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

6 months to
9 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 64 32 35
Rank change year-on-year -32 +3 -11
Contract jobs citing Degree 31 59 30
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 2.92% 7.44% 4.40%
As % of the Qualifications category 13.54% 33.52% 18.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 47 21
10th Percentile £313 £205 £363
25th Percentile £337 £366 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% - +5.88%
75th Percentile £506 £525 £500
90th Percentile £582 £575 £550
Scotland median daily rate £484 £450 £432
% change year-on-year +7.50% +4.29% -4.11%
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 £14.50 £20.00 £17.00
% change year-on-year -27.53% +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 229 176 163
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 21.58% 22.19% 23.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 142 133 106
10th Percentile £305 £205 £244
25th Percentile £320 £313 £377
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £450 £495
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% -9.09% +4.21%
75th Percentile £586 £535 £600
90th Percentile £775 £600 £725
Scotland median daily rate £450 £450 £438
% change year-on-year - +2.86% -7.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 7 12
10th Percentile £16.27 £16.14 £24.15
25th Percentile - £16.84 £38.58
Median hourly rate £43.96 £17.45 £40.94
Median % change year-on-year +151.99% -57.39% -
75th Percentile £60.91 £18.05 -
90th Percentile - £20.89 -
Scotland median hourly rate £50.00 £20.00 £18.00
% change year-on-year +150.00% +11.11% -63.08%

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 9 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 (6.45%) Apache
1 2 (6.45%) SharePoint
2 1 (3.23%) Apache Spark
2 1 (3.23%) Confluence
2 1 (3.23%) WebSphere
Applications
1 3 (9.68%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (6.45%) MS Visio
3 1 (3.23%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (3.23%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (3.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 8 (25.81%) AWS
2 5 (16.13%) Amazon EKS
2 5 (16.13%) Azure
2 5 (16.13%) GitHub
2 5 (16.13%) GitHub Actions
3 4 (12.90%) Akamai
3 4 (12.90%) Amazon MSK
3 4 (12.90%) AWS Direct Connect
3 4 (12.90%) AWS Lambda
3 4 (12.90%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (12.90%) Cloudflare
3 4 (12.90%) GCP
3 4 (12.90%) Kong
3 4 (12.90%) Serverless
4 3 (9.68%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (3.23%) Entra ID
5 1 (3.23%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 1 (3.23%) Microsoft Copilot
5 1 (3.23%) Microsoft Purview
5 1 (3.23%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 4 (12.90%) DNS
1 4 (12.90%) Firewall
1 4 (12.90%) HTTP
2 2 (6.45%) MPLS
2 2 (6.45%) SDH
3 1 (3.23%) LAN
3 1 (3.23%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (22.58%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (6.45%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (6.45%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (6.45%) Flink
2 2 (6.45%) Relational Database
2 2 (6.45%) SQL Server
3 1 (3.23%) Big Data
3 1 (3.23%) Hadoop
3 1 (3.23%) Metadata
3 1 (3.23%) MongoDB
3 1 (3.23%) MySQL
3 1 (3.23%) Power BI
3 1 (3.23%) Redis
Development Applications
1 6 (19.35%) Git
2 5 (16.13%) Jenkins
3 4 (12.90%) Bitbucket
4 3 (9.68%) Cypress.io
4 3 (9.68%) Postman
4 3 (9.68%) REST Assured
4 3 (9.68%) Selenium
5 2 (6.45%) Appium
5 2 (6.45%) Cucumber
5 2 (6.45%) SpecFlow
6 1 (3.23%) Babel
6 1 (3.23%) GitLab
6 1 (3.23%) JIRA
6 1 (3.23%) JUnit
6 1 (3.23%) Mocha
6 1 (3.23%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (3.23%) TestNG
6 1 (3.23%) Vite
6 1 (3.23%) webpack
General
1 12 (38.71%) Social Skills
2 7 (22.58%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (19.35%) Finance
4 5 (16.13%) Public Sector
5 3 (9.68%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (6.45%) Banking
6 2 (6.45%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (6.45%) Telecoms
7 1 (3.23%) Digital Health
7 1 (3.23%) Financial Institution
7 1 (3.23%) Health Technology
