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 4 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 24 24 36
Rank change year-on-year 0 +12 -11
Contract jobs citing Software Engineering 75 52 40
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Glasgow 9.45% 7.48% 4.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.32% 8.35% 4.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 36 26
10th Percentile £300 £400 £413
25th Percentile £313 £409 £448
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £440 £528
Median % change year-on-year +6.82% -16.59% +5.50%
75th Percentile £550 £500 £638
90th Percentile £575 - £700
Scotland median daily rate £470 £440 £525
% change year-on-year +6.82% -16.19% +2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 4
10th Percentile - £54.00 -
25th Percentile - £56.25 £56.25
Median hourly rate - £60.00 £58.75
Median % change year-on-year - +2.13% +45.06%
75th Percentile - £62.50 £62.50
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median hourly rate £60.00 £55.00 £58.75
% change year-on-year +9.09% -6.38% +11.25%

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 727 623 803
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 91.56% 89.64% 92.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 469 439 531
10th Percentile £300 £258 £338
25th Percentile £370 £363 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% -10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £550 £538 £575
90th Percentile £601 £638 £656
Scotland median daily rate £467 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +3.78% -5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 23 30
10th Percentile £15.82 £15.13 £12.04
25th Percentile £16.84 £19.05 £13.13
Median hourly rate £19.59 £40.94 £16.11
Median % change year-on-year -52.15% +154.13% -56.96%
75th Percentile £25.68 £42.49 £44.55
90th Percentile £32.47 £61.50 £62.50
Scotland median hourly rate £20.00 £19.59 £18.93
% change year-on-year +2.09% +3.49% -29.50%

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 4 August 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 1 (1.33%) Apache
1 1 (1.33%) Apache Spark
1 1 (1.33%) Confluence
1 1 (1.33%) JBoss
1 1 (1.33%) OpenROAD
Cloud Services
1 15 (20.00%) AWS
2 9 (12.00%) BlazeMeter
3 8 (10.67%) Azure
4 3 (4.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
4 3 (4.00%) Datadog
4 3 (4.00%) OpenShift
5 2 (2.67%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (2.67%) Serverless
5 2 (2.67%) Snowflake
6 1 (1.33%) Amazon Bedrock
6 1 (1.33%) Amazon S3
6 1 (1.33%) Amazon SageMaker
6 1 (1.33%) Apigee
6 1 (1.33%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (1.33%) Entra ID
6 1 (1.33%) GCP
6 1 (1.33%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.67%) DHCP
1 2 (2.67%) DNS
2 1 (1.33%) HTTP
2 1 (1.33%) SAN
2 1 (1.33%) SSL
2 1 (1.33%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (28.00%) Relational Database
2 16 (21.33%) MongoDB
2 16 (21.33%) NoSQL
3 9 (12.00%) Apache Cassandra
4 6 (8.00%) DB2
4 6 (8.00%) RDBMS
5 3 (4.00%) Amazon Aurora
5 3 (4.00%) Big Data
5 3 (4.00%) Redis
6 2 (2.67%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (1.33%) DynamoDB
7 1 (1.33%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 16 (21.33%) JUnit
2 7 (9.33%) Jenkins
3 6 (8.00%) Xcode
4 4 (5.33%) Git
5 3 (4.00%) Artifactory
5 3 (4.00%) JIRA
6 2 (2.67%) Bitbucket
6 2 (2.67%) Vite
7 1 (1.33%) IntelliJ
7 1 (1.33%) Mockito
7 1 (1.33%) PyCharm
7 1 (1.33%) Visual Studio
7 1 (1.33%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 31 (41.33%) Finance
2 24 (32.00%) Social Skills
3 12 (16.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 10 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (8.00%) Banking
6 3 (4.00%) Financial Institution
6 3 (4.00%) Front Office
6 3 (4.00%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.33%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.33%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 42 (56.00%) Developer
2 40 (53.33%) Java Developer
3 16 (21.33%) Software Engineer
4 14 (18.67%) Core Java Developer
5 11 (14.67%) Python Engineer
6 8 (10.67%) Python Software Engineer
7 7 (9.33%) Full-Stack Developer
7 7 (9.33%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 6 (8.00%) Mobile Engineer
9 5 (6.67%) Linux Developer
9 5 (6.67%) Senior
10 4 (5.33%) Java Engineer
11 3 (4.00%) Data Engineer
11 3 (4.00%) React Developer
11 3 (4.00%) Senior Software Engineer
12 2 (2.67%) DevOps Engineer
12 2 (2.67%) Junior
12 2 (2.67%) Senior Developer
12 2 (2.67%) Senior Java Developer
12 2 (2.67%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (38.67%) Spring
2 17 (22.67%) Kafka
3 15 (20.00%) Spring Boot
4 13 (17.33%) React
5 10 (13.33%) AngularJS
6 9 (12.00%) CSS
7 7 (9.33%) OAuth
7 7 (9.33%) OAuth2
7 7 (9.33%) OpenTelemetry
8 6 (8.00%) SwiftUI
8 6 (8.00%) UIKit
9 5 (6.67%) JMS
9 5 (6.67%) REST
10 4 (5.33%) FastAPI
10 4 (5.33%) Flask
10 4 (5.33%) OpenID
10 4 (5.33%) RESTful
10 4 (5.33%) SAML
11 3 (4.00%) Hugging Face
11 3 (4.00%) LangChain
Miscellaneous
1 18 (24.00%) Data Structures
2 12 (16.00%) Algorithms
3 8 (10.67%) Cloud Native
4 7 (9.33%) Enterprise Software
5 6 (8.00%) Credit Risk
5 6 (8.00%) iPad
5 6 (8.00%) iPhone
5 6 (8.00%) Management Information System
5 6 (8.00%) Mobile App
5 6 (8.00%) Virtual Team
6 4 (5.33%) Equities
6 4 (5.33%) Public Cloud
7 3 (4.00%) AI Agents
7 3 (4.00%) Equity Derivative
7 3 (4.00%) Private Cloud
8 2 (2.67%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (2.67%) Fixed Income
8 2 (2.67%) Market Risk
8 2 (2.67%) Onboarding
8 2 (2.67%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 26 (34.67%) Linux
2 8 (10.67%) Unix
3 6 (8.00%) Android
3 6 (8.00%) Apple iOS
4 1 (1.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (54.67%) Agile
2 32 (42.67%) Problem-Solving
3 31 (41.33%) CI/CD
4 23 (30.67%) SDLC
5 19 (25.33%) Computer Science
5 19 (25.33%) Microservices
6 16 (21.33%) Multithreading
7 14 (18.67%) Artificial Intelligence
7 14 (18.67%) Machine Learning
7 14 (18.67%) Unit Testing
8 13 (17.33%) Continuous Improvement
8 13 (17.33%) Full-Stack Development
8 13 (17.33%) Scrum
9 12 (16.00%) DevOps
9 12 (16.00%) Operational Stability
9 12 (16.00%) Performance Testing
10 11 (14.67%) Micro Frontends
10 11 (14.67%) Test Automation
11 10 (13.33%) BDD
11 10 (13.33%) Continuous Delivery
Programming Languages
1 54 (72.00%) Java
2 30 (40.00%) SQL
3 25 (33.33%) Python
4 13 (17.33%) JavaScript
5 11 (14.67%) TypeScript
6 7 (9.33%) Shell Script
7 6 (8.00%) Go
7 6 (8.00%) Objective-C
7 6 (8.00%) Swift
8 2 (2.67%) C#
8 2 (2.67%) C++
8 2 (2.67%) Perl
8 2 (2.67%) PL/SQL
9 1 (1.33%) Bash
Qualifications
1 8 (10.67%) Degree
2 6 (8.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (4.00%) Master's Degree
4 1 (1.33%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.33%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.67%) QA
System Software
1 2 (2.67%) Docker
2 1 (1.33%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.33%) GPFS
Systems Management
1 16 (21.33%) Grafana
2 14 (18.67%) Kubernetes
3 11 (14.67%) Terraform
4 3 (4.00%) Kustomize
4 3 (4.00%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.33%) Ansible
5 1 (1.33%) Veritas Storage Foundation
Vendors
1 12 (16.00%) Splunk
2 9 (12.00%) Dynatrace
3 5 (6.67%) Sybase
4 3 (4.00%) IBM
5 2 (2.67%) F5
5 2 (2.67%) Infoblox
6 1 (1.33%) Brocade
6 1 (1.33%) DocuSign
6 1 (1.33%) EMC
6 1 (1.33%) Facebook
6 1 (1.33%) Google
6 1 (1.33%) Microsoft
6 1 (1.33%) MuleSoft
6 1 (1.33%) NetApp
6 1 (1.33%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.33%) Veritas