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

6 months to
6 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 31 24 20
Rank change year-on-year -7 -4 +10
Contract jobs citing Degree 50 57 73
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 6.66% 7.87% 8.62%
As % of the Qualifications category 26.04% 28.50% 29.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 39 40
10th Percentile £240 £346 £309
25th Percentile £357 £371 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £467
Median % change year-on-year - -3.64% +3.78%
75th Percentile £526 £500 £556
90th Percentile £554 £591 £650
Scotland median daily rate £450 £425 £450
% change year-on-year +5.88% -5.56% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £40.00 -
Scotland median hourly rate £20.00 £19.00 £43.75
% change year-on-year +5.26% -56.57% +131.48%

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 192 200 251
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 25.57% 27.62% 29.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 131 121 149
10th Percentile £181 £301 £250
25th Percentile £358 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £458 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.75% -8.40% +3.09%
75th Percentile £539 £588 £600
90th Percentile £649 £700 £700
Scotland median daily rate £450 £425 £488
% change year-on-year +5.88% -12.82% +4.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 4 0
10th Percentile £15.96 £22.40 -
25th Percentile £16.84 £28.25 -
Median hourly rate £17.45 £36.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -52.21% - -
75th Percentile £18.05 £45.00 -
90th Percentile - £49.50 -
Scotland median hourly rate £19.38 £19.64 £57.72
% change year-on-year -1.34% -65.97% +94.20%

