Developer Contracts in Glasgow

Developer
Scotland > Glasgow

The median Developer daily rate in Glasgow is £475 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 4 5 5
Rank change year-on-year +1 0 -2
Contract jobs requiring a Developer 160 162 186
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Glasgow 18.24% 17.70% 18.38%
As % of the Job Titles category 19.18% 18.58% 19.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 97 104 102
10th Percentile £348 £413 £350
25th Percentile £400 £464 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £586 £450
Median % change year-on-year -18.98% +30.28% +9.76%
75th Percentile £545 £750 £513
90th Percentile £750 - £565
Scotland median daily rate £460 £477 £475
% change year-on-year -3.56% +0.42% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 1
10th Percentile £26.13 - -
25th Percentile £30.32 - £46.00
Median hourly rate £38.38 £47.73 £47.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.59% +1.55% -
75th Percentile £46.61 - £48.00
90th Percentile £50.89 - -
Scotland median hourly rate £38.38 £62.02 £54.50
% change year-on-year -38.12% +13.79% +36.25%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Glasgow

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Glasgow. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Glasgow with a recognized job title 834 872 979
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.10% 95.30% 96.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 549 645 745
10th Percentile £270 £313 £209
25th Percentile £378 £406 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +5.56% +10.43%
75th Percentile £588 £590 £538
90th Percentile £675 £701 £600
Scotland median daily rate £475 £475 £460
% change year-on-year - +3.26% +8.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 16 11
10th Percentile £13.50 £12.00 £17.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £13.97 £21.00
Median hourly rate £24.26 £28.75 £25.28
Median % change year-on-year -15.63% +13.75% +13.60%
75th Percentile £47.35 £58.75 £41.75
90th Percentile £65.00 £63.56 £48.00
Scotland median hourly rate £33.25 £23.86 £25.55
% change year-on-year +39.35% -6.60% -36.14%

Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

Job postings that featured Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Glasgow.

Job vacancy trend for Developer in Glasgow

Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Developer in Glasgow.

Daily rate trend for Developer in Glasgow

Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in Glasgow

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Developer in Glasgow over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Developer in Glasgow

Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Glasgow

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Developer in Glasgow.

Hourly rate trend for Developer in Glasgow

Developer
Hourly Rate Histogram in Glasgow

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Developer in Glasgow over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Developer in Glasgow

Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Glasgow

For the 6 months to 27 April 2024, Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Glasgow region featuring Developer in the job title.

1 79 (49.38%) Java
2 64 (40.00%) Agile
3 55 (34.38%) AWS
4 48 (30.00%) SQL
5 46 (28.75%) Software Engineering
6 45 (28.13%) Python
7 41 (25.63%) Microservices
8 40 (25.00%) Spring
9 33 (20.63%) CI/CD
10 30 (18.75%) Code Quality
10 30 (18.75%) Artificial Intelligence
11 28 (17.50%) JavaScript
11 28 (17.50%) Spring Boot
11 28 (17.50%) RESTful
12 27 (16.88%) Scala
12 27 (16.88%) Degree
13 26 (16.25%) Linux
13 26 (16.25%) Test Automation
14 25 (15.63%) Git
14 25 (15.63%) SDLC
15 24 (15.00%) REST
15 24 (15.00%) Finance
16 23 (14.38%) HTML
16 23 (14.38%) PayPal
16 23 (14.38%) Chatbot
16 23 (14.38%) Conversational UI
17 22 (13.75%) Jenkins
18 18 (11.25%) React
18 18 (11.25%) JIRA
19 17 (10.63%) Banking

Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Glasgow by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 6 (3.75%) Apache Spark
2 4 (2.50%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (1.88%) Confluence
4 2 (1.25%) Cloud Foundry
4 2 (1.25%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.63%) Apache
5 1 (0.63%) EPiServer
5 1 (0.63%) GeoServer
5 1 (0.63%) IIS
5 1 (0.63%) SAS
5 1 (0.63%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 23 (14.38%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.63%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.63%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 55 (34.38%) AWS
2 13 (8.13%) Azure
3 8 (5.00%) GCP
4 7 (4.38%) AWS Lambda
4 7 (4.38%) Serverless
5 6 (3.75%) Amazon S3
5 6 (3.75%) AWS CloudFormation
5 6 (3.75%) Power Platform
6 3 (1.88%) Amazon SageMaker
7 2 (1.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 2 (1.25%) Amazon EMR
7 2 (1.25%) npm
7 2 (1.25%) OpenShift
7 2 (1.25%) SaaS
7 2 (1.25%) Snowflake
7 2 (1.25%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 1 (0.63%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (0.63%) Amazon SQS
8 1 (0.63%) IaaS
8 1 (0.63%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 10 (6.25%) SSL
2 9 (5.63%) TCP/IP
3 8 (5.00%) HTTP
4 7 (4.38%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 7 (4.38%) NetScaler
5 6 (3.75%) Kerberos
6 2 (1.25%) DNS
6 2 (1.25%) Fibre Channel
6 2 (1.25%) iSCSI
7 1 (0.63%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (6.25%) Relational Database
2 7 (4.38%) Oracle Database
3 6 (3.75%) Amazon Aurora
3 6 (3.75%) Big Data
3 6 (3.75%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (3.75%) Power BI
4 5 (3.13%) DB2
5 4 (2.50%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (2.50%) GIS
5 4 (2.50%) Parquet
6 3 (1.88%) MariaDB
6 3 (1.88%) MySQL
6 3 (1.88%) NoSQL
7 2 (1.25%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.63%) Crystal Reports
8 1 (0.63%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.63%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.63%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.63%) QGIS
8 1 (0.63%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 25 (15.63%) Git
2 22 (13.75%) Jenkins
3 18 (11.25%) JIRA
4 6 (3.75%) Bitbucket
5 4 (2.50%) Cucumber
5 4 (2.50%) JUnit
6 3 (1.88%) webpack
7 2 (1.25%) Cypress.io
7 2 (1.25%) Mockito
7 2 (1.25%) Selenium
7 2 (1.25%) Subversion
7 2 (1.25%) WebDriver
8 1 (0.63%) CircleCI
8 1 (0.63%) GitLab
8 1 (0.63%) Maven
8 1 (0.63%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 24 (15.00%) Finance
2 17 (10.63%) Banking
3 15 (9.38%) Social Skills
4 12 (7.50%) Financial Institution
5 9 (5.63%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (5.63%) Public Sector
6 8 (5.00%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (3.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (2.50%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.63%) Law
9 1 (0.63%) Local Government
9 1 (0.63%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (25.00%) Spring
2 28 (17.50%) RESTful
2 28 (17.50%) Spring Boot
3 24 (15.00%) REST
4 23 (14.38%) HTML
5 18 (11.25%) React
6 17 (10.63%) CSS
7 16 (10.00%) Kafka
8 15 (9.38%) AngularJS
9 12 (7.50%) JSON
10 11 (6.88%) XML
11 10 (6.25%) PySpark
12 7 (4.38%) Web Services
13 6 (3.75%) LDAP
13 6 (3.75%) Node.js
13 6 (3.75%) OpenID
14 5 (3.13%) AWS CDK
14 5 (3.13%) Elastic Stack
14 5 (3.13%) OpenTracing
15 4 (2.50%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 8 (5.00%) Data Structures
1 8 (5.00%) Distributed Systems
2 7 (4.38%) Cloud Native
3 6 (3.75%) Algorithms
3 6 (3.75%) Enterprise Cloud
4 5 (3.13%) Data Protection Act
4 5 (3.13%) Distributed Computing
4 5 (3.13%) Public Cloud
5 3 (1.88%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.25%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (1.25%) Private Cloud
7 1 (0.63%) Client/Server
7 1 (0.63%) CMDB
7 1 (0.63%) Distributed Applications
7 1 (0.63%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.63%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.63%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.63%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.63%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 26 (16.25%) Linux
2 17 (10.63%) Unix
3 3 (1.88%) Windows
3 3 (1.88%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (40.00%) Agile
2 46 (28.75%) Software Engineering
3 41 (25.63%) Microservices
4 33 (20.63%) CI/CD
5 30 (18.75%) Artificial Intelligence
5 30 (18.75%) Code Quality
6 26 (16.25%) Test Automation
7 25 (15.63%) SDLC
8 23 (14.38%) Conversational UI
9 17 (10.63%) Infrastructure as Code
10 16 (10.00%) Unit Testing
11 15 (9.38%) Full Stack Development
12 14 (8.75%) Data Modelling
12 14 (8.75%) TDD
13 12 (7.50%) Continuous Integration
14 11 (6.88%) OO
15 10 (6.25%) DevOps
16 9 (5.63%) CRM
16 9 (5.63%) End-to-End Testing
16 9 (5.63%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 79 (49.38%) Java
2 48 (30.00%) SQL
3 45 (28.13%) Python
4 28 (17.50%) JavaScript
5 27 (16.88%) Scala
6 12 (7.50%) TypeScript
7 11 (6.88%) Bash
7 11 (6.88%) C#
8 10 (6.25%) Perl
9 9 (5.63%) Kotlin
10 7 (4.38%) PL/SQL
11 6 (3.75%) C
11 6 (3.75%) Go
12 3 (1.88%) PHP
12 3 (1.88%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.63%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 1 (0.63%) PowerShell
13 1 (0.63%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 27 (16.88%) Degree
2 4 (2.50%) Security Cleared
3 3 (1.88%) SC Cleared
4 1 (0.63%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (5.00%) Accessibility
2 4 (2.50%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.25%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (0.63%) GDPR
4 1 (0.63%) WCAG
System Software
1 9 (5.63%) Docker
2 7 (4.38%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.25%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.63%) NFS
4 1 (0.63%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 11 (6.88%) Kubernetes
2 5 (3.13%) Prometheus
2 5 (3.13%) Zipkin
3 4 (2.50%) Grafana
4 3 (1.88%) Terraform
5 2 (1.25%) Ansible
6 1 (0.63%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.63%) Puppet
Vendors
1 23 (14.38%) PayPal
2 12 (7.50%) Oracle
3 9 (5.63%) Avaloq
4 7 (4.38%) F5
5 6 (3.75%) Cadence
6 3 (1.88%) Microsoft
6 3 (1.88%) Sybase
7 2 (1.25%) Databricks
7 2 (1.25%) IBM
7 2 (1.25%) Sage
7 2 (1.25%) VMware
8 1 (0.63%) Google
8 1 (0.63%) Greenplum
8 1 (0.63%) IFS
8 1 (0.63%) Optimizely
8 1 (0.63%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.63%) ServiceNow