7 1 (3.23%) International Banking
7 1 (3.23%) Military
7 1 (3.23%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (12.90%) Lead
1 4 (12.90%) Platform Engineer
2 3 (9.68%) Automation Tester
2 3 (9.68%) Senior
2 3 (9.68%) Tester
3 2 (6.45%) Analyst
3 2 (6.45%) Design Engineer
3 2 (6.45%) Developer
3 2 (6.45%) Java Engineer
3 2 (6.45%) Java Software Engineer
3 2 (6.45%) Network Design Engineer
3 2 (6.45%) Network Engineer
3 2 (6.45%) Project Manager
3 2 (6.45%) Risk Manager
3 2 (6.45%) Senior Automation Tester
3 2 (6.45%) Senior Tester
3 2 (6.45%) Software Engineer
4 1 (3.23%) Desktop Technician
4 1 (3.23%) Operations Team Leader
4 1 (3.23%) Technologist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (19.35%) Kafka
1 6 (19.35%) OAuth
1 6 (19.35%) OAuth2
2 5 (16.13%) React
3 4 (12.90%) gRPC
3 4 (12.90%) OpenID
3 4 (12.90%) OpenTelemetry
3 4 (12.90%) SAML
3 4 (12.90%) WebSockets
4 3 (9.68%) CSS
4 3 (9.68%) HTML
4 3 (9.68%) Playwright
4 3 (9.68%) RESTful
4 3 (9.68%) Spring
4 3 (9.68%) Spring Boot
5 2 (6.45%) AngularJS
5 2 (6.45%) CSS3
5 2 (6.45%) HTML5
6 1 (3.23%) REST
6 1 (3.23%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 4 (12.90%) Algorithms
1 4 (12.90%) Data Structures
1 4 (12.90%) Distributed Systems
1 4 (12.90%) Legacy Systems
1 4 (12.90%) Management Information System
2 3 (9.68%) Product Ownership
3 2 (6.45%) Cloud Native
3 2 (6.45%) Operational Technology
3 2 (6.45%) Virtual Team
4 1 (3.23%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (3.23%) Driving Licence
4 1 (3.23%) Fat Client
4 1 (3.23%) NHS
4 1 (3.23%) Onboarding
4 1 (3.23%) Reference Data
4 1 (3.23%) Smartphone
4 1 (3.23%) Thin Client
4 1 (3.23%) Video Conferencing
4 1 (3.23%) VLE
Operating Systems
1 3 (9.68%) Windows
2 1 (3.23%) Linux
2 1 (3.23%) Mac OS
2 1 (3.23%) Windows 10
2 1 (3.23%) Windows 7
2 1 (3.23%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (48.39%) Computer Science
2 11 (35.48%) CI/CD
3 9 (29.03%) Continuous Improvement
3 9 (29.03%) Problem-Solving
4 8 (25.81%) Stakeholder Management
5 6 (19.35%) DevOps
5 6 (19.35%) Migration
5 6 (19.35%) Software Engineering
5 6 (19.35%) Test Automation
6 5 (16.13%) Agile
6 5 (16.13%) Platform Engineering
7 4 (12.90%) Code Quality
7 4 (12.90%) GitOps
7 4 (12.90%) Incident Response
7 4 (12.90%) Information Security
7 4 (12.90%) Observability
7 4 (12.90%) Project Delivery
7 4 (12.90%) Runbook
7 4 (12.90%) Scrum
7 4 (12.90%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 8 (25.81%) TypeScript
2 7 (22.58%) Java
3 5 (16.13%) JavaScript
3 5 (16.13%) Python
4 3 (9.68%) C#
5 2 (6.45%) PowerShell
5 2 (6.45%) SQL
5 2 (6.45%) T-SQL
6 1 (3.23%) Go
6 1 (3.23%) Scala
6 1 (3.23%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 11 (35.48%) Computer Science Degree
2 4 (12.90%) Security Cleared
3 3 (9.68%) SC Cleared
4 2 (6.45%) CCAB
4 2 (6.45%) CCNA
4 2 (6.45%) CCNP
4 2 (6.45%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (6.45%) DV Cleared
4 2 (6.45%) ISTQB
4 2 (6.45%) Master's Degree
5 1 (3.23%) CEH
5 1 (3.23%) CIMA
5 1 (3.23%) CIPD
5 1 (3.23%) CISM
5 1 (3.23%) CISSP
5 1 (3.23%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (3.23%) Numerate Degree
5 1 (3.23%) PhD
5 1 (3.23%) PMI Certification
5 1 (3.23%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (9.68%) Data Quality
2 2 (6.45%) COBIT
2 2 (6.45%) GRC
2 2 (6.45%) ISO 31000
2 2 (6.45%) ISO/IEC 27005
3 1 (3.23%) Accessibility
3 1 (3.23%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (3.23%) GDPR
3 1 (3.23%) P3O
3 1 (3.23%) PMO
3 1 (3.23%) QA
3 1 (3.23%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (12.90%) Docker
2 2 (6.45%) Active Directory
3 1 (3.23%) Firmware
3 1 (3.23%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 8 (25.81%) Kubernetes
2 4 (12.90%) Argo
3 2 (6.45%) Cisco Prime
3 2 (6.45%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (6.45%) SolarWinds Orion
3 2 (6.45%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (22.58%) Microsoft
2 4 (12.90%) Dynatrace
2 4 (12.90%) ForgeRock
2 4 (12.90%) Splunk
3 2 (6.45%) Cisco
3 2 (6.45%) Nokia
3 2 (6.45%) Oracle
4 1 (3.23%) Checkmarx
4 1 (3.23%) CrowdStrike
4 1 (3.23%) Google
4 1 (3.23%) Okta