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

6 months to
19 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 54 37 40
Rank change year-on-year -17 +3 -11
Contract jobs citing Degree 36 57 30
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 3.44% 6.95% 3.93%
As % of the Qualifications category 15.52% 32.76% 17.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 43 23
10th Percentile £313 £205 £333
25th Percentile £343 £366 £396
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £396 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year -11.94% - +1.18%
75th Percentile £497 £525 £544
90th Percentile £585 £575 £618
Scotland median daily rate £463 £449 £438
% change year-on-year +3.12% +2.40% +0.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £25.75
25th Percentile - - £29.38
Median hourly rate - - £37.13
75th Percentile - - £45.67
90th Percentile - - £49.77
Scotland median hourly rate £37.50 £20.00 £17.00
% change year-on-year +87.50% +17.65% -41.87%

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 232 174 175
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 22.20% 21.22% 22.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 143 129 120
10th Percentile £301 £200 £229
25th Percentile £320 £313 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £447 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.92% -10.60% +5.26%
75th Percentile £585 £550 £600
90th Percentile £775 £627 £725
Scotland median daily rate £450 £428 £450
% change year-on-year +5.14% -4.89% -4.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 7 12
10th Percentile £16.17 £16.14 -
25th Percentile £37.80 £16.84 -
Median hourly rate £60.91 £17.45 £40.94
Median % change year-on-year +249.15% -57.39% -
75th Percentile - £18.05 £43.83
90th Percentile £61.56 £20.89 £72.75
Scotland median hourly rate £51.25 £20.00 £17.50
% change year-on-year +156.25% +14.29% -58.82%

