Software Engineering Contracts in Glasgow

Software Engineering
Scotland > Glasgow

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Glasgow with a requirement for Software Engineering skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Software Engineering over the 6 months to 23 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 20 45 36
Rank change year-on-year +25 -9 +9
Contract jobs citing Software Engineering 73 43 52
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Glasgow 8.11% 4.71% 5.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.82% 5.00% 5.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 24 17
10th Percentile £400 £358 £376
25th Percentile £416 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +3.90%
75th Percentile £516 £656 £553
90th Percentile £750 £700 £638
Scotland median daily rate £500 £475 £525
% change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% +11.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £52.50 £56.25 -
Median hourly rate £60.00 £57.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% - -
75th Percentile £62.50 £58.75 -
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median hourly rate £60.00 £57.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year +4.35% +9.52% +31.25%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Glasgow

Software Engineering is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Glasgow with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 828 860 941
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 92.00% 94.30% 92.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 530 625 713
10th Percentile £285 £325 £257
25th Percentile £400 £410 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +5.56% +9.76%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £538
90th Percentile £675 £713 £600
Scotland median daily rate £475 £475 £465
% change year-on-year - +2.15% +9.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 27 12
10th Percentile £13.75 - £17.85
25th Percentile £16.00 £10.63 £21.00
Median hourly rate £21.13 £13.50 £32.90
Median % change year-on-year +56.50% -58.97% +31.61%
75th Percentile £44.14 £35.00 £44.63
90th Percentile £63.75 £59.47 £49.39
Scotland median hourly rate £19.50 £18.11 £31.50
% change year-on-year +7.68% -42.51% -27.59%

Software Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

Job postings citing Software Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Glasgow.

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineering in Glasgow

Software Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

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

Daily rate trend for Software Engineering in Glasgow

Software Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in Glasgow

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Software Engineering in Glasgow over the 6 months to 23 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Software Engineering in Glasgow

Software Engineering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Glasgow

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

Hourly rate trend for Software Engineering in Glasgow

Software Engineering
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 (8.22%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (4.11%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 11 (15.07%) Chatbot
2 1 (1.37%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 23 (31.51%) AWS
2 4 (5.48%) Amazon S3
2 4 (5.48%) AWS Lambda
2 4 (5.48%) Azure
2 4 (5.48%) npm
2 4 (5.48%) Serverless
3 3 (4.11%) CloudFront
3 3 (4.11%) GCP
4 2 (2.74%) IaaS
5 1 (1.37%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (1.37%) Figma
5 1 (1.37%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.37%) DNS
1 1 (1.37%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (6.85%) Relational Database
2 4 (5.48%) Big Data
2 4 (5.48%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (4.11%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (4.11%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (4.11%) Parquet
4 1 (1.37%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (1.37%) DB2
4 1 (1.37%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.37%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (6.85%) Cucumber
1 5 (6.85%) JUnit
1 5 (6.85%) Mockito
2 3 (4.11%) webpack
3 2 (2.74%) Cypress.io
3 2 (2.74%) JIRA
4 1 (1.37%) CircleCI
4 1 (1.37%) GitLab
4 1 (1.37%) Jenkins
General
1 18 (24.66%) Finance
2 11 (15.07%) Financial Institution
2 11 (15.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (1.37%) Banking
3 1 (1.37%) Investment Banking
3 1 (1.37%) Law
3 1 (1.37%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 43 (58.90%) Developer
2 23 (31.51%) Java Developer
3 12 (16.44%) Java Scala Developer
3 12 (16.44%) Linux Developer
3 12 (16.44%) Scala Developer
4 11 (15.07%) Full Stack Engineer
4 11 (15.07%) Lead
4 11 (15.07%) Software Developer
5 10 (13.70%) Java Engineer
6 9 (12.33%) Software Engineer
7 5 (6.85%) AWS Engineer
7 5 (6.85%) Backend Developer
7 5 (6.85%) C++ Software Engineer
7 5 (6.85%) Python Engineer
8 4 (5.48%) Linux Scripter
8 4 (5.48%) Python Developer
8 4 (5.48%) Technical Leader
9 3 (4.11%) Embedded C++ Engineer
9 3 (4.11%) Embedded Software Engineer
9 3 (4.11%) Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (32.88%) HTML
2 13 (17.81%) CSS
2 13 (17.81%) Spring
3 12 (16.44%) REST
4 11 (15.07%) PySpark
4 11 (15.07%) Spring Boot
5 10 (13.70%) AngularJS
6 9 (12.33%) JPA
7 7 (9.59%) RESTful
8 6 (8.22%) React
9 3 (4.11%) Apache Avro
9 3 (4.11%) GraphQL
9 3 (4.11%) Kafka
9 3 (4.11%) Node.js
9 3 (4.11%) OAuth
10 2 (2.74%) Elastic Stack
10 2 (2.74%) OpenCV
10 2 (2.74%) OpenTracing
11 1 (1.37%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 9 (12.33%) Public Cloud
2 6 (8.22%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (6.85%) Data Structures
4 4 (5.48%) Algorithms
5 3 (4.11%) Distributed Computing
5 3 (4.11%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (2.74%) Cloud Native
6 2 (2.74%) CUDA
6 2 (2.74%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.37%) Data Centre
7 1 (1.37%) Distributed Applications
7 1 (1.37%) Embedded Systems
7 1 (1.37%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.37%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 21 (28.77%) Linux
2 5 (6.85%) Unix
3 3 (4.11%) Embedded Linux
4 1 (1.37%) Android
4 1 (1.37%) Apple iOS
4 1 (1.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (45.21%) Agile
2 25 (34.25%) CI/CD
3 23 (31.51%) SDLC
4 21 (28.77%) Artificial Intelligence
5 19 (26.03%) Full Stack Development
6 16 (21.92%) Operational Stability
7 15 (20.55%) Microservices
8 11 (15.07%) Code Quality
8 11 (15.07%) Community of Practice
8 11 (15.07%) Conversational UI
9 10 (13.70%) Decision-Making
9 10 (13.70%) Machine Learning
10 8 (10.96%) Test Automation
11 6 (8.22%) Scrum
11 6 (8.22%) Unit Testing
12 5 (6.85%) End-to-End Testing
13 4 (5.48%) Data Modelling
13 4 (5.48%) Design Patterns
13 4 (5.48%) OO
14 3 (4.11%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 35 (47.95%) Java
2 28 (38.36%) Python
3 25 (34.25%) SQL
4 20 (27.40%) Scala
5 15 (20.55%) JavaScript
6 13 (17.81%) TypeScript
7 11 (15.07%) C#
8 6 (8.22%) Kotlin
9 5 (6.85%) C++
10 3 (4.11%) Embedded C++
11 1 (1.37%) Perl
11 1 (1.37%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 11 (15.07%) Degree
2 1 (1.37%) DV Cleared
2 1 (1.37%) SC Cleared
2 1 (1.37%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.11%) Data Quality
2 2 (2.74%) Accessibility
System Software
1 3 (4.11%) Docker
2 2 (2.74%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (6.85%) Prometheus
2 4 (5.48%) Grafana
3 3 (4.11%) Ansible
3 3 (4.11%) Kubernetes
4 2 (2.74%) Zipkin
Vendors
1 11 (15.07%) PayPal
2 2 (2.74%) NVIDIA
2 2 (2.74%) VMware
3 1 (1.37%) Greenplum
3 1 (1.37%) Microsoft
3 1 (1.37%) Red Hat