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

6 months to
7 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 26 20
Rank change year-on-year +4 -6 +5
Contract jobs citing Degree 51 57 87
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 7.41% 7.76% 10.15%
As % of the Qualifications category 27.27% 32.76% 33.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 39 39
10th Percentile £246 £356 £266
25th Percentile £370 £381 £371
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year - - +12.50%
75th Percentile £547 £488 £493
90th Percentile £611 £561 £650
Scotland median daily rate £469 £425 £475
% change year-on-year +10.29% -10.53% +18.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £27.03 £16.75 -
Median hourly rate £28.09 £19.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +47.84% - -
75th Percentile £29.16 £27.75 -
90th Percentile - £36.60 -
Scotland median hourly rate £28.09 £20.94 £32.14
% change year-on-year +34.15% -34.85% +100.88%

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 187 174 256
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 27.18% 23.67% 29.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 132 100 155
10th Percentile £201 £312 £201
25th Percentile £358 £372 £395
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £457 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.31% -8.70% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £600
90th Percentile £714 £650 £698
Scotland median daily rate £459 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +1.94% -10.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 7 1
10th Percentile £17.26 £16.75 -
25th Percentile £18.88 £17.63 -
Median hourly rate £22.17 £26.50 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.34% -64.67% +152.36%
75th Percentile £25.95 £38.50 -
90th Percentile £27.87 £58.78 -
Scotland median hourly rate £19.38 £23.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -15.74% -61.67% +141.50%

