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 19 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 27 28 19
Rank change year-on-year +1 -9 +8
Contract jobs citing Degree 56 42 68
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Glasgow 7.69% 6.18% 8.30%
As % of the Qualifications category 33.94% 25.93% 32.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 25 43
10th Percentile £196 £359 £260
25th Percentile £306 £408 £384
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £444 £450 £467
Median % change year-on-year -1.33% -3.64% +3.78%
75th Percentile £500 £501 £559
90th Percentile £536 £597 £633
Scotland median daily rate £450 £450 £456
% change year-on-year - -1.32% +7.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 0
Median hourly rate - £32.13 -
Scotland median hourly rate £20.00 £19.00 £49.35
% change year-on-year +5.26% -61.50% -9.45%

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 165 162 211
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 22.66% 23.82% 25.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 121 117 129
10th Percentile £185 £301 £290
25th Percentile £313 £385 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -10.60% +5.26% -
75th Percentile £525 £600 £588
90th Percentile £625 £725 £700
Scotland median daily rate £447 £450 £475
% change year-on-year -0.67% -5.26% +2.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 5 0
10th Percentile £16.14 £20.44 -
25th Percentile £16.84 £23.34 -
Median hourly rate £17.45 £33.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -47.14% - -
75th Percentile £18.05 £42.50 -
90th Percentile £20.89 £48.50 -
Scotland median hourly rate £20.00 £18.00 £59.03
% change year-on-year +11.11% -69.51% +24.27%

Degree
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

Job postings citing Degree as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Glasgow.

