Senior Contracts in Glasgow

Senior
Scotland > Glasgow

The median Senior 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 30 22 15
Rank change year-on-year -8 -7 +11
Contract jobs requiring a Senior 60 77 100
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Glasgow 6.84% 8.42% 9.88%
As % of the Job Titles category 7.19% 8.83% 10.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 58 71
10th Percentile £403 £420 £380
25th Percentile £413 £457 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £581 £450
Median % change year-on-year -18.28% +29.17% +7.14%
75th Percentile £578 £671 £523
90th Percentile £601 £750 £565
Scotland median daily rate £500 £503 £475
% change year-on-year -0.60% +5.89% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Median hourly rate - £35.00 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year - +100.00% -
Scotland median hourly rate £60.00 £17.72 £35.00
% change year-on-year +238.60% -49.37% -63.54%

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%

Senior
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior in Glasgow

Senior
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

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

Daily rate trend for Senior in Glasgow

Senior
Daily Rate Histogram in Glasgow

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

Daily rate histogram for Senior in Glasgow

Senior
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Glasgow

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior in Glasgow

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

For the 6 months to 27 April 2024, Senior 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 Senior in the job title.

1 24 (40.00%) Agile
2 17 (28.33%) Public Sector
3 16 (26.67%) Security Cleared
4 15 (25.00%) JIRA
4 15 (25.00%) Java
5 14 (23.33%) Atlassian
5 14 (23.33%) AWS
5 14 (23.33%) SC Cleared
6 11 (18.33%) Microsoft
6 11 (18.33%) Problem Management
6 11 (18.33%) Spring
7 10 (16.67%) Banking
7 10 (16.67%) PowerShell
7 10 (16.67%) SQL Server
7 10 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
7 10 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
7 10 (16.67%) Microservices
7 10 (16.67%) Social Skills
8 9 (15.00%) Power Platform
8 9 (15.00%) Power BI
8 9 (15.00%) Spring Boot
8 9 (15.00%) Azure
8 9 (15.00%) SQL
8 9 (15.00%) RESTful
9 8 (13.33%) Visualisation
9 8 (13.33%) T-SQL
9 8 (13.33%) Finance
9 8 (13.33%) Confluence
9 8 (13.33%) Data Visualisation
9 8 (13.33%) High Availability

Senior 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 8 (13.33%) Confluence
2 5 (8.33%) IBM HTTP Server
2 5 (8.33%) WebSphere
2 5 (8.33%) WebSphere Application Server
2 5 (8.33%) WebSphere Portal
3 2 (3.33%) Cloud Foundry
4 1 (1.67%) SAS
4 1 (1.67%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 14 (23.33%) AWS
2 9 (15.00%) Azure
2 9 (15.00%) Power Platform
3 7 (11.67%) PowerApps
4 6 (10.00%) Power Automate
5 2 (3.33%) Azure Data Factory
5 2 (3.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 2 (3.33%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (1.67%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (1.67%) GCP
6 1 (1.67%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 5 (8.33%) HTTP
2 3 (5.00%) Firewall
3 2 (3.33%) Network Security
4 1 (1.67%) BGP
4 1 (1.67%) EIGRP
4 1 (1.67%) Fibre Channel
4 1 (1.67%) IPsec
4 1 (1.67%) iSCSI
4 1 (1.67%) MPLS
4 1 (1.67%) NAS
4 1 (1.67%) OSPF
4 1 (1.67%) SAN
4 1 (1.67%) SCCP
4 1 (1.67%) SD-WAN
4 1 (1.67%) VPN
4 1 (1.67%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (16.67%) SQL Server
2 9 (15.00%) Power BI
3 7 (11.67%) MongoDB
3 7 (11.67%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 15 (25.00%) JIRA
2 5 (8.33%) IBM UrbanCode
3 3 (5.00%) Git
4 2 (3.33%) JUnit
4 2 (3.33%) Subversion
5 1 (1.67%) Jenkins
5 1 (1.67%) Maven
General
1 17 (28.33%) Public Sector
2 10 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
2 10 (16.67%) Banking
2 10 (16.67%) Social Skills
3 8 (13.33%) Finance
4 3 (5.00%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (3.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.67%) Influencing Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (18.33%) Spring
2 9 (15.00%) RESTful
2 9 (15.00%) Spring Boot
3 5 (8.33%) J2EE
3 5 (8.33%) Middleware
4 3 (5.00%) React
4 3 (5.00%) REST
5 2 (3.33%) CSS
5 2 (3.33%) HTML
5 2 (3.33%) JSON
5 2 (3.33%) Kafka
5 2 (3.33%) NumPy
5 2 (3.33%) Pandas
5 2 (3.33%) PySpark
5 2 (3.33%) XML
6 1 (1.67%) Flash
6 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Graph
6 1 (1.67%) POSIX
6 1 (1.67%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 6 (10.00%) Cloud Native
2 2 (3.33%) Management Information System
2 2 (3.33%) Product Ownership
3 1 (1.67%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (1.67%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 7 (11.67%) Linux
1 7 (11.67%) Windows
2 2 (3.33%) Unix
2 2 (3.33%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (40.00%) Agile
2 11 (18.33%) Problem Management
3 10 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
3 10 (16.67%) Microservices
4 8 (13.33%) Data Visualisation
4 8 (13.33%) High Availability
4 8 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
4 8 (13.33%) Visualisation
5 7 (11.67%) Analytics
6 6 (10.00%) Business Intelligence
6 6 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
6 6 (10.00%) Data Analysis
6 6 (10.00%) ITIL
6 6 (10.00%) Project Delivery
6 6 (10.00%) Scrum
7 5 (8.33%) Cybersecurity
7 5 (8.33%) Project Management
8 4 (6.67%) Deployment Automation
8 4 (6.67%) DevOps
8 4 (6.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 15 (25.00%) Java
2 10 (16.67%) PowerShell
3 9 (15.00%) SQL
4 8 (13.33%) T-SQL
5 5 (8.33%) Python
6 2 (3.33%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.67%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 16 (26.67%) Security Cleared
2 14 (23.33%) SC Cleared
3 3 (5.00%) Degree
4 1 (1.67%) CCNA
4 1 (1.67%) CCNP
4 1 (1.67%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (1.67%) CISSP
4 1 (1.67%) CLAS
4 1 (1.67%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
4 1 (1.67%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (10.00%) PMO
2 3 (5.00%) Disclosure Scotland
3 2 (3.33%) Accessibility
3 2 (3.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.67%) HMG Security Policy Framework
4 1 (1.67%) P3O
System Software
1 1 (1.67%) NFS
Systems Management
1 2 (3.33%) Grafana
1 2 (3.33%) Terraform
2 1 (1.67%) Ansible
2 1 (1.67%) FortiGate
2 1 (1.67%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (1.67%) Prometheus
2 1 (1.67%) SCCM
Vendors
1 14 (23.33%) Atlassian
2 11 (18.33%) Microsoft
3 7 (11.67%) IBM
4 2 (3.33%) Cisco
4 2 (3.33%) Oracle
5 1 (1.67%) Fortinet
5 1 (1.67%) Google
5 1 (1.67%) Meraki
5 1 (1.67%) Palo Alto
5 1 (1.67%) Reuters
5 1 (1.67%) Splunk