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 7 January 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 3 (5.88%) SharePoint
2 2 (3.92%) Confluence
3 1 (1.96%) nginx
Applications
1 5 (9.80%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (7.84%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (7.84%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (3.92%) MS Visio
4 1 (1.96%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (1.96%) Adobe Illustrator
4 1 (1.96%) Adobe XD
4 1 (1.96%) InDesign
4 1 (1.96%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (1.96%) Photoshop
4 1 (1.96%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 11 (21.57%) AWS
1 11 (21.57%) Azure
2 4 (7.84%) Entra ID
3 3 (5.88%) Power Platform
4 2 (3.92%) Amazon Bedrock
4 2 (3.92%) Amazon SageMaker
4 2 (3.92%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (3.92%) Cloud Computing
4 2 (3.92%) OpenShift
5 1 (1.96%) Amazon SQS
5 1 (1.96%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (1.96%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (1.96%) Figma
5 1 (1.96%) GitHub
5 1 (1.96%) IaaS
5 1 (1.96%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (1.96%) PaaS
5 1 (1.96%) SaaS
5 1 (1.96%) Serverless
5 1 (1.96%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (7.84%) WAN
2 3 (5.88%) DNS
2 3 (5.88%) TCP/IP
2 3 (5.88%) VPN
3 1 (1.96%) LAN
3 1 (1.96%) Network Security
3 1 (1.96%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (7.84%) Redis
2 3 (5.88%) Power BI
2 3 (5.88%) Tableau
3 2 (3.92%) Big Data
3 2 (3.92%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (3.92%) NoSQL
3 2 (3.92%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (3.92%) Power Query
3 2 (3.92%) QlikView
3 2 (3.92%) Relational Database
3 2 (3.92%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.96%) Metadata
4 1 (1.96%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.96%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 2 (3.92%) Artifactory
1 2 (3.92%) GitLab
1 2 (3.92%) Jenkins
1 2 (3.92%) JIRA
General
1 29 (56.86%) Social Skills
2 16 (31.37%) Finance
3 12 (23.53%) Public Sector
4 10 (19.61%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (17.65%) Banking
6 4 (7.84%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (5.88%) Investment Banking
8 2 (3.92%) Corporate Banking
8 2 (3.92%) Financial Institution
8 2 (3.92%) Front Office
9 1 (1.96%) Digital Healthcare
9 1 (1.96%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.96%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.96%) Marketing
9 1 (1.96%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.96%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 13 (25.49%) Analyst
2 6 (11.76%) Lead
3 5 (9.80%) Architect
3 5 (9.80%) Designer
4 4 (7.84%) Business Analyst
4 4 (7.84%) Developer
5 3 (5.88%) Project Manager
5 3 (5.88%) Release Manager
5 3 (5.88%) Senior
5 3 (5.88%) SOC Analyst
5 3 (5.88%) Software Manager
5 3 (5.88%) Software Release Manager
5 3 (5.88%) UX Designer
6 2 (3.92%) Community Manager
6 2 (3.92%) Data Engineer
6 2 (3.92%) Finance Business Analyst
6 2 (3.92%) Power BI Developer
6 2 (3.92%) Python Data Engineer
6 2 (3.92%) Python Engineer
6 2 (3.92%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (11.76%) HTML
2 5 (9.80%) CSS
3 4 (7.84%) LangGraph
3 4 (7.84%) RESTful
4 3 (5.88%) Kafka
4 3 (5.88%) OAuth
4 3 (5.88%) OAuth2
5 2 (3.92%) AngularJS
5 2 (3.92%) CrewAI
5 2 (3.92%) FastAPI
5 2 (3.92%) Flask
5 2 (3.92%) Hugging Face
5 2 (3.92%) LangChain
5 2 (3.92%) Loki
5 2 (3.92%) OpenTelemetry
5 2 (3.92%) pgvector
5 2 (3.92%) PyTorch
5 2 (3.92%) TensorFlow
6 1 (1.96%) React
6 1 (1.96%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 4 (7.84%) AI Agents
1 4 (7.84%) Digital Media
2 3 (5.88%) Cyber Threat
2 3 (5.88%) Cyberattack
2 3 (5.88%) Management Information System
2 3 (5.88%) Security Operations Centre
3 2 (3.92%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (3.92%) PMI
3 2 (3.92%) Private Cloud
3 2 (3.92%) Product Ownership
3 2 (3.92%) Public Cloud
3 2 (3.92%) SWIFT Messaging Network
4 1 (1.96%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.96%) CMDB
4 1 (1.96%) Cyber Defence
4 1 (1.96%) Distributed Applications
4 1 (1.96%) Educational Technology
4 1 (1.96%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.96%) Virtual Team
4 1 (1.96%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 6 (11.76%) Linux
2 5 (9.80%) Windows
3 2 (3.92%) Unix
4 1 (1.96%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (43.14%) Computer Science
2 20 (39.22%) Problem-Solving
3 19 (37.25%) Agile
4 12 (23.53%) CI/CD
5 10 (19.61%) DevOps
6 9 (17.65%) ITIL
6 9 (17.65%) Stakeholder Management
7 7 (13.73%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 6 (11.76%) Analytics
8 6 (11.76%) Cybersecurity
8 6 (11.76%) Generative AI
8 6 (11.76%) Incident Response
8 6 (11.76%) ITSM
8 6 (11.76%) Prototyping
8 6 (11.76%) User Experience
8 6 (11.76%) User Research
8 6 (11.76%) UX Design
9 5 (9.80%) Decision-Making
9 5 (9.80%) Task Automation
9 5 (9.80%) Wireframes
Programming Languages
1 9 (17.65%) SQL
2 8 (15.69%) Python
3 3 (5.88%) Bicep
3 3 (5.88%) PowerShell
4 2 (3.92%) Bash
4 2 (3.92%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 2 (3.92%) Java
5 1 (1.96%) Kusto Query Language
5 1 (1.96%) VBA
Qualifications
1 20 (39.22%) Computer Science Degree
2 8 (15.69%) Master's Degree
3 5 (9.80%) CompTIA CySA+
4 4 (7.84%) Azure Certification
4 4 (7.84%) CompTIA Security+
5 3 (5.88%) AWS Certification
5 3 (5.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 3 (5.88%) Security Cleared
6 2 (3.92%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (3.92%) CISSP
6 2 (3.92%) DV Cleared
6 2 (3.92%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 2 (3.92%) PMI Certification
6 2 (3.92%) SC Cleared
7 1 (1.96%) CCIE
7 1 (1.96%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (1.96%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (1.96%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (1.96%) Postgraduate
7 1 (1.96%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (13.73%) Accessibility
2 3 (5.88%) Disclosure Scotland
2 3 (5.88%) QA
3 2 (3.92%) MiFID
4 1 (1.96%) GDPR
4 1 (1.96%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (5.88%) Docker
1 3 (5.88%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (3.92%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (11.76%) Kubernetes
2 2 (3.92%) Ansible
2 2 (3.92%) Grafana
2 2 (3.92%) Kustomize
2 2 (3.92%) Progress Chef
2 2 (3.92%) Prometheus
2 2 (3.92%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (23.53%) Microsoft
2 5 (9.80%) Splunk
3 3 (5.88%) ServiceNow
4 2 (3.92%) Adobe
4 2 (3.92%) Avaloq
4 2 (3.92%) Cisco
4 2 (3.92%) Pega
5 1 (1.96%) ArcSight
5 1 (1.96%) Avaya
5 1 (1.96%) Salesforce