Job vacancy trend for Degree 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 19 September 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 and Capabilities in Glasgow by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 4 (7.14%) Confluence
2 2 (3.57%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.79%) Apache
3 1 (1.79%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.79%) nginx
Applications
1 10 (17.86%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (12.50%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (10.71%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (10.71%) MS Visio
4 2 (3.57%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (1.79%) Adobe XD
5 1 (1.79%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 11 (19.64%) Azure
2 8 (14.29%) AWS
3 6 (10.71%) Power Platform
4 4 (7.14%) OpenShift
5 3 (5.36%) Azure Sentinel
5 3 (5.36%) GitHub
6 2 (3.57%) Amazon SQS
6 2 (3.57%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (3.57%) Entra ID
6 2 (3.57%) Serverless
6 2 (3.57%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 1 (1.79%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (1.79%) Amazon S3
7 1 (1.79%) Asana
7 1 (1.79%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (1.79%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (1.79%) Datadog
7 1 (1.79%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (1.79%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (1.79%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (7.14%) VPN
1 4 (7.14%) WAN
2 2 (3.57%) BGP
2 2 (3.57%) Firewall
2 2 (3.57%) LAN
2 2 (3.57%) OSPF
2 2 (3.57%) TCP/IP
2 2 (3.57%) Wireless
3 1 (1.79%) Internet
3 1 (1.79%) Network Security
3 1 (1.79%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (10.71%) Power BI
2 5 (8.93%) Big Data
3 4 (7.14%) NoSQL
3 4 (7.14%) Redis
4 3 (5.36%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (3.57%) MongoDB
5 2 (3.57%) Power Query
5 2 (3.57%) QlikView
5 2 (3.57%) Relational Database
5 2 (3.57%) Tableau
6 1 (1.79%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (1.79%) DynamoDB
6 1 (1.79%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
6 1 (1.79%) Metadata
6 1 (1.79%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 8 (14.29%) JIRA
2 5 (8.93%) Jenkins
3 4 (7.14%) Artifactory
4 1 (1.79%) Bitbucket
4 1 (1.79%) GitLab
4 1 (1.79%) IntelliJ
4 1 (1.79%) PyCharm
4 1 (1.79%) TestComplete
4 1 (1.79%) Visual Studio
4 1 (1.79%) Visual Studio Code
4 1 (1.79%) Zephyr
General
1 36 (64.29%) Social Skills
2 20 (35.71%) Finance
3 17 (30.36%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (19.64%) Banking
4 11 (19.64%) Public Sector
5 5 (8.93%) Investment Banking
6 3 (5.36%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (3.57%) Corporate Banking
7 2 (3.57%) Financial Institution
7 2 (3.57%) Front Office
7 2 (3.57%) Marketing
7 2 (3.57%) Military
7 2 (3.57%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (3.57%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.79%) Digital Healthcare
8 1 (1.79%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.79%) Legal
8 1 (1.79%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 14 (25.00%) Analyst
2 6 (10.71%) Developer
3 5 (8.93%) Business Analyst
3 5 (8.93%) Lead
4 4 (7.14%) Architect
4 4 (7.14%) Python Engineer
5 3 (5.36%) Data Engineer
5 3 (5.36%) Java Developer
5 3 (5.36%) Project Manager
5 3 (5.36%) Python Data Engineer
5 3 (5.36%) Release Manager
5 3 (5.36%) Software Manager
5 3 (5.36%) Software Release Manager
6 2 (3.57%) Business Engagement Manager
6 2 (3.57%) Business Intelligence Developer
6 2 (3.57%) Business Manager
6 2 (3.57%) Community Manager
6 2 (3.57%) Designer
6 2 (3.57%) Full-Stack Developer
6 2 (3.57%) Full-Stack Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (14.29%) RESTful
2 7 (12.50%) Kafka
3 5 (8.93%) OAuth
3 5 (8.93%) OAuth2
4 4 (7.14%) AngularJS
4 4 (7.14%) FastAPI
4 4 (7.14%) Flask
4 4 (7.14%) HTML
4 4 (7.14%) Hugging Face
4 4 (7.14%) LangChain
4 4 (7.14%) LangGraph
4 4 (7.14%) Loki
4 4 (7.14%) OpenTelemetry
4 4 (7.14%) PyTorch
4 4 (7.14%) Spring
4 4 (7.14%) TensorFlow
5 3 (5.36%) CSS
5 3 (5.36%) Spring Boot
6 2 (3.57%) JSON
6 2 (3.57%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 6 (10.71%) Management Information System
2 4 (7.14%) AI Agents
2 4 (7.14%) Private Cloud
2 4 (7.14%) Public Cloud
3 3 (5.36%) Analytical Mindset
3 3 (5.36%) Cyber Threat
3 3 (5.36%) Data Centre
3 3 (5.36%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (5.36%) Driving Licence
4 2 (3.57%) Cloud Native
4 2 (3.57%) Digital Media
4 2 (3.57%) Distributed Applications
4 2 (3.57%) Product Ownership
4 2 (3.57%) Social Media
4 2 (3.57%) SWIFT Messaging Network
4 2 (3.57%) Virtual Team
5 1 (1.79%) CMDB
5 1 (1.79%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.79%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.79%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 5 (8.93%) Windows
2 4 (7.14%) Linux
3 1 (1.79%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (48.21%) Agile
2 24 (42.86%) Computer Science
3 20 (35.71%) Problem-Solving
4 13 (23.21%) CI/CD
4 13 (23.21%) DevOps
5 10 (17.86%) Stakeholder Management
6 9 (16.07%) ITIL
6 9 (16.07%) Project Management
6 9 (16.07%) Use Case
7 8 (14.29%) Microservices
8 7 (12.50%) Software Engineering
9 6 (10.71%) Analytics
9 6 (10.71%) Business Strategy
9 6 (10.71%) Change Management
9 6 (10.71%) Cybersecurity
9 6 (10.71%) Data Analysis
9 6 (10.71%) Generative AI
9 6 (10.71%) Scrum
9 6 (10.71%) SDLC
10 5 (8.93%) IT Strategy
Programming Languages
1 12 (21.43%) SQL
2 7 (12.50%) Python
3 6 (10.71%) Java
4 2 (3.57%) Bicep
4 2 (3.57%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 2 (3.57%) Kusto Query Language
5 1 (1.79%) C#
5 1 (1.79%) PowerShell
5 1 (1.79%) TypeScript
5 1 (1.79%) VBA
Qualifications
1 18 (32.14%) Computer Science Degree
2 10 (17.86%) Master's Degree
3 4 (7.14%) AWS Certification
3 4 (7.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 3 (5.36%) Azure Certification
4 3 (5.36%) CISSP
4 3 (5.36%) CompTIA CySA+
4 3 (5.36%) GCIA
4 3 (5.36%) GCIH
4 3 (5.36%) SC Cleared
4 3 (5.36%) Security Cleared
5 2 (3.57%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (3.57%) CASP
5 2 (3.57%) CCNP
5 2 (3.57%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (3.57%) DV Cleared
5 2 (3.57%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.79%) CBAP
6 1 (1.79%) IIBA
6 1 (1.79%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (8.93%) QA
2 4 (7.14%) Accessibility
2 4 (7.14%) Disclosure Scotland
3 2 (3.57%) MiFID
4 1 (1.79%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.79%) GDPR
4 1 (1.79%) PMO
4 1 (1.79%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (3.57%) Docker
1 2 (3.57%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (1.79%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (10.71%) Kubernetes
2 5 (8.93%) Prometheus
3 4 (7.14%) Grafana
3 4 (7.14%) Kustomize
4 2 (3.57%) FortiGate
4 2 (3.57%) Terraform
5 1 (1.79%) Ansible
Vendors
1 12 (21.43%) Microsoft
2 3 (5.36%) ArcSight
2 3 (5.36%) Cisco
2 3 (5.36%) ServiceNow
3 2 (3.57%) Avaloq
3 2 (3.57%) Juniper
3 2 (3.57%) Palo Alto
3 2 (3.57%) Pega
4 1 (1.79%) Adobe
4 1 (1.79%) Avaya
4 1 (1.79%) Teradata