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

6 months to
4 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 70 31 22
Rank change year-on-year -39 -9 -1
Contract jobs citing Degree 33 54 53
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 2.75% 7.22% 7.81%
As % of the Qualifications category 13.47% 31.03% 30.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 43 33
10th Percentile £308 £247 £356
25th Percentile £313 £382 £391
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% - -5.26%
75th Percentile £538 £525 £501
90th Percentile £598 £550 £621
Scotland median daily rate £500 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +11.11% - -1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 4
10th Percentile - - £19.95
25th Percentile £47.50 - £22.13
Median hourly rate £55.00 - £32.13
75th Percentile £62.50 - £45.00
90th Percentile - - £49.50
Scotland median hourly rate £15.99 £20.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year -20.05% +5.26% -61.50%

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 245 174 171
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 20.45% 23.26% 25.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 133 122 120
10th Percentile £300 £185 £301
25th Percentile £339 £323 £372
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £485
Median % change year-on-year - -7.27% -2.95%
75th Percentile £613 £538 £600
90th Percentile £800 £634 £725
Scotland median daily rate £475 £450 £425
% change year-on-year +5.56% +5.88% -10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 7 5
10th Percentile £31.25 £16.14 £20.44
25th Percentile - £16.84 £23.34
Median hourly rate £43.96 £17.45 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year +151.99% -47.14% -
75th Percentile £60.91 £18.05 £42.50
90th Percentile - £20.89 £48.50
Scotland median hourly rate £43.96 £19.69 £18.00
% change year-on-year +123.26% +9.39% -69.51%