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 6 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 (6.00%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.00%) Apache
2 1 (2.00%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.00%) Confluence
2 1 (2.00%) nginx
Applications
1 6 (12.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (8.00%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (4.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (4.00%) MS Visio
4 1 (2.00%) Adobe XD
4 1 (2.00%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (2.00%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 15 (30.00%) Azure
2 9 (18.00%) AWS
3 4 (8.00%) Entra ID
3 4 (8.00%) OpenShift
4 3 (6.00%) Azure Sentinel
4 3 (6.00%) GitHub
4 3 (6.00%) Power Platform
5 2 (4.00%) Amazon SQS
5 2 (4.00%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (4.00%) Cloud Computing
5 2 (4.00%) Serverless
5 2 (4.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 1 (2.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (2.00%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (2.00%) Amazon S3
6 1 (2.00%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (2.00%) Datadog
6 1 (2.00%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (2.00%) PaaS
6 1 (2.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (8.00%) WAN
2 3 (6.00%) VPN
3 1 (2.00%) LAN
3 1 (2.00%) Network Security
3 1 (2.00%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (10.00%) Big Data
2 4 (8.00%) NoSQL
2 4 (8.00%) Redis
3 3 (6.00%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (6.00%) Power BI
3 3 (6.00%) Tableau
4 2 (4.00%) MongoDB
4 2 (4.00%) Power Query
4 2 (4.00%) QlikView
4 2 (4.00%) Relational Database
5 1 (2.00%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (2.00%) DynamoDB
5 1 (2.00%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
5 1 (2.00%) Metadata
5 1 (2.00%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 5 (10.00%) Jenkins
2 4 (8.00%) Artifactory
3 3 (6.00%) JIRA
4 1 (2.00%) Bitbucket
4 1 (2.00%) GitLab
4 1 (2.00%) IntelliJ
4 1 (2.00%) PyCharm
4 1 (2.00%) Visual Studio
4 1 (2.00%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 30 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 15 (30.00%) Finance
3 13 (26.00%) Public Sector
4 10 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (12.00%) Banking
6 3 (6.00%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (4.00%) Corporate Banking
7 2 (4.00%) Financial Institution
7 2 (4.00%) Front Office
7 2 (4.00%) Investment Banking
7 2 (4.00%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (2.00%) Digital Healthcare
8 1 (2.00%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (2.00%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (2.00%) Marketing
8 1 (2.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 11 (22.00%) Analyst
2 6 (12.00%) Developer
3 4 (8.00%) Architect
3 4 (8.00%) Designer
3 4 (8.00%) Lead
3 4 (8.00%) Python Engineer
4 3 (6.00%) Business Analyst
4 3 (6.00%) Data Engineer
4 3 (6.00%) Java Developer
4 3 (6.00%) Python Data Engineer
4 3 (6.00%) Release Manager
4 3 (6.00%) Software Manager
4 3 (6.00%) Software Release Manager
4 3 (6.00%) UX Designer
5 2 (4.00%) Business Intelligence Developer
5 2 (4.00%) Business Manager
5 2 (4.00%) Engagement Manager
5 2 (4.00%) Security Analyst
5 2 (4.00%) Service Desk Manager
5 2 (4.00%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (16.00%) RESTful
2 7 (14.00%) Kafka
3 6 (12.00%) HTML
4 5 (10.00%) CSS
4 5 (10.00%) OAuth
4 5 (10.00%) OAuth2
5 4 (8.00%) AngularJS
5 4 (8.00%) FastAPI
5 4 (8.00%) Flask
5 4 (8.00%) Hugging Face
5 4 (8.00%) LangChain
5 4 (8.00%) LangGraph
5 4 (8.00%) Loki
5 4 (8.00%) OpenTelemetry
5 4 (8.00%) PyTorch
5 4 (8.00%) Spring
5 4 (8.00%) TensorFlow
6 3 (6.00%) Spring Boot
7 2 (4.00%) JSON
7 2 (4.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 4 (8.00%) AI Agents
1 4 (8.00%) Digital Media
1 4 (8.00%) Private Cloud
1 4 (8.00%) Public Cloud
2 3 (6.00%) Cyber Threat
2 3 (6.00%) Management Information System
3 2 (4.00%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (4.00%) Cloud Native
3 2 (4.00%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (4.00%) Distributed Applications
3 2 (4.00%) Driving Licence
3 2 (4.00%) Product Ownership
3 2 (4.00%) SWIFT Messaging Network
4 1 (2.00%) CMDB
4 1 (2.00%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (2.00%) Freedom of Information
4 1 (2.00%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (2.00%) IVR
4 1 (2.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (10.00%) Windows
2 4 (8.00%) Linux
3 1 (2.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (48.00%) Agile
2 20 (40.00%) Computer Science
3 17 (34.00%) Problem-Solving
4 14 (28.00%) DevOps
5 13 (26.00%) CI/CD
6 10 (20.00%) ITIL
7 9 (18.00%) Stakeholder Management
8 8 (16.00%) Microservices
9 7 (14.00%) Software Engineering
9 7 (14.00%) Use Case
10 6 (12.00%) Analytics
10 6 (12.00%) Generative AI
10 6 (12.00%) Project Management
10 6 (12.00%) Scrum
10 6 (12.00%) SDLC
11 5 (10.00%) Containerisation
11 5 (10.00%) Front End Development
11 5 (10.00%) Prototyping
11 5 (10.00%) User Research
11 5 (10.00%) Wireframes
Programming Languages
1 10 (20.00%) SQL
2 7 (14.00%) Python
3 6 (12.00%) Java
4 3 (6.00%) Bicep
5 2 (4.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 2 (4.00%) Kusto Query Language
6 1 (2.00%) C#
6 1 (2.00%) PowerShell
6 1 (2.00%) TypeScript
6 1 (2.00%) VBA
Qualifications
1 17 (34.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 8 (16.00%) Master's Degree
3 4 (8.00%) AWS Certification
3 4 (8.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 4 (8.00%) Azure Certification
3 4 (8.00%) CISSP
3 4 (8.00%) CompTIA CySA+
4 3 (6.00%) GCIA
4 3 (6.00%) GCIH
4 3 (6.00%) SC Cleared
4 3 (6.00%) Security Cleared
5 2 (4.00%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (4.00%) CASP
5 2 (4.00%) DV Cleared
5 2 (4.00%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (2.00%) CBAP
6 1 (2.00%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (2.00%) CompTIA Security+
6 1 (2.00%) IIBA
6 1 (2.00%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (14.00%) Accessibility
2 5 (10.00%) QA
3 3 (6.00%) Disclosure Scotland
4 2 (4.00%) MiFID
5 1 (2.00%) GDPR
5 1 (2.00%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (6.00%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (4.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (4.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (12.00%) Kubernetes
2 5 (10.00%) Prometheus
3 4 (8.00%) Grafana
3 4 (8.00%) Kustomize
4 2 (4.00%) Terraform
5 1 (2.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 12 (24.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (6.00%) ArcSight
3 2 (4.00%) Avaloq
3 2 (4.00%) Cisco
3 2 (4.00%) Pega
4 1 (2.00%) Adobe
4 1 (2.00%) Avaya
4 1 (2.00%) Salesforce
4 1 (2.00%) ServiceNow
4 1 (2.00%) Teradata