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 19 July 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 7 (19.44%) Confluence
2 4 (11.11%) Apache Spark
2 4 (11.11%) SharePoint
3 2 (5.56%) Apache
4 1 (2.78%) WebSphere
Applications
1 6 (16.67%) Microsoft Project
2 3 (8.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (8.33%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (8.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (2.78%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 10 (27.78%) Azure
2 7 (19.44%) AWS
2 7 (19.44%) Azure DevOps
3 6 (16.67%) GCP
4 5 (13.89%) GitHub
4 5 (13.89%) GitHub Actions
5 4 (11.11%) Collibra
6 2 (5.56%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (5.56%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (2.78%) Amazon MSK
7 1 (2.78%) AWS Direct Connect
7 1 (2.78%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (2.78%) Cloudflare
7 1 (2.78%) Entra ID
7 1 (2.78%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 1 (2.78%) Kong
7 1 (2.78%) Microsoft Copilot
7 1 (2.78%) Microsoft Purview
7 1 (2.78%) Power Platform
7 1 (2.78%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (8.33%) DNS
2 2 (5.56%) TCP/IP
3 1 (2.78%) Firewall
3 1 (2.78%) HTTP
3 1 (2.78%) MPLS
3 1 (2.78%) SDH
3 1 (2.78%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (11.11%) Big Data
2 4 (11.11%) Hadoop
2 4 (11.11%) Metadata
3 2 (5.56%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (5.56%) Flink
4 1 (2.78%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (2.78%) MongoDB
4 1 (2.78%) MySQL
4 1 (2.78%) Power BI
4 1 (2.78%) Redis
4 1 (2.78%) Relational Database
4 1 (2.78%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 9 (25.00%) Git
2 5 (13.89%) Jenkins
2 5 (13.89%) JIRA
3 3 (8.33%) Cypress.io
3 3 (8.33%) Postman
3 3 (8.33%) REST Assured
3 3 (8.33%) Selenium
4 2 (5.56%) Appium
4 2 (5.56%) Cucumber
4 2 (5.56%) SpecFlow
5 1 (2.78%) Babel
5 1 (2.78%) Bitbucket
5 1 (2.78%) GitLab
5 1 (2.78%) JUnit
5 1 (2.78%) Mocha
5 1 (2.78%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (2.78%) TestNG
5 1 (2.78%) Vite
5 1 (2.78%) webpack
General
1 14 (38.89%) Social Skills
2 9 (25.00%) Finance
3 7 (19.44%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (16.67%) Banking
4 6 (16.67%) Public Sector
5 3 (8.33%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (5.56%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (2.78%) Digital Health
7 1 (2.78%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (2.78%) Financial Institution
7 1 (2.78%) Health Technology
7 1 (2.78%) International Banking
7 1 (2.78%) Military
7 1 (2.78%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (2.78%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (16.67%) Analyst
2 5 (13.89%) Lead
3 4 (11.11%) Scrum Master
4 3 (8.33%) Automation Tester
4 3 (8.33%) Developer
4 3 (8.33%) Java Developer
4 3 (8.33%) Senior
4 3 (8.33%) Tester
5 2 (5.56%) Business Analyst
5 2 (5.56%) Executive Assistant
5 2 (5.56%) Full-Stack Developer
5 2 (5.56%) Full-Stack Java Developer
5 2 (5.56%) Java Engineer
5 2 (5.56%) Java Software Engineer
5 2 (5.56%) Project Manager
5 2 (5.56%) Risk Manager
5 2 (5.56%) Senior Automation Tester
5 2 (5.56%) Senior Tester
5 2 (5.56%) SOC Analyst
5 2 (5.56%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (13.89%) Spring
1 5 (13.89%) Spring Boot
2 4 (11.11%) AngularJS
2 4 (11.11%) React
3 3 (8.33%) CSS
3 3 (8.33%) HTML
3 3 (8.33%) Kafka
3 3 (8.33%) OAuth
3 3 (8.33%) OAuth2
3 3 (8.33%) Playwright
3 3 (8.33%) RESTful
4 2 (5.56%) CSS3
4 2 (5.56%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (5.56%) HTML5
5 1 (2.78%) Apache Beam
5 1 (2.78%) gRPC
5 1 (2.78%) Jest
5 1 (2.78%) pytest
5 1 (2.78%) Redux
5 1 (2.78%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 7 (19.44%) Cloud Native
1 7 (19.44%) Product Ownership
2 5 (13.89%) Virtual Team
3 4 (11.11%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (11.11%) Onboarding
3 4 (11.11%) Reference Data
4 3 (8.33%) Management Information System
5 2 (5.56%) Cyberattack
5 2 (5.56%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (5.56%) Data Structures
5 2 (5.56%) Operational Technology
5 2 (5.56%) Security Operations Centre
6 1 (2.78%) Algorithms
6 1 (2.78%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (2.78%) NHS
6 1 (2.78%) VLE
Operating Systems
1 4 (11.11%) Windows
2 3 (8.33%) Linux
3 1 (2.78%) Mac OS
3 1 (2.78%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (41.67%) Problem-Solving
2 14 (38.89%) CI/CD
2 14 (38.89%) Computer Science
2 14 (38.89%) Continuous Improvement
3 13 (36.11%) Agile
3 13 (36.11%) Stakeholder Management
4 12 (33.33%) DevOps
5 11 (30.56%) Migration
6 9 (25.00%) Decision-Making
7 8 (22.22%) Scrum
7 8 (22.22%) Test Automation
8 7 (19.44%) Information Security
8 7 (19.44%) Kanban
8 7 (19.44%) Matrix Organization
9 6 (16.67%) Backlog Prioritisation
9 6 (16.67%) Change Management
9 6 (16.67%) Data Governance
9 6 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 5 (13.89%) Containerisation
10 5 (13.89%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 9 (25.00%) Java
2 5 (13.89%) JavaScript
2 5 (13.89%) Python
2 5 (13.89%) TypeScript
3 3 (8.33%) C#
4 2 (5.56%) PowerShell
5 1 (2.78%) Scala
5 1 (2.78%) Shell Script
5 1 (2.78%) SQL
5 1 (2.78%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
2 6 (16.67%) Security Cleared
3 5 (13.89%) SC Cleared
4 4 (11.11%) DV Cleared
5 2 (5.56%) CCAB
5 2 (5.56%) CompTIA CySA+
5 2 (5.56%) CompTIA Security+
5 2 (5.56%) ISTQB
5 2 (5.56%) Master's Degree
6 1 (2.78%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (2.78%) CCNA
6 1 (2.78%) CCNP
6 1 (2.78%) CEH
6 1 (2.78%) CIPD
6 1 (2.78%) CISSP
6 1 (2.78%) IIBA
6 1 (2.78%) Numerate Degree
6 1 (2.78%) PhD
6 1 (2.78%) Postgraduate
6 1 (2.78%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (13.89%) Data Quality
2 4 (11.11%) GDPR
3 2 (5.56%) COBIT
3 2 (5.56%) GRC
3 2 (5.56%) ISO 31000
3 2 (5.56%) ISO/IEC 27005
3 2 (5.56%) QA
4 1 (2.78%) Accessibility
4 1 (2.78%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (2.78%) P3O
4 1 (2.78%) PMO
System Software
1 6 (16.67%) Docker
2 1 (2.78%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 7 (19.44%) Kubernetes
2 2 (5.56%) Grafana
2 2 (5.56%) Prometheus
2 2 (5.56%) Terraform
3 1 (2.78%) Argo
3 1 (2.78%) Cisco Prime
3 1 (2.78%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (2.78%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 8 (22.22%) Microsoft
2 4 (11.11%) Oracle
3 3 (8.33%) Splunk
4 1 (2.78%) Checkmarx
4 1 (2.78%) Cisco
4 1 (2.78%) CrowdStrike
4 1 (2.78%) Dynatrace
4 1 (2.78%) ForgeRock
4 1 (2.78%) Nokia
4 1 (2.78%) Okta