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 4 October 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 (6.06%) Apache
2 1 (3.03%) CMS
2 1 (3.03%) SharePoint
2 1 (3.03%) WebSphere
Applications
1 3 (9.09%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (9.09%) MS Visio
2 2 (6.06%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 8 (24.24%) AWS
2 5 (15.15%) Amazon EKS
2 5 (15.15%) GitHub
2 5 (15.15%) GitHub Actions
3 4 (12.12%) Akamai
3 4 (12.12%) Amazon MSK
3 4 (12.12%) AWS Direct Connect
3 4 (12.12%) AWS Lambda
3 4 (12.12%) Azure
3 4 (12.12%) Cloudflare
3 4 (12.12%) GCP
3 4 (12.12%) Kong
3 4 (12.12%) Serverless
4 3 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (6.06%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (3.03%) Entra ID
6 1 (3.03%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 4 (12.12%) DNS
1 4 (12.12%) Firewall
1 4 (12.12%) HTTP
2 3 (9.09%) Internet
2 3 (9.09%) MPLS
2 3 (9.09%) SDH
3 1 (3.03%) LAN
3 1 (3.03%) Network Security
3 1 (3.03%) TETRA
3 1 (3.03%) VLAN
3 1 (3.03%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (21.21%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (9.09%) Big Data
3 2 (6.06%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (6.06%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (6.06%) Flink
3 2 (6.06%) Relational Database
3 2 (6.06%) SQL Server
4 1 (3.03%) MongoDB
4 1 (3.03%) MySQL
4 1 (3.03%) Redis
Development Applications
1 5 (15.15%) Git
1 5 (15.15%) Jenkins
2 4 (12.12%) Bitbucket
3 3 (9.09%) Cypress.io
3 3 (9.09%) Postman
3 3 (9.09%) REST Assured
3 3 (9.09%) Selenium
4 2 (6.06%) Appium
4 2 (6.06%) Cucumber
4 2 (6.06%) SpecFlow
5 1 (3.03%) Babel
5 1 (3.03%) GitLab
5 1 (3.03%) JUnit
5 1 (3.03%) Mocha
5 1 (3.03%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (3.03%) TestNG
5 1 (3.03%) Vite
5 1 (3.03%) webpack
General
1 15 (45.45%) Social Skills
2 7 (21.21%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (18.18%) Public Sector
4 3 (9.09%) Finance
4 3 (9.09%) Marketing
4 3 (9.09%) Telecoms
5 2 (6.06%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (3.03%) Banking
6 1 (3.03%) Digital Health
6 1 (3.03%) Financial Institution
6 1 (3.03%) Fire and Rescue
6 1 (3.03%) Health Technology
6 1 (3.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (3.03%) International Banking
6 1 (3.03%) Military
6 1 (3.03%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (3.03%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (15.15%) Senior
2 4 (12.12%) Design Engineer
2 4 (12.12%) Lead
2 4 (12.12%) Platform Engineer
3 3 (9.09%) Automation Tester
3 3 (9.09%) Tester
4 2 (6.06%) Developer
4 2 (6.06%) Java Engineer
4 2 (6.06%) Java Software Engineer
4 2 (6.06%) Network Design Engineer
4 2 (6.06%) Network Engineer
4 2 (6.06%) Project Manager
4 2 (6.06%) Senior Automation Tester
4 2 (6.06%) Senior Tester
4 2 (6.06%) Software Engineer
5 1 (3.03%) Content Editor
5 1 (3.03%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (3.03%) Team Leader
5 1 (3.03%) Technical Leader
5 1 (3.03%) Telecoms Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (18.18%) Kafka
1 6 (18.18%) OAuth
1 6 (18.18%) OAuth2
2 5 (15.15%) React
3 4 (12.12%) gRPC
3 4 (12.12%) OpenID
3 4 (12.12%) OpenTelemetry
3 4 (12.12%) SAML
3 4 (12.12%) WebSockets
4 3 (9.09%) CSS
4 3 (9.09%) HTML
4 3 (9.09%) Playwright
4 3 (9.09%) RESTful
4 3 (9.09%) Spring
4 3 (9.09%) Spring Boot
5 2 (6.06%) AngularJS
5 2 (6.06%) CSS3
5 2 (6.06%) HTML5
5 2 (6.06%) Terraform
6 1 (3.03%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 5 (15.15%) Distributed Systems
1 5 (15.15%) Management Information System
2 4 (12.12%) Algorithms
2 4 (12.12%) Data Structures
3 2 (6.06%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (6.06%) Product Ownership
4 1 (3.03%) Cloud Native
4 1 (3.03%) Clustering
4 1 (3.03%) Data Centre
4 1 (3.03%) Driving Licence
4 1 (3.03%) Fat Client
4 1 (3.03%) NVMe
4 1 (3.03%) Operational Technology
4 1 (3.03%) Security Posture
4 1 (3.03%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (3.03%) Smartphone
4 1 (3.03%) Thin Client
4 1 (3.03%) Video Conferencing
4 1 (3.03%) Virtual Team
4 1 (3.03%) VLE
Operating Systems
1 3 (9.09%) Windows
2 2 (6.06%) Windows Server
3 1 (3.03%) Linux
3 1 (3.03%) Windows 10
3 1 (3.03%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (48.48%) Computer Science
2 11 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 8 (24.24%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (21.21%) Continuous Improvement
5 6 (18.18%) Decision-Making
5 6 (18.18%) Software Engineering
5 6 (18.18%) Test Automation
6 5 (15.15%) DevOps
6 5 (15.15%) Incident Response
6 5 (15.15%) Mentoring
6 5 (15.15%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 5 (15.15%) Stakeholder Management
7 4 (12.12%) Dashboard Development
7 4 (12.12%) Low Latency
7 4 (12.12%) Migration
7 4 (12.12%) Risk Management
7 4 (12.12%) Root Cause Analysis
7 4 (12.12%) SDLC
7 4 (12.12%) SIEM
7 4 (12.12%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 8 (24.24%) TypeScript
2 7 (21.21%) Java
3 5 (15.15%) JavaScript
4 4 (12.12%) C#
4 4 (12.12%) Python
5 2 (6.06%) PowerShell
5 2 (6.06%) SQL
5 2 (6.06%) T-SQL
6 1 (3.03%) Go
6 1 (3.03%) Scala
6 1 (3.03%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 11 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
2 4 (12.12%) Security Cleared
3 3 (9.09%) CCNA
3 3 (9.09%) CCNP
3 3 (9.09%) Cisco Certification
3 3 (9.09%) SC Cleared
4 2 (6.06%) DV Cleared
4 2 (6.06%) ISTQB
4 2 (6.06%) Master's Degree
5 1 (3.03%) CIPD
5 1 (3.03%) CISA
5 1 (3.03%) CISM
5 1 (3.03%) CISSP
5 1 (3.03%) HND
5 1 (3.03%) Numerate Degree
5 1 (3.03%) PhD
5 1 (3.03%) PMI Certification
5 1 (3.03%) PMP
5 1 (3.03%) Postgraduate
5 1 (3.03%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.06%) Accessibility
1 2 (6.06%) Data Quality
1 2 (6.06%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (3.03%) COBIT
2 1 (3.03%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (3.03%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 1 (3.03%) GRC
2 1 (3.03%) ISO 31000
2 1 (3.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (3.03%) ISO/IEC 27005
2 1 (3.03%) NCSC
2 1 (3.03%) NIST
2 1 (3.03%) QA
2 1 (3.03%) SLA
2 1 (3.03%) WCAG
System Software
1 4 (12.12%) Docker
2 2 (6.06%) Active Directory
2 2 (6.06%) Firmware
3 1 (3.03%) Hyper-V
3 1 (3.03%) KVM
3 1 (3.03%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (3.03%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (3.03%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (24.24%) Kubernetes
2 4 (12.12%) Argo
3 3 (9.09%) Cisco Prime
3 3 (9.09%) SolarWinds Orion
4 2 (6.06%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (3.03%) Ansible
5 1 (3.03%) Failover Clustering
5 1 (3.03%) SCCM
5 1 (3.03%) SCOM
5 1 (3.03%) WMI
Vendors
1 8 (24.24%) Microsoft
2 4 (12.12%) Dynatrace
2 4 (12.12%) ForgeRock
2 4 (12.12%) Splunk
3 3 (9.09%) Cisco
3 3 (9.09%) Nokia
4 2 (6.06%) Oracle
5 1 (3.03%) Checkmarx
5 1 (3.03%) Google
5 1 (3.03%) Intel
5 1 (3.03%) Okta
5 1 (3.03%) Qualys
5 1 (3.03%) VMware