Master's Degree Contract Job Trends in Glasgow

Master's Degree
Scotland > Glasgow

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Glasgow with a requirement for Master's Degree qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 19 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 74 60 67
Rank change year-on-year -14 +7 +12
Contract jobs citing Master's Degree 8 6 6
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 1.08% 0.86% 0.73%
As % of the Qualifications category 4.44% 3.11% 2.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 5 4
10th Percentile £338 £483 £391
25th Percentile £394 £513 £435
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £603 £534
Median % change year-on-year -25.31% +12.93% +144.72%
75th Percentile £489 £625 £688
90th Percentile £514 - £755
Scotland median daily rate £450 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -10.00% +5.26% +28.81%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Glasgow

Master's 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 180 193 228
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 24.36% 27.65% 27.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 121 119 139
10th Percentile £181 £301 £250
25th Percentile £354 £363 £395
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £471 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.36% -5.90% +3.09%
75th Percentile £538 £600 £600
90th Percentile £635 £700 £700
Scotland median daily rate £450 £425 £475
% change year-on-year +5.88% -10.53% +2.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 4 0
10th Percentile £16.14 £22.40 -
25th Percentile £16.84 £28.25 -
Median hourly rate £17.45 £36.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -52.21% - -
75th Percentile £18.05 £45.00 -
90th Percentile £20.89 £49.50 -
Scotland median hourly rate £20.00 £18.00 £56.40
% change year-on-year +11.11% -68.09% +98.85%

Master's Degree
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Master's Degree relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow.

Master's Degree job vacancy trend in Glasgow

Master's Degree
Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing Master's Degree.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing Master's Degree

Master's Degree
Daily Rate Histogram in Glasgow

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Master's Degree in Glasgow over the 6 months to 19 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Master's Degree in Glasgow

Master's Degree
Hourly Rate Trend in Glasgow

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing Master's Degree.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing Master's Degree

Master's 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (50.00%) OpenShift
2 2 (25.00%) AWS
3 1 (12.50%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (50.00%) Big Data
1 4 (50.00%) NoSQL
1 4 (50.00%) Redis
Development Applications
1 4 (50.00%) Artifactory
1 4 (50.00%) Jenkins
General
1 5 (62.50%) Social Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Organisational Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Data Engineer
1 3 (37.50%) Python Data Engineer
1 3 (37.50%) Python Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Release Manager
2 2 (25.00%) Software Manager
2 2 (25.00%) Software Release Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) AWS DevOps
3 1 (12.50%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (50.00%) FastAPI
1 4 (50.00%) Flask
1 4 (50.00%) Hugging Face
1 4 (50.00%) Kafka
1 4 (50.00%) LangChain
1 4 (50.00%) LangGraph
1 4 (50.00%) Loki
1 4 (50.00%) OAuth
1 4 (50.00%) OAuth2
1 4 (50.00%) OpenTelemetry
1 4 (50.00%) PyTorch
1 4 (50.00%) RESTful
1 4 (50.00%) TensorFlow
2 1 (12.50%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 4 (50.00%) AI Agents
1 4 (50.00%) Private Cloud
2 1 (12.50%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (87.50%) CI/CD
1 7 (87.50%) Computer Science
2 6 (75.00%) Agile
2 6 (75.00%) DevOps
3 4 (50.00%) AI
3 4 (50.00%) BDD
3 4 (50.00%) Data Engineering
3 4 (50.00%) Data Governance
3 4 (50.00%) Data Privacy
3 4 (50.00%) Deep Learning
3 4 (50.00%) Machine Learning
3 4 (50.00%) Microservices
3 4 (50.00%) Multithreading
3 4 (50.00%) Performance Testing
3 4 (50.00%) Scrum
3 4 (50.00%) Secure Coding
3 4 (50.00%) Software Engineering
3 4 (50.00%) Unit Testing
3 4 (50.00%) Use Case
3 4 (50.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 4 (50.00%) Python
1 4 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (100.00%) Degree
2 6 (75.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (12.50%) AWS Certification
3 1 (12.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (12.50%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (12.50%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) QA
2 1 (12.50%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 4 (50.00%) Grafana
1 4 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 4 (50.00%) Kustomize
1 4 (50.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) Avaya
1 1 (12.50%) Cisco