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

6 months to
22 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 40 39 23
Rank change year-on-year -1 -16 +10
Contract jobs citing Degree 35 45 70
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 4.85% 5.61% 7.74%
As % of the Qualifications category 19.02% 33.83% 28.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 35 29
10th Percentile £339 £219 £265
25th Percentile £358 £370 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £447 £420
Median % change year-on-year +6.26% +6.43% +12.00%
75th Percentile £588 £488 £488
90th Percentile £650 £575 £595
Scotland median daily rate £500 £449 £475
% change year-on-year +11.48% -5.58% +16.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £27.03 £16.75 £23.34
Median hourly rate £28.09 £17.50 £24.26
Median % change year-on-year +60.51% -27.85% -
75th Percentile £29.16 £23.00 £25.17
90th Percentile - £25.85 -
Scotland median hourly rate £52.50 £20.94 £19.50
% change year-on-year +150.72% +7.38% +21.88%

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 184 133 242
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 25.48% 16.58% 26.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 124 97 140
10th Percentile £306 £227 £203
25th Percentile £324 £350 £396
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £442 £450 £513
Median % change year-on-year -1.72% -12.20% +9.33%
75th Percentile £580 £575 £600
90th Percentile £773 £615 £675
Scotland median daily rate £454 £450 £510
% change year-on-year +0.89% -11.76% +13.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 5 13
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £16.17 £16.75 -
Median hourly rate £60.91 £26.50 £40.94
Median % change year-on-year +129.85% -35.27% -
75th Percentile - £65.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £61.84 £75.92 -
Scotland median hourly rate £52.50 £22.94 £40.94
% change year-on-year +128.88% -43.97% +88.92%

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 22 April 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 9 (25.71%) Confluence
2 4 (11.43%) Apache Spark
2 4 (11.43%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (14.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 4 (11.43%) Microsoft Project
3 3 (8.57%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (8.57%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (2.86%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (2.86%) Adobe Illustrator
4 1 (2.86%) InDesign
4 1 (2.86%) Photoshop
Cloud Services
1 8 (22.86%) Azure
2 7 (20.00%) AWS
3 4 (11.43%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (11.43%) Collibra
4 2 (5.71%) Amazon Bedrock
4 2 (5.71%) Amazon SageMaker
4 2 (5.71%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (5.71%) GCP
4 2 (5.71%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (2.86%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (2.86%) Entra ID
5 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Copilot
5 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Purview
5 1 (2.86%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 6 (17.14%) DNS
1 6 (17.14%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (11.43%) Big Data
1 4 (11.43%) Hadoop
1 4 (11.43%) Metadata
1 4 (11.43%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (5.71%) Redis
2 2 (5.71%) SQL Server
3 1 (2.86%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 6 (17.14%) JIRA
2 4 (11.43%) Git
3 2 (5.71%) GitLab
General
1 15 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 11 (31.43%) Finance
3 8 (22.86%) Banking
4 6 (17.14%) Public Sector
5 4 (11.43%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (8.57%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (5.71%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (5.71%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (2.86%) Investment Banking
8 1 (2.86%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (34.29%) Analyst
2 7 (20.00%) Lead
3 6 (17.14%) SOC Analyst
4 4 (11.43%) Business Analyst
4 4 (11.43%) Scrum Master
5 3 (8.57%) Architect
5 3 (8.57%) Project Manager
6 2 (5.71%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
6 2 (5.71%) Developer
6 2 (5.71%) Executive Assistant
6 2 (5.71%) Finance Business Analyst
6 2 (5.71%) Financial Analyst
6 2 (5.71%) Financial Business Analyst
6 2 (5.71%) Full-Stack Developer
6 2 (5.71%) Java Developer
6 2 (5.71%) Risk Manager
6 2 (5.71%) Senior Analyst
6 2 (5.71%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 2 (5.71%) Technical Manager
6 2 (5.71%) Technical Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.71%) AngularJS
1 2 (5.71%) CrewAI
1 2 (5.71%) Elastic Stack
1 2 (5.71%) LangGraph
1 2 (5.71%) pgvector
1 2 (5.71%) React
1 2 (5.71%) Spring
1 2 (5.71%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 6 (17.14%) Cloud Native
1 6 (17.14%) Cyberattack
1 6 (17.14%) Product Ownership
1 6 (17.14%) Security Operations Centre
2 4 (11.43%) Onboarding
2 4 (11.43%) Reference Data
2 4 (11.43%) Virtual Team
3 2 (5.71%) AI Agents
3 2 (5.71%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (5.71%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (5.71%) Management Information System
3 2 (5.71%) Operational Technology
3 2 (5.71%) PMI
4 1 (2.86%) Cyber Defence
4 1 (2.86%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (2.86%) Data Structures
4 1 (2.86%) Educational Technology
4 1 (2.86%) Graphic Design
4 1 (2.86%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 8 (22.86%) Linux
1 8 (22.86%) Windows
2 2 (5.71%) Unix
3 1 (2.86%) Mac OS
3 1 (2.86%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (42.86%) Computer Science
2 14 (40.00%) Agile
2 14 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
3 13 (37.14%) Continuous Improvement
4 12 (34.29%) Stakeholder Management
5 11 (31.43%) CI/CD
5 11 (31.43%) Migration
6 10 (28.57%) Decision-Making
7 9 (25.71%) DevOps
8 8 (22.86%) Incident Response
8 8 (22.86%) Kanban
8 8 (22.86%) Scaled Agile Framework
8 8 (22.86%) Scrum
8 8 (22.86%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 7 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
9 7 (20.00%) Information Security
9 7 (20.00%) Matrix Organization
10 6 (17.14%) Analytics
10 6 (17.14%) Data Science
10 6 (17.14%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 5 (14.29%) Python
2 3 (8.57%) PowerShell
2 3 (8.57%) SQL
3 2 (5.71%) Bash
3 2 (5.71%) Java
Qualifications
1 15 (42.86%) Computer Science Degree
2 6 (17.14%) CompTIA CySA+
2 6 (17.14%) CompTIA Security+
3 5 (14.29%) Security Cleared
4 4 (11.43%) DV Cleared
4 4 (11.43%) SC Cleared
5 2 (5.71%) CCAB
5 2 (5.71%) Master's Degree
5 2 (5.71%) PMI Certification
6 1 (2.86%) AWS Certification
6 1 (2.86%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (2.86%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (2.86%) CBAP
6 1 (2.86%) CEH
6 1 (2.86%) CIMA
6 1 (2.86%) CISM
6 1 (2.86%) CISSP
6 1 (2.86%) IIBA
6 1 (2.86%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (2.86%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (11.43%) Data Quality
1 4 (11.43%) GDPR
2 2 (5.71%) COBIT
2 2 (5.71%) GRC
2 2 (5.71%) ISO 31000
2 2 (5.71%) ISO/IEC 27005
3 1 (2.86%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.86%) P3O
3 1 (2.86%) PMO
3 1 (2.86%) QA
System Software
1 4 (11.43%) Docker
2 1 (2.86%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (17.14%) Kubernetes
2 2 (5.71%) Ansible
2 2 (5.71%) Grafana
2 2 (5.71%) Progress Chef
2 2 (5.71%) Prometheus
2 2 (5.71%) Terraform
3 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 9 (25.71%) Microsoft
2 8 (22.86%) Splunk
3 2 (5.71%) Oracle
3 2 (5.71%) ServiceNow
4 1 (2.86%) Adobe
4 1 (2.86%) CrowdStrike