Full-Stack Engineer Contract Job Trends in Glasgow

Full-Stack Engineer
Scotland > Glasgow

The median Full-Stack Engineer daily rate in Glasgow is £448, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 2 February 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 69 71 75
Rank change year-on-year +2 +4 -
Contract jobs requiring a Full-Stack Engineer 4 6 6
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 0.59% 0.79% 0.65%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.62% 0.87% 0.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 6 2
10th Percentile £393 £334 £427
25th Percentile £410 £356 £439
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £448 £358 £469
Median % change year-on-year +25.21% -23.63% -
75th Percentile £495 £450 £489
90th Percentile £517 £480 £496
Scotland median daily rate £448 £360 £488
% change year-on-year +24.51% -26.15% -

All Contract IT Job Roles
Glasgow

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies 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 641 693 886
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.26% 90.94% 96.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 391 429 588
10th Percentile £275 £305 £313
25th Percentile £375 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £445 £498
Median % change year-on-year +1.12% -10.55% +4.74%
75th Percentile £568 £538 £600
90th Percentile £675 £625 £697
Scotland median daily rate £450 £450 £475
% change year-on-year - -5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 14 23
10th Percentile £16.17 £11.78 £11.50
25th Percentile £22.39 £15.60 £15.42
Median hourly rate £26.09 £19.59 £16.70
Median % change year-on-year +33.18% +17.31% -0.30%
75th Percentile £49.15 £26.86 £19.50
90th Percentile £61.71 £40.10 £75.00
Scotland median hourly rate £23.75 £22.94 £45.00
% change year-on-year +3.54% -49.03% +153.95%

Full-Stack Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Full-Stack Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow.

Full-Stack Engineer job vacancy trend in Glasgow

Full-Stack Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Full-Stack Engineer job vacancies in Glasgow.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Full-Stack Engineer job vacancies in Glasgow

Full-Stack Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Glasgow

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Full-Stack Engineer in Glasgow over the 6 months to 2 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Full-Stack Engineer in Glasgow

Full-Stack Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Glasgow

For the 6 months to 2 February 2026, Full-Stack Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Glasgow region featuring Full-Stack Engineer in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 3 (75.00%) Agile
2 3 (75.00%) User Experience
3 2 (50.00%) Decision-Making
3 2 (50.00%) DevOps
3 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (50.00%) Java
3 2 (50.00%) Kubernetes
3 2 (50.00%) Microservices
3 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (50.00%) RESTful
3 2 (50.00%) Spring
3 2 (50.00%) Spring Boot
3 2 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
3 2 (50.00%) Terraform
4 1 (25.00%) .NET
4 1 (25.00%) API Management
4 1 (25.00%) Azure
4 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (25.00%) BDD
4 1 (25.00%) C#
4 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
4 1 (25.00%) Collaborative Engineering
4 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
4 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (25.00%) Docker
4 1 (25.00%) Fintech
4 1 (25.00%) GitHub
4 1 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Automation

Full-Stack Engineer Skill Set
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (25.00%) GitHub
1 1 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (25.00%) Relational Database
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
General
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Banking
2 1 (25.00%) Financial Institution
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) RESTful
1 2 (50.00%) Spring
1 2 (50.00%) Spring Boot
2 1 (25.00%) .NET
2 1 (25.00%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 3 (75.00%) Agile
2 3 (75.00%) User Experience
3 2 (50.00%) Decision-Making
3 2 (50.00%) DevOps
3 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (50.00%) Microservices
3 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
4 1 (25.00%) API Management
4 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
4 1 (25.00%) Collaborative Engineering
4 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
4 1 (25.00%) Fintech
4 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Automation
4 1 (25.00%) Integration Patterns
4 1 (25.00%) SDLC
4 1 (25.00%) Secure Coding
4 1 (25.00%) Software Engineering
4 1 (25.00%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Java
2 1 (25.00%) C#
2 1 (25.00%) SQL
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle