Software Engineering Contracts in Glasgow

Software Engineering
Scotland > Glasgow

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Glasgow requiring Software Engineering skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Software Engineering over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 22 20 43
Rank change year-on-year -2 +23 -11
Contract jobs citing Software Engineering 72 77 42
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Glasgow 9.02% 8.78% 4.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.64% 9.55% 4.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 43 26
10th Percentile £300 £400 £359
25th Percentile £386 £415 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £498 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.53% -0.50% -4.76%
75th Percentile £550 £511 £647
90th Percentile £575 £750 £700
Scotland median daily rate £478 £498 £475
% change year-on-year -4.02% +4.74% -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 2
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 £60.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year - +4.35% +9.52%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Glasgow

Software Engineering falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Glasgow.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 747 806 862
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 93.61% 91.90% 94.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 478 515 629
10th Percentile £311 £280 £325
25th Percentile £393 £400 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% - +5.56%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £600
90th Percentile £603 £675 £701
Scotland median daily rate £463 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -2.63% - +2.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 40 27
10th Percentile £16.18 £13.75 -
25th Percentile £16.75 £16.00 £10.63
Median hourly rate £19.83 £21.13 £13.50
Median % change year-on-year -6.14% +56.50% -66.24%
75th Percentile £65.00 £44.14 £35.00
90th Percentile £76.83 £63.75 £59.47
Scotland median hourly rate £21.59 £19.34 £17.72
% change year-on-year +11.66% +9.11% -55.69%

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 1 May 2025.

