 (11.11%) Use Case
10 6 (11.11%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 9 (16.67%) Python
1 9 (16.67%) SQL
2 5 (9.26%) Java
3 3 (5.56%) Bicep
4 2 (3.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (1.85%) C#
5 1 (1.85%) Kusto Query Language
5 1 (1.85%) PowerShell
5 1 (1.85%) TypeScript
5 1 (1.85%) VBA
Qualifications
1 20 (37.04%) Computer Science Degree
2 10 (18.52%) Master's Degree
3 4 (7.41%) AWS Certification
3 4 (7.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 4 (7.41%) Azure Certification
4 3 (5.56%) CISSP
4 3 (5.56%) CompTIA CySA+
5 2 (3.70%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (3.70%) GCIA
5 2 (3.70%) GCIH
5 2 (3.70%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 2 (3.70%) PMI Certification
5 2 (3.70%) SC Cleared
5 2 (3.70%) Security Cleared
6 1 (1.85%) CBAP
6 1 (1.85%) CCIE
6 1 (1.85%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (1.85%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.85%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (1.85%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (12.96%) Accessibility
2 4 (7.41%) QA
3 3 (5.56%) Disclosure Scotland
4 2 (3.70%) MiFID
5 1 (1.85%) GDPR
5 1 (1.85%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (5.56%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (3.70%) Active Directory
2 2 (3.70%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (14.81%) Kubernetes
2 5 (9.26%) Prometheus
3 4 (7.41%) Grafana
3 4 (7.41%) Kustomize
4 2 (3.70%) Terraform
5 1 (1.85%) Ansible
Vendors
1 13 (24.07%) Microsoft
2 3 (5.56%) ServiceNow
3 2 (3.70%) Adobe
3 2 (3.70%) ArcSight
3 2 (3.70%) Avaloq
3 2 (3.70%) Cisco
3 2 (3.70%) Pega
4 1 (1.85%) Avaya
4 1 (1.85%) Salesforce
4 1 (1.85%) Teradata