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 2 (2.78%) Confluence
2 1 (1.39%) Camunda
2 1 (1.39%) JBoss
2 1 (1.39%) OpenROAD
2 1 (1.39%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.39%) Acrobat
Business Applications
1 1 (1.39%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 14 (19.44%) AWS
2 12 (16.67%) Azure
3 7 (9.72%) Amazon S3
4 5 (6.94%) Cloud Computing
4 5 (6.94%) OpenShift
5 3 (4.17%) BlazeMeter
6 2 (2.78%) Power Automate
6 2 (2.78%) Power Platform
6 2 (2.78%) Serverless
6 2 (2.78%) Snowflake
7 1 (1.39%) Amazon OpenSearch
7 1 (1.39%) Amazon SageMaker
7 1 (1.39%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (1.39%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (1.39%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (1.39%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (1.39%) Entra ID
7 1 (1.39%) GCP
7 1 (1.39%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (1.39%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 6 (8.33%) SAN
2 5 (6.94%) NAS
3 1 (1.39%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (30.56%) Relational Database
2 14 (19.44%) MongoDB
3 11 (15.28%) DB2
4 7 (9.72%) RDBMS
5 6 (8.33%) NoSQL
6 3 (4.17%) Apache Cassandra
7 2 (2.78%) KDB
7 2 (2.78%) Kdb+
7 2 (2.78%) MariaDB
7 2 (2.78%) MySQL
8 1 (1.39%) DynamoDB
8 1 (1.39%) Hadoop
8 1 (1.39%) Neo4j
8 1 (1.39%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (1.39%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 19 (26.39%) JUnit
2 8 (11.11%) Git
3 6 (8.33%) Jenkins
4 5 (6.94%) JIRA
5 3 (4.17%) Xcode
6 2 (2.78%) Cucumber
6 2 (2.78%) Mockito
7 1 (1.39%) Bitbucket
7 1 (1.39%) SonarQube
7 1 (1.39%) Visual Studio
General
1 25 (34.72%) Finance
2 18 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 18 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 7 (9.72%) Financial Institution
3 7 (9.72%) Front Office
4 5 (6.94%) Banking
5 4 (5.56%) Public Sector
6 3 (4.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.39%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.39%) Legal
7 1 (1.39%) Marketing
7 1 (1.39%) Military
7 1 (1.39%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 45 (62.50%) Developer
2 39 (54.17%) Java Developer
3 12 (16.67%) Linux Developer
4 11 (15.28%) Software Engineer
5 9 (12.50%) Linux Scripter
6 8 (11.11%) Core Java Developer
7 7 (9.72%) Python Engineer
8 6 (8.33%) Java Engineer
9 3 (4.17%) Database Developer
9 3 (4.17%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 3 (4.17%) Java Software Engineer
9 3 (4.17%) Lead
9 3 (4.17%) Mobile Engineer
9 3 (4.17%) Python Software Engineer
9 3 (4.17%) Software Developer
10 2 (2.78%) C++ Software Engineer
10 2 (2.78%) Full-Stack Java Developer
10 2 (2.78%) Junior
10 2 (2.78%) Lead Java Engineer
10 2 (2.78%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (43.06%) Spring
2 17 (23.61%) Spring Boot
3 14 (19.44%) Kafka
4 7 (9.72%) JMS
5 5 (6.94%) React
6 4 (5.56%) CSS
6 4 (5.56%) REST
7 3 (4.17%) AngularJS
7 3 (4.17%) Middleware
7 3 (4.17%) SOAP
7 3 (4.17%) SwiftUI
7 3 (4.17%) UIKit
8 2 (2.78%) MSMQ
9 1 (1.39%) .NET
9 1 (1.39%) .NET Framework
9 1 (1.39%) ASP.NET
9 1 (1.39%) HTML
9 1 (1.39%) J2EE
9 1 (1.39%) Java EE
9 1 (1.39%) Java SE
Miscellaneous
1 19 (26.39%) Data Structures
2 14 (19.44%) Algorithms
3 5 (6.94%) Enterprise Software
3 5 (6.94%) Equities
3 5 (6.94%) Equity Derivative
4 4 (5.56%) Virtual Team
5 3 (4.17%) Credit Risk
5 3 (4.17%) Derivative
5 3 (4.17%) iPad
5 3 (4.17%) iPhone
5 3 (4.17%) Mobile App
6 2 (2.78%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (2.78%) Onboarding
6 2 (2.78%) Public Cloud
7 1 (1.39%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (1.39%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (1.39%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 33 (45.83%) Linux
2 19 (26.39%) Unix
3 8 (11.11%) Windows
4 5 (6.94%) Windows Server
5 3 (4.17%) Android
5 3 (4.17%) Apple iOS
6 1 (1.39%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (43.06%) Problem-Solving
2 29 (40.28%) Agile
3 26 (36.11%) Multithreading
4 22 (30.56%) CI/CD
5 17 (23.61%) Concurrent Programming
5 17 (23.61%) SDLC
6 12 (16.67%) Design Patterns
7 10 (13.89%) Computer Science
8 9 (12.50%) Decision-Making
8 9 (12.50%) DevOps
8 9 (12.50%) Test Automation
9 8 (11.11%) Data Protection
9 8 (11.11%) Full-Stack Development
9 8 (11.11%) Scrum
10 7 (9.72%) Containerisation
10 7 (9.72%) Open Source
10 7 (9.72%) Process Improvement
10 7 (9.72%) Project Delivery
11 6 (8.33%) Microservices
11 6 (8.33%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 52 (72.22%) Java
2 35 (48.61%) SQL
3 25 (34.72%) Python
4 10 (13.89%) Shell Script
5 8 (11.11%) JavaScript
6 5 (6.94%) C++
6 5 (6.94%) TypeScript
7 3 (4.17%) C#
7 3 (4.17%) Objective-C
7 3 (4.17%) Swift
8 1 (1.39%) PL/SQL
8 1 (1.39%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (4.17%) Degree
2 1 (1.39%) AWS Certification
2 1 (1.39%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (1.39%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (1.39%) SC Cleared
2 1 (1.39%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.17%) Disclosure Scotland
1 3 (4.17%) QA
System Software
1 4 (5.56%) Docker
2 1 (1.39%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.39%) GPFS
Systems Management
1 10 (13.89%) Kubernetes
2 8 (11.11%) Terraform
3 5 (6.94%) NetBackup
3 5 (6.94%) Oracle RMAN
4 3 (4.17%) Grafana
5 1 (1.39%) Veritas Storage Foundation
Vendors
1 10 (13.89%) Sybase
2 6 (8.33%) Veritas
3 3 (4.17%) Dynatrace
3 3 (4.17%) IBM
3 3 (4.17%) Splunk
4 2 (2.78%) DocuSign
4 2 (2.78%) Microsoft
4 2 (2.78%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.39%) Adobe
5 1 (1.39%) Brocade
5 1 (1.39%) EMC
5 1 (1.39%) NetApp